Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- UK Publishers Moan About Content Mining's Possible Problems; Dismiss Other Countries' Actual Experience | Techdirt
- Institutions in Ghana, Serbia and Uganda sign the Berlin Declaration | EIFL
- 22 Open Access Archaeology Publication You May Have Missed
- Felix Landry on Four Fantastic Open-Access Online Journals for Evaluators and Researchers - AEA365
- Science of the Invisible: Deeply Unfashionable
| Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:54 AM PST www.techdirt.com "One of the recommendations made by the Hargreaves Review in the UK was that a text- and data-mining exception to copyright should be created, with the following explanation of why that made sense....Who could possibly object to that? Certainly not the UK government, which accepted the recommendation....Nonetheless, the UK Publishers Association...is unhappy. Here's Richard Mollet, the Association's CEO, explaining why it is against the idea of such a text-mining exception....[OA] would answer Mollet's fear that publishers' "platforms would collapse under the technological weight of crawler-bots." Since the papers could be freely downloaded from any one of the servers holding copies around the Internet, and then analysed on the researcher's own machine, there would be no crawler-bots involved at all. Open access would also eliminate the commercial risk: after all, what's the point in pirating material that is already freely available? As for that competitive disadvantage Mollet is worried about, moving their academic titles to open access would actually give UK publishers a big advantage, since open access continues to sweep through the academic sector. It would mean that UK publishers were leading the way, rather than dragging their heels at the back." |
| Institutions in Ghana, Serbia and Uganda sign the Berlin Declaration | EIFL Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:44 PM PST www.eifl.net "Three more EIFL partner institutions – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), University of Belgrade (Serbia) and Makerere University (Uganda) – joined over 340 leading international research, scientific, and cultural institutions from around the world that have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities...." |
| 22 Open Access Archaeology Publication You May Have Missed Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:39 PM PST |
| Felix Landry on Four Fantastic Open-Access Online Journals for Evaluators and Researchers - AEA365 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:33 PM PST |
| Science of the Invisible: Deeply Unfashionable Posted: 21 Nov 2011 02:12 PM PST scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com "[W]hen I went to chat to the wise elves who run our institutional repository, I asked for something deeply unfashionable - some blue skies thinking. Specifically, I asked for an author-centred view of the repository biz. While our repository has nice stats on each individual submission, this makes life hard for authors who want to commit to the repository in a sustained way. What it needs is a dashboard which gives individuals an overview of activity on all their submissions so they can easily gauge their personal impact. I thought this might be tricky, but the elves didn't blink. Institutional logins do away with all the usual problems surrounding author ID. Recently I wrote about what it would take for me to make the institutional repository my first choice publishing destination. Since then I've been doing some more thinking about this. If I'm going to commit to the repository in a sustained fashion, I need some form of peer review. And for a repository, that means post-publication peer review. At this point, we had a nice chat about the difference between a repository and an archive (confusing if your repository is called an archive). If there are other places to get my work peer-reviewed, I can't afford to damage my personal impact by dividing the social media campaign I need to mount around my publication between the primary publications site and the repository, so the repository loses out unless it completes. Happily the elves were very open to this idea, although there will be difficulties to be faced which are more political then technical...." |
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