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- Access to scientific publications should be a fundamental right « petermr's blog
- Welcome The National Library of Australia to The Commons!
- UP CLOSE | A digital library? | Yale Daily News
- Digging into Archaeological Data (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
- Survey on Improving Metadata Support in DSpace
- Open Education: It’s not impossible, it’s already here
- Princeton U. Adopts Open-Access Policy
- Learning with 'e's: Sharp practice
- DCAT Update: Collaborating on New DSpace Features | DuraSpace
- Announcing new CC Board Member Brian Fitzgerald - Creative Commons
- A second front | Scholarly Communications @ Duke
- PKP Announces Major Development Partner | Public Knowledge Project
- 2012 Herman Skolnik Award Winners Announced
- Europe says (scientific) data should be Open. Neelie gets it! Do publishers?
- Notes from the Open Video Conference 2011
- Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011 - Open Enterprise
- Jim Groom: Open Education Is A University Of People Online - YouTube
- Open Education Is A University Of People Online
- Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Textbook Authorship and Higher Education Publishing, Second Edition for $32.11 | Bestprice89 Shop
- Zea E-Books | University of Nebraska - Lincoln Research | DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Open Source Education for the 21st Century | Open Parenthesis
- Librarians set sights on open access REF submissions
- AsktheEU.org - Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
- Science Publishing: What is to be done? « In the Dark
- COASP 2011 | River Valley TV
| Access to scientific publications should be a fundamental right « petermr's blog Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:15 AM PDT |
| Welcome The National Library of Australia to The Commons! Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT Flickr Blog, (26 Sep 2011) "Today, the National Library of Australia joins the The Commons on Flickr...." |
| UP CLOSE | A digital library? | Yale Daily News Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:33 PM PDT www.yaledailynews.com "Yale has also taken steps to support open access policies. In May, Yale became the first Ivy to unveil a new policy that allows any internet user to access a catalog of millions of images from University museums, libraries and archives. The University does not restrict how these images are used...." |
| Digging into Archaeological Data (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:17 PM PDT www.educause.edu "The explosion of online, open access collections of ancient texts and artifacts, along with the secondary literature surrounding them, has transformed the speed and manner in which scholars of the ancient world perform their research. Among the various types of electronic resources for the study of the ancient world, open access collections of primary archaeological data—for example, the Archaeology Data Service ...and the Archaeobotanical Database... —are a particular boon for researchers, especially those for whom annual fieldwork may not always be possible, in that these collections bring large quantities of raw data directly to the researchers’ fingertips....Multi-institutional and multinational projects such as Open Context...are providing access to this primary archaeological data explicitly so that scholars and students can “easily find and reuse content created by others, which are key to advancing research and education.” ..." |
| Survey on Improving Metadata Support in DSpace Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:20 PM PDT www.surveymonkey.com "At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Because there are many different issues, both from an organizational/policy perspective, as well from a code development perspective, we ask for your input to help clarify the priority and focus. In this brief survey we are interested in identifying which challenges could and should be tackled first. Please do your best to indicate the highest priority level issues for your organization, recognizing that if everything is a priority then there may not be a clear starting point. So even if all of these issues are very important to you, please try to focus on which ones would make your life or the lives of your users and management significantly easier...." |
| Open Education: It’s not impossible, it’s already here Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:18 PM PDT |
| Princeton U. Adopts Open-Access Policy Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:56 PM PDT chronicle.com "The movement to make research freely available got a high-profile boost this week with the news that Princeton University’s faculty has unanimously adopted an open-access policy....“Both the library and members of the faculty, principally in the sciences, have been thinking for some time that we would like to take a concrete step toward making the publications of our extraordinary faculty freely available to a much larger audience and not restricted to those who can afford to pay journal subscription fees,” said Karin Trainer, Princeton’s university librarian. She said they had encountered “no resistance at all” to the idea among faculty members...." |
| Learning with 'e's: Sharp practice Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:34 PM PDT steve-wheeler.blogspot.com "During my keynote for the Zukunft Personal event in Cologne, I [Steve Wheeler] publicly announced that I would no longer publish my work in closed journals. In truth, the last time one of my papers was published in a pay-to-subscribe journal was quite some time ago. I'm not the first academic who has made this stand and hopefully I won't be the last. Many others now only publish their work in open access journals, and I intend to do the same....For a long time I have felt very strongly that some academic publishers are operating a sharp practice by exploiting the goodwill of scholars. Large groups of lecturers and researchers act as journal authors and reviewers without payment, and then the publishers sell this content on to other academics at grossly inflated prices. Other highly knowledgeable academics give up their time, also for no payment, to review and advise editors on the content, and this can be painstaking work - read this by Martin Weller on the real cost of 'free reviewing'. This is not sustainable and must change. The publishing industry should no longer be allowed to operate such cynical, profiteering business models. The content they sell has been given to them for free by exceptionally skilled academics who have spent their valuable time and energy researching and writing their reports. The price we are expected to pay to read the work of our own community is unjustifiable...." |
| DCAT Update: Collaborating on New DSpace Features | DuraSpace Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:29 PM PDT duraspace.org "The success of any open-source project lies with the community contributing its collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. In the DSpace community valuable contributions come not just from our numerous volunteer developers and committers, but also a group known as the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT. The primary goals of DCAT are to help review and facilitate community discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace committer group in producing software releases...." |
| Announcing new CC Board Member Brian Fitzgerald - Creative Commons Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:28 PM PDT creativecommons.org "Creative Commons is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Brian Fitzgerald as a new Director of the corporation and member of the Board....Many of you may be familiar with Brian, who has been the legal lead of CC Australia since 2004 and has made an outstanding contribution to the CC and broader open access communities. The adoption of CC licenses by the Australian government, in which he was critically involved, continues to be a leading example of CC implementation, particularly as data management becomes a more and more prominent issue in open access debates...." |
| A second front | Scholarly Communications @ Duke Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:27 PM PDT |
| PKP Announces Major Development Partner | Public Knowledge Project Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:21 PM PDT pkp.sfu.ca "The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to announce that the University Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh has entered into a major partnership with PKP, furthering a commitment to the development of scholarly communication software. As a result of this agreement, the ULS will provide significant financial and in-kind support to assist with PKP’s ongoing development and support of its open source software suite—Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release in the coming year...." |
| 2012 Herman Skolnik Award Winners Announced Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:19 PM PDT www.ccl.net "Drs. Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa are the joint recipients of the 2012 Herman Skolnik Award presented by the ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF). The award recognizes outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science and related disciplines....Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa are recognized for their continued efforts to advance the field of chemical informatics, particularly in electronic and online forms, for opening standards to facilitate first-class science, and promoting new [and open] ways to collaborate and exchange chemical data....Their work has had a huge impact in the fields of chemical document analysis, chemistry on the Internet and in the orchestration of a viable strategy for making electronic chemistry information as widely accessible and usable as possible in our information age...." |
| Europe says (scientific) data should be Open. Neelie gets it! Do publishers? Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:16 PM PDT petermr's blog, (27 Sep 2011) |
| Notes from the Open Video Conference 2011 Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT |
| Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011 - Open Enterprise Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT blogs.computerworlduk.com "The Pirate Party has hovered on the edge of politics for a while now, acting as a kind of gadfly to traditional parties - annoying but not able to inflict much damage. Its seats in the European Parliament have proved important in terms of raising issues and obtaining access to hitherto restricted information. But last week's events in Germany are perhaps even more significant: "The German Pirate Party has scored a massive win in the elections for the Berlin state parliament today. Two hours after the voting booths closed the first results show the Pirates achieving 9 percent of the counted votes. This translates into 15 parliament seats...." Why does that matter to the outside world - or to readers of this blog? Because the programme of the Pirate Party touches on many key topics regularly discussed in these pages. As well as copyright reform that would allow private digital copies to be made, patents would be scaled-back too, avoiding “absurd patents” in the fields of software, genes and business processes. The party supports open access to knowledge...." |
| Jim Groom: Open Education Is A University Of People Online - YouTube Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:05 PM PDT |
| Open Education Is A University Of People Online Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:04 PM PDT a gross salute to the fantastic possibilities of the internet, (21 Sep 2011) |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT www.bestprice89.com The new, second edition of a (TA) book on writing textbooks offers advice on OA. "New topics include pricing solutions, market segmentation in scholarly publishing, academic self-publishing, digitization, open access, wiki-textbooks, and author-editor/ author-publisher relations...." |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:46 PM PDT digitalcommons.unl.edu "Zea E-Books is the digital [and OA] imprint of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Our goal is to publish academic works (books, journals, multimedia) by scholars who are affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln or are working on research already well defined at UNL. We are a new venture, starting in the fall of 2011; however, we are also a natural outgrowth of UNL’s successful Digital Commons [UNL's institutional repository]..., an enterprise which has been publishing electronic books for five years....Your work will be available online in an open-access format. UNL Libraries is committed to maintaining permanent online access to materials in the Digital Commons....Works are published under a non-exclusive permission to publish agreement....The authors retain ownership of all rights in the work, including copyright, and may publish elsewhere without limitation...." |
| Open Source Education for the 21st Century | Open Parenthesis Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:36 PM PDT |
| Librarians set sights on open access REF submissions Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:50 AM PDT www.researchresearch.com "The UK’s major research librarians are to intensify their pressure on publishers, funding agencies and policymakers to ensure that publicly-funded research is available in open access repositories, according to their strategic plan published earlier this week. Research Libraries UK, a network of libraries of the Russell Group universities and national libraries, has already warned journal publishers Wiley and Elsevier that they will not renew subscriptions at current prices. One of the aims of its three-year plan, published on 23 August, is “shaping ethical and effective publishing”. This includes extending “our well established commitment to support open access to research outputs”. Executive Director David Prosser said in a telephone interview with Research Fortnight Today that the group is in discussion with the Higher Education Funding Council for England to see if the rules for the Research Excellence Framework could include a requirement that papers submitted to the REF be made available in open access repositories. RLUK, he said, is also talking to research councils to see if their contracts with research grantees can be amended to ensure that all outputs are publicly available in addition to being available in a commercial journal...." |
| AsktheEU.org - Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:45 AM PDT |
| Science Publishing: What is to be done? « In the Dark Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:33 AM PDT |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:21 AM PDT river-valley.tv "The 3rd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) held at Tallinn, Estonia from September 21st to the 23rd...." |
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