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- Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013
- 2011 Year-End [SSRN] President's Letter
- The task of building an “open access culture”
- The morality of scientific openness
- Journals with good creative commons models
- The year in big data and data science: Hadoop, security and open data defined the data world in 2011.
- In 2011: How the Internet Revolutionized Education
- Will MITx Disrupt Higher Education? - Casting Out Nines - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API
- Should the new flu stay secret? Or does secrecy kill? | The Loom | Discover Magazine
- TEXTUS: an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata
- The Case for Open Access in China. | QuestionCopyright.org
- Do We Really Need Copyright For Academic Publishing? | Techdirt
- CrowdoMeter – or trying to understand tweets about journal papers | Gobbledygook
- Guggenheim Launches Catalogue in Digital Format and Expands Online Resources
- 2011 The Year of Open « Paul Stacey
- Radical openness in educational materials: The next step in Washington
- State lawmaker favors cutting use of traditional textbooks in schools - KAYU
| Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:49 AM PST Dryad news and views, (07 Oct 2011) "Dryad released its 1000th data package....This (arbitrary, but see [3]) milestone has put us in a reflective mood, and so here we take the opportunity to consider what it means. First, it encourages us that Dryad’s multipronged approach to making data available for reuse (raising awareness of the issues, coordinating data archiving policy across journals, providing a user-friendly submission interface, paying attention to the incentives of researchers) is bearing fruit. As a result of this strategy, the rate of submissions continues to grow; over 60% of submissions are from the past nine months alone....What else can we learn from these first 1000 submissions? One is the importance of making data submission integral to publication. While there are 88 different journals in which the corresponding articles appear, about three quarters of the submissions come from the first nine journals that worked to integrate manuscript and data submission with Dryad...We are pleasantly surprised to report that most authors, most of the time, see the value in having their data released at the same time as the article is published. Authors are making their data available immediately upon publication, or earlier, for over 90% of data files...." |
| Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013 Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:45 AM PST groups.google.com "It is my pleasure to announce that the Board of Administrators of the FRS-FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research in French-speaking Belgium) has officially decided to use exclusively Institutional Repositories as sources of bibliographic data in support of grant or fellowship submission (except for foreign applicants) starting in 2013 (strongly encouraged in 2012). FRS-FNRS is by far the main funder for basic research in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation." |
| 2011 Year-End [SSRN] President's Letter Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:43 AM PST groups.google.com "The SSRN eLibrary currently has 375,000 paper abstracts from over 175,000 authors and has received 60,000 new submissions during the year. SSRN's Citereader project with ITX Corp. has extracted 7.4 million references, 4.7 million citations, and 7.7 million footnotes from our 306,000 full text papers...." |
| The task of building an “open access culture” Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:35 AM PST Omega Alpha | Open Access, (27 Dec 2011) "When I first read that phrase “open access culture,” I was instantly captivated by its significance. I want to thank Kevin Smith for giving me something powerful to hang the mission (the “task”) of this site upon. Embracing or promoting open access isn’t just a matter of pragmatics, techniques, or technologies. Open access is a way of approaching the creation and dissemination of information that involves certain attitudes and behavioral characteristics. As such, it truly is a culture, and one that takes further unique shape within the scholarly discipline where it manifests itself. Open access culture within the study of religion or theology may share certain applications and outcomes with chemistry, physics, or economics, but (as alluded to above) it also integrates each discipline’s unique research traditions and values/commitments. (This very point surfaced in my recent profile of the journal Religion and Gender.) Smith suggests that the mission statements of theological associations such as the Association of Theological Schools and the American Theological Library Association already contain wording that could be leveraged to support enhancement of information access in the direction of open access...." |
| The morality of scientific openness Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:09 AM PST www.springerlink.com Abstract: The ideal of scientific openness — i.e. the idea that scientific information should be freely accessible to interested parties — is strongly supported throughout the scientific community. At the same time, however, this ideal does not appear to be absolute in the everyday practice of science. In order to get the credit for new scientific advances, scientists often keep information to themselves. Also, it is common practice to withhold information obtained in commissioned research when the scientist has agreed with his or her employer to do so. The secrecy may be intended for ever, as in the military area, but also temporarily until a patent application has been made. The paper explores to what extent such secrecy is undesirable, as seems to be suggested by the ideal of scientific openness. Should this ideal be interpreted as having certain exceptions which make the above-mentioned practices acceptable? Are there, on closer inspection, good arguments for the ideal of scientific openness, and for officially upholding it? Possible versions of the ideal of scientific openness are explored and the issue is found to be rather complex, allowing for wide variations depending on the acting parties, beneficiaries, types of information and moral requirements involved. We conclude that the arguments usually given in favour of this ideal are weaker than what seems to be generally believed, and that, on closer inspection, they leave plenty of room for exceptions to it. These exceptions only partly cover the actual practice of withholding scientific information, and there may still be good reason to advocate, teach and enforce the ideal of scientific openness within the scientific community. |
| Journals with good creative commons models Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:36 AM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (27 Dec 2011) "As reported by Suber & Sutton in the December 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, only a small minority (15%) of society-owned fully open access journals use Creative Commons licenses, and as Shieber found in 2009, of all the journals listed in DOAJ, only 24% use CC licensing. To encourage more journals to use CC licenses, this post presents 4 journals or publishers, some from the scholarly society community and others from the commercial community, with what I consider to be good Creative Commons models. Note that I am not covering the CC Attribution only license (CC-BY), as I assume that this license is commonly understood to represent good practice for open access. In brief, in all cases the Creative Commons license is that of the author, not the journal or publisher...." |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST |
| In 2011: How the Internet Revolutionized Education Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:29 AM PST |
| Will MITx Disrupt Higher Education? - Casting Out Nines - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST chronicle.com "MIT has been doing online access to education a lot longer than most people, largely due to their invaluable OpenCourseWare project....Now they are poised to go to the next level by launching an online system called MITx in Spring 2012 that provides credentialing as well as content....The official FAQ reveals a couple of additional points. First, the content of MITx courses will be free — which seems to imply that MITx course content will be different than OCW course content, and not just a certification layer on top of existing resources — and you’ll only pay money for the certificate. Second, there will be no admissions process. If you want a course, you just take it and then pay for the credentialing if you feel like you’re up to it. I think this last point about having no admissions process may be the most significant piece of MITx. It seems to represent a complete shift from the traditional way of providing access to higher education. As far as I can tell, there will not even be a system of checking prerequisites for MITx courses. If that’s so, then if you feel you can step into, say, an Algorithms class and keep up with the material and demonstrate your mastery, then nobody at MIT will care if you haven’t had the right courses in basic programming, data structures, discrete math, or whatever. MIT is basically saying, we won’t be picky about who we let take these courses — if you can afford it and live up to our standards, we’re happy to credential you...." |
| One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:15 AM PST OpenCorporates news, (20 Dec 2011) "Was it just a year ago that we launched OpenCorporates, after just a couple months’ coding? When we opened up over 3 million companies and allowed searching across multiple jurisdictions (admittedly there were just three of them to start off with)? Who would have thought that 12 months later we would have become 10 times bigger, with over 30 million companies and over 35 jurisdictions, and lots of other data too. So we could use this as an example to talk about some of the many milestones in that period, about all the extra data we’ve added, about our commitment to open data, and the principles behind it...." |
| Should the new flu stay secret? Or does secrecy kill? | The Loom | Discover Magazine Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:13 AM PST blogs.discovermagazine.com |
| TEXTUS: an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:12 AM PST Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, (20 Dec 2011) "TEXTUS is an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata. It enables users to transcribe, translate, and annotate texts, and to manage associated bibliographic data...." |
| The Case for Open Access in China. | QuestionCopyright.org Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:09 AM PST questioncopyright.org "American scholars are making efforts to remove copyright restriction on their works on the ground that many research papers resulted from research studies sponsored by taxpayers' money. It makes little sense if the publishers appropriate the works' copyright and charge the public again for access. An even stronger case for free access to Chinese journal articles can be made considering the fact that most major research universities in China are funded by the central government and most papers with academic merit are based on research projects sponsored by the government...." |
| Do We Really Need Copyright For Academic Publishing? | Techdirt Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:04 AM PST www.techdirt.com "Perhaps copyright protects the wrong thing for academics: what they really care about is credit for the ideas their papers contain, not how they phrased them. This analysis echoes suggestions I've heard elsewhere that one approach to reforming copyright would be to abolish it completely for academic publishing. Not only do scholars not need copyright for their work, if it's ideas not expression that counts, it gets in the way by putting obstacles between them and the research of others. Moreover, as the QuestionCopyright article points out, fully opening up research would also be the best way of tackling what seems to be the chief fear of academic authors: plagiarism. More readers able to access more works would mean a greater likelihood that unacknowledged copying between them would be noticed and exposed...." |
| CrowdoMeter – or trying to understand tweets about journal papers | Gobbledygook Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST blogs.plos.org "Gunther Eysenbach analyzed a total of 4208 tweets citing 286 distinct JMIR articles. 60% of the tweets were sent the day the paper was published, or the day after....There was a correlation between the number of tweets about a JMIR paper, and the number of citations in Google Scholar or Scopus (analyzed 17-29 months later). Highly tweeted papers were more likely to become highly cited, but the numbers were to small for any firm conclusions (12 out of 286 papers were highly tweeted)...." |
| Guggenheim Launches Catalogue in Digital Format and Expands Online Resources Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:55 AM PST www.guggenheim.org "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has expanded its digital publications resources, offering greater access to a range of content from Guggenheim publications, including the first exhibition catalogue to be published by a museum in an e-book format. A newly digitized selection of essays and historical materials dating back to the 1937 founding of the museum are also now available at guggenheim.org/publications...." |
| 2011 The Year of Open « Paul Stacey Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:29 AM PST edtechfrontier.com "The “open” space is expanding. 2011 has been a watershed year with open gaining traction and acceptance...." |
| Radical openness in educational materials: The next step in Washington Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:25 AM PST Official Reuven Carlyle Blog, (27 Dec 2011) "On January 9, 2012 I [Reuven Carlyle] plan to introduce two bills in the Washington State House of Representatives that continue the march toward radical openness of our state’s educational materials. This legislation builds on our state’s widely-recognized open course library initiative that is allowing us to greatly reduce or eliminate expensive textbooks for hundreds of thousands of students in our state’s 34 community and technical colleges. By 2013 it’s possible for community college students to save $41 million in out-of-pocket costs per year....There is an unstoppable movement underway from taxpayers, students, professors, foundations and government about open educational resources, open textbooks, open science and open data — all moving toward a fundamental policy of ‘openness.’ Sharing resources that are paid for by tax dollars is a simple exercise in fairness...." |
| State lawmaker favors cutting use of traditional textbooks in schools - KAYU Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST www.myfoxspokane.com "Each year, the state government spends about $65 million on textbooks for school districts across Washington – and at least one member of the Legislature sees the spending as a big opportunity for savings. “Textbooks are absolutely an idea whose time is long gone,” state Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle. “They are expensive, they are commercially driven, they are proprietary and, worst of all, they are educationally generic.” In January, Carlyle will be pushing a bill in Olympia to encourage school districts to move to “open source” materials. These are free, Internet-based publications that teachers can simply photocopy for students and that can be accessed online as well...." |
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