Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria | The Synaptic Leap
- Found one! We re-unite an author with an “orphaned work.”
- Open Data: a means to an end, not an end in itself
- As Trial Date Is Set, Settlement Talks in Google Book Search Case Gain Momentum - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Omidyar Network Supports Technology-Centered Organizations Seeking to Empower Citizens Across Six Countries
- Profs ditch course material over copyright confusion - CTV News
- Open Access Business Models for Research Funders and Universities
- Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume
- The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice
- Researchers failing to make raw data public
- Public Availability of Published Research Data in High-Impact Journals
- Implementing OA - policy cases and comparisons
- As Trial Date Is Set, Settlement Talks in Google Book Search Case Gain Momentum - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Open Access Policy Implementation: First Results Compared by Chris Armbruster :: SSRN
- Re: Python 3 optimizations continued... [LWN.net]
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license enforced in Germany - Creative Commons
- New working group to examine research transparency
- UK government announces working group on research transparency
- Next-Generation Ecologists and Open Data | International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists
- EC consultation on the European Research Area (ERA) Framework
| Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria | The Synaptic Leap Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:11 AM PDT www.thesynapticleap.org "We’re starting a new project – open source drug discovery for malaria. Initially the participants are my group at the University of Sydney and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), but naturally as an open project we need to expand beyond this. If you’re reading this, you can join us...." |
| Found one! We re-unite an author with an “orphaned work.” Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:57 AM PDT blog.authorsguild.org From the Authors Guild: "About two minutes of googling turned up a professor emeritus of one of the HathiTrust “orphan works” candidates. He lives in suburban Maryland. His second book sold a reported one million copies, and he’s listed in IMDb (two of his books were turned into movies: one starred Elvis Presley, the other Warren Beatty). He has a literary agent, and he signed an e-book contract earlier this month. No, we’re not making this up...." |
| Open Data: a means to an end, not an end in itself Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:54 AM PDT Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, (15 Sep 2011) "[I]f open data is a means and not an end in itself, what are the real ends that we are seeking? The real ends are the improved creation, processing and use information for the purpose of bettering our lives and the world around us — finding a better way to travel to work, understanding and addressing climate change, finding better ways to cure and prevent disease, deciding who to vote for, the list goes on and on because it includes almost anything where information, and more specifically digital information is or could be important...." |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:52 AM PDT chronicle.com "The case brought by authors and publishers over Google's vast book-digitizing project is headed to trial at last. But the parties told the federal judge handling the matter that there is still hope for some kind of settlement. At a status conference on Thursday in Manhattan, Judge Denny Chin agreed to a trial schedule that would have the litigants in court by next summer. However, lawyers in the case told Judge Chin that settlement talks, especially those between Google and publishers, had made progress, Publishers Weekly and other news media reported...." |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:50 AM PDT www.prnewswire.com "Omidyar Network announced today its intent to grant up to $3M to six leading organizations focused on advancing government transparency and accountability. The organizations are: Association for Democratic Reforms (India), Co-Creation Hub (Nigeria), Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente (Chile), Mideast Youth (Bahrain), Centre UA (Ukraine), and Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)....The Open Knowledge Foundation of the United Kingdom will receive a grant of up to $750k over three years. The U.K. nonprofit builds tools and communities to promote open access to information that can be used, reused and redistributed freely. The Open Knowledge Foundation works to increase knowledge about open data, designs innovative visualization tools that enable citizens to access and better interpret data, and builds dataset catalogues to demonstrate to both citizens and government alike the benefits of making data open, free and accessible. Grant proceeds will be used to: expand Open Knowledge Foundation's key financial transparency project, openspending.org; sustain and build working groups on open data; and establish chapters in additional countries...." |
| Profs ditch course material over copyright confusion - CTV News Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:48 AM PDT www.ctv.ca "Nearly three dozen [Canadian] colleges and universities are pulling out of the body [Access Copyright] that collects money on behalf of authors and publishers, forcing a sudden copyright crash course on campus....Now it's up to many universities and colleges to figure out what can or cannot be copied, and how to get permission from licence holders. It means understanding the complex Copyright Act, and what protections exist for study and review -- areas that seem like they require a separate degree just to sort out. Libraries and copyright officers have been swamped with work this fall, trying to clear the course materials assigned for classrooms. Universities are encouraging faculty to seek out "open access" texts that are free for everyone to use...." |
| Open Access Business Models for Research Funders and Universities Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:35 AM PDT Knowledge Exchange, (15 Sep 2011) Briefing Paper. From the Executive Summary: This study illustrates the considerable variety of business models within a common framework of public funding. Open access through institutional repositories requires funding from particular institutions to set up and maintain a repository, while the business model for subject repositories often requires contributions from a number of institutions or funding agencies to maintain a subject repository hosted at one institution. Open access through publication in open access journals generally requires a mix of funding sources to meet the cost of publishing. The identification of both financial and non-financial benefits to funding bodies and universities will become a key factor in the long-term success of open access. A range of factors will determine whether particular models succeed or fail, but for both particular business models and for the open access movement as a whole, the ability to demonstrate that the potential benefits from open access are becoming a reality will assist sustainability. |
| Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:20 AM PDT digitalculturebooks, University of Michigan Press, (08 Sep 2011) Edited by John Carey and Martin C. J. Elton. Described as 'a book crowdsourced in one week' between May 21 and May 28, 2010, this volume contains an edited selection of the contributions during that period. The book explores "how the academy might be beneficially reformed using digital media and technology." Three principal sections are: Hacking Scholarship, Hacking Teaching, and Hacking Institutions. The first of these contains a number of chapters on open access topics. The original project initiative attracted "300 submissions from nearly 200 authors", and these can be found in the unedited version that is still available at http://hackingtheacademy.org/ |
| The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT Bloomsbury Academic, (Sep 2011) Note. This is the open access, Creative Commons licenced version. Print versions are also available. Summary: While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors. |
| Researchers failing to make raw data public Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:02 AM PDT Nature News, (14 Sep 2011) "Ioannidis and Piwowar [authors of separate studies on low rates of data sharing] say that more journals should adopt data-sharing policies and ensure that scientists consistently follow the rules. "You need an extra editorial office and maybe more," says Ioannidis. Piwowar speculates that journal editors shy away from introducing data-sharing policies for fear of deterring submissions. "Journals can get away with not having policies because it is not yet generally regarded as the norm," she says. She urges editors in each field to come together to implement policies simultaneously, as was done with several evolution journals in January 2011 under an initiative called the Joint Data Archiving Policy. Steven Wiley, a biomolecular systems expert at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, says the current study does not address the question of why scientists might defy data-sharing policies. Sharing data "is time-consuming to do properly, the reward systems aren't there and neither is the stick", he says. Even if compliance increases, Wiley says that the scientific community will still need to focus on developing standardized formats to make accessing data more efficient and feasible...." |
| Public Availability of Published Research Data in High-Impact Journals Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:57 AM PDT www.plosone.org Abstract: There is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data available in highly-cited journals across the scientific literature....We reviewed the first 10 original research papers of 2009 published in the 50 original research journals with the highest impact factor. For each journal we documented the policies related to public availability and sharing of data. Of the 50 journals, 44 (88%) had a statement in their instructions to authors related to public availability and sharing of data. However, there was wide variation in journal requirements, ranging from requiring the sharing of all primary data related to the research to just including a statement in the published manuscript that data can be available on request. Of the 500 assessed papers, 149 (30%) were not subject to any data availability policy. Of the remaining 351 papers that were covered by some data availability policy, 208 papers (59%) did not fully adhere to the data availability instructions of the journals they were published in, most commonly (73%) by not publicly depositing microarray data. The other 143 papers that adhered to the data availability instructions did so by publicly depositing only the specific data type as required, making a statement of willingness to share, or actually sharing all the primary data. Overall, only 47 papers (9%) deposited full primary raw data online. None of the 149 papers not subject to data availability policies made their full primary data publicly available....A substantial proportion of original research papers published in high-impact journals are either not subject to any data availability policies, or do not adhere to the data availability instructions in their respective journals. This empiric evaluation highlights opportunities for improvement. |
| Implementing OA - policy cases and comparisons Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT Open Access Archivangelism, (15 Sep 2011) Chris Armbruster's policy cases, comparisons and conclusions make several useful points, some new, others already noted and published by others. There is also a lot missing as well as some rather important confusions in Armstrong's conclusions, notably about versions, embargoes, "digital infrastructure," and the nature of green vs. gold OA. For those who seek a clear, practical picture of the woods, rather than a rather impressionistic sketch of some of the trees, what both institutions and funders need to do is: 1. Mandate deposit deposit of the author's final refereed draft, immediately upon acceptance for publication, in the author's institutional repository 2. Designate repository deposit as the sole mechanism for submitting refereed publications for institutional performance evaluation and for national research assessment. 3. Implement the email-eprint-request button to tide over researcher needs during the embargo, for any publisher-embargoed deposits. Once institutions and funders have done that. all the rest will take care of itself (including versions, embargoes, "digital infrastructures" and gold OA. |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:55 PM PDT chronicle.com "The case brought by authors and publishers over Google's vast book-digitizing project is headed to trial at last. But the parties told the federal judge handling the matter that there is still hope for some kind of settlement. At a status conference on Thursday in Manhattan, Judge Denny Chin agreed to a trial schedule that would have the litigants in court by next summer. However, lawyers in the case told Judge Chin that settlement talks, especially those between Google and publishers, had made progress, Publishers Weekly and other news media reported...." |
| Open Access Policy Implementation: First Results Compared by Chris Armbruster :: SSRN Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:33 PM PDT papers.ssrn.com Abstract: Open Access policy implementation is a tough job. Policy pioneers have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving recognized success. Professionals charged with implementing policy typically need several years to accomplish significant progress. This is a study of first results from a small but significant number of cases with an emphasis on variety and on defining a methodological standard. All cases have been reconstructed through documents and interviews. The most salient issues of policy implementation are investigated comparatively, namely a) the matching infrastructure that a policy requires; b) the issue of capturing content and scholarly compliance; c) how to provide access to the content and foster usage; d) and the benefits offered to authors. As the author is pivotal to any open access solution, this provides a comparative perspective for delineating a policy research agenda. |
| Re: Python 3 optimizations continued... [LWN.net] Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:07 PM PDT lwn.net "But if you want to be taken seriously as a researcher, you should publish your code! Without publication of your *code* research in your area cannot be reproduced by others, so it is not science. Please stop being shy and open up what you have...." |
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license enforced in Germany - Creative Commons Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:06 PM PDT creativecommons.org "The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (BY-SA) has been enforced by a judicial injunction in Germany...." |
| New working group to examine research transparency Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:10 AM PDT News Distribution Services New working group to examine research transparency "Science Minister David Willetts has today announced a new independent working group to look at how UK-funded research findings can be broadened for key audiences such as researchers, policy makers and the general public. The group will be made up of representatives from the higher education sector, research investors, the research community, scholarly publishers and libraries. It will examine how access to research findings can be made more transparent and accessible. Speaking at the British Science Festival in Bradford, David Willetts said: “Transparency is at the heart of the Government's agenda and it should apply to published research....Research stimulates and fuels innovation and economic growth. So, to maximise UK innovation we need to maximise access to and the use of research findings....” ...The group will be chaired by Dame Janet Finch DBE, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and independent co-Chair of the Council for Science and Technology...." |
| UK government announces working group on research transparency Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:05 AM PDT www.pharmatimes.com "With momentum building for open-access publishing and debate continuing to rage about access to clinical trial data, the UK government is setting up an independent working group to look at how UK-funded research findings can be made more widely available. The initiative was announced by Science Minister David Willetts at the British Science Festival in Bradford today. The working group, to be chaired by Dame Janet Finch, professor of sociology at Manchester University and independent co-chair of the Council for Science and Technology, will examine how access to research findings can be made more transparent and accessible, taking into account a range of considerations including parallel work on research data and other outputs being conducted by the Royal Society. The focus will be on academic publications, specifically journal articles, conference proceedings and monographs. The group’s work will be supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Publishers Association and Research Councils UK. The Research Information Network will provide the group’s secretariat...." |
| Next-Generation Ecologists and Open Data | International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:02 AM PDT innge.net "The next generation of ecologists have the opportunity to affect a shift in the culture of ecology. The shift that we need is to make ecology open. Why? In short, there are significant benefits to open science seen in other fields - suggesting that ecology can benefit from the shift. We live in an increasingly connected world, which means that ecologists can make this shift to open ecology relatively rapid, especially through use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Below I lay out what I think are advantages of open ecology, some challenges to open ecology, some solutions, and some promising trends...." |
| EC consultation on the European Research Area (ERA) Framework Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:59 AM PDT groups.google.com "[O]n 13 September 2011, the European Commission has launched a further public consultation that aims at gathering views and evidence from stakeholders on the key obstacles to the achievement of a European Research Area (ERA) by 2014, thus creating a single market for knowledge, research and innovation. Section 7 of the questionnaire focuses on knowledge circulation (knowledge transfer and open access) as one of the key issues to tackle. The sub-section on open access refers to the previous consultation on scientific information, and asks questions that are specific to the remit of ERA policy actions (e.g. on researchers' awareness, ownership and copyright rules, VAT, infrastructures, national policies, etc.). Should you wish to contribute, the consultation will be open until 30 November 2011...." |
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