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- ARL Endorses the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
- What Problems Does Open Access Solve?
- Opening up Science: Towards an Agenda of Open Science in Industry and Academia
- Princeton University - University implementing open-access policy for faculty publications
- CTSA-IP: A Solution to Identifying and Aggregating Intellectual Property across the NIH Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium of Biomedical Research Institutes.
- IATUL 32nd Conference 2011, “Libraries for an Open Environment: Strategies, Technologies and Partnerships,” Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 29 May-2 June 2011
- Open Access Publishing with Drupal
- Library licensing and criminal law: The Aaron Swartz case
- Guest post: OA week buddies: putting the Repository at the centre of an institutional research information system « Repositories Support Project
- Presenting research findings to global audiences
- Open Access Success Stories
- Open Humanities Press publishes twenty-one open access Living Books About Life
- Country Statistics for SHERPA/RoMEO
- New JISC Collections ebook project: OAPEN-UK: OA scholarly monographs
- Physics: Broadening Our Reach
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals with Max Planck for OA
- Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation
- By championing open access publishing, the academic community can bring us closer to making research available to all.
- What’s All This Talk About “Open Access” Publishing? How Does it Affect Me? | In Plain Sight
- SNHU Creates Innovation Lab and Partners with Open Education Resources | Benzinga.com
- E-Learning Company Blackboard Bows To The Growing Power Of Openness Again | Techdirt
- Religion and Gender
- Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons: The Obviousness of Open Policy
- Crosstalk: The Meaning of 'Free' and 'Open'; Mobile Presentations - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- In Spite of Myself, I Cannot Fully Engage Open Science
- International Berlin 9 conference on Open Access to be held Nov. 9-10
- The Open Agenda at the University of Salford: Case Study (October 2011)
- Université de Liège - ORBi @ ULg
- Francia-Aufsätze und Rezensionen bei OLC-SSG Geschichte
| ARL Endorses the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:03 AM PDT Association of Research Libraries - Full Feed, (01 Nov 2011) "On November 1, 2011, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined over 300 organizations and institutions to endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities...." |
| What Problems Does Open Access Solve? Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:42 AM PDT DSHR's Blog, (29 Oct 2011) Edited full paper version of an invited talk at University of British Columbia during their Open Access Week event: I am impressed by the changes that the Open Access movement has already wrought in the system of research communication, and believe that there are more to come. Nevertheless, the system of research communication is dysfunctional in many ways. Open access can help with some of them, but it isn't a panacea, and it may make some problems worse. I thought it would be appropriate to ask "to what extent open access can help solve the problems with the current system?" To answer that question, we need to know what the problems are. My approach to identifying them was to look at how the system addresses the needs of the various interested parties: The general public, Researchers, Libraries, Publishers, Software Developers. I'll address each of these in turn, looking first at the problems and then at the extent to which open access addresses them. |
| Opening up Science: Towards an Agenda of Open Science in Industry and Academia Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:27 AM PDT 1st Berlin Symposium on Internet and Society, (26 Oct 2011) From a workshop session on Open Science http://berlinsymposium.org/session/open-science Abstract: The shift towards open innovation has substantially changed the scientific and practical perception of corporate innovation. While scientific studies on open innovation are burgeoning, present research underlies a business-centric view that has focused on the back-end of the innovation process. The impact and implications of open innovation on academic and industrial science at the very front- end of the innovation process have so far been neglected. Our paper presents a conceptualization of open science and research as a peculiarity under the roof of open innovation. We propose four perspectives, outline current trends, and present directions for future developments. |
| Princeton University - University implementing open-access policy for faculty publications Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:48 PM PDT www.princeton.edu "University administrators have begun implementing the new "open-access" policy approved this fall by Princeton faculty members to expand the public's access to their research....Administrators in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Office of the Provost and Princeton University Library are providing guidance to faculty members prior to article submission; have provided language for faculty to append to publishing contracts; and are exploring plans to build a repository for these articles. Administrators have also created an online form for faculty requesting waivers to the policy in individual cases in which a journal's copyright contract prevents republishing...." |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:37 PM PDT Clinical and translational science 4 (5), 328-31 (Oct 2011) Abstract: One of the objectives of the Consortium of Institutions with Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) is to enhance technology transfer among the CTSAs and with public and private sector partners. Clinical and Translational Sciences Award Intellectual Property (CTSA-IP; http://www.CTSAIP.org) is a web-based, open access IP search tool that aggregates and promotes technologies from member institutions of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) CTSAs consortium. Its ultimate aim is to stimulate collaborative research activity by encouraging the formation of public-private partnerships with CTSA institutions and the NIH. First launched in 2009, CTSA-IP has grown rapidly and met its first objectives of developing wide member institution participation and site usage. This communication will discuss the strategy employed in the initiative of aggregating IP across institutional boundaries, the promise that lies therein, as well as the challenges encountered and lessons learned in promoting CTSA-wide engagement. Clin Trans Sci 2011; Volume 4: 328-331. |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:36 PM PDT Library Hi Tech News 28 (8), 1 (2011) "The purpose of this paper is to report on the 32nd International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) Conference ["Libraries for an Open Environment: Strategies, Technologies and Partnerships"] held in Warsaw from 29 May to 2 June 2011.... The findings, comprising recaps of sessions, will hopefully attract other librarians to consider attending future IATUL conferences, or to take some of the suggestions mentioned about “openness” in general and apply them in their own libraries...." |
| Open Access Publishing with Drupal Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:32 PM PDT journal.code4lib.org Abstract: In January 2009, the Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) suspended publication of its print quarterly journal, Colorado Libraries, as a cost-saving measure in a time of fiscal uncertainty. Printing and mailing the journal to its 1300 members cost CAL more than $26,000 per year. Publication of the journal was placed on an indefinite hiatus until the editorial staff proposed an online, open access format a year later. The benefits to migrating to open access included: significantly lower costs; a green platform; instant availability of content; a greater level of access to users with disabilities; and a higher level of visibility of the journal and the association. The editorial staff chose Drupal, including the E-journal module, and while Drupal is notorious for its steep learning curve —which exacerbated delays to content that had been created before the publishing hiatus— the fourth electronic issue was published recently at coloradolibrariesjournal.org. This article will discuss both the benefits and challenges of transitioning to an open access model and the choice Drupal as a platform over other more established journal software options. |
| Library licensing and criminal law: The Aaron Swartz case Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:30 PM PDT Library licensing and criminal law College & Research Libraries News 72 (9), (01 Oct 2011) "The fact that both the prosecution and Swartz’s supporters can talk about the case with such superficial, and deeply incorrect, messages about libraries and licensed content, highlights the significant disparity between what our users understand our services to be, and what we agree to when we sign contracts for licensed resources...." |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:19 PM PDT rspproject.wordpress.com "This guest post is authored by Paul Stainthorp, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Lincoln. As announced last week, during October 2011 the RSP sponsored ten UK repository staff ‘buddy visits’ as part of our Open Access Week initiative. Further information available from here. Paul, Bev, and Melanie visited the University of Glasgow...." |
| Presenting research findings to global audiences Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:17 PM PDT www.eurekalert.org "An English-language platform has been published online to coincide with [OA Week]: www.oastories.org. Commissioned by the Knowledge Exchange network...the platform presents portraits of projects alongside interviews with representatives of initiatives from eleven participating countries, showing how a variety of participants have benefited from the publication of research findings on Open Access platforms...." |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:15 PM PDT www.oastories.org "From researchers whose work has made waves across the world, to repositories that have given a nation’s research a foothold in the international scientific community, all the stories on this site bear testament to the power of open access. They range across Europe, across disciplines and across stakeholders but all share a common core value – that access to freely available research online can change lives and, perhaps, change the world....This site will be updated with new stories until at least the end of 2011 so keep checking back. Got your own open access success story? Share it! This work has been funded by Knowledge Exchange and the stories have been researched and written by Michelle Pauli...." |
| Open Humanities Press publishes twenty-one open access Living Books About Life Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:12 PM PDT groups.google.com "The pioneering open access humanities publishing initiative, Open Humanities Press (OHP)..., is pleased to announce the release of 21 open access books in its series Living Books About Life. Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and edited by Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall, Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers and editors, the books in the series repackage existing open access science research by clustering it around selected topics whose unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology....These ‘books about life’ are themselves ‘living’, in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers...." |
| Country Statistics for SHERPA/RoMEO Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:09 PM PDT groups.google.com "SHERPA Services is pleased to announce that it has added a 'country' field to its database of publishers' copyright and self-archiving policies. This has enabled us to generate a statistical table of the number of RoMEO-listed publishers by country and continent....'Country' has also been added to the Advanced Search options for publishers...." |
| New JISC Collections ebook project: OAPEN-UK: OA scholarly monographs Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:07 PM PDT groups.google.com "As part of Open Access Week I would like to introduce you to a new eBooks research project that JISC Collections are running. It is called OAPEN-UK and over the next three years will be exploring open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. It is joint funded by JISC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). OAPEN-UK is a collaborative research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders make informed decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). The usage and sales of 60 titles matched into pairs by publication date, subject area, age to print sales ratio, price and format history will be studied. A title from each pair has been randomly placed in either the Experimental Group or the Control Group...." |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:04 PM PDT groups.google.com "Physics, a free online publication from APS [American Physical Society], announces a new layout for the website and welcomes Physical Review Focus (now simply Focus) into its weekly content...." |
| Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals with Max Planck for OA Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:01 PM PDT groups.google.com "Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) and the German Max Planck Society (MPS) announced today that they have signed an agreement whereby open access publication fees for BQFJ journals articles will be paid directly out of a fund supporting researchers from the Max Planck Institutes...." |
| Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:59 AM PDT groups.google.com "The [European] Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and make it available through Europeana. In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to: [1] put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation and foster public-private partnerships to share the gigantic cost of digitisation (recently estimated at 100 billion EUR)....[2] make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015, including all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by copyright, and all material digitised with public funding...." |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:55 AM PDT Impact of Social Sciences, (28 Oct 2011) "To mark the 5th annual Open Access Week (24-29th October 2011), LSE’s own Open Access service presents our top 5 tips for researchers wanting to harness the possibilities that Open Access publishing can bring: [1] Make sure your institution’s Open Access service has references for all of your work, and deposit as much full-text as you can. [2] Ask your Open Access service for download and viewing statistics of your work, and how Open Access can affect your H-index. [3] Check what your Open Access support is offered by your research funders (for example the Wellcome Trust). [4] Find out if your institution has an Open Access fund that could pay your publisher to make your work Open Access. [5] Protect your copyright – question why you transfer your copyright to publishers of your work...." |
| What’s All This Talk About “Open Access” Publishing? How Does it Affect Me? | In Plain Sight Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:51 AM PDT |
| SNHU Creates Innovation Lab and Partners with Open Education Resources | Benzinga.com Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:51 AM PDT www.benzinga.com "Aspiring to be higher education's leading player in disruptive change, Southern New Hampshire University launched the Innovation Lab – an initiative to deliver a radically different model for teaching and learning. “SNHU is looking to re-envisage and reinvent what has been accepted since the late 19th century as the default model for higher education,” said the Innovation Lab's Leader for Learning Development Kevin Bell. “The Lab's charge is to stimulate innovative ways to provide greater access to a college education and completion,” Building on online division's transformative growth, SNHU's nationally recognized ideas – the SNHU Advantage program, their work with College Unbound and research into new models of teaching and learning, now have a home in the Lab. The Lab's first tangible venture is a commitment to become a leader in the field of OpenCourseWare or Open Educational Resources (OER). These are openly available, web-based materials that, if organized and structured with an institution's support and assessment systems, could open college education to a part of the population for whom it was always unaffordable and inaccessible...." |
| E-Learning Company Blackboard Bows To The Growing Power Of Openness Again | Techdirt Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:50 AM PDT |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:39 AM PDT www.religionandgender.org Religion and Gender is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from Igitur - Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services. |
| Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons: The Obviousness of Open Policy Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:35 AM PDT www.surfsites.nl "At the Open Education 2011 Conference Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, spoke about The Obviousness of Open Policy: public access to publicly funded resources. The Internet, increasingly affordable computing, open licensing, open access journals and open educational resources provide the foundation for a world in which a quality education can be a basic human right...." |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:32 AM PDT chronicle.com "After recent announcements from Pearson and Blackboard that emphasized that their products were “free” and “open,” some observers responded by accusing the vendors of spouting marketing hype. But Michael Feldstein at e-Literate writes that the two companies’ approaches are actually quite different and should be evaluated more carefully...." |
| In Spite of Myself, I Cannot Fully Engage Open Science Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:31 AM PDT opensciencekentucky.blogspot.com "Here is where I find myself conflicted: I like the notion of Open Science a lot but I am not in any position to make a concerted effort to forwarding the movement. Instead I must navigate the current system in all its faults because I want to make myself a strong candidate for a competitive residency spot. It’s doubtful the head of most any university department would value blogging data points to the masses as equal to the trusted standard of scientific publishing, no matter how progressive he or she was. I must continue my endeavors to receive a ‘first authorship’ and get published in the current system because I cannot choose, in the basic ecologic model, to spurn available resources because it will indirectly offer advantages to my competitors. The peer-review system is flawed, but we are ensconced in decorum not soon to change without appropriate catalysts...." |
| International Berlin 9 conference on Open Access to be held Nov. 9-10 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:13 AM PDT Berlin 9 Open Access Conference 2011 - Full Feed, (31 Oct 2011) "Leaders from science, humanities, research, funding, and policy communities will gather for the Berlin conference on November 9 and 10. This ninth installment in the prestigious international series will be the first to be held in North America. It is designed to address the unique considerations of the North-American community in exploring the transformative impact that open, online access to research can have on scholarship, scientific discovery, and the translation of resulting benefits to the public...." |
| The Open Agenda at the University of Salford: Case Study (October 2011) Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT www.jisc.ac.uk "In this case study, I show how the decision to launch an Open Access repository – now increasingly common place in universities in Britain and elsewhere – is part of a broader strategic decision to adopt “openness” as an organisational concept at the University of Salford. I talk about new ways of working that take advantage of the benefits of Open Access to research outputs, open curriculum content, open innovation and – in the future – new protocols for Open Access to data...." |
| Université de Liège - ORBi @ ULg Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:00 AM PDT www.ulg.ac.be "Since 2008 the University of Liège has been equipped with its open institutional repository and bibliography, better known by the name of ORBi. Inscribing itself within the philosophy of Open Access, ORBi has since passed the benchmark of 1,000 downloads a day of the integral texts of research publications. A success for the researchers as well as for democracy...." |
| Francia-Aufsätze und Rezensionen bei OLC-SSG Geschichte Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:57 AM PDT Digital Humanities am DHIP, (31 Oct 2011) From Google's English: "In collaboration with the Head Office of the GBV in Göttingen, the Library of DHIP an additional database verification and full-text access to journal articles and reviews of "Francia: Research on the history of Western Europe"....Francia is the only German historical journal, dedicated to the history of Western Europe. All appeared a total of 8102 in the Francia since its founding in 1973, essays and reviews are now available not only in the Common Library Network catalog, but also in the database for bibliographical research OLC-SSG history (Online Contents-Special Subject Collection history) was added, and with Link to full text articles and reviews. The database evaluates a total of approximately 963 journals in the field of history retrospectively, usually until the appearance in 1993. She is free in Germany over the libraries usually accessible only through subscription facilities abroad...." |
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