Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- UK Government White Paper on Open Access
- Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for scholarly publishers
- Government-wide Information Sharing for Democratic Accountability - Brookings Institution
- Data Dump
- PLoSable Biology
- Statistics Canada to make all online data free | Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper
- Taking a Bite Out of Textbook Costs: Open Education Initiative Grants Save Students more than $70,000
- QScience Connect publishes first articles, debuts new functionality
- Integrating OJS and SNEEP
- Making OJS and EPrints play nicely
- Open Access journal publishing in the arts and humanities: workshop report
- Open Science is more than Open Access and Open Data; all of us can get involved
- Huddersfield Research Review
- New publisher Announces Open Access Journals in Petroleum Engineering
- Expansion of Open Data Portal
- Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth: Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, by Command of Her Majesty, December 2011
| UK Government White Paper on Open Access Posted: 10 Dec 2011 05:44 AM PST listserver.sigmaxi.org The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication. But this practice is unevenly enforced. Therefore, as an immediate step, we have asked the Research Councils to ensure the researchers they fund fulfil the current requirements. |
| Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for scholarly publishers Posted: 09 Dec 2011 01:27 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (09 Dec 2011) Argues that the strongest OA license is CC-BY-NC-SA and provides strategy tips for publishers feeling pressure to adopt CC-BY licenses. |
| Government-wide Information Sharing for Democratic Accountability - Brookings Institution Posted: 09 Dec 2011 01:27 PM PST www.brookings.edu "In a representative democracy, average citizens should be able to easily monitor the public actions of their representatives and the politically powerful who seek to influence those representatives. New semantic web technologies make such monitoring more cost effective to do than ever before. But while these technologies have been widely used to monitor the weak, they have not been used to monitor the powerful, who often cite privacy and cost concerns as excuses to avoid such monitoring. This paper recommends asking the president of the United States to 1) use the new technologies so the American people can more easily monitor his public, official actions, and 2) serve as a showcase for Congress and the rest of the executive branch of government-wide information sharing for democratic accountability...." |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:21 AM PST Creative Infrastructure, (01 Dec 2011) "As a postscript, I note that there is an analog here to another recent blogosphere/twitterverse conversation about criticism incited by what many, myself included, thought was a rather naïve comment from Michael Kaiser about the “trend” of online popular criticism being “scary.” Interestingly (at least to me) was that the discussion revolved exclusively around criticism by professional arts journalists versus criticism by the general public as written and read by many on blogs and websites. Yet, there is serious, theoretically grounded, criticism produced by scholars all the time, but it’s read by the very few. Perhaps if we could get past the firewall of academic publishing and the tenure and promotion decisions based thereon, more people would read and engage with this work too, and we won’t be relegated to another kind of trash heap...." |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:14 AM PST "Scientists are learning new things every day. They are also writing about their discoveries. In most cases they publish in science magazines called journals like the Public Library of Science (PLoS). In PLoSable Biology you will find stories that will help you read and explore the articles written by scientists. With this beta version we give you a chance to see and test out this new section. Now jump in and start exploring PLoSable Biology - a place where firsthand science is only a mouse click away...." |
| Statistics Canada to make all online data free | Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:11 AM PST embassymag.ca "All of Statistics Canada’s standard online products, including the census, socioeconomic and geographic data, will be offered to the public for free starting February 2012...." |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:10 AM PST groups.google.com "The high cost of commercial textbooks, both print and electronic, is a major concern for today’s students and their parents. In an effort to reduce these costs, the UMass Amherst Provost’s Office and the University Libraries launched a program in the spring of 2011—the Open Education Initiative—that supports faculty interested in pursuing non-traditional educational resources as an alternative to the traditional commercial textbook....Eight faculty members were awarded a total of 10 grants, $1,000 per course, to adopt a new curricular resource strategy using easily identified digital resources. Under the program, faculty developed a variety of alternatives, from creating an online open access lab manual to utilizing e-books and streaming media available through the Libraries’ numerous databases....During the 2011-2012 academic year, it is estimated this $10,000 investment will save 700 students more than $72,000 – money that would have been spent on commercial textbooks for these courses...." |
| QScience Connect publishes first articles, debuts new functionality Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:08 AM PST groups.google.com "QScience Connect is a new kind of peer-reviewed, open access journal which publishes research in all fields which meets the simple criteria of being ethical, valid and correct. No emphasis is placed on the perceived interest of the article, or the magnitude of the advance being described; rather the readers of the articles contribute to the evaluation process by reading and citing the article. The number of accesses of the article, and the number of times it is cited in other academic journals is a model of evaluation which makes the most of the online publishing environment....Authors are also encouraged to submit articles to the journal which may consist primarily of video or audio....QScience.com has also introduced an online commenting facility, linked to the readers’ social media accounts, which allows for direct communication on the article with the author and other readers....This new service adds to the already existing features of article-level metrics, measuring downloads and citations, and the personalization and mobile features of the site, allowing browsing of content and access to search alerts with Blackberry, iPhone and Android handsets. With all of our content being freely-available and open access, we believe these new developments improve the experience of accessing cutting edge research for both the scientific community and the public in general." |
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| Making OJS and EPrints play nicely Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:59 AM PST |
| Open Access journal publishing in the arts and humanities: workshop report Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:56 AM PST sas-space.sas.ac.uk Abstract: A summary of discussions at the launch event for SAS [School of Advanced Study, University of London] Open Journals. Issues covered include staffing, marketing and publicity and alternative business models for OA journals. Also discussed were the particular issues for journals making the transition from print to web. |
| Open Science is more than Open Access and Open Data; all of us can get involved Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:35 AM PST petermr's blog, (03 Dec 2011) |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:34 AM PST Huddersfield Open Access Publishing, (03 Dec 2011) "We are just putting the finishing touches to the project. In the next couple of weeks you can expect the new online version of Teaching in Lifelong Learning and a toolkit showing how to create Open Access journals with EPrints...." |
| New publisher Announces Open Access Journals in Petroleum Engineering Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:33 AM PST pcorlaptop.com "Today Petroleum Journals Online announces the launch of a group of open access electronic journals in a new publishing initiative. This initiative is designed to allow petroleum engineers to publish peer-reviewed articles online while retaining their copyright. Petroleum Journals Online will provide free access to the articles within these new journals on the principle that 'making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and that such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. The journals will use Simon Fraser Universitys established publishing system (Open Journal Systems), comprising an online submission system, electronic tools for peer-review, and the ability to publish accepted articles in both PDF and HTML formats....The first 6 journals to be published cover a wide range of research and practice areas in petroleum engineering -- reservoir engineering, production engineering, drilling and completion technology, production geology, petrophysics, and petroleum management and economics. Petroleum Journals Online (http://petroleumjournalsonline.com) is a new Canada based not-for-profit online publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the peer-reviewed petroleum engineering research it publishes...." |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:30 AM PST www.88finance.com "On December 1, 2011, the Government of Canada expanded the Open Data Portal pilot to include over 4000 new data sets from eight government institutions...." |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST www.bis.gov.uk "To succeed in the global innovation economy, the UK must strengthen its ability to accelerate the commercialisation of emerging technologies, and to capture the value chains linked to these....We are also seeking to ensure that government policies stimulate, rather than hinders, UK innovation through...Increasing access to public data or to knowledge created as a result of publicly-funded research; and Accepting all the recommendations in the review of intellectual property by Professor Ian Hargreaves..... We believe publiclyfunded research should be freely available. We have commissioned independent groups of academics and publishers to review the availability of published research, and to develop action plans for making this freely available. We will also create an Open Data Institute, which will develop semantic web technologies for using data more effectively, and will advise the public sector and business as to how best to use these and manage their data so it can be exploited for economic and social beneits....We will make data and research indings widely available online for anyone to remix and reuse..." |
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