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Weilenmann, Anne-Katharina. "A new paradigm for the scientific article." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 121-123. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

Information overload is a great problem for the scientific community. To deal with the abundance of new scientific articles there are methods of sophisticated information retrieval tools and text mining tools. Little is known about the relationship between document structure and the structure of thought. This paper describes a project in this matter.

Togia, Aspasia, and Stella Korobili. "Attitudes towards open access: a meta-synthesis of the empirical literature." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

The aim of the present study is to report the results of a meta-synthesis of the empirical literature on scholars' attitudes towards Open Access (OA) journals. A total of 16 articles published in scholarly journals since 2002 (when the Budapest Open Access Initiative was released) were included in the study and five major themes emerged from their examination and analysis. The literature indicates that attitudes and perceptions of OA are varied across countries and across disciplines. Free access, which is perceived to facilitate wider dissemination of research outputs, is a strong incentive for publishing in OA. However, quality and reputation are the most important factors in selecting a journal and take priority over the availability of free access. Although OA is perceived to have many advantages over the traditional publication model, it raises some concerns too, especially in regard to the author-pays model, the quality of peer-review and the impact of the journals.

Rousidis, Dimitris, Emmanouel Garoufallou, Panos Balatsoukas, and Miguel-Angel Sicilia. "Data Quality Issues and Content Analysis for Research Data Repositories : The Case of Dryad." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 49-58. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

Research Object (RO) repositories extend traditional forms of scholarly communication by providing scientists the means necessary to store, share and reuse datasets generated at various stages of the research process. Yet this shift to digital publication does not guarantee that outputs, results or methods are reusable. Data quality is absolutely vital for the dissemination, reuse and sharing of digital resources. Manual metadata quality control is practically impossible and as a result, many quality criteria, both semantically and structurally get overlooked and digital objects may become problematic. The aim of the research reported on this paper was to identify the data quality problems associated with the Dryad research data repository. In particular, three metadata elements (Creator, Date and Resource Type) were analysed and quality issues associated to these elements were identified. The paper concludes with some recommendations for improving the quality of metadata in research data repositories.

Tsoukala, Victoria, Alexia Panagopoulou, Giorgos Stavrou, Eleni Angelidi, Evi Sachini, and Alexandros Nafpliotis. "Developing the Greek Reference Index for the Social Sciences and Humanities." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 59-67. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

The Greek Reference Index for the Social Sciences and Humanities (GRISSH) is a service that collects, documents, stores and, where possible, provides access to peer-reviewed publications in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) by Greek publishers. It also provides long-term preservation for the digital and print files of the publications. The GRISSH was conceived by the National Documentation Centre (EKT) and the documentation and access platform is developed by the organization itself (OpenABEKT). The GRISSH is, in essence, a collaborative project that advances with the assistance and active participation of the publishing and scholarly community in Greece. It is intended as an essential reference service for the research and publishing community in Greece and abroad. The present contribution presents the goals, objectives and key benefits of the project; the evaluation criteria for the selection of content; the specifications for the development of the index; the methodology of documentation; the emerging collaborations with stakeholders. It also, present how the GRISSH project is aligned with the national and international agendas in view of a coordinated development and e-infrastructure that will support the sectors of academia, research and academic publishing.

Nafpliotis, Alexandros, Victoria Tsoukala, Nikos Houssos, Andreas Kalaitzis, and Evi Sachini. "EKT ePublishing: Developing an open access publishing service for the Greek research community." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 112-118. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

The present contribution concerns a case study of open access scholarly publishing in Greece, its history and effect in helping the local researcher community transition from a print-only mode of work to online working environments and in rendering Greek publications and scholarship more relevant to the international scholarly community. The paper elaborates on the goals of the project and the challenges that were encountered and addressed during its implementation. The project, which started in 2007 with the transition of three print journals in the humanities to an online and print format and online working environment, culminated in the development of an online platform that provides access to content and services from a single point in the web, ePublishing.ekt.gr. As part of the National Documentation Centre (EKT)'s services, we systematize and upgrade the journals' policies according to international standards, provide an online working platform and training, digitize and release in open access academic articles (more than 3,000 articles in established journals, published by small, non-profit, academic/scholarly society publishers, so far), provide DOIs, as well as concentrate on electronic books and conference proceedings – also to include purely online books in the future, starting with a born-digital monograph in a Humanities subject (onlineBook). In a nutshell, we have focused on providing publishers of scientific journals a range of comprehensive services which are constantly updated and improved in the light of the developments in scholarly communication, and which foster the internationalization, visibility, and preservation of research in these fields.

Bhatt, Anand, and Bob Martens. "ELPUB Digital Library v2.0: Application of semantic web technologies." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 104-111. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

This paper presents the ongoing efforts to further develop the ELPUB digital library, which highly supported the dissemination of published materials within the community in the past years. elpub.scix.net has been serving the ELPUB-community since a decade, predominantly aiming to archive the output of the annual conferences. Doubtless, there is still a need for a platform to maintain the “collective memory” of the association and so far over 700 entries from 17 conferences were recorded. The repository, which utilized the SciX-technology, delivered the user access to the individual papers and made the data available via an OAI-interface as well. However, in the course of time digital library technology evolved and an association dedicated to Electronic Publishing ought to be at the forefront of novel developments. For this reason a shift was performed towards the Architexturez platform (library.elpub.net) aiming to implement advanced semantic web features. Especially the display of evolving topics and their gradual development is appealing and moreover the aggregation of individual bibliographies. Many of the features were designed in consultation with research communities in, among others, architectural computing and real estate. While deploying features and capabilities are well established in the digital library domain, the system is designed to support further research by the ELPUB community and this paper will elaborate on the transition and deliver an overview on the current prospects along with the technical capabilities.

Berthaud, Christine, Laurent Capelli, Jens Gustedt, Claude Kirchner, Kevin Loiseau, Agnès Magron, Maud Medves, Alain Monteil, Gaëlle Riverieux, and Laurent Romary. "EPISCIENCES – an overlay publication platform." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 78-87. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

This paper delineates the main characteristics of the Episciences platform, an environment for overlay peer-reviewing that complements existing publication repositories, designed by the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique directe (CCSD is a joint service unit between the CNRS, Inria and the University of Lyon) service unit. We describe the main characteristics of the platform and present the first experiment of launching two journals in the computer science domain onto it. Finally, we address a series of open questions related to the actual changes in editorial models (open submission, open peer-review, augmented publication) that such a platform is likely to raise, as well as some hints as to the underlying business model.

Linde, Peter, Bridgette A. Wessels, Thordis Sveinsdottir, and Merel Noorman. "How Can Libraries and Other Academic Institutions Engage in Making Data Open?" In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 3-12. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

In this paper we will address the questions of what and where the value of open access to research data might be and how libraries and related stakeholders can contribute to achieve the benefits of freely sharing data. In particular, the emphasis will be on how libraries need to acquire the competence for collaboration to train and encourage researchers and library staff to work with open data. The paper is based on the early results of the RECODE project, an EU FP7 project that addresses the drivers and barriers in developing open access to research data in Europe (http://www.recodeproject.eu).

Van Hoek, Wilko, Wei Shen, and Philipp Mayr. "Identifying User Behavior in domain-specific Repositories." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014. This paper presents an analysis of the user behavior of two different domain-specific repositories. The web analytic tool etracker was used to gain a first overall insight into the user behavior of these repositories. Moreover, we extended our work to describe an apache web log analysis approach which focuses on the identification of the user behavior. Therefore the user traffic within our systems is visualized using chord diagrams. We could find that recommendations are used frequently and users do rarely combine searching with faceting or filtering.
de Andrade, Morgana Carneiro, and Ana Alice Baptista. "Information needs of researchers in a bibliographic databases environment: a literature review." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 30-38. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.
Wallin, Birgitta, and Elena Maceviciute. "Main actors in provision of fiction e-books in a small language market: a Swedish case." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 124-127. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

One of the consequences of the “small language” phenomenon is that the Swedish book industry is prey to the negative effects of globalization, since books have an international market and a Swedish multilingual citizen can buy e-books from international online booksellers. Publications in the local language are potentially in competition with books in English, and a local publisher or bookseller is competing with international publishers and Amazon.com

Rasmusen, Martin. "Publish your Data and Model Code: Research Output is More Than Just a Research Paper." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 88-93. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

Research output is not only research articles. To provide outlets for publishing other outputs than articles, Copernicus Publications, an innovative open access publisher based in Göttingen, Germany, currently publishes the journals Earth System Science Data and Geoscientific Model Development. The first journal is dedicated to the peer-reviewed publication of articles on original research data sets in the Earth System Sciences. The second journal is dedicated to publish the description, development and evaluation of numerical models of the Earth System and its components. Both journals apply an innovative interactive open access peer-review with public referee reports, public comments from the community prior to editor's decision, and public author's responses. The motivation is to make the whole research output from data, to models, to the scientific findings and novel interpretations freely accessible, to foster scientific discussion, to increase transparency in scientific quality assurance, and to give credit to all involved contributors.

Houssos, Nikos, Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou, Andreas Kalaitzis, and Alexandros Soumplis. "Shared service components infrastructure for enriching electronic publications with online reading and full-text search." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 94-103. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

A major requirement for electronic publishing systems is the availability of rich and intuitive mechanisms that enhance the user experience of viewing and searching online electronic documents such as books, monographs and journal papers. This work concerns a set of infrastructural components and their utilization for the creation of related coherent services and features for end users. We present a set of sophisticated platforms, tools and mechanisms that have been employed in real-life cases for implementing document viewing and full-text search features, shared among application instances of various types. Challenges encountered and the provided solutions are discussed.

Schiessl, Marcelo, Rita Berardi, and Marisa Bräscher. "Similarity between text and RDF." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 128-130. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014. Recently, sources of structured and unstructured data have been made available on the web, and gained attention among researchers from several areas. They are become more interested in using this global dataset due to its size and variety of information. In the Semantic Web field, many studies have translated structured data into unstructured data, and vice-versa, to make them comprehensible to machines and humans. However, we argue that we can take advantage of the existing information, in both text and RDF format. In this paper we focus on finding a way to compare them, and discovering which available text can represent an existing RDF. Hence, we propose a strategy to check whether a text represents the same knowledge that is shown in RDF format.
Lomazzi, Lisiane, and Ghislaine Chartron. "The implementation of the European Commission recommendation on open access to scientific information: comparison of national policies." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 23-29. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.

Two years after the publication of the European Commission recommendation on open access to scientific information, the critical threshold of accessibility to fifty percent of papers has been crossed. However, this figure is an average and the implementation of the EC recommendation varies from one country to another. The topical issue now is to observe the different steps of implementation and to wonder about the reaseons of such a disparity. In order to suggest many elements of the response, this research compares the different levels of implementation in the EU28.