RDM & Scholarly Communication News @ VIU Library

University of Alberta Libraries will be hosting a Lunch & Learn for journal editors on ORCID integration in OJS – presented by John Aspler, Oct 10th. All are welcome.

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) – globally unique digital codes – connect people (scholars), places (research institutions), and things (research outputs) across the research landscape. PIDs enable disambiguation, connection of metadata, and interoperability of software systems. ORCID iDs are the PID used to identify scholars. In this session, John Aspler (Manager, Canadian PID Community) will explore how ORCID works, its ideal integration into publishing workflows, and how to practically integrate and use the ORCID integration in OJS.

Registration and full details here: 

https://ualberta.libcal.com/event/3841233 

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Infodocket is tracking updates regarding the lawsuit against Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer.

Ed. Note: We will be updating this post with additional coverage, statements, and filings as they become available. Please check back.

More:

https://www.infodocket.com/2024/09/13/reports-academic-publishers-face-class-action-over-peer-review-pay-other-restrictions/

For the information of scholarly authors and reviewers:

On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier B.V., John Wiley & Sons, Wolters Kluwer NV, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), on behalf of a putative class or scientists and scholars who allege that these six world’s-largest for-profit publishers of peer-reviewed scholarly journals conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research…

An invitation is extended to learn more and/or join the plaintiffs:

If you are a member of the academic community and want more information about the lawsuit, or seek to join the plaintiffs, please use the form on this page to send us a confidential message today. There is no charge or obligation for our review of your information, which will help us hold the publisher defendants accountable for their pervasive illegal actions.

More info: 

https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/academic-journals/

VIU Library has added brief video tutorials for Zotero 7 tasks and topics to the Citation Management Library Guide, including: 

1. Downloading Zotero & setting up your account (video)
2. Adding sources and organizing them with folders & tags (video)
3. Adding notes, related resources, highlighting, and reading within Zotero (video)
4. Adding citations and references in Google Drive & Microsoft Word (video)
5. Setting up groups in Zotero (video)

With thanks to colleague Melissa Cuthill at KPU Library for sharing this information and to Eugene Barsky and colleagues at UBC Library for this generous offering:

the workshop creator, Eugene Barsky, has thrown the UBC-run workshops open to anyone to attend. I popped in on the one today on File Naming, and confirmed with Eugene that we at other institutions are indeed welcome to direct our researchers to take the UBC workshops …

The number of registrants is capped at around 25, but many of the more fundamental workshop topics are offered several times throughout the academic year, some as often as once a month:

Calendar of UBC Data Bites workshops

The 2024 Fall webinars are jointly presented by SFU's Research Computing Group and UBC's Advanced Research Computing. These webinars will be held every second Tuesday, starting on September 17th, at 10:00am Pacific (Victoria, Vancouver), 11:00am Mountain (Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon), and noon Central (Winnipeg).

Upcoming webinars:

   Understanding Emacs modes (Sep-17)
   GPU computing with Chapel (Oct-01)
   Best practices in HPC/HTC environments (Oct-15)

Registration and more information about other Fall online courses and local bootcamps: https://training.westdri.ca/events/upcoming-training-fall-2024/