Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Salina Journal News: Sarah Shier Honored at University of Kansas, Featured as 2011-12 Woman of Distinction
- Both Sides Now | Peer to Peer Review
- 2011 Open Access Week competition winners announced
- bepress sells out
- University of Michigan Puts HathiTrust Orphan Works Project on Hold
- News: Abuse of Trust? - Inside Higher Ed
- HathiTrust Conundrum
- Information about the Authors Guild Lawsuit | www.hathitrust.org
- HathiTrust Statement on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al. | www.hathitrust.org
- Making Open Data Real: A Response - Open Enterprise
- Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available - e-petitions
- Omidyar Network support OKF to go global
- OpenSpending v0.10 released
- Commission brokers agreement for mass digitisation (News)
- Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues
- Big Data, BGI and GigaScience - Bio-IT World
- Open Access Is Infrastructure, Not Religion
- Data Citation from the perspective of tracking data reuse
- Bodleian Libraries use 21st-century digital technology to fulfil 12th-century Hebrew mandate - Bodleian Libraries
- Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here’s some direct action.
- Open Data in Portugal
- Open Access Week 2011
- Twitter for researchers
- nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Stampede Charges Computational Science Forward in Tackling Complex Societal Challenges - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Lorraine Haricombe, Advancing Open Access: What can you do?
- An unconventional openness
- Commonwealth of Learning - A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Developing Guidelines on Open Educational Resources for UNESCO and COL
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:30 PM PDT www.salina.com "Dr. Lorraine Haricombe...is among 25 women honored for their distinguished achievements on the 2011-12 KU [Kansas University] Women of Distinction calendar....[She] is the dean of libraries and Provost's Designate for Open Access Implementation. As a single parent, she raised two accomplished daughters. She earned her master's and doctorate in library and information science from 1986-1992...." |
| Both Sides Now | Peer to Peer Review Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:26 PM PDT www.libraryjournal.com "I spend time in different parts of the information universe. My strongest identity is as a librarian and as a user of libraries, so I have a passionate desire to share information and to ensure that it is preserved and protected from censorship. As an academic, I do a fair amount of writing, but for a number of years my colleagues and I have decided not to publish academic work that will only be available behind a paywall. It would be hypocritical for me, as a supporter of open access, to do otherwise. But I also have a foot in the commercial publishing world, as a reader and writer of commercial fiction-also known as mysteries-and through that peculiar passion have gotten to know a lot of writers and booksellers and publishers. It makes me sensitive to issues that I might not otherwise be aware of, such as why my book shopping behavior matters...." |
| 2011 Open Access Week competition winners announced Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:14 PM PDT News, (15 Sep 2011) "We [INASP] are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Open Access Competition. The winners will recieve $500 (US) towards supporting the promotion of Open Access resources. 10 prizes were awarded in all...." |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:09 PM PDT Scholarly communication, Open Access, Open Science, (19 Sep 2011) "As reported with interview text by Sue Polanka (Wright State University) in her e-book blog, No shelf required linked by Against the grain’s blog, de Gruyter has agreed to acquire Berkeley Electronic Press’s e-journal porfolio, to be integrated into de Gruyter’s existing management (and, one assumes, pricing) structure. The fact that as of the Monday after the Friday announcement, there is no mention of it on the bepress Web site, which challenges the notion that small, innovative companies-that-look-like-nonprofits can keep up the polished, high-service performance of for-profit publishers. (De Gruyter has the press release up.) ..." |
| University of Michigan Puts HathiTrust Orphan Works Project on Hold Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT www.libraryjournal.com "The University of Michigan (UM) Library today released a statement announcing that it would be examining its "flawed" pilot process for identifying orphan works, putting its HathiTrust orphan works project effectively on hold. This follows reaction about the status of several works on its publicly posted orphan candidates list...." |
| News: Abuse of Trust? - Inside Higher Ed Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:57 PM PDT www.insidehighered.com "Less than a week after the University of Michigan brushed off a lawsuit by the Authors Guild over the university’s move to make copyrighted “orphan” works in its digital collection freely available to students and faculty, the Michigan Library suspended the practice Friday, admitting “serious” flaws in its process for identifying orphans. Friday’s mea culpa followed a public flogging of the library and its nonprofit digital consortium, HathiTrust, at the hands of the Authors Guild, in which the guild quickly tracked down the owners of the copyrights on several works that HathiTrust had categorized as “orphans” -- books and articles that are in copyright but whose copyright owners cannot be located or identified...." |
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| Information about the Authors Guild Lawsuit | www.hathitrust.org Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:50 PM PDT www.hathitrust.org This is the HathiTrust page of info on the lawsuit. |
| HathiTrust Statement on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al. | www.hathitrust.org Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:49 PM PDT www.hathitrust.org "Digitization is a reflection of library prudence, rather than the reckless activity as characterized by the Authors' Guild complaint and accompanying statement. From its inception, the primary motive driving our digitization effort has been, and remains, preservation. Preserving the scholarly and cultural record is at the core of the Library's mission. Digitization offers a means of preserving the intellectual content of books whose lives as objects are subject to the vagaries of storage conditions and their own composition; for example, the vast majority of the volumes in our collection are printed on acid paper. Many of these volumes are protected by copyright, but if we wait until they enter the public domain they will be too brittle to circulate or digitize, and of no use to anyone. The Orphan Works Project is an example of library prudence in other ways. Digitized collections offer other obvious benefits. They can be more readily shared with our community, who increasingly expect their research materials to be available in digital form, and they can also provide a trove of data, both humanistic and scientific, that will help scholars and researchers discover and create new knowledge. And in many cases, they can also be made available to anyone in the world with a connection to the Internet. The way in which the HathiTrust partners share this particular collection is guided by a deep and abiding respect for intellectual property and US copyright law, particularly Sections 107 and 108, which help define how libraries may lawfully share their collections...." |
| Making Open Data Real: A Response - Open Enterprise Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:45 PM PDT blogs.computerworlduk.com "A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the “Making Data Real”consultation, promising to post my response. I have to admit that replying to the questions it asks has been far harder for this than for any other consultation that I've responded to. I should hasten to add that this is not from any failing in the consultation itself. Indeed, it is commendably thorough both in its exposition of the issues, and in terms of the questions posed. But that's almost the problem: it is asking very deep questions in an area where few people - myself included - have really managed to frame anything like coherent responses...." |
| Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available - e-petitions Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:42 PM PDT "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." |
| Omidyar Network support OKF to go global Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:36 PM PDT Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, (19 Sep 2011) "Last Thursday we were delighted with the news that the Omidyar Network (ON) have agreed to support the Open Knowledge Foundation with up to $750,000 over the next three years. This is part of a major $3m push by ON in the area of government transparency...." |
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| Commission brokers agreement for mass digitisation (News) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:31 PM PDT EurActiv - European Union Information Website (EU and Europe), (21 Sep 2011) "Books that have been gathering dust on library bookshelves can now be transformed into eBooks, according to a pan European agreement signed by libraries, publishers and rightsholders yesterday (20 September). Industry federations and the European Commission heralded the agreement signed yesterday between publishers, libraries, collecting societies and authors as groundbreaking as it would unleash countless books for consumption online. "I am not aware of any Memorandum of Understanding of its kind," Angela Mills Wade, the Executive Director of the European Publishers Council told EurActiv. Previously books have been kept offline because collecting societies, organisations that distribute royalties to authors, were not able to obtain a mandate from publishers and authors who own the rights. The new pan European deal encourages libraries and collecting societies to seek digital licensing agreements with the rightsholders of books that are no longer being printed or sold....The ARROW project, which many libraries use to trace books' rightsholders, has been recognised by the signatories of the agreement as indispensable for mass digitisation....The agreement does not include Orphan works whose rightsholders are unknown. The European Commission is expected to come up with a solution for these books before the end of this year...." |
| Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:23 PM PDT newsbreaks.infotoday.com "As with a difficult pregnancy, the birthing of a new publishing model for the 21st century has proven complex and painful for everyone involved. The focus of much of the debate and angst has centered on what the publishing industry and authors see as the nexus of the struggle: Google Books, and recent actions seem to be taking this struggle aggressively to new levels. On Sept. 12, eight authors—including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon—along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia—filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects (in cooperative agreements with Google Books). Led by the Authors Guild (AG), the “nation’s leading advocate for writers’ interests,” the plaintiffs include the Australian Society of Authors Limited and Canada’s Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ). The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, charges that HathiTrust, University of Michigan, University of California, University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Cornell University are engaging in “systematic, concerted, widespread and unauthorized reproduction and distribution of millions of copyrighted books and other works, including books whose copyright are held by Plaintiffs.” ..." |
| Big Data, BGI and GigaScience - Bio-IT World Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:24 PM PDT www.bio-itworld.com "Does the world really need yet another journal? The Chinese founders of BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) clearly think so. This fall they will publish GigaScience, an open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to large-scale data. Laurie Goodman, an American science editor and writer, has worked for BGI for many years, polishing and editing scientific manuscripts, many dealing with sequencing and analysis. With her extensive experience, it was only natural that BGI should ask her to spearhead the launch. Goodman’s former colleague, Kevin Davies, asked her about the journal’s goals and features...." |
| Open Access Is Infrastructure, Not Religion Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:22 AM PDT del-fi.org "The same thing happened with the web. It’s full of cat pages and blink tags, said the content experts. It’s a lousy formatting language, said the formatters. No one will buy things online, said the brick and mortar stores. And there were failures, some spectacular, as new business models that were native to the medium of the network were tried. But a funny thing happened in each of these cases. There was a move from religion to trend, and from trend to infrastructure. And those who sat around attacking the religion angle tended to miss the transitions the worst, whereas those who got in early on the infrastructure got the best of the situation: they got to be part of changing the system entirely, and many of them became extremely wealthy. Even companies, big ones, got in on the shift to the network, the web, open source software....That’s the transition that’s happening now in open access. It was a movement. Then it became a trend (that’s why the press is writing trend pieces, for those paying attention, not because we suddenly got Dezenhall to work for *us*). But it’s already undergoing the shift to infrastructure. Funders are starting to get that paying for permanent access is smarter than paying, over and over, for subscriptions. Universities are starting to get that asserting distribution rights increases impact. And businesses built on open models are popping up, inside big companies like Springer and Nature Publishing Group as well as in small companies like Mendeley. It’s not about religion on the OA side, or stodginess on the traditional publisher side. It’s about totally missing the transition from movement to trend, and from trend to infrastructure....And when the old guard is ready, we should welcome them. There is tremendous knowledge inside the traditional publishing industry that we don’t want to lose. And we don’t win by throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What’s wrong with the old model isn’t wrong because of bad people, or people who don’t know things...." |
| Data Citation from the perspective of tracking data reuse Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:09 AM PDT |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:08 AM PDT www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk "The Bodleian Libraries have digitized and made available online part of the first comprehensive code of Jewish Law,...written between 1170 and 1180 by the rabbinic scholar Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides....The launch of the digital version of the Mishneh Torah carries a symbolic connotation as it fulfils the will of one of the manuscript’s later owners, Eleazar, son of Perahya. He stated in his will that his copy of the Mishneh Torah should always be freely available for public consultation: ‘[The manuscript should] not be sold or redeemed, nor should any single person ever take possession of it. It should rather be kept available so that all scholars can correct their own version against it, but not read from it regularly or copy from it.’ By making the manuscript available online, the Bodleian is keeping Eleazar’s legacy...." |
| Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here’s some direct action. Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:06 AM PDT Academic papers are hidden from the public Here8217s some direct action Bad Science, (16 Sep 2011) |
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:04 AM PDT Right to Research Coalition - Full Feed, (21 Sep 2011) "International Open Access Week, from October 24th through the 31st, is an important week of action for students around the world to come together and push to create real change - by starting conversations, educating peers, lobbying administrators, and more. Students have become a leading force in advancing Open Access, and Open Access Week is a important opportunity to showcase that work and continue pressing forward. We [Student Open Access Week Organizers group] are going to make this year bigger than ever, and we need your help. So, what can you do? The most important thing is simply to participate, whether it's by hosting a viewing party for one of our webcasts, writing an opinion piece for your campus newspaper, or sharing our Facebook and Twitter pages with your friends so they can get involved and stay up to date. To help you get started, we’ve created this guide with ideas for how you can get involved and make a difference during the week. Take a look, and plan to join the other students around the world engaging thousands (tens of thousands? millions?) on their campuses and in their organizations. Together, we'll make this the biggest Open Access Week yet! ..." |
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT www.nsf.gov "The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin today announced that it will deploy and support a world-class supercomputer with comprehensive computing and visualization capabilities for the national open science community....The new system, "Stampede," will be built by TACC in partnership with Dell and Intel to support the nation's scientists in addressing the most complex scientific and engineering problems. Stampede is anticipated to go into full production in January 2013 and will be available to researchers for four years. The estimated investment will be more than $50 million over the four year period; the project may be renewed for another system deployed in 2017 which would enable four additional years of open science research....When Stampede is deployed in 2013, it will be the most powerful system in the NSF XD environment, currently the most advanced, comprehensive, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services enabling open science research in the world...." |
| Lorraine Haricombe, Advancing Open Access: What can you do? Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:57 AM PDT www.berlin9.org Focusing on the OA mandate at the U of Kansas |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:38 AM PDT In Verba, (19 Sep 2011) "Michael Nielsen, speaking at our [the Royal Society] Policylab earlier this month, described two revolutions in open science – two periods of significant change in the way scientists share discoveries. The first revolution in the 17th century went hand in hand with the formalisation of the scientific method and the formation of the Royal Society. In just over a century, science went from secretive basement alchemy to peer-reviewed journals and public demonstrations of experiments. Today, the proliferation of huge datasets, models and software in scientific research require scientists to rethink how they share their work....For Nielsen, this is the beginning of a second open science revolution and an imperative for updating tools for sharing research practices and findings...." |
| Commonwealth of Learning - A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:36 AM PDT www.col.org "This Guide comprises three sections. The first – a summary of the key issues – is presented in the form of a set of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper. For those who have a deeper interest in OER, this section will assist with making the case for OER more substantively. The third section is a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about specific areas of relevance to OER. These are aimed at people who are looking for substantive information regarding a specific area of interest...." |
| Developing Guidelines on Open Educational Resources for UNESCO and COL Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT www.saide.org.za "In early 2011, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) initiated a process to develop a set of guidelines for policy-makers on Open Educational Resources (OER). Team members of Saide's OER Africa Initiative are honoured to have been invited to participate in the process. Neil Butcher reports...." |
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