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- Summit eyeing global sharing of environmental data - SciDev.Net
- David C. Prosser im Interview (VÖB-Mitt. 3-4/2011)
- Österreichische Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler und der Goldene Weg zu Open Access: Ergebnisse aus der „Study of Open Access Publishing“ (VÖB-Mitt. 3-4/2011) | VÖBBLOG
- Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Verbundkatalog B3Kat als Linked / Open Data freigegeben
- Predicting Ecosystem Changes - US News and World Report
| Summit eyeing global sharing of environmental data - SciDev.Net Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:34 AM PST www.scidev.net "Better collaboration, strengthening existing data networks and launching new networks will improve access to environmental data on which vital decisions will depend, delegates believe....As the cost of computer hardware and data infrastructure has fallen, poorer countries can hook up to information networks stored on the 'cloud' without investing in expensive hardware, and even farmers can access information through ubiquitous mobile phones. "In the past the main barrier to accessing environmental information was considered to be the technology. The barrier is no longer technology but making data accessible," says Cathrine Armour, programme director for Eye on Earth, from the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI). Environmental knowledge has become critical, yet much of it is hard to access, unusable or simply not available. Data collected by development banks and aid agencies often remains "hidden" in project reports. Developing countries in particular find it difficult to tackle environmental issues due to competing national priorities, yet environmental damage can be significant...."The general principle is you are better off with open access to information than not, and that principle underlies the Eye on Earth summit," says [Peter Gilruth, director of the division of early warning and assessment at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi]...." |
| David C. Prosser im Interview (VÖB-Mitt. 3-4/2011) Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:30 AM PST VÖBBLOG, (28 Dec 2011) Quoting Prosser: "The fundamental problem is that library budgets do not scale with the international increase in research output. We need a new system that does scale and ties communication costs in to increasing research spending....In the long term open access will succeed. It best fits with the desires of researchers and research funders – for the widest dissemination of research – and it best fits with the new technology where disseminations costs fall to almost zero. Over the past ten years the subscription model has been artificially sustained by two drivers – the success of the big deals and the use of journal publications in funding and promotion decisions. The big deals have a lot of benefits, but one side-effect is that they distort the market and allow weak, underperforming journals to survive as part of the deals. If these journals stood alone, competing for subscription revenues they would fold, so hastening the move to open access. As budgetary pressures force libraries to look carefully at the number of big deals they can afford we will see a reduction in the weakest subscription journals and a growth open access journals. At the same time, the funders of research will increasingly insist on open access routes....In the medium-term we will see a mix of green open access (author selfarchive) and gold, open access journals....The publishers who will best succeed in this new environment are those who move from the model of content-owners, who mediate access to a select few, to a new model of service-providers. So the providers of peerreview services to authors, of specialized finding services to readers, of archiving services to libraries, etc. will stand most chance of success. They will realize that new models reward those who disseminate knowledge widely, not those who erect artificial barriers to knowledge. Basically, those who accept that open access will become the dominant mode of scholarly communication." |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:19 AM PST www.univie.ac.at An article in German with this English-language abstract: The EU funded Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) run from March 2009 to February 2011. More than 53.000 people worldwide participated in this online-survey on the Golden Road to Open Access, among them about 46.000 scholars. The paper will put a spotlight on the input of the 462 Austrian scientists who took part in this survey. It analyses their answers to 9 selected questions out of the survey’s original total of 23 questions. A focus is put on significant differences in these answers between scientists from Austria and Germany. The financial supporting structure for Open Access in Austria is quite dissimilar from Germany hence differences should be expected. Even so 89 % of scientists in both countries agree that Open Access is helpful in their own field of research. |
| Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Verbundkatalog B3Kat als Linked / Open Data freigegeben Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:10 AM PST www.bsb-muenchen.de From Google's English: "The Bavarian State Library, the Bavarian Library Network and the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg have their catalog "B3Kat" as open data in XML format MARC...and as RDF / XML iodine...published. Included are descriptions of over 23 million items from 180 libraries in Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg. Data is provided on the Internet for public use under the license "Creative Commons Zero." This is the most comprehensive data package that was as far from German libraries and library networks Linked Open Data made available. Together with the data waivers of the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia and several libraries of other states is thus now a significant part of the bibliographic titles and media evidence of academic libraries in Germany under a free license. The offer is available including on the Open Data Portal of the Free State of Bavaria reached: opendata.bayern.de ...." |
| Predicting Ecosystem Changes - US News and World Report Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:17 AM PST www.usnews.com "António Baptista, a professor in the division of environmental and biomolecular systems at Oregon Health & Science University...directs the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction, whose goal is to study environments at the sea-land interface, and disseminate objective information to regulatory agencies, local governments and other policymakers, as well as to the public, to help in their decision-making....The center, currently in its sixth year, is based at the Oregon Health & Science University, with a wide range of academic and non-academic partners....Supporting the Columbia River estuary research is a system the center calls a “collaboratory,” which brings together sensors and computer models with the people who need the information these technologies produce. The sensor and models’ predictions flow to and from an open-access database, which is available to scientists, managers and laypeople...." |
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