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- Israel's National Library puts collection online - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
- Acceptance of CC-NC has sold readers and authors seriously short
- Safecast: Global sensor network collects and shares radiation data via CC0 - Creative Commons
- Prying Open Google’s Closed Books
- Digital Infrastructure to Support Open Content for Education
- UK.gov to require YOU to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms • The Register
- Die Materialsammlung. Über Robert Darntons Zwischenbericht zur DPLA in der NY Review of Books.
- Making your database available through Wikipedia: the pros and cons
- I pledge my full genome to the public domain | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine
- The Data Debate at Imperial College London
- Cameron hails opening of NHS data
- Taking open data up a level | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional
- OHP RELEASES SIX OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IN CRITICAL THEORY
- National Federation of the Blind Seeks to Join HathiTrust Defendants - The Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- PharmaLive: Elsevier and Federation of Biochemical Societies Launch New Journal: FEBS Open Bio
- A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals
- Paving the way to an open scientific information space: OpenAIREplus – linking peer-reviewed literature to associated data.
| Israel's National Library puts collection online - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:12 PM PST www.haaretz.com "The National Library of Israel has just launched a website giving the public access to a huge collection of materials, including books, periodicals, maps, photos and musical selections from the library collection. The website, which took two years to develop, is the most comprehensive content-based website in Israel. It can be found at: www.nli.org.il. ..." |
| Acceptance of CC-NC has sold readers and authors seriously short Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:04 PM PST petermr's blog, (06 Dec 2011) "I was at the AGM of UK PubMedCentral last Monday and asked about the Open Access subset of PMC – those papers where authors/funders have paid large amounts of money to ensure their papers are “Open Access”. I asked about the licence, fully expecting these to be all CC-BY and was appalled to hear that most of them were only available as CC-NC. This appears to be near universal – mots major publishers only allow “Open Access” to be CC-NC. Very simply, this is a disaster...." |
| Safecast: Global sensor network collects and shares radiation data via CC0 - Creative Commons Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:03 PM PST creativecommons.org "One week after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Diachi plant in March, the Safecast project was born to respond to the information needs of Japanese citizens regarding radiation levels in their environment. Safecast, then known as RDTN.org, started a campaign on Kickstarter “to provide an aggregate feed of nuclear radiation data from governmental, non-governmental and citizen-scientist sources.” All radiation data collected via the project would be dedicated to the public domain using CC0, “available to everyone, including scientists and nuclear experts who can provide context for lay people.” Since then, more than 1.25 million data points have been collected and shared; Safecast has been featured on PBS Newshour; and the project aims to expand its scope to mapping the rest of the world....'Safecast supports the idea that more data – freely available data – is better.' ..." |
| Prying Open Google’s Closed Books Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:58 PM PST www.openbookalliance.org "Everyone knows Google has scanned tens of millions of books, including over 3 million books in the public domain, and that it got most of these books from many different libraries, public and private. What most don’t know is that Google forces those libraries to use technology to restrict Internet access to those digital copies, even the public domain books that are no longer copyrighted. Under Google’s contracts, those libraries must deploy “technological measures” to prevent other libraries, digital archives, researchers, competing search engines, and others from downloading and analyzing the content of those public domain books. That’s wrong. Public domain books should always be accessible by the public, and not locked up by Google’s technology. What are “technological measures” or TPMs? ...TPMs like the ones Google requires are backed up by the force of law, specifically Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That law imposes civil and criminal penalties on anyone who tries to circumvent or disable TPMs without permission of the copyright owner. We believe strongly that this law should never be used by Google to threaten civil and criminal liability on users of digital public domain books, particularly where such threats could cause substantial harm to competition....Today we filed comments asking the Copyright Office to make clear that Google cannot invoke the law against users of public domain books...." |
| Digital Infrastructure to Support Open Content for Education Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:50 PM PST Digital Infrastructure Team, (01 Dec 2011) |
| UK.gov to require YOU to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms • The Register Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:44 PM PST www.theregister.co.uk "Plans to share confidential NHS records with private medical researchers have been revealed by Prime Minister David Cameron. The government said in a statement yesterday that it was announcing a consultation "to change the NHS Constitution so that patient data is automatically included in clinical research, but giving patients a clear opportunity to opt out if they wish to do so". ..." |
| Die Materialsammlung. Über Robert Darntons Zwischenbericht zur DPLA in der NY Review of Books. Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:43 PM PST LIBREAS.Library Ideas, (05 Dec 2011) |
| Making your database available through Wikipedia: the pros and cons Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:38 PM PST m.nar.oxfordjournals.org Abstract: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is the most famous wiki in use today. It contains over 3.7 million pages of content; with many pages written on scientific subject matters that include peer-reviewed citations, yet are written in an accessible manner and generally reflect the consensus opinion of the community. In this, the 19th Annual Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research, there are 11 articles that describe the use of a wiki in relation to a biological database. In this commentary, we discuss how biological databases can be integrated with Wikipedia, thereby utilising the pre-existing infrastructure, tools and above all, large community of authors (or Wikipedians). The limitations to the content that can be included in Wikipedia are highlighted, with examples drawn from articles found in this issue and other wiki-based resources, indicating why other wiki solutions are necessary. We discuss the merits of using open wikis, like Wikipedia, versus other models, with particular reference to potential vandalism. Finally, we raise the question about the future role of dedicated database biocurators in context of the thousands of crowdsourced, community annotations that are now being stored in wikis. |
| I pledge my full genome to the public domain | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:27 PM PST mblogs.discovermagazine.com "I pledge my full genome to the public domain I expect to get my full genome sequenced in a few years, at the latest. When that happens, I’ll try and place it online at a public repository. Why? There’s something of a chicken and egg issue with the utility of genomes. The more you have out there, the more juice you can squeeze. I’m going to add phenotypic information too. You probably aren’t surprised by this stance from me, but I just realized that if there are ~30,000 human genomes sequenced right now…it’s probably impossible logistically and bureaucratically (and perhaps computationally, right now) to analyze them all at the same time. The 1000 Genomes is going to make a big difference. But if you look at their list of populations surveyed over time you’ll see that there have been several false-starts, probably due to bureaucratic problems. Perhaps I’m naive, but my thought is that it’s fine to look at common diseases and common variants. But how are we going to find rare variants if we can’t pool lots and lots of individuals? I suspect it’s a matter of time anyway, and why not push on the margin? I invite readers and other bloggers to make the same pledge. I’ve been blogging since 2002, so I suspect you’ll be in a position to ask me what the status is in ~2013. I hear from people all the time that human genomics is “scary.” Well, I’m not scared, and I’m going to try and show that my lack of fear is more than just words...." |
| The Data Debate at Imperial College London Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:26 PM PST Open Science Working Group, (15 Dec 2011) "Last week I attended the ‘Data Debate‘ at Imperial College London, hosted by the Index on Censorship. Baroness Onara O’Neill, Sir Mark Walport, George Monbiot and Professor David Colquhoun formed a distinguished panel that took on the question of whether transparency was bad for science...." |
| Cameron hails opening of NHS data Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:02 PM PST www.ukauthority.com "David Cameron will spark controversy [December 5] by unveiling plans to allow firms to view anonymous NHS patient records and other data - with "all necessary safeguards". ..." |
| Taking open data up a level | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:17 PM PST |
| OHP RELEASES SIX OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IN CRITICAL THEORY Posted: 16 Dec 2011 11:07 AM PST www.openhumanitiespress.org "Open Humanities Press (OHP) and MPublishing are pleased to announce the publication of six open access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Each title will be freely available as full-text HTML, as well as in paperback editions, and are being released on a rolling publication schedule beginning 15 December. In a unique collaboration, the books are being jointly released by OHP, an international publishing collective run by scholars, and MPublishing, the library-based publishing enterprise at the University of Michigan...." |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2011 11:04 AM PST chronicle.com "The National Federation of the Blind has asked a federal court to add it to the defendants named in a lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against the HathiTrust digital repository and five universities. In its filing, the federation invoked the principle of equal access to information guaranteed by the Americans With Disabilities Act. The federation said the rights of the blind people it represents would be obstructed if the plaintiffs in the case succeeded in impounding the digital works in the trust and in preventing further digital scanning of copyrighted material...." |
| PharmaLive: Elsevier and Federation of Biochemical Societies Launch New Journal: FEBS Open Bio Posted: 16 Dec 2011 11:03 AM PST www.pharmalive.com "Elsevier...and the Federation of Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announced today the launch of FEBS Open Bio, an open access journal....In launching this new journal, FEBS and Elsevier serve authors who have an interest in a fast publishing process. The journal is open to direct submissions of novel findings. It is also open to the transfer of articles submitted to existing FEBS publications (FEBS Letters, FEBS Journal and Molecular Oncology), which have been judged as sound and a contribution to knowledge, but do not meet the criteria set by the editors for publication in these journals...." |
| A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals Posted: 16 Dec 2011 09:41 AM PST Journal of Medical Internet Research 13 (4), (2011) Abstract: ...The objective was to study how open access journals have experimented with innovations concerning ways of organizing the peer review, the format of journals and articles, new interactive and media formats, and novel publishing revenue models....The features of 24 open access journals were studied. The journals were chosen in a nonrandom manner from the approximately 7000 existing OA journals based on available information about interesting journals and include both representative cases and highly innovative outlier cases....Most early OA journals in the 1990s were founded by individual scholars and used a business model based on voluntary work close in spirit to open-source development of software. In the next wave, many long-established journals, in particular society journals and journals from regions such as Latin America, made their articles OA when they started publishing parallel electronic versions. From about 2002 on, newly founded professional OA publishing firms using article-processing charges to fund their operations have emerged. Over the years, there have been several experiments with new forms of peer review, media enhancements, and the inclusion of structured data sets with articles. In recent years, the growth of OA publishing has also been facilitated by the availability of open-source software for journal publishing....The case studies illustrate how a new technology and a business model enabled by new technology can be harnessed to find new innovative ways for the organization and content of scholarly publishing. Several recent launches of OA journals by major subscription publishers demonstrate that OA is rapidly gaining acceptance as a sustainable alternative to subscription-based scholarly publishing. |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2011 09:29 AM PST www.openaire.eu "OpenAIREplus (2nd Generation of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) was launched in Pisa in early December. The 30 month project...will... facilitate access to the entire Open Access scientific production of the European Research Area, providing cross-links from publications to data and funding schemes. This large-scale project brings together 41 pan-European partners, including three cross-disciplinary research communities...." |
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