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- Commons:Open Access File of the Day - Wikimedia Commons
- Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide
- Open data in Chicago: progress and direction
- Campus Connection: Longtime UW-Madison library director steps down
- NASA's Daniel Schumacher answers 10 Questions about Earth and space science at Marshall
- Copyright vs Medicine: If this topic isn’t covered in your newspaper this weekend, get a new newspaper
- Happy 2012 Open Access Movement! December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access.
- Let’s celebrate Public Domain Day!
- What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?
- To celebrate the role of the public domain in our societies | Public Domain Day - 1 January 2012
- Social Networking Tools for Scientists or How to Brand Yourself Online as a Digital Citizen
- TEDxSanAntonio - Steven Bachrach-Remix in Science-Data Exchange Revolutionizes Scientific Publishing - YouTube
- Pharmacological information discovery with OpenPHACTS
- Glyn Moody: from open source to open research
- Open Data Kit
- What Is To Be Done? (Harnad Response to White House Public Access RFI)
- Open Access to Legal Scholarship and Open Archives: Towards a Better Future? = L’Open Access per la dottrina giuridica e gli Open Archives: verso un futuro migliore?
- open access to research - Oxford Blog
- One of those irregular verbs? Open Research Data
- The imperative of openness for data society
- Deadline Extended to Jan 12 for White House Public Access RFI
- Brave new world: Pioneering electronic publication of new plant species
- Life Technologies Says No. Of Ion Community Users Triples
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Open data An engine for innovation, growth and transparent governance
- EPT OA Award Announcement
| Commons:Open Access File of the Day - Wikimedia Commons Posted: 02 Jan 2012 07:04 AM PST commons.wikimedia.org "This page hosts the prototype of an Open Access File of the Day initiative, as introduced in this blog post. Since December 2011, it highlights files on Wikimedia Commons that are: [1] clearly linked to scientific or scholarly research, [2] in the Public Domain (by ways other than copyright expiration) or licensed under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, [3] used on at least two wiki pages outside user namespace, either on Wikimedia projects or on sites using InstantCommons, from the day of nomination until the day of posting. These criteria will continue to evolve, and you can edit them. The idea is to launch Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons more formally in February 2012 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative going public...." |
| Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:46 AM PST |
| Open data in Chicago: progress and direction Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:44 AM PST |
| Campus Connection: Longtime UW-Madison library director steps down Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:44 PM PST host.madison.com "But in 1992 [Ken Frazier] was named [Director of the University of Wisconsin Libraries] full time and held the position for two decades. Frazier started making a name for himself on the national stage shortly thereafter. In 1998 he founded the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition to tackle the issue of skyrocketing subscription fees to scientific and technical journals. "It was a rebellion, really, and it was a key to starting what is the open access movement, which is the worldwide effort to make sure that research information is freely available on the Internet," says Frazier, who was then elected president of the Association of Research Librarians in 1999. "And that's changing the world today because basically all biomedical research is becoming available as an online resource." Frazier admits these efforts have received "mixed reviews," noting "research journals are still impossibly expensive." ...Despite stepping down from his director's post, Frazier says he plans to remain a "citizen of the university" and hopes to stay involved in outreach efforts to promote the value of UW-Madison. He plans to officially retire in the coming months, although he left the director's position last week...." |
| NASA's Daniel Schumacher answers 10 Questions about Earth and space science at Marshall Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:39 PM PST Business News from The Huntsville Times, (01 Jan 2012) "PEOPLE-ACE is a web-based, open-access, environmental research and decision support system for the Arctic region, integrating disparate data, models, tools and products from U.S. agencies and foreign countries. Scientists at Marshall will provide project management, system engineering, and Earth Science Office products to ACE...." |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST Neurobonkers.com, (30 Dec 2011) "According to the New England Journal of Medicine, after thirty years of silence, authors of a standard clinical psychiatric bedside test have issued take down orders of new medical research. Doctors who use copies of the bedside test which will have been printed in some of their oldest medical textbooks are liable to be sued for up to $150,000. The New England Journal of Medicine makes the stark comparison that “Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter all use open-source software at the heart of their products” yet when it comes to medicine, developments are very often, very far from open-source. This case demonstrates the tragic state of affairs that even the ghosts of positively ancient abandoned copyrights for the very simplest of ideas can be used to block new medical work through legal bullying. The basic nature of the information that is protected in this case only begins to illustrate the harm that is really possible when even more powerful and innovative ideas are placed under lock and key for the rest of living memory...." |
| Happy 2012 Open Access Movement! December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access. Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:20 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (01 Jan 2012) "There are over 7,000 peer-reviewed fully open access journals as listed in the DOAJ, still growing by 4 titles per day and over 6,000 of these are in English, as listed by Open J-Gate. Electronic Journals Library keeps track of more than 32,000 free journals. There are over 2,000 repositories, linking to more than 30 million items, growing at the rate of 21 thousand items per day, which can be searched through the snazzy new Bielefeld Academic Search Engine search options. PLoS ONE, having become the world's largest journal last year, outdid themselves by doubling the number of articles published this year. PubMedCentral, arXiv, RePEC, and E-LIS growth was in the 10-15% range for the year. This issue of Dramatic Growth adds a new feature, a first attempt at comparing compliance rates with a few medical funders' open access policies - so far, Wellcome Trust is looking good! ..." |
| Let’s celebrate Public Domain Day! Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:19 PM PST |
| What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012? Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:18 PM PST |
| To celebrate the role of the public domain in our societies | Public Domain Day - 1 January 2012 Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:16 PM PST www.publicdomainday.org "On this day of great celebrations worldwide, we also invite to celebrate the impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty that today, like every year on this day, becomes freely available to humankind. Every year on New Year's Day, in fact, due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain - that is, their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone, but it rather becomes a common treasure, available for anyone to freely use for any purpose...." |
| Social Networking Tools for Scientists or How to Brand Yourself Online as a Digital Citizen Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:14 PM PST ChemConnector Blog, (31 Dec 2011) |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST www.youtube.com "The Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio gives a compelling argument for - 'Remix in Science - Data Exchange Revolutionizes Scientific Publishing.' " |
| Pharmacological information discovery with OpenPHACTS Posted: 01 Jan 2012 01:03 PM PST |
| Glyn Moody: from open source to open research Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:57 PM PST |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:49 PM PST opendatakit.org "Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to: [1] Build a data collection form or survey; [2] Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and [3] Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats...." |
| What Is To Be Done? (Harnad Response to White House Public Access RFI) Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:48 PM PST openaccess.eprints.org If Federal funding agencies mandate green OA self-archiving of the fundee’s final draft of all peer-reviewed journal articles resulting from federally funded research, deposited in the fundee’s institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication (ID/OA mandate), this will not only generate 100% OA for all US federally funded research, but it will inspire funders as well as universities and research institutions worldwide to follow the US’s model, reciprocating with OA mandates of their own, thereby ushering in the era of open access to all research, worldwide, in all fields, funded and unfunded. |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:47 PM PST Abstract: The logic of Open Access (OA) is gradually spreading in the scientific community, mainly thanks to the help of important areas of public libraries. OA basically describes a phenomenon that sees many scientific communities publishing through the Internet their results (papers, articles, books, etc.) on archives accessible to anyone (and without payment of a price). OA seems to have the possibility to become a very powerful tool for the dissemination of scientific knowledge. As part of the general phenomenon called “Transfer of Knowledge” (broader category than the more famous “Technology Transfer”), which sees universities and research centers increasingly interested in showing in the market the quality of their scientific production through various activities aimed at exploiting the foreground of their researches (IPRs, licenses, spin-off, etc.), OA plays a pivotal role: it could make transfer of knowledge - previously conveyed (under payment) by private intermerdiaries - more transparent, fluid, and accessible to anyone. Despite the initial delay, the OA movement is quickly growing in importance for legal scholarship. Nonetheless, the institutional arrangements and the technological features of OA to legal scholarship are variegated and pose a vast array of problems. OA to legal scholarship changes the form of the legal publication - e.g., we face new kinds of publications such as blog posts or Wikipedia articles - and shifts the “quality selection” function of the publication system from traditional intermediaries (publishers, learning societies, editorial boards, etc.) to new ones (e.g., search engines, social software, Open Archives, etc.) and readers. In this perspective, a prominent issue is represented by the Open Archives. Open Archives, as well as other OA tools (OA journals), increase the reputation of authors and improve the future impact of their articles. A vast literature – although referring to other subjects - shows that papers deposited in OA repositories are cited more often than those which are not. Moreover, the OA repositories enable a new form of evaluation process. On one hand, it is possible to develop innovative bibliometric indicators. On the other hand, through them you can easily trace the entire life of a scientific product: for example, the OA repositories will allow the display of all the evolution stages of an article from the presentation at a conference to its final version. Given the enormous power of the Net and the rise of these OA repositories, we are still suffering - especially within the Italian context – the low number of uploads and the lack of innovative tools fit to navigate through the OA legal materials. The governance of legal Open Archives should pay attention to the following main features: interoperability, redundancy, multilingualism, evaluation criteria and tools, policies. This kind of issues can be solved only by using an interdisciplinary law and technology approach which clarifies the various, complex aspects of the relationship between Open Archives and legal scholarship. |
| open access to research - Oxford Blog Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:41 PM PST wanderingdanny.com "[E]very time someone hits a "this article will cost you $35" web page and (as they mostly will) gives up, that's a deadweight loss (as the economists call it) and a setback, however small, for human scientific and intellectual progress. My initial exposure to copyright and patent issues came through free software, but for me the arguments for open access research and science are actually more compelling...." |
| One of those irregular verbs? Open Research Data Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:38 PM PST DisruptiveProactivity.com, (08 Dec 2011) "The #datadebate on open access to Science on Tuesday evening was focussing on open access to research data; but in the same way that one person’s output is another person’s input, it was only looking at one side of the coin. Baroness O’Neill’s argument that there should be some consideration of the requestor goes against the fundamental notion of FoI that it is applicant blind. Monbiot (badly) made the good point that would just make the problems around FoI of climate Data worse. But there was no discussion on the panel of how it could help them in their research, rather than simply be the burden that other people wanting your material is...." |
| The imperative of openness for data society Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:30 PM PST Nicklas Noterar, (07 Dec 2011) "Asimov also used the analogy of a gas and establishes a number of important theorems that form the basis of psychohistory. One of the most important ones, but one that I believe is often excluded from enthusiastic discussions of how we could use data sets to predict different things, is the second (or third, accounts vary) theorem of psychohistory. It says: "that the population should remain in ignorance of the results of the application of psychohistorical analyses." ... The question we then have to ask ourselves is this: Does the value of predictability trump the value of openness? ..." |
| Deadline Extended to Jan 12 for White House Public Access RFI Posted: 01 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST www.whitehouse.gov In November, OSTP issued two Requests for Information (RFI), one on open access to scientific publications and the other on the management of digital data. Yesterday, responding to numerous requests, we submitted to the Federal Register an extension of the deadlines for those RFIs to January 12, 2012. We anticipate the official notice of that extension appearing in the Federal Register this Friday, but wanted to ensure that all stakeholders knew as soon as possible about the extended deadline. The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, signed by President Obama earlier this year, calls upon OSTP to coordinate with agencies to develop policies that assure widespread public access to and long-term stewardship of the results of federally funded unclassified research. Towards that goal, OSTP issued the two RFIs soliciting public input on long-term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications. We encourage stakeholders to carefully consider the questions in the RFIs and provide comments to the addresses specified. Soon after the conclusion of the comment periods, OSTP will make all comments available on its website (including the names of the authors and their institutional affiliations, so please do not include any proprietary or confidential information when responding). All comments are now due by January 12, 2012. You can see the RFI on public access here http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from |
| Brave new world: Pioneering electronic publication of new plant species Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:22 AM PST www.eurekalert.org "The changes to the publication requirements of new names for algae, fungi and plants accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne in July 2011 initiated several important challenges to scientists, publishers and information specialists. To address practical questions arising from the Congress decisions, the open access journal PhytoKeys will publish a series of seven exemplar papers, one each day for the first week of 2012, starting from the 1st of January. The completed journal issue will be printed as an additional, though not mandatory, form of archiving on the 7th of January 2012. "Electronic-only [and OA] publishing in botany means that publishers do not need to produce printed versions of their journals to verify that a new name has been effectively published", said Dr Sandra Knapp from the Natural History Museum London, deputy editor of PhytoKeys...."Beyond the mandatory deposition in trusted international electronic archives, such as the open access archive of the National Library of Medicine of the United States, the best possible guarantee for a proper preservation of the published information is open access. This allows an unlimited number of copies to be freely downloaded and stored in different institutional and private archives throughout the world, as well as being available to researchers, particularly in developing countries, who otherwise would not have access to many scientific serials", commented Dr Matt von Konrat from the Field Museum of Chicago...." |
| Life Technologies Says No. Of Ion Community Users Triples Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:19 AM PST www.nasdaq.com "Life Technologies Corp. (LIFE) announced that membership in the Ion Community, the online open-access resource for Ion Torrent users and developers, has tripled to 5,000 people in just three months. According to the company, the sudden jump in membership began after Ion Torrent published its sequencing protocols, analysis software and datasets for the Ion Personal Genome Machine, the world's first benchtop sequencer, on September 30 of 2011. Ion Torrent founder and chief executive officer Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, said, "The amazing growth of the Ion Community underscores the huge demand there is in the scientific community to work with an open access platform and participate in how that platform develops. Sharing information will accelerate the development of Ion semiconductor sequencing and inevitably drive breakthroughs in fields including medicine, energy and agriculture." ..." |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:10 AM PST ec.europa.eu "The central aim of the EU 2020 strategy is to put Europe’s economies onto a high and sustainable growth path. To this end, Europe will have to strengthen its innovative potential and use its resources in the best possible way. One of these resources is public data — all the information that public bodies in the European Union produce, collect or pay for. Examples are geographical information, statistics, weather data, data from publicly funded research projects, and digitised books from libraries. This information has a significant — currently untapped — potential for re-use in new products and services and for efficiency gains in administrations. Overall economic gains from opening up this resource could amount to €40 billion a year in the EU. Opening up public data will also foster the participation of citizens in political and social life and contribute to policy areas such as the environment....A recent study estimates the total market for public sector information in 2008 at €28 billion across the EU. The same study indicates that the overall economic gains from further opening up public sector information by allowing easy access are around €40 billion a year for the EU27. The total direct and indirect economic gains from PSI applications and use across the whole EU27 economy would be in the order of € 140 billion annually....The shift in the scientific process brought about by e-science will increase research productivity and prompt new and unexpected solutions to societal challenges. Furthermore, the cross-fertilisation between publicly funded research and the commercial sector in the ‘online European Research Area’ will increase the pace and impact of innovation....Member States can contribute to making open data a reality through the rapid adoption, transposition and implementation of the revised Directive on the re-use of public sector information. This will create the conditions for economic activity based on open data, and will stimulate cross-border applications. In addition, Member States should formulate and implement open data policies, taking up good-practice examples from across the EU. Support should for example be given to open data pilots and open data competitions, in particular those targeting the development of crossborder products and services....Open data strategy, key measures: ...Open data for science: [1] Communication and Recommendation to the Member States on scientific information, early 2012; [2] Expansion of the open access pilot for scientific publications to the whole of Horizon 2020 + pilot with open access to research data. Research and innovation: [1] Research and innovation projects relevant for open data, in particular through FP7, CIP and Horizon 2020, with funding for research infrastructures supporting open access to research articles and data; [2] Open data competitions (2012-2013) + improving access to capital for entrepreneurs in this area...." |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST groups.google.com "The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access and the free exchange of research findings....We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural award is *Dr Francis Jayakanth* of the National Centre for Scientific Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Dr Jayakanth played a significant role in the establishment of India’s first institutional repository (IR)....He now manages the IR and has provided technical support for establishing IRs in many other universities and institutes in India. He has been the key resource person at many events to train people in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has delivered presentations on IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, the benefits of OA to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is widely used....The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order): *Ina Smith*, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; *Tatyan Zayseva*, Khazar University, Azerbaijan;* Xiaolin Zhang*, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science...." |
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