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- MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Purdue University Open Access Polic
- University Senate endorses open access and funds for researchers
- Monographs are doing OK: a response to Louise Adler
- Will Publishers Play Unglue.it's Game? | Publishing Perspectives
- Unglue.it Crowdfunds Unlimited Licenses for Beloved E-books | Publishing Perspectives
- Carl Malamud Answers: Goading the Government To Make Public Data Public - Slashdot
- Journal publishing reform
- The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier
- University senate makes decision on research funding
- Should Research Be More Freely Available? - NYTimes.com
| MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted: 24 Jan 2012 06:52 AM PST chronicle.com "MITx is the next big step in the open-educational-resources movement that MIT helped start in 2001, when it began putting its course lecture notes, videos, and exams online, where anyone in the world could use them at no cost....Meanwhile, the university experimented with using online tools to help improve the learning experience for its own students in Cambridge, Mass. Now MIT has decided to put the two together—free content and sophisticated online pedagogy—and add a third, crucial ingredient: credentials. Beginning this spring, students will be able to take free, online courses offered through the MITx initiative. If they prove they've learned the material, MITx will, for a small fee, give them a credential certifying as much...." |
| Purdue University Open Access Polic Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:19 AM PST www.purdue.edu Approved unanimously at yesterday's Faculty Senate meeting: "The University Resources Policy Committee recommends that Purdue University adopt a policy that advances and supports deposit to the Purdue e-Pubs digital repository all scholarly articles published by Purdue faculty, thereby enabling open access in addition to and beyond the published, citable article." |
| University Senate endorses open access and funds for researchers Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:03 AM PST www.purdueexponent.org "This afternoon the [Purdue] University Senate endorsed...[a policy on] open access for University research publications. Open access will allow for the publication of Purdue faculty's research articles online. This will cut back on University costs for program to view their own articles in online publications such as Elsevier...." |
| Monographs are doing OK: a response to Louise Adler Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:24 PM PST www.theaustralian.com.au "These publishers, ANU ePress in particular, are leading the way in innovative and -effectivcoste production processes including the use of XML-driven workflows, digital archiving, meta-tagging, content-indexing, ePub etc. They have been involved in publications that include research data and multimedia, and have expanded the boundaries of traditional publishing and scholarship. And they’ve been successful in making sure that the Australian research output is promoted to the world using scholarly networks, bibliographic data systems, university repositories and social media. SUP’s top-downloaded book by Simon Chapman has had over 10,000 downloads since its release in 2010. In 2011, there were 4,280,168 total downloads of ANU ePress titles. 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....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...." |
| Will Publishers Play Unglue.it's Game? | Publishing Perspectives Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:07 PM PST publishingperspectives.com "Today’s feature story discusses an exciting and innovative new business, Unglue.it, which asks an author or publisher to accept a fixed sum of money from the public for the unlimited use of an e-book. A simple and profound idea. Authors are likely to be excited by Unglue.it’s pitch. After all, the idea of receiving a fixed fee for the rights to a book is not foreign to them — it’s what they do when they routinely sell rights to publishers. But for publishers the situation is different. Rights are publishers primary assets. Once a publisher purchases the rights to a book, digital publishing makes it relatively low maintenance to keep the title ‘in print’ in perpetuity. Publishers make an awful lot of money from backlist sales. And you never know when a book might just become a hit. So what could motivate them to work with Unglue.it? There are some situations where this makes sense, such as a small publisher who needs to acquire working capital, or perhaps when a publishers going out of business and will be willing to strike a bargain. But a healthy, viable, profitable publishers may be far less likely to be enticed, at least until the model proves to be a boon in a way that we can’t yet foresee...." |
| Unglue.it Crowdfunds Unlimited Licenses for Beloved E-books | Publishing Perspectives Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:06 PM PST publishingperspectives.com "This, for example, is what [Eric Hellman] means by “unglue,” the concept that lies at the heart of Gluejar: “unglue (v.t.) For an author or publisher to accept a fixed amount of money from the public for its unlimited use of an e-book.” Hellman wants us to consider, in other words, a world in which those who hold the rights to books agree to license them through a Creative Commons arrangement that protects author/publisher copyrights, enables the rights holders to maintain or pursue additional licensing agreements, and at the same time creates an environment in which public funding helps “unglue” the books for digital distribution. Crowdfunding — something already in play within organizations as diverse as the Nature Conservancy, NPR, and Kickstarter — provides the fiscal fuel, making sure that both the creators of the book and Gluejar get compensated for their efforts...." |
| Carl Malamud Answers: Goading the Government To Make Public Data Public - Slashdot Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:02 PM PST yro.slashdot.org A slashdot thread. "You asked Carl Malamud about his experiences and hopes in the gargantuan project he's undertaken to prod the U.S. government into scanning archived documents, and to make public access (rather than availability only through special dispensation) the default for newly created, timely government data. (Malamud points out that if you have comments on what the government should be focusing on preserving, and how they should go about it, the National Archives would like to read them.) Below find answers with a mix of heartening and disheartening information about how the vast project is progressing...." |
| Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:00 PM PST michaelnielsen.org The PolyMath wiki launched a page on journal publishing reform focusing on (but not limited to) Elsevier journals and mathematics. |
| The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:02 PM PST thecostofknowledge.com "For many years, academics have protested against the business practices of Elsevier. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in the box below...." |
| University senate makes decision on research funding Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:32 AM PST www.purdueexponent.org "The [Purdue University Faculty Senate] will also be voting on the open access policy, which would allow for faculty publications to be viewed for free online, at today’s meeting. Paul Schwab, director of natural resources and environmental science, said he is fearful that faculty will take open access the wrong way because of the negative connotation usually associated with the terminology. “Journals that are open access generally means that they’re not peer reviewed and if we don’t publish in peer reviewed journals we’re not anywhere,” Schwab said. “This is not what this open access initiative is about.” The proposed policy would take previously published articles in a peer-reviewed journal and then load these onto e-pubs, the online access site Purdue plans to use. This would allow for the prestige and tenure-track requirements that come with being published in an accredited journal, but take away the need for University employees and faculty throughout the world to pay to see Purdue research. However, if this policy is approved, there could still be a problem of copyright issues, Schwab said. Many scholastic publications maintain ownership of the articles for over a year or may only allow for the final draft, but not the published article, to be put online openly...." |
| Should Research Be More Freely Available? - NYTimes.com Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:10 AM PST www.nytimes.com "The New England Journal of Medicine...has taken no position on the Research Works Act...[but] will continue to support the National Institutes of Health’s Public Access Policy....The American Physical Society...do[es] not support the Research Works Act...." |
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