I’m very pleased to be able to say that Cambridge has signed up to become a supporter of a new Open Access book publishing scheme from MIT Press, Direct to Open. Funded jointly by the UL’s Collections and Academic Liaison and the Engineering Library, this is a library membership scheme, whereby participating libraries pay an […]
Open Access monographs: MIT Press — ebooks@cambridge
A new database of Open Access Content on the OCLC FirstSearch service will help researchers easily find open access resources from the following well-known open content providers: Biomed Central Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) JSTOR Open Address Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) OpenEdition Public Library of Science (PLOS) Searches of this database retrieve only […]
Open Access Content – new database on OCLC FirstSearch service — Electronic Collection Management
Some really good information here on how to get hold of those all important articles, especially open access ones.
New pages on search and discovery tools have been added to the e-resources website. These pages are intended to promote discovery of Open Access content and provide links and guidance to help users when they meet a subscription paywall.
The pages can be access here:
https://www.libraries.cam.ac.uk/search-and-discovery-tools
and are linked from the top-left box on the e-resources site.
The pages replace the “Articles and journals” page.
The iDiscover article search box has been moved to the first concertina box on the “Ask Cambridge Libraries” page.
There is also now linked from this page an iDiscover “Citation Linker” for article searching using ISSN, Title, DOI or PMID (or ISBN for books).
The pages comprise:
Super-easy to install and use, we recommend extensions to your browser to deliver the articles you need
Where to find Open Access content
Guiding you to the…
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It will be great to be able to locate journal articles more easily on iDiscover!
Developments over December 2017 and January 2018 may improve prospects for significant benefits to the user’s search experience in iDiscover.
Expanded your results beyond your collection in iDiscover, but hit the paywall as a result? For some time now, you could hit your Open Access button bookmarklet and get delivery of an OA repository version. Rather than extend search from outside with a tool, a new agreement should maximise search to discovery to delivery, dramatically decreasing the pain of that journey for users. Over 2018, we should see the integration of Primo (iDiscover) with CORE, making available in the University’s discovery service many millions of records for OA research articles, following the new partnership of the CORE service with Ex Libris.
The agreement has been described on the JISC involve blog here:
The aggregated content includes metadata (currently 90m records) and open access research outputs hosted in…
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As part of Open Access Week 2017, any University of Cambridge member with a Symplectic Elements profile can enter this competition.
An ORCID is a unique identifier for researchers (disambiguating Jane Smith from Jane Smith) and meaning that if researchers change their names, their work remains linked together. It is simple and quick to get an ORCID, find out more and register quickly and easily for one here.
Symplectic Elements is an internal University system that collects information about your publications (amongst other things). You can login directly to Symplectic here.
The competition website includes a quick video tutorial on how to link your ORCID with Symplectic, but you can also see step-by-step instructions on the Research Information Moodle site (click on the ‘Enrol’ button if you are not already enrolled).
The winner of the prize draw will be announced on Friday 27 October 2017. Good luck!
Please have a read of this brilliant post by Lizzie Sparrow. Hopefully it can help you locate and use open access material more easily.
ChemRxiv is a free online submission, distribution, and archival service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
ChemRxiv is now available in a fully functioning Beta version for use and feedback by researchers. Find out more from this ACS press release: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2017/august/chemrxiv-beta-open-for-submissions-and-powered-by-figshare.html?hootPostID=c5c5e00bed4e6b0db448b1ba9bc18551.
ChemRxiv itself can be found here.
As part of the Data Champions initiative, we invite members of the Department of Chemistry to contribute to a list of instructions for converting the data you generate through experiments using techniques such as NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, electron microscopy, x-ray crystallography etc. into open data formats that can be shared easily.
The aim is to save researchers time and effort in trying to find this out themselves, and to make it as easy as possible for them to share their data in an open format that is accessible to everyone.
First on our list are very brief instructions for converting NMR spectroscopy data from TopSpin to a text file in the internationally accepted open data format JCAMP-DX.
Please send your instructions to library@ch.cam.ac.uk and they will be added to the list.
Data Champions at the Department of Chemistry
Data Champions are local experts on research data management and sharing who can provide advice and training within their departments.
Your Data Champions currently are:
We are currently planning research data management related activities that we can carry out in the department. Please let us have your ideas! Contact one of the Data Champions or Clair Castle, Librarian at the Department of Chemistry at library@ch.cam.ac.uk.
Please visit the Chemistry Library’s Open Data website to find out more about your Data Champions, and other resources that will help chemists do open research.
Open Access and Open Data are changing: Share everything via Symplectic
Demo of new system in the Pfizer Lecture Theatre for members of the Department of Chemistry on 28th February at 13:15
The current Open Access and Open Data services are being integrated with Symplectic Elements, which will bring many benefits to researchers, administrators and the Open Access and Open Data staff. The new system is live and we are asking researchers at the Department of Chemistry to start using it now. The benefits of the new system include:
Come and see the new system being demonstrated and find out more about using it for all your research outputs. The demo will take approximately 30 minutes and there will be time for questions and answers.
Find out more here: http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-research/symplectic-elements-deposit-pilot
We look forward to seeing you there!
Try using oaDOI to find open access journal articles.
Just paste in a DOI on the oadoi website:
An oaDOI link is like a DOI, with a useful difference: if there’s an open access version of the article, the oaDOI URL will send you there, instead of the paywalled article landing page. So for instance,
- This DOI links you a paywall page doi.org/10.1038/ng.3260,
- but this oaDOI link gets you a PDF oadoi.org/10.1038/ng.3260
Welcome to Week 5! We’re over halfway through the programme so well done for getting this far! This week we’re looking at Using Free Things, but Legally.
In Thing 11 and Thing 12 we introduced you to sharing your own content through different channels. Once something is posted on the internet, it is out there in the public sphere and you often don’t really have much control over it anymore. So how do you protect your rights to your own work? While most content *should* default to ‘all rights reserved’, the internet can be a bit hazy about what that really means in practice so to really push home how you want your content to be used and worked with, if at all, you can always attach a Creative Commons licence to it.
What is Creative Commons? Well check out this video where we explain it as…
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What do chemists think about this? Let me know!
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2016 — The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its intention to form ChemRxiv, a chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, proposed as a collaborative undertaking that will facilitate the open dissemination of important scientific findings. The Society is presently in the process of inviting interested stakeholders to participate in helping to shape the service ahead of its anticipated launch.
“ChemRxiv is expected to follow the established models of arXiv in physics and bioRxiv in the life sciences by enabling researchers working across diverse areas of inquiry to share early results and data with their scientist-colleagues ahead of formal peer review and publication,” says Kevin Davies, Ph.D., who, as Vice President within the ACS Publications Division, will be spearheading the effort as part of a joint undertaking with the Society’s Chemical Abstracts Service. “Preprints are fully citable and are freely accessible preliminary communications…
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The third of the 19 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge for 2015 has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Continuous flow Buchwald–Hartwig amination of a pharmaceutical intermediate
Polina Yaseneva, Paul Hodgson, Jacek Zakrzewski, Sebastian Falß, Rebecca E. Meadows and Alexei A. Lapkin
React. Chem. Eng., 2016, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C5RE00048C
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/new-rsc-gold-for-gold-vouchers-available-for-2015/.
There are still 16 vouchers left for 2015!
If you or at least one of the authors on an RSC paper are an academic member of the University of Cambridge, and there are no funds available for you to pay the APC to make your paper immediately open access, then you may be eligible for a Gold for Gold voucher! Please see the above blog post for information on how to apply.
The second of the 19 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge for 2015 has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Supramolecular Polymer Networks Based on Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Interactions as Aqueous Photo-Rheological Fluids
Cindy Soo Yun Tan, Jesus del Barrio, Ji Liu and Prof. Oren Scherman
Polymer Chemistry, 2015, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C5PY01115A
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/new-rsc-gold-for-gold-vouchers-available-for-2015/.
There are still 17 vouchers left for 2015!
If you or at least one of the authors on an RSC paper are an academic member of the University of Cambridge, and there are no funds available for you to pay the APC to make your paper immediately open access, then you may be eligible for a Gold for Gold voucher! Please see the above blog post for information on how to apply.
The University’s Open Data team has an ever-expanding programme of events relating to all things open data in the Events section of their website at: http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/events. It’s worth bearing in mind in case you need guidance on managing and sharing your data at any point.
Useful and interesting events coming up include a data management plan clinic, open data lunchtime session, and a research data management workshop, as well as sessions on software licensing and sharing your software, copyright, and information security – all within a data sharing environment.
We have revived the Chemistry Library wiki so that you can share your experiences of open access publishing in Chemistry.
Useful tips, problems and successes are all welcome. It is hoped that this can become a useful, central source of information and guidance in open access publishing for you all, ultimately saving you time by avoiding duplication of effort.
There are links to help in navigating/editing the wiki throughout but if you have any problems please contact us.
We look forward to seeing your comments on the wiki!
This new initiative looks like it applies to all subject areas.
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is launching a new ‘Open Access Monograph Publishing Service’ offering authors a way to publish their books via open access in a fairly priced way.
This service gives authors the option of publishing their work under the Gold Open Access model, supporting the Press’s mission to disseminate knowledge at the highest international levels of excellence.
The standard charge for publication of books under the Gold Open Access model at CUP is £6,500 ($10,000/€9,000) for titles of up to 120,000 words. The charge has been set at this level in recognition of ongoing print sales, but as these diminish the business models and pricing levels may change.
CUP also supports Green Open Access Archiving across books and journals. This new policy allows authors of monographs and certain other books to post portions of their work on personal websites and repositories without compromising any aspect of the publishing…
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The first of the 19 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge for 2015 has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Simple fluorinated moiety insertion on AB 16-23 peptide for stain-free TEM imaging
Silvia Sonzini, Samuel T. Jones, Zarah Walsh and Oren A. Scherman
Analyst, 2015, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C4AN02278E
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/new-rsc-gold-for-gold-vouchers-available-for-2015/.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has provided 19 vouchers for 2015 which cover the Article Processing Charge (APC) for the Gold route to open access. These vouchers can be used for RSC papers accepted for publication in 2014, and are valid until the end of 2015.
Vouchers will be allocated by the Chemistry Librarian on a first-come-first-served basis, subject to confirmation by the applicant that no other funding is available, e.g. from the University’s Open Access fund (authors should check before applying for a voucher at https://www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk/) or another source. At least one of the authors should be a current member of academic staff of the University.
There is a procedure that authors should follow to request and obtain the vouchers, which is outlined on the Chemistry Library website here: http://www-library.ch.cam.ac.uk/open_access/gold_for_gold.html.
Papers made open access through the Gold for Gold scheme will be listed on the Chemistry Library website and publicised on this blog.
The recently published F1000Research Guide to Open Science Publishing gives a compact, clear and easy-to-understand basic guide on open science publishing.
It includes the chapters:
You can download, print, and share the PDF with colleagues!
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