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- 1 Percent versus the 99 Percent–A Case for Open Access | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
- Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister | Science | guardian.co.uk
- New clinical research consortium to tackle pandemic threats
- The effect of the internet on researcher motivations, behaviour and attitudes
- Open Science communities and the evolution of an Open Knowledge Society | MalariaWorld
- Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister | Science | guardian.co.uk
- The ISO 16363 Standard for Trusted Digital Repositories
- Open Access in the Pacific
- Setting the (Legal) Standard for Open Data - Sunlight Foundation
- Open Access-Publikationsfonds der WWU
- Open Access Part II: The Structure, Resources, and Implications for Nurses
- Calidad e impacto de las revistas iberoamericanas
- A new data/research infrastructure for Wikimedia
- Force11 White Paper: Improving Future Research Communication and e-Scholarship
- Exploring open access in higher education: live chat best bits
- Call for proposals: SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 07:07 AM PST blogs.scientificamerican.com "The Capitol is four blocks away from my room in Hotel George while I continue to write my Masters’ thesis on different cell types within the visual thalamus. Unfortunately, I hit a roadblock. I need to write about specific connections between the two different types of light sensing cells, rods and cones, in the retina. I vaguely remember reading an article that dealt with the very topic about a year back. But not its title, authors or even the journal it was published in. After searching PubMed, the online database for medicine and life sciences, for 15 minutes or so, the right article is in front of me. The abstract is perfect. It talks about the electrical connections between rods and cones. I need to download the entire text of the article before actually citing it as a source. However, once again my writing comes to a screeching halt. As I try to download the article, the journal website asks me for subscription information. I don’t have any. It is the first time I have been asked for one. Usually, I work at my University where scientific articles are freely available...." |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 06:56 AM PST www.guardian.co.uk The Way to Move to Open Access is to Mandate Open Access Self-Archiving Recommendations for UK government OpenA ccess policy (David Willetts, Janet Finch) |
| New clinical research consortium to tackle pandemic threats Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:58 AM PST www.cidrap.umn.edu "A group of health organizations today launched a new international consortium to better prepare the clinical research community to respond to the next pandemic or other emerging health threat....Known as the International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (ISARIC), the collaboration is made up of more than 20 hospital-based clinical research networks, with the goal of putting in place open-access protocols, data-sharing processes, and ethical frameworks to streamline the response to rapidly emerging diseases such as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic....Members of ISARIC will develop and implement standardized protocols, metrics, and data-sharing processes and use preapproved, open-access methods that can be rapidly triggered in the event of a novel threat, a measure designed to allow researchers from high- and low-income countries to work together and share data, according to the press release. Networks that have already signed on are located on all six continents...." |
| The effect of the internet on researcher motivations, behaviour and attitudes Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:41 PM PST Journal of Documentation 67 (2), (03 Aug 2011) From the abstract: The purpose of this paper is to understand how the migration from the print world to the electronic environment has affected the motivations, attitudes and behaviours of researchers in scholarly communication....The paper takes the form of an investigation that is both quantitative and qualitative. The study was split into three phases: understand the issues affecting researchers (focus groups and interviews); an online survey of 6,344 researchers measuring attitudes and digging deeper into issues: telephone interviews to understand differences between different groups change. Differences in opinions were examined across discipline....While there has been some change in the behaviour of researchers, there has been little change in their motivations for publication. Researchers want other researchers' data but are less inclined to share their own. Researcher attitudes towards repositories are very mixed. Researchers highly value peer review. The pressure to over-publish at the expense of quality is exaggerated.... |
| Open Science communities and the evolution of an Open Knowledge Society | MalariaWorld Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:49 PM PST www.malariaworld.org online scientific communities should use social media for information sharing and collaboration |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 11:20 AM PST www.guardian.co.uk "The [UK] government has signalled a revolution in scientific publishing by throwing its weight behind the idea that all publicly funded scientific research must be published in open-access journals. The policy is in the government document Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth published on Monday....The commitment to making publicly funded research free to access is a direct challenge to the business models of the big academic publishing companies, which are the gatekeepers for the majority of high-quality scientific research....Dame Janet Finch, a former vice chancellor of Keele University, has been asked by Willetts to investigate how a similar open-access scheme [similar to SCOAP3] might work in the UK....Finch is expected to report in the first half of 2012 but, meanwhile, Willetts said the UK research councils would be reminded that research papers from the work they fund should be as widely available as possible...." |
| The ISO 16363 Standard for Trusted Digital Repositories Posted: 08 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST www.crl.edu "The prospective standard is based upon the Trusted Digital Repositories and Audit Checklist (TRAC)...Review of the draft standard is being undertaken by an International Standards Organization (ISO) technical committee (TC 20/SC 13). If approved, the standard is expected to be introduced by June of 2012...." |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:41 AM PST Savage Minds, (29 Nov 2011) "We complain a lot on this blog about how slow various scholarly publishers are in making their work available open access, so I thought I’d write a piece about open access done right: increasingly today, some of the most focused journals on anthropology and the Pacific are available open access....Here at the University of Hawaii the Center for Pacific Island Studies has done a superb job of making its work available open access...." |
| Setting the (Legal) Standard for Open Data - Sunlight Foundation Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST sunlightfoundation.com "San Francisco is often thought of as the utopian edge of open government development: The city boasts the first city-level open data law in the United States, has its own app store, and even had 8 out of 9 mayoral candidates sign onto an Open Government Pledge (drafted by CityCamp alum) during this year’s race. But Adriel Hampton, a long time opengov advocate, connector, and CityCamp San Francisco lead, thinks his city -- and state -- can do one better. Adriel and other Gov 2.0 advocates want both San Francisco and California to institute an open data standard -- that is, a legal definition of open data -- and they’re kicking off a campaign at this weekend’s upcoming CityCampSF Hackathon to see it through...." |
| Open Access-Publikationsfonds der WWU Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:38 AM PST www.ulb.uni-muenster.de "The WWU [Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster] has established with the help of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), a publication fund. Scientists of [WWU] for posts in Open Access journals request funds from this fund, which is fed to 75% of DFG-funded and 25% from central university funds. Considered to be publications that are published in the period March 2011 to February 2012 in an Open Access journal...." [PS: Undated but apparently new.] |
| Open Access Part II: The Structure, Resources, and Implications for Nurses Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:34 AM PST gm6.nursingworld.org Abstract: Electronic publishing has changed the landscape for broadcasting scholarly information. Now Open Access is globalizing scholarly work. Open Access facilitates lifelong learning habits; enhances dissemination and distribution of information; impacts the informatics curriculum; supports active learning; and provides areas for nursing informatics research. In the last 10 years the Open Access Movement has formalized into a distinct publishing paradigm. Many free, full-text resources are now available to guide nursing practice. This article describes the Open Access structure, and provides suggestions for using Open Access resources in classroom and practice settings. The nursing community is only beginning to accept and use Open Access. Yet all nurses should be aware of the unique opportunity to obtain free, current, and scholarly information through a variety of avenues and also to incorporate this information into their daily practice. The resources presented in this article can be used to increase nursing knowledge and support evidence-based practice. |
| Calidad e impacto de las revistas iberoamericanas Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:30 AM PST Universo Abierto, (07 Dec 2011) An OA book of the proceedings from an October 2009 conference in Costa Rica. |
| A new data/research infrastructure for Wikimedia Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:22 AM PST docs.google.com "The Wikimedia Foundation has some ambitious new plans to improve and redesign its data and research infrastructure and we would like you to get involved....We believe that publishing and sharing the data we collect under open licenses, while respecting the privacy of our editor community, is consistent with our mission. We are working to create a public repository of open data to allow researchers and third-party services to access, share and remix data from our projects and communities and accelerate discovery....We would like to hear from you as to what data we should collect, host and republish (on top of the public datasets that we are already making available) as well as the technical and computational requirements that would allow you to use these data to build cool applications and run new research...." |
| Force11 White Paper: Improving Future Research Communication and e-Scholarship Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:12 AM PST force11.org, (28 Oct 2011) From the Abstract: Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in scholarly communication through the effective use of information technology. Force11 has grown from a small group of like-minded individuals into an open movement with clearly identified stakeholders associated with emerging technologies, policies, funding mechanisms and business models. While not disputing the expressive power of the written word to communicate complex ideas, our foundational assumption is that scholarly communication by means of semantically-enhanced media-rich digital publishing is likely to have a greater impact than communication in traditional print media or electronic facsimiles of printed works. This document highlights the findings of the Force11 workshop on the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in August 2011: it summarizes a number of key problems facing scholarly publishing today, and presents a vision that addresses these problems, proposing concrete steps that key stakeholders can take to improve the state of scholarly publishing. |
| Exploring open access in higher education: live chat best bits Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST Higher Education Network | guardian.co.uk, (07 Dec 2011) What is the benefit of open access to academia? Who will pay for open education resources? These questions and many more are answered by our live chat panel: Matthew Cockerill, managing director of open access publisher BioMed Central; Steve Carson, external relations director, MIT OpenCourseWare; Gareth Johnson, chair, UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR); Josh Brown, programme manager, JISC, Amber Thomas, programme manager, JISC; David Kernohan, programme manager, UKOER; Martin Weller, professor of educational technology, Open University (OU); Richard Sands, managing editor, BMJ Open, BMJ Group; Ulrich Tiedau, lecturer, University College London; Ernesto Priego, digital culture scholar, The Comics Grid |
| Call for proposals: SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:04 AM PST SPARC - Full Feed, (08 Dec 2011) "Proposals are now being invited for the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies will be showcased in engaging, informative, rapid-fire presentations. The Innovation Fair is a highlight to the regular SPARC meeting, now set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 11 through 13, 2012...." |
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