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- Utah State University signs declaration on open access | Cache Valley Daily - News and Information for Cache Valley | Cache Valley News | Logan, UT News | Local News
- Cambridge U. Press Would Like to Rent You an Article - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Accused MIT hacker arraigned on state charges - BostonHerald.com
- The Potential Consequences of Public Release of Food Safety and Inspection Service Establishment-Specific Data
- Nature News Blog: Report calls for open access to US food inspections
- Publishing open access in all areas of science!
- The Study on Open Access Situation and Cognitive Attitudes of Management Academic Journals in China Archive - IT Research Paper
- Research without walls
- PRORCH-Call for Papers|Journal|Conference|Alert|Management
- British government bets big on open data for growth — Tech News and Analysis
- Open Access is a piece for cake for Research in Learning Technology
- Open Data Institute to help drive innovation and growth
- The Pharmacogenomics Journal
- Scientists should NEVER use CC-NC. This explains why.
- Scholarly publishing should be free
- Managing Research Data Programme 2011-13
- PLoS Open Access Collection – Resources to Educate and Advocate | The Official PLoS Blog
- PLoS Biology: Why Full Open Access Matters
- Cutting their own throats
- Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information
- The Future Of Education: Open Source And Participatory @PSFK
- Electronic infrastructures accelerate biodiversity discoveries
- Association of Research Libraries Preserves with CLOCKSS Archive (Nov. 29, '11)
- First database-derived 'data paper' published in journal
- Open Data Institute to be built near Silicon Roundabout
- EU: 'A standard is open when implemented in open source' —
- 11/28/2011: EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information
- Library digitizes Holocaust testimonies | Yale Daily News
- "Commons in a Box" & the Importance of Open Academic Networks | Inside Higher Ed
- Mass Digitization at the Complutense University Library: Access to and Preservation of its Cultural Heritage
- "Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship" by Carol Watson and James M. Donovan
- Heading for the Open Road: Costs and Benefits of Transitions in Scholarly Communications
- Growth through innovations and open access: The journal ZooKeys on point for digital taxonomy
- Impact has a bad name among many researchers, but thinking of impact as re-use could be key to uniting both funders and researchers
- Textmining: My years negotiating with Elsevier « petermr's blog
- Comprehensive Brief on Open Access to Publications and Research Data for the Federal Granting Agencies (June 2011)
- Animal Garden – open science issues
- The Ed Techie: Yeah, but who pays?
- The opportunity in data « Michele Ide-Smith
- New in ilissAfrica: AJOL, African institutional repositories and French databases via Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) « ilissafrica's Blog
- Quantifying the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Research
- The Challenge of an Open Access Environment for Biodiveristy Across Europea and Brazil
- Official Google Blog: More spring cleaning out of season
- IDCC11 Preview: An interview with Ewan McIntosh | Digital Curation Centre
- Work in progress: The Data Digitizer | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
- Education-Specific HTML to Be Submitted to Search Engines Soon
- Wissenschaftsverlage - die Blutsauger des Wissenschaftsbetriebs | Detritus
- The Open Access Policy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Publisher Drops Copyright Claim, Favors Fair Use | PCWorld
- Ten Tales of Drivers and Barriers in Data Sharing
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:55 AM PST www.cachevalleydaily.com "In early October, Utah State University joined an elite group of universities in the United States to actively endorse a commitment to make scholarly work widely available. On Oct. 5, Executive Vice President and Provost Raymond T. Coward signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. With his signature, Utah State became one of the first American universities — and the first in Utah — to join the ever-growing list of international universities and organizations to endorse the declaration’s goals, according to Richard Clement, dean of libraries at USU...." |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST chronicle.com "Will researchers pay for short-term access to journal articles? Cambridge University Press is about to find out. The publisher has just announced a rental program for articles from the more than 280 peer-reviewed journals it publishes. “For just £3.99, $5.99 or €4.49, users are now able to read single articles online for up to 24 hours, a saving of up to 86% compared with the cost of purchasing the article,” the press said in an announcement...." |
| Accused MIT hacker arraigned on state charges - BostonHerald.com Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:36 AM PST news.bostonherald.com "A former Harvard University fellow — already facing federal charges that he stole nearly 5 million academic articles from an online service — is now facing charges at the state level, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office. Aaron Swartz, 25, of Cambridge, a former fellow at Harvard’s Center for Ethics and an Internet censorship activist, was arraigned today in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, larceny over $250, and unauthorized access to a computer network....“It’s a separate case from the same incident,” said Jessica Venezia Pastore, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Gerard Leone. She noted that there is no federal counterpart to the breaking and entering charge...." |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:34 AM PST blogs.nature.com "Public release of regulatory data is motivated by two broad purposes. The first addresses the public’s right to know about the actions of government. The second, “targeted transparency”, seeks to use information disclosure as a means of achieving specific public-policy objectives. The committee concluded that both those purposes are relevant to the desire of FSIS [Food Safety and Inspection Service] to release establishment-specific data and that an effective disclosure policy will contribute to increased transparency to stakeholders. In addition, releasing establishment-specific data might also favorably affect public health...." |
| Nature News Blog: Report calls for open access to US food inspections Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:28 AM PST blogs.nature.com "It has been just over a year since a widespread salmonella outbreak in the the US led to the recall of half a billion eggs. In the ensuing food safety scare, egg producers at two Iowa companies were hauled up before Congress to explain the deplorable conditions – including oozing manure, live rodents and flies too numerous to count – in their henhouses. Now a report released on 30 November by the National Research Council (NRC) puts that episode along with the broader issue of food inspection back in the public spotlight. In the report, an expert committee convened by the NRC at the request of the US Department of Agriculture came out strongly in favor of free, easy public access to the voluminous data gathered by the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on individual meat and egg processors. These data include results of laboratory tests for baterial contaminants such as salmonella, pathogenic E. coli, and listeria monocytogenes, records of facility inspections and enforcement actions taken as a result of inspections...." |
| Publishing open access in all areas of science! Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:13 AM PST www.springer.com Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) is a new full (not hybrid) OA peer-reviewed journal published by Springer and sponsored by the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA). Springer charges publication fees, but FTRA pays the fees, so that authors needn't pay. |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:08 AM PST www.it-paper.com From the abstract: ...This paper analyzed from four parts to open access publishing journal of management countermeasures. Firstly, based on the relevant terminological academic and professional judge, of open access journals expounds the different patterns. This part of main is the key factor of open access, this paper summarizes the next part of open access to the evaluation of the current situation with the establishment of standard on theoretical basis. Secondly, open access journal of management of the developing situation of the analysis included in CSSCI for investigation object management journal in China. Through part of the gains from the open access degree of evaluation standards, the author examined these management journal website construction management. Meanwhile, the author is to management journal organizer has summarized. Thirdly this part of main is using questionnaire on domestic management of open access journals conduct environmental analysis. Through the research workers and journal editors personnel’s questionnaire survey, obtained some influence of open access to accept degree of key factors. The author of the two kinds of questionnaire respectively from two angles and explores the treat open access of the cognitive and attitude. Finally Combined with the implementation of the above is to management of open access journal of environmental investigation, and consult with the readers and authors and editors of open access journal, according to the survey of attitudes to the actual situation of periodical publishing of management, put forward to realize open access journal of science and technology of China the mode, there are three major categories:traditional periodicals archive mode, create the open access journal mode, set up the open access network platform mode. |
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| PRORCH-Call for Papers|Journal|Conference|Alert|Management Posted: 30 Nov 2011 02:01 PM PST www.prorch.com An OA source for conference and journal calls for papers. Also has a Google+ edition <http://goo.gl/ecGSv>. |
| British government bets big on open data for growth — Tech News and Analysis Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:59 PM PST gigaom.com "[U]nlike other countries, the U.K. is not just talking about creating jobs or encouraging infrastructural projects: it’s also taking a gamble on data. This involves opening up a whole range of new government-owned data sets to the public, as well as encouraging greater sharing of information to try and boost the amount of innovation and development in Britain around this material. In addition, there’s going to be a new organization led in part by Sir Tim Berners-Lee — known as the Open Data Institute — to help foster this process and lead development...." |
| Open Access is a piece for cake for Research in Learning Technology Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:57 PM PST Francesbell's Blog, (28 Nov 2011) "Research in Learning Technology, the journal for the Association for Learning Technology, is going Open Access from January 2012...." |
| Open Data Institute to help drive innovation and growth Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:54 PM PST Creative Boom London, (30 Nov 2011) "A world-leading Open Data Institute is to be established in East London, helping to drive innovation and exploit the growth opportunities for the UK created by the government’s Open Data policy. The government is to commit up to £10 million over five years to support the Open Data Institute (ODI), which will be co-directed by Professor Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt. The ODI will be developed by the Technology Strategy Board and the implementation plan for the Institute will be published by the Technology Strategy Board by April 2012....The ODI will support a wide range of start-up and early-stage companies, micro businesses and SMEs to exploit Open Data through the provision of specialist, technical and commercial services. The ODI will also provide extensive and focussed support to a number of small businesses that show the greatest promise for the exploitation of Open Data, with businesses selected through an annual open competition...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:40 PM PST www.nature.com "The Pharmacogenomics Journal [from the Nature Publishing Group] now offers authors the option to publish their articles with immediate open access upon publication. Open access articles will also be deposited on PubMed Central at the time of publication and will be freely available immediately...." |
| Scientists should NEVER use CC-NC. This explains why. Posted: 30 Nov 2011 12:09 PM PST |
| Scholarly publishing should be free Posted: 30 Nov 2011 12:07 PM PST www.universityworldnews.com "Scholarly publishing used to be about scientists communicating their discoveries to other scientists. Today, these discoveries are buried somewhere among 24,000 journals - most of which cannot be accessed by the individual scientist because his or her institution does not subscribe to them....[T]here is very little obvious correlation between an article and the rank of the journal it was published in, but a rather strong correlation between the number of retractions in a journal and its rank....But it gets even worse: the multinational corporations that control scholarly publishing actually siphon off billions of dollars from this neanderthal enterprise, at profit margins exceeding 30%....And this brings me to the point about why scholarly publishing can be saved: depending on what sources you use and which profits are counted, the for-profit scholarly publishing sector rakes in an annual profit of anywhere between EUR2 and EUR4 billion in largely taxpayer funds. This is more than enough money not only to make all the publicly funded research accessible to the taxpayer who funded it, but there would be plenty left to invest in infrastructure to develop a smart alerting service where I would spend one hour a week searching for the literature and 10 hours reading it....Yes, I suggest to get rid of for-profit scholarly publishing altogether and let the libraries again host the work of their scholars, as it once was...." |
| Managing Research Data Programme 2011-13 Posted: 30 Nov 2011 12:01 PM PST "The management of research data is recognised as one of the most pressing challenges facing the higher education and research sectors. Research data generated by publicly-funded research is seen as a public good and should be available for verification and re-use. In recognition of this principle, all UK Research Councils require their grant holders to manage and retain their research data for re-use, unless there are specific and valid reasons not to do so. Research data can also be the subject of requests under Freedom of Information legislation or Environmental Information Regulations...." |
| PLoS Open Access Collection – Resources to Educate and Advocate | The Official PLoS Blog Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:59 AM PST blogs.plos.org "In keeping with PLoS’ mission, we periodically publish articles that explore the issues surrounding open access. This cross-journal collection provides some key resources to help educate and advocate for open access. New articles will be added to the collection as they are published at www.ploscollections.org/openaccess. In this blog post, we have organized the Collection content into different categories. Please feel free to share this information widely, as all PLoS content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License...." |
| PLoS Biology: Why Full Open Access Matters Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PST www.plosbiology.org "Scientific authors who pay to publish their articles in an open-access publication should be congratulated for doing so. They also should be aware that they may not be getting full open access from some publications that charge for publication under the “open access” label. Two features define an open-access publication: (1) the published contents are freely accessible through the Internet, and (2) readers are given copyright permission (see Box 1) to republish or reuse the content as they like so long as the author and publisher receive proper attribution. Recently, some publications have begun offering an open-access option that charges for Internet publication without granting readers full reuse rights, such as Springer's Open Choice or Nature's Scientific Reports. These publishers have adopted a business model through which authors pay for immediate publication on the Internet but the publisher nonetheless keeps commercial reuse rights for itself. This is not full open access...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:44 AM PST Charlie's Diary, (28 Nov 2011) "Traditional publishing is dominated by the Big Six publishing groups — folks like Hachette, Holtzbrinck, Penguin-Putnam, and so on. In general these publishers and their imprints refuse to publish ebooks without DRM. It's a major sticking point with them, in no small part dictated by the fact that they're subsidiaries of huge media conglomerates, which have had bad experiences with movies, TV and music leaking on the internet. In the past I've muttered and grumbled about the evils of DRM for a variety of reasons. But now, I've got a feeling that there's a more important reason for griping: the strategy of demanding DRM everywhere is going to boomerang, inflicting horrible damage on the very companies who want it. (Who just happen to be my publishers.)...[T]he Big Six's pig-headed insistence on DRM on ebooks is handing Amazon a stick with which to beat them harder. DRM on ebooks gives Amazon a great tool for locking ebook customers into the Kindle platform. If you buy a book that you can only read on the Kindle, you're naturally going to be reluctant to move to other ebook platforms that can't read those locked Kindle ebooks — and even more reluctant to buy ebooks from rival stores that use incompatible DRM....As ebook sales mushroom, the Big Six's insistence on DRM has proven to be a hideous mistake. Rather than reducing piracy, it has locked customers in Amazon's walled garden, which in turn increases Amazon's leverage over publishers...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:42 AM PST ZooKeys 150, (28 Nov 2011) Abstract: The Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a suite of copyright-based licenses defining terms for the distribution and re-use of creative works. CC provides licenses for different use cases and includes open content licenses such as the Attribution license (CC BY, used by many Open Access scientific publishers) and the Attribution Share Alike license (CC BY-SA, used by Wikipedia, for example). However, the license suite also contains non-free and non-open licenses like those containing a “non-commercial” (NC) condition. Although many people identify “non-commercial” with “non-profit”, detailed analysis reveals that significant differences exist and that the license may impose some unexpected re-use limitations on works thus licensed. After providing background information on the concepts of Creative Commons licenses in general, this contribution focuses on the NC condition, its advantages, disadvantages and appropriate scope. Specifically, it contributes material towards a risk analysis for potential re-users of NC-licensed works. |
| The Future Of Education: Open Source And Participatory @PSFK Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:41 AM PST www.psfk.com "Over the past few months, PSFK [an unexplained acronym] has taken note of a growing discussion about new ways of thinking surrounding education and teaching. At the recent PSFK CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO 2011, several of our speakers engaged with various aspects of this theme...." |
| Electronic infrastructures accelerate biodiversity discoveries Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:38 AM PST www.eurekalert.org "Electronic infrastructures open new horizons for collaboration and acceleration of the research on world's biodiversity. International collaborative platforms, such as scratchpads.eu, yield opportunities, unknown before, to scientists to put together historical and newly collected data coming from different sources and working groups, says a special issue of the open access journal ZooKeys presenting the results of the EU-funded project ViBRANT. ViBRANT stands for "Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy" and is a European Union e-infrastructure project running December 2010 to 2013 that will support the development of virtual research communities involved in biodiversity science. ViBRANT combines the efforts of scientists from 17 European institutions to provide a more integrated and effective framework for those managing biodiversity data on the Web. "ViBRANT is not only about e-infrastructures" commented the project coordinator Dr Vincent Smith from the Natural History Museum, London. "ViBRANT's core mission is to mobilize the treasures of biological data accumulated over centuries of scientific discoveries and to open them for collaboration to all who are keen to describe, record and safe the life on our Planet!"...The book focuses on opening and publishing of biodiversity data...." |
| Association of Research Libraries Preserves with CLOCKSS Archive (Nov. 29, '11) Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:35 AM PST Association of Research Libraries (ARL) - Full Feed, (29 Nov 2011) "The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the CLOCKSS Archive have partnered to preserve ARL's e-journals and e-books in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, the Association of Research Libraries has committed to the preservation of their e-journals and e-books. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a "trigger event" and ensures an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over time...." |
| First database-derived 'data paper' published in journal Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:33 AM PST www.eurekalert.org "The first-ever peer-reviewed paper derived directly from a biodiversity metadata document has been published in the open-access ZooKeys journal. The description of more than 2,400 bird records from northeast India, spanning almost a century, is the outcome of a new 'Data Paper' workflow pioneered by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and Pensoft publishers. The aim is to provide incentives for those compiling data records about the occurrence of species to make their existence known to the scientific community, thus helping to increase knowledge about biodiversity and inform conservation measures. A Data Paper is produced when metadata (data about data) are compiled using the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) generating a manuscript that then goes through the usual critical review process before being accepted for publication...." |
| Open Data Institute to be built near Silicon Roundabout Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:31 AM PST Information Age | Business Technology for IT Professionals, (28 Nov 2011) "The government will announce a number of open data initiatives tomorrow, including a new Open Data Institute near 'Silicon Roundabout'. The Open Data Institute will "innovate, exploit and research open data opportunities with business and academia", chancellor George Osborne will announce tomorrow. The institute will be directed by leading open data academics Professor Nigel Shadbolt and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee...." |
| EU: 'A standard is open when implemented in open source' — Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST www.osor.eu "A public sector organisation should only refer to a software or file format standard if the standard has been implemented in a sustainable open source software implementation. Without such implementation there is significant risk for the organisation, recommends Björn Lundell after a review of public administration's policies...." |
| 11/28/2011: EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:29 AM PST "[T]he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...is making available to the public hundreds of studies on chemicals that had been treated as confidential business information (CBI). The move is part of EPA's plan to make public the chemicals that are not entitled to CBI status. Releasing the data will expand the public’s access to critical health and safety information on chemicals that are manufactured and processed in the U.S. Newly available information can be found using EPA’s Chemical Data Access Tool...." |
| Library digitizes Holocaust testimonies | Yale Daily News Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:27 AM PST www.yaledailynews.com "Yale University Library is in the midst of the digitization of the Fortunoff Video Archive’s roughly 4500 testimonies from the Holocaust, many of survivors, without which the testimonies would soon become inaccessible. The machines that play the 13,000 one-hour tapes in the Fortunoff Archive, which was officially acquired by the University in 1981 but received a large donation to its endowment fund from Alan Fortunoff in 1987, are no longer in production, so the transition to a digital format is essential for preservation, said Joanne Rudof, archivist for the Fortunoff Archive. Rudof added that digitization will allow researchers to access the archive remotely in place of having to go to the Sterling Memorial Library to watch a physical tape. “People all over the world are waiting for access to this,” Rudof said...." |
| "Commons in a Box" & the Importance of Open Academic Networks | Inside Higher Ed Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:24 AM PST www.insidehighered.com "Last week, the City University of New York (CUNY) unveiled its plans to create a "Commons in a Box," an open-source toolkit to help colleges and universities "roll their own" academic networks. The project will help replicate CUNY's Academic Commons at other schools. The Academic Commons was founded in 2009, an effort to help connect the faculty, administration, and grad students across the 23 colleges in the CUNY system and to help combat "information silos" -- something that exists, as CUNY exemplifies, even under one university system. "The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching," CUNY's project contends...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:22 AM PST liber.library.uu.nl Abstract: In the mid-1990s, the Library of the Complutense of Madrid (UCM) applied the growing body of new technologies to a pioneering project: the digitization of a valuable collection of biomedical books. The result of the project was the Dioscorides Digital Library. Up to 2006, however, the pace of digitization was very slow, resulting in only 3,000 books and 50,000 digitized engravings. In September 2006, the Complutense University and Google signed a partnership agreement for the purpose of carrying out large-scale digitization of our public domain collections. The Complutense University Library is participating in this mass-digitization project with the following goals: [1] To improve the discovery of the cultural heritage of Complutense and increase the number of potential readers; [2] To fulfil its public service mission; [3] To preserve and protect the original books; [4] To enhance students’ and faculty research. [5] By early 2011, the Complutense Library had digitized roughly 120,000 out-of- copyright books from the 16th to the 19th centuries. All these materials are easily accessible via the Complutense Library Catalogue, Google Books and HathiTrust Digital Library. The Complutense University of Madrid joined the HathiTrust Digital Library in November 2010, which allowed books digitized by Google to be stored on HathiTrust servers....In addition, and complementing the above, the digital content of the Complutense University Library will be aggregated to Europeana during 2011 and 2012. |
| "Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship" by Carol Watson and James M. Donovan Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:19 AM PST digitalcommons.law.uga.edu Abstract: In this study focusing on the impact of open access on legal scholarship, the authors examine open access articles from three journals at the University of Georgia School of Law and confirm that legal scholarship freely available via open access improves an article’s research impact. Open access legal scholarship —which today appears to account for almost half of the output of law faculties— can expect to receive fifty-eight percent more citations than non–open access writings of similar age from the same venue. |
| Heading for the Open Road: Costs and Benefits of Transitions in Scholarly Communications Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:17 AM PST liber.library.uu.nl Abstract: This paper reports on a study — overseen by representatives of the publishing, library and research funder communities in the UK — investigating the drivers, costs and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals. It identifies five different but realistic scenarios for moving towards that end over the next five years, including gold and green open access, moves towards national licensing, publisher-led delayed open access, and transactional models. It then compares and evaluates the benefits as well as the costs and risks for the UK. The scenarios, the comparisons between them, and the modelling on which they are based, amount to a benefit-cost analysis to help in appraising policy options over the next five years. Our conclusion is that policymakers who are seeking to promote increases in access should encourage the use of existing subject and institutional repositories, but avoid pushing for reductions in embargo periods, which might put at risk the sustainability of the underlying scholarly publishing system. They should also promote and facilitate a transition to gold open access, while seeking to ensure that the average level of charges for publication does not exceed circa £2,000; that the rate in the UK of open access publication is broadly in step with the rate in the rest of the world; and that total payments to journal publishers from UK universities and their funders do not rise as a consequence. |
| Growth through innovations and open access: The journal ZooKeys on point for digital taxonomy Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:15 AM PST www.physorg.com "The open access zoological journal ZooKeys published by Pensoft reported a substantial growth in 2011, in comparison to 2010, says an analysis dedicated to journal's jubilee 150th issue, By the end of November 2011, the journal published more than 10,000 pages and 420 articles (to compare with 4,962 pages and 180 articles in 2010). Since its launch in July 2008, ZooKeys published more than 19,000 pages and 780 articles of valuable information on new discoveries in the fascinating world of animals (from mammals and birds to insects and corals). The growth rate will reach 120% by the end of the year...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:13 AM PST Impact of Social Sciences, (28 Nov 2011) "When we think of impact, we must simply think of the ability to ‘re-use’ or recycle our research, writes Cameron Neylon. If we can expand the culture of citation and linking to new objects and new forms of re-use, particularly for objects on the web, then we can gather a much stronger and more comprehensive evidence base to support all sorts of decision making...." |
| Textmining: My years negotiating with Elsevier « petermr's blog Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:12 AM PST blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk "This post – which is long, but necessary – recounts my attempts to obtain permission to text-mine content published in Elsevier’s journals. (If you wish to trust my account the simple answer is – I have got nowhere and I am increasingly worried about Elsevier’s Sciverse as a monopolistic walled garden. If you don’t trust this judgement read the details). What matters is that the publishers are presenting themselves as “extremely helpful and responsive to request for textmining” – my experience is the opposite...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:00 AM PST By Kathleen Shearer. "Commissioned by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada....This briefing paper provides an up-to-date review of open access in order to assist the agencies in moving forward with their policy development, both individually and across the three agencies. The review outlines key recent developments in Canada and abroad with respect to sister agencies in the US, Europe, and Australia, and discusses specific challenges for Canadian granting agencies and the communities they serve. It also addresses the role of post-secondary institutions in the implementation of agency policies on open access and the potential barriers (social, cultural, structural, infrastructure, cost, etc) for the agencies in moving towards the implementation of a joint open access policy...." |
| Animal Garden – open science issues Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:56 AM PST |
| The Ed Techie: Yeah, but who pays? Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:55 AM PST nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk "My colleague, Gill Kirkup, asks this question of digital scholarship, and it is a frequent refrain of Alan Cann's. It's a good question, and one I usually try to have an answer for. I don't think I am guilty of Gill's charge of hoping for the "internet equivalent of the tooth fairy". In fact, one of my complaints about the current academic publishing model is that it's a poor economic one. Now, one can make many arguments about open access that don't address the economics, for example around it being a public good, or a more effective way of working for instance, many of which are compelling in their own right, but in this post let's just focus on the money bit...." |
| The opportunity in data « Michele Ide-Smith Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:51 AM PST www.ide-smith.co.uk "On Friday I attended a fascinating series of keynote talks, followed by a panel discussion, about the opportunities for entrepreneurs to use open data. The talk was part of a series of events organised by the group Silicon Valley comes to the UK...." |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:50 AM PST ilissafrica.wordpress.com "ilissAfrica strengthened its service of full text e-documents through the integration of Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE). Via this powerful OAI-PMH service provider some of the most important African and French repositories and article databases are now part of the combined search in ilissAfrica...." |
| Quantifying the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Research Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:39 AM PST PLoS ONE 6 (11), e27537 (2011) Abstract: Qualitative and quantitative methods are being developed to measure the impacts of research on society, but they suffer from serious drawbacks associated with linking a piece of research to its subsequent impacts. We have developed a method to derive impact scores for individual research publications according to their contribution to answering questions of quantified importance to end users of research. To demonstrate the approach, here we evaluate the impacts of research into means of conserving wild bee populations in the UK. For published papers, there is a weak positive correlation between our impact score and the impact factor of the journal. The process identifies publications that provide high quality evidence relating to issues of strong concern. It can also be used to set future research agendas. |
| The Challenge of an Open Access Environment for Biodiveristy Across Europea and Brazil Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:37 AM PST cordis.europa.eu "Ms Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, released this statement in conjunction with the Workshop "Brazil-EU Cooperation in ICT R&D" which took place on 7th & 8th November in Brasilia, Brazil , crowning the launch of a new coordinated call for research and development, while a new project had just started exactly to respond to European and Brazilian need of cooperation in biodiversity. Funded by the European Commission (7th Framework Programme) and the Brazilian Minister of Science Technology and Innovation (MCTI) - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) within the 2010 edition of the EU-Brazil coordinated call, EUBrazilOpenBio “Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity” will set-up a virtual environment, namely an e-Infrastructure of open access resources, to tackle the complexity of Biodiversity Science, in line with the European and Brazilian drive to “[…] join forces to deploy cloud computing solutions to address scientific challenges in fields such as environment modelling, biodiversity and life science ”. ..." |
| Official Google Blog: More spring cleaning out of season Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:30 AM PST googleblog.blogspot.com Google is shutting down Knol. "We launched Knol in 2007 to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles. In order to continue this work, we’ve been working with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum, an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and you can download your knols to a file and/or migrate them to WordPress.com. From May 1 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported. After that time, Knol content will no longer be accessible...." |
| IDCC11 Preview: An interview with Ewan McIntosh | Digital Curation Centre Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:24 AM PST www.dcc.ac.uk "Most people don't know what data could be used for and, in ignorance, assume the worst. That would be enough to stop anyone sharing information. The most polemical example would be healthcare, although schools data isn't far behind. This data could be life changing in terms of what we could learn from publishing it and sharing with a larger group of smart people. Sure, there will always be those who abuse the data, who don't 'get' it, but the benefit of a discovery or insight from someone who does is too great to ignore the potential...." |
| Work in progress: The Data Digitizer | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:18 AM PST blog.okfn.org "Back in July of this year a crowd of coders, scientists and new media artists gathered in Berlin for the Open Science Workshop at OKCon. One of the projects to come out of this gathering was the Data Digitizer, a tool for transcribing documents and tables that are not currently machine-readable. Suggested applications for this tool ranged from the transcription of Brazilian census data to input of tables from economics articles to allow comparisons across multiple articles that examine the same variables. The project is still ongoing with the code up on github...." |
| Education-Specific HTML to Be Submitted to Search Engines Soon Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:17 AM PST Comments for Education-Specific HTML to Be Submitted to Search Engines Soon, (22 Nov 2011) "Students, educators and others interested in finding the best published content, events and experts for learning new things will be heartened to learn that a new metadata markup standard is in the works to make discovery of learning materials easier than ever. Perhaps more importantly, it will make those materials easier for machines to find. Once finding the right content is a solved problem, many new things could become possible. The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), a project co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons, today took the next step towards submitting its specification to Schema.org, the collaboration between Google, Yahoo and Bing that maps out 100 different types of content online in a standardized format. The LRMI 0.5 spec lets publishers communicate in a page's HTML things like the competencies taught, the competencies required, the type of educational materials and the typical age range of intended users for anything educational published online. Time required for completion, degree of interactivity and a small number of other ways of describing educational content are included in the spec...." |
| Wissenschaftsverlage - die Blutsauger des Wissenschaftsbetriebs | Detritus Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:15 AM PST www.scilogs.de From Google's English: "The whole misery of economic parasitism of scientific publishing has a whole bunch of unpleasant consequences: There are, of course, especially public funds, the tear, the publishers under the nail. Access to the knowledge of what has already been purchased expensive, must be purchased for a second time from the publishers. While public funds are always scarce. In general, the journals with the highest reputation, the more expensive, and the reputation of the scientist is thus of the worst off in this league. These circumstances also means that, theoretically at less well-heeled university employees can not even see their own publications. At the University of Potsdam we had access only to a handful of magazines and we always had our friends at MPI and s in the industry to ask PDFs of articles. In addition: Poor countries can not afford the subscriptions, ordinary Menschenvon the road without access to university libraries can not find information easily, and so on and so forth...." |
| The Open Access Policy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:13 AM PST epub.oeaw.ac.at Undated but apparently new: "To some extent, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has been following an open access policy for years. Publically available are, for example, select photo archives, lexicons, various working paper series, certain journals and books, as well as chapters or other sections of books published by the ÖAW Press as well as the Academy’s individual research units. In addition, the ÖAW has set up EPUB.OEAW, a publications repository. In the future, digital versions of ÖAW research output will be made publically accessible as quickly as possible, unless prevented for economic or legal reasons. The form of the publication, its location and means of access will be chosen by the individual researcher. Research fellows at the ÖAW are recommended, subject to legal exclusions, to self-archive their work specific to subject following the so-called green road strategy. It is recommended that they do this as quickly as possible. This means: ÖAW authors retain the right to deposit a digital copy of their work in a repository that is publically available. To provide their scholarly community free access to their research output, ÖAW research fellows can use the institutional repository EPUB.OEAW, which is freely accessible via the internet, or a server specific to their discipline. The ÖAW has made the EPUB.OEAW infrastructure available. It guarantees – based on international standards – the storage of data and research output for at least ten years, and complies to quality security for the data by means of Crossref, CLOCKSS, Portico, ÖNB and ISO." |
| Publisher Drops Copyright Claim, Favors Fair Use | PCWorld Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:09 AM PST www.pcworld.com "If you've ever copied an excerpt from an online publication and pasted it in a public place on the Internet, you're a bit safer today from being sued for copyright infringement thanks to the Democratic Underground. The liberal and progressive website won a victory yesterday for "Fair Use" of copyrighted material on the Internet when a media company in Las Vegas withdrew its opposition to dismissal of a lawsuit against the organization for copyright infringement...." |
| Ten Tales of Drivers and Barriers in Data Sharing Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:27 AM PST ODEoutputs APA, (07 Nov 2011) "As the part of its mission of identifying, collating, interpreting and delivering evidence of emerging best practices in sharing, re-using, preserving and citing data, and documenting drivers of change and the barriers impeding progress this report is an important first step. It is a collection of success stories and lessons learned in the area of data sharing, re-use and preservation. These use cases outline the state ofplay in this dynamic area, and are meant to help stakeholders appreciate the vast potential for innovation as well as barriers to success in the field. These ten tales, selected by the Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) project, are based on personal interviews with leaders in scientific communities, research infrastructures, management and policy initiatives...." |
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