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- Share Open Access Worldwide: A Reflexive Documentary Coming Soon!
- Open Access First, Copyright Reform After [LSE Global IPR Reform Nov 18]
- UNSW goes global with free IP
- IP free to a good home
- Open Access Africa 2011
- Patient advocacy groups take research quest to innovative open-access publication
- Open Access Week 2011
- Archaeology Day, California Archaeology Month, Open Access Week
- Linking to Data - Effect on Citation Rates in Astronomy
- Free Your Metadata
- The Stubborn Persistence of the Subscription Model
- Coulda been a disrupter
- Science of the Invisible: How to fix academic publishing again already
- Open access institutional repositories for scholarly communication: A developing country perspective
- Etat de la publication en Open Access dans les disciplines scientifiques présentes à l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
- Open Access and Post-Disciplinarity « Larval Subjects .
- L’open access : vers une nouvelle pratique de la communication scientifique
- To What Extent Do Multiple Copies of Papers Affect Download Statistics?
- Anthropology & Open Access: An Interview with Jason Baird Jackson (Part 3 of 3)
- SHOW Trailer: Share Open Access Worldwide - YouTube
- How should funding agencies pay open-access fees?
- Wieso darf ich mich nicht ausdrucken?
- Sage "choice": a critique
- Licensing and sharing activity data
- Journals changing publisher, but can the rights change as well?
- Bridges, Reservoirs and Other Metaphors for a Digital Public Library of America - YouTube
- Malapa Soft Tissue Project | john hawks weblog
| Share Open Access Worldwide: A Reflexive Documentary Coming Soon! Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:26 AM PST |
| Open Access First, Copyright Reform After [LSE Global IPR Reform Nov 18] Posted: 16 Nov 2011 07:31 PM PST Open Access Archivangelism, (17 Nov 2011) Why Copyright Reform Must Come After Open Access, Not Before 1. Open access means free online access 2. The target content of the Open Access (OA) Movement is peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles 3. All such articles, without exception, are author give-aways, written solely for research usage and impact, not for royalty revenues 4. Other kinds of content -- books, music, video, software -- are mostly not author give-aways. 5. Hence there is an immediate solution for OA's target content and authors, and that is for research institutions and research funders worldwide to mandate that all articles must be made OA by self-archiving the author's final. 6. Most journals already endorse immediate OA self-archiving by their authors. 7. There is a solution (the repository's semi-automated "email eprint request" button) even for the minority of journal articles whose authors wish to abide by a publisher embargo on OA. 8. Hence it is a great strategic mistake to insist on copyright renegotiation or reform before mandating OA self-archiving. 9. Globally mandated OA will help facilitate and accelerate copyright reform. 10. But trying to get global copyright reform first will only retard OA. |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:48 PM PST www.theaustralian.com.au "Days after announcing it will release research discoveries to business without charge the University of New South Wales has delivered on its global giveaway, announcing a partnership with intellectual property resource iBridge Network. iBridge is controlled by the US based Kauffman Foundation which focuses on social and economic innovation. Serving as a marketplace where researchers and entrepreneurs can connect, iBridge claims access to some 16,000 innovations across 30 STEM disciplines. Many participating universities regularly rate well up on the Jiao Tong research rankings, including Harvard, MIT, the University of California network and King's College in the UK. However UNSW claims it is unique in being the first iBridge partner which is also a member of the Easy Access IP group, which represents five universities in the UK, Denmark and Canada....Academics must agree to their research being available via Easy IP and aspiring commercial developers must meet three conditions. They have to acknowledge UNSW as the source and report progress to the university. They undertake to “exploit” the IP within three years or return development rights to UNSW. And they accept the university’s right to continue to use the IP in its own research. While intellectual property with obvious commercial potential is quarantined Dr Cullen suggests UNSW will licence 80 per cent of research outcomes through Easy IP, a task made easier through the new arrangement with iBridge...." |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:35 PM PST blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au "UNSW is going to give access to intellectual property away. The Australian has been on this story for a week and rightly so because this is a big deal for the way universities can work with entrepreneurs and perhaps become part of a trend towards open access of research. This is not about beating up the journals although you have to wonder whether they have rather had it all their own way for a while, charging biggish bucks for reports of research they acquire pretty much for free. Rather, it is about the way entrepreneurs don’t know how to find academic research and can’t afford to pay for articles in publishers’ databases where there is so much stuff to sort through...." |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:15 PM PST www.biomedcentral.com The presentations from Open Access Africa 2011 are now online. |
| Patient advocacy groups take research quest to innovative open-access publication Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:03 PM PST Article Patient advocacy groups take research quest to innovative openaccess publication Alliance for Taxpayer Access - Full Feed, (24 Oct 2011) "Pat Furlong says she has a “microwave mentality.” When she wants something, she wants it instantly. In her case, that something is to accelerate treatments and cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) – a disease that claimed the lives of her two teenage sons in 1995. Furlong, a nurse, and her physician husband, Tom, who also have two grown daughters, tried to become experts on the condition as they cared for Christopher and Patrick. They have since pushed the agenda forward on behalf of all families affected by Duchenne. Furlong founded Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) in 1995 to help improve the treatment, quality of life, and long-term outlook for all individuals affected by the disease. The organization works to raise awareness, fund promising research, and has been an active advocate of Open Access to encourage the sharing of scientific progress on Duchenne. Now, Furlong has blazed a new trail in the fight to end the disease. She has spearheaded a partnership between PPMD and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) to launch an open-access publication, PLoS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy, this fall...." |
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| Archaeology Day, California Archaeology Month, Open Access Week Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:37 PM PST Digging Digitally, (24 Oct 2011) "I see open access (and open data) as an important aspect of making archaeology broadly relevant and a more integral part of scientific, policy, and cultural debates. Open access is a necessary precondition to making archaeology part of larger conversations. It’s also an important issue when so many of our colleagues work outside of university settings and have to live, work, and make their research contributions without access to JSTOR or subscriptions to other publishers. While there’s been lots of discussion about how “grey literature” (that is, research content that’s hard to discover and sees very limited circulation) is bad for the discipline, few in archaeology have noted that many mainstream archaeological journals are “grey literature” to people outside the academy...." |
| Linking to Data - Effect on Citation Rates in Astronomy Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:01 PM PST Abstract: Is there a difference in citation rates between articles that were published with links to data and articles that were not? Besides being interesting from a purely academic point of view, this question is also highly relevant for the process of furthering science. Data sharing not only helps the process of verification of claims, but also the discovery of new findings in archival data. However, linking to data still is a far cry away from being a "practice", especially where it comes to authors providing these links during the writing and submission process. You need to have both a willingness and a publication mechanism in order to create such a practice. Showing that articles with links to data get higher citation rates might increase the willingness of scientists to take the extra steps of linking data sources to their publications. In this presentation we will show this is indeed the case: articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links. The ADS is funded by NASA Grant NNX09AB39G. |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:59 PM PST freeyourmetadata.org "Polish and publish your metadata using Google Refind....Before linking, metadata always need to be cleaned up. Take out those hands out of your pockets and discover how to handle those embarrassing errors....Match your metadata with controlled vocabularies connected to the Linked Data cloud and join the place which everyone knows but has never seen....The Free Your Metadata team is coming to a city near you. Join and learn how to free your own metadata! ..." |
| The Stubborn Persistence of the Subscription Model Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:51 PM PST |
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| Science of the Invisible: How to fix academic publishing again already Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:43 PM PST scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com |
| Open access institutional repositories for scholarly communication: A developing country perspective Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:41 PM PST eprints.ptar.uitm.edu.my Abstract: Scholarly communication is the creation, transformation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavours. Nowadays, Open Access Repositories (OARs) and Open Access (OA) has become the emerging ways to share research output, academic result and disseminating information to the academic community for better usability and visibility. The purpose of this present study is to discuss the role of OAIR (Open Access Institutional Repository) in scholarly communication and focused how does developing country like Bangladesh may be benefited through this system. The major focus of the present study is to familiar with different initiatives of building OAIR and Open Access (OA) in Bangladesh. In pursuing the above objectives, the present research posed the following research questions (RQs) that will guide the study as well. How OAIR can be used as an effective tool for scholarly communication? What is the present status of the OAIR and OA initiatives in Bangladesh and what are the prospects of OAIR in Bangladesh? An analysis of the appropriate literature was carried out, focusing on papers explicitly referring to changing roles of OAIR. The study performed online searches and substantial amount of literature has been reviewed. Literature collected through internet, personal visits, and secondary sources of information has been analyzed. Findings reveal that OAIR is very important for the scholarly communication and Bangladesh is not far behind to get the fullest advantages of the OAIR. It is suggested some directions for building OAIR and OA initiatives in Bangladesh. It is believed that faculty and research scholars will be able to publish their research output in the proposed IR to visible their scholarly research output globally. This study no doubt will foster more research on OAIR for the improvement of Open Access scenarios in Bangladesh. |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:34 PM PST infoscience.epfl.ch Abstract in Google's English: This thesis, written under the mandate of the library of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), reported the publication in Open Access today. It covers scientific disciplines present in the institution, particularly the Science, Technology and Medicine (STM). While this work focuses on publishing in Open Access journals ("Gold Path"), it also discusses open archiving ("green path"). The theoretical part of this paper provides an overview of the current Open Access. It determines the main modes of Open Access via an existing typology and defines the various existing models. This work is also interested in the issue of evaluation of scientific papers, existing rights in this area, and the use of statistical tools for the qualification of magazines. The importance of Open Access is demonstrated, taking into account the peculiarities specific to major scientific disciplines. The views of researchers on the issue of free access is provided, followed by a reflection on institutional funding projects. Finally, possible future development prospects are developed. The practical part of this, in turn, results of a survey conducted between February and June 2011 on the campus. It is based on a quantitative analysis of references to published scientific papers, present in Infoscience, the open archive of the institution. A measure of the importance of publishing in Open Access at the EPFL, between 2008 and 2010, has been completed. In parallel, a qualitative analysis, conducted as individual interviews, allowed to learn about the needs and expectations of some researchers on the subject. The results also provide information significantly on their practices and concerns, which vary considerably according to their habits and experiences. This thesis therefore aims to summarize these different elements and thus to determine the current issues of open access, either at EPFL or in any other institutional setting, alongside the scientific publication. |
| Open Access and Post-Disciplinarity « Larval Subjects . Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:23 PM PST |
| L’open access : vers une nouvelle pratique de la communication scientifique Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:20 PM PST |
| To What Extent Do Multiple Copies of Papers Affect Download Statistics? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:15 PM PST |
| Anthropology & Open Access: An Interview with Jason Baird Jackson (Part 3 of 3) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:06 PM PST Savage Minds, (15 Nov 2011) "This is the last segment of this three part interview with Jason Baird Jackson about anthropology and open access. See Part 1 here, and Part 2, here...." |
| SHOW Trailer: Share Open Access Worldwide - YouTube Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:01 PM PST |
| How should funding agencies pay open-access fees? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:00 PM PST The Occasional Pamphlet, (16 Nov 2011) " OA journals are currently at a significant disadvantage with respect to subscription journals, because universities and funding agencies subsidize the costs of subscription journals in such a way that authors do not need to trade off money used for the subsidy against money used for other purchases....The solution is clear: universities and funding agencies should underwrite reasonable OA publication fees just as they do subscription fees. But how should this be done? Each kind of institution needs to provide its fair share of support....Of course, many funders already allow grantees to pay for OA publication fees from their grants. But this method falls afoul of some of [my five] criteria....One of the nice properties of this approach is that it doesn’t require synchronization of the many actors involved. Each funding agency can unilaterally start providing OA fee reimbursement along these lines. Until a critical mass do so, the costs would be minimal. Once a critical mass is obtained, and journals feel confident enough that a sufficient proportion of their author pool will be covered by such a fund to switch to an open-access revenue model, subscription fees to libraries will drop, allowing for overhead rates to be reduced commensurately to cover the increasing underwriting costs...." |
| Wieso darf ich mich nicht ausdrucken? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:58 AM PST |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:48 AM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics "My recommendation is to avoid SAGE Choice. Authors, funding agencies and libraries should not pay the fees. While other hybrid programs may be a serious attempt at transforming journals, this one clearly is not. Given the SAGE one-year embargo on authors' posting of post-prints along with SAGE Choice, I would rate SAGE Choice as below average in support for open access, and recommend to scholars to seek the journals of other publishers whenever possible...." |
| Licensing and sharing activity data Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:38 AM PST www.activitydata.org "There is much that can be gained from sharing activity data in order to gain a wider picture. For instance, the SALT project believes that information from 10 University libraries would probably be sufficient to provide a useful recommender system for all universities based on their methodology. In order to share data you will need to ensure that you have either anonymised the data or requested suitable permissions from the data subjects. You will also have to consider the license that you will offer the data under and how you will publish the data...." |
| Journals changing publisher, but can the rights change as well? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:37 AM PST WoW! Wouter on the Web, (14 Nov 2011) "Clearly the journal changed from publisher, that happens all the time. But on changing from publisher it appears that the authors’ copyrights changed as well....That the authors self archiving rights changed on change of publisher for the journal can’t be the case [because they're based on the original publishing agreement], but the Wiley site and Sherpa Romeo do imply that the Wiley copyright and self archiving policies apply to all content of the journal. That can’t be true, can it? But here I have an article hosted at two publishers websites with two very different self archiving policies...." |
| Bridges, Reservoirs and Other Metaphors for a Digital Public Library of America - YouTube Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:31 AM PST |
| Malapa Soft Tissue Project | john hawks weblog Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:23 AM PST johnhawks.net "Welcome to the virtual headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project. This is a unique experiment in open science, applied to one of the most intriguing discoveries in paleoanthropology. We're looking for the participation of a broad cross-section of people who have the skills and ideas to add understanding to possible soft tissue evidence from a 2 million-year-old hominin site...." |
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