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- KILTV Press Open Access publications
- Gesloten datacultuur broedplaats voor wetenschappelijke fraude
- Adventures in Google’s Audacity
- ITAL: Why not open access your content, really
- On the importance of Open Science and Open Data by Ross Mounce on Prezi
- Publishing Technology Chosen to Build Academic Publishing Site for GSE Research
- Evaluating the Impact of Open Data Websites by Eleonore Fournier-Tombs :: SSRN
- Libraries explore digitization - The Brown Daily Herald - Serving the community daily since 1891
- SCOAP3-DH: Open Access in High Energy Physics for German universities
- Fred Friend, Briefing paper on Open Access Business Models
- Open API (or glorious API?) « petermr's blog
- Implementation of open access environment
- Hackers Use Open Hardware to Solve Environmental Problems | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
- Oberwolfach Digital Archive
- Le français, une langue de l'innovation - nouveaux indicateurs scientométriques
- The challenges of promoting southern knowledge
- A Tale of Self-Plagiarism — A Critic of Publishers Proves a Prostitute Is As a Prostitute Does
- PLoS’ 2010 Progress Update — Pondering the Implications of a Watershed Year
- Authors, Copyright, and HathiTrust
- Stop the Internet, we want to get off!
- Judge Adopts Trial Schedule At Google Status Conference, but Settlement Talks Continue
- DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals
- EconStor: A RePEc Archive for Research from Germany
- The Laboratorium: HathiTrust Single-Handedly Sinks Orphan Works Reform
- HathiTrust Acknowledges Flaws in Handling ‘Orphan Works’
- September [2011] update from John Palfrey on the Digital Public Library of America
- Federal Courts Making It More Expensive To Access Records, Even As They're Swimming In Cash | Techdirt
| KILTV Press Open Access publications Posted: 17 Sep 2011 08:05 AM PDT www.openaccess.nl "KITLV Press is pleased to announce that its journals Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde /Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI) and the New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) will be Open Access publications as of March 1, 2011. Thanks to a subsidy from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) readers can now download all articles and reviews free of charge. This means that all issues of the BKI since 1851 and NWIG since 1919 are available online....KITLV Press is also very committed to the Open Access publishing of monographs. Many of our most recent scholarly publiactions are available through www.oapen.org, which only lists peer reviewed books...." |
| Gesloten datacultuur broedplaats voor wetenschappelijke fraude Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:57 AM PDT www.openaccess.nl How closed data incubates a culture of scientific fraud, here focusing on psychology. |
| Adventures in Google’s Audacity Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:52 AM PDT www.openbookalliance.org "As we approach the September 15th status update which could signal the end of the road for the Google Books Settlement (especially now that the Authors Guild has filed a lawsuit against HathiTrust, which is the consortium of libraries that has received book scans from Google), it’s worth a step back to take a look at the broader picture that has emerged since we began this process almost three years ago...." |
| ITAL: Why not open access your content, really Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:46 AM PDT Bibliographic Wilderness, (08 Sep 2011) "LITA’s Information Technology and Libraries actually does have some interesting content in it. Here’s the latest issue. Oh, but you probably can’t read it, unless you are a LITA member with a login. I suspect this has been a topic of some back-and-forth within LITA — their current policy is that “Issues older than six months are open to all,” not just LITA members...." |
| On the importance of Open Science and Open Data by Ross Mounce on Prezi Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:45 AM PDT |
| Publishing Technology Chosen to Build Academic Publishing Site for GSE Research Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:37 AM PDT newsbreaks.infotoday.com "Publishing Technology plc has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research. The new online platform for research...will be built using Publishing Technology’s semantic web-based publishing software, pub2web. The new platform will be among the first of its kind offering the option of an open peer-eview model alongside the traditional peer-eview system....GSE Research’s prime objective is to bridge the gap between the scholarly research community, policymakers and the corporate world by building an inclusive and interactive community that shares its views on papers and research in real time. It will be a completely digital model free of the constraints of the traditional scholarly publishing model, which has generally replicated content from print into online. GSE is the brainchild of one of the world’s top sustainability researchers, Professor Walter Leal, and academic publisher John Peters (former CEO, Emerald Group Publishing). Authors submitting content to GSE Research will be able to share research both inside and outside of the academic community with speed and efficiency. It will also be possible to discuss papers and opinions and to network within the community using the site’s socially collaborative approach. All contributors will have the option to choose between an open access model and a more traditional subscription-based model when it comes to publishing their content...." |
| Evaluating the Impact of Open Data Websites by Eleonore Fournier-Tombs :: SSRN Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:34 AM PDT papers.ssrn.com Abstract: Over the past few years, the steady increase in the number of government open data websites has led to a call for appropriate evaluation tools. While some (Noveck, 2009) have expressed optimism as to the potential of government open data, others (Coglianese, 2009; Hindman, 2009) have been more hesitant. This paper therefore aims to answer the following question: how does one evaluate the success of open data websites in reaching democratic objectives? In doing so, it explores past academic studies and examines the researcher’s experience with interpretive inquiry. Using Data.gov as an example, it argues that survey-based research, a common tool in information systems analysis, may not be suited to open data websites. Instead, it suggests a content analysis methodology, which hopes to inform future research on the subject. |
| Libraries explore digitization - The Brown Daily Herald - Serving the community daily since 1891 Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:31 AM PDT www.browndailyherald.com "Brown has considered joining digitization initiatives, including a consortium of over 50 institutions and libraries called the HathiTrust Digital Library, Quist said. HathiTrust works to preserve the "cultural record" through digitizing and distributing electronic titles, according to the organization's website. The Authors' Guild — an advocacy group protecting authors against illegal use of their texts — filed a lawsuit Monday charging HathiTrust with widespread copyright violations, according to an Inside Higher Ed article. Though Brown has not decided whether to join HathiTrust, it has partnered with other institutions to share both print and digital resources, including many of those made available by the initiative. Borrow Direct, a consortium including the eight Ivy League schools and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides each school access to the books in all of the schools' library systems, Quist said. Though Borrow Direct currently deals almost exclusively with print sources, Quist said he thinks the initiative may include digital projects in the future...." |
| SCOAP3-DH: Open Access in High Energy Physics for German universities Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:27 AM PDT www.tib-hannover.de "Another important step towards Open Access in High Energy Physics has been taken. In the beginning of September representatives of university libraries met with representatives of the German SCOAP3 Partners (TIB, Max-Planck-Society und Helmholtz Association) for a workshop at TIB in Hannover....During a first meeting of the international partners in April it was decided to have the concept implemented by January 1st 2013. Shortly, the market survey will be published and the international tender procedure will formally begin after a period of intense preparation. The most important topic of the workshop was the presentation and discussion of a calculation model which will serve to distribute the costs among the German universities and other institutions after the implementation of the consortium...." |
| Fred Friend, Briefing paper on Open Access Business Models Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:13 AM PDT www.knowledge-exchange.info Undated but 2011. Discusses OA business models for institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, journals, data, and books. From the executive summary: "[I]n this document the description of each type of open access business model includes the factors which will determine the cost incurred in providing open access, the factors likely to be important in adopting the model, and a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of each open access model from the perspective of research funding agencies and institutions managing the funding of research dissemination. Most of the document relates to research outputs in the form of journal articles but brief descriptions are given of factors important in open access to research data and research monographs....Private funding may provide partial support for some open access models (e.g. if an author pays for the cost of publishing in an open access journal) but no open access model can survive on private funding alone. In this respect open access business models are no different from the current subscription or licensing business models for academic journals, as the publishers of the journals are also dependent upon the purchase of subscriptions or licences by publicly-funded libraries. The factor distinguishing open access business models from subscription or licensing business models is the higher level of benefit from open access in relation to the cost to the taxpayer....This study illustrates the considerable variety of business models within a common framework of public funding....Any open access business model contains elements which cannot be measured in monetary terms. In particular the impact of open access to research outputs can be described but cannot always be quantified. The social benefits of open access, for example, cannot be itemised in a financial spread-sheet but should be seen as part of the business model, in that open access to research and teaching outputs brings benefits to previously disenfranchised individuals and communities. The identification of these benefits, even if numbers cannot be attached to them, should be an important feature of a business model for the public sector funding of open access. Another element which is difficult to measure in monetary terms is the degree to which a particular business model allows the authors, their institutions, or the funders of the content made accessible to remain in control of that content....[T]he extent to which usage rights and re-use rights provide benefits beyond financial benefits should be identified in any open access business model....Any one of the three principal structures for providing open access to publicly-funded research outputs – institutional repositories, subject repositories or open access journals – has the potential to deliver a sustainable service...." |
| Open API (or glorious API?) « petermr's blog Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:59 AM PDT blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk It is becoming critical that we (?everyone) defines what is meant by “open API” and what it means operationally. This post introduces the problem – the next will suggest some ways forward...." |
| Implementation of open access environment Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:55 AM PDT ieeexplore.ieee.org Abstract: This article in quite domestic and foreign opening access development present situation foundation, analysis of the situation caused by the reasons for open access at home and abroad, and put forward the necessary environment to achieve open access and needs to be done in China. |
| Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:48 AM PDT blogs.scientificamerican.com "[T]he second annual Open Hardware Summit on September 15 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens [featured, among other things]...Protei boats...originally designed to respond to BP’s 2010 Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Trailing oil-absorbing booms, the drones could sail even in a storm to help with cleanup, unlike human-crewed ships....Much like open software, the idea of open hardware is to freely share all the necessary knowledge for building usable electronics. This is not just for the balding, pony-tailed basement tinkerer; the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known as CERN and as the operator of the Large Hardon Collider) is developing an open hardware license for some of its fancy bits...." |
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| Le français, une langue de l'innovation - nouveaux indicateurs scientométriques Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:48 PM PDT users.ecs.soton.ac.uk Agence universitaire de la Francophonie salle Léopold Sedar Senghor (3e étage) 3034 boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montréal 22 septembre 2011 Yves Gingras, Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, Université du Québec à Montréal, « Pour une meilleure cartographie de la recherche en français: un complément aux bases de données existantes » Stevan Harnad, Chaire de recherche en sciences cognitives, Université du Québec à Montréal, « Le développement de nouveaux indicateurs scientométriques pour l'ère de l'accès libre en ligne » |
| The challenges of promoting southern knowledge Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:16 PM PDT Research to Action, (08 Sep 2011) "By creating platforms to showcase their research and providing opportunities for engagement, GDNet are supporting more than almost 11,000 researchers from the South to contribute and debate ideas in development thinking policy and practice....So how is GDNet responding to these issues? Part of the answer has been a radical rethink of its online services to ensure that southern research is easily accessible by all users. Demonstrating relevance: Building on the success of the GDNet Knowledgebase (an internet portal to development research produced in developing countries), GDNet have now launched a new section on their website to demonstrate the relevance of southern research beyond local and regional contexts...." |
| A Tale of Self-Plagiarism — A Critic of Publishers Proves a Prostitute Is As a Prostitute Does Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:08 PM PDT The Scholarly Kitchen, (14 Sep 2011) "[N]ow we find a publishing critic apparently committing self-plagiarism in order to publish as much as possible in established journals, even while decrying those same journals. Yes, one of the self-plagiarized articles was called, “Publishing as Prostitution? – Choosing Between One’s Own Ideas and Academic Success” in its first iteration. The author apparently didn’t have to choose between his own ideas and academic success when he later published virtually the same paper two years later — without referring to the earlier work — under the title “Problems with Publishing: Existing State and Solutions.” ..." |
| PLoS’ 2010 Progress Update — Pondering the Implications of a Watershed Year Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:03 PM PDT The Scholarly Kitchen, (15 Sep 2011) "How PLoS arrived at this point [where revenues exceed expenses] bears examination, for it reveals both strengths and weaknesses of the organization and the model they’ve adopted....Now that PLoS has a sustainable model, it will be interesting to see how the organization uses these funds, what growth initiatives they undertake, how the new leadership chooses between mission and margin, and how funding agencies view their support in light of breakeven. Allowing for grant support in PLoS’ total returns, you calculate a return for PLoS in 2010 of 21.8%. Now we have another interesting conundrum — here are returns high enough to get your attention, at least on a percentage basis....It will be interesting to see what happens now that the underdog is an underdog no more...." |
| Authors, Copyright, and HathiTrust Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:59 PM PDT |
| Stop the Internet, we want to get off! Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:55 PM PDT Scholarly Communications @ Duke, (13 Sep 2011) "It seems I spoke to soon. Only hours after I posted on this site a comment about why the HathiTrust orphan works project should not be controversial came news that the US Authors Guild, joined by similar associations in two other countries and eight individual authors, has filed suit to enjoin Hathi from proceeding with the project and seeking to impound all seven million digital volumes held by Hathi that may still be protected by copyright....Let’s start by being very clear about what these plaintiffs are asking. In their complaint they list 62 works to which named plaintiffs hold copyright and also assert “associational standing” based on their representation of other unnamed copyright holders in unnamed works. To protect those few works from distribution by Hathi, which as I far as I can tell is not actually imminent, the plaintiffs ask to impound and remove from Hathi 7 million files. AG President Scott Turow calls Hathi “an intolerable digital risk.” To me the real risk is that the foolish actions of Turow and his handful of followers (all but one of the plaintiffs are officers of one of the associations) will threaten the tremendous cultural potential of Hathi and similar projects simply because they are frightened of the Internet and have not yet figured out how to make money off of it...." |
| Judge Adopts Trial Schedule At Google Status Conference, but Settlement Talks Continue Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:53 PM PDT www.publishersweekly.com "The Google Books case is headed to litigation. At a status conference Thursday, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed pre-trial schedule that, if followed, would have the case ready for trial by July 2012. But the conference also offered a ray of hope, as attorneys said that settlement talks were progressing. AAP attorney Bruce Keller told Chin that the publishers had agreed to the proposed trial schedule, but that substantial progress had been made between publishers and Google, and that he hoped the trial schedule would become "moot." Google attorney Daralynn Durie echoed that expectation later in the hearing, also telling Chin that progress was being made and noting that the business principals "not the lawyers" were in discussion...." |
| DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:51 PM PDT www.doaj.org "Directory of Open Access Journals is continuously growing – now there are 7000 journals listed in the directory! 45% of the journals are searchable on article level = more than 600 000 article searchable...." |
| EconStor: A RePEc Archive for Research from Germany Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:50 PM PDT The RePEc Blog, (15 Sep 2011) "EconStor is a subject-based repository for economics and business administration maintained by the German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW). It provides free access to all kinds of scholarly publications, including working and discussion papers, conference papers, journal articles, research reports, and dissertations. The main content so far comes from German research institutions and university departments. But acting as a disciplinary repository EconStor, of course, welcomes any research institution worldwide seeking for a reliable storage and publishing infrastructure for its research papers in the field of economics and business administration – especially those institutions without access to a local repository infrastructure....In order to achieve these goals we decided to make a “Full-Service Offer” to the editors of publications being considered to be published at EconStor, i.e. the EconStor team organizes the full text upload and metadata recording – free of charge, but based on a publication agreement [pdf] which is required for copyright reasons. Besides complete working paper series or e-journals, EconStor is also open for single authors wishing to self-archive their own publications like pre- and post-prints, research reports, or theses...." |
| The Laboratorium: HathiTrust Single-Handedly Sinks Orphan Works Reform Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:31 PM PDT laboratorium.net "In a series of blog posts yesterday whose tone can only be described as “gleeful,” the Authors Guild has been showing that specific books aren’t orphans....The legwork involved wasn’t particularly intensive: some Google searches, some queries of standard copyright-related databases, and some phone calls. This would be a dog-bites-man story, except for the fact that all of these books were on HathiTrust’s list of orphan works candidates. Oops. All of these books had gone through HathiTrust’s workflow, which was supposed to carry out “due diligence” to determine whether these works were likely to be orphans. Once is a mistake, twice bad luck, and three times is a sign of a broken process. The Authors Guild’s experiment demonstrates that HathiTrust’s orphan-tagging workflow cannot be relied on to identify genuinely orphan works with sufficient confidence to be usable...." |
| HathiTrust Acknowledges Flaws in Handling ‘Orphan Works’ Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:29 PM PDT chronicle.com "Faced with criticism over how it identifies “orphan works,” the HathiTrust digital repository acknowledged that its procedure is “flawed” and said it was working to fix the problems before it makes those works more widely available...." |
| September [2011] update from John Palfrey on the Digital Public Library of America Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:29 PM PDT |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:34 AM PDT www.techdirt.com "The Federal Court's PACER system is really quite misguided. It's the system that the federal courts use to distribute judicial records (court filings, rulings, etc.), but rather than making that info available to the public, it's basically locked up behind a paywall, and it costs people 8 cents per page to download documents. Well, it did cost 8 cents per page. They've just announced that they're jacking up the fees to 10 cents per page, and that can add up pretty quickly when accessing a lot of court documents or some rather long filings or rulings. While Harlan Yu and Tim Lee helped create RECAP to free up court documents, and that has helped make some of this material more widely available, it's still limited. And, in fact, some courts have expressed concerns about RECAP and told lawyers not to use it. And even though the official policy of the US courts is that they're fine with RECAP, it appears not everyone in the court system agrees. EFF lawyer Michael Barclay recently alerted me to the fact that the PACER system for the Western District of NY has a warning on its query page about RECAP...." |
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