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- Who needs government-funded research on a cow’s stomach? We all do. - The Washington Post
- OKFN at #oss2011 – Open Research Reports
- ECS - Open Data initiative moves into the world of consumers' personal data
- Librarians advocate open access to research | The Marquette Tribune
- Routledge trials new author rights policy for Library and Information Science Journals
- Next week is ‘Open Data Week’
- Executive Roundtable: The Boundaries are Getting Blurred
- Open-Access Policies – What’s Taking So Long? | Online Universities
- An European project seeks to create an open access network for astronomical observations - News about the European Union
- Open-access science journal leaves editing to the experts
- SAGE AND HINDAWI PARTNERSHIP CONCLUDES
| Who needs government-funded research on a cow’s stomach? We all do. - The Washington Post Posted: 06 Nov 2011 06:03 AM PST www.washingtonpost.com "JGI director and geneticist Eddy Rubin is a pioneer in the field of “metagenomics,” the study of how the DNA in many creatures can work together to create ecosystems. Right now, he and his team are studying microbes that live in a cow’s rumen, the stomach-like organ that the animals use to break down grasses into fuel. All their results are published publicly online, for scientists and entrepreneurs to mine for ideas and to prevent unnecessary duplication of research....Despite the hard research ahead, the rewards for discoveries could be tremendous. “Let’s say you’ve got a goal that in 20 years, you want to have a much higher usage of biofuels,” Rokhsar said. He did some quick math: “We spend over $1 billion a day on foreign oil. So let’s say that sequencing these genomes now allows some graduate student to clone a gene five years from now because they can look it up in our database. That’s going to accelerate the research. Say that allows us to start using biofuels a month before our 20-year goal. You’ve saved $30 billion from that month alone.” The hope for that kind of dramatic breakthrough fuels the project...." |
| OKFN at #oss2011 – Open Research Reports Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:39 PM PDT |
| ECS - Open Data initiative moves into the world of consumers' personal data Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:38 PM PDT www.ecs.soton.ac.uk "The Open Data initiative took another huge step forward yesterday (Thursday 3 November) with the launch of a new initiative that will enable consumers to gain unprecedented access to personal data from banks, utilities, telecoms providers and a range of other companies. Speaking at the launch of the Midata scheme in London, Professor Nigel Shadbolt, of ECS-Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and Government Open Data Adviser, told the BBC: “This is about getting the information that companies hold about me and you back to you in a form you can use." Twenty-six companies, including Google, British Gas and MasterCard, have already joined the scheme, which enables customers to access ‘personal data inventories’. Consumers will be able to have better insights into their personal consumption and spending patterns which should lead to better informed choices of products and services. The companies are committed to developing common approaches to data access, and to set protocols on privacy, data security and consumer protection...." |
| Librarians advocate open access to research | The Marquette Tribune Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:36 PM PDT marquettetribune.org "Marquette held its second annual Open Access Awareness Day in the Raynor Library this past Monday and Tuesday to educate Marquette students on the movement...." |
| Routledge trials new author rights policy for Library and Information Science Journals Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:35 PM PDT www.tandf.co.uk "Routledge, the social science and humanities imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, is pleased to announce a two-year pilot initiative for the library and information science research community, allowing contributors to its library and information science journals to retain the copyright to their work and to post it within their institutional repository without an embargo period....This initiative applies to any of Routledge’s 35 library and information science journals published from Taylor & Francis’ Philadelphia office. Under this scheme, an author may post the peer-reviewed version of his or her article (although not the published pdf.) into their institutional or subject repository (although not commercial servers or for resale) immediately following publication, so long as the original place of publication is referenced and a URL link is made to the Version of Record on Routledge’s website...." |
| Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:14 PM PDT www.dee.ie "The Irish Internet Association will next week hold an “Open Data Roundtable for Open Government” at the National Library of Ireland as part of Open Data Week...." |
| Executive Roundtable: The Boundaries are Getting Blurred Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:09 PM PDT |
| Open-Access Policies – What’s Taking So Long? | Online Universities Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:06 PM PDT |
| Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:03 PM PDT euroalert.net "The GLORIA ('Global robotic telescopes intelligent array for e-Science') project, led by Spain's Facultad de Informática of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), seeks to create an open access network for astronomical observations. In particular, the GLORIA consortium will provide amateur astronomers with the means to study astronomy using robotic telescopes or by evaluating astronomical data available in both GLORIA's and other groups' public databases. In order to push forward the free access to scientific data as well as research opportunities via a virtual community, the GLORIA ('Global robotic telescopes intelligent array for e-Science') project, which has clinched €2.5 million under the 'Research infrastructures' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), plans to offer access to a budding number of robotic telescopes via a Web 2.0 environment on four continents by 2014...." |
| Open-access science journal leaves editing to the experts Posted: 05 Nov 2011 12:01 PM PDT www.timeshighereducation.co.uk "A new open-access life and biomedical sciences journal, conceived with the aim of transforming research communication and speeding up the publication process, has announced its title and editorial team. The journal, supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, will be known as eLife. The name is designed to articulate its online, open-access nature and its coverage of a wide range of life and biomedical sciences. The editorial team is composed of active, internationally known researchers rather than professional editors. Randy Schekman, Howard Hughes investigator and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is editor-in-chief. Fiona Watt, Herchel Smith professor of molecular genetics at the University of Cambridge, and Detlef Weigel, head of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, will be deputy editors....A criticism sometimes levelled at top-tier journals such as Nature, Science and Cell is that professional editors may lack the scientific knowledge and experience necessary to make the best-informed decisions on submissions before passing them on to reviewers. eLife’s use of research-active editors aims to address this issue...." |
| SAGE AND HINDAWI PARTNERSHIP CONCLUDES Posted: 05 Nov 2011 09:41 AM PDT www.sagepub.com "The partnership between SAGE and Hindawi Publishing Corporation in publishing open access journals has now concluded. SAGE are pleased to announce that they will be bringing three of the SAGE-Hindawi journals in house and the further 33 journals will now be solely owned by Hindawi.... All of the titles from the SAGE-Hindawi partnership will remain fully open access. The SAGE-Hindawi partnership was established 2007 to create a suite of fully open access journals. The collection of journals has to date grown to 36 titles. As both the collection and the number of submissions has grown, alongside SAGE and Hindawi’s own separate business growth, both agreed that it was not possible to expand this collection any further and therefore it was mutually agreeable to formally end the partnership...." |
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