From jilloneill at nfais.org Tue Feb 4 15:23:42 2014 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:23:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] Managing Works Metadata, Feb 12 Message-ID: <1391545422.719321431@webmail.nfais.org> Posted by request: Register now for NISO?s February educational webinar. Webinar: We Know it When We See It: Managing ?Works? Metadata Date: February 12, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: [http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/] http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/ ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR In the new models for describing information resources (FRBR, RDA, BIBFRAME), the conceptual essence of an item?referred to as a ?Work??is separated from the specific manifestations of the item?referred to as ?Instances? or ?Expressions?. The work ?Macbeth by Shakespeare? could have multiple forms or versions and exist in a variety of media, from a print copy of the play to a DVD of a live performance. Of equal importance in the new models is describing the relationship between a Work and its various Instances/Expressions. This represents an entirely different way of thinking about resource description for libraries and users. While the new models are still in the early days of implementation, a number of efforts are already underway to describe resources using these new concepts and relationships. This webinar will explore how metadata descriptive systems are developing around the new notion of ?Works?. TOPICS & SPEAKERS ? The Use and Designation of ?Works? in GOKb ? Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University ? RDA?s Impact on Library Technical and Public Services ? Magda El-Sherbini, Associate Professor and Head, Collection Description and Access Department, Ohio State University Libraries ? Works as a Collection of ?Rights? about a Content Object ? Godfrey Rust, Principal Data Architect for Ontologyx, Rightscom REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on February 12, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: [http://www.niso.org/about/roster/%23library_standards_alliance] http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance. If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year?s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: [http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/] http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: [http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/] http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CENDI?s Meritorious Service Award recognizes an individual(s) or team that makes ?a noteworthy contribution to CENDI and to federal interagency cooperation through its events, publications, administration, or outreach.? CENDI recognized Deputy Chair, Jerry Sheehan, for his significant contributions to CENDI information policy programs and discussions over many years. His service includes being a CENDI Alternate and then Principal, Deputy Chair of CENDI, and Chair of the CENDI Policy Working Group. He was a key contributor to development of white papers presented to the Obama Administration on scientific and technical information (STI) issues, and to the CENDI Grand Challenge document, iScience to Jobs, in 2012. Sheehan?s support of CENDI has significantly increased the CENDI focus on data and promoted closer CENDI interactions with the President?s Office of Science and Technology Policy on open/public access issues. At a time when CENDI agencies are grappling with big data and open science, it is highly appropriate to recognize Sheehan for contributions that have helped to expand CENDI?s attention to a range of scientific information policy issues. Bill Adams, a significant contributor to the work of CENDI?s Copyright and Intellectual Property Working Group, is being honored as an expert on federal acquisitions, patent law, trademark law, copyright law, technical data rights, and technology transfer. He contributed substantively to the Copyright Working Group?s major publications, including Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright, Permissions ? Government-produced and Non-government Produced Works; Copyright Issues in Mass Digitization (in process), and Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright and Computer Software: Issues affecting the U.S. Government with Special Emphasis on Open Source Software. Adams has demonstrated his commitment to CENDI and advancing interagency cooperation by sharing his expertise in the legal challenges involved in information management and delivery within the federal government. CENDI is an interagency consortium of senior STI managers from 14 U.S. federal agencies that represent over 97% of the federal research and development budget. The CENDI Secretariat is headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and managed by Information International Associates, Inc., under the direction of Bonnie C. Carroll. More information about CENDI can be found at [http://www.cendi.gov/] www.cendi.gov. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jillmwo at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 08:12:56 2014 From: jillmwo at gmail.com (Jill O'Neill) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 08:12:56 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Enotes, 2014, No. 1 Message-ID: *NFAIS Enotes, 2014, No. 1* *Written and compiled by Jill O'Neill* *Google Scholar, Jane Austen and Changes in Scholarly Search* In going through old documents on a computer recently, I came across a short piece I had written back in 2006 about Google Scholar and a feature it had added that was supposed to direct researchers to recently published items. At that time, Google Scholar was experiencing serious issues, poor metadata quality being the most significant one. Relevancy ranking algorithms were mysterious. The scope of the content included in the service was unclear. Full-text availability was really a hit-or-miss proposition. Overall, as an information service, there were drawbacks for the too-casual student. The search query I used in that evaluation was ["Jane Austen" Church clergy Georgian], a standard query that I have used since Google Scholar was launched in 2004 as a way of tracking the service's scope and added enhancements. In June of 2006, that query yielded a paltry 127 results. Run in 2014, that same query yielded 1,220 results. What is now included in that larger result set in 2014? On my first page of results, the ten links presented included six scanned titles searchable on Google Books, one primary cited document from the Hampshire County Council in the UK, and three items from digital repositories. Running a query from the sciences such as [alkaloids "conium maculatum" livestock] retrieves a smaller set of hits, but all of the items on the first page are either from journal publishers (Elsevier, Sage) or specialized aggregators such as InformaHealthCare.com A set of 2013 exchanges on the Web4Lib listserv outlined what some of the pros and cons of using Scholar in place of a discovery service were in the eyes of the information professional. The service is free and comes with a user-friendly interface, *but* there is no clear outline of what is covered in the resource and Google could pull the plug on it at any time without apology. Local holdings aren't included in Google Scholar, which puts librarians at a disadvantage. They can't make clear to patrons what content is immediately accessible and what may entail a waiting period. Google has not worried too much about soothing that irritation. On the Google Scholar FAQ, in response to the question *Do you cover PubMed? JStor? Elsevier?,* the response reads "*We index research articles and abstracts from most major academic publishers and repositories worldwide, including both free and subscription sources. To check current coverage of a specific source in Google Scholar, search for a sample of their article titles in quotes*." Even that response is clearly directed towards the primary end user, rather than the information professional who may be trying to assist that user with their research. ( http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html#coverage) Of course, given the rapidly expanding options available, scholarship need not take the form of either journal articles or monographs. I was much taken by a digital humanities project that reproduced an art gallery visited by Austen in 1813. (http://www.whatjanesaw.org/). The project was sufficiently impressive to capture attention from the main stream press ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/books/what-jane-saw-is-an-online-trip-for-jane-austen-fans.html) . There was a journal article written about the project, one identified by the following preferred citation: Barchas, Janine (2012) "Digitally Reconstructing the Reynolds Retrospective Attended by Jane Austen in 1813: A Report on E-Work-in-Progress," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.2.1.12 Available at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol2/iss1/13 The problem is that* What Jane Saw* is not adequately captured in that traditional scholarly article, at least in part because the article is focused on the building of the digital environment rather than on the author's scholarship which actually focuses on the concept of celebrity in the Georgian era. The more traditional outputs of her scholarship (article and monograph) have appropriate metadata assigned. The digital construction itself, however, is poorly served. Unlike the citation provided above, the digital exhibit lacks reliable metadata and thus can become easily obscured to subsequent searching. Yes, you can find *What Jane Saw* in Google Scholar if you search using that phrase, but it displays the author's name not as *Janine Barchas* but instead as *WJ Saw*. At this year's NFAIS Annual Conference, we'll be hearing from scholars who are making similarly creative investigations, leveraging digital content and new technologies. Yet Google isn't particularly concerned about the long-term retrievability of some of this digital content in the context of standard library practice. In this context, it may be interesting to read the work of younger scholars, in particular, this related paper by Dutch researchers entitled, *Just Google It: Digital Research Practices of Humanities Scholars* (http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2434). While limited to Dutch and Flemish humanists, the authors' study concludes that "*It is probable that considerations of convenience supersede the principles of provenance and context. Google might not cover all the relevant sources, but it does probably cover the most**. Furthermore in terms of efficiency, relying on Google instead of searching in multiple alternative more refined search systems, within the websites of specialized institutions, and subsequently comparing the results, saves time and energy*" Added emphasis in boldface is mine. Further on in the paper, the authors essentially shrug off concerns that digital practice is unlikely to mirror analog library and information science practice. Throughout 2013, there was an on-going discussion documenting issues surrounding use of the tool in a series of BioMedCentral articles. Jean Francois Gehanna (University of Rouen) delved into the use of Google Scholar for purposes of developing systematic reviews: ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/13/7) and Martin Boeker of the Uniklinik-freburg.de took that work a step further ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/13/131). To clarify, systematic reviews emerged in recent decades as a way of providing health-care professionals with data from a broad spectrum of research trials in order to enable evidence-based practices. Quoting from a leading institute*: Systematic reviews aim to find as much as possible of the research relevant to the particular research questions, and use explicit methods to identify what can reliably be said on the basis of these studies... Such reviews then go on to synthesize research findings in a form which is easily accessible to those who have to make policy or practice decisions. In this way, systematic reviews reduce the bias which can occur in other approaches to reviewing research evidence*. [ http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=67]. The work by both Gehanna and Boeker indicate that Google Scholar is inadequate to the search and recall necessary to ensure a high quality systematic review. Lack of precision was a major drawback to its use. The library community largely agrees with this assessment ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733758/), although now and again, there are those suggesting that discovery services do no better at the task ( http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-summon-alone-good-enough-for.html#.UqDZ8_RDsRp). Others suggest that the problem lies less with discovery service technologies and more with "weaknesses in the educational process for systematic review methodologies, and in the level of methodological expertise on the part of the authors, editors, and reviewers of the scholarly journals." ( http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/whats-wrong-with-google-scholar-for-systematic-reviews/). The information and research communities seem to be at odds over what should be accepted as best practices in service to scholarship. Among content providers and librarians, it is understood that Google views Scholar as a something of a low-priority service. Google knows the tool gets used and they do occasionally beef up the offering, but the aura of being Anurag Acharya's private "20% time" project still remains. There were numerous upgrades in 2012 but only two improvements in 2013. The most recent upgrade in November had to do with saving discovered items from a search query - essentially mirroring most bibliographic management software. ( http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2013/11/google-scholar-library.html). It is an improvement but not an overly dramatic one and, again, Google's target is the end-user rather than the information professional. To me, however, the most telling indicator of Google's valuation of Scholar lies in the fact that Scholar has not yet been optimized for Google Now, the voice command interface that works with mobile and wearable technologies - everything from the Google search app on one's iPod Touch up through Google Glass. Meanwhile, Google has been upgrading other varieties of search, as well as acquiring companies like DeepMind and Nest. Tech analysts have their various theories as to Google's strategic direction (the Internet of Things, etc.), but what does it mean in the context of what NFAIS member organizations do? Click through on the following headline links to two stories regarding deep learning initiatives at Google: (1) If this doesn't terrify you... Google's computers OUTWIT their humans 'Deep learning' clusters crack coding problems their top engineers can't http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/15/google_thinking_machines/ >From the story: *By working hard to give its machines greater capabilities, and local, limited intelligence, Google can crack classification problems that its human experts can't solve*. (2) More on DeepMind: AI Startup to Work Directly With Google's Search Team http://recode.net/2014/01/27/more-on-deepmind-ai-startup-to-work-directly-with-googles-search-team/ >From the story: "...*sources said Deep Mind is actually being inserted into Google's oldest team: Search. Or as search is known at Google today, the "Knowledge Group" - so called because it no longer finds keywords on Web pages, but instead connects larger concepts*." Even now, Google is expanding beyond what we might think of as "simple" linked data and into a more complex and challenging environment of presenting useful answers. Last year, I could run a very broad query "Jane Austen" and Google would pop up one of its enhanced Knowledge cards. Off to the right of my screen, a box displays a portrait of Jane Austen, her birth and death dates, etc. The box wasn't all that useful except in the most limited function of looking up such information. (Google's designers of that card display didn't think that links referring the user to Austen's novels should take precedence over links to film and television adaptations of her works, anymore than they would think to include links to the digital scholarship of *What Jane Saw*.) Still, that display was most users' introduction to the idea of linked data aggregating answers in response to a search. This month, a new wrinkle has emerged. If I run the query I noted at the beginning of this issue of Enotes ("Jane Austen" Church clergy Georgian) in the mainstream version of Google today, I will see grey notations with each hit indicating the source of that link if Google deems that source to be "widely recognized as notable online" (See http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-information-about-websites-to-help.html ). Suddenly the user sees a recent book title published by Ashgate. Click on a small downward-pointing grey arrow and Google displays a smaller Google Knowledge box that notes what Ashgate is --an academic book and journal publisher based in the UK. Does that information about Ashgate (taken from Wikipedia) lend credibility to the book title *Jane Austen's Anglicanism*in the mind of the user? Conceivably. The link below that one is to a relevant PDF document posted by the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, where the author of that title teaches. Does Google plan on linking up that data for the researcher as well? Conceivably. Not all links get this indicator. A link to Irene Collins' *Jane Austen and The Clergy* on Google Books receives no such bolstering. A little deeper into the search results, there are such notable sources listed as the University of Florida and Goodreads. Still, Google is making an attempt to provide users with the means of discovery of reliable content as well as to some entity that might aid in gaining access. Google isn't delivering particularly worthwhile information from an educational or research standpoint, but it's easy to see how something more competitive might eventually emerge. Google has the capability of matching up Jane Austen with book content from Ashgate Publishing as well as an honors thesis housed in the University of Florida's digital repository. When they succeed in harnessing their machines' "deep learning" - the fruit of their engineers' creativity as well as the DeepMind acquisition -- will they be building the advanced information service of the future? At that point, will we even be consider it to be an advanced service? There are members of NFAIS that are leveraging linked data in ways similar to Google's Knowledge Graph approach. When they emerge, they will be far more authoritative than Google's current tool, but will users notice? They will, if NFAIS members move nimbly. Sometimes it is this community's advantage to be focused on satisfying user needs that Google doesn't deem a priority. Want to learn more about how new forms of content and big data techniques are changing publishing? Plan to attend the 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference, *Giving Voice to Content: Re-envisioning the Business of Information,* scheduled for February 23-25, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA (see: *http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530 *). 2013 NFAIS Supporters Access Innovations, Inc. Accessible Archives, Inc. American Psychological Association/PsycINFO American Theological Library Association Annual Reviews CAS CrossRef Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. Defense Technical Information Center EBSCO Information Services Getty Research Institute The H. W. Wilson Foundation Information Today, Inc. IFIS Modern Language Association OCLC Philosopher's Information Center ProQuest RSuite CMS Scope e-Knowledge Center TEMIS, Inc. -- Jill O'Neill jillmwo at gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jilloneill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this upcoming NFAIS webinar, Dr. Mary Somerville (University of Colorado Denver) and Lettie Conrad (SAGE) will discuss findings of a 2013 SAGE-sponsored study investigating this question in the light of current aspirations, accomplishments, and opportunities. Contributors to the study included, among others, such NFAIS member organizations as Delta Think, ProQuest, and Informed Strategies. In this follow-up to their 2012 study (featured in this [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=518] March 2013 NFAIS workshop), Somerville and Conrad have documented four areas that industry experts believe demand cross-sector participation and focus. Those areas include: ?? Standards ?? Transparency ?? Metadata ?? Partnerships In each instance, Somerville and Conrad offer actionable recommendations for next steps. Register now to participate in this 90 minute webinar on Wednesday, March 12, to learn more regarding the challenges and opportunities awaiting those who actively enhance efforts in each of these areas! For more information, contact Jill O'Neill, Director, Planning & Communication, NFAIS via phone (215-893-1561 or email (jilloneill at nfais.org) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From BLawlor at nfais.org Tue Feb 18 13:10:52 2014 From: BLawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:10:52 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Conference Registration Closing Soon Message-ID: <017f01cf2cd4$c278a890$4769f9b0$@nfais.org> NFAIS CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CLOSING SOON - REGISTER NOW! Register NOW to attend the 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference, Giving Voice to Content: Re-envisioning the Business of Information, scheduled to take place from February 23-25, 2014 at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. if you: * Need to learn more about the technology and business forces that are enabling data-driven strategic decisions and the creative use of data for new publishing opportunities. * Want to see a Google Glass Demo and learn more about the Signal Economy. * Are interested in hearing about IBM's view on the new era of cognitive computing and the hyper-connected world that is driven by the convergence of mobile technology, social networks, analytics and the cloud. * Need to know what policies, practices and procedures users want put in place so that their use of content is facilitated and not inhibited. * Or simply want to look through a lens and observe how the business of information is being forever changed with the adoption of a new data-driven information mindset by such organizations as BibioLabs ( new business models), The British Library (supporting Digital scholars), CrowdComputing Systems (crowd sourcing of content), Elsevier (3D visualization and big data technologies applied to "small" data), Esri (gathering information via mobile technology ), Gale-Cengage (new business models), Internet Archives (data mining of vast archives), Molecular Connections (big data technologies and content enrichment), The New York Times (leveraging archived data in a digital world), OCLC (managing library collections as a graph), and OSTI (giving voice to science R&D results). Online registration will close at 4:00pm EST this coming Friday (February 21, 2014), although walk-ins are accepted. The final program and registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530. To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning ( jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at the URL noted above. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. phone: 215-893-1561; fax: 215-893-1564; email: nfais at nfais.org; web site: http:www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Register now if you: * Need to learn more about the technology and business forces that are enabling data-driven strategic decisions and the creative use of data for new publishing opportunities. * Want to see a Google Glass Demo and learn more about the Signal Economy. * Are interested in hearing about IBM's view on the new era of cognitive computing and the hyper-connected world that is driven by the convergence of mobile technology, social networks, analytics and the cloud. * Need to know what policies, practices and procedures users want put in place so that their use of content is facilitated and not inhibited. * Or simply want to look through a lens and observe how the business of information is being forever changed with the adoption of a new data-driven information mindset by such organizations as BibioLabs ( new business models), The British Library (supporting Digital scholars), CrowdComputing Systems (crowd sourcing of content), Elsevier (3D visualization and big data technologies applied to "small" data), Esri (gathering information via mobile technology), Gale-Cengage (new business models), Internet Archives (data mining of vast archives), Molecular Connections (big data technologies and content enrichment), The New York Times (leveraging archived data in a digital world), OCLC (managing library collections as a graph), and OSTI (giving voice to science R&D results). The final program and registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530. Walk-ins are accepted with payment by check or credit card at the registration desk To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning ( jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at the URL noted above. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. phone: 215-893-1561; fax: 215-893-1564; email: nfais at nfais.org; web site: http:www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Untitled attachment 00393.txt URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Feb 24 07:29:32 2014 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:29:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] NISO Hosting Two-Part March Webinar Message-ID: <1393244972.358217630@webmail.nfais.org> NISO Two-Part March Webinar: The Infrastructure of Open Access Part 1: Knowing What is Open Date: March 5, 2014 Time: 1:00 ? 2:30 p.m. Eastern time Event webpage: [http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/what_is_open/] http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/what_is_open/ Part 2: Toward a Functioning Business Ecosystem Date: March 12, 2014 Time: 1:00 ? 2:30 p.m. Eastern time Event webpage: [http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/ecosystem/] http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/ecosystem/ =============================================================== NISO will be holding a two-part webinar on March 5 and 12 to discuss The Infrastructure of Open Access. Open Access (OA) has become a widely accepted and rapidly growing method of publishing scholarly content. As OA distribution gains traction, a high priority for the community is establishing and building the infrastructure needed to efficiently manage this content. This infrastructure includes such elements as OA publication charge management by third parties, fee structures and payments, visual and machine-readable identification of OA availability and reuse rights, and discovery layer functions. Part 1 will discuss Knowing What is Open. In Part 2, speakers will explore how we can move Toward a Functioning Business Ecosystem. You can register for either or both parts. There is a 25% discount to registrants of both parts. ABOUT PART 1: KNOWING WHAT IS OPEN When content is published by a strictly Open Access publisher or in a completely open access online journal, knowing what is freely available to read by the user can be fairly obvious. This is less clear for hybrid titles, where open access is set at an article-by-article level. Even when a journal is fully open access, mechanisms are necessary for conveying the OA status of articles and their reuse rights to other systems, such as discovery platforms. This webinar, Knowing What is Open, will discuss just what it means to say content is "open access," what the various flavors of OA are, and how people and other systems can determine how open something is and both discover and access such content. Issues around license rights, the scale of openness, and the application of this data in discovery contexts will also be covered. Topics and speakers are: Setting the Stage: How Open is Open Access? ? Darlene Yaplee, Chief Marketing Officer, PLOS Untangling Open Access Issues in Scholarly Communication ? Greg Tananbaum, Consultant; NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group Co-Chair The Lifecycle of Open Access Content ? Susan Dunavan, Senior Product Manager, SIPX, and Franny Lee, Co-Founder & VP Business Development, SIPX ABOUT PART 2: TOWARD A FUNCTIONING BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM As Open Access is rapidly growing, the need to improve the business models and relationships to create a functional ecosystem becomes more critical. The past economic models and workflows were established based on a subscription model. OA revenue models are typically based on author publication charges, creating a more complicated workflow, and it is questionable whether the new OA business practices can sustain themselves at the scale of expected article output. Invariably, third-party processers will need to help manage the institutional relationships, the billing and payment processing necessary, and likely other elements of the required business ecosystem for Open Access. The second part of NISO?s two-part series on the Infrastructure of Open Access will discuss how to create a Functioning Business Ecosystem. Speakers will explore the infrastructure elements that some community members are putting into place, discuss what is working and what isn't, and identify problems that remain to be solved. Topics and speakers are: Copyright Clearance Center: Open Access & APC Management ? Roy S. Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) The Sustainability of Open Access ? Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Open Access Business Models for Publicly-Funded Research ? Frederick Friend, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication, University College London REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on March 5 for Part 1 and March 12 for Part 2 (the days of the webinars). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: [http://www.niso.org/about/roster/%23library_standards_alliance] www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance. If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year?s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here:[http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/] www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/. All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. You can register for either or both parts. There is a 25% discount if registering for both. 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