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- Congress wants to limit open access publishing for the US government's $28B/year subsidized research - Boing Boing
- Hacking the Food System: From Proprietary to Open Design | Food+Tech Connect
- Science-Journal Publishers Take Fight Against Open-Access Policies to Congress
- Why does the University of California Press support reactionary legislation opposing public access to scientific research?
- Scholarly Societies: It's time to abandon the AAP over The Research Works Act
- Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research
- ‘Scholarly Networking’ and ‘Open Access’ – Are we asking the right questions?
- Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside
- Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Update on publishers and SOPA: Time for scholarly publishers to disavow the AAP
- Project MUSE Project MUSE Announcements
- The "Research Works Act" (from our friends, The... - LSW - FriendFeed
- NIH Open Access Policy Under Attack
- New bill to block open access to publicly-funded research
- Gold open access – a successful model?, Stockholm University Octobe...
- Why Is Open-Internet Champion Darrell Issa Supporting an Attack on Open Science? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
- Open access theses in medical nano-technology offer research without barriers
- Open Access, Public Intellectualism, and Academic Reform
- Times Higher Education - Top of the higher education pops
- Lots more Open Access and subscription Journals added to JournalTOCs
- Quantitative data: learning to share
- Missing Medical Data Could Harm Patients | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
- EPT OA Award Announcement
- Open data in life sciences use cases?
- University of Zurich signs up for Wiley Open Access Partnership deal
- Democratizing Big Science - Ideas Market - WSJ
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:46 AM PST boingboing.net "Rather than allowing an open marketplace to decide which model is best, Congress -- including Rep Darrell Issa, who has taken a strong stand for open networks in his opposition to SOPA -- is putting its fist on the scales to support the incumbent closed journals...." |
| Hacking the Food System: From Proprietary to Open Design | Food+Tech Connect Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:43 AM PST www.foodandtechconnect.com "Our food system is not broken- it is poorly designed.... A growing number of startups such as Real Time Farms and Foodtree are hacking the system to meet people’s growing demand for more information about who and how their food is produced. They are crowdsourcing previously unavailable data and packaging it in a format that helps consumers make more informed food choices. Others such as Yummly, Food Genius, Open Menu, and a group of us working on a Foodshed Open Data Standard are developing standards, formats, and ontologies for structuring various kinds of food data, making it easier to access, gain insights from, and share. Developers like John Mertens at Code for America are developing API’s for USDA data, transforming it into a format others can easily build upon...." |
| Science-Journal Publishers Take Fight Against Open-Access Policies to Congress Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:41 AM PST The Ticker, (06 Jan 2012) From the Chronicle of Higher Education. Very brief coverage of the bill, but a growing comment thread from Chronicle readers. |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:34 AM PST The Berkeley Blog, (06 Jan 2012) "[T]he University of California Press is a member of the AAP, and is thus complicit is this atrocious effort to place the private interests of a small number of publishers ahead of the public good. At a time when the University is facing horrific budget cuts, it is simply inexcusable that funds from a University subsidized entity are being used to promote reactionary legislation that is completely antithetical to the interests of the University, its students, teachers and researchers, and the public. The Press should denounce this bill and suspend its membership in the AAP until it reverses its opposition to the NIH Public Access policy. If it does not, the University must terminate their relationship immediately." |
| Scholarly Societies: It's time to abandon the AAP over The Research Works Act Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:08 AM PST Confessions of a Science Librarian, (05 Jan 2012) "The AAP/PSP membership includes many scholarly societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Optical Society of America and many others. These societies will certainly have among their vision and mission statements something about advancing the common good, promoting the scholarly work of their membership and scholarship in their fields as a whole. To my mind, The Research Works Act is directly opposed to those goals. The AAP/PSP has long reflected a stark divide between the large commercial publishers and the supposedly more noble and altruistic scholarly societies. The divide has now become too wide, the cognitive dissonance for those on the sidelines too jarring. Scholarly societies -- it is now time for you to walk away. Leave the AAP and chart your own course...." |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 06:43 AM PST it is NOT junk, (05 Jan 2012) "The [NIH] policy has been popular – especially among disease and patient advocacy groups fighting to empower the people they represent to make wise healthcare decision, and teachers educating the next generation of researchers and caregivers. But the policy has been quite unpopular with a powerful publishing cartels that are hellbent on denying US taxpayers access to and benefits from research they paid to produce. This industry already makes generous profits charging universities and hospitals for access to the biomedical research journals they publish. But unsatisfied with feeding at the public trough only once (the vast majority of the estimated $10 billion dollar revenue of biomedical publishers already comes from public funds), they are seeking to squeeze cancer patients and high school students for an additional $25 every time they want to read about the latest work of America’s scientists. Unable to convince the NIH to support their schemes, the powerful publishing lobby group – the Association of American Publishers – has sought Congressional relief. In 2009, the AAP induced Michigan Rep John Conyers to introduce the “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” which would have ended the NIH Public Access Policy before it even got off the ground. Fortunately, that bill never left committee. But they are back at it....Why, you might ask, would Carolyn Maloney, representing a liberal Democratic district in New York City that is home to many research institutions, sponsor such a reactionary piece of legislation that benefits a group of wealthy publishers at the expense of the American public? Hmm. Wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with the fact that she’s the biggest recipient of campaign contributions from the publishing industry, would it? ...It is inexcusable that a simple idea – that no American should be denied access to biomedical research their tax dollars paid to produce – could be scuttled by a greedy publisher who bought access to a member of Congress. So I urge you to call/write/email/tweet Representative Maloney today, and tell her you support taxpayer access to biomedical research results. Ask her why she wants cancer patients to pay Elsevier $25 to access articles they’ve already paid for. And demand that she withdraw H.R. 3699." |
| ‘Scholarly Networking’ and ‘Open Access’ – Are we asking the right questions? Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:27 AM PST "Do we need “a Craigslist for the humanities” or a “Facebook for scholars”? Such questions are being discussed on the website of Project Bamboo – a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary project that brings humanities scholars, librarians, and information technologists together to tackle the question: “How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?” The project wiki contains a summary of workshop findings from 2008 entitled ‘What do scholars mean by ‘scholarly networking’?’....At first glance, ‘scholarly networking’ appears peripheral to the moral imperatives of the OA movement...[But] Crowd-sourced academic resources, citation management and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing platforms such as Mendeley and Academia.edu demonstrate the appeal of the networked scholarly space and promise new terrain in scholarly communications...." |
| Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:44 PM PST New England Journal of Medicine 365 (26), 2447-9 (28 Dec 2011) "What can researchers do to ensure that our colleagues can use the tools we develop to improve patient care? One option is to essentially place works in the public domain by declaring free and open rights for all users. The Geriatric Depression Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) depression scale, and the Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) cognitive assessment tool are all in the public domain. That domain, however offers no mechanism for ensuring that authors are recognized or compensated and no means of guaranteeing that later improvements will be made freely available. The ability to improve a clinical tool is crucial. Even licenses granting wide permission to copy, such as those of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scale, while laudable, might still inhibit innovation by permitting legal challenges to improved tools perceived as derivative (as may have been the case with Sweet 16 and the MMSE). A better solution is to apply the principle of “copyleft” from the open-source technology movement to encourage innovation and access while protecting authors' rights. Copyleft is intellectual jujitsu that uses copyright protection to guarantee the right of anyone to use, modify, copy, and distribute a work, as long as it and any derivatives remain under the same license. The author retains the right to offer the work under a different license simultaneously — for example, giving a company specific license to commercialize the work without copyleft protections. Popular copyleft licenses include the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license and the GNU Free Documentation License...." |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:48 PM PST cameronneylon.net "I was willing to give AAP members some benefit of the doubt [for not disavowing AAP's support for SOPA], hoping that some of them might come out publicly against SOPA. But if that was the hope then the AAP have just stepped over the line. In a spectacularly disingenuous press release the AAP claims significant credit for a new act just submitted to the U.S. Congress. This, in a repeat of some previous efforts, would block any efforts on the part of U.S. federal agencies to enact open access policies, even to the extent of blocking them from continuing to run the spectacularly successful PubMedCentral. That this comes days before the deadline for a request for information on the development of appropriate and balanced policies that would support access to the published results of U.S. taxpayer-funded research is a calculated political act, an abrogation of any principled stance, and clear signal of a lack of any interest in a productive discussion on how to move scholarly communications forward into a networked future. I was willing to give AAP members some space. Not any more. The time has come to decide whether you want to be part of the future of research communication or whether you want to legislate to try and stop that future happening...." |
| Project MUSE Project MUSE Announcements Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:19 PM PST tools.muse.jhu.edu "Project MUSE's new interface, featuring book and journal content integrated on a single platform, is up and running....[Among other new features] new access icons to help users clearly identify content to which they have paid access, free sample content, and open access content...." |
| The "Research Works Act" (from our friends, The... - LSW - FriendFeed Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:10 PM PST friendfeed.com A discussion thread at FriendFeed. |
| NIH Open Access Policy Under Attack Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:49 AM PST Comments on: NIH Open Access Policy Under Attack, (04 Jan 2012) A comment thread at MetaFilter. |
| New bill to block open access to publicly-funded research Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:48 AM PST plus.google.com My G+ post on the new bill to block OA to publicly-funded research, with comments. |
| Gold open access – a successful model?, Stockholm University Octobe... Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:31 AM PST |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:21 AM PST www.theatlantic.com "Congressman Darrell Issa has received a lot of positive press for his criticism of SOPA, the anti-piracy bill that has provoked an outpouring of anger across the web. And rightly so -- Issa has been one of the key voices in calling highlighting SOPA's dangers and offering, with Senator Ron Wyden, an alternative piece of legislation called OPEN. Moreover, Issa has pushed initiatives such as "Project Madison," a platform for crowdsourcing legislation and an interactive livestream for the committee he chairs. And, to top things off, his website devotes its top spot to his Open initiative, proclaiming, "First, Americans have a right benefit from what they've created. And second, Americans have a right to an open internet." ...All of this makes his support for a new bill, the Research Works Act, incomprehensible. That bill would prohibit all federal agencies from putting any privately published articles into an online database, even -- and this is the kicker -- those articles based on research funded by the public if they have received "any value-added contribution, including peer review or editing" from a private publisher. This is a direct attack on the National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central, the massive free online repository of articles resulting from research funded with NIH dollars....In response to our request for comment, his office provided us with a statement saying, "Publicly funded research is and must continue to be absolutely available to the public. We must also protect the value added to publicly funded research by the private sector and ensure that there is still an active commercial and non-profit research community. The bill has been introduced to ensure that the intellectual property rights of commercial and non-profit journal publishers are not violated by government regulators disseminating their privately owned articles for free." Congressman Issa wants to have it both ways -- make the research available *and* protect private publishers -- but this bill only furthers one of those goals, and it's the latter...." |
| Open access theses in medical nano-technology offer research without barriers Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:01 AM PST www.openbiomed.info, (30 Dec 2011) |
| Open Access, Public Intellectualism, and Academic Reform Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:43 AM PST "Not only is open access critical to the current academy, but it could be critical to the future of the academy. It's important the academy's work be available to those outside of it. In the age of transparency, it should be fundamental that academic work is automatically open access and freely available to anyone. The question shouldn't be, why should we make academic work open access; it should be, why shouldn't we make academic work open access? ..." |
| Times Higher Education - Top of the higher education pops Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:40 AM PST www.timeshighereducation.co.uk A September article by Michael Taylor advocating OA <http://goo.gl/sbP9R> was on of the seven most-read articles of 2011 in the (London) Times Higher Education. |
| Lots more Open Access and subscription Journals added to JournalTOCs Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:13 AM PST Roddy Macleod's Blog, (04 Jan 2012) |
| Quantitative data: learning to share Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:05 AM PST Nat Meth 9 (1), 39-41 (Jan 2012) "Whatever resources are used to bring data together [many of which are reviewed in this article], there is a growing assumption among researchers that data and computing resources should be readily reused, repurposed and extended by other scientists. “There are a lot of programs that come out every week in bioinformatics,” says Avi Ma'ayan, a systems biologist at Mount Sinai Hospital. “I can't think of one that is actually taking over —but a common theme is that you can attach pieces to it.” In fact, the fastest way to make data more useful for more purposes may lie in “ad hoc development,” in which applicable tools are identified and strung together as needed, says Sarah Killcoyne, who is project manager for research informatics at the ISB. “No one can build one system and hope it works,” she says. “In the life sciences, we have gotten a lot better at sharing.” " |
| Missing Medical Data Could Harm Patients | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:46 AM PST blogs.scientificamerican.com "Big clinical trials —to test new drugs or procedures— generate reams of important data about safety and efficacy. Only a fraction of that information sees the light of day, a publishing practice that could put patients at risk, according to a special report published this week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)....“[T]he overall result is that the published literature tends to overestimate the efficacy and underestimate the harms of a given intervention,” noted [An-Wen Chan, of the University of Toronto’s Women’s College Research Institute]....It can be difficult to get a journal to publish —or a drug company to support publication of— harmful —or null, i.e. “negative”– results from a trial. But, as that paper’s authors noted, “when unfavorable results of drug trails are not published, meta-analyses and systematic reviews that are based only on published data may overestimate the efficacy of the drugs.” ...In an editorial in the same issue of BMJ, Richard Lehman, of the University of Oxford, and Elizabeth Loder, an epidemiology editor at the journal, called for reform of the “current culture of haphazard publication and incomplete data disclosure.” They advocated for a retroactive disclosure of all clinical trial data....The U.S. government has taken a step toward making more of this data public, requiring publicly funded trials to publish full data sets within a certain time frame. But according to new findings from Joseph Ross, of the Yale University School of Medicine and his colleagues, and by Andrew Prayle, of Queens Medical Center in the UK, and his co-authors, a hefty chunk of trial findings is still awaiting release—long past publication deadlines....“When the word ‘mandatory’ turns out to mandate so little, the need for stronger mechanisms of enforcement becomes very clear,” Lehman and Loder argued...." |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:31 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 received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing countries on four continents....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) (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in). 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...." |
| Open data in life sciences use cases? Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:28 AM PST groups.google.com "I [Iain Hrynaszkiewicz] am interested in further developing some specific use cases where open data (i.e. available under CC0 or equivalent terms) in journal publications would be useful or lack of open data has been problematic – to individual scientists/research groups, and perhaps even the original data publishers. I’m aware of reasonable evidence of societal/economic benefits for open data....E.g. “I am scientist doing X kind of experiment and being able to reuse or harvest all types of Y data from Z journal (or publisher) would be excellent because…” ...I’d like to include some of these use cases as part of a white paper, currently well under way, on implementation of a variable license agreement for open access publications enabling CC0 for data...If anyone has any suggestions they would be much appreciated – and of course acknowledged." |
| University of Zurich signs up for Wiley Open Access Partnership deal Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:24 AM PST wileyopenaccess, (04 Jan 2012) "The University of Zurich, Switzerland has now signed up for a partnership deal with Wiley Open Access. This will allow its researchers to qualify for a 15% discount on the Wiley Open Access and OnlineOpen article publication charges. When authors submit a paper to a Wiley Open Access journal or opt for OnlineOpen they need to state their affiliation in order to qualify for the discount. Other funders who have Wiley Open Access accounts or discounts can be found in our listing...." |
| Democratizing Big Science - Ideas Market - WSJ Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:04 AM PST blogs.wsj.com "[T]he Global Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array, or GLORIA, plans “to provide access to research class robotic telescopes around the world.” Ultimately, 17 telescopes on 4 continents will be generating open-access data. The organization hopes to crowd-source the analysis of that data, but the public will also have a chance to control where the telescopes are directed...." |
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