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- Wieviel Open Access steckt in bibliografischen Datenbanken? Referat zu den Ergebnissen einer Studie.
- Big Content runs 66% of our journals, but the Open Access shortfall is our fault | Savage Minds
- What is open access and how to provide it?
- $20,000 Open Textbook Challenge from the Saylor Foundation - Creative Commons
- CC News: Open Government Policy Developments - Creative Commons
- 14 Asian Chemical Congress: Why we need Open Data/Source/Standards « petermr's blog
- Everything We Think Can in Principle Be Thought By Someone Else: A Plea for Open, Collective Scholarship
- Preisverleihung "Land der Ideen" für German Medical Science
- Knowledge Exchange partners continue joint work for another three years
- CoCreating Open Scholarship
- Hacking the PLoS Article-Level Metrics API Server | Gobbledygook
- Jawaharlal Nehru tech varsity to digitise theses
- Authors Guild Sues HathiTrust and 5 Universities Over Digitized Books
- LectureLeaks - Liberated Courseware
- Twendeley - A Mendeley + twitter mashup
- Rallying Cries vs. Reality: Profits and Publishing Meet Academics and Idealism
- Open conversations
- Anthropomorphised Information Wants To Be Free As In Beer
- HathiTrust full-text index to be integrated into OCLC services
- Kapitalisten: Schlimm, schlimmer, [Wissenschaftsverlag]?
- A Different Question of Open Access: Is There a Public Access Right to Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada?*
- Publishing science in the online age
- Full Text of HathiTrust Collection to be Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service
- JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923
- New OA-policy at Aalborg University, Denmark
- Berliner Parteien zu Open Access
- Michael Hart, Who Defined the Landscape of Digital Publishing, Dies at 64 - People - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Online College Classes and Academic Courses for Lifelong Learners
- Digital Registry « eon
- 14 Asian Chemical Congress: Why we need Open Data/Source/Standards
- OpenAIRE - Organic Eprints is now OpenAIRE compliant
- An Open Access future? Report from the eurocancercoms project: Cancer research articles from ecancermedicalscience. | ecancermedicalscience
- EU-funded study finds researchers favour open access publishing
- Cancer Journal: Latest cancer research A bright future for Open Access publishing | ecancermedicalscience
| Wieviel Open Access steckt in bibliografischen Datenbanken? Referat zu den Ergebnissen einer Studie. Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:41 PM PDT LIBREAS.Library Ideas, (09 Sep 2011) A comment on William H. Walters and Anne C. Linville (2011) Bibliographic Index Coverage of Open Access Journals in Six Subject Areas, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 8 (62) pp. 1614-1628. |
| Big Content runs 66% of our journals, but the Open Access shortfall is our fault | Savage Minds Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:36 PM PDT |
| What is open access and how to provide it? Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:32 PM PDT Hedda - Higher Education Development Association, (05 Sep 2011) "In this post, Stevan Harnad gives his insights on an important academic topic: open access (OA). For many years, he has worked relentlessly for the promotion of open access and has been a central figure in this debate...." |
| $20,000 Open Textbook Challenge from the Saylor Foundation - Creative Commons Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:25 PM PDT creativecommons.org "The Saylor Foundation has been known for organizing comprehensive curriculum for popular subject areas, and licensing the resources when they can under the CC Attribution license. Now with the launch of its Open Textbook Challenge, the Saylor Foundation aims to expand the amount of high-quality CC BY-licensed course materials by offering a $20,000 award for open textbooks! If a textbook is submitted and accepted for use with Saylor.org‘s course materials, then the copyright owners receive $20,000 while the referrer receives $250. Then the textbook is re-licensed (if not already) for free and open use under CC BY. For more information, visit http://www.saylor.org/OTC. The deadline is November 1, 2011...." |
| CC News: Open Government Policy Developments - Creative Commons Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:23 PM PDT |
| 14 Asian Chemical Congress: Why we need Open Data/Source/Standards « petermr's blog Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:22 PM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:19 PM PDT In the Middle, (07 Sep 2011) |
| Preisverleihung "Land der Ideen" für German Medical Science Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:01 PM PDT open-access.net From Google's English: "On 21 October 2011 Deutsch Medical Science is awarded "Selected Landmark 2011 in the Land of Ideas" in 2011. Founded in 2003 with the open-access portal of the "Golden Route" runs the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), a publishing service for medical journals and conference publications and research reports. The ZB MED cordially invites you to the awards ceremony of Medical Science Deutsch as a "Landmark in the Land of Ideas" in 2011. In addition to the awards ceremony, you can expect a mini-symposium on the theory and practice of open access...." |
| Knowledge Exchange partners continue joint work for another three years Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:56 PM PDT www.knowledge-exchange.info "The partners of Knowledge Exchange JISC, SURFfoundation, DFG and DEFF have agreed to extend the initiative for a further three year period. The initiative will continue into 2014. KE will continue the support of use and development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure for higher education and research. A range of activities are being planned for the coming years with special focus on Primary Research Data, Open Access and Virtual Research Environments. The KE office remains located in Copenhagen, Denmark, and enjoys the hospitality of Danish Agency for Libraries and Media. The organisation continues unchanged with the KE Steering Group consisting of four partner management members and the KE Group with four national representatives. A KE coordinator and a secretary are in charge of daily coordination and administration of activities...." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:45 PM PDT The Heutagogic Archives, (11 Sep 2011) "This is a blog post version of the paper “Towards a framework for co-creating Open Scholarship” by Fred Garnett, and Nigel Ecclesfield given as a paper at ALT-C 2011 published in the Proceedings and freely available in their open Access repository. The shorter slide presentation is on Slideshare. This post includes the arguments as to how we might develop Boyer’s Model of Scholarship in the digital age towards an open model of learning by developing his arguments about Discovery, Integration, Application and Teaching, to include Co-creation. It is a ‘modest proposal’ not the finished article...." |
| Hacking the PLoS Article-Level Metrics API Server | Gobbledygook Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:28 PM PDT blogs.plos.org "Article-Level Metrics looks at the usage and reach of an individual article instead of using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy for the impact of a paper. The PLoS Article-Level Metrics API provides access to some interesting numbers: not only citations, HTML pageviews and PDF downloads, but also social metrics such as number of bookmarks in CiteULike or number of readers in Mendeley. But for the hackathon I was not interested in building a tool that talks to the Article-Metrics API. On Sunday morning I had discovered that the PLoS Article-Level Metrics server software is not only available as Open Source software, but is built with Ruby on Rails, a programming framework that I’m familiar with. So I thought it would be fun to start improving the software by adding metrics on the author level. And by building your own Article-Level Metrics server, you are not limited to papers published in PLoS journals, or to the kinds of metrics provided by PLoS. Wouldn’t it for example be nice to also include download counts for Dryad datasets? ..." |
| Jawaharlal Nehru tech varsity to digitise theses Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:24 PM PDT www.thehindubusinessline.com "Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Information and Library Network Centre, an autonomous inter-university centre of the University Grants Commission at Ahmedabad. The centre promotes open access to scholarly content generated in Indian universities. The centre facilities hosting electronic versions of theses and dissertations in open access with interface to search, retrieve and access theses content. The technological university will take part in the digitisation of theses to build a digital repository and to promote, share and host its electronic thesis dissertations and other universities' in open access...." |
| Authors Guild Sues HathiTrust and 5 Universities Over Digitized Books Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:13 PM PDT The Ticker, (12 Sep 2011) "The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, a Canadian writers’ union, and eight individual authors are suing HathiTrust and five universities for copyright infringement, the guild announced on Monday afternoon. At issue are millions of scanned books held in the HathiTrust digital repository. The complaint, filed in federal court in New York, also names the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University. “The universities obtained from Google unauthorized scans of an estimated seven million copyright-protected books, the rights to which are held by authors in dozens of countries,” the guild said. It also questioned the security of the digital files in the repository. “These books, because of the universities’ and Google’s unlawful actions, are now at needless, intolerable digital risk,” said the Authors Guild president, Scott Turow. HathiTrust had no immediate response to the lawsuit, which was filed not long before a September 15 status conference to settle the fate of a lawsuit brought by the guild and others against Google over its book-scanning project." |
| LectureLeaks - Liberated Courseware Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:59 PM PDT www.lectureleaks.com "Welcome to LectureLeaks.org, your personal OpenCourseWare repository. You can now record, save, and upload your college lectures directly from your iPhone or Android device. You can also browse our library of recordings and learn any time, anywhere...." |
| Twendeley - A Mendeley + twitter mashup Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:41 PM PDT twendeley.ologeez.org "This is a very crude mashup I whipped up one weekend using the new Mendeley APIs to find articles similar to tweets from those you follow...." |
| Rallying Cries vs. Reality: Profits and Publishing Meet Academics and Idealism Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:40 PM PDT The Scholarly Kitchen, (08 Sep 2011) "My recent response to the Monbiot rant in the Guardian revealed a set of attitudes and beliefs in a segment of the unhappy lot who care about scholarly publishing. This post is an attempt to articulate a different point of view on the same issues often used as rallying cries by advocates of open access, free access, or similar changes to scholarly publishing. Like any ecosystem, radical change in one area can have major effects elsewhere. These effects can take unexpected or untoward directions if the system is poorly understood...." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:02 PM PDT Knowledge Ready, (04 Sep 2011) "I have spent the last two days at the Science Online conference in London. I was surrounded with people talking enthusiastically about sharing their knowledge, how to get others to share theirs, and how technology could help with this process. Just my sort of thing! Being in the midst of this community, and my recent experience of writing for the SLA Future Ready blog (to be published soon), has encourage me to dust off my own blog. I don’t feel comfortable with my spectator status anymore, enjoying what everyone else is saying, without sharing some thoughts of my own...." |
| Anthropomorphised Information Wants To Be Free As In Beer Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:59 PM PDT |
| HathiTrust full-text index to be integrated into OCLC services Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:48 PM PDT "OCLC and HathiTrust have signed an agreement that will allow OCLC to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this important digital collection through WorldCat. Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust collections into services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Following integration of the full-text index, users will be able to search beyond bibliographic records to include the full text of these cooperatively built library collections in their searches...." |
| Kapitalisten: Schlimm, schlimmer, [Wissenschaftsverlag]? Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:43 PM PDT KnackBockBlog, (07 Sep 2011) From Google's English: "At the Guardian, there is just one very pertinent article on the subject of 'scientific publications' George Monbiot explains how enormous (and actually incredibly) the profits of the big publishers are, and how little (read: ridiculous) is actually their own contribution. Yes is no secret that the authors produce data, write the text to create the illustrations and format both (almost) ready for printing. The author or the reviewers are volunteers. The article offers some interesting, but unfortunately not necessarily reassuring numbers. For example, Elsevier: 1998 to the immense profit margins of 40% was predicted an early end. 2010, there were still 36%. The former 'oracle' referred to the growing possibilities of electronic forms of publication, this would break up the monopolies. Nothing like this has happened. Again and again, open access (OA) is mentioned as a possible way out, and currently attempting the Alliance of German science organizations to bring the project back to the front. Published by the Alliance, " Frequently Asked Questions about Open Access and secondary publication rights "to give similar information as in many parts of the article at the Guardian (and provide a good introduction to the terminology and concepts behind open access)...." |
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| Publishing science in the online age Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:51 PM PDT besdigital.tumblr.com The event blog for a workshop on publishing science in the digital age, from the British Ecological Society. |
| Full Text of HathiTrust Collection to be Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:48 PM PDT www2.ebsco.com "The fundamental goal of EBSCO Publishing’s EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) is to make quality library content available to end users and a recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and HathiTrust does just that. The agreement allows for full text searching of HathiTrust content within EDS—exposing EDS users to the entire array of HathiTrust’s collection and greatly expanding their searches while maximizing the library’s collection. HathiTrust includes the digitized collections of more than 50 major research institutions and libraries. The HathiTrust Digital Library combines the resources of the partner institutions in order to preserve these vast digital collections. A large portion of the digital library is made up of books that have been digitized in agreement with Google Books. Additional content includes digitized content from partners including university presses and individual library’s collections...." |
| JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923 Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:47 PM PDT Wired Campus, (07 Sep 2011) "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, a hacktivist charged with violations related to making unauthorized downloads of millions of JSTOR files...." |
| New OA-policy at Aalborg University, Denmark Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:39 PM PDT www.openaire.eu Denmark's Aalborg University adopted an OA policy. From Google's translation of the Danish policy <http://www.vbn-redaktionen.aau.dk/openaccess>: "Management at Aalborg University has decided to implement an Open Access Policy applies to all scientific literature at the university. This encourages researchers at Aalborg University to work for free and open access to university research....It is recommended to publish in Open Access journals, where they are on the same level as the other respected journals in the discipline. Is publishing in an Open Access journal is not an option, the researcher should choose a journal allowing parallel publishing in VBN [the institutional repository]. If the researcher assigns his publishing rights, you should at least retain the right to parallel publishing in VBN. AAU want a full text of all publications published in VBN. When a researcher adds a full text to VBN remains copyright by the author(s)...." |
| Berliner Parteien zu Open Access Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:33 PM PDT wisspub.net, (12 Sep 2011) From Google's English: "Maybe for the people of Berlin are of interest: Wikimedia Germany has access to a choice of touchstone for the forthcoming election to the Berlin House of Representatives on open access in the two questions on. Question 10 is occupied with the repository infrastructure to academic institutions in Berlin. Question 11 deals with the requirement for a secondary publication rights . The following parties have answered the two questions: Alliance 90/The Greens, CDU, FDP, The Left, Pirates Party, Social Democratic Party, Socialist Equality Party (PSG) and Welfare Party. Readable overview of all the answers on the subject can be found in Wikimedia wiki...." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:30 PM PDT chronicle.com "What made Mr. Hart a hero to many of us was his pragmatic (even dogmatic) adherence to radical openness, via open standards and free access to literature, championing the philosophy that humanity's historical heritage belonged to, well, humanity itself. That, of course, is the underpinning of the argument for open-access science, humanities, social sciences, and every other field of study, and Mr. Hart's example became a touchstone...." |
| Online College Classes and Academic Courses for Lifelong Learners Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:21 PM PDT www.onlinecollegeclasses.com "A free compendium of educational multimedia content from around the web." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:14 PM PDT blogs.law.harvard.edu Charles Nesson describes his proposal for a "legally defended registry for all copyrighted works, all orphan works, and all digital works in the public domain...." |
| 14 Asian Chemical Congress: Why we need Open Data/Source/Standards Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:59 AM PDT |
| OpenAIRE - Organic Eprints is now OpenAIRE compliant Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:48 AM PDT www.openaire.eu "Organic Eprints, the main subject repository for research in organic farming, is now compliant with the OpenAIRE guidelines detailed below. In return, the peer-reviewed results of EC-funded research in organic farming are now exposed to a wider community and the international research collaboration in organic farming will become even more visible through the OpenAIRE portal. Researchers in organic farming funded by FP7 and ERC will benefit from using Organic Eprints to live up to their grant agreements. Being OpenAIRE compliant, the researcher will only need to deposit once, in Organic Eprints, while OpenAIRE will harvest the data directly from Organic Eprints...." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:37 AM PDT dx.doi.org Abstract: In March 2011, as part of the background research to the FP7 Eurocancercoms project, the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) conducted an online survey of its members working in Europe to discover their experiences of and attitudes to the issues surrounding academic publishing and Open Access. This paper presents the results from this survey and compares them to the results from a much larger survey on the same topic from the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP). The responses from both surveys show very positive attitudes to the Open Access publishing route; perhaps the most challenging statistic from the EACR survey is that 88% of respondents believe that publicly funded research should be made available to be read and used without access barriers As a conclusion and invitation to further discussion, this paper also contributes to the debate around subscription and Open Access publishing, supporting the case for accelerating the progress towards Open Access publishing of cancer research articles as a particularly supportive way of assisting all researchers to make unhindered progress with their work. |
| EU-funded study finds researchers favour open access publishing Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:31 AM PDT bulletin.sciencebusiness.net "Researchers, authors and funding bodies are challenging the traditional journal publishing model, with open access becoming the preferred route to publishing and accessing research results, according to a paper published today in the journal ecancermedicalscience. The paper, “An Open Access future? Report from the eurocancercoms project” analyses the results of a survey carried out as part of the Framework Programme 7-funded Eurocancercoms project, looking at researchers’ attitudes towards open access publishing. Open access business models to challenge the traditional subscription models are also examined. The survey, by the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), found that 59 per cent of researchers say their work is often hindered by a lack of free access to research findings. The internet is used by 94 per cent of cancer researchers for professional activities every day, with the majority accessing PubMed and online journals daily or 2-3 times a week. Nearly three quarters of survey respondents have published work in open access journals, indicating a growing acceptance of open access as a route to publication. And 88 per cent of respondents said publicly-funded research should be available to be read and used without access barriers...." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT www.ecancermedicalscience.com "With researchers, authors and funders challenging the traditional journal publishing model, Open Access (OA) publishing is likely to become the preferred option, suggests a paper published in ecancermedicalscience. This is supported by the finding that 59% of researchers indicated that their work was often hindered by a lack of free access to research findings...." |
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