Importance Of Open Access Research Articles

Genome Profiling of SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia, ASEAN and the Neighbouring East Asian Countries: Features, Challenges and Achievements

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has played a significant role in understanding the epidemiology and biology of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here, we investigate the use of SARS-CoV-2 WGS in Southeast and East Asian countries as a genomic surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nottingham–Indonesia Collaboration for Clinical Research and Training (NICCRAT) initiative has facilitated collaboration between the University of Nottingham and a team in the Research Center for Biotechnology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), to carry out a small number of SARS-CoV-2 WGS in Indonesia using Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT). Analyses of SARS- CoV-2 genomes deposited on GISAID reveal the importance of clinical and demographic metadata collection and the importance of open access and data sharing. Lineage and phylogenetic analyses of two periods defined by the Delta variant outbreak reveal that: (1) B.1.466.2 variants were the most predominant in Indonesia before the Delta variant outbreak, having a unique spike gene mutation N439K at more than 98% frequency, (2) Delta variants AY.23 sub-lineage took over after June 2021, and (3) the highest rate of virus transmissions between Indonesia and other countries was through interactions with Singapore and Japan, two neighbouring countries with a high degree of access and travels to and from Indonesia.

Revisiting the Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries

ABSTRACT Over a decade and a half ago, I wrote an advocacy article entitled “The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries.” I thought it would be interesting to revisit the article and see how much things have changed since that time. While open access, open source, and open standards continue to be important to libraries, looking back we can see that not everything is what I thought it would be.

Negotiating Open Access Journal Agreements: An Academic Library Case Study

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for academic libraries to advance open access (OA) to scholarly articles. Awareness among faculty on the importance of OA has increased significantly during the pandemic, as colleges and universities struggle financially and seek sustainable access to high-quality scholarly journals. Consortia have played an important role in establishing negotiation principles on OA journal agreements. While the number of OA agreements is increasing, case studies involving individual libraries are still limited. This paper reviews existing literature on publisher negotiation principles related to OA journal negotiations and reflects on recent cases at an academic library in Pennsylvania, in order to identify best practices in OA journal negotiations. It provides recommendations on roles, relationships, and processes, as well as essential terms of OA journal agreements. This study’s findings are most relevant to large academic libraries that are interested in negotiating with scholarly journal publishers independently or through consortia.

Publications and Evaluations: Conducting a Baseline Assessment of Open Access Adoption and Support at an R2 University

INTRODUCTION This study reflects a mid-size university library’s first attempt to assess faculty research output to shape future scholarly communications efforts. METHODOLOGY The assessment combined a qualitative analysis of the university’s reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) documents with a quantitative analysis of faculty publications recorded in Digital Measures from 2015-2019. The RPT documents were coded to determine which indicators of scholarly value were emphasized, then compared with data on where and how faculty were publishing. RESULTS Within RPT documents, peer review was frequently emphasized, but open access and predatory publishing were not mentioned. The majority of publications occurred in hybrid journals, and publishing was concentrated among only a handful of publishers, with 11 publishers responsible for 62% of faculty’s research output. OA journal publications have risen slightly in recent years but still accounted for only 20.7% of UCCS publications. However, predatory publishing was very low, accounting for less than 5% of UCCS publications. DISCUSSION More education is needed on the importance of open access and how to assess the quality of a journal. RPT criteria consistently mentioned certain indicators of scholarly quality, but these indicators were often vague and preferential to traditional publishing models. Both open access and predatory publishing remain low, and additional education may help faculty feel more confident in exploring alternative publishing models. CONCLUSION Assessing the research output of faculty and how scholarship is being evaluated within each college can help libraries to tailor their efforts to promote open access publishing. However, the lack of OA support in the RPT criteria suggests a larger cultural shift is needed to make faculty not only aware of OA, but also encouraged and supported in publishing OA.

Role of Open Access after Emergence of Covid-19: Special Reference to National Digital Library and Repository

ABSTRACT Human beings all over the world are struggling in all fields of life after the emergence of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Librarians are also trying to provide services to their community that includes protocols to be followed for the prevention of COVID-19 transmission. Considering the uncommon and quickly changing conditions identified with COVID-19 flare-ups, a few scholastic course books, digital books, and academic distributers have briefly opened admittance to their copyrighted and limited materials. This article discusses and analyzes the importance of open access (OA) and institutional repositories after the outbreak of COVID-19 where students can educate themselves staying safe at home by using OA resources and repositories.

Culture as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development. An Investigation into the Process of Cultural Content Digitisation in Romania

In an age of rapid technological changes, new ways of cultural production–consumption and dissemination–access to cultural content are creating great opportunities for promoting cultural heritage at home and abroad as a prerequisite for sustainable development. The aims of this paper are to scrutinize the main opportunities of the process of cultural content digitisation with a focus on Romania and to highlight the main fields in which the country is still lagging behind. The article discusses technical internet-related endowment and use of internet by households in urban and rural areas, the existing digital cultural content, the importance of open access, e-accessibility, digital archives, e-museums, e-libraries, etc., as well as the main national and European strategies and agendas that Romania has based its cultural digitisation and heritage preservation priorities on. The paper is an empirical inquiry into the progress achieved, the positioning among the other European countries and the perspectives of cultural digitisation for Romania. Such matters are important determinants of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as long as access to public services and cultural content is a major objective of Europe 2020 Strategy.

Open Access

SPARC talks about the strides and importance of open access in every field and about the success of International Open Access Week.

Enhancing research visibility of academics: the role of academic libraries

Despite so many researches stemming from most African academic institutions, not many are visible. This may be attributed to low quality of research works and lack of subscription fees. This article offers suggestions on libraries’ role in promoting the quality of research in order to increase its visibility. It also offers a brief on the importance of open access and how the results, impact and progress of research is accelerated through open access. Keywords: academic libraries, open access, research, researchers, technology

Keynote Address for Western Journal Day

Today, I want to look at three interconnected things. The first is the importance of open access and what it really means. The second is the role of Scholarship@Western in supporting our open access journals from the perspective of the International Indigenous Policy Journal (IIPJ). Lastly, we want to talk about some of the actions that we have taken to enhance our journal’s readership and rankings.

The Open Access in the Context of the Globalizing World

Globalization and the internet are intrinsically linked. This obvious fact has major implications for how the publishing industry will be modified in the foreseeable future. This change may be technologically driven but there is a place for intellectual debate about the appropriate regulation of the field. This requires an examination of the commercial and moral claims of the authors or creators and the conventional publishers vis a vis those of the end users both nationally and internationally. This analysis will enable me to make an argument about the importance of open access as an appropriate governance mechanism for both protection and distribution of information in the international arena. In addition, this paper argues that in a globalized world justice and social cohesion requires commercial Multinational corporations (MNCs) to act responsibly and ethically. Most of the big publishing houses are such MNCs and if open access repositories (OARs) are to be relevant such publishing houses will have to embrace the concept. Overall, I will use the concept of corporate social responsibility to make the argument that it is logical and feasible that publishing MNCs can modify their business practices and adopt OARs.

La publicación de artículos en las áreas de ciencias sociales y humanidades analizada a partir de los sistemas de información sobre investigación: el caso de las Universidades de Barcelona y Girona

Current Research Information Systems from universities can supplement the data offered by international multidisciplinary databases such as WoS or Scopus, especially in disciplines where coverage in these is not sufficiently comprehensive. This study examines characteristics of journal articles in the fields of social sciences and humanities that were published by professors and researchers from two Catalan universities. Data were extracted from databases providing free access to the records of both academic institutions’ scholarly production. The results obtained reveal the importance of open access to these kinds of records, as well as the existence of differences among areas of knowledge in quality, level of collaboration, percentage of disclosure, and language of publication, although there is a general trend towards a greater relative use of the English language.

Copyright, Contract and Access to Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis

Along with a comparative perspective that takes account of the U.S. and Italian law, this work aims to explore the interface between copyright and contract lae in publishing process. In the current publishing environment, contracts and technology play a dominant role in the exploitation of copyrighted works. Publishers are granted by assignment of all copyright rights to reproduce and publish the work, but also to exercise control over its contents through technological protection measures. At the same time, mass digitization allows libraries and other organizations to make contents available online, which it entails a redefinition of the traditional publishing process and introduces new players to the scene (e.g., Google Books). Hence, technology proves to be a powerful instrument for the spread of knowledge and it is on this pattern that Open Access (OA) is rapidly gaining ground. Mostly based on a bottom-up approach that is on soft law, institutional policies and contracts, OA designs a new legal environment targeting the objectives of free accessibility, further distribution, and proper archiving of publications. These aims can be achieved through the creation of new open access business models to publish on OA journals (gold road) or to self-archive in institutional or disciplinary repositories works that have been originally published in conventional journals (green road). However, in order for OA to be fully developed it is necessary to devise a principled and feasible approach to the dissemination of scholarly works against the current social, economic and legal background. Indeed, the importance of OA is steadily recognized by legislators who integrate OA provisions into their legal system. This is an innovation of great significance, which was first fostered in the USA, and then extended in some European countries such as Italy and Germany in the European framework. Nevertheless, considering the different law systems, the formal law need to be combined with national strategies and institutional policies providing adequate incentives to the authors, while also promoting academic freedom and the right to knowledge access.

Citation Impact of Open Access Medical Journals on Scholarly Communication: Web Citation Analysis

Considering the value and importance of Open Access (OA) journals as prime medium of scientific communication, this paper tried to assess the citations pattern of OA journals. This study aimed at to study the citation tracking of OA Journals using the Google Scholar Citations. And also intended to examine the correlation between ISI and Web citations in Medicine. It identify the characteristics of Web citing sources such as file format, hyperlinking, Internet domain, language and publication year in the discipline Neurology in 2007. The results show that 56% of the Google Scholar citations were from OA and the file format of the OA citing sources that targeting Neurology research papers, was mostly PDF format.

The importance of Open Access publishing in the field of Linguistics for spreading scholarly knowledge and preserving languages diversity in the era of the economic financial crisis

I read with great interest the article recently published on “Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience,” written by Haspelmath and concerning the Open Access (OA) with a particular emphasis from the field of theoretical linguistics (Haspelmath, 2013). However, there are some points in which I disagree with him and I would like to discuss these points as well as I would like to put forth further arguments, adding also an Italian perspective to the topic. First, the author claims that OA has been marginally noticed in the field of theoretical linguistics, at least in his university context. Moreover, he describes the reactions of “disbelief and indignation” of his colleagues when they hear that they should pay a fee for having their manuscripts published. However, I maintain that this picture for OA journals (OAJs) devoted to linguistics is not exactly true: if we search for linguistics-related OAJs on the Directory of OAJs (DOAJ) database, the largest database collecting OAJs, we discover that only 11 journals have a publishing fee (out of 213, that is to say approximately the 5.2%), while for 4 of them there are no available information (about the 1.9%). OA seems to be a vivid and expanding reality, and in the field of linguistics it is highly supported by initiatives such as the OA Initiative in Linguistics (OALI), coordinated by the German linguist Stephen Muller (Muller, 2012) and by the same Haspelmath. Also in Italy, as in Germany, toll-based or subscription-based publishing has revealed its inefficiency: costs that have inflated and increased out of proportion (Giunta, 2010). This kind of publishing is no longer sustainable and affordable. OA seems more cost-effective. Another point I would like to put forward is that OA could provide an exceptional opportunity and a platform for preserving languages diversity. Article Processing Charges (APCs) for OAJs are (completely or partially) waived for researchers coming from underdeveloped or developing countries, even if as we have already seen that are no publishing fees for the majority of linguistics-related OAJs. OA is growing especially in underdeveloped countries and developing nations (Bayry, 2013), since for them it represents a great opportunity to make their voices heard. The service offered to scholars in these countries is undoubtedly of value: they can freely access scientific content and distribute and communicate with other scholars. Researchers from emerging countries could exploit the benefits of OA for sharing information about languages at risk of extinction in a cost-effective way, uploading also audio-resources and creating a great digital archive. UNESCO has already recognized the importance of the Internet and of other new media to fill the linguistic divide, to preserve multiculturalism and to foster “pluralistic, equitable, open and inclusive knowledge societies” (UNESCO). In conclusion, the importance of OA in the era of a severe financial and economic crisis is acknowledged. The current crisis is imposing cuts of funding, recruitment/hiring and turnover freezes, and some countries such as Greece have lost access to prestigious journals (Trachana, 2013). OA can overcome the hurdles and the barriers to the spread and the dissemination of the knowledge. OA could provide an excellent platform for delivering and sharing scholarly data and results, contributing at the same time to make the cyberspace a more multilingual reality.

The Importance of Open Access in Community Obstetrics

According to an old adage, education refines a man and transforms him into a better man and the easiest way to educate a man is to make materials in readable form available to him. Making available literary resource has become one of the most effective ways to disseminate information in an easily retrievable format especially in low resource countries. When such materials are made available electronically, its widest publicity knows no bound. The internet provides the medium for this kind of wide dissemination. However, access to such information may be restricted. Open Access publication comes to the rescue in such circumstances.

A Personal Note on Open Access in Linguistics

This paper contains only known facts about open access, but they are put into a rather personal perspective that may help others to understand the importance of Open Access in science in general and in linguistics in particular.This paper tries to motivate Open Access publishing, with a particular focus on publishing books. In Section 1, I describe the problems in accessing relevant information in economically weak countries, the problem of underpayment in the humanities, and usage restrictions of traditionally published books. Section 2 explains the factors that contribute to book prices. Section 3 briefly describes Open Access publishing and print on demand services. In Section 4, I address some challenges for Open Access publishing and suggest ways to ensure quality control, proper typesetting, and efficient marketing. Section 5 discusses Open Access approaches of profitorientated publishers. Section 6 deals with Open Access and getting tenure and promotion, and Section 7 is about radical opinions about copyrights outside of academia. Version of 7th January 2012 (minor editorial changes).

Seven Years; It's Time for a Change

Seven Years; It's Time for a Change

Importance of Open Access in an Editorial

Importance of Open Access in an Editorial

Changes in Human Genomics

I would like to welcome you to the second issue of Volume 5 and also to announce several changes to the Journal including new members of our Editorial Board, the introduction of a new section 'Research Highlights' and, crucially, the introduction of open-access papers. First and foremost, I am delighted to confirm that the Journal is now accepting submissions for open-access papers. We recognise the importance of open access to experts in the field - and the necessary speed with which work needs to be published - but also that the cost to authors is of course significant. In recognition of this we are offering all authors the opportunity to publish papers on an open-access basis, with full indexing in PubMed, Medline and Chemical Abstracts, at a fee of only US$750/£500 to cover production costs. We would be delighted if you would like to submit an open-access paper and would welcome any queries you might have. This opportunity is open to individuals as well as genetics associations, research institutions and universities wishing to publish collections of research papers, review articles and proceedings of meetings in a special issue of the Journal. For further details of the Journal and how to submit open-access papers, please contact me directly at: http://Vasilis.Vasiliou@ucdenver.edu. You can also find further details at: http://www.henrystewart.com/hg.aspx. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mirella Filocamo, (G. Gaslini Institute, Italy), Tadashi Imanishi (Biomedicinal Information Research Center, Japan), Hidetoshi Inoko (Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan), Poh-San Lai (National University of Singapore, Singapore), George P. Patrinos (University of Patras, Greece) and Sumio Sugano (University of Tokyo, Japan) to our Editorial Board. We also welcome Thomas Schlitt, (King's College London, UK) who is replacing Mike Weale, (King's College London, UK) as the Software Review Editor. Mike remains on the Editorial Board of the Journal and we thank him for all the support he has given to this regular feature. Finally, this issue sees the first installment of the new regular feature for Human Genomics entitled 'Research Highlights', which collates and reviews some of the most cutting-edge research papers from the field. Robert Scheinman (University of Colorado) is the Editor of this Section. We hope you enjoy it.

Importance of open access to atypical antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a European perspective

ABSTRACTObjective: To assess European psychiatrists' prescribing behaviour and their perceived need for access to a wide range of atypical antipsychotics for patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.Methods: A blinded, internet survey of psychiatrists from the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands occurred in 2007. Key inclusion criteria for psychiatrists: practising full time; practising for 5–35 years; prescribed atypical antipsychotics in prior 6 months to ≥20 patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Eligible psychiatrists selected records for four patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder for whom they prescribed ≥1 atypical antipsychotic since January 2004.Results: Survey response rates were: UK, 14.8% (n = 107); Germany, 9.6% (n = 104); Italy, 8.9% (n = 101) and the Netherlands, 3.7% (n = 51); 363 psychiatrists reported on 1442 patients. Psychiatrists perceived a greater difference among atypical antipsychotics as a class (mean, 5.1 on a 7-point scale [7 = ‘highly differentiated’]) but not selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (mean, 3.6). On average, psychiatrists used 6.8 different atypical antipsychotics across their patients with schizophrenia and 4.4 across their patients with bipolar disorder, with 2.5 and 2.4 changes required following first-line treatment to stabilise therapy, respectively. The most common reason for switching medication was lack of efficacy. Psychiatrists reported that expected consequences for patients should access to atypical antipsychotics be restricted would include illness deterioration, non-adherence and hospitalisation.Conclusions: Although this study is limited by potential selection biases, these data suggest that European psychiatrists tailor antipsychotic medications for patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder according to patients' needs and specific drug attributes.