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CRKN-Cambridge University Press Open Access Agreement: Update

VIU Library participates in a number of multi-university content licensing agreements with publishers, and in some cases these include APC waivers or discounts for our affiliated authors. More information about these is available through the Library's guide to APCs.One such arrangement is with Cambridge University Press through CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge Network). VIU-affiliated authors can publish an unlimited number of their articles as open access in CUP hybrid and gold journals at no charge to the author for the duration of the agreement (2022-2024). See CRKN's Step by Step Guide to Publishing Open Access in Cambridge Journals. And don't hesitate to contact the Library for more informationCRKN reminds us thatPer the terms of our agreement, authors have until March 31 of the year following publication to convert their articles to OA. Please note that Cambridge continues to have a publishing backlog due to this summer’s cyberincident.More on the cyberincident: https://library.viu.ca/blogs/datamanagement/RDMSCnews/cambridge-university-press-assessment-has-experienced-a-cybersecurity-incid...

Service Advisory: Borealis System Outage October 28, 7 - 9 pm Pacific

From the team at Borealis:Please be aware the Borealis production system will be unavailable tonight for an urgent server upgrade to address maintenance and security updates identified by University of Toronto’s central IT last week. Time period for systems outage: [October 28, 7 - 9 pm Pacific](approximately 1.5 - 2 hours).Thank you for your understanding and apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. ...

The Bookseller Reports on Cambridge University Press AI 'Opt-in' Licensing for Authors

Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) is contacting 20,000 authors to request their permission before licensing their content for the training and development of large language models (LLMs)……many authors "see the potential for AI to help disseminate their work", with only a small minority declining to license their content. Hill emphasised the importance of keeping authors informed and giving them agency, making licensing feel like a "positive decision for them to be involved in, rather than feel it’s something that’s been done to them".More: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/cambridge-university-press--assessment-writes-to-20k-authors-for-ai-licensing-opt-in...

Article: Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia

Yang, P., Shoaib, A., West, R. et al. Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia. Scientometrics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4AbstractWikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available, and we might intuitively expect open access to help further Wikipedia’s mission. However, the extent of this relationship remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we analyse a large dataset of citations from the English Wikipedia and model the role of open access in Wikipedia’s citation patterns. Our findings reveal that Wikipedia relies on open access articles at a higher overall rate (44.1%) compared to their availability in the Web of Science (23.6%) and OpenAlex (22.6%). Furthermore, both the accessibility (open access status) and academic impact (citation count) significantly increase the probability of an article being cited on Wikipedia. Specifically, open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia, as they show an approximately 64.7% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to paywalled articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with high citation counts or published in recent years. Our findings highlight the pivotal role of open access in facilitating the dissemination of scientific knowledge, thereby increasing the likelihood of open access articles reaching a more diverse audience through platforms such as Wikipedia. Simultaneously, open access articles contribute to the reliability of Wikipedia as a source by affording editors timely access to novel results....

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