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- Scholarly communication and possible changes in the context of social media: A Finnish case study
- The Open Access Movement is disorganized; this must not continue
- Open Letter to the Open Document Format Ecosystem
- Open Access Is Spreading -- But Is It Really Open Access? | Techdirt
- NeuroDojo: Occupy Science (the journal)
- Open Humanities Press releases 6 OA books in Critical Theory
- Trends in biomedical informatics: most cited topics from recent years
- Not quite an MIT degree, but MITx may still appeal | World news | The Guardian
- High impact factors are meant to represent strong citation rates, but these journal impact factors are more effective at predicting a paper’s retraction rate.
- Arthur Sale, The Titanium Road Essays
- MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students Who Take Its Online Courses - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Institutional Repository/Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
- Portal Revistas/Journal Portal Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
- The Open Access Interviews: OMICS Publishing Group’s Srinu Babu Gedela
| Scholarly communication and possible changes in the context of social media: A Finnish case study Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:33 AM PST The Electronic Library 29 (6), 762 (2011) From the abstract: The focus of this paper is to study the influence of social media on scholarly communication. The aim is to provide an overview of researchers' use of Web 2.0 techniques, and discuss a possible change of information behaviors in the context of scholarly communication....A web survey was distributed to a targeted sample of university staff (professors, teachers, researchers, and doctoral students)....Web 2.0 tools are well-known to researchers. Most researchers are familiar with blogs, wikis, social networks, multimedia sharing, and online document. Social media provide a convenient environment for scholarly communication. Depending on different aims within the scholarly communication process, researchers choose appropriate modes of communication in their research work.... |
| The Open Access Movement is disorganized; this must not continue Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:31 AM PST |
| Open Letter to the Open Document Format Ecosystem Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:29 AM PST blogs.apache.org "Earlier this year the OpenOffice.org code base was donated to The Apache Software Foundation. The resulting project, Apache OpenOffice (Incubating) is progressing well as a podling in the Apache Incubator with a rapidly growing community and project infrastructure....This open letter seeks to articulate our vision for the future of Apache OpenOffice within the wider Open Document Format ecosystem...." |
| Open Access Is Spreading -- But Is It Really Open Access? | Techdirt Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:27 AM PST |
| NeuroDojo: Occupy Science (the journal) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:23 AM PST neurodojo.blogspot.com "Rants against scientific publishers...are always popular. But the landscape for scientific journals and publications has been slow to move. Some might argue that publishers have barely budged, though we certainly have many more open access options now than we used to....Instead of imitating the [high-prestige journals], why not infiltrate one? ..." |
| Open Humanities Press releases 6 OA books in Critical Theory Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:55 AM PST openhumanitiespress.org Open Humanities Press releases six Open Access books under the OHP books imprint at MPublishing |
| Trends in biomedical informatics: most cited topics from recent years Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:53 PM PST Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 18 (Suppl 1), (01 Dec 2011) Abstract: Biomedical informatics is a young, highly interdisciplinary field that is evolving quickly. It is important to know which published topics in generalist biomedical informatics journals elicit the most interest from the scientific community, and whether this interest changes over time, so that journals can better serve their readers. It is also important to understand whether free access to biomedical informatics articles impacts their citation rates in a significant way, so authors can make informed decisions about unlock fees, and journal owners and publishers understand the implications of open access. The topics and JAMIA articles from years 2009 and 2010 that have been most cited according to the Web of Science are described. To better understand the effects of free access in article dissemination, the number of citations per month after publication for articles published in 2009 versus 2010 was compared, since there was a significant change in free access to JAMIA articles between those years. Results suggest that there is a positive association between free access and citation rate for JAMIA articles. |
| Not quite an MIT degree, but MITx may still appeal | World news | The Guardian Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:53 AM PST |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:52 AM PST Impact of Social Sciences, (19 Dec 2011) "[T]he number of retractions has increased at about 400-fold the rate of publication increase. The authors of this study, Fang and Casadevall, were so nice to provide me with access to their data....[The correlation between IF and retractions] already looks like a much stronger correlation than the one between IF and citations. How do the critical values measure up? The regression is highly significant at p<0.000003, with a coefficient of determination at a whopping 0.77. Thus, at least with the current data, IF indeed seems to be a more reliable predictor of retractions than of actual citations...." |
| Arthur Sale, The Titanium Road Essays Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:44 AM PST eprints.utas.edu.au Abstract: This is a collection of four essays written and selectively disseminated in June/July 2011. They address the question of how the world can best address the open access to research that the Internet offers. The four essays should be read in the following order: 1. An Inertial Tale; 2.Scholarly Revolutions; 3. The Titanium Road; 4. Converse. Experience has shown me that modern readers cannot handle reading substantial argumentative essays without motivation, so here is my summary. 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. |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST chronicle.com "Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare project. Now MIT plans to release a fresh batch of open online courses—and, for the first time, to offer certificates to outside students who complete them. The credentials are part of a new, interactive e-learning venture, tentatively called MITx, that is expected to host "a virtual community of millions of learners around the world," the institute will announce on Monday....The institute hopes this project will also catch on elsewhere. To help make that happen, it will release the MITx open-learning software at no charge, so other educational institutions can adopt it...." |
| Institutional Repository/Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:15 AM PST rdu.unc.edu.ar Institutional Repository/Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) |
| Portal Revistas/Journal Portal Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:14 AM PST revistas.unc.edu.ar Journal Portal National University of Cordoba (Argentina)- Portal de Revistas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) |
| The Open Access Interviews: OMICS Publishing Group’s Srinu Babu Gedela Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:23 AM PST Open and Shut?, (19 Dec 2011) "OMICS is just one of a growing number of controversial OA publishers: Beall’s list of “predatory” publishers has now reached 28, and continues to grow. But while many researchers are quick to complain about the activities of these publishers, should not the research community accept some responsibility for the current excesses of the OA Gold Rush? After all, OMICS says that it has now recruited 20,000 researchers to its editorial boards, and we can assume the other OA publishers are proving equally successful. This suggests that for every researcher decrying the activities of these publishers others are facilitating them. Are the latter not concerned that they are conspiring in the email bombardment of their colleagues? Do they not care that some of the journals on whose editorial boards they sit appear to be publishing papers that have had inadequate or no peer review? Are they not worried that some of these publishers may be engaging in dubious business practices? ..." |
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