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- Open access in 2011: a publisher’s perspective
- The Retrovirology open access experience
- Global experts attend QScience.com board meeting
- CommonCrawl
- Non-profit uses big data to track big government — Cloud Computing News
- The future of medicine is nerdy: does evidence synthesis save more lives than a shiny new drug?
- Toward a New Model of Scientific Publishing: Discussion and a Proposal | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
- UCSF to Receive Tobacco Papers, Funding to Improve Public Access to the Documents | www.ucsf.edu
- UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries
- 20 millionth item on Europeana, special holiday treat and highlights of 2011.
- RSP Embedding Guide « Repositories Support Project
- QScience Connect Redefines Scholarly Journals
- Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Open Access for the other 85%
- Is open data the key to future UK growth?
- EU open data strategy could be worth $40bn a year | Econsultancy
- UK to make publicly funded research free to read - science-in-society - 09 December 2011 - New Scientist
- Open Access of data generates new science - YouTube
- Salmon and Clear-Cutting: The Devastating Costs of Bad Data in California
- Editorial
- Sociology association encourages members to help improve Wikipedia | Inside Higher Ed
- a future where data attribution Counts #idcc11
- Advice to junior faculty who want to do get promoted doing Open Science
- Europeana und die Public Domain
- YANPA: Tools for Rapid Understanding of Scientific Literature
- Open Data: Europe Starts to Get It - Open Enterprise
- Academic, But Valuable: A Free Alert Service
- Unlocking the goldmine: new legal proposals to open up Europe’s public sector
- There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch | Peer to Peer Review
- EU to Make All Public Data Available in Digital Formats | PCWorld Business Center
- Making Public Data More Accessible on the Web - Inside Search
- Open Access: A Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals White Paper (November 2011)
- Information Obesity: Too Big Too Know and ways to deal with Open Access to everything | MalariaWorld
- Purdue re-signs contract for online scholastic access
| Open access in 2011: a publisher’s perspective Posted: 18 Dec 2011 07:12 AM PST www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "Over the last decade the open access (OA) publishing model has secured itself as an integral part of the biomedical publishing landscape. Furthermore, as a growing number of funding agencies introduce OA mandates, it is becoming increasingly important for researchers and institutions to comply with these policies. This presentation will summarise the different routes to achieving open access and give an overview of recent progress and developments in OA publishing. One of the key benefits of OA is the removal of subscription barriers to published research - this is especially true for communities that suffer from limited visibility for their research output and/or access to the necessary scholarly journals. BioMed Central is taking a lead role in raising awareness of the advantages of OA, and making OA an affordable publishing option, for researchers based in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The second part of this presentation will focus on these initiatives...." |
| The Retrovirology open access experience Posted: 18 Dec 2011 07:09 AM PST www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "The Open Access (OA) model of publishing has revolutionized the egalitarian distribution of knowledge, especially to those who are least able financially to pay for subscription access. Because OA journals are newer ventures, they face several challenges. They often lack the track record and established reputation necessary to attract the best quality submissions. In general, most OA journals also do not sport the high Impact Factors numbers that many scientists consider to be crucial for advancing their careers. How then does one go about starting and continuing a successful OA journal? I have written briefly in the past about Retrovirology’s Open Access experience and the process that we go through to develop recognition for our authors and citation and visibility for Retrovirology papers. Here I will discuss some of these issues in greater depth and touch on the realities and perceptions about OA journals." |
| Global experts attend QScience.com board meeting Posted: 18 Dec 2011 06:52 AM PST www.gulf-times.com "The inaugural meeting of the International Advisory Board of Qatar Foundation’s QScience.com took place yesterday, with experts from around the world coming together to discuss the digital publishing portal for research journals....During his speech to the Advisory Board, director of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health and PubMed, David Lipman said: “QScience.com will be the new innovative force in open access publishing.” Sir Richard Roberts, who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine emphasised the importance of worldwide knowledge dissemination through innovative publishing strategies and models. Sir Richard stated: “QScience.com is another demonstration of the openness of Qatar Society. Let’s hope that QScience.com is as successful as Al Jazeera.” ..." |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:12 PM PST www.commoncrawl.org "Common Crawl is a non-profit foundation dedicated to building and maintaining an open crawl of the web, thereby enabling a new wave of innovation, education, and research...." |
| Non-profit uses big data to track big government — Cloud Computing News Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:09 PM PST gigaom.com "The Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit aimed at showing how corporate interests influence government released a pretty sweet tool for citizens and big data nerds on Monday. The tool, called Capitol Words, monitors how often, and which, legislators said certain phrases in an effort to track how those phrases enter and influence the political debate. Capitol Words is one of those random tools that gives us a glimpse of how cheap computing and better data analytics can change the business as usual in politics...." |
| The future of medicine is nerdy: does evidence synthesis save more lives than a shiny new drug? Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:06 PM PST bengoldacre - secondary blog, (14 Dec 2011) "To reiterate that: the process of gathering the best available evidence, carefully synthesising it together, and optimally implementing it in practice, saves more lives than any piece of shiny new technology. I genuinely believe that evidence synthesis (and - often neglected - the dissemination of that evidence) is the true locus of innovation in medicine, because it lets us use what we have optimally, in an era when new blockbuster drugs are drying up...." |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:50 PM PST www.frontiersin.org "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. Online access has eliminated the need for journals as distribution channels, so their primary current role is to provide authors with feedback prior to publication and a quick way for other researchers to prioritize the literature based on which journal publishes a paper....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...." |
| UCSF to Receive Tobacco Papers, Funding to Improve Public Access to the Documents | www.ucsf.edu Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:41 PM PST www.ucsf.edu "The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order today with a federal district court that finalizes requirements for three major tobacco companies to make internal documents public in accordance with an earlier ruling that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The documents will be archived in UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL)...." |
| UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:40 PM PST "UNESCO has endorsed the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries at its General Conference 2011. The Manifesto provides principles to assist libraries in undertaking sustainable and interoperable digitisation activities to bridge the digital divide - a key factor in achieving the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Digital libraries are essential for access to information, and for preserving national heritage...." |
| 20 millionth item on Europeana, special holiday treat and highlights of 2011. Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:36 PM PST e2.ma "This October, Europeana's content reached 20 million items, increasing the content ten-fold since its initial launch in 2008...." |
| RSP Embedding Guide « Repositories Support Project Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:30 PM PST rspproject.wordpress.com RSP's _Embedding Repositories: A Guide and Self-Assessment Tool_ "will help institutions to get the best value from their institutional repositories through integration with other university systems, particularly research management systems...." |
| QScience Connect Redefines Scholarly Journals Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:27 PM PST |
| Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Open Access for the other 85% Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:23 PM PST cameronneylon.net "So Heather Morrison’s post on the use of Creative Commons for open access, arriving as it did in the middle of my visit to Cape Town, troubled me. Those who read here will know I am a strong partisan of the OA = CC-BY view and indeed tend to the view that we should just place things in the public domain. So my first response was a rejection. But there is an argument in there that non-commercial and share-alike terms are appropriate for the developing world, because they can protect access to the results of text mining of relevant research. These arguments are always worth taking apart because they help to illuminate the practicalities of how we take scholarly communication and make it valuable to people. It helps to pull apart the issues and raise important use cases, and the effective use of research to aid development is a key use case....I disagree [with her] on two levels...." |
| Is open data the key to future UK growth? Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:21 PM PST www.freshbusinessthinking.com "The use of open data could be a critical factor in determining the success or failure of the UK’s growth agenda, according to new research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Deloitte’s report examined the growing role of public data in transforming how government can set policy and serve citizens. It has found that in an information-driven age, the use of open data can potentially help to improve public services in many ways. This suggests that the private sector has an opportunity to develop new commercial models for applying such insight, fuelling innovation and fostering the development of UK businesses. When combined with the Government’s efforts, these models have the potential to stimulate growth for the UK...." |
| EU open data strategy could be worth $40bn a year | Econsultancy Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:20 PM PST econsultancy.com "Led by digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes, this includes everything that public bodies produce, collect or pay for, such as geographical data, statistics, meteorological data or anything derived from publicly-funded research projects. If passed, this will be rolled out in early 2013 and EU members will have 18 months to provide all data in machine-readable format. Public bodies will also have to create ways to manage applications for data reuse within a set time, and will only be allowed to charge minimal costs. The Commission says that this startegy could be worth €40bn each year - funding for research on data-handling technologies alone is around €100 million. Money will also be made available for creating data portal websites through the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Program, and the Commission will also back research into data infrastructures. Kroes said that the Commission was sending a strong signal to administrations that their data is worth more if they give it away...." |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:19 PM 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...." |
| Open Access of data generates new science - YouTube Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:18 PM PST |
| Salmon and Clear-Cutting: The Devastating Costs of Bad Data in California Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:15 PM PST Adriel Nation blog, (03 Dec 2011) "In the open data and open government communities, we like to talk up the benefits of open innovation and private sector application development when governments open up data in structured formats. The cost of not doing so is huge, too. When data cannot be easily analyzed, lost dollars in public policy mistakes can easily reach tens of million at a time...." |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:14 PM PST Energy, Sustainability and Society 1 (1), (21 Nov 2011) "It is with great pleasure that we present to you our new multidisciplinary, international open access journal [Energy, Sustainability and Society]...published by Springer in cooperation with the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance [ESEIA] and principal investigators from the Helmholtz Association. This journal is intended to provide the necessary scientific exchange platform to support a broad, interdisciplinary discourse in the complex field of innovative energy systems and sustainable development indispensable in this time of challenge and change...." |
| Sociology association encourages members to help improve Wikipedia | Inside Higher Ed Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:10 PM PST www.insidehighered.com "In an essay on the [American Sociological Association's] online newsletter...[Erik Olin Wright] this week announced the Sociology in Wikipedia Initiative: a formal call to sociologists to help improve and expand Wikipedia entries that might benefit from their expertise and consider assigning their students to do the same...." |
| a future where data attribution Counts #idcc11 Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:06 PM PST Research Remix, (07 Dec 2011) "Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of studies that show a citation benefit for sharing data :) . But it won’t be enough. If it were, we’d have researchers knocking down the doors of our IR for the 10 minute job of sending in their preprints. They aren’t doing that. Because a few citations, as much as we’d like to think otherwise, aren’t enough to offset the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt that accompanies the costs of uploading a dataset in the current culture. So. What to do about it? How to change the culture? We need to facilitate deep recognition of the labour of dataset creation...." |
| Advice to junior faculty who want to do get promoted doing Open Science Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:57 PM PST The OpenScience Project, (23 Sep 2011) |
| Europeana und die Public Domain Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:49 PM PST |
| YANPA: Tools for Rapid Understanding of Scientific Literature Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:47 PM PST Geertjan's Blog, (10 Dec 2011) "Mathieu Bastian, from the Duke's Choice Award winning Gephi project, told me about yet another NetBeans Platform application (a.k.a. YANPA) this week. Action Science Explorer, created at the University of Maryland, generates readily-consumable surveys of different scientific domains and topics, targeted to different audiences and levels. The development team created an infrastructure for automatic summarization of research domains that links bibliometric lexical link mining, summarization techniques, and visualization tools. The tool presents academic literature for a field using many different modalities: lists of articles, their full texts, automatic text summaries, and visualizations of the structure of the citation network...." |
| Open Data: Europe Starts to Get It - Open Enterprise Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:37 PM PST blogs.computerworlduk.com "There's a couple of very interesting categories in there. The first is "data from publicly funded research projects". This is an important category of open data that is currently rather overlooked in the (welcome) rush to open up government data. And it has some interesting implications...." |
| Academic, But Valuable: A Free Alert Service Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:34 PM PST searchengineland.com "JournalTOCS, sponsored by Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, is a free service that has been online for many years and provides alerts for more than 17,000 journals published by more than 900 publishers and organizations. Almost 3,000 of these publications are open access so the full text is quickly and directly accessible on the web for free...." |
| Unlocking the goldmine: new legal proposals to open up Europe’s public sector Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:29 PM PST Digital Agenda Commissioner - Neelie Kroes, (12 Dec 2011) "Imagine we had a resource available that could stimulate new innovations, a market worth tens of billions of euros, and increase the transparency and governance of public life. We do – it’s the data held by Europe’s public institutions. And today I announced legal proposals to unlock this treasure trove. Benefiting not just web entrepreneurs, but journalists, academics, anyone who has a smartphone or uses public services....By opening up this resource fully, we could more than double the value of this activity – to around €70 billion. This opening up can generate tax revenues which far exceed revenue from any fees previously charged for the data. But the benefits aren’t just economic. They improve the transparency of our democratic and public institutions. They can improve the quality of decision-making within public administrations themselves – through informed, evidence-based policymaking. And they can help those from all sectors of society...." |
| There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch | Peer to Peer Review Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:26 PM PST www.libraryjournal.com "There are a lot of reasons that it's difficult to change the way we publish scholarship. A majority of faculty don't think there's anything wrong with the system that giving the library more money won't fix. Since research is a major part of their job, getting published is important to them. And though there's a lot of inflation in the total number of publications faculty are expected to produce, nobody wants to risk being seen as a slacker....Those who are eligible for tenure don't want to rock the boat. Like the school lunch program, their research is largely funded by public dollars, funding that's just too good a free lunch for corporations to pass up. It's startling to join a scholarly society and find yourself paying Taylor & Francis or Wiley for the membership, but a lot of organizations do that now; it beats trying to run things yourself....Where there's lots of public money, corporations will follow, and they can get congress to work against taxpayers' interests because, hey, it costs a lot to get elected these days....As in the case of school lunches, we spend a lot of money for a good thing...in the case of scholarly research, a proliferation of expensive publications that include fourth and fifth-rate niche journals that proliferate to publish all the stuff productive faculty churn out to prove how productive they are...." |
| EU to Make All Public Data Available in Digital Formats | PCWorld Business Center Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:15 PM PST www.pcworld.com "According to new proposals put forward by the European Union's Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, all E.U. countries will be obliged to make their public data available in digital formats. This represents a huge opportunity for tech companies, which could be worth €40 billion (US$53.5 billion) to the E.U.'s economy each year, according to the Commission. Funding earmarked for research on data-handling technologies alone is around €100 million. Money will also be made available for creating data portal websites through the E.U.'s Competitiveness and Innovation Program, and the Commission will also back research into data infrastructures. All this is aimed at making the most of Europe's hidden "goldmine" of information. Public data includes all the information that public bodies in the European Union produce, collect or pay for. This could include geographical data, statistics, meteorological data, data from publicly funded research projects and digitized books from libraries...." |
| Making Public Data More Accessible on the Web - Inside Search Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:10 PM PST insidesearch.blogspot.com "Last year, we launched the Google Public Data Explorer, an online tool that organizes public statistics and brings them to life with interactive exploration and visualizations. Since then, we’ve added dozens of new datasets and received enthusiastic feedback from users around the world. Several data providers, such as the UN Development Programme and Statistics Catalunya, have even integrated the tool into their web sites. Today, we’re pleased to announce the next step in our public data effort- a completely revamped product featuring an updated look and feel, improved interaction modes, and a new visualization engine...." |
| Open Access: A Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals White Paper (November 2011) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:08 PM PST www.qscience.com "QScience.com has been developed by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ), a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Its mission is to disseminate research quickly to a global audience. The journals are open to submissions from anywhere in the world to give authors a platform to communicate their findings and collaborate with other researchers. BQFJ publishes research across all disciplines, to the highest international peer review standards and connects the international research community to one of the fastest growing economies in the world; Qatar....Showcasing the renaissance of scientific thought and academic research in the Middle East is at the heart the publishing initiative. But QScience.com also aims to develop new ways of collaborating and researching that are genuinely more democratic and make the most of new technological possibilities. When deciding on a business model for this brand new publisher, Gold open access was an immediately obvious choice...." |
| Information Obesity: Too Big Too Know and ways to deal with Open Access to everything | MalariaWorld Posted: 17 Dec 2011 12:59 PM PST www.malariaworld.org "Who doesn’t know the feeling: there is so much information available nowadays that it resembles a whirling stream threatening to drown you completely. And because not all information is freely available, what would Open Access do to add to that feeling? ... That filtering is needed is beyond doubt: no individual on its own can cope with the enormous amounts of information that is daily offered to him/her. But the important question is: who does the filtering? ..." |
| Purdue re-signs contract for online scholastic access Posted: 17 Dec 2011 11:34 AM PST www.purdueexponent.org "Purdue is looking to use open access as a way to eventually get away from paying publishing companies [for high-priced big deals]. This is a method being looking into by other universities such as Harvard, MIT, Penn State and Stanford. Purdue will be the second public university to implement this policy. With the open access policy, Purdue faculty and researchers would be able to put the last drafts of their articles online for free access...." |
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