IU LibrariesScholarly Communication Services

for Astronomy

Jennifer Laherty. Digital Publishing Librarian & Head IUScholarWorks

Stacy Konkiel. E-science Librarian

Bob Noel. Head, Swain Hall Library

February 24, 2012

Welcome

But why are we here today?To answer your questions, explain your options as author, to ask you questions.

Happy Libraries = Happy Users

• Supply the world with free and easy access to scholarly research output

• Why do libraries care?– Stuff is expensive; our budgets aren’t growing; it’s

good to share! Sharing promotes more research - by more experts - more quickly

• How is this possible?– Licensing your works in a manner you (the author)

deem appropriate; you have the control*– Open Access is an new model for doing so

Managing and Publishing Your PhD

Bibliographic Citation Management Support

Through the Reference Department; libref@indiana.edu

Open Access options for publishing your Dissertation– Open access = freely available worldwide– Preservation = Trust Libraries to take care of it– Option presented through Grad School processes

Astronomy’s use of IUScholarWorks

• Nick Mostek: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/7700 - official dissertation

• Scott Michael: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/12960 - unofficial dissertation plus accompanying moving images

Copyright Super Basics

• You own your copyright until you give them away via a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) to a publisher

• Your basic rights– To reproduce the work– To prepare derivative works– To distribute copies– To perform the work publicly– To display the work publicly

AAS Copyright Transfer Agreements

AJ and ApJ: language, excerpted

“Before your article can be published in an American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal, we require you to grant and assign the entire copyright in it to the AAS.”

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“In return, the AAS grants to you the non-exclusive right of republication, subject only to your giving appropriate credit to the journal in which your article is published. This non-exclusive right of republication includes your right to allow reproduction of parts of your article wherever you wish, and permits you to post the published (PDF) version of your article on your personal web site.”

Hindawi CTA

Advances in Astronomy: language, excerpted

Open Access authors retain the copyrights of their papers, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license*, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Copyright Resources

Consider submitting an author addendum to your publisher’s CTA; SPARC version

Author controlled licensing options; Creative Commons

Copyright federal site; Copyright Basics

IU Libraries; http://www.libraries.iub.edu/copyright

Grant Funding Requirements and You(r Data) : NSF

• General http://1.usa.gov/gendmp

• Astronomy Division http://1.usa.gov/astrodmp– Products of the Research– Data Format– Access to Data; Sharing Practices and Policies– Licensing (Policies for Re-Use, etc)– Archiving of Data

• Physics Divisionhttp://1.usa.gov/physdmp

• FAQs http://1.usa.gov/iudmpfaq

Grant Funding Requirements and You(r Data)

• DOD– "It is DoD policy…to establish and maintain a coordinated and

comprehensive program to document the results and outcome of DoD-sponsored and/or performed research and engineering (R&E) and studies efforts and provide access to those efforts in an effective manner consistent with the DoD mission."

• NASAhttp://1.usa.gov/nasadata

– “NASA promotes the full and open sharing of all data with the research and applications communities, private industry, academia, and the general public.”

– Open Data– Trade Secrets/Commercial Rights

• Other Funders

Data Preservation and Access Resources: Internal

• SDA (HPSS)– Storage for large data sets

• IUScholarWorks– Permanent storage and access for small data sets– Access point for large data sets archived in SDA

• Advantages and Drawbacks

Data Preservation and Access Resources: External

• Local Storage– Hard drives, CD-R/DVD-R

• Subject Repositories– Astrophysics Data System– National Space Science Data Center

• Cloud Storage– Amazon– Google (soon)

• Advantages and Drawbacks

Matters Arising

• SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act• PIPA: Preventing Real Online Threats to

Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act

• Research Works Act (December, 2011)

The January 18, 2012 Blackout

The Gowers Elsevier Petition

Alternatives to Traditional Publication Rankings

• The Impact Factor, h-index, P+T Committees, are you paying attention to these?

• Altmetrics• Tools to Track Your Academic Reputation– Microsoft Academic Search– Google Scholar– total-impact.org

Our Questions / Your Questions

• Do you use alternative publishing options and what value do they bring to you?

• What value does arXiv.org > astro-ph bring to your work?

• In what alternative means of scholarship do you engage? Blogs? Other? Why?

• Is astronomy as open in terms of the sharing of data and findings as it appears to be?

Contact Us

Bob Noel, rnoel@indiana.edu; 855-3437

Jen Laherty, jlaherty@indiana.edu; 855-5609

Stacy Konkiel, skonkiel@indiana.edu; 856-5295