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- Peter Suber, Open access journals from society publishers
- Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers | TechCrunch
- Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers
- Zum IRrweg: Eprints-Button
- Open Access in the Balkans: Old Mountains and a Wishing Well? | InTechWeb Blog
- British Library Group Doesn't Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- More UK Open Data Moves - and Why That Makes Sense - Open Enterprise
- Open Data, Publishing Innovations, Assessment, in Latest ‘Conversations’
- Biology Open (BiO) – making life easier for us all
- Winners of the first Binary Battle Apps for Science Contest | Mendeley Blog
- Doing data archiving well
- Osborne announces open data push to create jobs and growth
- Psychology must learn a lesson from fraud case : Nature News & Comment
- KLEENK - Connecting Scientific Content
- Frontiers | Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field
- A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies
- JISC Inform / Issue 32 / Open access | #jiscinform
- Guest column: Amp up access to end AIDS - Opinion - The Diamondback - University of Maryland
- Paul Allen is a Proponent of Open Science Data, But You Need a Subscription to Find Out Why - Forbes
- Routledge to publish SAHARA-J
- Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers, 2012 Edition
| Peter Suber, Open access journals from society publishers Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:19 AM PST www.earlham.edu "How many scholarly societies publish OA journals, and how many OA journals do they publish? Four years ago (November 2007), Caroline Sutton and I released the first edition of our inventory answering those questions, and today we release the second edition....Our 2007 list turned up 425 societies publishing 450 full or non-hybrid OA journals. Our 2011 list shows 530 societies publishing 616 full OA journals...." |
| Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers | TechCrunch Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:16 AM PST techcrunch.com "Academia.edu, a social network for researchers, is having a good year. In 2011 it’s tripled its total registered userbase to 800,000, and today it’s announcing some major news that ensures the site will be expanding well into the future: it’s just raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from True Ventures....Founder Richard Price...says that aside from getting an increasing amount of traction with researchers, the site is also benefitting from a recent movement among universities and researchers that’s referred to as ‘Open Science‘....Recently some scientists have begun to...[make] their papers ‘open access’, thereby making them publicly accessible for free....Academia.edu benefits from this movement because it means that researchers are free to share papers amongst themselves on the site. Price says that Academia.edu is already the largest platform for sharing these research articles, and the company looks to help foster this trend going forward...." |
| Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:58 AM PST Metadata, (01 Dec 2011) Predatory, open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for their own profit. Typically, these publishers spam professional email lists, broadly soliciting article submissions for the clear purpose of gaining additional income. Operating essentially as vanity presses, these publishers typically have a low article acceptance threshold, with a false-front or non-existent peer review process. Unlike professional publishing operations, whether subscription-based or ethically-sound open access, these predatory publishers add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital preservation, and operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable business models. |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:44 PM PST Archivalia, (02 Dec 2011) On the wrong Harnadian stratgey re. Eprints button. |
| Open Access in the Balkans: Old Mountains and a Wishing Well? | InTechWeb Blog Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:29 PM PST intechweb.wordpress.com "Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monte-Negro and Albania, I’d dare to call them the Old Mountains countries, or the Balkans, but some will adhere to the naming partially, some wholly, some will say they are left out. Some think there’s more to the Balkans name than the mountains. Me as well, but I see Open Access advocates in all of these countries, reaching as deep down the wishing well as they can, while most researchers and students and librarians are still left merely to gaze at the water surface...." |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:26 PM PST chronicle.com "A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The group, Research Libraries U.K., had threatened to discontinue so-called Big Deal subscription arrangements with the two publishers because of what it called unsustainable price increases....The new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell “serve as new benchmarks for our relations with other publishers, as RLUK’s members will no longer accept massive unjustified price rises,” Phil Sykes, chair of the group, said in a statement. “We will continue to scrutinize all offers carefully in the future to make sure we get best value for money and to ensure that we do not pay for new, untested journal titles as part of ‘all-or-nothing’ packages.” The new deal was negotiated on behalf of the group’s 30 member libraries by JISC Collections....Citing nondisclosure agreements, the library group offered few details about the new deals but estimated they will save U.K. institutions more than £20 million....Today the group also said it would push to drop nondisclosure agreements from future agreements because it believes that “the interests of public institutions are best served by openness and transparency.” " |
| More UK Open Data Moves - and Why That Makes Sense - Open Enterprise Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:44 PM PST blogs.computerworlduk.com "In striking contrast with its disappointing performance in terms of supporting open source, the UK government continues to take huge strides in the world of open data. Details about its latest moves are contained in this document that came out of the recent 2011 Autumn Statement...." |
| Open Data, Publishing Innovations, Assessment, in Latest ‘Conversations’ Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:42 PM PST CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, (29 Nov 2011) "Updates on issues ranging from open data to innovations in publishing to assessment are some of the topics covered in the latest report from CNI, the Nov. 28, 2011 installment of CNI Conversations. Director Clifford Lynch reports on the US Office of Science & Technology Calls for Comment on open data and open publications, as well a recent paper by the European Knowledge Exchange on an action plan for research data. CNI’s associate director Joan Lippincott summarizes the Berlin 9 meeting on open access, and she discusses assessment in higher education. Upcoming meetings of interest to the community are also highlighted...." |
| Biology Open (BiO) – making life easier for us all Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:39 PM PST Biology Open, (20 Sep 2011) "The aim of BiO [Biology Open] is to publish good‐quality, sound research, without attempting to judge impact or novelty. It will be up to the scientific community to decide, after publication, on the importance of each paper. PLoS One and other similar journals have already led the way with this model and have shown that it works: sound articles that add to a scientific story, rather than changing it, are widely read by scientists who follow that story....Although other new journals are currently being launched based on the PLoS One model (or variations of it), the ethos at BiO will reflect the ethos of the Company of Biologists — a not‐for‐profit publisher with a long history of funding a wide range of charitable activities that support the community of scientists in the areas covered by its journals. The Company has promoted open‐access publishing, and its two newest journals, Disease Models & Mechanisms and now BiO, are fully open access...." |
| Winners of the first Binary Battle Apps for Science Contest | Mendeley Blog Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:26 PM PST www.mendeley.com "Mendeley launched the API platform in April of 2010 with the hope that it would 1) spur innovation in the science ecosystem and 2) send a signal to others that opening up data benefits everyone. To date, more than 1000 developers have applied for API keys to build on top of that data. With the Binary Battle announcement, we hoped to carry open science further and by all accounts we did. Today we announce the winners of the 2011 Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle....The overall grand prize of the 2011 Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle, receiving $10,001 and $1,000 of Amazon AWS credits, goes to openSNP! With openSNP, you can share your personal genome from 23andMe or deCODEme to find the latest relevant research and let scientists discover new genetic associations....And Runner Up, receiving $5,000 and $500 of Amazon AWS credits, goes to PaperCritic! PaperCritic allows for post-publication peer review in an open environment. Rate papers, write critical reviews or read those from others....We wanted to give an extra prize for the top voted app that used both sets of APIs (openSNP uses both as well). The winner receives $1,000 and the best prize of all, a Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter. That prize goes to rOpenSci! rOpenSci provides R-based tools to facilitate Open Science; including R packages for both Mendeley and PLoS...." |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:24 PM PST Research Remix, (18 Nov 2011) "It is easy to think that archiving data is easy: just put the data files up on a website. To do it well, though, isn’t that easy. The Dryad digital repository has been thinking hard about these issues for years, working toward a practical, simple, and rewarding solution. For Dryad’s website and promotional material we’ve articulated some of the issues we feel are important; see Why Should I Choose Dryad for the up-to-date version...." |
| Osborne announces open data push to create jobs and growth Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:23 PM PST "Chancellor George Osborne has announced a raft of measures in his Autumn Statement, including the establishment of an Open Data Institute, to make public sector data more freely available. Information relating to healthcare, travel, weather forecasting and house prices will be among the first to be freed up in a move designed to create growth and jobs in UK industry. The Cabinet Office is creating a Data Strategy Board made up of data users, which will be responsible for public sector contracts with the Public Data Group. It will also have up to £7m over the next three years to spend on making more data freely available. Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, world wide web inventor, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt of Southampton University will jointly head the Open Data Institute in London’s Silicon Roundabout. The Institute will “innovate, exploit and research open data opportunities with business and academia”. ..." |
| Psychology must learn a lesson from fraud case : Nature News & Comment Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:19 PM PST www.nature.com "Sharing data could help to avert scandals like the Diederik Stapel revelations, and improve the quality of research, says Jelte M. Wicherts...." |
| KLEENK - Connecting Scientific Content Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:34 AM PST www.kleenk.com "KLEENK is an innovative way of working with scientific content. Researchers can create any type of connection between existing scientific content, explore and organize them, and finally share it with their research fellows or everyone else....The connections between scientific contents are just as important as the contents themselves. And we mean any type of connections not just those related to citations (i.e. two papers deal with the same problem without referencing one another)....A kleenk is simply a connection between two pieces of content and it has two important elements: [1] Type: a few words summary, [2] Description: a few paragraphs with details about the connection....Tags represent an easy way of organizing your favorite kleenks. They represent an important concept in KLEENK and they can be shared and explored in a visual way....Whenever there's some activity related to your favorite kleenks or tags, you will be notified. You have complete control over which contents, kleenks or tags you are following....Every tag can be visually explored through a simple and intuitive interface. Express your ideas through a visual representation and share them with your research fellows....It is very important for us that you get to the contents you want to kleenk as quickly as possible. KLEENK has easy integration with popular publishers and service providers such as Mendeley, Springer and PLoS. You can also upload your references in BibTeX format....Kleenks are also meant to increase communication between researchers. A kleenk can be shared, commented and rated. Comments represent a very important source of feedback about how your work connects to others....KLEENK provides a new way of letting other researchers discover your work. Create kleenks with relevant papers and the people who are following those paper will be notified about your work. Having well rated kleenks will increase your chances of being cited....KLEENK is the successor of KontentLinks (www.kontentlinks.com) which was awarded the second prize in the Springer API Challenge 2011. We have taken into account all the feedback we have received and came up with much better platform, KLEENK...." |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:29 AM PST www.frontiersin.org discussion of models to finance open access |
| A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:21 AM PST www.press.jhu.edu Abstract: This article reviews the history of open access (OA) policies and examines the current status of mandate policy implementations. It finds that hundreds of policies have been proposed and adopted at various organizational levels and many of them have shown a positive effect on the rate of repository content accumulation. However, it also detects policies showing little or no visible impact on repository development, and attempts to analyze the effects of different types of policies, with varied levels of success. It concludes that an open access mandate policy, by itself, will not change existing practices of scholarly self-archiving. |
| JISC Inform / Issue 32 / Open access | #jiscinform Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:17 AM PST www.jisc.ac.uk "Open Access Week 2011 saw a wealth of reports, advice and initiatives aimed at making it easier to access and benefit from research and data...." |
| Guest column: Amp up access to end AIDS - Opinion - The Diamondback - University of Maryland Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:16 AM PST www.diamondbackonline.com "Just last week, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest multilateral funding organization for HIV/AIDS interventions, cut new grants until 2014. In this uncertain climate, the international community must employ a full arsenal of innovative practices so we can be the AIDS-free generation. One such tool — open access — is part of a growing movement that could play a key role in promoting global health equity....In international health, these open access principles can mean the difference between life and death. Medical facilities and universities in developing nations often cannot afford journal subscriptions to obtain the latest research results, even when their own patients are the study subjects. For AIDS, this knowledge gap spells disaster — 97 percent of affected people live in low- and middle-income countries, and best practices regarding optimal treatments and prevention methods evolve rapidly. Without this information, physicians are at a disadvantage when treating their HIV/AIDS patients....And open access isn't just for HIV/AIDS patients abroad. As students and taxpayers, we fund research that we must later pay to read about in journals. To provide us with access to these resources, the university library system spends more than 30 percent of its annual budget on databases and serial subscriptions. But as journal costs continue to rise and financial resources diminish, educational institutions across the country have had to cut back on subscriptions, presenting an impediment to student and faculty research and learning. This university [the U of Maryland] recognizes the current model is unsustainable and unjust. In April, university President Wallace Loh signed University Senate legislation urging dialogue between all stakeholders regarding the complexities of open access and the development of a university policy on the issue. We commend the university for this important step and, considering the significant implications open access has in global health, urge our academic community to consider the role open access may play in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. If we encourage the uninhibited flow of knowledge, World AIDS Day 2012 will present a much brighter picture for the millions around the world living with HIV/AIDS." |
| Paul Allen is a Proponent of Open Science Data, But You Need a Subscription to Find Out Why - Forbes Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:07 AM PST |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:03 AM PST mg.co.za "Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, and the Social Aspects of HIV/ AIDS Research Alliance are pleased to announce a partnership to publish the acclaimed open access SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/ AIDS from 2012....The new partnership to publish SAHARA-J forms part of a wider open access initiative being invested in by Taylor & Francis in 2012. As part of Taylor & Francis Open, SAHARA-J will publish articles accepted after rigorous peer review on an open access basis for immediate online global dissemination, benefiting from rapid publication, high visibility marketing, and discoverability through Taylor & Francis Online. Authors will contribute an afford- able publication fee or be eligible for a waiver based on the country of affiliation...." |
| Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers, 2012 Edition Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:08 AM PST Bealls List of Predatory OpenAccess Publishers Metadata, (01 Dec 2011) "Predatory, open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for their own profit. Typically, these publishers spam professional email lists, broadly soliciting article submissions for the clear purpose of gaining additional income. Operating essentially as vanity presses, these publishers typically have a low article acceptance threshold, with a false-front or non-existent peer review process. Unlike professional publishing operations, whether subscription-based or ethically-sound open access, these predatory publishers add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital preservation, and operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable business models...." |
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