Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Secrecy in science – an argument for open access
- Costs and Benefits of Data Provision
- Paul Allen: Why We Chose 'Open Science' - WSJ.com
- What Is Publishing? A Report from THATCamp Publishing - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Voynich Manuscript
- BBC iPlayer - The Life Scientific: John Sulston
- "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success Research Report Ve" by James L. Mullins, Catherine Murray-Rust et al.
| Secrecy in science – an argument for open access Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:23 AM PST Index on Censorship, (29 Nov 2011) "A fresh round of climate science emails were hacked and released to the public last week. With the debate over secrecy in science back in the headlines, science writer Fred Pearce makes the argument for open access....If CRU had been more open with its data from the start, a great deal of time and angst on the part of its scientists — and a great deal of public uttering of paranoid nonsense from climate deniers — would have been avoided....As McIntyre put it recently, “probably no single issue damages the reputation of the climate science community more than the refusal to show the data that supports their work”. There should, for the good of science as well as public discourse, be a presumption in favour of open access...." |
| Costs and Benefits of Data Provision Posted: 30 Nov 2011 03:40 AM PST |
| Paul Allen: Why We Chose 'Open Science' - WSJ.com Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:29 PM PST online.wsj.com "The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle grew out of a simple question I posed in 2002 to a constellation of top people in the field: What's the most useful thing we could do to propel neuroscience forward? The consensus became our inaugural project —a comprehensive, molecular-level, three-dimensional map of the mouse brain to show precisely where every gene is active, or "expressed." It was the first step on a long road to understand how genes function in the human brain, knowledge that will point to ways to better diagnose and treat brain ailments. A crucial aspect to this project —and others the Allen Institute has pursued over the last eight years— is an "open science" research model....Before funders write a check to a university, they should ask about the researcher's policies and track record on sharing...." |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:32 PM PST chronicle.com "THATCamp Publishing provided a forum for three stakeholders in this changing industry: traditional academic publishers, libraries-as-publishers, and faculty. While traditional publishers are interested in the bottom line, libraries-as-publishers are focused on the problem of access. Faculty, on the other hand, are concerned with how their publications will lead to promotion, tenure, and the advancement of knowledge. THATCamp Publishing highlighted how the evaporation of funding for scholarly publishing and the rise of the Internet as a low-cost, easy-access means of dissemination are radically changing the nature of this industry, and the inter-relationships of these three stakeholders....Thus, in relation to the work involved in manuscript production, open access publishing can be either a boon or a curse, depending on which side you are on. Academics and library publishers generally embrace open access as a means of raising visibility and the democratization of knowledge. But for traditional scholarly publishers, open access makes it difficult to recoup the costs of producing manuscripts. Open access journals—where there is no charge to access the content of the journal—do not generate any subscription revenue. This raises the question “If paid journal subscriptions are the main source of revenue for scholarly presses, where is the funding for the production of monographs going to come from if we move towards open access?” ..." |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:32 PM PST beinecke.library.yale.edu Now digitized and OA from Yale: "Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th or during the 16th century, the origin, language, and date of the Voynich Manuscript —named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912— are still being debated as vigorously as its puzzling drawings and undeciphered text. Described as a magical or scientific text, nearly every page contains botanical, figurative, and scientific drawings of a provincial but lively character, drawn in ink with vibrant washes in various shades of green, brown, yellow, blue, and red...." |
| BBC iPlayer - The Life Scientific: John Sulston Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:30 PM PST www.bbc.co.uk A radio interview with Sir John Sulston on the need for open data. |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2011 10:58 AM PST docs.lib.purdue.edu "This is Version 1.0 for community comment. A commentable online version of this paper appears at http://wp.sparc.arl.org/lps. A final version of the paper will be published in early 2012 through SPARC's Campus-based Publishing Resource Center....Over the past five years, libraries have begun to expand their role in the scholarly publishing value chain by offering a greater range of pre-publication and editorial support services. Given the rapid evolution of these services, there is a clear community need for practical guidance concerning the challenges and opportunities facing library-based publishing programs. Recognizing that library publishing services represent one part of a complex ecology of scholarly communication, Purdue University Libraries, in collaboration with the Libraries of Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Utah, secured an IMLS National Leadership Grant under the title “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success.” The project, conducted between October 2010 and September 2011, seeks to advance the professionalism of library-based publishing by identifying successful library publishing strategies and services, highlighting best practices, and recommending priorities for building capacity. The project has four components: 1) a survey of librarians designed to provide an overview of current practice for library publishing programs (led by consultant October Ivins); 2) a report presenting best practice case studies of the publishing programs at the partner institutions (written by consultant Raym Crow); 3) a series of workshops held at each participating institution to present and discuss the findings of the survey and case studies; and 4) a review of the existing literature on library publishing services. The results of these research threads are pulled together in this project white paper." |
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