Friday 18 May 2012

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

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


Open Access: Not just a matter for scientists

Posted: 18 May 2012 01:37 AM PDT

 
Open Access: Not just a matter for scientists
Tom Olijhoek
@ccess, (17 May 2012)
eryone has a right on access to information but publishers exploit the illusion of the need to publish in high impact journals

Open Annotation Draft Data Model

Posted: 17 May 2012 03:10 PM PDT

 
Open Annotation Draft Data Model
www.openannotation.org
Use the link to access the full text article from the W3C. The abstract reads as follows: “The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology which conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the most common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web resource. An Annotation is considered to be a set of connected resources, including a body and target, and conveys that the body is somehow about the target. The full model supports additional functionality, enabling semantic tagging, embedding content, selecting segments of resources, choosing the appropriate representation of a resource and providing styling hints for consuming clients.”

E-book Advocacy Statements

Posted: 17 May 2012 02:19 PM PDT

 
E-book Advocacy Statements
library.duke.edu
"E-books should...be available for ingest in Institutional Repositories as authors’ copyrights permit."

Nicht leicht: Wissenschaftsverlag boykottieren

Posted: 17 May 2012 08:26 AM PDT

 
Nicht leicht: Wissenschaftsverlag boykottieren
Heise Online
From Google's English: "In January by the British mathematician Timothy Gowers published a call for a boycott of the scientific publisher Elsevier has joined more than 11,500 scientists worldwide. But the action is driven primarily by mathematicians and scientists. Among the economists call, only eight percent of respondents from a Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ( ZBW signed) survey, 39 percent of the total of 813 participating professors and academic staff could be a conscious decision to support....Just last week, the Centre for Mathematics at the TU Munich, had decided to unsubscribe "due to unreasonable costs and terms of" all subscribed Elsevier journals from 2013. The survey finds that although ZBW 73 percent of respondents support the principle idea of open access, requiring all publicly funded research results should also be publicly accessible, but only 6 percent have actually already published in an open-access journal. Saw a lack of alternatives, most forced to publish in traditional Subskriptionszeitschriften, because these often have a higher reputation and a better ranking."

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