In the resource section of our website you can find the record of the HIRMEOS webinar about the Peer-Review Certification System for Open Acces Books with presentations by Pierre Mounier, Samuel Moore and Isabella Meinecke.
HERE: https://www.hirmeos.eu/hirmeos-webinar-a-peer-review-certification-system-for-open-access-books/
]]>Andrea C. Bertino* and Heather StainesVersion 1 : Received: 13 May 2019 / Approved: 14 May 2019 / Online: 14 May 2019 (10:03:41 CEST)
How to cite: Bertino, A.C.; Staines, H. Enabling a Conversation Across Scholarly Monographs through Open Annotation. Preprints 2019, 2019050166 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201905.0166.v1). Bertino, A.C.; Staines, H. Enabling a Conversation Across Scholarly Monographs through Open Annotation. Preprints 2019, 2019050166 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201905.0166.v1).Copy
Abstract
The digital format opens up new possibilities for interaction with monographic publications. In particular, annotation tools make it possible to broaden the discussion on the content of a book, to suggest new ideas, to report errors or inaccuracies, and to conduct open peer reviews. However, this requires the support of the users who might not yet be familiar with the annotation of digital documents. This paper will give concrete examples and recommendations for exploiting the potential of annotation in academic research and teaching. After presenting the annotation tool of Hypothesis, the article focuses on its use in the context of HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science Infrastructure), a project aimed to improve the Open Access digital monograph. The general line and the aims of a post-peer review experiment with the annotation tool, as well as its usage in didactic activities concerning monographic publications are presented and proposed as potential best practices for similar annotation activities.
]]>The HIRMEOS project is looking for members of the research community and scholarly communication experts who are interested in contributing to its workshop Shaping new Ways to Open the Book by participating as a discussant. The HIRMEOS consortium will cover travel and accommodation costs of the selected participants.
Applicants will be invited to share their feedback during the open floor discussion following these four presentations:
The workshop will take place on the 2nd of June in Marseille, France as a side event of the Elpub Conference. Applications are welcome from every member of the research community (scholars, librarians, publishers, other professionals) interested in the topic, but applications coming from early-career researchers and professionals are particularly encouraged.
Successful applicants will receive a grant to support their travel costs to Marseille and a maximum of 2 hotel nights. Travel grants will be assigned continuously until the extinction of the budget.
The registration to the Elpub Conference is not supported by the grant.
If you are interested, please send your CV and a short statement (no longer than 8-10 sentences) on how you could contribute as a discussant to our workshop as soon as possible to Andrea Bertino ([email protected]).
To better plan the organization, we kindly invite all those interested in attending the workshop to register here .
PROGRAM
from 9:15 Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 HIRMEOS contribution to enhancing Open Access monographs
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Writing, publishing and reading Open Access monographs: perspectives from early-career researchers
- Marina Bantiou. Creating New Communities through Open Access
- Samuel Moore. No amount of Open Access will fix the broken job market: publication strategies for early-career Open Access advocates in the humanities
- Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira. Editing science: issues for achieving formal uniformity and academic criteria in the current context of Open Science
- Erzsébet Toth-Czifra, Towards an interactive map of Open Access book publishers
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Open floor discussion on the present and future of Open Access monographs. Chair: Sofie Wennström
16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions
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PROGRAM
from 9:15 Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:00 – 11:30 HIRMEOS contribution to enhancing Open Access monographs
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 Keynote: Lucy Montgomery. Don’t talk to me about metrics! I write books!
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Writing, publishing and reading Open Access monographs: perspectives from early-career researchers
- Marina Bantiou. Creating New Communities through Open Access
- Samuel Moore. No amount of Open Access will fix the broken job market: publication strategies for early-career Open Access advocates in the humanities
- Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira. Editing science: issues for achieving formal uniformity and academic criteria in the current context of Open Science
- Erzsébet Toth-Czifra, Towards an interactive map of Open Access book publishers
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Open floor discussion on the present and future of Open Access monographs. Chair: Sofie Wennström
16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions
Contact:
For further information, don’t hesitate to contact us: Andrea Bertino ([email protected])
To learn more about the goals and implementations of the HIRMEOS project, you can now watch the animation video realized for us by Neue Big, a creative studio focused on textual/visual narratives and explanatory formats, in collaboration with Alpaca (Design) and Worth Knowing (Animation).
The video, which you can now access here or on YouTube and Vimeo, will be enriched in the coming weeks with links to external materials and annotations and will thus become a hypervideo. To do this we will use FrameTrail, an open source software ideated and developed by Joscha Jäger, allowing people to experience, manage and edit interactive video directly in a web browser. It enables to hyperlink filmic contents, include additional multimedia documents (e.g. text overlays, images or interactive maps) and to add supplementing materials (annotations) at specific points.
In this way, the HIRMEOS animation video will become part of an annotation process that is deeply consistent with the idea of digital document which underlies our project. The hypervideo will be enjoyed not only as a normal video but also navigated, explored and consulted whenever you are looking for a quick orientation on the issue of OA monographs. It will be a work in progress that during the course of the HIRMEOS project is going to be continuously updated with new references and materials. Over time, with the implementations of new services and tools on our digital platforms, the video experience will become more and more informative and exciting. We hope you willl enjoy it!
CREDITS
Project Concept and Production by Neue Big http://www.neuebig.com
Script Writing: Daniela Berto (Neue Big), Lisa Cadamuro, Andrea Bertino (SUB Göttingen)
English Editing and Proofreading: Victoria Gosling http://thereaderberlin.com
Design Concept, Creative Direction and Illustrations by Alpaca (Daniele De Rosa, Giulia Bonora) https://www.alpacaprojects.com/
Animation Direction: Marco Bagni & Daniele Arcuri
Voice Narration: Chantal Busse
Music and Sound Design: Julian Terbuyken https://www.odoeje.de
]]>The conference offered a rich and well-structured programme with participants from across Europe and from different kinds of communities, including scholars, university library officers, scholarly publishers and research administrators. The advisory board and the organising committee found a convincing balance between presentations with different concepts and ideals of Open Access and Open Science: Together with speakers intending the Open Science paradigm as a radical alternative to the current logic of scholarly research and publishing, there were also scientific publishers interested in presenting their tools and services for scholarly research.
Different Views on Open Access and Open Science
The conference was opened by Sir Timothy Gowers, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, Fields Medal Winner and initiator of the boycott against Elsevier, who discussed the various incentives that give the current system its robustness and made some suggestions on how to weaken it (Perverse incentives: how the reward structures of academia impede scholarly communication and good science). Nevertheless, Federica Rosetta of Elsevier presented the publisher’s services to support the reproducibility of research results (The reproducibility challenge – what researchers need). It would have been interesting to bring such different views on Open Access and Open Science into direct confrontation within a round table. However, the audience participated lively in the discussions and gave the speakers the opportunity to further articulate their positions.
On Open Science in the Scandinavian world
Among the talks dealing with the dissemination of Open Science in the Scandinavian world, we were particularly impressed by Beate Ellend’s speech on the activities of the Swedish Research Council (Coordination of Open Access to Research publications in Sweden). Sweden seems to have a well-structured plan to outline an overview of the national open science. In its Proposal for National Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Information (2015), the Swedish Research Council has identified a number of obstacles to the transition to an Open Access publication system. On this basis, the Swedish National Library initiates and coordinates five studies to be carried out in the period 2017-2019. One of these concerning Open Access to academic monographs is expected by the HIRMEOS consortium great interest. Like the Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs (2017) presented by Niels Stern, such studies can confirm how important it is to base concrete policies for Open Science on a precise reconstruction of the needs and problems of individual scholars and research institutions.
On HIRMEOS and OPERAS
HIRMEOS discussed its tasks and activities with many participants at its poster. The project is already well known to the public, especially to officers of academic libraries and university presses. We observed an increasing interest in the growing research infrastructure OPERAS. Some projects presented at MUNIN has already contact points with the concept of a distributed research infrastructure; e.g. SCOSS: A Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services presented by Vanessa Proudman. This new global coalition is currently in the middle of a pilot project. It intends to enable the international research community to take responsibility for developing and maintaining Open Science services through its institutions and funding organizations. It will create a new coordinated cost-sharing framework to ensure that non-commercial OS services supporting the development of broader global Open Access and Open Science will continue to be maintained in the future.
The participants of the conference we came into contact with were particularly interested in the annotation and name-based entities recognition services which HIRMEOS is implementing on the five digital platforms involved into the projects. Some relevant applications of the entity recognition techniques will already be presented at the beginning of the next year.
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Title: A landscape study on open access and monographs: Policies, funding and publishing in eight European countries
Authored by: Eelco Ferwerda, Frances Pinter and Niels Stern
Contributions by: Lucy Montgomery, Thor Rydin, and Ronald Snijder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.815932
http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/open-access-monographs
]]>The conference provided a good mix of plenary sessions, workshops and poster sessions focusing on a variety of Open Science aspects such as open access models and platforms, innovative dissemination practices, open peer review, text and data mining, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) pilot, FAIR data. Key note speakers included renowned scholars like Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis (from FORTH-Hellas and recipient of multiple ERC grants), Prof. Jeffrey Sachs (from the Earth Institute of Columbia University and an influential world leader) and Prof. John PA Ioannidis (from Stanford University and one of the most influential researchers worldwide) who all highlighted the importance of open science in attaining goals of global significance like the UN Sustainable Development Goals and tackling the reproducibility crisis in research.
The workshops gave participants the opportunity to acquire a more in-depth perspective of diverse aspects of open science such as policies, the importance of training and skills, the establishment of rewards for those practicing open science and the introduction of incentives, the availability of tools and services and the development of appropriate infrastructures. Open science experts gave insightful presentations and provided examples of resources available to stakeholders (OpenAIRE toolkits for researchers, PASTEUR4OA policy templates, FOSTER services) followed by stimulating discussions with workshop participants. The variety of topics and approaches chosen attracted researchers, librarians, IT experts as well as representatives from research funding and research performing organisations. Throughout the three-day event it was made evident that collaboration among stakeholders is a key element in achieving the transition to open science.
The Open Science Fair 2017 video is available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/233290266
Marina Angelaki, National Documentation Centre/NHRF (Athen)
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