INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE A SURVEY FROM MOSTI: LANDSCAPE STUDY ON OPEN SCIENCE

Greetings,

Dato’/Prof./Dr/Sir/Madam.

“Malaysia Open Science Alliance – Working Group on Policy”, a representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI) is conducting two online surveys on Open Science trends in Malaysia. One, for researcher’s perspective and another one is for librarians’ perspectives. They are inviting you to participate in this research study by completing the attached survey. Thank you taking the time to give the feedback and please spread this message to others as well. If you have any question, please contact person in charge as appear on the online survey.

👉1. Survey for Researchers: URL: https://www.research.net/r/LandscapeStudyOnOpenScienceResearchers

👉2. Survey for Librarians: https://www.research.net/r/LandscapeStudyOnOpenScienceLibrarians

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Shire plc, syarikat bioteknologi terulung dalam penyelidikan bagi penyakit jarang berlaku menyokong Open Access

Shire plc, syarikat bioteknologi terulung dalam penyelidikan bagi penyakit jarang berlaku telah mula melaksanakan dasar penerbitan baru yang memerlukan penyerahan semua manuskrip penyelidikan yang ditaja oleh Shire kepada jurnal yang menawarkan polisi akses terbuka. Hal ini membolehkan orang ramai  yang berminat dengan dapatan kajian yang ditulis oleh penyelidik tajaan Shire kini boleh memperoleh akses dalam talian tanpa batas, dengan kadar segera tanpa embargo. Dasar akses terbuka Shire ini telah berkuatkuasa pada 2 Januari 2018, dan telah diumumkan hari ini di 2018 European Meeting of International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)  yang berlangsung di London, UK, 23-24 Januari.

Rujukan: –

1.  https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/01/23/1299286/0/en/Shire-Continues-to-Uphold-High-Standards-of-Ethics-and-Transparency-with-Adoption-of-Open-Access-Policy-for-Publication-of-Shire-Supported-Research.html

Scholarly Publication is making a lot of profit business

Dr K S Parthasarathy commented that in one of the the-scientist.com post;

“It is appropriate that the cost of publicaion of research articles and related matters are being addressed widely in many countries.

In this context, Dr Chuck Dinerstein recently wrote an informative article titled “Publishing Science -an Extremely Profitable Marketting System”

The link: http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/07/11/publishing-science-extremely-profitable-marketing-system-11532

The cost of publishing will be beyond the reach of institutions in developing countries. Is it possible to have a universally agreed formula which ensures reasonable profits for the publishers and fair cost for the researchers.Even under best of circumstances, developing countries may need some compassion and sympathetic considerstion.”

 

Kota Buku organize Open Access awareness talk in Malaysia

On 24 May 2017, Kota Buku an company limited guaranteed by government has organized an Open Access awareness talk in USIM. A speaker is known as Robert Van Der Vooren  from VSNU (Association of universities in the Netherlands) has shares about the experiences, challenges and reality in advocating OA in Netherlands.

Video 1: https://www.facebook.com/akademiKotaBuku/videos/1362111300549776/

Video 2: https://www.facebook.com/akademiKotaBuku/videos/1362117997215773/

 

 

Jim Ottaviani found that Open Access papers attract up to a fifth more citations than those locked away in closed journals

Latest research done by Jim Ottaviani found that Open Access papers attract up to a fifth more citations than those locked away in closed journals.

more details:-

1. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-access-boosts-citations-fifth
2. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0159614

Pasukan Khas Bersama Persatuan Perpustakaan mewartakan profil kompetensi Pustakawan untuk menyokong perkhidmatan “Research Data Management, Scholarly Communication, & Open Access”

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), dan  Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) telah menubuhkan Pasukan Petugas bersama untuk mengkaji segmen-segmen kompetensi yang perlu ada pada seseorang Pustakawan bagi menyokong perkhidmatan e-penyelidikan dan penerbitan ilmiah.

Dalam segmen kompetensi, Pustakawan hendaklah menyokong perkhidmatan Open Access dengan perkara-perkara seperti berikut:-

1. Menawarkan perkhidmatan sokongan fasiliti kepada penyelidik yang hendak menerbitkan naskah artikel di jurnal Open Access dan/atau menerbitkan buku dan lain-lain platform (contoh akhbar universiti jika ada).
2. Menyediakan perkhidmatan sokongan sistem Repositori Institusi agar proses penyerahan dan akses artikel/manuskrip versi “pre print, post print, published” dapat dijalankan.
3. Menyediakan khidmat nasihat dan panduan mengenai hak cipta dan pemilihan jurnal OA berautentik.
4. Menyediakan kemudahan yang boleh membantu proses penilaian kualiti dan mengesan impak bahan kesarjanaan, daripada kaedah konvensional bibliometriks sedia ada kepada kaedah baru altmetrics.
5. Membangunkan pelbagai inisiatif yang boleh menggalakkan fakulti/pusat pengajian mahir menguruskan pelbagai isu hak cipta dan akses bahan penyelidikan yang telah diterbitkan.
6. Memasarkan dan mempromosi  gerak kerja Open Access di dalam dan luar kampus.
7. Bekerjasama dengan jabatan/unit pembangunan koleksi untuk membangunkan dan menyelenggara dana penerbitan, keahlian OA di syarikat penerbit, dan klausa-klausa perjanjian/perlesenan.
8. Menyokong dan memberi latihan kepada penyelidik berkaitan dengan isu-isu penerbitan ilmiah.

Rujukan.

1. URL: http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/4043-librarian-competencies-in-support-of-research-data-management-scholarly-communication-open-access#.V2IdLNJ97cv
2. URL: https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/support-and-training/task-force-competencies/