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- Research Works Act: Latest Congressional Lie about Helping Small Business
- Colorado appellate courts adopt new case-citation format
- Open Access (OA) – Some experiences and conclusions
- The Digital Age Liberates Science - Evolution News & Views
- PSOAR and PGIAR Customized Search Engines For Open Access Scholarly Literature Retrieval Relevant To Pharmaceutical Education And Researc
- Here we go again: Congress considers blocking government's open access policy
- Online textbooks could work for California - latimes.com
- Science in the Open » Blog Archive » IP Contributions to Scientific Papers by Publishers: An open letter to Rep Maloney and Issa
- Open Access Needs Better 'Government Relations'
- India’s Contribution to Agriculture and Food Sciences through Open Access Literature
- Erste deutschsprachige Mailingliste zum Repository-Management
- Research Works Act attacks data dissemination too
- https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/QYAH1jSJG6L
- Simba Information: Combined STM Markets Grew 3.4% in 2011: Simba Information
- Do your bit to oppose the evil Research Works Act
| Research Works Act: Latest Congressional Lie about Helping Small Business Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:34 AM PST AnnMaria's Blog, (07 Jan 2012) "I am pissed....I am used to every politician under the sun spouting “Think of small business!” as a knee-jerk reaction to anything, whether their position is for it or against it....This time, though, they are REALLY pissing me off. Let me tell you what the Research Works Act is and how it really does hurt my small business....So what exactly is this bill doing? It is moving money from small businesses, like me, and like my buddy, Dr. Jacob Flores, who runs Mobile Medicine Outreach and into the hands of large publishing companies, who not coincidentally gave a huge amount of money to Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York...." |
| Colorado appellate courts adopt new case-citation format Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:51 AM PST www.ourcoloradonews.com "The Colorado Supreme Court has adopted a new way for legal practitioners and parties to refer to its and the Colorado Court of Appeals' published opinions in legal briefs and other documents. The public domain citation format will expand open access to Colorado case law by allowing practitioners and parties to cite directly to new opinions from the moment they are announced. The new format also will allow pinpoint citations by incorporating paragraph numbers. The new format became effective Jan. 1, 2012. Sixteen other states, including New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah, already have adopted the same format, which was recommended by the American Association of Law Librarians in the mid-1990s and is endorsed by the American Bar Association. The courts already provide online access to published opinions free of charge on the Judicial Branch web site. Before implementation of the public domain citation format, opinions issued by Colorado's two appellate courts were "slip opinions" which lacked a formal citation format until they were published in print in the Pacific Reporter. "The purpose of the public domain citation format is to make it easier for practitioners and self-represented parties who lack the resources to access an electronic research database or the printed volumes of the Pacific Reporter to locate Colorado case law and to cite to that case law in all levels of Colorado's justice system, whether in the trial or appellate courts," Chief Justice Michael L. Bender said....Practitioners and parties will be permitted to use the public domain citation format or to cite to the Pacific Reporter, and they will not have to provide parallel citations in either format...." |
| Open Access (OA) – Some experiences and conclusions Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:07 AM PST Stockholm University Publications, (26 Dec 2011) Presented at Open Access (OA) seminar, Falun, 30 Nov 2011. Contents: Case 1: Journal of Official Statistics (JOS); Case 2: International Journal of Public Information Systems (IJPIS); Case 3: Researcher – user of the works of others; Case 4: Researcher – publishing own works; Why do some researchers still hesitate to use Open Access? The Publisher Paradox; The future. |
| The Digital Age Liberates Science - Evolution News & Views Posted: 09 Jan 2012 07:47 PM PST www.evolutionnews.org "Every revolution offers challenges and opportunities. We are in the midst of a global tide of change brought on by the digital age. The anti-ID journal strongholds may not last much longer in a world of open access, open collaboration, and open science. If Ravetz sees more good than bad, then ID advocates should, too. Let those who have longed for scientific integrity master the digital age and take the initiative...." |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2012 07:46 PM PST www.ijptp.iomcworld.com Abstract: Aim: To create and maintain custom search engines (CSEs) for Open Access (OA) scholarly literature retrieval and to host them on a single blogsite which will serve as a platform for all the scholarly information requirements. Methods: We, authors, have compiled Open Access (OA) resources for pharmaceutical sciences. Two custom built search engines PSOAR (Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources) and PGIAR (Pharmaceutical Guidelines for Industry, Academia & Research) were created....Results: Currently PSOAR and PGIAR searches more than 500 and 50 selected resources respectively for open access scholarly literature. Updates for new website additions to these CSEs and other new identified resources are provided as blog updates. Conclusions: These custom built search engines are helpful to reduce the burden as well as time for scholarly literature retrieval on internet |
| Here we go again: Congress considers blocking government's open access policy Posted: 09 Jan 2012 07:43 PM PST arstechnica.com "The federal government, and thus US taxpayers, provide more money for scientific research than any other single entity. In order to provide access to these paper to scientists and the public alike, the National Institutes of Health adopted a policy in which research it funded would be made open access one year after its publication in journals, even those that are normally subscription only. Many publishers were not amused, and have pushed Congress to reverse the policy. So far, those efforts have failed, but that hasn't stopped this year's Congress from trying again....This time, however, the attempt seems to have drawn more attention from both the mainstream press and scientific community; one scientist has even looked into the campaign donations given to one of the bill's supporters. Given that past bills never got very far, the additional resistance will probably be enough to keep this year's from passing...." |
| Online textbooks could work for California - latimes.com Posted: 09 Jan 2012 07:03 PM PST www.latimes.com "It's time for college textbooks to catch up with the 21st century. Online, open-access textbooks that rely heavily on information in the public domain would not only cost students a fraction as much, but they also could be readily updated and easily customized to individual professors' courses. That's a big deal considering that many of the most commonly used traditional textbooks cost more than $150. Buying used books isn't the option it used to be because professors often demand the latest version even when the changes are minimal. State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) is on the right track with his proposal for California to lead the way in creating an open-access digital library that would provide free online textbooks for the 50 introductory courses with the highest enrollment. Students could order a print version at cost, about $20. The state would put out requests for proposals for each of these; publishers, professors and others would be welcome to bid. Academics would oversee quality. Though initially expensive to subsidize, the books would be easy to update and the savings for students would add up to billions of dollars over time...." |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2012 05:32 PM PST cameronneylon.net "Methodology: I examined the final submitted version (i.e. the version accepted for publication) of the ten most recent research papers on which I was an author along with the referee and editorial comments received from the publisher....Results: The contribution of IP by publishers to the final submitted versions of these ten papers, after peer review had been completed, was zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch....HR3699 prohibits federal agencies from supporting publishers to move to a transparent service based model....We recognise the importance of the services that scholarly publishers provide. We want to pay publishers for the services they provide because we want those services to continue to be available and to improve over time. Help us to help them make that change. Drop the Research Works Act...." |
| Open Access Needs Better 'Government Relations' Posted: 09 Jan 2012 05:30 PM PST bjoern.brembs.net "Apparently, the Open Access movement is falling behind and needs better 'Government Relations'. Today, everyone has their "Vice President for Government Relations" or some other office like that: Universities (e.g., University of Colorado, UM, Rice, the UC system, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Washington State, University of Minnesota, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, only to name a few), professors (via AAUP) and of course, the scholarly publishing industry, for example Elsevier's Angelika Lex, "Vice President for Academic and Government Relations". These kinds of relations to governments are important for the commercial publishers of academic research. Without such relations, their highly profitable business would probably already have collapsed. Or how could one otherwise explain that a business which relies exclusively on tax-funds is thriving with record profits in times like these? ..." |
| India’s Contribution to Agriculture and Food Sciences through Open Access Literature Posted: 09 Jan 2012 01:09 PM PST DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 32 (1), (2012) Special Issue on Agricultural Information Systems and Services in India. Abstract: The present study attempts to evaluate the initiatives taken by India to make this intellectual output accessible for all by publishing them in open access resources like open access journals and repositories. The results revealed that India is continuously contributing in open access literature as some of the premier institutions, particularly in the agriculture sciences. The position of India in terms of number of journals in the Directoryof Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is 5th and in Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) India has 11th place in the world repository. |
| Erste deutschsprachige Mailingliste zum Repository-Management Posted: 09 Jan 2012 09:01 AM PST |
| Research Works Act attacks data dissemination too Posted: 09 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST Research Remix, (08 Jan 2012) "Sponsors and supporters of the Research Works Act keep claiming that it doesn’t cover “the raw data generated by government-funded research” [1] or “raw data outputs” [2]. That’s not what I get from a direct reading of the bill....This doesn’t say it excludes raw data. It says some complicated thing about it excluding raw data that is routinely required to be submitted directly to the funding agency. There aren’t many NIH or NSF program officers I know who want me to routinely sent them all my raw data, and many data repositories are not hosted at funding agencies. This means that practically all “published” research datasets (including those in tables, supplementary information, and presumably non-federal data archives) are subject to the Research Works Act. On purpose or because of poor sentence structure? I don’t know, but the effect is the same...." |
| https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/QYAH1jSJG6L Posted: 09 Jan 2012 08:52 AM PST |
| Simba Information: Combined STM Markets Grew 3.4% in 2011: Simba Information Posted: 09 Jan 2012 08:50 AM PST www.simbainformation.com "Amid budgetary pressures and a slow economic recovery [PS: and growing OA], the combined markets for science, technical and medical (STM) publishing grew 3.4% to $21.1 billion in 2011...." |
| Do your bit to oppose the evil Research Works Act Posted: 09 Jan 2012 08:24 AM PST Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, (09 Jan 2012) |
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