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Books per Publisher: Data from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
<p>Quantitative information on publishers and published books from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).</p>
Numbers of Articles, Books and Dissertation theses indexed in BASE and percentages of items published Open Access, under Creative Commons Licenses and under Open Licenses (2013-2017)
<p>A look at the data provided by the Open Access search engine BASE (http://base-search.net) shows that the Open Science compliance among dissertation theses stagnates. BASE knows three categories of accessibility: Open Access, Unknown, Non-Open Access. In the following tables and graphs, figures reported as "Open Access" have been categorised by BASE as Open Access. The tables and graphics show data from BASE (as of 06.03.2018) as follows:</p> <p>a) Indexed theses, books and journal articles</p> <p>b) Indexed theses, books and journal articles published by Open Access</p> <p>c) indexed theses, books and journal articles under Creative Commons licenses.</p> <p>d) indexed theses, books and journal articles, which are published under open licenses in the sense of the Open License, i. e. reflect terms of use of the Open Source.</p> <p> </p> <p>Although doctoral theses already had a high share of open access by 2013 (43%), by 2017 it had risen by only 5% (2017:48%). At the same time, the proportion of books published in open access rose by 14% (from 20% to 34%) and articles by 17% from 44% (2013) to 61% (2017). The same effect can be seen in the proportion of CC-licensed items: Their share rose by 4% (from 9% to 13%) for doctoral theses, by 9% for books (from 4% to 13%) and 8% for articles (from 10% to 18%) between 2013 and 2017. However, the share of openly licensed items is most pronounced: it did not increase for doctoral theses, but remained at 2% between 2013 and 2017; in the same period it increased by 5% (from 1% to 6%) for books, and by 5% (from 5% to 10%) for articles.</p>
Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers: Interviews with Presses
<p>This is a set of interviews conducted by Dr. Judith Fathallah in the context of the 2023 research report "Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers: Values, Practices, Barriers", with the kind assistance of the following interviewees:</p> <ul> <li> <p>François van Schalkwyk, Director of African Minds</p> </li> <li> <p>Joe Deville, Co-Founder of Mattering Press</p> </li> <li> <p>Jeff Pooley, Director of mediastudies.press</p> </li> <li> <p>Mercedes Bunz, Co-Founder of meson press</p> </li> <li> <p>Alessandra Tosi, Co-Director of Open Book Publishers</p> </li> <li> <p>Eileen Joy, Co-Director of punctum books.</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press: Portuguese Books
<p>A collection of 40 books written in Portuguese and published at <a href="http://self.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks | Read eBooks online | Free eBooks</a>.</p> <ul> <li>The <em>gutenberg_selfpub_tagged.vrt</em> file contains all the books. The texts were tagged using Spacy large trained model for Portuguese (<a href="https://spacy.io/models/pt">https://spacy.io/models/pt</a>)</li> <li>The corpus metadata is listed in <em>gutenberg_selfpub_metadata.tsv</em></li> <li><em>gutenberg_selfpub_xml_untagged.zip</em> contains all the untagged texts.</li> </ul> <p>The XML files contain the following tags and attributes:</p> <ul> <li>chapter: n</li> <li>dedication</li> <li>text:id</li> <li>title</li> <li>author</li> <li>subtitle</li> <li>part: n</li> <li>acknowledge</li> <li>summary: lang</li> <li>publisher</li> <li>short: n</li> <li>biography</li> </ul>
Practical Books published in England, 1476–1600
<p>These two .csv files are companion data for the book <em><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo222256991.html">Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print</a> </em>(University of Chicago Press, 2024). They contain publication information for all "practical books" printed in England between 1476 and 1600. Practical books are defined as books published in English in any of the following genres:</p> <ul> <li>medical recipe collections</li> <li>herbals</li> <li>astrological manuals</li> <li>agricultural treatises</li> <li>anatomies</li> <li>surgeries</li> <li>dietaries or health regimens</li> <li>urinaries</li> <li>books on distillation</li> <li>gardening manuals</li> <li>books on hawking and hunting</li> <li>husbandry manuals</li> <li>veterinary medicine </li> </ul> <p>The publication information for the 479 books reflected in these spreadsheets were collected from the British Library's digital database, <a href="https://estc.bl.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estc.bl.uk</a>, which contains information bibliographical data drawn from Katherine Pantzer, et al, eds., <em>A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, </em><em>and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640, </em>3 vols., revised and enlarged second edition (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–1993). Note that as of summer 2024, the digital <em>ESTC</em> remains inaccessible following a cyber attack on the British Library. </p> <p>Both spreadsheets contain information on the same 479 titles, but the data in the second "standardized titles" spreadsheet has been cleaned in order to create standard titles for reeditions of the same texts. In other words, in the "standardized titles" spreadsheet, all editions of the same text are registered under the same title.</p>
'Opening the Future' - a new funding model for open-access monographs: introducing an innovative approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding
<p>We showcase a collaborative pilot case study that implements an innovative open access revenue model at the Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs). Building on existing library subscription models (e.g. OBP, punctum), this is a sustainable OA publishing model that gives library members access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the membership fees then used to make the frontlist openly accessible.<br> Given the current global library environment and existing budget pressures that have been exacerbated by Covid-19, a consortial model of funding promises a cost-effective solution for OA that means no single institution bears a disproportionate burden. This model, then, appeals to both those who wish to pay for subscription-access content (more traditional university acquisition models) and those who support OA initiatives. It brings many institutions together under one roof for an affordable route to open access books.<br> Library members get access to a selection of the publishers’ backlists, DRM free and with perpetual access after three years. In return, the membership revenue is used to make newly-published books openly accessible to anyone with an internet connection.<br> We believe Opening the Future is a trailblazer in scholarly comms, offering a viable and affordable route to OA change for small/medium university presses and which appeals to libraries of all sizes and budgets. We aim to open up research for the public good. The model that we are piloting reduces inequalities in access to open access publication by eradicating exclusionary book processing charges (BPCs).<br> As we progress with the pilot, we are writing up everything we’ve done to implement the model and will release this and any software as a free toolkit, so that other publishers can use it and also take the leap.</p>
Rapid publishing for public health books against COVID-19
<p>A YouTube version of the video is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WUUTv-GIc&t=3s&ab_channel=SimonWorthington">available here</a>.</p> <p>Presented are two case studies covering the barriers to be overcome to fully automate the production workflow for Open Access multi-format books, to produce and distribute the following – ebook, print-on-demand, screen PDF, webbook, website, and an interoperable source.</p> <p>The first case study involves producing eight book sprints for <a href="https://github.com/akademie-oeffentliches-gesundheitswesen">training manuals</a>, some with MOOC modules, for the Academy of Public Health in Dusseldorf (Germany) which was run as a <a href="https://github.com/TIBHannover/Rapid-Collaborative-Health-Publishing">research cooperation</a> with the Open Science Lab, TIB – German National Library of Science and Technology. </p> <p>The second case study involves converting the existing reports of <a href="https://www.independentsage.org/">Independent SAGE</a> (UK) – as Open Access, multi-format, enabling multi-channel distribution, and deposing in academic repositories. </p> <p>The indie_SAGE project involved creating a volunteer academic working group to carry out the work. Here it is important to add that I am acting as a private individual. The Independent Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (indie_SAGE) was formed in May 2020 by the former chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government Sir David King, quote, ‘on how to minimise deaths and support Britain’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis’. </p> <p>The <a href="https://github.com/Independent-SAGE/Technical-Publishing-Working-Group">working group</a> is newly formed and welcomes help and volunteers! </p>
Dataset supporting the book chapter entitled "Ratiometric Fluorescent Safranin-O staining allows the quantification of lignin contents in muro" and published in "Histochemistry of Single Molecules"
<p>This dataset aims to test the algorithms presented in the book chapter entitled</p> <p><strong>“Ratiometric Fluorescent Safranin-O staining allows the quantification of lignin contents <em>in muro</em>” </strong></p> <p>and published in “Histochemistry of Single Molecules”</p> <p><strong>Are available:</strong></p> <p>-The algorithm, provided has an ImageJ macro ("safranine_ratio_segmentation")</p> <p>- A representative image for testing (“safranine wt-60x.nd2”)</p>
Data for article: Normative drift and self-correction and self-regulation in scholarly publishing: The case of scholarly books published by academics at Makerere University
<p>University academics face multiple pressures to publish. These pressures emanate from contexts with different, often competing, social norms which result in academics publishing for reasons that may run counter to accepted scientific practice. This paper asks what decisions are being taken by academics when it comes to their choice of scholarly book publisher. An analysis of books selected from more than 2,500 self-reported scholarly publications produced by academics at Makerere University in Uganda from 2011 to 2017, reveals that 31 scholarly books were published. Of these books, more than half (54%) were published by publishers that do not follow accepted scholarly publishing practice. Findings also show that there was a sharp decline in books published with suspect publishers in the second half of the seven-year period. The article discusses possible reasons for the selection of suspect publishers and considers four factors that may account for the observable decline: (1) a cyclical downturn; (2) improved research management and reporting; (3) explication of the norms of science; and (4) self-correction.</p> <p><strong>METHODS</strong></p> <p>The specific interest of this study is the publication of scholarly books by academics at Makerere University. </p> <p>The sources of the publications data were the lists of research outputs published in Makerere University’s annual reports from 2011 to 2017. Digital copies of the annual reports in PDF format were downloaded from the university’s website. Data were scraped from the annual report PDFs by exporting the publication lists from the PDFs to MSWord, removing unnecessary line breaks and spacing to create a single publication per line, and copying the publication lists into MSExcel for cleaning and analysis. Data were cleaned to remove (1) duplicate entries (e.g. identical publications in the same annual report or a publication listed as ‘under review’ or ‘in press’ in one year and listed again as a publication in a following year); (2) publications listed as ‘submitted’, unpublished masters and PhD theses, speeches, lectures, responses or retractions; (3) incomplete entries (e.g. no article, book or journal title); and (4) publications prior to 2011 (e.g. a 2008 publication listed in the 2011 annual report).</p> <p>The cleaned data were then coded for ‘year of publication’ (2011 to 2017 inclusive), ‘college’ (any of the colleges at Makerere University to which the authors were affiliated), and ‘publication type’ (book chapter, journal article, edited volume, working paper, policy brief, monograph, conference paper, textbook, report, popular article, poster presentation, newsletter, essay, catalogue, poetry, handbook). Books or parts of books (i.e. ‘book chapter’, ‘edited volume’, ‘monograph’, ‘textbook’, ‘catalogue’, ‘poetry’ and ‘handbook’) were further coded for ‘publisher’ (name); ‘publisher location’ (city, country as indicated on the imprint page of the publication); and ‘URL’ (online reference to publisher or publication). In some cases, publications were listed by type in the annual reports. Where publication lists were not presented in this way, indicators such as ‘journal of’, ‘volume’, ‘issue’ and ISSNs were used to identify journals; conference names, ‘proceedings of’, dates and cities were used to identify conference papers and presentations; ‘news’, ‘magazine’, ISSNs and the absence of ‘journal of’ were used to identify periodicals; and place of publication, publisher and ISBNs were used to identify books. Where these indicators were insufficient to determine a publication type, an online search was done to find the missing data. </p> <p>A limitation of the adopted method is that it relies on self-reporting by the university colleges and the list can therefore not be assumed to be comprehensive. Without knowledge of the reporting guidelines, it is also not possible to know whether all colleges and schools used the same criteria when selecting what to submit for reporting purposes. For example, some colleges may have decided to include working papers, policy briefs or papers presented at conferences, while others may have decided not to do so. </p>
Digitized, corrected and supplemented data on net zooplankton of the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters from five rare reference books published in Russian in limited editions
<p>Data on plankton collected by the Juday net in 1984-2013 in the Far Eastern seas and the north-western Pacific containing the species composition, occurrence and abundance of zooplankton in the surveyed area. The data is aggregated by species, developmental stages, size fractions, regions, vertical layers of water, light and dark time of day, four seasons of the year and perennial periods. It is accompanied shape-files with polygons of the regions by which data is summarized with information about surface areas and water volumes in each of them. The scope of application of this data is fundamental to the management of marine resources, aquaculture development, nature conservation, and assessment of the damage of various anthropogenic factors on nature.</p>
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