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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Open access and research dissemination in Africa]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This paper discusses research undertaken by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) andparticipants during and following an Open Knowledge international workshop held in Mauritiusin September 2019. The workshop brought together key experts to explore the role of openknowledge in the creation of equitable and inclusive global knowledge landscapes. This paperexplores the role of open access and institutional repositories in knowledge sharing and thedissemination of research output from higher education and research institutions within theAfrican continent. The paper reviews the landscape of research output from the Africancontinent; analyses open access research output, overviews of institutional knowledge sharingpositions and the dissemination of research output from Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa andUganda.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:52:07+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:52:07+00:00</updated>
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    <author>
      <name>Wilson, Katie</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Kiuna, Anthony</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Lamptey, Richard</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Veldsman, Susan</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Montgomery, Lucy</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Neylon, Cameron</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Hosking, Richard</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Huang, Karl</name>
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      <name>Ozaygen, Alkim</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Open Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: A Review of Needs, Barriers and Opportunities]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The combination of open access and our digital networked environment offers huge potential tomake the research outputs of humanities and social sciences more Findable, Accessible,Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) and more easily available to the broader community for publicbenefit. Yet despite growing international policy derivatives, open digital scholarship hasencountered significant challenges. This study:• Reviewed key barriers currently hampering the uptake of these policies by diverse universityparticipants (senior university administrators, researchers, librarians, platform providers anddevelopers), policymakers and community users; and• Examined how these have influenced the fields of humanities and social sciences (HASS).This paper discusses research undertaken by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) andparticipants during and following an Open Knowledge international workshop held in Mauritiusin September 2019. The workshop brought together key experts to explore the role of openknowledge in the creation of equitable and inclusive global knowledge landscapes. This paperexplores the role of open access and institutional repositories in knowledge sharing and thedissemination of research output from higher education and research institutions within theAfrican continent. The paper reviews the landscape of research output from the Africancontinent; analyses open access research output, overviews of institutional knowledge sharingpositions and the dissemination of research output from Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa andUganda.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:51:51+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:51:51+00:00</updated>
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    <author>
      <name>Arthur, Paul</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Hearn, Lydia</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This paper reports on a study of social media events relating to 28 Open Access (OA) monographs,published between 2014 and 2015. As with citations (Cronin 1981) social media events representthe frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digitallandscapes. The study captured mentions of the study-set of monographs via Twitter, Facebook,Wikipedia and online blogs; as well as user ratings on Google Books, Amazon and Goodreads.Information relating to the ways in which the books were bookmarked and cited was capturedvia the online reference managing platform Mendeley. The benefits and limitations of differentaltmetrics approaches to capturing and analyzing this data are discussed. Practical suggestionsfor researchers interested in the application of Altmetrics approaches to studies of monographsare also provided.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:51:33+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:51:33+00:00</updated>
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      <name>Ozaygen, Alkim</name>
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      <name>Montgomery, Lucy</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Neylon, Cameron</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Wilson, Katie</name>
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      <name>Hosking, Richard</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Huang, Karl</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[How to achieve short-term green open access and long-term radical reform of scholarly communication. The BitViews Project as a test case]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Open Access movement has reached adulthood, but not maturity: fewer than one-third ofnewly-published peer-reviewed articles are available open access (OA) and progress widening OAhas stalled. Scores of uncoordinated initiatives try to achieve universal OA, but academic journalpublishing is still dominated by a handful of powerful commercial publishers. Individual authorsshow little interest in OA and indeed have to be mandated (see the UK REF or Plan S) to releasetheir research on OA. The BitViews Project is a low-cost, no-risk, high-return initiative to turn allacademic journals «green» through a combination of blockchain technology, provision ofappropriate incentives to authors, and a new crowdfunding mechanism. The project is predicatedon the active participation of individual libraries taking direct action. The paper will provide aninterim report on the progress of the project and an account of how libraries and their variousassociations (both in the global South and in the global North) have reacted to the project. Theconcluding section of the paper sketches a possible direction for academic journal publishing inthe near future. Huge savings and increased efficiency can flow to the academy from finallydissolving its current one-sided contract with publishers and from reclaiming control of thepeer-review process. Practical and incentive-based suggestions are proposed for the transitionfrom publisher-owned to academy-owned peer review.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:51:12+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:51:12+00:00</updated>
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      <name>La Manna, Manfredi</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Serbian Citation Index: The sustainability of a business model based on partnership between a non-profit web publisher and journal owners]]></title>
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    <published>2020-04-18T10:50:54+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:50:54+00:00</updated>
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      <name>Ševkušić, Milica</name>
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      <name>Kosanović, Biljana</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Šipka, Pero</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Personal data protection: are the GDPR objectives achieved amongst information and communication students?]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European Union regulation, demandstransparency from companies and imposes new restrictions on data transfers (Botchorishvili,2017).The purpose of this article is to analyze the uses and representations of information andcommunication science students regarding the RGPD and to compare it with that of students inthe education sciences. This article is in line with the research on the Privacy Paradox and bringsnew elements of explanation thanks to the confrontation between two populations of students.In this perspective, a questionnaire was sent out to information and communication students andeducation sciences students. 70 students provided answers to 32 questions.More than two-thirds of the respondents gave a correct definition of the GDPR. They alsobelieved that personal data protection was a key matter. So much considered that individualsshould know the reason behind data collection as well as its use. Information andCommunication students are more numerous to be convinced than Education Sciences studentsthat training individuals is necessary. Indeed, those studying information and communicationare more prone, thanks to their curriculum, to understand the issues of personal data protection.Therefore, the students who a priori know the most are more aware of the need to improve theirknowledge through training. In general students had a fairly comprehensive view of the riskswhen lacking data protection. However, students were very divided on data monetization : 15believed it was legitimate while 23 had no opinion. Moreover, Information and Communicationstudents are much more likely to think that monetizing data is legitimate (13 over 54) comparedto 1 over 16 Education Science students.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:50:31+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:50:31+00:00</updated>
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      <name>Chevry Pébayle, Emmanuelle</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Hoblingre, Hélène</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Rethinking the Digital Divide: New Developments in East-Central Europe]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[My proposal offers to take account of developments in the digitisation of out-of-copyrighttextual material in East-Central Europe. Taking Western European digitisation as the norm andindicator of directions, my paper will argue that digitisation in East-Central Europe is behind, butthere is an increasing awareness of the need to make large-scale investments. The Hungariancase argues that it the National Széchényi Library is expected to lead the progress, and furtherresearch will provide comparative data about the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on projectdescription information retrieved from the site of knowledge institutions, as well as policydocuments communicated and held by professional bodies, I will attempt to assess the shorttermdevelopments and point at the pitfalls of these projected developments.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:50:13+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:50:13+00:00</updated>
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      <name>Varga, Zsuzsanna</name>
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    <category term="digitisation in East-Central Europe" label="digitisation in East-Central Europe"/>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sustainable development of the practices of digitization in National Library "Ivan Vazov" - Plovdiv]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The National Library Ivan Vazov in Plovdiv is the second largest library in Bulgaria. It serves asthe second national legal depository of Bulgarian printed works. In addition, it has contributedsignificantly to the preservation and the digital accessibility of the national cultural andhistorical heritage. This article offers an overview of the library’s history and currentdevelopments in the field of automation and digitization.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:49:55+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:49:55+00:00</updated>
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    <author>
      <name>Kratchanov, Ivan</name>
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    <category term="digitization" label="digitization"/>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Publishing digital resources]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The National Library of Romania shares digital resources, providing access to knowledge andcultural heritage, on three online platforms. These are:a) The Traditional Virtual Catalogue for the books published before 1993. It is the virtual image ofthe traditional catalogue which is organized alphabetically by author name in the appropriatefolders physical drawers. The platform and database was designed by the students from theTechnical University Bucuresti. Accessible at http://bookathon.bibnat.ro; b) The OnlineCatalogue on Aleph system, which offers bibliographic information about documents in thelibrary collections since 1993. There are two logical databases, The Doctoral Theses Referential,Publishing digital resources which provides access to online content thereof (by digitizing paper or archiving electroniccontent of CD attached by author) and digital library for the blind (project Sound of pages) thatdisabled users have access to requested digitized works. Accessible http://alephnew.bibnat.ro:8991/F; c) The Digital platform on Digitool system. It started in 2009. It is comprised of digitalcollections created by digitizing special collections of documents in the National Library ofRomania, organized by themes or after events. Accessible at http://digitool.bibnat.ro/R. Thedatabases have grown steadily and have become researching and learning tools for somecategories of users. The systems provide open resources, learning and navigating tutorials andcontribute to a creative society.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:49:38+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:49:38+00:00</updated>
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    <author>
      <name>Covaci, Marinela</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA["Manuscripta Islamica Rossica" - a new electronic resource of Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the collections of Russian repositories and libraries]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The paper discusses the current state of digitizing Islamic manuscript in Russia and the gradualbuilding of the digital collection “Manuscripta Islamica Rossica”. It outlines some of thechallenges and the benefits from providing digital access to these resources.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:49:22+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:49:22+00:00</updated>
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      <name>Zaytsev, Ilya</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Anikeeva, Tatiana</name>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Whom we should blame for bad e-book? (sociological perspective of evaluation, selection and reception of e-book)]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[From the perspective of Sociology of literature, this paper sets the question of what happens withcommunication and reception issues in the context of e-publishing, considering the culturalsituation of lacking critic methods and established values? Related to e-publishing, the precisequestion is: how to set the reliable system of filtering e-books on the net? The paper discusses themain obstacles in that process and analyzes a few individual attempts to set that kind ofmechanism. Besides technical improvements which will be mainly discussed on the EIPub Forum,this paper aims to motivate us to point some theoretical issues considering the problem ofevaluation and reception as part of literary communication.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:49:05+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:49:05+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.10"/>
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    <author>
      <name>Lujanovic, Nebojsa</name>
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    <category term="postmodern culture" label="postmodern culture"/>
    <category term="e-publishing" label="e-publishing"/>
    <category term="value system" label="value system"/>
    <category term="selection" label="selection"/>
    <category term="book recommendation systems" label="book recommendation systems"/>
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  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Some non-Technical Issues of self- Publishing]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[From among the varied non-technical issues, related to self- publishing, the history ofsubscription-based book publishing is addressed first, followed by a discussion of selfpublishing’slegitimacy, then by an examination of self-publishing authors’ roles andresponsibilities. Subsequently, some processes of self- publishing are described, its relationshipto independent editors discussed. Self-publishing is also explored through the eyes of thelibraries and librarians. Some of the related issues, including motives for publishing selfpublishedtextbooks are dealt with. A short discussion directs attention to the possibility of selfpublishingresearch data. Last, self-publishing activities in Hungary are shortly presented.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:48:50+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:48:50+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.9"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.9</id>
    <author>
      <name>Koltay, Tibor</name>
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    <category term="self-publishing" label="self-publishing"/>
    <category term="history" label="history"/>
    <category term="libraries" label="libraries"/>
    <category term="data publication" label="data publication"/>
    <category term="Hungary" label="Hungary"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
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  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Towards a typology of edited books and conference proceedings according to the applied peer-review procedures]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the last years here is an increasing need to ensure a more objective and transparent evaluationof scientific research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This short paper explores some ofthe underlying issues and suggests a study using the suvey method based on a sample of 146publications. The results of this study could contribute to the identification and describingdistinctive types of edited books and conference proceedings according to their peer-reviewprocedures, and thus to facilitate the recognition of their scholarly value and reliability.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:48:34+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:48:34+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.8"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.8</id>
    <author>
      <name>Zlodi, Iva</name>
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    <category term="conference proceedings" label="conference proceedings"/>
    <category term="edited books" label="edited books"/>
    <category term="peer-review" label="peer-review"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Role and Utilization of International Academic Social Networks in Digital Publishing]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This paper focuses on the issue of academic social networks as means of changing the openaccess reality. Nowadays a free, direct and permanent access to digital scientific content isnecessary for every student and researcher. The need for human communication has made socialnetworks popular to the public, resulting in their rapid development, for example, ResearchGateand Academia.edu. The study is motivated by one main research question: What is their role andutilization in digital publishing? Through observational research and secondary quantitative andqualitative data analysis, the key objectives of the study are to highlight the role of internationalacademic social networks in digital publishing and present the benefits and limitations ofexisting networks. In conclusion, the active use of academic social networks enables researchersto expand their knowledge but on the other hand limitations on digital publishing ariseregarding to copyrights and licensing barriers.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:48:17+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:48:17+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.7"/>
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    <author>
      <name>Bantiou, Marina</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Paxinos, Arsenios</name>
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    <category term="open access" label="open access"/>
    <category term="international academic social network" label="international academic social network"/>
    <category term="digital publishing" label="digital publishing"/>
    <category term="electronic publishing" label="electronic publishing"/>
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  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The use of Twitter in promoting digital libraries: a case study of QDL]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Digital libraries often need to make tweets that will attract high engagement rate. To understandthis factor in relation to Qatar Digital Library (QDL), this paper will draw a comparison of tweeterfeeds of QDL, British Library Labs (BL Labs) as well as Europeana Digital Library. In doing so, thepaper will try to establish the reasons behind low engagement rate in the QDL tweets. So, thispaper will develop steps that QDL can take so that it can increase its current number of Twitterfollowers and increase the engagement rate of its users. The things that QDL is failing to addresswill be identified by comparing the best Twitter practices from BL Labs, and Europeana digitallibrary to that of QDL. After identifying, a recommended practices for the QDL will be provided.The practices will mainly be meant to help QDL have better Twitter engagement rate.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:48:00+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:48:00+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.6"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.6</id>
    <author>
      <name>Alsarraj, Maha</name>
    </author>
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    <category term="Twitter" label="Twitter"/>
    <category term="QDL" label="QDL"/>
    <category term="Qatar Digital Library" label="Qatar Digital Library"/>
    <category term="Europeana" label="Europeana"/>
    <category term="BL Labs" label="BL Labs"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Towards a New Concept of Open Access Online Encyclopaedia : A Case Study from Croatia The Role of Encyclopaedias Today 1]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Professionally edited open access online encyclopaedias enable a systemic and reliableorientation within the ever-increasing amount of data and information on the Internet.Providing access to scientifically verified information, they represent an important part of theresearch and didactic infrastructure.This paper demonstrates the activities of Croatia’s Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicographyaimed at exploring the new encyclopaedic concept in the digital age. The Institute’s digitaltransformation is shown, which involves the digitisation and online publishing of archivaleditions, publishing of the permanently updated online general encyclopaedia, and thetransformation of specialised encyclopedias to the encyclopaedic portals. Encyclopaedic portalscould represent a new concept of encyclopaedias in the digital realm by serving as platforms fordata networking and sharing, a sort of ‘junction points’ that connect diverse digital content on aspecific topic.Institute’s publicly available repository of encyclopaedic knowledge enables the linking to thedigital data and collections of other research and cultural institutions; therefore thecollaborative projects aimed at reinforcing digital research and cultural infrastructure will bedescribed.Thanks to the properties of the digital media and increasing connectivity, a closer collaborationTowards a New Concept of Open Access Online Encyclopaedia : A Case Study from...between professionally edited online encyclopaedias across Europe (and beyond) is enabled. Thispaper elaborates a range of initiatives seeking to build connections across individual Europeanand North American national encyclopaedias, focusing on the role that Croatianencyclopaedistics plays in this endeavour.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:47:40+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:47:40+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.5"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.5</id>
    <author>
      <name>Jermen, Nataša</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Jecić, Zdenko</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="online encyclopedia" label="online encyclopedia"/>
    <category term="open access" label="open access"/>
    <category term="encyclopaedic portal" label="encyclopaedic portal"/>
    <category term="knowledge networking platform" label="knowledge networking platform"/>
    <category term="interoperability" label="interoperability"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Scholar reaching the audience - a perspective of a civil society sector publisher in the humanities]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The non-governmental non-for profit organisations have a long tradition of a voluntaryassociation to promote a certain idea or goal. In this light, a professional association publishermay boost the visibility of its scholarly publication after identifying its audience. Art history as adiscipline in the humanities should use the potentials of open access and open science to developa new model of synthesising researches on the global level.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:47:21+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:47:21+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.4"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.4</id>
    <author>
      <name>Petrinović, Martina</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="humanities" label="humanities"/>
    <category term="scholarly communication" label="scholarly communication"/>
    <category term="civil society sector" label="civil society sector"/>
    <category term="publisher" label="publisher"/>
    <category term="open science" label="open science"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Towards Semantic Digital Games for Semantic Digital Libraries]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The purpose of this paper is to set the scene for further twofold exploratory studies: first, inexamining what type of game designs are suitable for digital libraries to motivate both producingand consuming library content in order to offer a personalised experience to using digitallibraries, and second, in exploring how to leverage Semantic Web technologies to createpersonalised digital games (including VR and AR applications) for using digital librariesgenerated from various open and linked datasets. We are providing an overview of theTowards Semantic Digital Games for Semantic Digital Libraries development of games and semantic technologies as a basis for a better understanding of the roleof games in current digital resources provision]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:47:03+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:47:03+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.3"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.3</id>
    <author>
      <name>Sacco, Owen</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Yannakakis, Georgios</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="semantics" label="semantics"/>
    <category term="digital games" label="digital games"/>
    <category term="digital libraries" label="digital libraries"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Analysis of typography in papers from open access Brazilian scientific journals]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Scientific journals are the main form of recording and disseminating results of scientificresearch. After the advancement of digital media, their search, access, and navigation becameeasier and faster. This changes the way readers interact with the content. In this sense, theconfiguration of typography, an essential component of text-based publications, should facilitatethe reading and understanding of the information presented. Thus, this research aimed toformalize an analysis process for the application of typography in papers on electronic scientificjournals. Based on the literature review, an analysis structure was formulated. The analysisidentified the fundamental principles of application of typography as: legibility, readability,spacing and font size and information hierarchy. Subsequently, four electronic papers fromBrazilian scientific journals with different areas of knowledge were selected as objects of study.As a result, a potential application of typography for digital media was identified, but thispotential is not fully explored by the editors of scientific journals nor by the literature dealingwith the topic.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:46:32+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:46:32+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.2"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.2</id>
    <author>
      <name>Woloszyn, Maíra</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Rodrigues, Rosângela</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Santos Gonçalves, Berenice</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="typography" label="typography"/>
    <category term="electronic scientific journals" label="electronic scientific journals"/>
    <category term="scientific papers" label="scientific papers"/>
    <category term="analysis" label="analysis"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Open science-based framework to reveal open data publishing: an experience from using Common Crawl]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The publishing of open data is considered a key element for civic participation paving the way tothe ‘public value’, a term which underpins the social contribution. A result of that can be seenthrough the popularity of data portals published all around the world by governments, publicand private organizations. However, the diffusion of data portals raises concerns aboutdiscoverability and validity of these data sources, especially to what extent they contribute toopen data and open science. The purpose of this work is to develop a framework to reveal opendata publishing with the use of a freely available open science project called Common Crawl. Theidea is to identify open data-related initiatives and to gather information about their availability,having in the framework’s essence an iterative and differential process. The main outcome isshown through a proposed model for the historical data repository which involves both use andcreation of open science to branch new sort of research possibilities based on publishing ofderived data.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-04-18T10:34:33+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-04-18T10:34:33+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.1"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.1</id>
    <author>
      <name>Correa, Andreiwid</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Fernandes, Israel</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="open data" label="open data"/>
    <category term="open science" label="open science"/>
    <category term="common crawl" label="common crawl"/>
    <category term="data portals" label="data portals"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Repositories at Bibliodiversity Stakes: Community Approaches]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Green Road is deeply anchored in the scholarly communication system. Based on the analysis of a panel of 6 repositories, the study identify strategies repositories have adopted in order to meet or adjust to Open Science requirements in terms of bibliodiversity. Typically, thematic repositories are not only concerned with articles but also consider new artefacts, linked and interlinked. Research outcomes suggest reconsidering the term “repository” as it no longer seems relevant to our panel.]]></summary>
    <published>2020-01-14T10:17:47+00:00</published>
    <updated>2020-01-14T10:17:47+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.46298/elpub.6025"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.46298/elpub.6025</id>
    <author>
      <name>Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Chérifa</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Berthaud, Christine</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="repositories" label="repositories"/>
    <category term="openness" label="openness"/>
    <category term="interoperability" label="interoperability"/>
    <category term="brand" label="brand"/>
    <category term="value" label="value"/>
    <category term="research communities" label="research communities"/>
    <category term="megajournals" label="megajournals"/>
    <category term="bibliodiversity" label="bibliodiversity"/>
    <category term="artefacts" label="artefacts"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Peer Community In: A free process for the recommendation of unpublished scientific papers based on peer review]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The current system of scientific publication is faced with several serious problems: its cost and lack of transparency and the long time from the obtainment of scientific results to their publication. We also believe that the economic model on which the current publishing system is based perverts the system. We have created Peer Community In (PCI)—https://peercommunityin.org/ ; https://youtu.be/4PZhpnc8wwo—to tackle all these problems. This project is based on the publication of critical evaluations and recommendations of articles that have not yet been published, but are freely available in electronic form from open archives on the Internet, in which they have been deposited. These evaluations and recommendations are performed by researchers acting on a voluntary basis with no links to private publishers. Publication costs disappear: PCI validates, distributes and allows consultation of the articles submitted free of charge. The time lag to information access is eliminated: the scientific articles evaluated are deposited in open archives as soon as they are written. The system becomes transparent: reviews, editorial decisions, authors’ responses and recommendations are published on the website of the scientific community concerned (e.g. PCI Evolutionary Biology, PCI Ecology, PCI Paleontology…)]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:09:02+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:09:02+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.23"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.23</id>
    <author>
      <name>Guillemaud, Thomas</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Facon, Benoit</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Bourguet, Denis</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="Peer" label="Peer"/>
    <category term="public recommendation" label="public recommendation"/>
    <category term="preprint" label="preprint"/>
    <category term="review" label="review"/>
    <category term="open science" label="open science"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[A comparative analysis of high school students’ and school librarians’ conceptions and practices of Digital Safety]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This study investigated high school students’ and school librarians’ conceptions about what it means to be safe online and to understand the actions, processes, and strategies they engage in order to be safe online. The study also identified the existing library programs organized by school librarians in relation to digital safety and how school librarians and school libraries can support and address students’ digital safety needs. This paper sought to answer the following research questions: 1) What do students think it means to be safe online? Sub-question: What do students do themselves to be safe online? 2) What do school librarians think it means to be safe online? Sub-question: What do school librarians do themselves to be safe online? 3) What do students think of librarians’ role helping them to be safe online? 4)What existing library programs are implemented by school librarians in relation to digital safety? By understanding possible gaps between students’ and school librarians’ conceptions and practices on digital safety, educators and school administrators will gain understanding on how digital safety could be more effectively developed and integrated as part of the school curriculum.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:54+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:54+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.16"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.16</id>
    <author>
      <name>Medina, Virgilio</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Todd, Ross</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Norch, Collins</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="Digital Safety" label="Digital Safety"/>
    <category term="School Libraries" label="School Libraries"/>
    <category term="Digital Literacy" label="Digital Literacy"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
    <category term="[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education" label="[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Creating a More Inclusive Future for Scholarly Communications: ACRL’s New Research Agenda for Scholarly Communications and the Research Environment]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This paper reports findings from a study commissioned by the Association of College & Research Libraries to identify a new research agenda for scholarly communications and the research environment. The final report provides an overview of trends and practices and identifies and describes important questions where deeper inquiry is needed to accelerate the transition to more open, inclusive, and equitable systems of scholarship. This research agenda is informed by scholarly literature, as well as by advances in practice and the voices of historically underrepresented communities. The research involved structured engagement with the academic library community throughout the process, incorporated through project update webinars, expert interviews, focus groups, workshops, and an online survey. Over one thousand participants offered their thoughts and expertise to shape the research agenda. The themes that emerged include People, Content, and Systems, which each raised new research areas to explore. To further this new research agenda, ACRL is issuing research grants to investigate timely and substantial research questions, developing solutions that will move the community forward.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:45+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:45+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.6"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.6</id>
    <author>
      <name>Maron, Nancy</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Kennison, Rebecca</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Hall, Nathan</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Shorish, Yasmeen</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Malenfant, Kara</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="Scholarly communication" label="Scholarly communication"/>
    <category term="Research environment" label="Research environment"/>
    <category term="Equity diversity and inclusion" label="Equity diversity and inclusion"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Extent of Adoption of e-Publishing by University Presses in Kenya]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Knowledge creating and dissemination is synonymous with institutions of higher learning. However, many institutions, especially in Africa spurn electronic publishing (e-publishing), failing to join most parts of the world that have embraced it with very positive results. Though connected to internet and the World Wide Web, only a number of universities practice electronic publishing. This paper aims to study the electronic publishing trends in institutions of higher learning and identify the opportunities and challenges faced by academic publishers in Kenya. The objectives of the study are to: identify institutions that practice academic publishing in Kenya; examine the relationship between authors’ knowledge on e-publishing platforms and publishers’ choice of e-platforms; analyze whether an existing work relationship between the publisher and an author influences the format of a publication; examine whether or not there is an association between levels of staff experiences within publishing and e-publishing. This is a research survey that employed a mixed method approach. The sample frame of 49 universities was used. Judgmental sampling was used in selecting key participants under the study. Data were collected by questionnaires and document analysis where simple descriptive statistical analysis was done based on objectives of the study to gauge the relationships between variables. Findings of the survey show that 12.2% of the Kenyan academic publishers are engaged in e-publishing and established presses. 87.8% of universities indirectly engaged in e-publishing with the option of owning a press/DTP unit. Significantly, they had e-repositories on their websites and are likely to start e-publishing in future. Most of them feel that e-publishing has a bright future. Experiences challenge with online reading cultures, online marketing, Digital Rights Management (DRM) and poor internet access; lack of policy framework by publishers and/with authors on e-publishing. These reasons have hampered the introduction of e-publishing in universities’ desktop publishing units (DTP) or presses. The study concludes that there is need to: create more e-publishing awareness among academic institutions; engage staff in training opportunities on e-publishing; create writing workshops and exhibitions to expose authors, staff and other stakeholders to e-publishing technologies to attract electronic adoption.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:35+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:35+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.18"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.18</id>
    <author>
      <name>Wafula, Michael</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Musakali, Joseph</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Muliaro, Joseph</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="EPUB" label="EPUB"/>
    <category term="DRM" label="DRM"/>
    <category term="DTP" label="DTP"/>
    <category term="e-Reader" label="e-Reader"/>
    <category term="e-Format" label="e-Format"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Information visualisation and library data: A case study of Public Library of Veria, Greece]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This paper comprises an attempt to create information visualizations for the Public Library of Veria city, Greece based on library data. Specifically, it is a formative study about the use of a visualization tool for analysing library data. The goal of this study is to make suggestions for the presentation of the public library’s data in order to be more accessible and understandable by the users and the librarians. The data were provided by the Library and the data types that were used were selected after a thorough consultation with the library staff. Consideration was given to the availability of data. The study employed information visualization techniques to create the visual displays of the data. Visualizations were created using the Tableau Public software in an effort to provide a quantitative, analytical, and evidence-based view of how libraries could manage their data. The study also aimed to gather any additional potential uses of visualizations that can be exploited by the libraries in the future. The current research was conducted in a single public library, thus further research in different, expanded settings and contexts is suggested.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:26+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:26+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.7"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.7</id>
    <author>
      <name>Gkioulekas, Panagiotis</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Polydoratou, Panayiota</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="visualization" label="visualization"/>
    <category term="information visualization" label="information visualization"/>
    <category term="public library" label="public library"/>
    <category term="library data" label="library data"/>
    <category term="Public Library of Veria" label="Public Library of Veria"/>
    <category term="Tableau Public software" label="Tableau Public software"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Strengthening bibliodiversity: The current situation in France at national and institutional levels]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Almost one year after the announcement of the French National Plan for Open Science, the intervention aims at presenting a progress report on achievements in strengthening bibliodiversity and setting up a National Open Science Fund, two of the objectives of the Plan. At the national level, the work was carried out within a working group the Open Science Committee. Four complementary aspects were taken into account:•the establishment of exemplary criteria to assess infrastructures and platforms in terms of governance, ethics, openness and sustainability. These 40 criteria are to be used in the evaluation of the initiatives that will apply to the National Open Science Fund.•support for the strategic orientation of the National Open Science Fund.•the drafting of recommendations for the implementation of Plan S by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), which is member of cOAlition S.•information exchange and coordination with other initiatives such as OA2020 and SCOSS.At the institutional level, several initiatives have made it possible to initiate greater financial support for open science. Four case studies illustrate this fact:•the launch of an open science fund with a 800 K€ budget by the 18 French major research universities (Curif),•the establishment of a network of open access journals incubators run by 12 institutions (Repères),•the support of 43 French libraries for the first campaign aiming at funding open access monographs in Frenchthe reallocation of part of the savings due to the non-renewal of the subscription to the Springer journals package by the universities of Lorraine and Rennes-1.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:17+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:17+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.15"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.15</id>
    <author>
      <name>Lutz, Jean-François</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Lafait, Jacques</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="Open access" label="Open access"/>
    <category term="open science" label="open science"/>
    <category term="bibliodiversity" label="bibliodiversity"/>
    <category term="academic publishing" label="academic publishing"/>
    <category term="France" label="France"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Science should be open, right?: A survey conducted by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) on the use of academic literature and open science]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What does “open science” mean to researchers? A survey of researchers at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) suggests some interesting conclusions, particularly as far as the humanities are concerned. According to the responses, most of these researchers are in favour of open science as a matter of personal conviction. However, when it comes to publishing their own work, hardly any would consent to being published under some basic conditions of open science (adaptation, commercial use). Furthermore, they do appreciate subscription-based e-libraries, although they admit to using other methods, e.g. “resourcefulness”, to gain access to research papers. They would rather not pay to be published or to acquire an e-article of a fellow researcher. They read predominantly in English, with the second language of their research literature being Slovenian (before any other language). Even the most productive age group (40–50 years of age) write more articles than they perform peer-reviewing. They do not support open reviews, yet they consider peer-reviews to be very important; in their opinion peer-reviewing should be included in their evaluation. The survey and its results are just a minor example from a European country, but they have a very clear and universal message: open science is something yet to be defined.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:09+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:09+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.13"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.13</id>
    <author>
      <name>Pogačnik, Aleš</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="survey" label="survey"/>
    <category term="open science" label="open science"/>
    <category term="Slovenia" label="Slovenia"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
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  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Universities and knowledge sharing: Evaluating progress to openness at the institutional level]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Universities are key sites of knowledge creation. Governments and research funders are increasingly interested in ensuring that their investments in the production of new knowledge deliver a quantifiable return on investment, including in the form of ‘impact’. Ensuring that research outputs are not locked behind paywalls, and that research data can be interrogated and built upon are increasingly central to efforts to improve the effectiveness of global research landscapes. We argue that mandating and promoting open access (OA) for published research outputs, as well as the sharing of research data are important elements of building a vibrant open knowledge system, but they are not enough. Supporting diversity within knowledge-making institutions; enabling collaboration across boundaries between universities and wider communities; and addressing inequalities in access to knowledge resources and in opportunities to contribute to knowledge making processes are also important. New tools are needed to help universities, funders, and communities to understand the extent to which a university is operating as an effective open knowledge institution; as well as the steps that might be taken to improve open knowledge performance. This paper discusses our team’s efforts to develop a model of Open Knowledge that is not confined to measures of OA and open data. The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative is a project of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. With funding from the university, we are exploring the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution’s open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:08:00+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:08:00+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.19"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.19</id>
    <author>
      <name>Montgomery, Lucy</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Neylon, Cameron</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Hosking, Richard</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Huang, Karl</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Ozaygen, Alkim</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Wilson, Katie</name>
    </author>
    <category term="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing" label="ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing"/>
    <category term="Open access" label="Open access"/>
    <category term="open knowledge" label="open knowledge"/>
    <category term="diversity" label="diversity"/>
    <category term="inclusion" label="inclusion"/>
    <category term="openness" label="openness"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
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  <entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[A framework to the digital book design process]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The advent of the digital book has brought changes and challenges that have affected the conception, production, distribution and even the purpose and culture associated with the book. Given these transformations, it is necessary to reinforce attention to the design process of the digital book from a new perspective, adopting a systemic thinking to obtain a clear vision of the specificities of these artifacts and the complexity of their project. In this direction, this research aimed to propose a framework for the digital book design process, from a systemic perspective. To that, interviews were conducted with professionals who work in the development of digital books, whose results together with the findings of the literature gave rise to a set of premises that underpinned the construction of the first version of the framework, adjusted and refined from contributions of designers in the context of a focus group. The framework proposed in this study has explanatory character, diagrammatic form and represents the system that influences the digital book design process, composed of 13 interrelated factors and organized into three groups: primary (Content, Technology and Reader), secondary (Author, Other Agents, Publisher, Business Management and Distributor) and tertiary (Printed Book, Digital Rights, Similar Digital Books and Technological Players), as well as subfactors distributed among them.]]></summary>
    <published>2019-06-11T09:07:50+00:00</published>
    <updated>2019-06-11T09:07:50+00:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.12"/>
    <id>https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.12</id>
    <author>
      <name>Dick, Maurício</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Santos Gonçalves, Berenice</name>
    </author>
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    <category term="digital book" label="digital book"/>
    <category term="design process" label="design process"/>
    <category term="systemic thinking" label="systemic thinking"/>
    <category term="framework" label="framework"/>
    <category term="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences" label="[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences"/>
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