Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge
- Center for Public Scholarship conference, part 5; India, China, South Africa
- What is the future of scientific publishing? | Croakey
- The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access 2011 early year-end edition
- ‘Where Does My Money Go?’ Goes international. Welcome to OpenSpending.
- Save Scholarly Ideas, Not the Publishing Industry (a rant)
- A Call At OHCHR For Policy Action On Right To Enjoy Benefits Of Scientific Progress | Intellectual Property Watch
- How scientists use social media to communicate their research
- Jan Velterop, Hybrid journals – double or quits?
| Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:19 AM PST cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk "Cambridge University Library is pleased to present the first items in its Foundations of Science collection: a selection from the Papers of Sir Isaac Newton. The Library holds the most important and substantial collection of Newton's scientific and mathematical manuscripts and over the next few months we intend to make most of our Newton papers available on this site. This first release features some of Newton's most important work from the 1660s, including his college notebooks and 'Waste Book'...." |
| Center for Public Scholarship conference, part 5; India, China, South Africa Posted: 11 Dec 2011 07:37 PM PST Techne, (09 Dec 2011) "The New School is currently hosting a conference on the Future of Higher Education. The program is led by the Center for Public Scholarship, and started on Thursday, December 8, 2011. What follows are live-blogged notes....Q: open access, open content. A: Parasuraman: Indian universities are producing open content, and doing more. Good for other Indian institutions. What’s needed are people who can mediate that content...." |
| What is the future of scientific publishing? | Croakey Posted: 11 Dec 2011 07:04 PM PST blogs.crikey.com.au "The British Government has thrown its support behind a call for all publicly funded scientific research to be published in open-access journals, according to a recent report in The Guardian...." [PS: Deeply misleading omission of green OA, both from this summary and from the analysis which follows.] |
| The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access 2011 early year-end edition Posted: 11 Dec 2011 06:40 PM PST The challenges of success dramatic growth of open access early yearend edition The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (12 Dec 2011) Universal access to all knowledge will be one of humanity’s greatest achievements. We are already well on the way! from Stewart Brand's: Brewster Kahle's 30 November Long Now Talk For fun and inspiration, check out the Internet Archive for the more than 3 million books (adding 1,000 titles per day), 100,000 concerts and 1 million recordings (3 new bands uploading / day), 600,000 movies, and of course the web itself. Thanks, Internet Archive and Brewster Kahle - and wow! 2011 has been another outstanding year for the growth of open access to scholarly resources. Highlights this quarter include the remarkable growth of the Directory of Open Access Journals, with an increase of more than 600 titles this quarter alone so far, for a growth rate of 9 titles per day. On November 26, RePEC reached a major milestone. There are now One million works available online through RePEC (Nov. 26, 2011). According to the Sherpa services blog, 60% of journals allow immediate self-archiving of post peer-reviewed articles and the Open Access Directory just sailed past our 2 millionth view of the OAD. From my perspective, open access has entered a new phase, one in which we are beginning to see the challenges of success. |
| ‘Where Does My Money Go?’ Goes international. Welcome to OpenSpending. Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:16 AM PST The OpenSpending Blog, (01 Mar 2011) |
| Save Scholarly Ideas, Not the Publishing Industry (a rant) Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:14 AM PST Social Media Collective, (11 Dec 2011) "The scholarly publishing industry used to offer a service. It used to be about making sure that knowledge was shared as broadly as possible to those who would find it valuable using the available means of distribution: packaged paper objects shipped through mail to libraries and individuals. It made a profit off of serving an audience. These days, the scholarly publishing industry operates as a gatekeeper, driven more by profits than by the desire to share information as widely as possible. It stopped innovating and started resting on its laurels. And the worst part about it? Scholars have bent over and let that industry continuously violate them and the university libraries that support them.... I admit that I don’t have a lot of patience for industries who aren’t willing to go back to their mission and innovate. But what pisses me off to no end is that the same Marxist academics who pooh-pooh corporations justify their own commitment to this blood-sucking process with one word: tenure. Not like that is the end of the self-justifications. Even once scholars get tenure, they continue down the same path – even when not publishing with students – by telling themselves it’s for promotion or because grants require it or because of any other status-seeking process. WTF? How did academia become so risk-adverse? The whole point of tenure was to protect radical thinking. But where is the radicalism in academia? I get that there are more important things to protest in the world than scholarly publishing, but why the hell aren’t academics working together to resist the corporatization and manipulation of the knowledge that they produce? ...What are *you* doing to resist the corporate stranglehold over scholarly knowledge in order to make your knowledge broadly accessible? ..." |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:50 AM PST www.ip-watch.org "The right of people to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress, the subject of an article in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, has received little attention and needs new attention in UN agencies, according to panellists yesterday at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Human rights need to enter the arena in fora where scientific progress and its application are being discussed, they said in a public consultation on the ideas....There is also a concern that intellectual property restrictions can impede access to data needed for research, and policies need to prevent this from happening, said [Audrey Chapman, professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine]...." |
| How scientists use social media to communicate their research Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:45 AM PST Journal of Translational Medicine 9 (1), 199 (2011) Abstract: Millions of people all over the world are constantly sharing an extremely wide range of fascinating, quirky, funny, irrelevant and important content all at once. Even scientists are no strangers to this trend. Social media has enabled them to communicate their research quickly and efficiently throughout each corner of the world. But which social media platforms are they using to communicate this research and how are they using them? One thing is clear: the range of social media platforms that scientists are using is relatively vast and dependent on discipline and sentiment. While the future of social media is unknown, a combination of educated speculation and persuasive fact points to the industry's continual growth and influence. Thus, is that not only are scientists utilizing social media to communicate their research, they must. The ability to communicate to the masses via social media is critical to the distribution of scientific information amongst professionals in the field and to the general population. |
| Jan Velterop, Hybrid journals – double or quits? Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:40 AM PST Hybrid journals double or quits The Parachute, (11 Dec 2011) "Hybrid journals – journals that combine toll access to some articles with open access to others – do not generally enjoy a good press. Terms such as 'double-dipping' are used. This is not justified, as a general rule. I can't guarantee that double-dipping never happens, but I don't think it is generally the case. Publishers could do more to disabuse the library and research communities of the notion that it is, though....As said above, hybrid journals do not generally enjoy a good press, but I have heard positive comments about them as well in the scientific community. Those relate to the notion that the editorial policy (the acceptance/rejection policy) of hybrid journals is not influenced by the potential financial contribution coming from the authors. The 'open choice' is typically given as an option only after the article has passed peer review and is accepted. I don't think acceptance and rejection policies of any respectable OA journal are influenced by the prospect of authors paying, and I certainly don't know of any such practices at the OA publishers I am familiar with, but it is an extra assurance hybrid journals offer that that is indeed not the case...." |
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