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- Notes on the Research Works Act - Harvard Open Access Project
- National Computer Science School NCSS 2012
- A Big Step Away From Giant Textbooks | Duke Today
- CC Releases New Data FAQs - Creative Commons
- Stallman on E-Book Evils & Privacy
- Ergebnisse: Wessen Inhalte dürfen ins Institutional Repository?
- Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University
- Is Open Access part of the War on Science? (the end of the monograph)
- A Threat to Open Access: the Research Works Act | Lisa Federer
- The Research Works Act: An inexcusable assault on open access and on science
- The question is not ‘does’ but ‘can’ | Savage Minds
- Cheryl Perkins column: Some research tools still have limited access | Appleton Post Crescent | postcrescent.com
- New RSP Team member « Repositories Support Project
- The Final Provocation
- Elsevier = Evil
- Supreme Court Upholds Law That Pulled Foreign Works Back Under Copyright - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Monographs are doing OK: a response to Louise Adler
- Diffusionism and open access
- Internet Rejoices: SOPA Is at Death's Door - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
- Project Introduction: Open Access Media Importer for Wikimedia Commons
- Figshare: a new way to publish scientific research data
- John C. Wingfield: Preparing for the Best and the Worst of Times
- Guest Post: What Happens if We Call for a Boycott and No One Shows Up? | EvoEcoLab, Scientific American Blog Network
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
- Deep Web Technologies Releases WorldWideScience.org Application for SciVerse Hub - MarketWatch
- Orphan Works and the Digital Copyright Exchange - Open Enterprise
- An idea for open access self-declaration
- » Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication Planned Obsolescence
- Press Releases - Technology for Researchers
- Making data citable, searchable and discoverable
- Figshare: a carrot for sharing
- You spend hours working on your research, so why not get credit for all of it? | The PostDocs Forum
- Paul Krugman, Open Science And The Econoblogosphere - NYTimes.com
- Democrat Maloney and Republican Issa Ally to Hurt Science and Help Companies - Forbes
- Contribute to Open Education Week
- A Good and Bad Week for Free Speech - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Research Works Act: Is It Time For a Rally To Restore Sanity?
- Timothy Gowers, Elsevier — my part in its downfall
- Ergebnisse: Wessen Inhalte dürfen ins Institutional Repository?
- Open Access Biology Is So Shiny
- Elsevier: thy name is hypocrisy
- Will 2012 be the year of open science publishing?
- Science Data Sharing Site figshare Relaunches, Adds Features | TechCrunch
- OpenData: 23 Millionen Buchtitel online » Von andreasm » netzpolitik.org
| Notes on the Research Works Act - Harvard Open Access Project Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:35 PM PST |
| National Computer Science School NCSS 2012 Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:31 PM PST www.smh.com.au "Open access and availability to the fundamental tools of the trade is vital to growing the discipline of software engineering and this point was hammered home to me during the event. Tribute needs to be paid to the GNU community for their foresight to make available the necessary tool chains and ultimately create the expectation that freedom to use these tools is critical to a healthy and innovative software industry...." |
| A Big Step Away From Giant Textbooks | Duke Today Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:27 PM PST today.duke.edu "Instead of assembling a collection of videotaped lectures, Duke faculty and researchers curated a "mashup" of Duke-created materials and the best open-access, freely available online educational resources, said Julian Lombardi, assistant vice president in the Office of Information Technology...." |
| CC Releases New Data FAQs - Creative Commons Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:23 PM PST creativecommons.org "We have done a lot of thinking about data in the past year. As a result, we have recently published a set of detailed FAQs designed to help explain how CC licenses work with data and databases. These FAQs are intended to: (1) alert CC licensors that some uses of their data and databases may not trigger the license conditions, (2) reiterate to licensees that CC licenses do not restrict them from doing anything they are otherwise permitted to do under the law, and (3) clear up confusion about how the version 3.0 CC licenses treat sui generis database rights...." |
| Stallman on E-Book Evils & Privacy Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:22 PM PST Corante Boston "As noted, I was on a copyright panel with Richard Stallman this past weekend....Prior to the panel he handed out a sheet titled "The Danger of E-books", which you can find online at his site. The points he raises are mostly ones we've discussed over the past few months - ownership questions, proprietary formatting, restrictive DRM and licensing, and so on. But I thought it was worth blogging about his first point,which is just forehead-slappingly obvious and yet somehow I missed it. E-books - at least as they are sold by major providers today - pose a major privacy risk that physical books do not. As Stallman notes, you can walk into a store and anonymously buy a physical book, often just with cash. At most you might be required to show proof of age for some materials but no record is kept of what you show. Contrast that with e-book purchasing, which requires a logged-in identity that is linked to credit cards, bank accounts, and other hard-to-remove traces. These purchase records can then be subpoenaed or seized by authorities who might have an interest in what you've been reading - bought any books on agricultural fertilizer lately? ..." |
| Ergebnisse: Wessen Inhalte dürfen ins Institutional Repository? Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:14 PM PST |
| Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:09 PM PST googleresearch.blogspot.com "In May 2009 we launched Google Sky Map: our “window on the sky” for Android phones. Created by half a dozen Googlers at the Pittsburgh office in our 20% time, the app was designed to show off the amazing capabilities of the sensors in the first generation Android phones. Mostly, however, we wrote it because we love astronomy....Today, we are delighted to announce that we are going to share Sky Map in a different way: we are donating Sky Map to the community. We are collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University in an exciting partnership that will see further development of Sky Map as a series of student projects. Sky Map’s development will now be driven by the students, with Google engineers remaining closely involved as advisors. Additionally, we have open-sourced the app so that other astronomy enthusiasts can take the code and augment it as they wish...." |
| Is Open Access part of the War on Science? (the end of the monograph) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:01 PM PST Adventures in NI, (21 Jan 2012) "There's been all kinds of insanity in the open access lines of reasoning...." |
| A Threat to Open Access: the Research Works Act | Lisa Federer Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:57 PM PST www.lisafederer.net "If your funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), you are required to make your work publicly available by depositing it in PubMed Central, a database of full-text scientific articles. The reasoning is that the public should have access to the research that they are funding through the tax dollars, which I think seems reasonable enough. Not surprisingly, the publishers who print the articles in the journals don’t agree, and they have lobbied for the introduction of a piece of legislation that would put an end to the NIH Public Access Policy and similar measures to ensure public access to federally funded works...." |
| The Research Works Act: An inexcusable assault on open access and on science Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:53 PM PST MyScienceWork - The blog, (20 Jan 2012) "There seems to be a major disconnect between the research and publishing worlds as to who is the real producer of a scientific article. The AAP opposes “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”. Wait, who produces the research? Not the scientists? Using taxpayer money? When the publishers step in at the end of the process to publish the final manuscript, is this really sufficient to say they now own the intellectual product? ..." |
| The question is not ‘does’ but ‘can’ | Savage Minds Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:41 PM PST savageminds.org "On January 18, 2012, the SCA Executive Board voted UNANIMOUSLY to pass the following resolution: On behalf of the SCA [Society for Cultural Anthropology] membership, the SCA Executive Board urges the American Anthropological Association to oppose the Research Works Act (HR 3699) introduced into Congress on December 19, 2011, and to distance itself from the endorsement of this legislation by the Association of American Publishers, of which AAA is a member...." |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:24 PM PST www.postcrescent.com "We have all done searches using the Internet to find technical information. We use Wikipedia to look up almost any topic, or WebMD to find medical resources, to name a few. However, much of the most valuable technical information still lies behind the walls of professional societies or publishers. Unless you work for a large institution or company, your access to this information is limited. Fortunately, this is beginning to change with the adoption of "open- access" philosophies that push for making published scientific research more available to all...." |
| New RSP Team member « Repositories Support Project Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:20 PM PST rspproject.wordpress.com "This month, Nancy Pontika (on the right) joined the team. Nancy has a thorough background in Open Access information, having worked as an Assistant Editor and Project Manager with the Open Access Directory. Nancy has taught on courses for information professionals, as well as providing workshops and one-to-one consultancy services. Nancy recently gained a PhD in Information Science with a specialism in Open Access and the effects of public access policies, from Simmons College, Boston MA...." |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:17 PM PST Academic Librarian, (11 Jan 2012) "But, theoretically, the publishers supporting the Research Works Act should want to go further than stopping Federal open access mandates....Presumably, “the full benefit of copyright protections is weakened when authors” post their work online period, even on their own websites or institutional repositories. How could that not be the case? And if it is the case, then the AAP and others must also be opposed to all such “network dissemination” of research, even if the research isn’t publicly funded by a Federal agency. Thus, theoretically, the anti-OA publishers should be opposed to the institutional open access policies implemented by Harvard and Princeton and others in the past few years....The final provocation of the faculty will come when publishers start paying for legislation making institutional open access policies and personal “networked dissemination” of one’s own research illegal...." |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:08 PM PST Pharyngula, (16 Jan 2012) "Along with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: RWA, the Research Works Act....Who could possibly support such a bill? Not the scientists, that's for sure; and definitely not the public, unless we keep them as ignorant as possible. The corporations who love this bill are the commercial publishers who profit mightily from scientists' work. And first among these is Elsevier, the gouging publisher scientists love to hate....So Elsevier bought a couple of politicians to get their way. It's typical unscrupulous behavior from this company; at least they stopped organizing arms trade fairs a few years ago, so we know their evil can be checked by sufficiently loud public opinion...." |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST chronicle.com "A professor lost his long legal fight to keep thousands of foreign musical scores, books, and other copyrighted works in the public domain when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against him on Wednesday in a case that will affect scholars and artists around the country. The scholar is Lawrence Golan, a music professor and conductor at the University of Denver. He argued that the U.S. Congress did not have the legal authority to remove works from the public domain. It did so in 1994, when the Congress changed U.S. copyright law to conform with an international copyright agreement. The new law reapplied copyright to millions of works that had long been free for anyone to use without permission....Mr. Golan had argued that taking works back out of the public domain would hinder creativity by making artists more cautious about remixing or otherwise using works, fearing their status could change in the future in a way that required payment to copyright holders. More broadly, academics have expressed concern that upholding the 1994 law would make it much more difficult to write books or assemble course readings without having to deal with a host of legal hurdles—or just prohibitively expensive fees—to avoid violating copyrights...." |
| Monographs are doing OK: a response to Louise Adler Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:24 PM PST Sydney Publishing, (19 Jan 2012) "Despite what Louise Adler says in The Australian, the future of monograph publishing in Australia is looking well and the opportunities for Australian academics to publish their research have actually been growing....The traditional, print-based model of scholarly publishing is losing touch with the modern researcher who is increasingly interested, and often required, to have the research publications available in open access mode. Academics want their books to appear fast, in a digital format and with a creative commons licence so that they can share them with colleagues and students without breaking the copyright law. While I agree with Adler’s call for more subsidies, the question remains where and how the resources should be invested. I remain somewhat unconvinced by a vision of a new network and a portal promoted exclusively by commercially driven presses looking for ways to prop up their traditionally run businesses. A model developed by non-for-profit university publishers seems to be a better use of taxpayer money. With the focus on innovative and cost-effective production and distribution processes, the open access model is cheaper, more efficient and successful way to publish and disseminate research output of Australian scholars...." |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:21 PM PST Journal of Documentation 68 (1), 72 (13 Jan 2012) From the abstract: This article aims to explore the geographic distribution of open access practices in the world from a diffusionist perspective....The article applies a tempo-spatial analysis to examine the diffusion movement of open access practices from the West to the entire world during the past several decades. Both maps and tables are used to support the analysis. The diffusionist theory is reviewed and applied to the understanding of open access....The paper discovers that technology is not the only factor determining the diffusion pattern of information systems as discussed in the literature. Cultural dissimilarities across countries have played a significant role in open access development. Open access can only be effectively established after it meets local standards....The findings help understanding of why open access has a disproportionate growth among developing countries, and even among developed countries, where the ICT infrastructure has been in place....Few studies have taken a transnational view to analyze open access geography at the global level, and few have been able to synthesize models to interpret diverse discoveries. Furthermore, a chronological evaluation tracing the history of open access spatial expansion is absent in the literature. |
| Internet Rejoices: SOPA Is at Death's Door - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:18 PM PST www.theatlantic.com "[P]erhaps the best example of that drive to clamp down on the free exchange online is another bill lurking in the house: the Research Works Act, a bill opponents are calling #SOPAv2, which has flown mostly under the radar while SOPA nabbed headlines. Cosponsored by Darrell Issa -- the same Darrell Issa who opposes SOPA -- the act would make open access to taxpayer-funded research a prerogative not of the authors but of publishers. (Could it possibly be because of the major financial support Representative Issa has received from the pharmaceutical industry?) As Mike Taylor wrote in The Guardian yesterday, "This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers." The Research Works Act won't inspire the kind of ire SOPA has. Wikipedia will not go dark in protest; more than 25,000 people will not add a "Stop RWA" banner to their Twitter avatars, as they have done for SOPA. But it would be a shame if, lost amid the celebrations of SOPA's death, the RWA stealthily slipped through...." |
| Project Introduction: Open Access Media Importer for Wikimedia Commons Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:04 PM PST Wikimedian in Residence, (18 Jan 2012) "Open Access scientific literature contains, almost by definition, content suitable – both in substance and licensing – for Wikimedia Commons. However, currently, there seems to be no automated, easy way to identify such files, convert them into appropriate formats and import them into Commons. In November 2011, Daniel Mietchen submitted a proposal tackling the issue to the WissensWert funding scheme run by the German chapter of Wikimedia. Among other projects, it was chosen to receive funding....Initially, the project will be focused on audio and video content available in PubMed Central‘s Open Access Subset – however, the toolchain is intended to be modular, so other sources can be added as development continues....In line with the principles of free culture, all tools will be released as Free Software...." |
| Figshare: a new way to publish scientific research data Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:01 PM PST Wellcome Trust Blog, (18 Jan 2012) "Yet one problem that remains is the amount of data that remains unpublished, unshared and essentially wasted. But why is this? As Professor Colin Blakemore suggested in a Radio 4 interview recently, “Memory is getting cheaper, access to information is getting much, much easier. So why shouldn’t we just simply put the raw data for everything that scientists do up on the web, accessible to every other scientists, so that they can scrutinise it, use it, data-mine it, combine it with other information and gain more useful evidence?” This is where our venture comes in. Figshare is a free service allowing researchers to publish all of their research outputs to the web in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. We aim to show researchers that they can get the credit for all of their research, whilst at the same time moving research forward in a more efficient manner. Researchers can publish figures, datasets, tables, videos, anything. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current journals. Up to 1GB of data can be stored privately for free, and users have unlimited space for publicly available research. Using this, researchers could easily publish null results, avoiding the file drawer effect and helping to make scientific research more efficient by opening up the peer review process. We also use Creative Commons licensing to allow frictionless sharing of research data, while allowing researchers to choose when and if they make data publicly available...." |
| John C. Wingfield: Preparing for the Best and the Worst of Times Posted: 21 Jan 2012 01:51 PM PST "John C. Wingfield, an environmental endocrinologist at the University of California, Davis, was appointed by National Science Foundation (NSF) director Subra Suresh as head of the foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences, known universally as BIO, last September. BioScience editor in chief Timothy M. Beardsley interviewed Wingfield in his office at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia....Beardsley: Will there be mandates on open access to data? Wingfield: Yes. I can't give you any details, because I don't know them yet, and they are evolving, but somehow NSF is going to have them. As you know, we have now a two-page data management plan, which needs to go in with each proposal. That's really a beginning. It's going to evolve tremendously as we gain more experience and as principal investigators tell us how they'd like to see the data managed...." |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:27 PM PST blogs.scientificamerican.com "Like many scientists, I’ve been thinking about the proposed “Research Works Act” (RWA) and its threat to public access of publicly paid for research. Many others have already written about this much more eloquently than I am likely to, but I want to share some thoughts on some of the proposed solutions/fallout that may occur because of this act (regardless of whether it passes or not).1 For a number of years, a number of open access advocates have been calling for a boycott of pay-to-read (closed-access) journals, and such calls have (rightfully) increased since the RWA was proposed (e.g., Michael Eisen in a recent NY Times opinion piece). This mimics a similar, but less vocal, call for boycotting reviewing for-profit journals in favor of non-profit journals. There are numerous arguments made for this second boycott, but one of the most common boils down to the question of why should you donate your time as a reviewer to help a business earn a profit, when they are not paying or rewarding you in any way for your time...." |
| Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:25 PM PST Version 6: "The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography includes selected English-language articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. The bibliography does not cover digital media works (such as MP3 files), editorials, e-mail messages, interviews, letters to the editor, presentation slides or transcripts, or weblog postings. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. Such links, even to publisher versions and versions in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories, are subject to change...." |
| Deep Web Technologies Releases WorldWideScience.org Application for SciVerse Hub - MarketWatch Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:23 PM PST www.marketwatch.com "Deep Web Technologies(TM) (DWT), the leader in federated search of the Deep Web, today announced that working in close cooperation with OSTI, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information and the operating agent for WorldWideScience.org (WWS), and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, it has released a WWS application for SciVerse Applications. Elsevier's Application Marketplace & Developer Network features a marketplace that allows researchers to select and create applications that enhance research and search results obtained from the new SciVerse Hub...." |
| Orphan Works and the Digital Copyright Exchange - Open Enterprise Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:21 PM PST blogs.computerworlduk.com "What I find particularly interesting about orphan works is that they are perhaps the perfect demonstration that the current copyright licensing scheme is not "fit for purpose for the digital age": after all, these are works that nobody can access because it's not possible to find out from whom - if anyone - licenses should be sought. It is therefore impossible to produce digital versions of them legally. A corollary of this situation is that liberating orphan works from this copyright limbo is the easiest way to boost the digital market without needing to fight vested interests, since by definition there aren't any for works whose owners cannot be located...." |
| An idea for open access self-declaration Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:14 PM PST Just TV, (12 Jan 2012) "So in the spirit of open access, I want to float an idea – one that is certainly underdeveloped and needs a lot more input, but hopefully a community of fellow travelers can make something meaningful out of it. I think we need a set of standards for open access self-declaration - if you believe in open access, you need an effective way to publicly label your own practices in to state your individual standards and connect them to group norms. And these standards need to have cute little pictures....So we need someway to publicly declare our limits and practices that is more than individualized, but flexible enough to embrace multiple options. What I imagine is a website that allows you to create a profile, and then gives you a number of statements that you can opt-in to via checkbox.... The type of declarations I imagine that would be options are: [1] I will only publish in journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. [2] I will only peer-review journal articles for journals listed in the DOAJ. [3] I will only serve on editorial boards for journals listed in the DOAJ. [4] I will only sign publishing contracts that include the SPARC Author Addendum. [5] I will only contribute book chapters to publishers that allow me to pre-publish a version of my manuscript to my personal website or institutional repository...." |
| » Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication Planned Obsolescence Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:11 PM PST www.plannedobsolescence.net "As you might guess from my title, this presentation focuses in large part on questions of open access as they might affect our thinking about the future of scholarly communication. “Open access,” I’m sure I don’t need to tell you, is a fraught concept among both scholars and publishers, one beset by a lot of misunderstandings, both intentional and unintentional...." |
| Press Releases - Technology for Researchers Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST www.digital-science.com "figshare, a community-based open data platform for scientific research, today relaunches their website and underlying tool, offering additional functionality for users and unlimited public storage space. The project, founded and run by Mark Hahnel, was first launched in January 2011 and relaunches following support from Digital Science, a new division of Macmillan Publishers....The new site offers dramatically reduced upload time to mere seconds for all file formats, providing a citable, searchable endpoint for researchers. figshare offers unlimited storage space for data that is made publicly available on the site, and as of today is also offering 1GB of free storage space for users looking for a secure, private area to store their research. Users of the new site will maintain full control over the management of their research whilst benefiting from global access, version control and secure backups in the cloud...." |
| Making data citable, searchable and discoverable Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:56 AM PST Digital Science, (17 Jan 2012) "figshare was founded on the principle that researchers should get credit for *all* of their research, in a system where “impact” is often solely based on published journal articles. The platform enables researchers to make their figures, datasets, images and videos publicly available, providing the researcher with a citable, searchable and discoverable endpoint – all for free. This is important not only for the supplementary data accompanying one’s experiment, but even negative results...." |
| Figshare: a carrot for sharing Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:54 AM PST Naturally Selected, (17 Jan 2012) "Figshare, a tool designed to enable researchers to release all of their research outputs quickly, and in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner, has just launched a significantly upgraded site today. Originally launched in March 2011, Figshare has since received support from Nature’s sister company, Digital Science. The tool provides an interesting way to quickly publish all file formats, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models. Files that aren’t ready for publication can be stored privately for free in the cloud. Figshare uses creative commons licensing (CC0 for the datasets; CC-BY for everything else) so others can re-use the data whilst allowing authors to maintain their ownership...." |
| You spend hours working on your research, so why not get credit for all of it? | The PostDocs Forum Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:53 AM PST www.postdocsforum.com "figshare grew out of the frustrations of a stem cell researcher, Mark Hahnel, who during his PhD was disappointed with the high percentage of his research objects that would never be seen outside of his research group; Experiments that gave null results, or results that didn’t fit in to the current ‘story’ required for standard article publication in scientific journals. The large datasets or videos which are usually submitted as supplementary material, even if they provide more evidence than the standard graphs and screenshots included in the articles. These files are often printed out into paper form, stuck into labbooks and the digital forms are lost, losing most of the raw data needed to interpret the research...." |
| Paul Krugman, Open Science And The Econoblogosphere - NYTimes.com Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:50 AM PST krugman.blogs.nytimes.com "Interesting article in the Times about the push for “open science”, bypassing the traditional structure of refereed journals in favor of a sort of fluid, self-policing online community. I can’t and won’t weigh in on this issue with regards to hard science, but I think there are some interesting parallels with what has been happening in economics....[T]he traditional model of submit, get refereed, publish, and then people will read your work broke down a long time ago. In fact, it had more or less fallen apart by the early 80s.Even then, nobody at a top school learned stuff by reading the journals; it was all working papers, with the journals serving as tombstones....And journal publication? Well, tenure committees needed that, but it was so slow relative to the pace of ongoing work that it no longer acted as an information conduit....Work circulates even faster than it did then, there are quick exchanges that can advance understanding, and while it’s still hard to break in, connections aren’t as important as they once were and the system is much more open. But, you say, doesn’t this allow a lot of really bad economics to circulate? Yes, but is it really any worse than it used to be? As I’ve tried to explain, the notion of journals as gatekeepers was largely fictional even 25 years ago. And I have a somewhat jaundiced view of how the whole refereeing/publication system has ever worked; all too often, it seems to act as a way for entrenched doctrines to blockade new ideas, or at least to keep people with new ideas from getting tenure at a good school...." |
| Democrat Maloney and Republican Issa Ally to Hurt Science and Help Companies - Forbes Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:42 AM PST www.forbes.com "The US Research Works Act, introduced in Congress last month by New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney and California Republican Darrell Issa, would repeal the NIH policy as well as prohibit any other Federal agency from instituting a similar one....Turns out that Elsevier and its executives contributed some $30,000 in 2011 to 31 House representatives, including Maloney and Issa ($8,500 to her, $2,000 to him). Small potatoes, to be sure. But it goes to show that, instead of innovating a way to adapt and thrive in a digital economy, as Taylor says, “publishers have turned to the approach that uncompetitive corporations have always used in America: lobbying for legislation to protect their unsustainable model.” ..." |
| Contribute to Open Education Week Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST OCW Consortium Blog, (12 Dec 2011) "Join your colleagues around the world to increase understanding about open education! Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online (www.openeducationweek.org) and in locally hosted events around the world. The objective is to raise awareness of the open education movement and open educational resources. There are several ways you and your organization can be involved...." |
| A Good and Bad Week for Free Speech - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:27 AM PST chronicle.com "In a 6-2 opinion [in Golan v. Holder] written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (with Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissenting), the court found that "[n]either the Copyright and Patent Clause nor the First Amendment ... makes the public domain, in any and all cases, a territory that works may never exit." I should make clear that I have no claim to objectivity in this case. I was one of the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs in Golan, and, more to the point, I have long believed that copyright restoration is both unlawful and bad policy. The court's opinion in Golan hasn't convinced me otherwise...." |
| The Research Works Act: Is It Time For a Rally To Restore Sanity? Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:44 AM PST The Scholarly Kitchen, (20 Jan 2012) "[T]he Research Works Act is a meritless piece of legislation, one that appears to exist because of a terrible misreading of the reality of the current political situation. Those writing federal policy on access to research seem to have no interest in tearing down an entire industry. Their goal is not to reduce revenue, but instead to increase revenue through the creation of new businesses. Federal mandates for the release of research results are meant to drive new ventures, to find further value, and further economic stimuli. Read the recent White House Request for Information — it’s all about how to create new value and new business. The smart publisher should see this as opportunity, not threat. Take a look at MacMillan’s Digital Science group and their selective investment in new technologies for an example of how it’s done....For the not-for-profit publisher...[t]he goal should be to find ways to expand access while at the same time continuing to fund the important activities a society or institution provides. Some suggestions toward the most glaring problems with the current debate...." |
| Timothy Gowers, Elsevier — my part in its downfall Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:18 AM PST Elsevier my part in its downfall Gowers's Weblog, (21 Jan 2012) "I am not only going to refuse to have anything to do with Elsevier journals from now on, but I am saying so publicly. I am by no means the first person to do this, but the more of us there are, the more socially acceptable it becomes, and that is my main reason for writing this post...." |
| Ergebnisse: Wessen Inhalte dürfen ins Institutional Repository? Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:23 AM PST |
| Open Access Biology Is So Shiny Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:35 AM PST "I totally agree that biology is behind the times when it comes to open access pre-print servers like arXiv--but then, physics doesn't have anything like The BioBricks Foundation...." |
| Elsevier: thy name is hypocrisy Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:30 AM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (16 Jan 2012) "The Elsevier Foundation just announced on the Liblicense list $650,000 in grants. Generous? Hang on a second - at the same time that the Elsevier Foundation is assessing medical library needs for an Eritrean future, helping Kenyan libraries serve health workers, and translating knowledge into practice for Uganda's rural health clinics, Elsevier is doing its utmost to take down PubMedCentral, which would be a tremendous loss of medical research information in the U.S. and everywhere else....When interpreting the enormous profits of STM publishers like Elsevier, it is important to take into account that the 36% profit margin comes AFTER graft pay-out, not before. This may help to explain how we can transition the whole of scholarly communication to a fully open access system - and save LOTS of money, too...." |
| Will 2012 be the year of open science publishing? Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:28 AM PST |
| Science Data Sharing Site figshare Relaunches, Adds Features | TechCrunch Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST techcrunch.com "figshare, originally launched in January 2011, is re-launching today with some new features. figshare aims to be a repository for scientific figures, raw datasets, videos and more. The retooled service offers AWS storage, version control, and unlimited public storage capacity. All uploaded data is made available with easy-to-use citation links (and a QR code) and is licensed under CreativeCommons terms to encourage re-use. ..." |
| OpenData: 23 Millionen Buchtitel online » Von andreasm » netzpolitik.org Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:20 AM PST netzpolitik.org From Google's English: "It is a milestone for the open data movement in Germany - and hardly anyone has noticed: Since 27 December 2011 is the library catalog Bayern Berlin Brandenburg CCzero license completely online . The catalogs contain information on approximately 23 million books in dozens of public libraries. Exemplary enough, on 4 January already reloading an update of the data...." |
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