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Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers by Jeffrey Beall

Just reading a really good blog post by Jeffrey Beall, librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver on the Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers

In it he lists his criteria for determining what he defines as ‘predatory open-access publishers’. This is certainly something that we will be using when talking to post graduate students about where to publish and also as a checklist of things we must never do as a University press.

You can find Jeffrey’s blog at: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/08/04/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers/

The document is available as a PDF at the link. http://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/criteria-2012.pdf

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New issue of Teaching in Lifelong Learning

We are sending this post out a little belatedly, but Volume 4, Issue 1 of Teaching in Lifelong Learning is now available. This is the first online only issue of the journal and is now available on Open Access at:

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/journal_till/

Articles include:

Crawley, Jim ‘On the brink’ or ‘designing the future’? Where next for Lifelong Learning Initial Teacher Education? DOI: 10.5920/till.2012.412.

Cushing, Ian Working Towards Professionalism: A Pathway Into The Post-Compulsory Community Of Practice. DOI: 10.5920/till.2012.4113.

Grayling, Ian, Commons, Kevin and Wise, John It’s The Curriculum, Stupid! DOI: 10.5920/till.2012.4121.

Walker, Martyn The Origins and Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement 1824 – 1890 and the Beginnings of Further Education. DOI: 10.5920/till/2012.4132.

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HOAP on the road in 2012

We are very pleased to announce that the Huddersfield Open Access Project has been invited to present a paper at the:

16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the interplay between Culture and Technology, 14-15 June 2012 at Guimarães, Portugal.

You can see our extended abstract for the paper here

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JournalTOCs

Teaching in Lifelong Learning is now listed in JournalTOCs.

JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 17,493 journals (including 2,898 selected Open Access journals) from 962 publishers.

JournalTOCs is for researchers, students, librarians and anyone looking for the latest scholarly articles.

JournalTOCs alerts you when new issues of your Followed journals are published.

Find us at: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/journalHomePage.php?id=23340&userID=0

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Announcing the HOAP Toolkit

One of the outcomes of the project was to develop a toolkit for other institutions to use, it features sections on:

  • Moving to Open Access
  • Setting up the landing pages using EPrints
  • Adding the content
  • Dissemination
  • Workflows
  • Setting up a new journal
  • Setting up a best of research title
  • Appendices
    1. Notes for contributors
    2. Licence to publish
    3. Notes for reviewers/Return Sheet – response to author(s)/response to editor
    4. Adding content to Teaching in Lifelong Learning
    5. Journal workflows
    6. Guidelines for the preparation of journal proposals
    7. Huddersfield Research Review (Draft proposal)

The toolkit can be found at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/12239/

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Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice

We are also very please to announce that our journal Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice is in the process of being archived.

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice was a joint publication between South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust and the University of Huddersfield. The journal ran for 8 very successful volumes appealing to a wide range of mental health practitioners, social care practitioners, researchers, educators, users of mental health services, carers, and voluntary sector workers.

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Teaching in Lifelong Learning

We are very pleased to announce that the latest volume of Teaching in Lifelong Learning is now live. We now have all 3 volumes available on Open Access.

The new pages feature a host of features including information for contributors, a licence to publish, a guide to the journals peer review process and more.

Each article now has a DOI to enable direct linking. In addition DOIs are being added to all article references allowing direct cross referencing. There is an RSS feed for the journal on the front page, each article also has a range of social media links so that users can share the content via FaceBook, Twtter, Gmail, LinkedIn etc.

References are also displayed as part of the metadata and usage statistics are available for every article.

Coming in 2012

All new journal content from volume 4 onwards will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

A new feature available early in the New Year will allow direct linking from the references displayed on the metadata page to the appropriate metadata content at other publishers.

It is also hoped to enable the SNEEP suite of social networking extensions to all journal (and University Repository) content early in the New Year – expect another blog post soon.

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Huddersfield Research Review

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We are just putting the finishing touches to the project. In the next couple of weeks you can expect the new online version of Teaching in Lifelong Learning and a toolkit showing how to create Open Access journals with EPrints.

First up, however, is the draft proposal for the Huddersfield Research Review. This draft has been sent to the University Research Committee for comment.

Huddersfield Research Review (Draft proposal)

We hope to set up an international editorial board early in 2012 and launch the journal later in the year.

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Social media

We have been experimenting with social media and web 2.0 tools and technologies at Huddersfield since 2005:

Stone, Graham (2011) Social Media in Computing and Library Services at the University of Huddersfield. Illuminea (7).

We plan to feature the usual RSS feeds from the Teaching and Lifelong Learning landing page and also to Tweet new articles as they are published. However, we would like to go a step further than this by encouraging authors and readers to use social media based on the recommendations of the RIN report, ‘If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0’

Ultimately this is more than we can achieve during the life of this project, as it will involve buy in from funders, universities, computing and library services and the researchers themselves. However, as a university we are committed to this. Huddersfield and then Imperial College were the first universities to run courses promoting social media to researchers:

Stone, Graham and Collins, Ellen (2011) 25 Research Things @ Huddersfield: engaging researchers with social media. ALISS Quarterly.

Collins, Ellen, Pattern, David and Stone, Graham (2010) 25 Research Things.

Imperial College, Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools: Collaborating and building your online presence (2011)

In addition Publishing Perspectives have put together a round up, ‘What Role Does Social Networking Have in Scholarly Publishing?’ based on discussion at the Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP) conference.

We are also looking into the SNEEP suite of social networking extensions as part of the journal pages on the Repository – for this we have to thank our fellow JISC project SAS Open Journals for the inspiration for this. This will allow readers of the journal to comment, tag and make notes once they log in. However, this will be dependent on how comfortable readers feel with social media and this leads us back to the way this is encouraged by their host institutions.

We do have more ambitious ideas which we will keep working on after the project completes. One of the project team, Dr. Ian Pitchford, is very keen on the concept of open peer commentary from a group of appointed expert individuals. One such model can be seen at Behavioural and Brain Sciences, which has thousands of appointed open peer commentators. It’s become so prestigious to be a Behavioural and Brain Sciences affiliate that it is the sort of thing academics put on their CVs!