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- Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
- The Titanium Road Essays
- Self archiving policies of Geology and Geosciences Journals
- Gratis Open Access Vs. Libre Open Access
- American Scientist Open Access Forum Has Migrated to GOAL (Global Open Access List)
- Why SOPA Could Kill the Open Education Resource Movement - Education - GOOD
- IPubSci: A Good Idea That Doesn't Go Nearly Far Enough
- Paving the way to an open scientific information space: OpenAIREplus – linking peer-reviewed literature to associated data.
- OCLC releases FAST as Linked Data
- Seeking open review of provocative data publication essay
- The Public Catalogue Foundation
- Access to data in industry-sponsored trials : The Lancet
- TOXMAP: Learn About Toxic Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
- NISO and Open Archives Initiative Receive Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Create Resource Synchronization Standard - National Information Standards Organization
- Guest post: Jan Velterop – Putting the public back in publication.
- Science Library Pad: learning about open data from our peers
- Open access journals [in Computer Science]
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:31 AM PST Journal of Medical Internet Research 13 (4), (16 Dec 2011) From the Abstract: Between July 2008 and November 2011, all tweets containing links to articles in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) were mined. A total of 4208 tweets cited 286 distinct JMIR articles. Highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles (9/12 or 75% of highly tweeted article were highly cited, while only 3/43 or 7% of less-tweeted articles were highly cited; rate ratio 0.75/0.07 = 10.75, 95% confidence interval, 3.4–33.6). Top-cited articles can be predicted from top-tweeted articles with 93% specificity and 75% sensitivity. Conclusions: Tweets can predict highly cited articles within the first 3 days of article publication. Social media activity either increases citations or reflects the underlying qualities of the article that also predict citations, but the true use of these metrics is to measure the distinct concept of social impact. Social impact measures based on tweets are proposed to complement traditional citation metrics. The proposed twimpact factor may be a useful and timely metric to measure uptake of research findings and to filter research findings resonating with the public in real time. |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:16 AM PST UTAS ePrints, (17 Dec 2011) From the Abstract: This set of essays suggests that the conventional open access strategies are largely failing. They help, but after a decade they have failed to reach the tipping point where open access becomes the norm and everyone bar a few recalcitrants adopt it. The first essay describes the situation we find ourselves in. Failure to achieve open access after years of work and quite obvious need. Secondly (and there is hardly anything to do with publication in this essay) let’s look at what a revolution is! The third essay deals with what social networking can offer, and currently Mendeley is the leader. It proposes that integration with researcher workflow is what we need to achieve, and we are failing on almost all accounts. Finally, I add an essay which is pure indulgence: an FAQ, as originally devised by Galileo. |
| Self archiving policies of Geology and Geosciences Journals Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:12 AM PST Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science 5 (3), (13 Dec 2011) (Subscription required) Abstract: Open access is the movement gaining momentum throughout the globe. OA Journals and OA Archives are the two major vehicles of Open Access. To have greater access and visibility to the scholarly publication, one solution is Self Archiving. It is achieved in three ways; by putting the published article on personal websites, by archiving it on institutional repository or by archiving it in open archives. In this paper, a study has been carried out to trace the self archiving policies of Geology journals. Total 110 journals in the subject category of Geology and Geosciences and other Multidisciplinary journals indexed by Science Citation Index were selected and Sherpa Romeo database was taken to trace the copyright policies of the publishers of these journals. The study reveals that maximum publishers are under Green category and allow self archiving. |
| Gratis Open Access Vs. Libre Open Access Posted: 18 Dec 2011 07:57 PM PST Open Access Archivangelism, (19 Dec 2011) There is Gratis OA and there is Libre OA: Gratis OA means (1) immediate, permanent online access, free for all on the Web -- to peer reviewed research journal articles. (Note that along with free online access, the following also automatically comes with the territory: (2) clicking, (3) on-screen access, (4) linking, (5) downloading, (6) local storage, (7) local print-off of hard copy, and (8) local data-mining by the user, as well as global harvesting and search by engines like google.) Libre OA means immediate, permanent online access, free for all on the Web (i.e., Gratis OA) plus certain further re-use, re-publication and re-mix rights. (Note that many peer-reviewed journal article authors may not want to allow others to make and publish re-mixes of their verbatim texts. Journal article texts are not like music, videos, software or even research data, out of which creative modifications and remixes can be valuable. All scholars and scientists desire that their findings and ideas should be accessed, re-used, applied and built-upon, but not necessarily that their words should be re-mixed or even re-published -- just accessible free for all online, immediately and permanently.) |
| American Scientist Open Access Forum Has Migrated to GOAL (Global Open Access List) Posted: 18 Dec 2011 06:42 PM PST Open Access Archivangelism, (19 Dec 2011) The straw poll on whether or not to continue the American Scientist Open Access (AmSci) Forum (and if so, who should be the new moderator) is complete (the full results are reproduced at the end of this message). The vote is for (1) continuing the Forum, under (2) the moderatorship of Richard Poynder. The AmSci list has now been migrating to http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal where the BOAI list is also being hosted. AmSci Forum members need not re-subscribe. All subscriptions have been automatically transferred to the new host site. 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 (indefinitely, I hope -- though we do have copies of the entire archive). The new GOAL archive is at: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/ |
| Why SOPA Could Kill the Open Education Resource Movement - Education - GOOD Posted: 18 Dec 2011 11:27 AM PST www.good.is "Thanks to the Open Education Resource movement, remixing and redistributing educational content has become standard. Efforts like the 10-year-old OpenCourseWare project at MIT, OER libraries stocked with free or low cost electronic books for college classes in Washington and California, and the rise of online learning have all contributed to the democratization of education. But all that global knowledge sharing could come to a grinding halt if the Stop Online Piracy Act goes forward...." |
| IPubSci: A Good Idea That Doesn't Go Nearly Far Enough Posted: 18 Dec 2011 11:03 AM PST |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2011 10:30 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, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme, will work in tandem with OpenAIRE, extending the mission further to 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. The project will capitalise on the successful efforts of the OpenAIRE project which is rapidly moving from implementing the EU Open Access Pilot project into a service phase, enabling researchers to deposit their FP7 and ERA funded research publications into Open Access repositories. The current publication repository networks will be expanded to attract data providers from domain specific scientific areas....Access to and deposit of linked publications via the OpenAIRE portal will be supported by a Help Desk, and OpenAIRE's collaborative networking structure will be extended to promote the concept of open enhanced publications among user communities. Liaison offices in each of the project's 31 European countries work to support the needs of researchers in Europe. The project will also actively leverage its international connections to contribute to common standards, data issues and interoperability on a global level." |
| OCLC releases FAST as Linked Data Posted: 18 Dec 2011 10:26 AM PST "FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), an enumerative, faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), is now available as an experimental Linked Data service (http://id.worldcat.org/fast/) and is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License...." |
| Seeking open review of provocative data publication essay Posted: 18 Dec 2011 10:25 AM PST Data Matters, (14 Dec 2011) "Peter Fox and I [Mark Parsons] have submitted an essay to the Data Science Journal entitled "Is data publication the right metaphor?".... In this essay we discuss the importance of metaphor in framing how we think, and we critically examine the data publication and several other metaphors. Our intention is to be somewhat provocative and to spark a conversation in the community about how we conceive of, describe, and evolve the overall data management enterprise. While the paper is submitted for formal peer-review, the DSJ editors have also allowed us to make the essay available for open community review. The essay is available at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/546900/parsons_fox_metaphor_dsj_open.docx. We encourage everyone to read it and to provide constructive critique in the comments of this blog...." |
| The Public Catalogue Foundation Posted: 18 Dec 2011 10:22 AM PST www.thepcf.org.uk "40,000 paintings have been uploaded to Your Paintings since launch, taking the total to 104,000 paintings, over half the national [UK] collection...." |
| Access to data in industry-sponsored trials : The Lancet Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:49 AM PST www.thelancet.com "The importance of transparency and data sharing in clinical research is increasingly emphasised, and public funders increasingly require that all data from publicly sponsored research are made available.1 The same cannot be said for industry-sponsored trials, for which the sponsors often own the data and the academic authors have limited publication rights....11 of 18 editors replied to our survey (61% response rate). Nine editors considered that full access to any CRF on request and access to raw data were mandatory when corresponding authors declared “full access to all the data”. Our most important finding was the huge discrepancy between the protocols and the papers on access to data....[A] survey of US academic institutions found that trial agreements rarely ensured that authors had independent access to all trial data. Furthermore, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America have stated that academic authors should be provided with summary data only....[W]e should work towards a situation in which anonymised raw data are made freely available to the public. Our patients deserve nothing less than this, which would be highly beneficial for health care." |
| TOXMAP: Learn About Toxic Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:41 AM PST "The National Library of Medicine® TOXMAP® now provides information on the toxic chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. Companies involved in hydraulic fracturing are not currently required to report to the US EPA Toxics Release Inventory Program and so are not represented in TOXMAP. However, TOXMAP provides information on many of the most toxic chemicals used. TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM®) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund Programs." |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:35 AM PST www.niso.org "The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources. Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple hosting locations, are cached at multiple servers, and leveraged by several services. This proliferation of replicated copies of works or data on the Internet has created an increasingly challenging problem of keeping the repositories' holdings and the services that leverage them up-to-date and accurate...." |
| Guest post: Jan Velterop – Putting the public back in publication. Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:32 AM PST Mendeley Blog, (12 Dec 2011) "C’mon publishers, the CC-NC licence doesn’t give you a penny more in revenues and it frustrates the hell out of scientists. Please change it to CC-BY. Please...." |
| Science Library Pad: learning about open data from our peers Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:14 AM PST |
| Open access journals [in Computer Science] Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:13 AM PST Open access journals Open access journals - Theoretical Computer Science - Stack Exchange, (16 Dec 2011) |
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