Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- The Laboratorium: How Copyright Is Like Cognitive Impairment
- Peer reviewed journals, science and social justice
- PLoS ONE: Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results
- JSE - Jura Studium & Examen
- INASP Newsletter, Winter 2011
- Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Service
| The Laboratorium: How Copyright Is Like Cognitive Impairment Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:20 AM PST laboratorium.net "The Sweet 16 is [an open access] cognitive impairment test. Its creators did a study to validate that Sweet 16 and MMSE [Mini Mental State Exam] scores correlated strongly, and that the Sweet 16 could be as effective when used in a clinical setting. And now for the bad news. The Sweet 16 is no longer available for download. As detailed in an essay by John C. Newman and Robin Feldman in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, PAR, the copyright owner of the MMSE, apparently requested that the Sweet 16 be removed from the Internet....PAR sells 50 MMSE test forms for $66, or $1.32 each. The Sweet 16 was designed to be a replacement for the MMSE, but available open-access, so that anyone could use it freely and for free. It appears that the owners of the MMSE didn’t like competition. Newman and Feldman (or perhaps their editors at NEJM) were too polite to say it, but I’m not: any copyright claim here is legally weak and morally indefensible...." |
| Peer reviewed journals, science and social justice Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:13 AM PST Tobacco Control 21 (1), 1 (20 Dec 2011) "For the last 2 years, Tobacco Control has benefited from opportunities to enhance connections with authors and potential authors from low/middle income countries (LMICs), through a special grant provided by the Bloomberg Foundation. The grant, based on a proposal initiated by Editor Emeritus Simon Chapman, provided funding for several LMIC introductory workshops on writing for the journal, additional open-access pages in the journal devoted to papers and news from LMICs, and increased editorial support and mentoring for authors with good ideas but little or no experience in writing for a peer reviewed journal....However, an unanticipated side effect of these LMIC-focused initiatives has been the interesting conversations they have stimulated among the senior editors of the journal, and the ways in which they have expanded our perspectives on our roles as editors and mediators of discourse in a field where both science and social justice are at issue...." |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:18 AM PST www.plosone.org Abstract: The widespread reluctance to share published research data is often hypothesized to be due to the authors' fear that reanalysis may expose errors in their work or may produce conclusions that contradict their own. However, these hypotheses have not previously been studied systematically....We related the reluctance to share research data for reanalysis to 1148 statistically significant results reported in 49 papers published in two major psychology journals. We found the reluctance to share data to be associated with weaker evidence (against the null hypothesis of no effect) and a higher prevalence of apparent errors in the reporting of statistical results. The unwillingness to share data was particularly clear when reporting errors had a bearing on statistical significance....Our findings on the basis of psychological papers suggest that statistical results are particularly hard to verify when reanalysis is more likely to lead to contrasting conclusions. This highlights the importance of establishing mandatory data archiving policies. |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:14 AM PST www.zeitschrift-jse.de Jura Studium und Examen is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from Phi Delta Phi, Richard v. Weizsäcker Inn, University of Tuebingen. |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:36 AM PST www.inasp.info Some articles from this issue: [1] Awareness matters Demand spikes for the TEEAL agricultural library after new outreach campaign in the Americas and the Pacific, [4] AgriOcean Dspace FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE combine efforts in their support of Open Access. and [5] Seeing the big picture Open Learning Exchange Rwanda strategy in promoting, monitoring and evaluating e-resources. |
| Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Service Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:29 AM PST www.educationadvisoryboard.com See pp. 40-46 on "Open Access Publishing" (which despite the title covers green as well as gold OA, and green even more than gold). |
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