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- Congress Asks NOAA to Consider Charging for Data
- Quality of commercial scholarly publishing: what role for the industry?
- android apps
- Institutional repositories, social media and academic publication: a simple experiment
- A Year in the Life of Open Archaeology (and some upcoming events to look out for)
- Brewster Kahle’s 30 November Long Now Talk | Internet Archive Blogs
- Defendants' joint answer and defenses
- Mea Culpa
- Bad News from Berkeley
- More on how commercial publishers use Non-Commercial licensing; Funders, are you really getting your money’s worth? many are not « petermr's blog
- SCIRES-IT
- Featured Project: Transforming the way we publish research « The #SciFund Challenge
- Panton Fellowships
- UK to make publicly funded research free to read - science-in-society - 09 December 2011 - New Scientist
- Europeana und die Public Domain
| Congress Asks NOAA to Consider Charging for Data Posted: 11 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST Science 334 (6061), (09 Dec 2011) "Congress is questioning the wisdom of giving everyone a free ride [open data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)]. Faced with soaring NOAA satellite costs and a bleak budget outlook, lawmakers last month ordered the agency to explore ways of charging other federal agencies —and perhaps even some large consortiums of academic scientists that partner with government agencies—for its “specialized data products.” It's time, they argue, for beneficiaries to help NOAA sustain a cash-strapped satellite program. A storm is brewing over the suggestion....For some researchers, the issue is creating a worrying sense of déjà vu. In the 1980s, government officials decided to charge for imagery collected by Landsat satellites in an attempt to defray the satellites' costs. The result, Moore says, is that the number of users plummeted and “the data ended up in a Landsat mortuary.” ..." |
| Quality of commercial scholarly publishing: what role for the industry? Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:58 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (10 Dec 2011) Suggests that the commercial scholarly publishing industry should take a role in monitoring quality of existing and new scholarly publishers, including OA publishers. |
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| Institutional repositories, social media and academic publication: a simple experiment Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:41 PM PST Journal of the left-handed biochemist, (04 Dec 2011) "[I]n mid-November I started to use Twitter to advertise the existence of some of the papers I have deposited in the Leicester Research Archive (LRA)....Partway through this process it occurred to me that I had stumbled into a little experiment. So in the end I selectively tweeted about 8 of the 27 documents I currently have in the LRA. Admittedly these were probably the 8 papers that I felt were of most interest to the broader community on Twitter, but this did not mean they had previously received the most hits in the archive. In fact, if you rank the 25 works that had been in the Leicester repository throughout the 6 months (May to October 2011) from most to least popular, then these 8 were ranked: 4th, 5th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 18th, 23rd and 24th= (2 documents were not added to the archive until November)....All of the resources promoted via Twitter were accessed more times than any of the resources that were not advertised in this way....Apart from the resources that were newly listed in the archive in November (and de facto got 100% of their views within that month), the highest scores for “hits in November as percentage of lifetime hits” were also all for the promoted articles....[The] highest two resources (as a percentage of lifetime views) were for articles that had been listed in the archive for several months, but had only had an authors’ draft copy deposited as a PDF file within the last few weeks....The highest three articles downloaded from the site (lifetime statistics, not specifically November 2011) are all for resources that are not freely available as open access resources via any other (official) route....Leicester’s Gareth Johnson, current chair of the UK Council of Research Repositories, suggests that after publishing any paper academics ought to provide copies to their local archive (subject to copyright restrictions) and then alert colleagues to the existence of the work. Gareth calls this the ”Publish – Deposit – Share” model of academic publishing. There is no doubt that if you have gone to the trouble of carrying out research and/or developing a new resource, and then writing the relevant paper, then it seems logical to use whatever channels are at your disposal to you to alert interested parties to the existence of the work...." |
| A Year in the Life of Open Archaeology (and some upcoming events to look out for) Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:36 PM PST Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, (05 Dec 2011) "As 2011 draws to an end, it seemed timely to put together a quick update on a year’s happenings around Open Archaeology, as well as providing a brief overview of upcoming events relating to open access within the discipline, and sector of Archaeology...." |
| Brewster Kahle’s 30 November Long Now Talk | Internet Archive Blogs Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:34 PM PST blog.archive.org Notes on Brewster Kahle's presentation, "Universal access to all knowledge." |
| Defendants' joint answer and defenses Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:32 PM PST thepublicindex.org The defendants in the suit from the Authors Guild (and others) against the Hathi Trust (and others) filed their defense on December 2, 2011. |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:30 PM PST laboratorium.net "In my recent The Elephantine Google Book Settlement, I wrote: "In 2004, Google announced partnerships with major academic libraries to digitize the books in their collections. … At first, the project included only books in the public domain, but it soon expanded to include books under copyright as well." I have said similar things on many occasions. They reflected my understanding of the Google Books program. Unfortunately, it appears my understanding was wrong. The initial announcement of the program included both public-domain and copyrighted books from the start...." |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:28 PM PST laboratorium.net "I [James Grimmelmann] hardly know where to start with U.C. Berkeley’s new campus policy on Course Note-Taking and Materials. Perhaps with “Why We Have This Policy”: "The Course Note-Taking and Materials policy is intended to (1) protect instructors’ copyrights and the integrity of their intellectual property in the context of twenty-first century learning, commercial, regulatory, and technological environments; (2) restrict commercial note-taking services to those authorized by the campus; and (3) hold members of the campus community and commercial vendors responsible for complying with the policy." I would have thought that the most important goals of a policy on course notes would be to facilitate good teaching and effective learning. And then, in that context, perhaps copyright might come up as a way to encourage professors to develop good course materials, or to help enforce the policy. But no. The copyrights come first, and the pedagogy not at all...." |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:25 PM PST blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk "I am going to bore some readers by jabbering on relentlessly about why publishers should not use CC-NC. But every time you switch off it costs the academic community another few hundred million dollars. That will be cut from your research grants. Because CC-NC is simply handing money and goods and control and restriction and monopoly to the commercial publishers...." |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:21 PM PST caspur-ciberpublishing.it "SCIRES-IT (e-ISSN 2239-4303) is a [peer-reviewed, no-fee] Open Access journal providing an international forum for the exchange and sharing of know-how in the areas of Digitalization and Multimedia Technologies and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in support of Cultural and environmental Heritage (CH) documentation, preservation and fruition. SCIRES-IT is published by CASPUR-CIBER Publishing." [PS: It publishes articles in Italian and English.] |
| Featured Project: Transforming the way we publish research « The #SciFund Challenge Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:18 PM PST scifund.wordpress.com "This morning’s featured project, Transforming the way we publish research is a truly ambitious project. Daniel Mietchen isn’t trying to just conduct a simple research project, but rather he’s trying to affect a revolution within science. Daniel’s project is trying to affect a huge and important cultural shift in science – one that will only improve the quality and speed of the work we do. He’s trying to create a repository for open data collected in real time...." |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST jwyg.okfn.org, (07 Jul 2011) "For a while I’ve been thinking about how the Open Knowledge Foundation can do more to support open data in science. In particular how we can do more to encourage research funders and publicly funded research bodies to adopt open data policies and mandates. With this in mind, I floated the idea of setting up Panton Fellowships for Open Data in Science to Cameron Neylon (STFC), Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge), Tim Hubbard (Sanger Institute) and Karien Bezuidenhout (Shuttleworth Foundation) at OKCon 2011 in Berlin last week. Since then I’ve spoken to Melissa Hagemann at OSI...." |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:57 AM PST www.newscientist.com "All scientific research funded by British taxpayers will be made available online free of charge, according to a government report published earlier this week. And it doesn't stop there – the government intends the website, to be named Gateway to Research, to eventually incorporate research funded by other bodies. Much of the high-energy physics research community currently uses a system of open-access online publishing, and Janet Finch, former vice-chair of Keele University, UK, has been charged with investigating how the UK might set up something similar for all its taxpayer-funded science. The arxiv.org website, an online repository set up in 1991, offers almost all high-energy physics research for free. Despite this, established physics journals have reported no decrease in subscriptions....British science minister David Willetts suggests that peer-reviewed journals could become open-access by charging their contributors, rather than their readers. "One of the clear options is to shift from a system in which university libraries pay for journals to one in which the academics pay to publish," he says. "But then you need to shift the funding so that the academics could afford to pay to publish." ..." |
| Europeana und die Public Domain Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:08 AM PST |
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