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- The impact of open access journals on library and information scientists' research in Taiwan / Mei-Ling Wang - UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA Digital Repository
- Mircosoft Research is now Open Data
- Is PLoS ONE Slowing Down?
- Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Europe is committed to supporting New Technologies Intel Ireland Leixlip
- T. Scott: The Economics of Open Access
- Searching open access scholarly publishing
- Quo vadis Open Access?
- Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? | Hack Education
- Nature, Whiskey and me
- Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab
- Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law by Jason Mazzone
- Panton Principles » Translations
- THE FAIR USE BATTLE FOR SCHOLARLY WORKS
- RF11 presentations and videos » Repository Fringe 2011
- Open Bibliography for Science, Technology, and Medicine
| Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:46 AM PDT eprints.ptar.uitm.edu.my Abstract: As some library and information science (LIS) journals in Taiwan are open access, the aim of the study is to investigate what, if any, impact open access journals have on library and information science scholars‘ research in Taiwan. Therefore, the objectives of the study is to explore the scholarly productivity of LIS scholars in Taiwan, to find out what articles they publish and OA articles as a percentage of all titles, and to calculate the mean citation rate of open access articles and articles not freely available online. A bibliometric method was used in the study. To determine whether a difference in research impact existed, two research impact indicators were used, that is, open access articles as a percentage of all published titles and mean citation rate of open access articles and those not freely available online. Data on published articles with citation counts by the LIS scholars in Taiwan from 2000 to 2009 was collected from the ACI Database and Social Science Citation Index Database. The study shows that for 72 LIS scholars who were subjects of the investigation, 64 of them had published 745 articles within the previous ten years: 679 articles in Chinese and 66 articles in English; 499 of these were OA articles, and 264 were non-OA articles; OA articles constituted 66.98% of the total number of academic articles. The mean citation rate of OA versus non-OA article citation was 1.29.Analysis of impact indicators shows that open access journals have an impact on the research of LIS scholars in Taiwan, in particular, LIS OA journals have more research impact in Chinese than those in English. |
| Mircosoft Research is now Open Data Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:42 AM PDT .NET Rumbles, (12 Oct 2011) "So how can you...[learn] more about Microsoft Research...? Simple, through the phenomenon of Open Data For Open Web a.k.a OData. Microsoft has released what they call it as “RMC OData”. Yes the Research at Microsoft.com is now made available as OData. Here is the URL for the same: http://odata.research.microsoft.com/ What is RMC OData – you may ask. Here is the official description of this service: 'RMC OData is a queryable version of research.microsoft.com (RMC) data, produced in the OData protocol (see odata.org for more information about the OData protocol). RMC data provides metadata about assets currently published on research.microsoft.com, such as publications, projects, and downloads....' " |
| Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:37 AM PDT The Scholarly Kitchen, (07 Oct 2011) "Sample data comparing speed between 2006 and 2011 suggest that PLoS ONE is slowing down significantly. Taking 10 articles published at the end of September 2011 and their times between submission and acceptance, acceptance to publication, and then overall (submission to publication), then comparing these to 10 articles published at the end of 2006, the data indicate a significant slowdown in every aspect of PLoS ONE’s process...." |
| Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:32 AM PDT www.iewy.com From Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Europe, at the dedication of a new Intel facility in Ireland. "[W]e will also focus on the wider dissemination of information on the results of publicly-funded research. By promoting the practice of “open access”, the academic and industrial research communities can gain free-of-charge access to scientific publications and reports. In 2008, the Commission launched the Open Access Pilot in the Seventh Framework Programme which covers around 20% of the FP7 budget and applies to seven research areas. This will be expanded in Horizon 2020...." |
| T. Scott: The Economics of Open Access Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:27 AM PDT tscott.typepad.com "[A]ll of the evidence is that the big publishers have simply adapted OA publishing models and are as strong and dominant as ever. Certainly the state of library budgets hasn't improved any in the last decade....If publishers add no value, as the anonymous Deutsche Bank analyst proclaims, isn't PLoS just as immoral as Elsevier? Shouldn't we be just as outraged? ..." |
| Searching open access scholarly publishing Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:22 AM PDT Monographer's Blog, (16 Oct 2011) "COnnecting REpositories (CORE) is a project designed to make access to scholarly material archived in open access repositories. It has developed a search engine specifically for this purpose....I’ve tested the search engine by using it to explore a field with which I’m familiar, namely creative writing. I was impressed by the results...." |
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| Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? | Hack Education Posted: 15 Oct 2011 02:53 PM PDT www.hackeducation.com "When students, teachers, parents and administrators were surveyed late last year by Project Tomorrow, one of the greatest barriers to technology usage at school that students listed: filtering. 71% of high school students and 62% of middle school students said that the most important thing their school could do to make it easier for them to use technology would be to allow them greater access to the websites they need...." |
| Posted: 15 Oct 2011 02:51 PM PDT partiallyattended.com "This topic came up late one evening at coasp and I ended up making a bet with Matias Piipari. I bet that within 10 years Nature would become a fully open access journal. I win three fine bottles of scotch. The date that the bet matures on Wed Sep 22, 2021...." |
| Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab Posted: 15 Oct 2011 01:50 PM PDT ...My heart's in Accra, (12 Oct 2011) "As an example of how networked knowledge might work, [Joi Ito, new director of the MIT Media Lab] talks about his work with Safecast, a networked response to the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami and the Fukushima crisis. As Joi was interviewing at the Media Lab, the disaster unfolded, and Joi found himself at the center of an international network that involved academics, nuclear scientists, hardware designers, data visualization experts and others. Collectively, they’ve developed low-cost geiger counters which are mounted on cars and driven around Japan collecting massive sets of data. They can now demonstrate that there’s more radiation in areas outside the exclusion zone than within it, raising complicated questions about the political decisions around moving people from the areas near the reactor. There are some important lessons learned from the project. Open data matters – Joi’s team publishes all their data under CC-0, meaning it can be very widely shared...." |
| Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law by Jason Mazzone Posted: 15 Oct 2011 12:18 PM PDT |
| Panton Principles » Translations Posted: 15 Oct 2011 10:17 AM PDT pantonprinciples.org Constantinescu Nicolaie translated the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science into Romanian. |
| THE FAIR USE BATTLE FOR SCHOLARLY WORKS Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:37 AM PDT wac.colostate.edu "Among the possible strategies that faculty can pursue to extend public access to work and even the playing field with corporate interests that control copyright, the most significant are publishing in open-access journals and participating in university institutional repositories (IRs). The open-access (OA) movement has been building for about two decades, but has expanded dramatically in the past 5 years or so....Faculty have to assert their rights to pursue their research despite corporate attempts to shut them down. Jane Caputi, Sut Jhally, Carol Shloss, Steven Vander Ark, and the advocacy groups that support them remind us how important it is to push back. Paul Ginsparg, Stephen Harnad, and Peter Suber offer strategies for us to push forward...." |
| RF11 presentations and videos » Repository Fringe 2011 Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT |
| Open Bibliography for Science, Technology, and Medicine Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT 7thspace.com "The concept of Open Bibliography in science, technology and medicine (STM) is introduced as a combination of Open Source tools, Open specifications and Open bibliographic data. An Openly searchable and navigable network of bibliographic information and associated knowledge representations, a Bibliographic Knowledge Network, across all branches of Science, Technology and Medicine, has been designed and initiated. For this large scale endeavour, the engagement and cooperation of the multiple stakeholders in STM publishing - authors, librarians, publishers and administrators - is sought.BibJSON, a simple structured text data format (informed by BibTex, Dublin Core, PRISM and JSON) suitable for both serialisation and storage of large quantities of bibliographic data is presented. BibJSON, and companion bibliographic software systems BibServer and OpenBiblio promote the quantity and quality of Openly available bibliographic data, and encourage the development of improved algorithms and services for processing the wealth of information and knowledge embedded in bibliographic data across all fields of scholarship.Major providers of bibliographic information have joined in promoting the concept of Open Bibliography and in working together to create prototype nodes for the Bibliographic Knowledge Network...." |
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