Conveners
Session 5: TDM / Discovery
- Frank Manista (JISC)
Description
One recent estimate suggests that 50% of journal articles have open versions which should be accessible at or shortly following publication, illustrating a significant triumph for open access. However, it is unfortunate that placing research outputs into pre-print service or an open repository does not, in any way, guarantee another researcher will be able to find that material, regardless of the OA community’s embrace of FAIR principles, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible. There are multiple products currently available on the market which offer legal assistance with the discovery of these research outputs. This session will include four presentations, as well as an opportunity for a more general and open discussion, around the progress and frustrations with OA Discovery and Text and Data Mining.
Chair:
Dr Frank C. Manista, European Open Science Manager, Jisc
Speakers:
• Rachael Lammey, Head of Community Outreach, Crossref
• Dirk Pieper, Deputy Director, Bielefeld University Library
• Heather Piwowar, Co-founder of Impactstory
• Dimity Flannagan, Scholarly Communications Lead, The British Library
At Crossref, we know that good quality metadata aids the discoverability of scholarly content. It can also make inroads into OA discoverability. Metadata containing license information, links to the accepted version of a manuscript or the preprint or the full-text (for text-mining purposes) all go a long way to letting the research community know how they can access and use the content they...
More than 15 years after the “Budapest Open Access Initiative” and the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities” the discovery of open access journals articles is still a challenge. The many variations of open access, like green, gold, hybrid, bronze or delayed open access, are making it difficult to measure the OA share of articles within academic...
Jason will talk about Unpaywall, the open database for Open Access discovery. Using open source software, the small team behind Unpaywall has gathered links to over 20 million OA articles and makes them available through a free browser extension used by more than 200,000 active users. The Unpaywall dataset also powers the open access discovery in Europe PMC, Web of Science, the British...
Within the walls of the British Library lies one of the greatest collections in the world. However, the value of the British Library lies not only in the preservation of heritage items, but also in its determination to keep pace with the many changes in the global information environment. As more content becomes open access, the British Library has an opportunity to move beyond the confines of...
