Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- The Royal Society needs your input on OA
- RSP Insitutional Repositories Wiki
- Open Access, African Scholarly Publishing, and Cultural Rights: An Exploratory Usage and Accessibility Study, Natalia Taylor Poppeliers
- What's Wrong With Research Communication
- Cameron Neylon: Time for total scientific openness - opinion - 07 September 2011 - New Scientist
- Why should open source geospatial software be taken seriously? | Spatial Sustain
| The Royal Society needs your input on OA Posted: 10 Sep 2011 11:02 AM PDT groups.google.com "As a result of the growing demand by both authors and institutions, The Royal Society is pleased to announce the launch of Open Biology, our first fully open access journal. Being the first wholly open access online journal from the Royal Society, we would like to ask for your contribution in helping us determine how we can best serve your faculty and scientists who wish to publish in open access. Please complete this short survey to help us better understand your institution's requirements and views towards open access publishing and funding...." |
| RSP Insitutional Repositories Wiki Posted: 10 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT groups.google.com The UK Repositories Support Project (RSP) re-launched its wiki. The wiki itself is here, <http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pmwiki/index.php>. |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2011 08:36 AM PDT www.webpages.uidaho.edu "The OA Movement is thus also seen as a means of helping achieve fundamental human rights as presented in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). When examining the place of information in the human rights framework, most focus on Article 19 of the UDHR and the corresponding Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which codifies it....While the relationships between Article 19, access to information, and human rights are fairly obvious, there is another piece of the human rights framework that is equally important with relation to information work yet it receives much less attention. Article 27 of the UDHR is codified in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)....In this paper, I report on an exploratory study that used data gathered during a forty day period to compare the OA journal usage of researchers in African countries with that of researchers in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Indexing and abstracting of African scholarly journals is also a key necessity if a more even flow of information from Southern to Northern countries is to be achieved and if the journals themselves are to be truly accessible to other scholars. Therefore, the study also examines the accessibility of indexing and abstracting coverage of African scholarly OA journals and compares the data with that of non-OA journals from the continent. I examine the relationship between current African OA usage and content production and the cultural rights expressed in Article 27 of the UDHR. The data suggests that, in contrast to LAC countries, African researchers are being less active consumers and more passive contributors to the OA model. OA is thus not yet contributing significantly to the reversal of North to South information flows in the African context nor is it yet making a significant impact on achieving the rights guaranteed in Articles 19 and 27 of the UDHR. The results also indicate that African OA publications are more accessible in the abstracting and indexing services than non-OA African publications, so an increased shift from non-OA to OA publications in African scholarly publishing may contribute to improving information flow reversal in the future...." |
| What's Wrong With Research Communication Posted: 10 Sep 2011 08:14 AM PDT DSHR's Blog, (02 Sep 2011) "The recent Dagstuhl workshop on the Future of Research Communication has to produce a report. I was one of those tasked with a section of the report entitled What's Wrong With The Current System?, intended to motivate later sections describing future activities aimed at remedying the problems. Below the fold is an expanded version of my draft of the section, not to be attributed to the workshop or any other participant....One major cause [of declining quality] has been that the advent of the Internet, by reducing the cost of distribution, encouraged publishers to switch libraries from subscribing to individual journals to the "big deal", ....Re-publishing an open access version of their scholars' output may seem redundant, but it is essential if the artificial barriers intellectual property restrictions have erected to data-mining and other forms of automated processing are to be overcome....To sum up, the advent of the Internet has greatly reduced the monetary value that can be extracted from academic content. Publishers who have depended on extracting this value face a crisis. The crisis is being delayed only by Universities and research funders. They have the power in their hands to insist on alternative models for access to the results of research, such as self-archiving, but have in most cases been reluctant to do so...." |
| Cameron Neylon: Time for total scientific openness - opinion - 07 September 2011 - New Scientist Posted: 10 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT www.newscientist.com "The UK's Royal Society recognises the importance of the issue and recently set up a major study on openness. Should you care? Is it just an issue for academia, or is there a bigger picture? My view is that we should all care a great deal...." |
| Why should open source geospatial software be taken seriously? | Spatial Sustain Posted: 10 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT www.vector1media.com "It’s now the eve of the State of the Map (SOTM) and Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) events, which take place back-to-back in Denver. The OpenStreetMap and FOSS4G communities will converge to cover open data and open source software, with a focus on development tools, applications, and shared objectives. The combined audience of more than one thousand users and contributors from around the globe (200 for SOTM and more than 840 for FOSS4G) speaks to a vibrancy in tough economic times, and should make you wonder what you’re missing if you’ve brushed aside this community in the past...." |
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