Monday 9 January 2012

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)


Iain Hrynaszkiewicz in a Panton Discussion on Vimeo

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 05:58 PM PST

 
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz in a Panton Discussion on Vimeo
vimeo.com
"Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (IainH) from BioMedCentral is an innovator in Open publishing and a strong advocate of the Panton Principles. Here he discusses his ideas, practice and ideas for the future with Open Knowledge Foundation people Laura Newman and Peter Murray-Rust...."

Join Us: Shaping the Future of Federal Public Access Policy

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 05:51 PM PST

 
Join Us: Shaping the Future of Federal Public Access Policy
The Kitware Blog, (04 Jan 2012)
"The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is requesting public feedback to draft future policies on public access to data and peer-reviewed publications resulting from Federally Funded Scientific Research (FFSR). To this end, OSTP has posted two Requests for Information (RFI) and responses are due by January 12, 2012....Please join us in improving the feedback that we are providing to OSTP, or if you are satisfied with the current content of the documents, please join us by signing the response at the end of each document. If you want to suggest large changes to the document, please coordinate with others by using the annotation tools that you will find in the top menu bar...."

Episode 22: Public Access to Federally Funded Research « inSCIght

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 05:30 PM PST

 
Episode 22: Public Access to Federally Funded Research « inSCIght
inscight.org
On episode 22, we discuss the response to two Request for Information (RFI) that the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has posted in order to gather feedback on how to improve Public Access to the Data and Peer-Reviewed publications resulting from Federally Funded Research...."

Recommendations for mass spectrometry data quality metrics for open access data (corollary to the Amsterdam principles).

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 05:00 PM PST

 
Recommendations for mass spectrometry data quality metrics for open access data (corollary to the Amsterdam principles).
Christopher R Kinsinger et al.
Proteomics. Clinical applications 5 (11-12), 580-9 (Dec 2011)
Abstract: Policies supporting the rapid and open sharing of proteomic data are being implemented by the leading journals in the field. The proteomics community is taking steps to ensure that data are made publicly accessible and are of high quality, a challenging task that requires the development and deployment of methods for measuring and documenting data quality metrics. On September 18, 2010, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened the "International Workshop on Proteomic Data Quality Metrics" in Sydney, Australia, to identify and address issues facing the development and use of such methods for open access proteomics data. The stakeholders at the workshop enumerated the key principles underlying a framework for data quality assessment in mass spectrometry data that will meet the needs of the research community, journals, funding agencies, and data repositories. Attendees discussed and agreed up on two primary needs for the wide use of quality metrics: (i) an evolving list of comprehensive quality metrics and (ii) standards accompanied by software analytics. Attendees stressed the importance of increased education and training programs to promote reliable protocols in proteomics. This workshop report explores the historic precedents, key discussions, and necessary next steps to enhance the quality of open access data. By agreement, this article is published simultaneously in Proteomics, Proteomics Clinical Applications, Journal of Proteome Research, and Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, as a public service to the research community. The peer review process was a coordinated effort conducted by a panel of referees selected by the journals.

New Section Editors, One-Year Experience of Open Access and Now Also Apps for iPad and iPhone

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 04:57 PM PST

 
New Section Editors, One-Year Experience of Open Access and Now Also Apps for iPad and iPhone
www.medicaljournals.se
"The Editorial Board of Acta Dermato-Venereologica is very pleased to welcome two new Section Editors....Since January 2011 Acta Dermato-Venereologica has been a total open access (OA) journal and this has had a major impact on the visibility of the publications. For example, the number of visits to our website has increased markedly (Fig. 1) and the number of downloads of full papers has skyrocketed (during 2011 a total of 1,084,500 papers have been downloaded). In a few years time this will almost certainly result in a markedly increased impact factor (it is presently 2.780). The number of submissions to Acta Dermato-Venereologica has remained high during 2011 (it currently stands at approximately 400 papers per year) and the quality of the submitted papers appears to be increasing...."

Diagnostic Pathology in 2011: reflecting on the development of an open access journal during the last six years

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 04:51 PM PST

 
Diagnostic Pathology in 2011: reflecting on the development of an open access journal during the last six years
Klaus Kayser
Diagnostic Pathology 6 (1), 129 (2011)
Abstract: Today, electronic communication is involved in all parts of our lives, either in a directed active, communicative, or passive manner. Whether to live with electronic communication or to ignore it is no longer a question. Instead, the question we have to answer is: How shall we live in our communicative environment? What can we expect? What are we forced to develop in order "to survive"? This Editorial written at the end of a really successful year of our journal Diagnostic Pathology tries to give some answers from different points of view....

Open Access Under Threat: HR 3699 | Care2 Causes

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 04:47 PM PST

Breaking technology

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 04:43 PM PST

 
Breaking technology
Kevin Smith, J.D.
Scholarly Communications @ Duke, (05 Jan 2012)
"In the past few weeks I have seen several news reports and other actions that seem to form a pattern, where the traditional publishing industry has set out to break digital technologies in order to preserve their traditional business models....Over the holidays the “Copyright in Research Works act,” a re-tread from the last legislative session, was introduced again. The bill would reverse public access programs like that of the National Institute of Health and make other such programs illegal, essentially telling taxpayers that they have to pay twice to see the research they have funded. The publishers are clearly asking Congress to break the Internet legislatively so that their toll-access sites are the only source for scholarly information....What I find most astonishing is the immediate expression of support for the bill that came from the Association of American Publishers, and this sentence in particular: 'The Research Works Act will prohibit federal agencies from unauthorized free public dissemination of journal articles that report on research which, to some degree, has been federally-funded but is produced and published by private sector publishers receiving no such funding.' I am stunned by the audacity of the claim that research articles are “produced” by private sector publishers! I think the producers of these works are sitting at desks and labs scattered around my campus, and thousands of other college and university campuses. They are not paid by publishers either to do the research or to write their articles...."

A Quick Note on the Membership of the American Association of Publishers and the Research Works Act

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 04:11 PM PST

 
A Quick Note on the Membership of the American Association of Publishers and the Research Works Act
Gary D. Price
INFOdocket, (06 Jan 2012)
"The American Association of Publishers membership list consists of most of the large and well-known publishers you would expect to find on such a list. What’s worth mentioning is there are some members of the American Association of Publishers you would think might NOT be in support of what the Research Work Act is trying to accomplish....Here are a few of the companies and organizations that stood out when we reviewed the AAP membership list...."

Elsevier under fire from American OA advocates

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 12:43 PM PST

 
Elsevier under fire from American OA advocates
openaccess.nl
Dutch-Anglo publisher Elsevier has received serious criticism from scientists in the USA and the OA movement in general. Cause of the pain is the recently proposed Research Works Act H.R. 3699. The post has some more extensive financial details of the links between Elsevier and de representatives Malloney and Issa.

http://bjoern.brembs.net/comment-n819.html

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 11:12 AM PST

Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 10:57 AM PST

 
Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again
Stevan Harnad
A vast new potential for research has been opened up by the Web. It would be a great mistake, economically speaking, if research, researchers, the R&D industry and the US tax-paying public all had to renounce this newfound potential so as to protect and preserve the current revenue streams and M.O. of the publishing industry. That M.O. evolved for the technology and economics of the bygone Gutenberg era of print on paper. H.R.3699 would prevent evolution from continuing, to allow research to reap the full benefit of the PostGutenberg era.
Posted by stevanharnad (who is an author) to oa.rwa oa.new on Sun Jan 08 2012 at 18:57 UTC | info | related

Research Works Act: Profitgierige Verleger wollen in den USA das Rad zurückdrehen

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 08:51 AM PST

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