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- JSTOR öffnet sehr alte Zeitschriftenjahrgänge für alle
- The Economics of Open Data – Mini-Case, Transit Data & Translink | eaves.ca
- Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available: e-petition
- HighWire Introduces 5-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open
- Michael Hart (1947 - 2011): Prophet of Abundance - Open Enterprise
- Research Archive Widens Its Public Access—a Bit
- Acceso abierto e impacto de la investigación científica: análisis de las revistas españolas de Ciencias Sociales
- Mapa Conceptual : Todo libre y abierto...palimpsesto y open access
- JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923
- You Provide the Search Term, Green Energy Portal Provides the Concepts
- International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Annual Review 2010
- Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World | JSTOR
- Post-Peer-Review Open Access, Commentary and Metrics versus Post Hoc "Peer Review"
- it’s time to abolish academic publishers
- Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available - e-petitions
- Introducing Open Biology: Video Podcast
| JSTOR öffnet sehr alte Zeitschriftenjahrgänge für alle Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:24 AM PDT Archivalia, (07 Sep 2011) Comment: DigiZeitschriften should do the same! |
| The Economics of Open Data – Mini-Case, Transit Data & Translink | eaves.ca Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:45 AM PDT |
| Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available: e-petition Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:24 AM PDT groups.google.com "Please consider supporting the following e-petition, on the UK government petition website....Publications and knowledge generated by research funded through the government, unless genuinely sensitive (e.g. military or atomic development), should be freely available, in their entirety, within a year. This should be a condition of research funding...." [PS: Note that only UK citizens may sign the petition.] |
| HighWire Introduces 5-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:22 AM PDT groups.google.com "With the recent launch of the peer-reviewed research journal, SAGE Open (www.sageopen.com), and its new, interactive article rating feature, HighWire Press once again demonstrates its support of independent scholarly publishers with a tool designed for Open Access publications. This new feature, 5-star article rating, gives readers the opportunity to weigh in on the quality and impact of a particular article in a transparent open community forum. As a supplement to the basic peer review that is practiced by the rapid publication process for open access journals, article-level comments and ratings offer real-time feedback from readers, allowing them to contribute publicly in the scholarly journal discussion. Over time, as the article accrues comments and ratings, the combined scores will become more and more meaningful as a metric to evaluate its importance and quality...." |
| Michael Hart (1947 - 2011): Prophet of Abundance - Open Enterprise Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:35 AM PDT blogs.computerworlduk.com "I've never written an obituary before in these pages. Happily, that's because the people who are driving the new wave of openness are relatively young, and still very much alive. Sadly, one of the earliest pioneers, Michael Hart, was somewhat older, and died on Tuesday at the age of just 64....To give an idea of how visionary Hart was, it's worth bearing in mind that he began what turned into the free etext library Project Gutenberg in 1971 - fully 12 years before Richard Stallman began to formulate his equivalent ideas for free software....Hart was the original prophet of digital abundance, a theme that I and others are now starting to explore. But his interest in that abundance was not merely theoretical - he was absolutely clear about its technological, economic and social implications....Fortunately, Project Gutenberg, which continues to grow and broaden its collection of freely-available texts in many languages, stands as a fitting and imperishable monument to a remarkable human being who not only gave the world great literature in abundance, but opened our eyes to the transformative power of abundance itself." |
| Research Archive Widens Its Public Access—a Bit Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:19 AM PDT Blog Research Archive Widens Its Public Accessa Bit Technology Review RSS Feeds, (07 Sep 2011) "JStor, an organization that maintains a database of academic journal articles, is making about 6 percent of its content available to the public for free—articles that were published prior to 1923 in the United States or before 1870 in other countries. It's a small step, but it's an important one, because it is a recognition by JStor that it should make its stockpile of academic knowledge more broadly accessible....Kevin Guthrie, the president of Ithaka, the nonprofit organization that runs JStor, told me in a recent interview that the subscription model has been necessary to cover the costs JStor incurs to operate the online service. It also has been necessary, he said, because of the contractual obligations JStor has with the publishers from which it licenses content. But he acknowledged that the setup can frustrate members of the wider public, who might find an article on JStor through Google and then be told that it's not available to be viewed. That's why this week's change, which enables free access to articles in the public domain, is meaningful even though the articles are so old: it is a foot in the door for the public. Although JStor officials declined to elaborate, it's telling that their letter to publishers and libraries refers to plans for "further access to individuals in the future." ..." |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2011 01:45 AM PDT Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Salamanca, (02 Sep 2011) Open Access and Impact Scientific Research: An Analysis of Spanish Journals of Social Sciences, Degree Final Project Work. From the Abstract: the main objective is to determine the relationship between the OA condition of Social Sciences journals published in Spain and its citation coverage. It has been downloaded bibliometric information contained in IN-RECS and it has been compared to different directory of OA journals (DOAJ and e-Revistas). Results show a significant presence of Open Access in the discipline observed, but prove the existence of complementary factors that may influence on the citation coverage of these resources. |
| Mapa Conceptual : Todo libre y abierto...palimpsesto y open access Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:26 PM PDT e-learning-teleformacion.blogspot.com |
| JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923 Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:48 PM PDT chronicle.com "Users anywhere now have free access to JSTOR’s Early Journal Content, a corpus of scholarly articles published in the United States before 1923 and elsewhere before 1870. That’s about 500,000 articles from 200 journals, according to JSTOR’s announcement. The digital archive said it encourages “broad use” of the material but asked that users not use “robots or other devices to systematically download these works as this may be disruptive to our systems.” In the announcement, Laura Brown, JSTOR’s managing director, said the move was not prompted by a much-publicized incident this year involving Aaron Swartz....“We are taking this step as part of our continuous effort to provide the widest possible access to the content on JSTOR while ensuring the long-term preservation of this important material,” Ms. Brown wrote. “We considered whether to delay or accelerate this action, largely out of concern that people might draw incorrect conclusions about our motivations. In the end, we decided to press ahead with our plans to make the Early Journal Content available, which we believe is in the best interest of our library and publisher partners, and students, scholars, and researchers everywhere.”..." |
| You Provide the Search Term, Green Energy Portal Provides the Concepts Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:01 PM PDT www.osti.gov "When you type “solar power” into a search box, are you looking for information on solar farms, solar radiation, or solar electric power plants? The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Green Energy portal can now map your keyword query to scientific concepts. This semantic technique, called “keyword to concept mapping,” is applied to your search behind the scenes and helps hone your search for more efficient knowledge access and discovery. At DOE Green Energy, you will now receive results that allow you to explore more narrow concepts, related concepts, or even broader concepts. DOE Green Energy affords you the use of the familiar and simple search box – yet still provides the benefits of an advanced search technology to help get to the information you need....The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within the Office of Science, provides these green energy results from R&D conducted throughout the Department and by DOE-funded awards at universities. The content consists of over 34,500 technical reports and approximately 1,300 patents from R&D projects representing an investment of several billion dollars. The DOE Green Energy site organizes this green energy R&D and makes it freely accessible to researchers, scientists, educators, students and the public...." |
| International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Annual Review 2010 Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:38 PM PDT |
| Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World | JSTOR Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:11 PM PDT |
| Post-Peer-Review Open Access, Commentary and Metrics versus Post Hoc "Peer Review" Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:35 AM PDT Open Access Archivangelism, (07 Sep 2011) David Colquhoun (2011) is quite right on practically every point he makes: There is too much pressure to publish and too much emphasis on journal impact factors. Too many papers are published. Many are not worth publishing (trivial or wrong). Peer reviewers are overworked. Refereeing is not always reliable. There is a hierarchy of journal peer review quality. The lower levels of the quality hierarchy are practically unrefereed. Butthe solution is not that everything should be publicly posted, unrefereed, and then to hope that open commentary will somehow take care of the rest. The solution is to post all peer-reviewed, revised and accepted papers online, free for all (Open Access) and to allow postpublication open peer commentary (anonymous and onymous) to complement and supplement classical peer review. And to end the arbitrary tyranny of journal impact factors (which just means the average journal's citation average), let 1000 new Open Access metrics bloom -- a metric track-record, public and answerable. |
| it’s time to abolish academic publishers Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:52 AM PDT |
| Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available - e-petitions Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:17 AM PDT HM Government Service, (07 Sep 2011) Closing: 06/09/2012 Most of the research in UK universities and colleges is funded by the taxpayer through the government. However, the knowledge generated by this is often controlled by publishers who charge a lot of money, often hundreds or thousands of pounds per individual journal, for access. These charges put severe pressure on university funding, which mostly comes from (again) the taxpayer, and student fees. Research suffers as academics lose access, on cost grounds, to research in their field. Members of the public cannot afford access to knowledge they have indirectly funded. Despite many initiatives to make this taxpayer-funded knowledge openly accessible, most of it is still “locked” away in high cost publications. Publications and knowledge generated by research funded through the government, unless genuinely sensitive (e.g. military or atomic development), should be freely available, in their entirety, within a year. This should be a condition of research funding. |
| Introducing Open Biology: Video Podcast Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT |
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