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- New Database Creates Time-Series Plots of Phrases in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions : Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
- California Bill Pushes for Free Online College Books | MindShift
- Open-Textbook Idea Is Gaining Steam - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Orphan Works: Definitional Issues by David Hansen :: SSRN
- Patients want to read, share their medical records - Reuters -
- Geospatial initiative shows the way - SciDev.Net
- Dangerous Bird-Flu Papers Should Be Partly Censored, Federal Panel Says - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Michael Carroll on Copyright and Open Access
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011: “Open” | Hack Education
- Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:21 AM PST law.marquette.edu "Emory and Michigan State Law Schools have teamed up to create a free database that allows you to search for a term or phrase in U.S. Supreme Court opinions (1791-2005) and automatically generate a time-series frequency chart of the phrase’s appearance...." |
| California Bill Pushes for Free Online College Books | MindShift Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:17 AM PST mindshift.kqed.org "State Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is proposing a bill today that will allocate $25 million of state coffers to create 50 free online college book titles that teachers can use, remix, add to, or edit as they see fit. The bill establishes the online California Digital Open Source Library, which will house the 50 most commonly used books for required lower-division courses....[S]tudents and teachers will be able to access and adapt the texts online for free, or pay $20 for either printed form or interactive app form for tablets or mobile devices....The bill calls for a request for proposal (RFP) to be submitted from all content providers, electronic platform providers, as well as publishers, that will fall under a Creative Commons license..." |
| Open-Textbook Idea Is Gaining Steam - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:12 AM PST chronicle.com "Colleges across the country took note when Washington State announced its Open Course Library initiative in October, offering community-college students affordable online resources for some of the most popular courses. Now other states and colleges are exploring similar options. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst awarded 10 teaching faculty $1,000 grants this spring as a part of its Open Education Initiative. The faculty members submitted proposals for developing free or low-cost digital resources as an alternative to students purchasing commercial textbooks. The university estimates the effort will save 700 students $72,000 over the 2011-12 academic year. On the West Coast, Darrell Steinberg, the leader of California’s Senate, proposed a bill to establish the online California Digital Open Source Library, MindShift’s Tina Barseghian reported. If passed, the bill will allocate $25-million in state funds to create 50 free online college textbooks...." |
| Orphan Works: Definitional Issues by David Hansen :: SSRN Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:11 AM PST papers.ssrn.com Abstract: This paper outlines responses to two definitional questions that arise in the context of orphan works: (1) exactly what is the “orphan works” problem?, and (2) what is the size of this problem? The answers to these two questions are central to understanding how proposed solutions work to remedy the situation. While the most common descriptions of the orphan works problem focus on unlocatable copyright owners, others have framed the issue in terms of a broader problem of market failure. This paper explores both formulations of the problem. Similarly, the size of the orphan works problem can be viewed from many angles. Rough approximations of the size of the problem for certain types of works (e.g., published monographs) are available, but comprehensive data on the number and value of orphan works do not currently exist for a wide variety of works and the uses to which those works might be put. This paper suggests areas in which further research on these issues is needed. About this Paper: This white paper is the first in a series from the Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project, an effort organized by Berkeley Law professors Pamela Samuelson, Jason Schultz, and Jennifer Urban. The project aims to investigate copyright obstacles facing libraries and other like-minded organizations in their efforts to realize the full potential of making works available digitally. More information can be found on the project’s website. |
| Patients want to read, share their medical records - Reuters - Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:05 AM PST www.moneycontrol.com "Patients want easy access to any notes their doctor has recorded about them, and they want the right to let others view their medical information, according to a pair of US studies. Advocates of open-access medical records say they are not only a patient's right but will help boost the quality of care as well.... Dr. Tom Delbanco at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School...started OpenNotes, a system that gives patients an online portal to their doctors' comments from a visit....Their study surveyed more than 37,000 patients and more than 170 primary care doctors, in advance of the debut of OpenNotes, about their expectations for the system....Four out of five [physicians] thought it would cost them more time in having to answer patients' questions, and the majority also felt that the extra pair of eyes would cause them to censor their notes regarding mental health and substance abuse....Patients were overwhelmingly enthusiastic about OpenNotes, regardless of whether they decided to join the program or not, with more than 90 percent responding favorably...." |
| Geospatial initiative shows the way - SciDev.Net Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:02 AM PST www.scidev.net GeoSUR, a Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) open access and web-based initiative for geospatial data-sharing, has received a boost at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi (12-15 December). The conference "Networks of Networks" working group accepted GeoSUR – one of the first such regional networks in the developing world – as a "case model". "This could help to use the lessons we learned as a starting point to build similar networks in other developing regions," Eric Van Praag, coordinator of GeoSUR, told SciDev.Net. "We can help kickstart a network like this in other parts of the world and probably get some funding or support," explained Van Praag.... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:26 PM PST chronicle.com "In an unprecedented move, a federal advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that university scientists and journals delete information from two unpublished papers that describe how the bird-flu virus could be engineered to infect mammals by passing it through the air. The panel worried that the changed virus—if the experiments were repeated in an unsecured laboratory or, worse, by a terrorist—could infect people and create a pandemic...." |
| Michael Carroll on Copyright and Open Access Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST |
| Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011: “Open” | Hack Education Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:54 AM PST |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:07 AM PST Journal of Medical Internet Research 13 (4), (2011) From the abstract: ...Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, blogs or social bookmarking tools provide the possibility to construct innovative article-level or journal-level metrics to gauge impact and influence. However, the relationship of the these new metrics to traditional metrics such as citations is not known. Objective: (1) To explore the feasibility of measuring social impact of and public attention to scholarly articles by analyzing buzz in social media, (2) to explore the dynamics, content, and timing of tweets relative to the publication of a scholarly article, and (3) to explore whether these metrics are sensitive and specific enough to predict highly cited articles....Between July 2008 and November 2011, all tweets containing links to articles in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) were mined. For a subset of 1573 tweets about 55 articles published between issues 3/2009 and 2/2010, different metrics of social media impact were calculated and compared against subsequent citation data from Scopus and Google Scholar 17 to 29 months later. A heuristic to predict the top-cited articles in each issue through tweet metrics was validated....A total of 4208 tweets cited 286 distinct JMIR articles. The distribution of tweets over the first 30 days after article publication followed a power law (Zipf, Bradford, or Pareto distribution), with most tweets sent on the day when an article was published (1458/3318, 43.94% of all tweets in a 60-day period) or on the following day (528/3318, 15.9%), followed by a rapid decay. The Pearson correlations between tweetations and citations were moderate and statistically significant, with correlation coefficients ranging from .42 to .72 for the log-transformed Google Scholar citations, but were less clear for Scopus citations and rank correlations. A linear multivariate model with time and tweets as significant predictors (P < .001) could explain 27% of the variation of citations. 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....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. |
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