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- A Model for Collaboration
- Moving toward an era of open access?
- Mathematicians' Views on Current Publishing Issues: A Survey of Researchers
- A European open access chemical weather forecasting portal
- Kno Giving Away $10 Million in Free eTextbooks
- Unlock local research potential with open access - SciDev.Net
- Ancient Egypt Research Associates Open Access Publications
- Medical and psychological student associations join open-access coalition - Research Information
- Cameron Neylon, An Open Letter to David Willetts: A bold step towards opening British research
- What does Creative Commons mean for science?
- Research Data: Share Early, Share Often - Slashdot
- US bioethics panel urges stronger protections for human subjects : Nature News & Comment
- National Open Access and Preservation Policies in Europe
- Open-Access-Projekt gewinnt Wikimedia-Förderpreis
- The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science
- SNCF Open Data - La communauté Open Data
- Open-Source Ecology Takes Root Across the World
- NutNet Home | Nutrient Network: A Global Research Cooperative
- The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access early year-end edition
- Brewster's Millions: ALA Preview 2011
- “Open Access” and Non-Commercial Licences – summary « petermr's blog
- Khan Academy ponders what it can teach the higher education establishment | Inside Higher Ed
- Open Science and Non-Commercial licenses (a personal reflection to the Oscar/RSC controversy)
- A future where data citation Counts
- Shareable: Who Are The 99%? Occupy Research Aims To Find Out
- Opening Europe's Data | News | guardian.co.uk
- Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
- EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
- EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Commission's Open Data Strategy, Questions & answers
- EUROPA - Press Releases - Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Data is the new gold Opening Remarks, Press Conference on Open Data Strategy Brussels, 12th December 2011
- Information Society - Public Sector Information - Access & Re-use
- New biodiversity data publishing framework proposed
| Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:32 AM PST askmagazine.nasa.gov "The entire scientific community at CERN operates with an inherent and profound sense of trust. Trust in the process. Trust in their colleagues. Trust in the science. This trust emerges from a mutual “code of ethics” built on a culture of reciprocity. Because their community is close-knit and their most valuable currency is reputation, experimental physicists around the world know who contributes. Conversely, the few who have been too proprietary with their ideas have been ostracized. It’s like a crowd-sourced performance review. Notably, CERN promotes the “open access” movement in scientific publishing; anyone can access the results, which are posted to the CERN library site...." |
| Moving toward an era of open access? Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST Japan Journal of Nursing Science 8 (2), 113 (20 Nov 2011) Not even an abstract is free online. |
| Mathematicians' Views on Current Publishing Issues: A Survey of Researchers Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:40 AM PST Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (15 Dec 2011) Fall 2011 issue. Abstract: This article reports research mathematicians' attitudes about and activity in specific scholarly communication areas, as captured in a 2010 survey of more than 600 randomly-selected mathematicians worldwide. Key findings include: Most mathematicians have papers in the arXiv, but posting to their own web pages remains more common; A third of mathematicians have published papers in open access (OA) journals, with speed of publication being seen as the primary advantage over traditional journals, but there is substantial philosophical opposition to OA journal models that charge author fees; Tenure and promotion criteria influence publishing decisions even among most tenured faculty members; Mathematicians want to keep more rights to their publications than they have been allowed, but they have a high success rate in negotiating with publishers for more; Online collaboration tools, such as Google Groups, are not yet widely used for research but their use is expected to rise in the near future. Reasons behind the mathematics culture of openness were also explored. |
| A European open access chemical weather forecasting portal Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:28 PM PST Atmospheric Environment 45, 6917-22 (Dec 2011) |
| Kno Giving Away $10 Million in Free eTextbooks Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:23 PM PST The Digital Shift, (14 Dec 2011) "Education software company Kno has launched a free etextbook promotion. Any student or professor with a .edu email address can sign up for the first come, first served giveaway...." |
| Unlock local research potential with open access - SciDev.Net Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:20 PM PST www.scidev.net "The developing world is not well served by traditional research publishing, but can break new ground with open access, argues Leslie Chan...." |
| Ancient Egypt Research Associates Open Access Publications Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:17 PM PST AWOL - The Ancient World Online, (14 Dec 2011) "Ancient Egypt Research Associates explores Egypt’s archaeological record seeking the origins of civilization. Our mission is to contribute insight and understanding to the present awareness of cultural evolution. In recent years, we have explored the development of urbanism, labor organization, and the elementary structures of ancient daily life at the once-Lost City of the pyramid builders at Giza. AERA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Dr. Mark Lehner and Matthew McCauley, with the assistance of Margaret Sears, in 1985 for the purpose of funding and facilitating the research of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, which grew out of the Sphinx Project...." |
| Medical and psychological student associations join open-access coalition - Research Information Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:16 PM PST www.researchinformation.info "The European Medical Students’ Association (EMSA) and the European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations (EFPSA) have joined the Right to Research Coalition. These additions bring more than 300,000 individuals into the coalition’s network of students. Founded in 2009, the Right to Research Coalition is an international alliance of 47 undergraduate and graduate student organisations that works to educate the next generation of scholars and researchers about open access and to advocate for policies at the campus, national, and international levels that expand access to the results of research...." |
| Cameron Neylon, An Open Letter to David Willetts: A bold step towards opening British research Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:14 PM PST cameronneylon.net "On the 8th December David Willetts, the Minister of State for Universities and Science, and announced new UK government strategies to develop innovation and research to support growth. The whole document is available online and you can see more analysis at the links at the bottom of the post. A key aspect for Open Access advocates was the section that discussed a wholesale move by the UK to an author pays system to freely accessible research literature with SCOAP3 raised as a possible model. The report refers not to Open Access, but to freely accessible content. I think this is missing a massive opportunity for Britain to take a serious lead in defining the future direction of scholarly communication. That’s the case I attempt to lay out in this open letter...." |
| What does Creative Commons mean for science? Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST Wired.co.uk - News, (15 Dec 2011) "This article forms part of Wired.co.uk's Creative Commons Week, which sees a range of articles published on the topics of CC licensing, as well as the past, present and future of the Creative Commons movement...." |
| Research Data: Share Early, Share Often - Slashdot Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:44 AM PST science.slashdot.org "Shipud writes [on Slashdot] "Holland was recently in the news when a psychology professor in Tilburg University was found to have committed large-scale fraud over several years. Now, another Dutch psychologist is suggesting a way to avert these sort of problems, namely by 'sharing early and sharing often,' since fraud may start with small indiscretions due to career-related pressure to publish. In Wilchert's study, he requested raw data from the authors of some 49 papers. He found that the authors' reluctance to share data was associated with 'more errors in the reporting of statistical results and with relatively weaker evidence (against the null hypothesis). The documented errors are arguably the tip of the iceberg of potential errors and biases in statistical analyses and the reporting of statistical results. It is rather disconcerting that roughly 50% of published papers in psychology contain reporting errors and that the unwillingness to share data was most pronounced when the errors concerned statistical significance.'" ..." |
| US bioethics panel urges stronger protections for human subjects : Nature News & Comment Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:07 AM PST www.nature.com "Along with 13 other recommendations, the commission calls for all of the US agencies that fund human research to make the basic data about their studies publicly available." |
| National Open Access and Preservation Policies in Europe Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:43 AM PST |
| Open-Access-Projekt gewinnt Wikimedia-Förderpreis Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:51 AM PST |
| The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:14 AM PST PLoS Biology 9 (12), e1001195 (2011) "Data provides the evidence for the published body of scientific knowledge, which is the foundation for all scientific progress. The more data is made openly available in a useful manner, the greater the level of transparency and reproducibility and hence the more efficient the scientific process becomes, to the benefit of society. This viewpoint is becoming mainstream among many funders, publishers, scientists, and other stakeholders in research, but barriers to achieving widespread publication of open data remain. The Open Data in Science working group at the Open Knowledge Foundation is a community that works to develop tools, applications, datasets, and guidelines to promote the open sharing of scientific data. This article focuses on the Open Knowledge Definition and the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science. We also discuss some of the tools the group has developed to facilitate the generation and use of open data and the potential uses that we hope will encourage further movement towards an open scientific knowledge commons...." |
| SNCF Open Data - La communauté Open Data Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:12 AM PST data.sncf.com The open-data project from the National Corporation of French Railways (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français, or SNCF). |
| Open-Source Ecology Takes Root Across the World Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:05 AM PST Science 334 (6054), 308 (20 Nov 2011) "During a coffee break at NCEAS, Borer and a few others hatched a plan: They would each set up a small research plot, use the same methods, then pool their data. The vision was a network of sites that would be quick and cheap to set up without the need for major grants, enabling simple experiments around the world. “It's like big science on a shoestring,” says Scott Collins of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, who later joined the network. The collaboration, called the Nutrient Network—now known as NutNet—has grown far beyond initial expectations, with scientists volunteering at 68 sites in 12 countries. In part, it's popular because the simple experiments are designed to answer a broad set of questions about how grasslands respond to global change—without disproportionate effort by any one individual. “It's not a brand-new idea, but it's novel that they've pulled it off,” says Alan Townsend of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who is not involved. The network also provides an easy way for young faculty members, postdocs, and grad students to get involved in a large collaboration and contribute to high-profile papers...." |
| NutNet Home | Nutrient Network: A Global Research Cooperative Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:04 AM PST nutnet.science.oregonstate.edu "NutNet [Nutrient Network] membership is open to ecologists who are committed to either intiating a new NutNet node, collaborating with researchers at an exitisting network site, or furthering the network goals in other substantive ways. There are two primary rules of membership: [1] You must play well with other members of the team, and [2] You must carefully follow the research protocol for the core sampling...." From the participation guidelines: "Network participants must...openly share data associated with the project in a common repository...." |
| The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access early year-end edition Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:58 AM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (12 Dec 2011) "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...." |
| Brewster's Millions: ALA Preview 2011 Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:56 AM PST www.publishersweekly.com "At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, a standing-room-only panel focused on how e-books will affect the future of libraries. From research and pilot programs to digitizing efforts, libraries have long helped prepare the way for e-books. But now that the consumer market for e-books has taken off, are libraries in danger of being marginalized? On the panel was Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive as well as the Open Library project, a digitizing program for library e-books that now includes more than 150 libraries and two million, mostly public domain, digitized books available for online lending. Kahle urged librarians not to give up their traditional roles, and not to let the promise of vendor-managed, licensed access turn libraries into agents for a few major corporations. "What libraries do is buy stuff and lend it out," he says, suggesting that libraries "digitize what we have to, and buy what we can." PW caught up with Kahle to talk about e-books, sure to be a hot topic at the ALA Annual Conference...." |
| “Open Access” and Non-Commercial Licences – summary « petermr's blog Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:54 AM PST |
| Khan Academy ponders what it can teach the higher education establishment | Inside Higher Ed Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:46 AM PST |
| Open Science and Non-Commercial licenses (a personal reflection to the Oscar/RSC controversy) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:33 AM PST chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com |
| A future where data citation Counts Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:29 AM PST |
| Shareable: Who Are The 99%? Occupy Research Aims To Find Out Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:24 AM PST www.shareable.net "A student of the technological shifts in media and how they affect social movements, [Sasha] Constanza-Chock is drawn to Occupy's distributed and non-hierarchical organizational structure. “I have spent a lot of time looking at how the shift to participatory media creates new opportunities, challenges, and how traditional vertical media organizations are threatened by it,” says Constanza-Chock. Following the weekend of September 17th, when Occupy first garnered significant mass media attention, Costanza-Chock enlisted a group of researchers to share notes and data on the Occupy Research Wikispace. “I started working with people in different fields as a way to experiement with open and shared research processes across multiple methods,” he says. “Occupy Research was started in the spirit of the movement, in which we apply the participatory ethic to the project. We decided to set up a place where people regardless of the field could share research and data sets.” ..." |
| Opening Europe's Data | News | guardian.co.uk Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:20 AM PST |
| Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST Online Information Review 36 (1) Abstract: This research examines the relationship between the open access availability of journal papers in anthropology and their citation conditions....We apply a statistical logistic regression model to explore this relationship, and compare two groups of papers – those published in high-ranked journals and those in low-ranked journals, based on journal impact factor – to examine the likelihood that open access status is correlated to scholarly impact....The results reveal that open access papers in general receive more citations. Moreover this research finds that 1) papers in high-ranked journals do not have a higher open access rate, and 2) papers in lower-ranked journals have a greater rate of citations if they are freely accessible....The findings are contrary to the existing theory that the higher citation rate of open access papers is caused by authors posting their best papers online. It is hoped that the results can help electronic publishers and digital project managers to adjust their strategies in open access advocacy. |
| EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:17 AM PST europa.eu " The Commission has launched an Open Data Strategy for Europe, which is expected to deliver a €40 billion boost to the EU's economy each year. Europe’s public administrations are sitting on a goldmine of unrealised economic potential: the large volumes of information collected by numerous public authorities and services. Member States such as the United Kingdom and France are already demonstrating this value. The strategy to lift performance EU-wide is three-fold: firstly the Commission will lead by example, opening its vaults of information to the public for free through a new data portal. Secondly, a level playing field for open data across the EU will be established. Finally, these new measures are backed by the €100 million which will be granted in 2011-2013 to fund research into improved data-handling technologies. These actions position the EU as the global leader in the re-use of public sector information. They will boost the thriving industry that turns raw data into the material that hundreds of millions of ICT users depend on, for example smart phone apps, such as maps, real-time traffic and weather information, price comparison tools and more. Other leading beneficiaries will include journalists and academics...." |
| EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Commission's Open Data Strategy, Questions & answers Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:16 AM PST |
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| Information Society - Public Sector Information - Access & Re-use Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:14 AM PST ec.europa.eu "Public sector information (PSI) is the single largest source of information in Europe. It is produced and collected by public bodies and includes digital maps, meteorological, legal, traffic, financial, economic and other data. Most of this raw data could be re-used or integrated into new products and services, which we use on a daily basis, such as car navigation systems, weather forecasts, financial and insurance services. Re-use of public sector information means using it in new ways by adding value to it, combining information from different sources, making mash-ups and new applications, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Public sector information has great economic potential. According to a survey on existing findings on the economic impact of public sector information conducted by the European Commission in 2011 (Vickery study) the overall direct and indirect economic gains are estimated at €140bn throughout the EU. Increase in the re-use of PSI generates new businesses and jobs and provides consumers with more choice and more value for money...." |
| New biodiversity data publishing framework proposed Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:04 AM PST PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories, (15 Dec 2011) "The 24 recommendations of the GBIF Data Publishing Framework Task Group are included in a special supplement of BMC Bioinformatics. Some of the measures proposed by the task group have already been taken up by GBIF and others, including the publication of 'data papers' to bring academic recognition to those publishing metadata to describe datasets. Others are in the pipeline, such as new services to monitor and publish use of data in a Data Usage Index, and a mechanism to ensure that all those involved in collecting, adding value to and publishing data are acknowledged in a single citation. Introducing the data publishing framework in the central paper of the supplement, Tom Moritz and co-authors write that the first recommendation is the primary one from which all the others follow: "All data relevant to the understanding of biodiversity and to biodiversity conservation should be made freely, openly and effectively available." ..." |
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