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- Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal
- The Case for an Open Science in Technology Enhanced Learning
- Helmholtz Association supports open-access publishing
- Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for scholarly publishers
- Open Data Day 2011 – Recaps from Around the World | eaves.ca
- Introducing Annotum to Wordpress Bloggers | Gobbledygook
- Mendeley: where academic research meets the cloud
- Times Higher Education - Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at heart a catalogue of errors
- Scientific journal is a lot like YouTube – - Macleans OnCampus
- Essay on ways to prevent scientific misconduct | Inside Higher Ed
- New Agreement with OpenEdition Brings Highly-Regarded Open Access Content in the Humanities and the Social Sciences to EBSCO Discovery Service™ | LISWire
- Is free inevitable in scholarly communication?
- Exploring open access in higher education: live chat best bits | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
- Springer API Challenge 2.0 open now
- GOAL Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
- American Scientist OA Forum (1998-2011) Migrating to Global #OpenAccess List (GOAL): New Moderator Richard Poynder
- Open Access and Scholarly Societies: Presentation Slides
| Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:26 AM PST Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5 (55), (05 Dec 2011) The current system of publishing in the biological sciences is notable for its redundancy, inconsistency, sluggishness, and opacity. These problems persist, and grow worse, because the peer review system remains focused on deciding whether or not to publish a paper in a particular journal rather than providing (1) a high-quality evaluation of scientific merit and (2) the information necessary to organize and prioritize the literature. we propose an update to the system of publishing in which publication is guaranteed, but pre-publication peer review still occurs, giving the authors the opportunity to revise their work following a mini pre-reception from the field. This step also provides a consistent set of rankings and reviews to the marketplace, allowing for early prioritization and stabilizing its early dynamics. We further propose to improve the general quality of reviewing by providing tangible rewards to those who do it well. |
| The Case for an Open Science in Technology Enhanced Learning Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:03 AM PST Know-Center, Graz, (2011) In International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, forthcoming paper. Abstract: In this paper, we make the case for an Open Science in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Open Science means opening up the research process by making all of its outcomes, and the way in which these outcomes were achieved, publicly available on the World Wide Web. In our vision, the adoption of Open Science instruments provides a set of solid and sustainable ways to connect the disjoint communities in TEL. Furthermore, we envision that researchers in TEL would be able to reproduce the results from any paper using the instruments of Open Science. Therefore, we introduce the concept of Open Methodology, which stands for sharing the methodological details of the evaluation provided, and the tools used for data collection and analysis. We discuss the potential benefits, but also the issues of an Open Science, and conclude with a set of recommendations for implementing Open Science in TEL. |
| Helmholtz Association supports open-access publishing Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:42 AM PST www.helmholtz.de To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association is now supporting the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE). |
| Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for scholarly publishers Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:33 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (09 Dec 2011) "Following are my tips for scholarly publishers facing pressure to adopt CC-BY licenses....There are strong and valid arguments for why CC-BY is the license that most closely fits that BOAI definition of open access. However, I would argue that there are flaws in CC-BY that make it incompatible with the larger definition and aims of BOAI. For this reason, I would advocate that CC-BY-NC-SA is actually the strongest open access license, as this ensures open access downstream...." |
| Open Data Day 2011 – Recaps from Around the World | eaves.ca Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:31 PM PST eaves.ca "This last Saturday was International Open Data Day with hackathons taking place in cities around the world...." |
| Introducing Annotum to Wordpress Bloggers | Gobbledygook Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:26 PM PST blogs.plos.org "Version 1.0 of Annotum, the free WordPress theme for writing scholarly articles, was announced in late November. Back in June I wrote about the first public version of Annotum, but until now using Annotum was experimental. Annotum is available in the WordPress Themes Directory at WordPress.org (and has been downloaded more than 9,000 times in the past three weeks), and is also available for users of WordPress.com. I have installed Annotum 1.0 here, please drop me a note if you want an account. But how is an Annotum blog different from a regular WordPress blog? ...Annotum uses the custom post type article for scholarly content. This can be confusing in the beginning, but makes it easier to separate scholarly content from regular blog posts....Scholarly articles have more structure than blog posts, and you can add this structure with the Annotum editor...This structure is enforced, and the WordPress HTML editor is disabled. This makes it easier to create content that conforms to the NLM-DTD XML format....Annotum knows that articles can have multiple authors....Annotum knows about tables, figures, equations and references...." |
| Mendeley: where academic research meets the cloud Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:22 PM PST |
| Times Higher Education - Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at heart a catalogue of errors Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:21 PM PST www.timeshighereducation.co.uk "Two years ago, Google Books was becoming the world's largest digital library and, with an effective monopoly, seemed "almost certain to be the last one". The tragedy for scholars was that Google Books' metadata - which allow users to search the catalogue - were "a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess". Such was the argument made in 2009 by Geoffrey Nunberg, adjunct full professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley....In response to Professor Nunberg's critique, Google offered to correct any errors that were brought to its attention. But while this process has ironed out specific glitches in the intervening years, Professor Nunberg does not believe it has made a fundamental difference....Professor Nunberg said he could not understand why Google scans in copies of books from major research libraries, where the details tend to be recorded correctly, and then turns for its metadata to far less reliable sources. To patch up the huge problems would now require substantial time and resources. These were unlikely to be forthcoming, Professor Nunberg said, because, "like most high-tech companies, Google puts a much higher premium on innovation than maintenance. They aren't good at the punctilious, anal-retentive sort of work librarians are used to." ..." |
| Scientific journal is a lot like YouTube – - Macleans OnCampus Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:18 PM PST oncampus.macleans.ca "Are you tired of reading textbooks and journal articles? Imagine if you could research your lab report or learn an experimental technique by watching a YouTube video. I just learned that you basically can, thanks to the Journal of Visualized Experiments. It’s like YouTube, except you’re not watching videos of kittens playing patty cake or people doing stupid stuff with trampolines. JoVE publishes peer-reviewed research just like any other academic journal, but in video format. It’s even indexed in PubMed Central, which is the Google of biochemical and life sciences research. At five-years old, JoVE may be the only journal of its kind. But one can imagine there will soon be more like it...." |
| Essay on ways to prevent scientific misconduct | Inside Higher Ed Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:13 PM PST www.insidehighered.com "The most recent case of scientific fraud by Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel recalls the 2010 case against Harvard University of Marc Hauser, a well-respected researcher in human and animal cognition. In both cases, the focus was on access to and irregularities in handling of data. Stapel retained full control of the raw data, never allowing his students or colleagues to have access to data files. In the case of Hauser, the scientific misconduct investigation found missing data files and unsupported scientific inference at the center of the accusations against him. Outright data fraud by Stapel and sloppy data management and inappropriate data use by Hauser underscore the critical role data transparency plays in preventing scientific misconduct. Recent developments at the National Science Foundation (and earlier this decade at the National Institutes of Health) suggest a solution — data-sharing requirements for all grant-funded projects and by all scientific journals. Such a requirement could prevent this type of fraud by quickly opening up research data to scrutiny by a wider community of scientists." |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:05 PM PST liswire.com "Content from the French open access publishing platform openedition.org (OpenEdition) will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service™ from EBSCO Publishing. OpenEdition is made up of three community publishing platforms dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. The complementary platforms represent a complete electronic publishing system dedicated to promoting research and open access publishing of tens of thousands of scientific papers. OpenEdition is an initiative of the Centre for open electronic publishing—Centre pour ľédition électronique ouverte (Cléo)—based in Marseille, Paris and Lisbon, Portugal. Cléo is a laboratory involving the CNRS (the National Centre for Science Research), the University of Provence, the EHESS (the Graduate School of Social Sciences) and the University of Avignon. OpenEdition is the umbrella portal for Revues.org, Hypotheses.org and Calenda...." |
| Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:03 PM PST College & Research Libraries News 72 (11), (01 Dec 2011) "In this article I would like to make the case that a change in the delivery of scientific content and in the business models for delivering scholarly communication was inevitable from the moment journals moved online, even if much of this change is yet to come. By applying a thesis put forth by Chris Anderson in his 2009 book Free, I will argue that given that scholarly journals are now digital products, they are subject to very different economic principles and social forces than their print ancestors...." |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2011 12:59 PM PST www.guardian.co.uk "What is the benefit of open access to academia? Who will pay for open education resources? These questions and many more are answered by our live chat panel...." |
| Springer API Challenge 2.0 open now Posted: 13 Dec 2011 12:00 PM PST WebWire | Recent Headlines, (13 Dec 2011) "Springer announces the Springer API (Application Programming Interface) Challenge 2.0, its second competition for original, non-commercial applications using its freely available metadata and content APIs. The Springer API Challenge 1.0 asked participants to develop applications that offer users new ways to find, visualize, and manipulate relevant data drawn from Springer’s large and growing content database...." |
| GOAL Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:18 AM PST mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk The Global Open Access List (GOAL) is the successor of the American Scientist Open Access (AmSci) Forum, which was the first Open Access Forum, begun in 1998 and hosted for 13 years (1998-2011) by Sigma Xi. http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Open Access is no longer just an American or a Scientific Matter. It is a global movement with the goal of making all 2.5 million articles published annually in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals -- in all scholarly and scientific fields, and in all languages -- freely accessible online to anyone on the Web. GOAL is accordingly dedicated to the discussion of Open Access practice and policy-making by the worldwide research community (in no order: researchers, universities, research institutions, research funding agencies, governmental research policy-makers and commercial entities) with the aim of enabling concrete, practical steps to be taken to achieve Open Access. Chief among these goals are techniques for increasing the amount of Open Access, as well as metrics of research usage and impact. The new archive for GOAL is: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/ List Moderator: Richard Poynder For discussion of other OA issues, there is also the Sparc Open Access Forum (SOAF) https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum/topics and the BOAI Forum http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/ To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the GOAL Archives: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/ |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:08 AM PST listserver.sigmaxi.org The AmSci list will now be migrating to http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal The name of the list has been changed to the Global Open Access List (GOAL) to reflect the fact that Open Access is no longer just an American or a Scientific matter. It has become a global movement. The old AmSci Forum Archives (1998-2011) will stay up at the Sigma Xi site. |
| Open Access and Scholarly Societies: Presentation Slides Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:04 AM PST Scholarly Communication Interest Group, (23 Nov 2011) Slides from the ACRL/NEC workshop held on November 18, 2011 |
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