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- Open access to scholarly research
- The Balance Point: Libraries as Journal Publishers
- The Balance Point: Libraries as Journal Publishers
- innocomm Research Center, Mission Statement
- Qatar Launches New Global Award to Promote Education
- J&J neuroscience head urges pooling of brain R&D - MarketWatch
- Smart publishers love Amazon
- Datenschutzrechtliche Bewertung von Nutzungsdaten
- The cost of closed data & the economics of open data
- JSTOR for Life
- Knowledge Sharing Among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives by James Bessen, Alessandro Nuvolari :: SSRN
- Robert Darnton on eBooks, Google Books, DPLA...
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals launches International Review of Law
- Digital Public Library of America Plenary Meeting
- The Open Science: the OAI7 Workshop in Geneva (Switzerland) – June 2011
- Scholarly impact measurements of LIS open access journals: based on citations and links
- Automated construction of the user interface for a CERIF-compliant research management system
- Developing an institutional repository using DigiTool
- Official launch of Open Biology
| Open access to scholarly research Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:06 AM PDT www.fmreview.org Undated but apparently new. Excerpt: "As of mid 2011, none of the existing established scholarly journals with an exclusive focus on forced migration is open access. However, in early 2011, the online Journal of Internal Displacement and student-edited Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (OxMo) were both launched as open access. Researchers who prefer to continue publishing with familiar journals in their field can opt for self-archiving...." |
| The Balance Point: Libraries as Journal Publishers Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:02 AM PDT Abstract: Increasing library involvement in journal hosting and publishing is an important topic for serialists. This installment of “The Balance Point” column presents articles that offer descriptions and analyses of the current state of ideas and activities related to libraries as publishers. Featured authors discuss the publishing and journal hosting tasks libraries can perform, programs and activities related to journal hosting, titles hosted, challenges, next steps and the benefits or drawbacks foreseen in the current paths of the libraries they represent. |
| The Balance Point: Libraries as Journal Publishers Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:15 AM PDT YorkSpace Institutional Repository, (Sep 2011) In Serials Review, Volume 37, Issue 3, 196-204. Abstract: Increasing library involvement in journal hosting and publishing is an important topic for serialists. This installment of “The Balance Point” column presents articles that offer descriptions and analyses of the current state of ideas and activities related to libraries as publishers. Featured authors discuss the publishing and journal hosting tasks libraries can perform, programs and activities related to journal hosting, titles hosted, challenges, next steps and the benefits or drawbacks foreseen in the current paths of the libraries they represent. |
| innocomm Research Center, Mission Statement Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:37 PM PDT www.innocomm.eu "The innocomm Research Center investigates and develops solutions for internal and external communication both in research and innovation processes of companies and academic institutions. We focus on teh diffusion of research results in markets and society. The Research Center profits from an inter- and transdisciplinary think-tank in the form of a scientific Board of Trustees, consisting of nine academic institutions so far. Innocomm is constructed as a network and mainly virtual enterprise in the so-called third sector (besides the for-profit and the non-profit sectors)....Formats of knowledge production and transfer of knowledge are changing through new information and communication technologies. Communication between science, economics, politics and society is changing faster than ever. While the understanding of scientific topics has increased over the last few decades, it seems the social interest in science has deteriorated. In this context science communication has had to reinvent itself several times....[From the Research page:] Networking and communication within science are currently experiencing fundamental changes, especially through the advent of interactive media whose very developments are still at the beginning...." |
| Qatar Launches New Global Award to Promote Education Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:29 PM PDT INTER PRESS SERVICE, (17 Oct 2011) "The Qatar Foundation, presided over by the country's First Lady Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, has stepped in to create the world's first major international prize for education - one of the highest priorities of the U.N.'s eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which call for universal primary education by 2015. The new prize will reward an individual - or a team of up to six individuals working together - for an outstanding contribution in the field of education in a world dominated by digital technology - and inhabited by nearly 800 million illiterate people....While the Nobel prize winners receive a gold medal, plus 1.0 million to 1.4 million dollars (depending on the annual income of the Nobel Foundation), the Qatari award amounts to half a million dollars in prize money and a gold medal...." |
| J&J neuroscience head urges pooling of brain R&D - MarketWatch Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:23 PM PDT www.marketwatch.com "A top scientist from Johnson & Johnson is in Europe this week to urge pharmaceutical companies, academia and governments there to join a U.S. initiative to combine research efforts to better understand and battle brain disease, one of the most devastating illnesses facing mankind. Husseini Manji, J&J's global therapeutic area head for neuroscience, has arranged meetings in London and Brussels to promote a new initiative called "One Mind for Research". ...Brain disorders represent 35% of the total disease burden in Europe, according to a report published in the European Neurological Review. But costly failures in late-stage drug trials have persuaded some companies including the U.K.'s GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca to close down their research activities into a range of brain diseases such as depression, given the scientific uncertainties in the field and the problems in finding new advances....Launched in May and backed by former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy, "One Mind for Research" aims to build a global network and data repository of all relevant imaging, genome, and patient records. The initiative wants to pool early stage assets and neuroscience insight to find cures for brain disorders....The key part of the plan is to have open access at the early stages of R&D. "Some of it would be completely open so that the data generated is available to everyone to benefit from. This would pertain to what we call pre-competitive research....There's no question that different companies are sometimes duplicating effort...," said Manji, who worked at the National Institutes of Health before joining J&J. "Our knowledge base and data are largely siloed, and incentives for research and collaboration are lacking. We're going to learn a lot more about these diseases by breaking down the silos than we would have working in isolation." ..." |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:58 AM PDT STweM, (14 Oct 2011) "Mainstream scholarly publishing is a shameful, protectionist racket that is standing in the way of the advancement of scholarly communications. It’s hard to read the sort of carefully crafted, passionately delivered, obstinate and reactionary diatribes that mouthpieces for the status quo such as the Scholarly Kitchen turn out without thinking ‘really, isn’t this all about you protecting your means of paying your mortgage?’. In these straitened times, that is entirely understandable. However, let us not be brow-beaten by muscular rhetorical gestures into accepting any truth other than the fact that subscription-driven, rights-hoarding scholarly publishers are primarily concerned with their own financial interests rather than facilitating the evolution of scholarly communications. The future of scholarly communications will be PLoS-shaped, and built of Open Access. That’s all there is to say...." |
| Datenschutzrechtliche Bewertung von Nutzungsdaten Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:25 AM PDT |
| The cost of closed data & the economics of open data Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:18 AM PDT |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:12 AM PDT Inside Higher Ed, (17 Oct 2011) "Yale is the latest of 19 institutions to provide unlimited access to JSTOR to alumni through the archive’s Alumni Access pilot, which it opened with little fanfare in 2009. The pilot grew out of little more than speculation and a sense that offering perpetual access to the popular library resource could be a boon for the colleges’ alumni relations and generate a little extra money for JSTOR. (The initial price is 10 percent more than the institutions’ existing content license.) Now, with two full years of usage data under their belts, some colleges are finding that even though many alumni no longer have to write scholarly papers after they graduate, some still enjoy being able to read them...." |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:09 AM PDT papers.ssrn.com Abstract: This chapter documents instances from past centuries where inventors freely shared knowledge of their innovations with other inventors. It is widely believed that such knowledge sharing is a recent development, as in Open Source Software. Our survey shows, instead, that innovators have long practiced “collective invention” at times, including inventions in such key technologies as steam engines, iron, steel, and textiles. Generally, innovator behavior was substantially richer than the heroic portrayal often found in textbooks and museums. Knowledge sharing promoted innovation, sometimes coexisting with patents, at other times, not, suggesting that policy should foster both knowledge sharing and invention incentives. |
| Robert Darnton on eBooks, Google Books, DPLA... Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:07 AM PDT |
| Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals launches International Review of Law Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:54 AM PDT AMEinfo.com | Qatar Foundation, (17 Oct 2011) "Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) today announced the launch of International Review of Law on QScience.com...." |
| Digital Public Library of America Plenary Meeting Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:49 AM PDT |
| The Open Science: the OAI7 Workshop in Geneva (Switzerland) – June 2011 Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:45 AM PDT Library Hi Tech News 28 (7), 1 (2011) Abstract: The workshop is aimed at those involved in the development of open access (OA) repositories and who can influence the direction of developments either within their institution, their country or at an international level....The University of Geneva and CERN held the 7th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7) from 22 June 2011 to 24 June 2011 in the beautiful city of Calvin and Rousseau, in the heart of the Alps and close to the worldwide famous Lake of Geneva. It has been several years that the University of Geneva and CERN co-organized the workshop, which became a “must to be” in the science profession. Some figures: several hundred of the participants coming mostly from Western countries, more than 30 papers and ten tutorials; and some famous sponsors such as UNESCO, SPARC Europe, ExLibris, Microsoft Research and Springer, etc. The OAI7 Workshop followed the successful format of previous workshops mixing practical tutorials, presentations from cutting-edge projects and research, discussion groups, posters, and an intense social programme to maximise interaction and communication. Previous workshops have built a strong community spirit and the event is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and contact details with the wide range of people connected to the OA movement. The OAI series of workshops is one of the biggest international meetings in this field and takes place roughly every two years....Ownership, copyright, cost, new developments, OA publishing, e-research, data curation, research funding and institutional repositories can all be linked to OA. In this context it makes more sense, can play a bigger role, and eventually become a feature of local scholarship practice.... |
| Scholarly impact measurements of LIS open access journals: based on citations and links Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:41 AM PDT The Electronic Library 29 (5), 682 (2011) Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to measure the scholarly impact of LIS (Library and Information Science) open access journals (OA journals), most of which are not indexed by the Web of Science (WoS). In addition, the paper seeks to discuss measurement methods beyond citation analysis....The study selected 97 LIS OA journals as a sample and measured their scholarly impact on the basis of citations and links. The citation counts in WoS, coverage in LISA, Web links, WIFs and Page Rank of the journals are retrieved and calculated, and correlations between citation counts, links, pages, WIFs, and Page Rank are also analyzed....The results indicate that LIS OA journals have become a significant component of the scholarly communication system. The Journal of the Medical Library Association enjoys the highest citation counts in WoS. This journal, together with D-Lib Magazine, Information Research, Ariadne, Cybermetrics, and First Monday are the six most important LIS OA journals. With regard to coverage in LISA, Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France (2151) performs best. As a whole, the Page Rank is relatively high, mostly at 6, 7, or 8. The study finds that correlation between citation-based measurements and link-based measurements tends to be significant....This paper uses the web as a global resource to measure the impact of LIS OA journals by analyzing citation, coverage, web links and Page Rank.... |
| Automated construction of the user interface for a CERIF-compliant research management system Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:37 AM PDT The Electronic Library 29 (5), 565 (2011) Abstract: This paper aims to examine the goal, which is to construct a user interface for CERIF-compatible research management systems in an automated way. The system has to support all data items defined by the CERIF data model. The result of the automated construction is a functioning software system that can be customised according to the specific needs by manual changes in the program code....A proposal of an automated user interface construction method for CERIF-compatible research management systems is defined. The proposed application enables the management of all CERIF-specified data items and facilitates the customisation of the model according to the specific needs....The proposed method for automated user interface construction is used for implementing the web application for research management at the University of Novi Sad.... |
| Developing an institutional repository using DigiTool Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:30 AM PDT The Electronic Library 29 (5), 589 (2011) Abstract: This paper aims to inform library professionals on technical issues relating to implementing and using DigiTool, proprietary software by Ex Libris, to develop an institutional repository (IR)....This paper describes Colorado State University Libraries' experience to date in developing an IR using DigiTool. Topics discussed are based on the processes and workflows, and include local customization; metadata and object ingest; implementation of handles; incorporation with web discovery; and management of statistical data....The DigiTool, a powerful, complex, and relatively mature out-of-box IR platform that fulfils one's needs to establish and maintain an IR, is considered.... |
| Official launch of Open Biology Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:06 AM PDT groups.google.com "The Royal Society today celebrates the official launch of *Open Biology*, a brand new open access journal covering research in cellular and molecular aspects of biology. It is the Society’s first wholly open access and online-only journal...." |
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