Publikationen sind auch nur Daten: Schlaglichter auf den Zusammenhang von Open Access und Datafizierung

Klaus Rummler (Advanded Reseacher, Zentrum Bildung und Digitaler Wandel, PHZH)

Jan Steiner (Fachspezialist Open Access, Hochschulbibliothek, PHZH)

Die Digitalisierung, die wir in den vergangenen Jahren wahrgenommen haben, hat auch das Publikations- und Bibliothekswesen erfasst. Fast zeitgleich hat Open Access viel Bewegung und Veränderung mit sich gebracht. Damit einher ging vor allem eine Digitalisierung von Prozessen und Publikationen. In der abschliessenden Veranstaltung der Open Access Week 2024 wollen wir einige Schlaglichter auf Zusammenhänge zwischen Open Access und Datafizierung werfen – dies aus Sicht der Bibliothek der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich und anhand von Erfahrungen aus Diamond Open Access Zeitschriften.

Atelier de familiarizare a doctoranzilor în Istorie și Filosofie cu practicile accesului deschis (on site)
Cu ocazia „Săptămânii accesului deschis la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca (2024), UBB, prin Oficiul pentru Știință Deschisă și Facultatea de Istorie și Filosofie organizează un atelier dedicat doctoranzilor și cadrelor didactice de la școlile doctorale ale Facultății de Istorie și Filosofie. Programul atelierului cuprinde o prezentare introductivă despre ce înseamnă, teoretic și mai ales practic, „acces deschis”, urmată de scurte exerciții pe temă. Prezentarea va include și referiri la accesarea bazelor de date cu literatură științifică, dar mai ales o detaliere a aspectelor practice legate de: recunoașterea diferitelor tipuri de acces deschis, licențierea de tip Creative Commons, identificarea periodicelor cu acces deschis, acoperirea taxelor de publicare în reviste internaționale (Article Processing Charges) prin intermediul Acordurilor Transformative și identificarea și recunoașterea publicațiilor de tip „Predatory” pentru a evita plata unor taxe de publicare, uneori consistente, către reviste cu o reputație și un impact îndoielnice

Trainer: Lector Dr. Vlad Popovici

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Workshop: Familiarizing PhD students in History and Philosophy with open access practices (on site)
On the occasion of the „Open Access Week at Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2024)”, BBU, through the Office for Open Science and the Faculty of History and Philosophy, hosts a workshop dedicated to doctoral students and teachers from the doctoral schools of the Faculty of History and Philosophy. The workshop program includes an introductory presentation on "open access" - theoretically and practical aspects - followed by short exercises. The presentation will also include references to accessing databases of scholarly literature, and a detailed discussion of the practical aspects of: recognizing different types of open access, Creative Commons licensing, identifying open access journals, covering Article Processing Charges through the Transformative Agreements, and identifying and recognising predatory publications to avoid paying substantial APCs to journals of dubious reputation and impact.

Trainer: Lecturer Dr. Vlad Popovici

Inauguración Programa de Formación en Ciencia Abierta para la comunidad de la Universidad de Los Lagos - Chile.

Se da inicio a programa de formación en Ciencia Abierta bajo el proyecto INCA210018 auspiciado por ANID en la linea de Proyectos InES Ciencia Abierta - Chile, en asociación con La Organización Universitaria Interamericana OUI-IOHE.

Este curso es de auto-aprendizaje y se mantendrá en las plataformas de educación continua de la Universidad de Los Lagos - Chile, para luego pasar a ser un curso de acceso abierto.

Ședință deschisă a Consiliului Științific al UBB Cluj-Napoca, pe teme de acces deschis (on line)

Consiliul Științific al Universității Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca organizează în data de 25 octombrie, orele 13:00, o ședință online, pe teme legate de accesul deschis și știința deschisă, în cadrul „Săptămânii accesului deschis la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca (2024)”. La ședință pot participa atât membrii Consiliului Științific, cât și membrii comunității UBB interesați de tematica discuțiilor. Link-ul de acces va fi pus la dispoziție prin canalele instituționale ale Universității.

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Open meeting of the Scientific Council of BBU Cluj-Napoca, on open access (online)

The Scientific Council of the University Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca hosts Friday 25th October, 13:00 EET, an online meeting on open access and open science in the framework of the "Open Access Week at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (2024)". Members of the Scientific Council and members of the BBU community interested in the topic of discussion are welcome to take part in the meeting. The access link will be made available through the University's institutional channels.

Webinar: en línia via Teams. No cal registre.
Què cal per preparar una política de drets d'autoria de qualitat en revistes científiques?

Although the open access concept was originally developed to establish fair ways of disseminating knowledge and to overcome financial inequalities, the modern publishing landscape is often characterized by high publishing fees. The joint Diamond Open Access publishing house of FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin and Charité offers its services to members of participating institutions without publication fees.

In this presentation, we will give a brief overview of our services and your options for publishing with BerlinUP Books.

After a presentation lasting around twenty minutes, there will be an opportunity to discuss questions.

Bei freien Lizenzen wie den Creative-Commons-Lizenzen (CC) entscheiden Sie als Urheberin bzw. Urheber selbst, unter welchen Bedingungen andere Ihre Publikationen und Forschungsdaten nachnutzen können. Wir erläutern Ihnen, welche Module bei CC zur Auswahl stehen und was bei der Vergabe einer CC-Lizenz zu beachten ist.

Open Access Week 2024 is an opportunity to engage in a meaningful discussion on the approaches to Open Scholarship that prioritize the best interests of both the public and the academic community. The event will be held strictly online, providing valuable insights for academics, researchers, and students.

A Ciência Aberta é a atividade científica realizada de modo aberto, colaborativo e transparente, facilitando a partilha e a comunicação dos processos e resultados (dados, publicações e outros). Com o objetivo de sensibilizar e promover as práticas de ciência aberta junto da comunidade de investigadores, gestores de ciência, estudantes e do público em geral, a FCCN, serviços digitais da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, promove, no âmbito das comemorações da semana internacional de ciência aberta, o evento intitulado "Ciência Aberta em Expansão: Novos Modelos, Avaliação e Dados Abertos".

This session explores the concept of open practice and its influence on equity in education for students and the community. Open practice is a multifaceted concept, connecting and uniting academics, students and the community in a more equitable and socially just model for education. Collaborating and co-designing through open practice enriches educational experiences by embedding diverse representations, authentic stories, lived experiences and renewable assessment.

This session will celebrate the launch of Communication Concepts, a recently published Open Education Resource (OER) developed in collaboration with students as an example of open education in practice.

All are welcome to attend. This session will be held in person and also streamed via Zoom webinar. Please indicate when booking whether you wish to attend in person or virtually. Those attending in-person are invited to stay after the session for refreshments and networking.

In celebration of Open Access Week, the University of Chicago Library will host a webinar on October 24 featuring author John-Manuel Andriote discussing why he chooses to prioritize community over commercialization by granting open access to his book, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America.

To mark the book’s 25th anniversary, Andriote as the rightsholder has chosen to turn Victory Deferred into an open access book for anyone around the world. He explains, “The value of Victory Deferred to the LGBT and broader American community—in its many accounts and insights from firsthand interviews with heroes and pioneers in the HIV-AIDS epidemic and the LGBT equality movement—exceeds my own commercial interests in the book.”

Please join us for the webinar, Rereading a Heroic Legacy: How AIDS Built the LGBT Equality Movement, for a discussion of why open access to an award-winning title matters societally and intellectually, especially in the face of continuing oppression against the fight for equality.

Generative AI has forced universities to contend with complex ethical and social questions—namely because writing is so deeply entrenched as an institutional gatekeeping. For many students, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds or for whom English is not a first language, the pressure to translate ideas into “proper” English contributes to attrition rates and exacerbates feelings of inadequacy, alienation, and exclusion from many academic communities.

From an equity and inclusion perspective, AI has the potential to disrupt institutional barriers by offering accessible tools that level the grammatical playing field. By functioning as virtual tutors or co-writers, AI systems can assist students in producing more polished and coherent prose, thus challenging the traditional hierarchies that privilege certain grammatical and stylistic norms. Instead of attempting to ban these tools (which is, to say the least, impractical), I side with a growing number of technology scholars who argue that we should focus on teaching students how to use generative AI responsibly and effectively. However, I do so with the caveat that teaching responsible AI use means critically engaging the complex and often messy processes that make AI what it is.

In this presentation, I draw from Indigenous theorists and authors to situate generative AI and large language models (LLMs) within a long colonial history of extraction. Just as colonial states declare Indigenous lands terra nullius, allowing settlers to exploit resources through mining, clear-cutting, and other forms of extraction, generative AI similarly depends on the unchecked extraction of data, including Indigenous knowledge and cultural resources, often without consent. The late Gregory Younging refers to this process as gnaritas nullius, the colonial rendering of Indigenous knowledge into public property. The unchecked extraction of writing, including, but not limited to, Indigenous knowledge, represents a new frontier for colonial capitalism, where cultural and intellectual property are commodified by those with the most access and power. As Nando de Freitas notes, the future of AI development depends on scale: those who control the largest datasets will have the greatest advantage and profit the most from AI. The numerous high-profile copyright cases against companies like OpenAI and Meta show that how this data is collected is treated as a secondary issue. This unbridled, dehumanizing race for data mirrors the extractive practices that have driven capitalist-colonial expansion for centuries. Building on these ideas, I mobilize the insights of Indigenous authors like Younging, Scott Lyons, and Cherie Dimaline to highlight strategies for resisting colonial extraction and challenging capitalist systems through rhetorical sovereignty and the concept of incommensurability. The goal is not to discourage the use of generative AI but, in the Faustian sense, to reveal the costs of embracing it, especially when it is employed to subvert oppressive institutional structures.

Speaker

David Gaertner, Assoicate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies

David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures; contemporary Canadian literature, cultural theories of reconciliation, and speculative fiction. He has published articles in Canadian Literature, American Indian Research and Culture, and Digital Pedagogies in the Humanities, amongst others. He is the author of The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press) and editor of Soykeyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe (WLUP).

Are you worried about the practicalities surrounding making your research open? Are you looking to understand the values of sharing your work openly? Join four Open Scholarship trendsetters for a panel discussion as they explore the benefits and intersectionality of open work and have a frank conversation on what it REALLY means to commit to Open Access.

The purpose of this panel is to explore a variety of perspectives within Open Scholarship, share personal experiences on how open resources and practices benefits our UCalgary community and beyond, and considerations on the evolution of Open Scholarship to reduce barriers and silos within "open."

Our Panelists:

Jennifer Abel, Research Data Management Librarian, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

Ottilia Berze, Open Science Strategy Consultant, Knowledge to Impact Team, Research Services, University of Calgary

Melissa Morris, Managing Editor, The Motley Undergraduate Journal

Verena Roberts, Educational Developer, Office of Teaching and Learning, Thompson Rivers University

Our Moderators:

Sarah Adams, Open Education Librarian, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

Brianna Calomino, Digital Projects Librarian – Digital Scholarship, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

Panel virtual organizado con motivo de la Semana Internacional Acceso Abierto 2024:

Organización: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO); Foro Latinoamericano sobre Evaluación de la Investigación (FOLEC-CLACSO); Oficina Conocimiento Abierto de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (OCA-UNC); Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina (EDUVIM-UNVM)

Panelistas:

• Alejandra Nardi, Directora OCA-UNC

• María Fernanda Pampín, Directora de Publicaciones CLACSO

• Judith Naidorf, Coordinadora FOLEC/CLACSO

• Carlos Gazzera, Director General EDUVIM/UNVM

Jueves 24 de octubre 4-5,30 pm (Argentina)

To celebrate Open Access Week, the Penn Libraries hosts a hybrid panel discussion on the future of research under the Nelson Memo, which requires federal agencies with research funding to make all research materials publicly available without an embargo or cost.

Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and author of Data Cartels (Stanford University Press), will present on “Data Cartels and Commercial Obstacles to Open Access.”

In celebration of Open Access Week, the university archivist (James R. Stewart) will lead a workshop. This engaging session will highlight how to leverage Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance genealogical research and navigate archival materials effectively. By emphasizing the importance of community engagement and open access to information, this workshop also highlights how knowledge sharing can strengthen community ties and promote collective learning.

Objectives:

• Introduce participants to essential genealogy research methodologies and best practices.

• Explain the significance of OER in supporting individual genealogy projects.

• Demonstrate how to locate and utilize OER resources relevant to family history research.

• Foster a supportive environment for participants to share their research experiences and findings.

Sponsored by the Department of Information Science, Dalhousie Libraries is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in the Ko’jua Okuom at the Killam Library on Thursday, October 24 for Mi'kmaw History Month!

An edit-a-thon is an event where editors and users edit and improve a specific topic or type of content in Wikipedia and Wikimedia. The focus of the edit-a-thon is Mi’kma'ki and Mi’kmaw People and there will be a pre-selected range of biographies, books, and events to add. The goal is to increase Indigenous representation, improve accuracy, and contribute to a more equitable and inclusive internet.

Where: In the Ko'jua Okuom at the Killam Library Learning Commons (6225 University Avenue)

When: 12 - 4 p.m.

Instruction: Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin will have instruction sessions from 12:00 -12:45 a.m. and 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.

You are welcome to stay and participate for the entire afternoon or come and go as you are available!

Refreshments provided. To participate, please make an account with Wikipedia in advance. Please bring your laptop. If you do not have a laptop we will have some available.

Let's celebrate International Open Access to Knowledge and explore how Personal Knowledge Twins can open new opportunities to learn and benefit from new ways of sharing information.

During this event you will learn from the leaders in AI, Education & Technology who will address the benefits of integrating AI in learning process.

In this engaging event, you'll learn about:

1) multiple ways how personal AI twins can transformative world accessing knowledge,

2) making your expertise available to your audiences (students, social media followers, colleagues etc.),

3) integrating personal AI twins into your own creative endeavors and research activities.

Guest Speakers

Dr. Paul Jurcys will share more insights about his experience of being one of the first academics to fully introduce AI tools - his own personal AI knowledge twin - into teaching a course at Vilnius University (Lithuania).

He will share some insights and surprising lessons on how it AI open new dynamic ways to access knowledge, how it helped helped increase student engagement, and how personal AI tools nudge to to reimagine the importance of access to and "consumption" of knowledge.

​​​Why Attend?

​​​Learn how to Personal AI twins are changing changing Education

​​​Discover practical use cases for educators, influencers, content creators, and hobbyists.

Lean how you can leverage your expertise, knowledge, and content with personal AI.

​​​Start building your own AI knowledge twin - we will walk you through the tools and process

​​​Ticket Price: $24

​​​This includes a one-month subscription to your AI knowledge twin—an invaluable tool to augment your capabilities.

Free "Scholarship" tickets are available.

​​​Who Should Attend?

​​​Subject matter experts, educators, policy makers, influencers, content creators, or anyone who work with content and are exploring how to leverage AI to make content more accessible.

​​​Don’t miss out on this opportunity to empower yourself with cutting-edge AI technology. Reserve your spot and take the first step toward exceeding your own potential!

Open Access week was celebrated on Thursday, the 24th October 2024 at Lesotho College of Education, in front of the Mangoaela Library and ICT Centre, The event was very successful and it honored by the Rector of the College, Dr. Letele the Deputy Rector Academics Mrs. Nyabela, Lesotho College of Education Students and the pre-school/primary children. It was a very fruitful and productive event that have many activities such as: quiz, poems and drama.

The International Open Access Week will be celebrated from October 21-27, 2024. At BCAM, within the workshop 1st IN-DEEP Week, we will do so.

We encourage you to join us on October 24th, for the Open Science Talk, given by Miguel Benítez (Project Manager, BCAM). The talk will be at the Maryam Mirzakahni Seminar room and online at 16:45h-17:30h.

In this session, the following points will be addressed:

• Open Science: A General Context

• Datasets

• Editorials vs repositories

• Acknowledgments

We would like to share with you the Paywall – The Business of Scholarship documentary. This video focuses on the need for Open Access to research and science.

The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers and examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher.

Navigating Open Access (OA) publishing can be challenging and is often very expensive. This online workshop, a combination of presentation and question & answer period, will help demystify OA and provide solutions on how to reduce or eliminate the cost of publishing OA as a STEM scholar.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Understand the different OA publishing models

• Be introduced to UWSpace, the Library’s institutional repository

• Know about various library agreements that can help reduce or remove the cost of OA publishing

Panel Discussion: Open Access in Switzerland: Are we reaching the GOALs

Alain Cortat (Founder and director, Éditions Alphil)

Barbara Preisig (Art historian and art critic, ZHdK / Co-editor B-N-L)

Stefan Sonderegger (Chief editor, CHSS)

Anna Picco-Schwendener (Project Manager, CCdigitallaw)

Suzanna Marazza (Legal Expert, CCdigitallaw)

Tobias Philipp (Open Access Coordinator, SNSF)

The year 2024 marks a significant reference point in the Swiss Open Access (OA) landscape. By this time, all scholarly publications funded by public money were expected to be freely accessible on the internet, in accordance with the initial national OA strategy (swissuniversities & Swiss National Science Foundation, 2017). Additionally, the “GOAL” project that set off to unlock the Green OA potential in scholarly and professional journals in Switzerland three years ago, is nearing its conclusion. On this occasion, we will meet with representatives from Swiss-based journals and their publishers, legal experts, and science policymakers to discuss the current situation of OA in Switzerland. What has been achieved so far and what challenges still lie ahead? What are our panellists optimistic about and what concerns them? Furthermore, will we reach the new national goal to shift completely to OA by 2032, as the revised national strategy stipulates (swissuniversities & Swiss National Science Foundation, 2024)? We invite researchers, publishers, decision-makers, research support staff, librarians, and all others interested in the topic to join us for a lively panel discussion at this hybrid event, followed by an aperitif.

Day of events to promote open science in the framework of the International Open Access Week.

On October 24, representatives from various sectors of the Peruvian academic community will meet to discuss strategies for sharing academic and scientific knowledge in an open and equitable manner.

Within the framework of Open Access Week 2024, a series of debates will be held under the central theme: “The academic community facing the commercialization of knowledge”. These meetings, both face-to-face and virtual, will be attended by specialists and researchers from different areas, who will analyze the impact of the growing commercialization of access to knowledge. The main concern arises from the rising costs of publication in commercial open access journals and subscriptions to international bibliographic databases, a reality that also affects the Peruvian academic community.

Among the issues to be addressed are the control of knowledge production by a few companies and the implications of the collection of personal data in commercial platforms, which could compromise academic freedom. In addition, ways of aligning commercialization with the public interest will be explored, and technological and community alternatives for the dissemination of knowledge in Peru will be presented.

Digitizing Vietnam (DV) is the first joint web platform project established under the Columbia University—Fulbright University Vietnam partnership. The DV web platform is a free and publicly accessible digital Vietnam Studies platform designed to serve as a well-integrated hub for digital humanities research. It aims to be an open-access digital humanities resource for communities. In this presentation, we will cover several aspects of our project: the rationale behind it, the types of content we provide for open access online, a technical discussion regarding the project, and a brief overview of the collaboration among various universities and institutions involved in the Digitizing Vietnam initiative. There will also be a Q&A session for those interested in learning more about the Digitizing Vietnam project.

This Open Access Week, uncover the hidden nuances of Open Access with us, as we analyze critical terms and concepts like "Transformative Agreement" and "cost neutral".

Join two leading experts as they dissect these and other key terms, revealing how local biases, historical contexts, and practical challenges shape our understanding. Moderated by Chris Box, this event promises fresh insights and thought-provoking discussions. Are we all on the same page, or are we lost in translation? Don't miss out on this eye-opening exploration!

Moderator:

• Christian Box, Head of Academic and Research Markets, Karger Publishers

Speakers:

• Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor for Research Professional Development, University Library of the University of Illinois

• Jeff Lewandowski, Director of Publishing, American Physical Society

• Andrea Chiarelli, Principal Consultant, Research Consulting

• Malavika Legge, Open Access Program Manager at Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)

Publikationsdienste und Services der SUB Göttingen stellen ihre Open-Access-Aktivitäten vor.

Publication services of the Sate and University Library Göttingen present their Open Access activities.

Röthlisberger Melanie (Universitätsbibliothek Zürich)

Sie möchten für eine Präsentation Bilder verwenden, wissen aber nicht, ob Sie das überhaupt dürfen?

Diese Coffee Lecture gibt eine kurze Einführung ins Urheberrecht und die Weiternutzung von Bildmaterial und anderen digitalen Inhalten, die mit Creative Commons Lizenzen lizenziert sind. Sie lernen verschiedene CC-Lizenzen kennen, benennen und interpretieren.

Sie wissen, wo Sie lizenzierte Bilder finden und unter welchen Konditionen Sie digitale Inhalte weiterverwenden dürfen.

In unserer Coffee Lecture erfahren Sie, wie Sie das passende Open Access Journal für Ihre Publikation finden. Wir achten dabei auf Qualität (Peer Review), Sichtbarkeit (hohe Zitationszahlen) und die Kosten für die Publikation.

Podiumsdiskussion „Ist das die Zukunft oder doch nur Abzocke?"
Open Access Publizieren bei Elsevier, Wiley und Springer vs. MDPI und Frontiers mit eingeladenen Beiträgen, anschließend Preisverleihung für herausragende Leistungen beim OA-Publizieren an der TU Chemnitz.
Eine Anmeldung wird erbeten.
Wir freuen uns auf anregende Diskussionen.