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- Royal Society Claims 1671 Copyright On Newton Letter (Copyright Law Born 29 Years Later) | Techdirt
- PLoS ONE: Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results
- Citizen Scientists Take On the Health Establishment - WSJ.com
- Too Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life | School of Information
- OpenTheGovernment.org Partners and Other Allies Share Recommendations to Make Gov't More Open and Effective | OpenTheGovernment.org
- Unlocking attitudes to Open Access – survey results « Repositories Support Project
- Clarifying the Harvard policies: a response
- Public Access to Historical Records
- Open Data – a business model perspective
- EEBO en accès libre
- Deadlock breaks as RLUK announces new ‘big deal’ with Elsevier
- Leslie Chan, Beyond Open Access: Opportunities for Scholarly Communication Innovations in Africa
- Open data – more than just transparency and scrutiny | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional
- Illinois To Digitize C&RL Archive
| Royal Society Claims 1671 Copyright On Newton Letter (Copyright Law Born 29 Years Later) | Techdirt Posted: 03 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST www.techdirt.com "If you can't see that, it says: 'This journal is © 1671 The Royal Society.' Now, I knew that The Royal Society was ahead of its time, but claiming copyright in an article published 29 years before the first modern copyright law was passed in England is truly impressive. I wasn't sure whether this was some little joke on the part of The Royal Society, or whether there might be some obscure 17th century legislation that had been passed giving The Royal Society's Transactions perpetual copyright (after all, such a thing has been done before in the United Kingdom.) So I asked the Royal Society what was going on, and this is what they replied: "The copyright line will have been added by JSTOR when they digitised the manuscripts in 1999". ..." |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2011 06:41 AM PST www.plosone.org there is an inverse correlation between willingness to give raw data and quality of research |
| Citizen Scientists Take On the Health Establishment - WSJ.com Posted: 03 Dec 2011 06:39 AM PST online.wsj.com "[Sharon Terry] is now helping to run another effort, launched earlier this year, that is even more far-reaching. Called "That's My Data!'' it aims to facilitate the flow of patients' detailed genetic data to researchers in exchange for open access to the results for those who contributed samples....Stephen Friend, who runs "That's My Data!" with Ms. Terry, came up with the project's name earlier this year because, he says, "it reflects the absurdity of the current situation." ...A pediatric oncologist by training, Dr. Friend co-founded Sage Bionetworks in Seattle after many years in the pharmaceutical industry. His mission was to build a neutral place where data could be collected and anyone could leverage it to make discoveries—including patients. Earlier this year, Dr. Friend convened a meeting in Toronto with 60 academics, scientists and patients to discuss ways to work together. One participant was John Wilbanks, who earned a degree in philosophy from Tulane and went on to run Science Commons, which focuses on getting scientists to collaborate by signing agreements to exchange research data....Mr. Wilbanks, who recently left Science Commons, created a standard consent document that will allow people to agree to let their genetic data be studied by anyone who is interested—as long as the investigator shares the results...." |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:55 AM PST www.ischool.berkeley.edu recording of lecture David Weinberger at Berkely download 73.42 MB (80:12 min) |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:25 PM PST www.openthegovernment.org From the recommendations: "Through federal guidelines, direct agencies to require research grantees to submit data management plans, similar to those at the National Science Foundation. Encourage grantees to make data openly accessible to the greatest extent possible." |
| Unlocking attitudes to Open Access – survey results « Repositories Support Project Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:14 PM PST rspproject.wordpress.com "[E]arlier this year that the RSP and UKCoRR invited UK repositories to carry out a survey of academic staff with a particular focus on informing advocacy plans and “joined up” institutional developments for Open Access in higher education institutions. The questions focused on attitudes toward open access and institutional repositories....Unsurprisingly (other surveys have shown this), the majority of academics are in favour of open access: 85% strongly or mildly in favour of open access in principle; 80% strongly or mildly in favour of open access repositories; 69% strongly or mildly in favour of publishing in OA journals. However, rather less reported actually acting upon this: 59% make some of their publications available in the institutional repository but 41% don’t make any available. This is despite the fact that 73% were aware of their institution’s repository. Question 7a gave respondents the opportunity to give reasons why in their own words...and the most common reasons were: Haven’t published yet/material not suitable (99); Copyright concerns (94); Lack of time/haven’t got round to doing it (58); Lack of knowledge (48); Use other method (28). The questions on copyright and versions provided some encouraging results – the majority, 70%, thought that authors should own the copyright to the material....The fact that 86% kept a copy of their own author, peer reviewed final version is also supportive to self archiving. In addition, 77% felt that this version was acceptable for deposit in the repository. These latter responses help to counter some commonly held beliefs that authors don’t keep a copy of their work and that only the publisher’s PDF is worthy of sharing...." |
| Clarifying the Harvard policies: a response Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:05 PM PST The Occasional Pamphlet, (02 Dec 2011) "My friend and ex-colleague Matt Welsh has an interesting post supporting the Research Without Walls pledge, in which he talks about the Harvard open-access policies....I wrote a response to his post, clarifying some apparent misconceptions about the policy, but it was too long for his blogging platform’s comment system, so I decided to post it here in its entirety. Here it is...." |
| Public Access to Historical Records Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:01 PM PST blogs.loc.gov "Have you ever attempted to build an electronic index and searchable database of a complex and diverse collection of 70 million imaged historical records? Neither have we....Current records dating back to 1978 are available online and searchable at www.copyright.gov/records. The Office’s records date back to 1870, however, and many pertain to works still under copyright protection. These records are the focus of our current digitization efforts. This is an ambitious project that I announced recently as one of several priorities and special projects the Copyright Office is undertaking. To date nearly 13 million index cards from our card catalog and over half of the 660 volume Catalog of Copyright Entries have been scanned, and the images have been processed through quality assurance and moved to long-term managed storage....." |
| Open Data – a business model perspective Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST e2.ma "Today Europeana publishes its second White Paper, ‘The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid: a Business Model perspective on Open Metadata’. The paper is the result of a roundtable that brought together leading figures in the cultural heritage sector. The experts examined the opportunities and risks associated with open licensing of their massive datasets, which comprise the record of all publications and cultural artefacts in Europe. The White Paper documents their findings and is published to meet a growing need among libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual collections for a new business model that weighs the current digital opportunities against traditional concerns about ownership and control. It makes specific recommendations to be addressed and concludes that “the benefits of open data sharing and open distribution... outweigh the risks”....The Data Exchange Agreement is the primary element in the Europeana Licensing Framework. The Framework is also published today, and establishes the co-ordinates of Europeana’s position on open data, the public domain, and users’ rights and responsibilities...." |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:53 AM PST Blog'UP, (01 Dec 2011) From Google's English: "On 28/09/2011 , we announced that some of the archives Springer was now free thanks to negotiations by the ABES (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education). A new national licensing agreement has been signed with Proquest. The public and private institutions with missions of teaching and research have therefore free access to 125,000 books published between 1473 and 1700 in the British Isles and available on EEBO [Early English Books Online]...." |
| Deadlock breaks as RLUK announces new ‘big deal’ with Elsevier Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST www.timeshighereducation.co.uk "Earlier this year, Research Libraries UK said that it would not renew the “big deals” to secure access to the entire journal portfolios of Elsevier and fellow publishing company Wiley-Blackwell if they did not make “significant real-terms price reductions”. Wiley-Blackwell announced in late October that a three-year deal had been reached with Jisc Collections, the negotiating body for libraries, on “mutually beneficial terms”. Announcing yesterday that it had now also struck a five-year deal with Elsevier, RLUK estimated that the deal with the two publishers will save the sector around £20 million over the course of the deals. The organisation said that this was money “that institutions would otherwise have had to find from cancelled journal subscriptions, fewer book purchases and reduced services for students and researchers.” ...Phil Sykes, chair of RLUK, also welcomed the deal and said that it heralded “new benchmarks” for relations between the libraries and publishers. “RLUK’s members will no longer accept massive unjustified price rises,” he said...." |
| Leslie Chan, Beyond Open Access: Opportunities for Scholarly Communication Innovations in Africa Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:32 AM PST |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:27 AM PST www.guardian.co.uk "The largest volume of open, free, high quality weather data in the world was released on 29 November, as part of the chancellor's autumn statement. So too was house price data at address level, allowing entrepreneurs to develop useful applications for businesses and consumers. Just as ground-breaking is news that the Department for Transport has been working with Network Rail and the transport industry to make real-time running data available from April 2012. The DfT will also work with Traveline to release the Next Buses API of planned and real-time information at 350,000 GB bus stops, in April 2012. A further exciting piece of news is the launch of the Open Data Institute, which will exploit and research open data opportunities with business and academia. It will be based in Shoreditch and co-directed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt (more on that in mid-December, when Nigel will be contributing to this blog)...." |
| Illinois To Digitize C&RL Archive Posted: 02 Dec 2011 08:44 AM PST ACRL Insider, (29 Nov 2011) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has launched a project to digitize the complete back contents of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) official scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries (C&RL). The volunteer initiative will scan the full contents of C&RL through 1996 and make them freely available to the public in the University of Illinois’s IDEALS institutional repository. C&RL contents from 1997 to the present will remain freely available through the publication’s online presence at HighWire Press. |
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