The Cluster and the University Library invited Dr. Martin Eve (Lincoln University) for a two day intensive workshop with Dulip Withanage and Dr. Andrea Hacker to develop and design a publication tool for Open Access books.
The Really Short Version: Submit journal article. Check journal policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ (the bits on “post-print” are the thing to pay attention to). On acceptance go to your institution's repository and create a record. Upload your author's accepted version setting the embargo as per SHERPA/RoMEO.
As you may, or may not, know, I am working on an open source tool for scholarly article typesetting. Whether you care about this or not (it's quite geeky in some ways, but I think important), if you speak a language other than English, then I need your help. One of the things this software has to do is to try to work out where in a document we might find a list of works cited by either a scientist or a scholar.
From the Prezi terms of use: Section 6.2: Section 9: It is extremely ambiguous of Prezi to state that it both “obtains no rights to your content other than as provided for herein” while simultaneously claiming that the “content […] is owned, controlled, or licensed by or to Prezi”. Does an arrangement of items constitute “user content”? What if you make a unique creation (your “user content”) using Prezi's artwork?
Debugging a text-based transcoder meTypeset is, in essence, a transcoder for text.
Diversity of material One of the big challenges that we face in designing an open source scholarly typesetter is ensuring that a diverse range of papers can accurately be parsed by the system. I come from a humanities background and know what articles from those disciplines look like. I do not necessarily know the structure and format of an article from the biomedical sciences.
The Critics of OA and Acknowledging “Predation” Several of the critics of OA, most notably in recent days Jeffrey Beall and John Bohannon – the former of whom believes, with an almost McCarthyite tone, that Open Access is an anti-corporatist movement – have pointed out the practices of so-called “predatory” gold open access publishers. They have a point.
Modularizing the Project Today brings with it some notable changes to my scholarly article XML (NLM/JATS) typesetter (meTypeset). First off, the project is now nicely handling user supplied captions to figures, so long as they are in the format “Figure 1: a figure caption”. The second, more important change, that I've implemented, however, is to begin to modularize the project and to add individual command line hooks for different functions.
When checking out my Google Scholar profile today, I noticed that, if a blog post is cited, it will be counted as an article by Google Scholar. This is interesting for several perhaps conflicting reasons: These items are (often) not digitally preserved and have unstable URLs These items are not peer reviewed (does this matter?
Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology’, in Profils Américains: Thomas Pynchon , ed. by Gilles Chamerois and Bénédicte Fryd (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2014), pp. 81–104 You can buy a copy of the book from the press's website or download a non-paginated/typeset version of the accepted manuscript from this site and (shortly) from the Lincoln repository.
Eve, Martin Paul. 2014. "The Means of (Re-)Production: Expertise, Open Tools, Standards and Communication." Publications 2, no. 1: 38-43. You can download this gold open access article, from the journal, from this site, at Academia.edu and (shortly) from the University of Lincoln repository.
