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- Like its Harvard model, Princeton Open Access Policy needs to add immediate-deposit requirement, with no waiver option
- Collection de l’École française de Rome available Open Access
- Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus Copyright Claims
- THE 2011 EPT AWARD FOR INDIVIDUALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WORKING FOR OA
- Open-access R&D one answer to drug industry woes
- Digital Public Library of America “Beta Sprint” Review Panel Announces Results | Berkman Center
- U-M Library Orphan Works Project undaunted by lawsuit
- New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration. Cotsen Digital Archaeology Series 1 - Open Access (CC)
- Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative
- 316 Pictures for "Wiki loves monuments" - European Contest is over
- Access to scientific publications should be a...
- Will publishers respond positively to open access policies? | Higher Education Network | guardian.co.uk
- The ACM and me
- Wissensorganisation à la Open Source Wie die Open Knowledge Foundation freies Wissen fördert
- World Congress Adopts CAUT Motion
- Open Consultation Process on Overall Review of the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
- Six Provocations for Big Data, by Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford :: SSRN
- Global Right to Information Rating
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 07:14 AM PDT Open Access Archivangelism, (01 Oct 2011) The Princeton copyright-reservation policy, like the Harvard copyright-reservation policy, can be waived if the author wishes: This is to allow authors to retain the freedom to choose where to publish, even if the journal does not agree to the copyright-reservation. Adding an immediate-deposit clause, with no opt-out waiver option, retains all the properties and benefits of the copyright-reservation policy while ensuring that all articles are nevertheless deposited in the institutional repository upon publication, with no exceptions: Access to the deposited article can be embargoed, but deposit itself cannot; access is a copyright matter, deposit is not. Depositing all articles upon publication, without exception, is crucial to reaching 100% open access with certainty, and as soon as possible; hence it is the right example to set for the many other universities worldwide that are now contemplating emulating Harvard and Princeton by adopting open access policies of their own; copyright reservation alone, with opt-out, is not. The reason it is imperative that the deposit clause must be immediate and without a waiver option is that, without that, both when and whether articles are deposited at all is indeterminate: With the added deposit requirement the policy is a mandate; without it, it is just a gentleman/scholar's agreement. |
| Collection de l’École française de Rome available Open Access Posted: 01 Oct 2011 07:13 AM PDT |
| Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus Copyright Claims Posted: 01 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT |
| THE 2011 EPT AWARD FOR INDIVIDUALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WORKING FOR OA Posted: 01 Oct 2011 06:11 AM PDT epublishingtrust.blogspot.com "The Electronic Publishing Trust* is pleased to announce that it is launching an annual award for individuals in developing and transition countries** who have made significant advances to the cause of open access and the free exchange of research findings. Nominations are sought for the first such award. Individuals or organisations may nominate themselves or others....Nominations should be received by 30th November 2011...." |
| Open-access R&D one answer to drug industry woes Posted: 01 Oct 2011 05:54 AM PDT www.dawn.com "Drug companies are learning how to share. In a bid to save both time and money, some of the industry’s biggest names are experimenting with new ways to pool early-stage research, effectively taking a leaf out of the “open-source” manual that gave the world Linux software. If it takes off, the approach could break the mould of current drug research and speed the development of tomorrow’s life-saving medicines for diseases from cancer to autism. At the University of Oxford on Wednesday, two more companies – Pfizer and Eli Lilly – signed up for the first phase of the concept by joining existing backers GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis in an unusual public-private research partnership. As supporters of the international Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), the rivals give cash and scientific resources for work into the three-dimensional structure of proteins – important for drug discovery – even though all the findings are made available to scientists worldwide without restriction. In all, the SGC has secured $49 million in new funding.Next year, a far more ambitious scheme is slated to take cooperation to another level by promoting open-access, patent-free research right up to mid-stage “proof of concept” clinical trials, known as Phase II...." |
| Digital Public Library of America “Beta Sprint” Review Panel Announces Results | Berkman Center Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:05 PM PDT cyber.law.harvard.edu "The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee* has invited the creators of the following submissions to the DPLA Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meeting taking place on October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC: ...The six selected projects were invited on the basis of recommendations made by an independent review panel composed of public and research librarians and experts in the fields of library science and information management. The panel met in Cambridge, MA on September 18, 2011 to discuss the 38 final Beta Sprint submissions...." |
| U-M Library Orphan Works Project undaunted by lawsuit Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:02 PM PDT www.ur.umich.edu "The U-M Library continues to operate its nascent Orphan Works Project “because we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that support it.” That’s the position of University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Paul Courant, who also says that, contrary to some erroneous reports, the library is continuing its digitization efforts along with improving the orphan works identification process. “We have not changed our plans or activities in any way as a result of the Authors Guild lawsuit,” says Courant...." |
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| Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:26 PM PDT |
| 316 Pictures for "Wiki loves monuments" - European Contest is over Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:25 PM PDT |
| Access to scientific publications should be a... Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:24 PM PDT |
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| Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:32 PM PDT www.r6.ca "Let me make one thing clear from the beginning: it was the ACM’s choice to remove my publication from their workshop proceedings. I did nothing to stop them. In fact, by waiving my copyright, I made it extraordinarily easy for them to include my work in their proceedings if they wanted....In today’s world, transferring copyright is problematic for researchers like me. We want our papers as widely read as possible in order for them to be as influential as possible. Historically, the best way to do this was to have the paper published, because this would mean that copies of our work would end up getting disseminated to university libraries around the world. Publishing is not free, but in lieu of payment for publishing, we would transfer our copyright to the publisher. However, in today’s world the best way to have my paper widely read is to submit it to an online repository, such as the arXiv, where anyone with internet access can get instant access to my work. So as per my copyright policy, I uploaded my final version of my paper to the arXiv under a public domain dedication.... I always amend the copyright transfer agreement to make a note that I have already published my work under a public domain dedication and creative commons license and I am only transferring copyright to the extend possible (which I believe amounts to nothing). After mailing or faxing the amended copyright transfer agreement to the publisher, no publisher has yet refused to publish my work. They publish it after copy editing it, and stamp their own copyright on it. I find their copyright claim dubious; but I have no incentive to pursue the issue. With the ACM things are a little different...." |
| Wissensorganisation à la Open Source Wie die Open Knowledge Foundation freies Wissen fördert Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:58 AM PDT |
| World Congress Adopts CAUT Motion Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:36 AM PDT www.cautbulletin.ca "The 1,400 delegates attending the 6th World Congress of Education International in July unanimously passed a resolution introduced by CAUT [Canadian Association of University Teachers] calling for greater balance in global copyright rules....“By supporting this motion, you will make it clear our priority is to ensure all students, teachers and researchers across all sectors of education and in all parts of the world have better access to the learning materials they need and deserve,” [CAUT President Wayne Peters] also told delegates. The resolution was seconded by the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in Ghana....“In Ghana, the time to complete a PhD is rising mainly because students don’t have access to the library resources and research materials they need,” said [NAGRAT President Christian Addai-Poku]. “Libraries can’t afford books and journals and digital content on the Internet is increasingly locked up.” The CAUT resolution calls on EI [Education International] to advocate at the international level for a more balanced approach to copyright rules, one that respects the rights of owners but allows exemptions for non-commercial educational and research purposes." |
| Open Consultation Process on Overall Review of the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:18 AM PDT www.ungis.org "The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) outcome documents and the UN General Assembly Resolution 60/252 resolved to conduct an overall review of the implementation of the Summit outcomes in 2015. The ITU Plenipotentiary Resolution 172 (PP-10) on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the WSIS, including the possibility of holding a high-level event in 2014/2015 has requested ITU Secretary General to initiate the preparatory process at the UN Chief Executives Board (CEB). Consequently CEB tasked UNGIS to prepare, on the basis of an open consultation, an Action Plan to organize high-level meeting on the WSIS Review. The Action Plan would be presented to the CEB meeting in April 2012, and would take into consideration the strong support of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development served by UNCTAD...." |
| Six Provocations for Big Data, by Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford :: SSRN Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:17 AM PDT papers.ssrn.com Abstract: The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing information from Twitter, Google, Verizon, 23andMe, Facebook, Wikipedia, and every space where large groups of people leave digital traces and deposit data. Significant questions emerge. Will large-scale analysis of DNA help cure diseases? Or will it usher in a new wave of medical inequality? Will data analytics help make people’s access to information more efficient and effective? Or will it be used to track protesters in the streets of major cities? Will it transform how we study human communication and culture, or narrow the palette of research options and alter what ‘research’ means? Some or all of the above? This essay offers six provocations that we hope can spark conversations about the issues of Big Data. Given the rise of Big Data as both a phenomenon and a methodological persuasion, we believe that it is time to start critically interrogating this phenomenon, its assumptions, and its biases. |
| Global Right to Information Rating Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:15 AM PDT www.rti-rating.org "The results of the world's first rating of RTI [Right to Know] laws in 89 countries shows a significant spread: out of a possible total of 150 points, the range is from 37 points (Germany) to 135 points (Serbia). The vast majority of countries have a score over 60 out of 150 points (87% of countries have over 60 points). Europe overall accounts for 15 of the bottom 20....The analysis shows vast room for improvement: two thirds of countries (64%) scored in the middle range, between 60 and 100 points out of 150. Typical weaknesses were the limited scope, over-broad exceptions regimes, shortcomings in oversight and appeals mechanisms, and lack of legal requirements to promote awareness of the public's right of access to information. The top 20 countries with scores over 100 tend to be younger laws which reflect the progress made in international standard setting on this right in the past 20 years: with the exception of Finland (a score of 105 for a legal framework which includes a law adopted in 1951) the average age of the laws in the top 20 countries is just 5 years...." |
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