Monday 18 June 2012

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

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


Applying what is already known, and access to that information, is 1 of 4 main messages from the Science for Sustainability Forum at the UN Rio Conference on Sustainable Development

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:38 AM PDT

Open access move puts UK jobs at risk | Mail Online

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:16 AM PDT

 
Open access move puts UK jobs at risk | Mail Online
m.dailymail.co.uk
"A report commissioned by 10 Downing Street sociologist Dame Janet Finch will say that open access to public-funded research ‘offers significant social and economic benefits’....But UK businesses fear that the proposals will destroy Britain’s highly-regarded academic publishing industry that modifies raw research, publishes it in the form of academic magazines, journals and books and exports it to the rest of the world. One leading publishing group said the move to provide all of Britain’s academic output online for nothing could destroy a £1billion industry that employs 10,000 people here and in its overseas operations...."

Does open access publishing increase the impact of scientific articles? An empirical study in the field of intensive care medicine.

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 10:31 AM PDT

 
Does open access publishing increase the impact of scientific articles? An empirical study in the field of intensive care medicine.
M Riera and E Aibar
Medicina intensiva / Sociedad Espanola de Medicina Intensiva y Unidades Coronarias, (07 Jun 2012)
METHODS: We evaluated a total of 161 articles (76% being non-open access articles) published in Intensive Care Medicine in the year 2008. Citation data were compared between the two groups up until April 30, 2011. Potentially confounding variables for citation counts were adjusted for in a linear multiple regression model. RESULTS: The median number (interquartile range) of citations of non-open access articles was 8 (4-12) versus 9 (6-18) in the case of open access articles (p=0.084). In the highest citation range (>8), the citation count was 13 (10-16) and 18 (13-21) (p=0.008), respectively. The mean follow-up was 37.5±3 months in both groups. In the 30-35 months after publication, the average number (mean±standard deviation) of citations per article per month of non-open access articles was 0.28±0.6 versus 0.38±0.7 in the case of open access articles (p=0.043). Independent factors for citation advantage were the Hirsch index of the first signing author (β=0.207; p=0.015) and open access status (β=3.618; p=0.006). CONCLUSIONS: Open access publishing and the Hirsch index of the first signing author increase the impact of scientific articles. The open access advantage is greater for the more highly cited articles, and appears in the 30-35 months after publication.

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3 Tools to Gauge College Costs and Returns

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Every college and university has a calculator online that allows prospective college students and their families to see what a particular institution might cost them," according to U.S. News and...

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Opinion: Pell Grants Flunk Out

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"On campus, they'd call this frosh econ, but Washington is having a bit more trouble getting its mind around the expanding debacle of helping college students pay for their education," the Wall...

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06-15: Volume 3 – Calculating Awards and Packaging [2012-13 Federal Student Aid Handbook]

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The Department of Education has made available Volume 3 – Calculating Awards and Packaging of the 2012-13 Federal Student Aid Handbook. The Federal Student Aid Handbook consists of the Application...

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Opinion: Here's a Diploma, With Ball and Chain Attached

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Student debt has helped fuel three decades of fast-rising college prices," Kevin Carey, director of the education-policy program at the New America Foundation, writes for the Chronicle of Higher...

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U.S. Will Stop Deporting Some Illegal Immigrants Who Came Here as Children

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"President Obama said Friday his administration would stop deporting some illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children and have gone on to be productive and otherwise law-abiding...

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Romney Doesn’t Say Whether He Would Overturn Obama Immigration Order

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Responding to the challenge that President Obama posed in his order last week to stop deporting some illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney declined to say on Sunday whether he would reverse the...

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Opinion: End U.S. Student Loans, Don’t Make Them Cheaper

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Proponents of federal student-loan programs argue that private student-loan markets are underdeveloped, that banks are afraid to lend to students, largely because of their lack of credit history,"...

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A Pyrrhic Victory for Career College Lobbyists

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Last week's federal appeals court decision in a case challenging several of the Department of Education's new program integrity rules was not as favorable to the for-profit higher education industry...

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06-15: COD Processing Update

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

As explained in a February 17, 2012 Electronic Announcement and an April 6, 2012 Electronic Announcement on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) website, one of the changes made by...

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Senate Appropriators Pass Education Spending Bill

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to approve the fiscal year (FY) 2013 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. Spending on most...

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