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- Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age
- cIRcle reaches another milestone: 30,000+ retro theses
- Govt open data policy "set to boost UK life sciences growth"
- Episode 78 – Death Knell for the Paywall
- Harvards Quasi-Mandat
- Editorial: Free access for all - The Daily Princetonian
- Swartz Pleads Not Guilty to Charges
| Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST www.sciencedaily.com " Europe's leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released November 2 by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research Infrastructures (RIs) such as archives, libraries, academies, museums and galleries, significant strands of Humanities research would not be possible. By drawing on a number of case studies, the report demonstrates that digital RIs offer Humanities scholars new and productive ways to explore old questions and develop new ones....The report argues that while there are many sophisticated RIs in other domains of science that can inform and further Humanities research, ultimately, it is also necessary for Humanities scholars to build and have access to 'fit for purpose' Humanities RIs, given the nature of their data sets, research methods and working practices....The report's focus in on developing a common strategy on RIs in the Humanities at a European level; it identifies seven key areas of priorities and future research directions: ...3. Strategic directions: ...focus on open access policy; ...." |
| cIRcle reaches another milestone: 30,000+ retro theses Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:25 AM PST cIRcle: UBC's Digital Repository, (02 Dec 2011) "Over 30,000 Retrospective Theses and Dissertations are now available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! Last April, this historical collection contained ‘over 25,000 titles and approximately 4.24 million digitized pages’. The UBC Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Digitization Project is nearly complete with thanks to Chris Hives, University Archivist, and his amazing team! ..." |
| Govt open data policy "set to boost UK life sciences growth" Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:19 AM PST www.pharmatimes.com "The UK government's Autumn Statement includes "world-leading commitments" to boost growth in the nation's life sciences sector by transforming access to public-sector health and care data. From next September, services provided by the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care will link datasets from primary and secondary care, which will enable professionals in the NHS, pharmaceutical industry, academia and elsewhere to access unprecedented and unequalled levels of information about the journeys of patients through the care system and the outcomes of different treatments, it says. Provision of these "world-first" linked data services will improve medical practice and is also expected to put the UK "in a prime positive for research investment," according to the Cabinet Office...." |
| Episode 78 – Death Knell for the Paywall Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:11 AM PST Digital Campus, (02 Dec 2011) "The clock strikes noon, and that sound might just signal the end of the bright morning for closed systems in higher education. On this week’s podcast, we discuss Coursekit, a free (for now) learning management system built by dropouts from the University of Pennsylvania; Commons-in-a-Box, a free (funded by the Sloan Foundation) academic social networking system of blogs and wikis that will be built by non-dropouts from the CUNY Academic Commons; and the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference, which seems to have convinced not only several universities but also the White House that peer-reviewed scholarly publications should be, what else, free. Our honored guest is journalist Audrey Watters of Hack Education...." |
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| Editorial: Free access for all - The Daily Princetonian Posted: 03 Dec 2011 10:03 AM PST www.dailyprincetonian.com "Recently, the University has announced and begun implementing a new open-access policy for faculty publications, in which the University and faculty members reserve the right to republish scholarly articles after submitting them to journals. The Editorial Board applauds the decision, as we believe it will lead to a wider dissemination of important scholarly work, and urges the University to follow through on this plan by establishing a free online journal [PS: the author apparently meant "repository"; see below] to facilitate distribution of faculty scholarship....The next logical step in disseminating this scholarship is for the University to establish a repository where those who are interested can find these articles. After all, it does little good for the University to have the right to publicize journal articles if no one is able to find them in practice. The University appears to be working on this issue at the moment, and we urge them to complete the process as soon as possible...." |
| Swartz Pleads Not Guilty to Charges Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:58 AM PST The Harvard Crimson | Latest Stories in news "A former Harvard fellow and internet activist facing federal charges for allegedly hacking into the MIT network and unlawfully downloading nearly 5 million academic articles pleaded not guilty Wednesday to similar charges brought against him by the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office, according to his attorney Martin G. Weinberg. Aaron Swartz, a 25-year-old Cambridge resident, was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, charged with breaking and entering, larceny, and unauthorized access to a computer network, according to a press release by the District Attorney’s Office...." |
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