Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Wageningen UR deposited their 30,000th publication in Narcis
- OPEN MINDS – INTERVIEW WITH ELEONORA DAGIENÈ, CHAIR OF COUNCIL OF THE LITHUANIAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLAR PERIODICALS
- OPEN MINDS – AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTIAS COLLIN, PhD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF CLINICAL SCIENCES, LUND UNIVERSITY
- STRATEGIC PUBLISHING RULES – A MANUAL FOR RESEARCHER
- OpenAIREplus – linking peer-reviewed literature to associated data
- TALKING ABOUT OPEN ACCES
- OPEN ACCESS POLICY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
- Citations to Wikipedia in Chemistry Journals: A Preliminary Study
- Version 4.0 – Public Discussion Launches - Creative Commons
- Open Source cancer research (must see video)
- Wiley Annual Report 2011: costs down, profits up
- Consiglio Regionale - Legge sugli "Open Data"
- House To Be More Open: OKs Online Publication Standard - Sunlight Foundation
- “If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace?”
- Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear | TechCrunch
- Start A National Effort To Digitize All Public Government Info.
- Why ONE Is More Than 5
- Curriculum, Part V: How To Go Open-Source
- Jonathan Gray, Ideas for OpenPhilosophy.org
- NeuroDojo: Green and gold
- No deal with OCLC - Kungliga biblioteket
- SurDoc Raises $4 Million For Sharing Formatted Documents Across All Platforms | TechCrunch
- Digitization of Books at National Library
- Inviting Patients to Read Their Doctors' Notes: Patients and Doctors Look Ahead
- WissensWert 2011: Wir gratulieren den fünf Gewinnerprojekten!
| Wageningen UR deposited their 30,000th publication in Narcis Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:07 AM PST www.openaccess.nl The library of Wageningen Uiversity and Research Centre deposited their 30,000th publication in Narcis. Narcis is de overarching open access repository of the Dutch universities and research institutions. |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:35 AM PST OPEN MINDS Interwiev with Eleonora Dagienė Chair of Council of The Lithuanian Association of Scholar Periodicals ScieCom Info 7 (4), (2011) |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:34 AM PST OPEN MINDS An interview with Mattias Collin PhD Associate Professor Department of Clinical Sciences Lund University Sweden ScieCom Info 7 (4), (2011) |
| STRATEGIC PUBLISHING RULES – A MANUAL FOR RESEARCHER Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:24 AM PST Strategic Publishing Rules a Manual for Researchers ScieCom Info 7 (4), (2011) |
| OpenAIREplus – linking peer-reviewed literature to associated data Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:17 AM PST ScieCom Info 7 (4), (2011) Abstract: According to their Press Release 15 December 2011, OpenAIREplus was launched in Pisa in early December. It is the 2nd Generation of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe, a 30 month project, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme. It will extend its mission further to facilitate access to the entire Open Access scientific production of the European Research Area, and provide cross-links from publications to data and funding schemes.... |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:14 AM PST Talking about Open Access ScieCom Info 7 (4), (2011) "Knowledge Exchange is a partnership between Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK and SURFfoundation in the Netherlands. Through the years KE has worked to raise awareness of OA and has been contributing to the pile of reports and studies that exist in this area. During 2011 we decided to take a slightly different approach and present the good story peer to peer in order to relate the more fundamental discussion to daily life and reality – a reality that might look different depending on where you are in the food chain. This has resulted in the launching of the oastories.org website. There are known examples of successes, including BioMed Central, the big English Open Access publisher and PLoS (Public Library of Science), a nonprofit publisher and membership organization. What we in KE wanted was to focus on examples where OA has made a difference, a difference to the author, to the publisher and to the end user at the receiving end. We hired a journalist to trace people, journals and organisations with a good story to tell. She followed hints and traces, often directed from one story to another, and we realised that at all levels success stories popped up, telling that publishing OA is a viable option...." |
| OPEN ACCESS POLICY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:11 AM PST Open Access policy at the University of Oslo ScieCom Info 7 (4), (2011) "The Open Access policy of the University of Oslo will enter into force the 1 January 2012. According to this policy: ...All personnel employed after 1 January 2012 shall deposit a post print version of scientific articles created in the course of their duties in the electronic, institutional repository of the University of Oslo. Personnel employed before this date are encouraged to follow the same regime. If the employee has published in a journal that does not allow the deposit in an institutional repository, the employee is exempted from this duty...." |
| Citations to Wikipedia in Chemistry Journals: A Preliminary Study Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:00 AM PST www.istl.org Abstract: Wikipedia has been the subject of an increasing number of studies. Many of these have focused on the quality of Wikipedia articles and the use of Wikipedia by students. Little research has focused on the use of Wikipedia by scholars. This study helps to fill that gap by examining citations to Wikipedia in chemistry journals from three major publishers over a five year period. The study reports the number of citations to Wikipedia and describes how Wikipedia is being cited. The results show that, while only a small percentage of all articles contained a citation to Wikipedia, it is in fact being cited as a credible information source in articles in major chemistry journals. |
| Version 4.0 – Public Discussion Launches - Creative Commons Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:59 AM PST creativecommons.org "We are pleased to announce the beginning of the public discussion process that we expect to result in version 4.0 of the Creative Commons license suite...." |
| Open Source cancer research (must see video) Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:58 AM PST chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com "Four years ago I wrote up a passionate post about the importance of ODOSOS, and about a year ago written about how research can be open sourced, and how the Open Source Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) fits in. I am proud that the CDK is enabling so many researchers to do novel research! Google Scholar reports over 200 documents and Web of Science gets to over 150 for just the first CDK paper (see also GS vs WoS). That's serious impact. We're far from being fully comparable with existing commercial tools, which have a 40 year head start. But with important functionality still missing (e.g. E/Z stereochemistry), and about 150 open bug reports which needs looking into, we surely can need funding and help! Anyway, this Monday we had the last of this years Stockholm Open Science meetings, and Carl Bärstad joined, whom is organizing TEDx talks here in Stockholm, and he pointed me to this must see video on open source cancer research...." |
| Wiley Annual Report 2011: costs down, profits up Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:56 AM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (21 Dec 2011) "The John Wiley &; Sons 2011 Annual Report is now available. From the Overview, in brief, revenue from Wiley's Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly division (STMS) increased slightly to just under a billion U.S., while direct contribution to profit rose from 5 to 9% (for a direct contribution to profit of $425 million, or 42.5%) - from the Detailed Financials, p. 22...." |
| Consiglio Regionale - Legge sugli "Open Data" Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:48 AM PST www.consiglioregionale.piemonte.it From Google's English: "Piedmont is the first Italian region to adopt a law on publication and reuse data of the public administration, the so-called "Open Data". The text was unanimously approved of the voters in the session of December 20. With this definition refers to a philosophy that is both a practice. It implies that some types of data are freely accessible to all, without copyright restrictions, patents or other forms of control to limit their reproduction...." |
| House To Be More Open: OKs Online Publication Standard - Sunlight Foundation Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:47 AM PST sunlightfoundation.com "This morning [December 16, 2011], the House of Representatives took a tremendous step into the 21st century when the Committee on House Administration unanimously adopted "Standards for the Electronic Posting of House and Committee Documents & Data." Taking effect on January 1, 2012, the resolution instructs the Clerk of the House to maintain a single website where the public can access all House bills, amendments, and resolutions for floor consideration in XML. In addition, committees will be encouraged to post their documents on that site in XML whenever possible -- and searchable PDFs when not -- with the expectation that mandatory publication requirements in XML will soon be imposed. The House will also store video of hearings and markups, and work to implement standards "that require documents to be electronically published in open data formats that are machine readable," thereby enabling transparency and public review...." |
| “If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace?” Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:22 AM PST yeswescan.org "Locked in our federal vaults is a tremendous storehouse of information that if digitized would form a core for our digital public libraries in America with huge benefit for our country: cutting costs in the Federal government, creating jobs throughout America, and revolutionizing how we educate our citizens, how we practice the law, and how we create news, art, and scholarly works. Imagine if the riches contained in the National Archives, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Government Printing Office, National Library of Medicine, National Agricultural Library, National Technical Information Service, and scores of other federal organizations were made available, becoming the core of a national effort to make access to knowledge a right for all Americans. The dream is a big one, but if we do not begin the questions of what it would take to get there, we will never start down that road...." |
| Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear | TechCrunch Posted: 21 Dec 2011 10:13 AM PST techcrunch.com "The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is delayed in Congress, but it is definitely not dead. The media company lobbyists and their Congressmen (hello, Lamar Smith!) are simply regrouping. Some of the more controversial aspects of the bill include transferring liability for copyright infringement to sites that host user-generated content and blocking that content via DNS servers. To highlight the chilling effect this legislation could have on free speech on te Internet, today document-sharing site Scribd is protesting SOPA by making every document disappear word-by-word when you vist the site. All in all, there are a billion pages of documents on the Scribd. “With this legislation in place, entire domains like Scribd could simply vanish from the web,” warns Jared Friedman, CTO and co-founder, Scribd...." |
| Start A National Effort To Digitize All Public Government Info. Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:53 AM PST wwws.whitehouse.gov "The administration should create a group that will answer--within 1 year--the question "what would it take to scan .gov?" What are our federal holdings, what would it take to digitize them, how much would it cost, what are the economic and non-economic benefits? A national digitization strategy can save money, create jobs, revitalize education, and unleash the treasures buried in the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, National Archives, Printing Office, and other national institutions. We need to scan at scale and make access to knowledge a right for all Americans. If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace? More information about this petition can be found at https://YesWeScan.Org/ ...." |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:34 AM PST PLoS Biology 9 (12), e1001235 (2011) "PLoS ONE is five years old this month. Though still young in age, the journal has grown up remarkably rapidly, to the extent that it is now the largest peer-reviewed journal in the world. In the past five years, it has both garnered huge respect and support from authors, readers, and editors, and drawn the criticism and ire of many commercial publishers and establishment figures still fighting to maintain the science publishing status quo. Their fight now appears to be in vain, however: this past year a series of journals emerged that are very similar in scope to PLoS ONE.... PLoS ONE clearly fills an unmet need in the world of scientific publishing, or publishers and scholarly societies wouldn't want to copy it....The success of PLoS ONE has surprised even us. The journal is now publishing about 70 papers a day (i.e., currently around 4,000 papers every quarter), and this figure continues to grow....If the trend continues, it will publish 14,500 articles in 2011: approximately 1 in 60 of all the papers indexed by PubMed in that calendar year will have been published in PLoS ONE. It has even attracted a new term —“megajournal”— to characterize it and the other journals of its ilk...." |
| Curriculum, Part V: How To Go Open-Source Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST |
| Jonathan Gray, Ideas for OpenPhilosophy.org Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:16 AM PST Ideas for OpenPhilosophyorg Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, (20 Dec 2011) "For several years I’ve been meaning to start OpenPhilosophy.org, which would be a collection of open resources related to philosophy for use in teaching and research. There would be a focus on the history of philosophy, particularly on primary texts that have entered the public domain, and on structured data about philosophical texts...." |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:14 AM PST neurodojo.blogspot.com "[B]randing the different kinds of access by colours is so completely arbitrary and random, that even even I can’t remember what the difference between “green” open access and “gold” open access is. I have to look it up every time. When people can’t remember the terminology, the message is not likely to be persuasive...." |
| No deal with OCLC - Kungliga biblioteket Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST "The National Library has ended negotiations with OCLC, as the parties could not successfully come to terms on a contract....The negotiations primarily dealt with two issues: on the one hand, the conditions for uploading the Swedish union catalogue Libris database into OCLC’s WorldCat;the question of license/ownership for copying bibliographic records from WorldCat for use in Libris.... A fundamental condition for the entire Libris collaboration is voluntary participation. Libraries that catalogue in Libris can take out all their bibliographic records and incorporate them instead into another system, or use them in anyway the library finds suitable. The National Library makes no claim of controlling how bibliographic records taken from Libris are used....Bibliographic records exported from WorldCat cannot be used and further exported in just any way, according to the OCLC agreement...." |
| SurDoc Raises $4 Million For Sharing Formatted Documents Across All Platforms | TechCrunch Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:06 AM PST techcrunch.com "SurDoc is doing what Adobe has sort of done with its PDF file format, which is make it as easy as possible to share formatted documents across computers and mobile devices without losing the formatting. The difference it offers is that you don’t need to mess with any file formating or PDF reader to access the documents — or with all of the vulnerabilities of PDFs. You can just upload text, spreadsheet and presentation files (so Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) to its online service, and share them from there. The company, whose product is live today as a trial, has also let us know that it has raised a $4 million round of funding from IDG Ventures....SurDoc’s technology is based on UOML, a new document standard whose development was led by company founder Alex Wang, that’s been approved an international information open standards body OASIS. That organization’s members include Google, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, the U.S.Department of Defense and the University of California. SurDoc currently allows you to annotate documents, although full editing capabilities aren’t in place yet. Future plans include adding complete fidelity for Google Docs...Current document formats that can be imported include: .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, ODF, PDF, XPS, SVG and HTML." |
| Digitization of Books at National Library Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:52 AM PST pib.nic.in "The Minister for Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that digitisation of rare books and other print material is done selectively taking into account copyright and other issues....In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, under the 3rd phase of digitisation project 20,00,000 pages i.e. 6000 books are envisaged to be digitised at a cost of about Rs. 35 lakhs in next seven months. She said, the National Library has been accorded special status of an institution of national importance in the Article 62 in the Seventh Schedule of the Union List of the Constitution of India. There is no other National Library in the country. Recently, steps have been taken to improve the functioning of National Library, Kolkata. They include access to full text electronic journals...." |
| Inviting Patients to Read Their Doctors' Notes: Patients and Doctors Look Ahead Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST Annals of Internal Medicine 155 (12), (20 Dec 2011) From the abstract: Little is known about what primary care physicians (PCPs) and patients would expect if patients were invited to read their doctors' office notes....Overall, 69% to 81% of participating PCPs across the 3 sites and 92% to 97% of patients thought open visit notes were a good idea, compared with 16% to 33% of nonparticipating PCPs. Similarly, participating PCPs and patients generally agreed with statements about potential benefits of open visit notes, whereas nonparticipating PCPs were less likely to agree. Among participating PCPs, 74% to 92% anticipated improved communication and patient education, in contrast to 45% to 67% of nonparticipating PCPs. More than one half of participating PCPs (50% to 58%) and most nonparticipating PCPs (88% to 92%) expected that open visit notes would result in greater worry among patients; far fewer patients concurred (12% to 16%). Thirty-six percent to 50% of participating PCPs and 83% to 84% of nonparticipating PCPs anticipated more patient questions between visits. Few PCPs (0% to 33%) anticipated increased risk for lawsuits. Patient enthusiasm extended across age, education, and health status, and 22% anticipated sharing visit notes with others, including other doctors....Among PCPs, opinions about open visit notes varied widely in terms of predicting the effect on their practices and benefits for patients. In contrast, patients expressed considerable enthusiasm and few fears, anticipating both improved understanding and more involvement in care. Sharing visit notes has broad implications for quality of care, privacy, and shared accountability. |
| WissensWert 2011: Wir gratulieren den fünf Gewinnerprojekten! Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:46 AM PST Wikimedia Blog, (15 Dec 2011) From Google's English: "Of 17 October to 24 November, people and initiatives that promote the Free Knowledge, 50 project ideas from our competition worth knowing submitted. They all competed to a financial support for the implementation of their projects: With up to 5,000 € Wikimedia Germany helps to make bold ideas extraordinary projects. The jury has decided! After the meeting last week we have now counted all the points together and look forward to you the five winning projects here present, together with adulation...." |
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