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- Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access Forum
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Recommendations how to support journals in transition to open access
- OAI7 - CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
- Confirming the Wellcome Trust's predictions about open access article processing fees
- Open Access and Scholarly Societies: Presentation Slides
- Open Access Week competition winners
- Can open data play a role in the organization of shame?
- Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses - Crowdsourcing.org
- Good practice in research coding: What are the targets and how do we get there…?
- How opening up data saves time and resource #jiscinform
- The scandal of publisher-forbidden textmining: The vision denied « petermr's blog
- European Commission to adopt Open Data Strategy
- Conocimiento de los estudiantes sobre copyleft: el caso de la Universidad de Extremadura
- Science education prize goes to Open Source Physics
| Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access Forum Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:12 PM PST listserver.sigmaxi.org In September 2011 the AmSci Open Access Forum went into its 14th year. I think I have been moderating the Forum long enough, and so I'm stepping down as moderator, effective the end of December. This leaves time for the Forum to decide (1) whether to continue (or the other two OA lists -- SOAF and BOAI -- are sufficient). If the decision is to continue, we will need (2) volunteers or nominees for who is to take over the moderator role and (3) a volunteer to mediate and tall the (offline) voting, if it comes to a vote. Please send your votes to me (offline) on whether the AmSci Forum should continue (1) and if so please (2) volunteer or nominate a new moderator. I will post a compendium of all the votes but I don't want the traffic to drive everyone off the list before its fate is decided! Also, please also let me know (offline) if you would volunteer to (3) mediate and tally the (offline) voting, if it comes to a vote. Stevan Harnad |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:09 PM PST semprag.org "Semantics and Pragmatics (S&P) is a peer-reviewed open access journal. The main content is high quality, original, self-contained research articles on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. While our target audience is primarily academic linguists, we expect to also publish material by, or of relevance to, philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists. The journal is affiliated with and published by the Linguistic Society of America under its eLanguage initiative, and receives financial support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin...." |
| Recommendations how to support journals in transition to open access Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:07 PM PST www.knowledge-exchange.info "The report and presentations are now online for the workshop on journal transition organised by Knowledge Exchange in conjunction with the COASP2011 conference...." |
| OAI7 - CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:03 PM PST |
| Confirming the Wellcome Trust's predictions about open access article processing fees Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics "In 2004, The Wellcome Trust published the report, Costs and business models in scientific research publishing. After reviewing the literature on costs of scholarly publishing and discussions with senior staff at a range of publishers (including commercial publishers), the Wellcome Trust concluded: A conservative estimate of the charge per article necessary for author-pays journals lies in the range $500–$2500, depending on the level of selectivity used by the journal, plus a contribution to overheads and profits (p. 2). Today's actual article processing fees (APF) of successful, established fully open access publishers supports this prediction of The Wellcome Trust. The profitable Hindawi charges fees closer to the low end of the range; for example, the APF for Hindawi's Economics Research International is $400. BioMedCentral's average APF is $1,640, in the middle of the range. PLoS fees range from $1,300 for PLoS ONE to $2,900 for PLoS Biology. This is just over the top of the Wellcome Trust range - but then seven years has intervened between the publication of the report and now...." |
| Open Access and Scholarly Societies: Presentation Slides Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:57 PM PST Scholarly Communication Interest Group, (23 Nov 2011) "Here are the speakers’ slides from our November 18th program [on OA and scholarly societies]...." |
| Open Access Week competition winners Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:56 PM PST Enlighten, (23 Nov 2011) "Following our Open Access Week deposit competition the Enlighten team [at the U of Glasgow] is pleased to announce the following winners: Individual academic depositing the most full text articles during the week: Dr David Conway, Dental School....School depositing the largest number full text papers during the week: School of Social and Political Sciences...." |
| Can open data play a role in the organization of shame? Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:54 PM PST Foundations and Networks, (23 Nov 2011) "The United Nations is also a leader in open data practices. The United Nations Development Programme, for example, has for many years provided data on the Human Development Index. Various UN agencies, such as the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Union, provide country-level and aggregate data on the themes that they are tracking, such as child mortality and Internet penetration rates. There have also been many efforts to provide data on the progress and high-level commitments to the Millennium Development Goals. But why are these initiatives important? Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon recently talked about the importance of holding UN member countries accountable for their commitments to the Millennium Development Goals, saying: “We cannot afford to leave the poor event further behind.” His comments are reminiscent of those of United Nations Declaration of Human Rights principal drafter John Humphrey, who wrote in 1974: “It seems to me that in so far as human rights is concerned, a solution has been found in what may be called the organization of shame. Most governments, including international governments, are sensitive to world public opinion.” At stake, therefore, might be important UN objectives: peace-building, social progress and the enhancement of living standards and human rights worldwide...." |
| Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses - Crowdsourcing.org Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:52 PM PST www.crowdsourcing.org "After being invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano, Glyn Moody shares the following insights: a) that they are experiencing a unique transition from a world dominated by scarce analogue artefacts to one in which abundant digital artefacts are not only present but are crucially important for many of the most rapidly-advancing areas of innovation; and b) that putting together open source tools with sets of open data also allow companies to move towards open innovation...." |
| Good practice in research coding: What are the targets and how do we get there…? Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:48 PM PST cameronneylon.net "Nick Barnes of the Climate Code Foundation developed the Science Code Manifesto, a statement of how things ought to be (I was very happy to contribute and be a founding signatory) and while for many this may not go far enough (it doesn’t explicitly require open source licensing) it is intended as a practical set of steps that might be adopted by communities today. This has already garnered hundreds of endorsers and I’d encourage you to sign up if you want to show your support. The Science Code Manifesto builds on work over many years of Victoria Stodden in identifying the key issues and bringing them to wider awareness with both researchers and funders as well as the work of John Cook, Jon Claerbout, and Patrick Vanderwalle at ReproducibleResearch.net. If the manifesto and the others work are actions that aim (broadly) to set out the principles and to understand where we need to go then Open Research Computation is intended as a practical step embedded in today’s practice. Researchers need the credit provided by conventional papers, so if we can link papers in a journal that garners significant prestige, with high standards in the design and application of the software that is described we can link the existing incentives to our desired practice. This is a high wire act. How far do we push those standards out in front of where most of the community is. We explicitly want ORC to be a high profile journal featuring high quality software, for acceptance to be a mark of quality that the community will respect. At the same time we can’t ask for the impossible. If we set standards so high that no-one can meet them then we won’t have any papers. And with no papers we can’t start the process of changing practice. Equally, allow too much in and we won’t create a journal with a buzz about it. That quality mark has to be respected as meaning something by the community. I’ll be blunt. We haven’t had the number of submissions I’d hoped for...." |
| How opening up data saves time and resource #jiscinform Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:47 PM PST JISC RSC YH Exchange News, (23 Nov 2011) "The latest edition of JISC Inform has gone live with this term’s focus on how JISC is supporting UK colleges and universities open up its content, data and research. Read the full contents list at http://bit.ly/uZiIF7 " |
| The scandal of publisher-forbidden textmining: The vision denied « petermr's blog Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:54 PM PST blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk "This is the first post of probably several in my concern about textmining. You do NOT have to be a scientist to understand the point with total clarity. This topic is one of the most important I have written about this year. We are at a critical point where unless we take action our scholarly rights will be further eroded. What I write here is designed to be submitted to the UK government as evidence if required. I am going to argue that the science and technology of textmining is systematically restricted by scholarly publishers to the serious detriment of the utilisation of publicly funded research...." |
| European Commission to adopt Open Data Strategy Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:52 PM PST Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, (24 Nov 2011) "News in from the European Commission, which has announced that they will be adopting a new Open Data Strategy from the 29th November. The aims of the strategy are to increase government transparency, and hopefully generate overall economic gains of around €40 billion a year for the EU...." |
| Conocimiento de los estudiantes sobre copyleft: el caso de la Universidad de Extremadura Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:51 PM PST |
| Science education prize goes to Open Source Physics Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:16 PM PST arstechnica.com "In an attempt to raise the profile of worthwhile science education projects, Science magazine has started handing out the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, or SPORE. This week's award is going to a project called Open Source Physics. Started by a group of college professors, the site offers simulation software on a wide variety of topics in the physical sciences (including astronomy), accompanied by guides and lesson plans that help integrate it into the classroom...." |
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