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- Open access to save costs for teaching and learning
- Neue kostenlose Jura-Zeitschrift
- Group on Earth Observations Heralds Free, Global Access to USGS Earth Imagery
- Open resource metagenomics: a model for sharing metagenomic libraries
- Virtual slides in peer reviewed, open access medical publication
- HathiTrust Constitutional Convention on Record | www.hathitrust.org
- You Can Haz Your PDFs If You Check Your Damned Privilege
- Glyn Moody, The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal? | Techdirt
| Open access to save costs for teaching and learning Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:03 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (29 Dec 2011) Putting an article from a Sage journal on reserve for two semesters can cost over $1,600 U.S. for a non-subscribing institution. The institution would have been way better off kicking in $1,350 so the authors could publish OA in PLoS ONE - even if the authors had nothing to do with the institution. |
| Neue kostenlose Jura-Zeitschrift Posted: 28 Dec 2011 04:25 PM PST JuraTube, (27 Dec 2011) New German OA Law Journal adressed to students |
| Group on Earth Observations Heralds Free, Global Access to USGS Earth Imagery Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:53 PM PST www.ldcm.nasa.gov "In a breakthrough announced here today by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), scientists and decision-makers around the world will soon have unrestricted access at no charge to the Landsat archive, the world’s most extensive collection of continuously-acquired remotely sensed satellite imagery...." |
| Open resource metagenomics: a model for sharing metagenomic libraries Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:48 PM PST Standards in Genomic Sciences 5 (2), 203 (2011) Abstract: Both sequence-based and activity-based exploitation of environmental DNA have provided unprecedented access to the genomic content of cultivated and uncultivated microorganisms. Although researchers deposit microbial strains in culture collections and DNA sequences in databases, activity-based metagenomic studies typically only publish sequences from the hits retrieved from specific screens. Physical metagenomic libraries, conceptually similar to entire sequence datasets, are usually not straightforward to obtain by interested parties subsequent to publication. In order to facilitate unrestricted distribution of metagenomic libraries, we propose the adoption of open resource metagenomics, in line with the trend towards open access publishing, and similar to culture- and mutant-strain collections that have been the backbone of traditional microbiology and microbial genetics. The concept of open resource metagenomics includes preparation of physical DNA libraries, preferably in versatile vectors that facilitate screening in a diversity of host organisms, and pooling of clones so that single aliquots containing complete libraries can be easily distributed upon request. Database deposition of associated metadata and sequence data for each library provides researchers with information to select the most appropriate libraries for further research projects. As a starting point, we have established the Canadian MetaMicroBiome Library (CM2BL []). The CM2BL is a publicly accessible collection of cosmid libraries containing environmental DNA from soils collected from across Canada, spanning multiple biomes. The libraries were constructed such that the cloned DNA can be easily transferred to Gateway® compliant vectors, facilitating functional screening in virtually any surrogate microbial host for which there are available plasmid vectors. The libraries, which we are placing in the public domain, will be distributed upon request without restriction to members of both the academic research community and industry. This article invites the scientific community to adopt this philosophy of open resource metagenomics to extend the utility of functional metagenomics beyond initial publication, circumventing the need to start from scratch with each new research project. |
| Virtual slides in peer reviewed, open access medical publication Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST Diagnostic Pathology 6 (1), 124 (2011) Abstract: Application of virtual slides (VS), the digitalization of complete glass slides, is in its infancy to be implemented in routine diagnostic surgical pathology and to issues that are related to tissue-based diagnosis, such as education and scientific publication. Approach: Electronic publication in Pathology offers new features of scientific communication in pathology that cannot be obtained by conventional paper based journals. Most of these features are based upon completely open or partly directed interaction between the reader and the system that distributes the article. One of these interactions can be applied to microscopic images allowing the reader to navigate and magnify the presented images. VS and interactive Virtual Microscopy (VM) are a tool to increase the scientific value of microscopic images. Technology and Performance: The open access journal Diagnostic Pathology (www.diagnosticpathology.org) has existed for about five years. It is a peer reviewed journal that publishes all types of scientific contributions, including original scientific work, case reports and review articles. In addition to digitized still images the authors of appropriate articles are requested to submit the underlying glass slides to an institution (DiagnomX.eu, and Leica.com) for digitalization and documentation. The images are stored in a separate image data bank which is adequately linked to the article. The normal review process is not involved. Both processes (peer review and VS acquisition) are performed contemporaneously in order to minimize a potential publication delay. VS are not provided with a DOI index (digital object identifier). The first articles that include VS were published in March 2011. Results and Perspectives: Several logistic constraints had to be overcome until the first articles including VS could be published. Step by step an automated acquisition and distribution system had to be implemented to the corresponding article. The acceptance of VS by the reader is high as well as by the authors. Of specific value are the increased confidence to and reputation of authors as well as the presented information to the reader. Additional associated functions such as access to author-owned related image collections, reader-controlled automated image measurements and image transformations are in preparation. |
| HathiTrust Constitutional Convention on Record | www.hathitrust.org Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:07 PM PST www.hathitrust.org "On October 8-9, 2011 delegates from across the U.S. and around the world gathered in Washington, DC for a landmark event, the HathiTrust Constitutional Convention. Our goals were to review the work and accomplishments of the now 3-year-old HathiTrust, and chart its future governance and priorities. Before the group were seven different ballot proposals that had been submitted by HathiTrust partners ahead of the meeting. On a beautiful autumn weekend, the delegates headed indoors, gathered around tables, and deeply engaged in the proceedings and discussion....For a full account of the proceedings, please consult the official minutes of the Constitutional Convention." |
| You Can Haz Your PDFs If You Check Your Damned Privilege Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:28 AM PST On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess, (24 Dec 2011) "There has been a discussion on Twitter over the last 48 hours or so about the legality and morality of requesting and trading PDFs on the internet. In one corner – the open access missionaries, spreading love and data everywhere. On the other corner – those who want you to pay a million dollars for that one research article. I was generally amused by the exchange until the participants in the discussion began comparing trading PDFs to the Underground Railroad. These folks should know better...." |
| Glyn Moody, The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal? | Techdirt Posted: 28 Dec 2011 08:42 AM PST www.techdirt.com "[T]he strict terms and conditions [of the Cambridge University's Digital Library] are not so praiseworthy: "Subject to statutory allowances, extracts of the Content and University Material from the site may be accessed, downloaded and printed for your personal and non-commercial use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the site. Unless explicitly licensed or permitted by us, you may not: use any part of the Content or University Material on the site for direct or indirect commercial purposes...modify or alter the paper or digital copies of any Content or University Material printed off or downloaded in any way; sell, resell, license, transfer, transmit, display in any form, perform, hire, lease or loan any Content or University Material in whole or in part printed or downloaded from the site; systematically extract and/or re-utilise substantial parts of the Content or University Material from the site; create and/or publish your own database that features substantial parts of this site...." [These terms apply even to works in the public domain such as Isaac Newton's scientific papers.] At least the Cambridge University Digital Library allows "personal and non-commercial use" for free; the British Library's new British Newspaper Archive doesn't even permit that....This current trend to limit access to digitized versions of public domain materials is a real betrayal of the original mission of public libraries like the British Library. These made possible the opening up knowledge to huge numbers of ordinary people who otherwise would never been able to access these materials. Today's massive digitization projects, which ought to be building on and extending that great tradition, are actually reversing it by seeking to take texts out of the public domain and charge for access to them. That's not just a shame, it's a scandal." |
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