Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Richard Poynder, Interview with BioOne’s Mark Kurtz
- Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
- ODH Update - NEH Sponsors Berlin 9 Conference on Open Access
- Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It’s Our Job
- Unintended Consequences
- Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Workshop
- Open Access Key
| Richard Poynder, Interview with BioOne’s Mark Kurtz Posted: 28 Sep 2011 06:31 AM PDT Interview with BioOnes Mark Kurtz Open and Shut?, (27 Sep 2011) "Historically, peer-reviewed journals were published by scientific societies on a non-profit basis. Today scholarly publishing is dominated by a handful of large commercial publishers focused on maximising their profits. This has left small society publishers struggling to survive and libraries unable to afford all the journals they need. Unable to compete with commercial publishers, many societies have given up and sold or outsourced their publishing activities to them—a decision that inevitably leads to a rise in the price of their journals. Some, however, have sought survival by banding together and creating online collections of their combined journal portfolios. This is the objective of the Learned Journals Collection; and it is the aim of BioOne, which currently provides online access to 167 titles from 126 different non-profit bioscience publishers. I spoke recently with BioOne’s director of business development Mark Kurtz. The conversation was a further reminder for me that while the Open Access (OA) movement now looks set to solve the access problem, it is far from clear that it will solve the more fundamental affordability problem confronting the research community...." |
| Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:55 AM PDT theconversation.edu.au PS: Leaves false impression that the policy limits faculty freedom (understates availability of waiver) and was imposed on faculty against their will (doesn't mention that it was adopted by unanimous faculty vote). |
| ODH Update - NEH Sponsors Berlin 9 Conference on Open Access Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:40 PM PDT |
| Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It’s Our Job Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:10 PM PDT blogs.scientificamerican.com ""Articles are kept locked behind expensive paywalls, and even those that are published in open access journals are still inaccessible, as they lie behind what I like to call jargon walls...." |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:36 PM PDT del-fi.org "We tend to think of “undesired” results as negative ones, but Merton’s paper makes the key distinction that not all undesired results are undesirable. I think that’s the fundamental key to understanding innovation, actually. A lot of the arguments against OA focus on the undesired but foreseeable outcomes: business models will have to change, filtering and quality control methods will have to change, some people in power will have less, some new people will have new power....Some of the more nuanced arguments focus on foreseeable and truly negative outcomes: the concentration of wealth among the large publishers who can afford the move to author-pays, the lack of funds to make author-pays work in many disciplines, the inequality of asking authors to pay in the developing world, and so forth. I am more sympathetic to these arguments by far, and we have to address them....But there are going to be “undesired” effects of this purposive action - as in, effects that weren’t part of our argument for the change, or part of the arguments against it. Donald Rumsfeld famously called these “unknown unknowns”. Some of the unknown unknowns are going to be positive. Some are going to be negative. The beauty of systems that are open at the core is that those who follow us will have the rights to amplify the good ones, and the rights to fix the bad ones. And that’s in the end the point of Open Access, for me, as a purposive social action...." |
| Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Workshop Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:32 AM PDT www.nap.edu An OA book from the National Academies Press. "...We all know about the potential benefits and impacts of digital data, but we are also aware of the barriers, the challenges in maximizing the access, and use of such data. There is thus a need to think about how a data infrastructure can enhance capabilities for finding, using, and integrating information to accelerate discovery and innovation. How can we best implement an accessible, interoperable digital environment so that the data can be repeatedly used by a wide variety of users in different settings and with different applications? With this objective: to use the microbial communities and microbial data, literature, and the research materials themselves as a test case, the Board on Research Data and Information held an International Symposium on Designing the Microbial Research Commons at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC on 8-9 October 2009. The symposium addressed topics such as models to lower the transaction costs and support access to and use of microbiological materials and digital resources from the perspective of publicly funded research, public-private interactions, and developing country concerns. The overall goal of the symposium was to stimulate more research and implementation of improved legal and institutional models for publicly funded research in microbiology." |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:59 AM PDT www.openaccesskey.com "The Open Access Key, or OAK for short, is a unique, new financial platform to manage, consolidate and process publication fees incurred in Open Access Publishing. It has been designed to reduce your time, effort and expenditure and to connect individual authors to their universities, researcher funders and learned societies. OAK is a global company delivering its services to authors, institutions and publishers around the world. It has been designed using the latest web and business softwares by a technology team based in Norway and Denmark. We built the platform engaging advice and guidance from all participants in OA Publishing. OAK is a system which meets and will continue to meet the needs of all involved...." |
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