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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Assessing the broader value of research culture: The hidden REF experience
The hidden REF was an experiment to counteract existing evaluation methods. UK REF Impact Case Studies have a narrative linearity which fails to appreciate the amazing plethora of interactions, individuals and different types of output that are part of our research culture. The hidden REF exercise aims to celebrate the...Derrick, Gemma
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Impact cannot be measured, and other sad half-truths about impact measurement
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. In this talk, I look at bringing algorithmic fairness to impact measurement, from web-scale attention tracking to computer-assisted data story-telling. Drawing on my experience with altmetrics, I argue that many proxies for impact correlate not...Boruta, Luc
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Increasing engagement through Towards a National Collection
At the centre of the £18.9m research development programme Towards a National Collection is the aim to increase engagement with the cultural heritage collections of the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the programme is working to link collections and encourage cross-searching of multiple collection types, to...Bailey, Rebecca
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Users understand OpenGLAM. Do GLAMs?
For more than a decade, a dedicated bunch of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums [GLAM] around the world have been advocating for opening up cultural heritage collections while pushing for openness in their own institutions. Today, more than 1,200 GLAMs worldwide feature open access to their digitised assets – making...Sanderhoff, Merete
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
The Ethics of Open Access in the Endangered Archives Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme (also known as EAP) gives funding to people running projects to digitise and preserve archival materials at risk of destruction. These can date from any time before the middle of the twentieth century, and from most parts of the world except Europe and North America. The...Schaik, Sam van
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
What does the future hold for "open" and cultural heritage institutions?
GLAMs’ [Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums] public interest mission is squarely aligned with the open access ethos. Indeed, making their collections as openly accessible, shareable, and reusable as possible is the best way for GLAMs to achieve their mission as they digitize and offer their collections online. But only a...Vézina, Brigitte
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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Inequities in Scholarly Communications
In today's political climate, we are well aware, if we weren't before, that inequities exist at all levels of society. This is true also in scholarly communications, which despite its many changes in the last few decades, still adheres to traditional values and structures. This talk offers a broad overview...Roh, Charlotte
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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Social Justice Driven Open Access Bridging The Information Divide
“Open access is not only access and consumption but also and above all, production and dissemination...…[and] has the potential to contribute to and foster local research and development” Schöpfel (2017). The open access (OA) movement has been hailed in Africa as a significant contributor to its development as it opens...Raju, Reggie
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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Leverage Academy-Owned Non-APC Open Access Publishing to Achieve Sustainable and Equitable Scholarly Communications
Latin America has kept a strong tradition in Open Access, as a natural way to disseminate knowledge in a cooperative manner, where neither author fees nor subscriptions have been involved. Academic institutions, in this region, are in charge of publishing journals in such a way that each institution’s investment mutually...Becerril-Garcia, Arianna
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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Scaling Small: Enabling a More Diverse Ecosystem for Scholarly Book Publishing
This presentation provides an overview of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project (https://www.copim.ac.uk/), which is dedicated to the creation of robust and resilient infrastructures, workflows, business models, governance structures, and reuse and preservation strategies for the publication of open access books. It will focus on how we...Adema, Janneke