Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- The Digital Death of Copyright's First Sale Doctrine
- Fool's Gold Journal Spam
- Open Access Doubts (and Reassurances)
- Addressing legal barriers in sharing of research data
- Can “Responsible Conduct of Research” include publishing science via blogs?
- Taylor & Francis Group widens Open Access offerings | 4-Traders
- Making 'Research in Learning Technology' Open Access.
- SciTechSociety: Open Access Doubts
- Michael Nielsen on Networked Science - WSJ.com
- Open Access Africa: Spreading Knowledge, Increasing Collaboration
- Forschungsergebnisse weltweit sichtbar machen
- Will digital scholarship ever keep up?
- Asterisk Scholarship: A Dystopic View on Digital Research - BLOG - SFJ
| The Digital Death of Copyright's First Sale Doctrine Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:58 AM PDT freedom-to-tinker.com "The first sale doctrine is the provision in copyright law that gives the purchaser of a copy of a copyrighted work the right to sell or otherwise dispose of that copy without the permission of the copyright owner. If there were no first sale doctrine, there would be no free market for used books, CDs, or DVDs, because the copyright owner's right of distribution would reach beyond the first sale, all the way down the stream of commerce. Without the first sale doctrine, movie rental services like Netflix and Redbox wouldn't be able to lend DVDs without authorization from studios, and you wouldn't be able to lend the bestseller you just finished to a friend without authorization from the book's author or publisher....As the transition from physical to streaming or cloud-based digital distribution continues, further divorcing copyrighted works from their traditional tangible embodiments, it will increasingly be the case that consumers do not own the information goods they buy (or, rather, think they've bought). Under the court's decision in [Vernor v. Autodesk], all a copyright owner has to do to effectively repeal the statutory first sale doctrine is draft a EULA that (1) specifies that the user is granted a license; (2) significantly restricts the user's ability to transfer the software; and (3) imposes notable use restrictions. Sad to say, it's about as easy as falling off a log...." |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2011 10:04 PM PDT Open Access Archivangelism, (30 Oct 2011) Not only is it regrettable that OA is unthinkingly identified in most people's minds with gold OA publishing in general, but a growing spate of relentless fool's-gold junk-OA spamming in particular is now coalescing with that misconception -- and at the same time more and more universities and funders are reaching into their scarce funds to pay for this kind of thing, thinking this is the way to provide OA. Meanwhile, green OA mandates, the real solution, are still hovering at about 200 out of about 10,000 (2%!)... |
| Open Access Doubts (and Reassurances) Posted: 29 Oct 2011 03:27 PM PDT Open Access Archivangelism, (29 Oct 2011) Eric Van de Velde's doubts about OA are based on conflating the journal affordability problem with the research accessibility problem. |
| Addressing legal barriers in sharing of research data Posted: 29 Oct 2011 02:44 PM PDT www.knowledge-exchange.info "Report on legal status of research data in the Knowledge Exchange partner countries provides clarity by analysing the intellectual property regimes and European database law and offering recommendations. It is difficult for researchers and those supporting them to understand how open access to research data can be legally obtained and re-used. This is due to the fact that European and national laws vary and researchers work across national boundaries. A possible approach to providing clarity would be that researchers assign a licence to their data. This practice could be incorporated in a code of conduct for researchers. This is one of the recommendations from the report ‘The legal status of research data in the Knowledge Exchange partner countries’ which was commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (KE) and written by the Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER). The aim of the report was to provide clarity by analysing the intellectual property regimes in the four KE countries and European database law. Moreover, the report provides three recommendations to achieve better access: making contractual arrangements with authors, harmonisation of European copyright law and setting up of policies on commercial interests. Licence for re-use to be included in code of conduct On 9 September the findings of the report were discussed in Brussels with national legal experts and representatives from the European Commission. In the discussion a waiver or licence for researchers was considered to be most likely to be adopted. This could also be incorporated in a code of conduct for researchers. The discussion revealed that joint publicly and privately funded research poses a complex challenge as this requires balancing the interests of public funding and those of private companies. Harmonisation of copyright law was considered a very complex matter and not feasible in the short term...." |
| Can “Responsible Conduct of Research” include publishing science via blogs? Posted: 29 Oct 2011 02:43 PM PDT |
| Taylor & Francis Group widens Open Access offerings | 4-Traders Posted: 29 Oct 2011 01:49 PM PDT www.4-traders.com "Taylor & Francis Group is marking Open Access week by announcing a range of new Open Access journals and an enhancement of their current Open Access programme for 2012. These initiatives will encompass publications from across the range of science, social and behavioural sciences and humanities subjects. Taylor & Francis' current iOpenAccess option will be renamed for 2012 as Taylor & Francis Open Select and will continue to give authors and their sponsors the option of making their articles available on Open Acess to all for a publication fee. This initiative has been running since 2006 and currently encompasses 500 titles from across Taylor & Francis Group's extensive portfolio. In addition, three cutting-edge titles currently available on a subscription basis will be converted to full Open Access for 2012. The digital archives of these titles will also be made Open Access. These titles - Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Smart and Nano Materials - publish significant research in their fields and have author communities with a strong interest in publishing research in an Open Access model. Taylor & Francis will also be launching Taylor & Francis Open. This initiative will cover all our fully Open Access titles. One important part of this initiative is a new series of fully Open Access titles from 2012 in major subject areas. These titles will offer rapid online publication of methodologically sound research which will be subject to rigorous peer review. The journals will have affordable article publication fees, with discounts or fee waivers for emergent countries...." |
| Making 'Research in Learning Technology' Open Access. Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:55 PM PDT Abstract: Presentation given during the session "The experience of two journals in making a transition to open access". |
| SciTechSociety: Open Access Doubts Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:18 PM PDT scitechsociety.blogspot.com "All else being equal, open is better than closed. But… all else is not equal...." |
| Michael Nielsen on Networked Science - WSJ.com Posted: 29 Oct 2011 06:54 AM PDT online.wsj.com "Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science. We may well see the day-to-day process of scientific research change more fundamentally over the next few decades than over the past three centuries. But there are major obstacles to realizing this goal. Though you might think that scientists would aggressively adopt new tools for discovery, they have been surprisingly inhibited. Ventures such as the Polymath Project remain the exception, not the rule. Consider the idea of sharing scientific data online. The best-known example of this is the human genome project, whose data may be downloaded by anyone. When you read in the news that a certain gene is associated with a particular disease, you're almost certainly seeing a discovery made possible by the project's open-data policy. Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists....If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science. But how to get there? ...The scientific community itself needs to have an energetic, ongoing conversation about the value of these new tools. We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from "real" work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science...." |
| Open Access Africa: Spreading Knowledge, Increasing Collaboration Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:53 PM PDT |
| Forschungsergebnisse weltweit sichtbar machen Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:31 PM PDT |
| Will digital scholarship ever keep up? Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT 2b2k Will digital scholarship ever keep up Joho the Blog, (26 Oct 2011) |
| Asterisk Scholarship: A Dystopic View on Digital Research - BLOG - SFJ Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:25 PM PDT |
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