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- Robert Darnton on the history of copyright , open access, the dpla…
- Scaling the Open Data Ecosystem | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
- Advocates say public money for open educational resources is smart investment | Inside Higher Ed
- Open science is a research accelerator. - F1000
- GigaDB
- GigaScience at #ICG6: announcing the release of GigaDB and new datasets
- Quietly, Google Puts History Online - NYTimes.com
- ODE Report on Integration of Data and Publications published
- Milestone for the OAD
- Open Access Politik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- How Freemium Self-published Fiction Is Taking Over China | Publishing Perspectives
| Robert Darnton on the history of copyright , open access, the dpla… Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:36 AM PST avignon 2b2k Robert Darnton on the history of copyright open access the dpla8230 Joho the Blog, (19 Nov 2011) " The privitization of knowledge has become an enclosure movement. Consider academic periodicals. Most knowledge first appears in digitized periodicals. The journal article is the principle outlet for the sciences, law, philosophy, etc. Journal publishers therefore control access to most of the knowledge being created, and they charge a fortune. The price of academic journals rose ten times faster than the rate of inflation in the 1990s. The J of Comparative Neurology is $29,113/year. The Brain costs $23,000. The average list price in chemistry is over $3,000. Most of the research was subsidized by tax payers. It belongs in the public domain. But commercial publishers have fenced off parts of that domain and exploited it. Their profit margins runs as high as 40%. Why aren’t they constrained by the laws of supply and domain? Because they have crowded competitors out, and the demand is not elastic: Research libraries cannot cancel their subscriptions without an uproar from the faculty. Of course, professors and students produced the research and provided it for free to the publishers. Academics are therefore complicit. They advance their prestige by publishing in journals, but they fail to understand the damage they’re doing to the Republic of Letters. How to reverse this trend? Open access journals. Journals that are subsidized at the production end and are made free to consumers. They get more readers, too, which is not surprising since search engines index them and it’s easy for readers to get to them. Open Access is easy access, and the ease has economic consequences. Doctors, journalists, researchers, housewives, nearly everyone wants information fast and costless. Open Access is the answer. It is a little simple, but it’s the direction we have to take to address this problem at least in academic journals...." |
| Scaling the Open Data Ecosystem | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog Posted: 20 Nov 2011 05:55 PM PST |
| Advocates say public money for open educational resources is smart investment | Inside Higher Ed Posted: 20 Nov 2011 05:54 PM PST www.insidehighered.com "Advocates for open educational resources, or OER, have had mixed success in getting the federal government to invest public money in open course materials. Money that would have gone to creating open materials for community colleges ended up getting axed from the 2009 American Graduation Initiative. While the Labor Department program that took its place could provide as much as $2 billion over several years, federal lawmakers have proposed to eliminate grants to develop OER if commercial publishers already offer -- or have “under development” -- similar materials. But while OER advocates have gotten inconsistent backing in Washington, D.C., they were able to claim a small but potentially significant victory on Monday in Washington State. The community and technical college system there celebrated the first major landmark in a state-funded push for open courses that it expects will save students hundreds per year in textbook costs, and that OER proponents hope could provide an example of how public investment in open materials is not charitable, but strategic...." |
| Open science is a research accelerator. - F1000 Posted: 20 Nov 2011 05:50 PM PST f1000.com " Just like scientific problems, modern software can be exceedingly complex, and having access to enough eyeballs has turned out to be stroke of genius for software development. From the perspective of the scientific process, one can think of Linus' Law as a form of informal peer-review where anyone, expert and novice alike, has access to the same primary research record and can contribute by joining the discussion in a great babbling bazaar. The potential benefits to the scientific process is profound, as it not only increases the pace of scientific discoveries but also makes the results more robust, improves reproducibility and disseminates the results faster and wider. The case study Woelfle et al. describes confirms this and shows that Linus' Law also applies in the realm of scientific advancement...." |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:36 PM PST gigadb.org "GigaDB contains discoverable, trackable, and citable data that have been assigned DOIs and are available for public download and use...." |
| GigaScience at #ICG6: announcing the release of GigaDB and new datasets Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:36 PM PST GigaScience, (19 Nov 2011) "Another busy week for the GigaScience team, with the release of a new-look database, more datasets, and a number of talks and announcements at BGI's annual International Conference of Genomics in Shenzhen. It was a great (if exhausting) meeting this year, with the state-of-the art in genomics science on display, announcements of three exciting "Million Genomes" projects to come from the BGI and their many collaborators, and a chance to catch up with many members of our editorial board and friends....The biggest news at the meeting was the launch of our new-look GigaDB.org website and additional datasets at the pre-conference data release workshop and press-conference. This is still very much in beta-form (comments and feedback greatly appreciated at editorial@gigasciencejournal.com), but builds upon our original release of datasets in July and presents them together in a single portal. Following the success of the outbreak E. coli 0:104 and Macaque genome datasets in demonstrating the practicalities of data citation, we have released another 20 datasets with citable DOIs. These span most of the tree of life, and include previously unsupported data-types...." |
| Quietly, Google Puts History Online - NYTimes.com Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:31 PM PST www.nytimes.com "When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized versions of the scrolls in September, it drew a million virtual visitors in three and a half days. The scrolls, scanned with ultrahigh-resolution imaging technology, have been viewed on the Web from 210 countries — including some, like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria, that provide few real-world visitors to the Israel Museum....The digitization of the scrolls was done by Google under a new initiative aimed at demonstrating that the Internet giant’s understanding of culture extends beyond the corporate kind. The Google Cultural Institute plans to make artifacts like the scrolls — from museums, archives, universities and other collections around the world — accessible to any Internet user...." |
| ODE Report on Integration of Data and Publications published Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:25 PM PST APA, (24 Oct 2011) "ODE has published a Report on Integration of Data and Publications. Scholarly communication is the foundation of modern research where empirical evidence is interpreted and communicated as published hypothesis driven research. Many current and recent reports highlight the impact of advancing technology on modern research and consequences this has on scholarly communication. As part of the ODE project this report sought to coalesce current though and opinions from numerous and diverse sources to reveal opportunities for supporting a more connected and integrated scholarly record. Four perspectives were considered, those of the Researcher who generates or reuses primary data, Publishers who provide the mechanisms to communicate research activities and Libraries & Data enters who maintain and preserve the evidence that underpins scholarly communication and the published record. This report finds the landscape fragmented and complex where competing interests can sometimes confuse and confound requirements, needs and expectations. Equally the report identifies clear opportunity for all stakeholders to directly enable a more joined up and vital scholarly record of modern research...." |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:23 PM PST plus.google.com "The Open Access Directory (oad.simmons.edu) that I co-founded with Peter Suber over three years ago just sailed passed its two millionth view...." |
| Open Access Politik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Posted: 20 Nov 2011 08:00 AM PST |
| How Freemium Self-published Fiction Is Taking Over China | Publishing Perspectives Posted: 20 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST publishingperspectives.com "Here in China, nearly 195 million people are hooked on a kind of literature that is virtually unknown in the West...The system works through a growing number of self-publishing websites that host thousands of constantly evolving, free-to-read stories posted on the sites by their authors. These websites are incredibly popular with consumers, attracting over 40% of all China’s internet users every month....The ingenious part of this publishing model comes in when an individual author’s serial gathers a critical mass of readers. At this point the self-publishing site invites the author to become a VIP, and their serial moves to a different section of the site where readers can sample some chapters of their work for free, but have to pay if they want to read the latest installments...." |
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