Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Is It Hyperbole To Say That The US Research Works Act Is the Greatest Threat To Academic Publishing and The Open Access Movement?
- Withdrawal of labour from publishers in favour of the US Research Works Act
- Janne In Osaka
- The FJP — Data and Peer Production with Wikimedia’s Dario...
- Todd:Catalytic, Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction - OpenWetWare
- NPG Asia Materials
- The Kitware Blog - Open Access: Stop the Research Works Act!
- Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing
- BibSoup! A new OPEN approach to managing personal and group bibliographies
- Should you boycott academic publishers?
- The Research Works Act: Two more dissenters
- Service oriented science, Cameron Neylon, at Semantic Physical Science , 2012-01-12, Cambridge on Vimeo
- 5 star Open Data
- A Fistful Of Dollars: Why Corporate Publishers Have No Place In Scholarly Communication
- BioMed Central opposes Research Works Act
- Tellus A and Tellus B open up – free access to all content
- Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Towards a Digital Public Library of America
- A Professor’s Personal Open Access Policy
- DLD Conference BREAKING: Sebastian Thrun launches Udacity.com
- Udacity - Educating the 21st Century
- Scholarly licence to print money
| Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:50 PM PST The Room of Infinite Diligence, (18 Jan 2012) |
| Withdrawal of labour from publishers in favour of the US Research Works Act Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST Media gifts, (16 Jan 2012) "To show my support for both open access and this initiative [to defeat the RWA] I have therefore decided that, from this point onwards and until further notice, I am not prepared to publish with, or otherwise give my free labour to, presses in favour of the Research Works Act. This applies to the peer-reviewing of journal articles, book proposals, manuscripts and all other forms of scholarly and editorial work. This is not a decision I have taken lightly - not least because I have a number of friends who edit journals published by some of these presses. However, as a long-standing advocate of open access in the humanities it is an issue I feel strongly about, so hopefully they will understand and perhaps even feel encouraged to put pressure on their publishers to either withdraw from the AAP because of its support for this bill, or join MIT and a number of other presses in publically disavowing the AAP’s campaign in favour of the Research Works Act...." |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:36 PM PST janneinosaka.blogspot.com "Remember, while this suggested law is recent and US-centric, the instigators — the for-profit journal publishers — have been fighting to stay gatekeepers of research across the globe for years. It is a very profitable business, and they have shown there is little they would not do to stay in it no matter how much it hurts science, the scientists who they depend on, or the public that pays for it all...." |
| The FJP — Data and Peer Production with Wikimedia’s Dario... Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:34 PM PST futurejournalismproject.org "I spoke with Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst at the Wikimedia Foundation, a few days ago. What interested me is a new open data and research infrastructure initiative Wikimedia is pursuing in order to put data in the hands of a wider audience. What also interests me is how Wikimedia is implementing it: namely, by creating an online space for data consultations in order to really hear from data wranglers and journalists about what they’re looking for in an open data platform...." |
| Todd:Catalytic, Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction - OpenWetWare Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:32 PM PST openwetware.org "This article will be a stand-alone review. It will be written openly in January and February 2012. Once it is complete and well-written, it will be submitted to an open access journal for publication. This will provide a citation - a static object to which others may refer. The article is open source, like Wikipedia. Anyone can add and edit. To contribute you will need to get an account on OWW [OpenWetWare] (quick and easy). People contributing something lasting and substantial will be named authors. Final arbitration on what qualifies as authorship lies with Mat Todd, who is the corresponding author for this paper...." |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:29 PM PST www.nature.com NPG Asia Materials is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from the Nature Publishing Group. |
| The Kitware Blog - Open Access: Stop the Research Works Act! Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:25 PM PST |
| Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:58 PM PST news.sciencemag.org "The current peer review system in which journal editors send potentially publishable manuscripts to experts for review is hotly debated. Many scientists complain that the system is slow, inefficient, of variable quality, and prone to favoritism. Moreover, there's growing resentment in some quarters about being asked to take valuable time to provide free reviews to journals that are operated by for-profit publishers or that don't make their papers open-access. Several suggestions have been made to improve the peer review system, such as introducing credits for reviewers, using social media, and making the process more transparent. Peerage of Science aims to combine these ideas, explains co-founder Mikko Mönkkönen, an applied ecologist at the University of Jyväskylä. A researcher would initially upload a manuscript to Peerage of Science. It will then be made anonymous and posted on a Web site that is exclusively accessible to other members, which currently stands at around 500 scientists. Along with the manuscript, the authors can add a short pitch explaining why peers should review this manuscript. Potential reviewers receive an e-mail if tagged keywords reflecting the manuscript match their expertise—bird migration, for example. After reviewing a paper, peers are allowed to grade the quality of the other reviews, by awarding a grade between one and five. Editors of journals partnering with Peerage of Science can anonymously track reviews, get automated updates on the paper and make an offer to publish the paper, perhaps after a requested revision. Authors are free to accept or decline their offers. Scientists receive one credit for every review they finish. These credits are required to upload a manuscript, which costs two credits divided by the number of coauthors. The author who uploads a manuscript is also obliged to have a positive balance. "This formalises an unwritten rule: he who wants his manuscripts reviewed, reviews other manuscripts in return," explains Janne-Tuomas Seppänen, a postdoc at University of Jyväskylä, who came up with the initial idea for Peerage of Science service in February 2010...." |
| BibSoup! A new OPEN approach to managing personal and group bibliographies Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:54 PM PST petermr's blog, (22 Jan 2012) "We have just finished 3 hectic days of “sprint” (design, coding, documentation, testing, deployment) on the JISC/OKF Openbiblio2 project in Cambridge. This is an Open international project, with major input from Jim Pitman in Berkeley, and offered to anyone interested in collaborating and benefitting....The overall concept is “BibSoup” – a novel approach (some would call it Web 3.0) based on complete Openness of code, content and most importantly attitude. It’s based on meritocracy rather than central control. YOU control your own bibliography – a pot of BibSoup. It can be as perfect or imperfect as you like – BibSoup doesn’t mind. You don’t have to have all the information for a book (other people do that). You don’t have to have the author’s full name. If you don’t understand the difference between works, manifestations and expressions don’t worry. The basis of BibSoup is that you build your own bibliography for your own purposes using the BibSoup technology and software. You don’t have to understand it – it’s easy to use. It consists of a server (Bibserver) which is easy to clone and deploy to hold your data.... We are NOT compiling the one true bibliographic collection and competing with Open Library, Mendeley, Microsoft Academic Search, Google Scholar, Symplectic and other semi-open/Free collections of bibliography. We are NOT competing with Zotero as a reference manager. We, and our adopters, will these as valuable sources of bibliographic input. We ARE praising the virtues of completely open bibliographic collections such as the British National Bibliography...." |
| Should you boycott academic publishers? Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:43 PM PST lemire.me "There is a growing list of famous scientists who have pledged to boycott Elsevier as a publisher. If I were in charge of Elsevier, I would be very nervous: academic publishers need famous authors more than the famous authors need the publishers. After all, famous scientists could simply post their work online, and people would still read it....Focusing solely on database-related journals, I decided to look at how much journals charge per article....[The prices range from $61.50 to zero.] The price distribution appears almost random. I can see no relation between prestige or paper length and prices. Elsevier is hardly alone at charging high prices for papers. Wiley and Springer are just as expensive....The evidence is strong that high-quality inexpensive journals are possible. Current journals are up to an order of magnitude too expensive...." |
| The Research Works Act: Two more dissenters Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:24 PM PST Open and Shut?, (22 Jan 2012) "Open Access advocate PeterSuber is maintaining a page at the Berkman Center listing publishers and societies who oppose the Research Works Act (RWA), otherwise known as HR 3699. Two new entries have recently been added to this page concerning societies that dissent from the RWA. The first entry points to a January 11th post on the Code for Life blog reporting that a letter about the RWA has been sent to members of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) by ISCB executive officer BJ Morrison McKay....The second entry points to a comment on the Savage Minds blog reporting that on January 18th the Executive Board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) voted UNANIMOUSLY to pass a resolution opposing the RWA...." |
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| Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:22 PM PST 5stardata.info "Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and Linked Data initiator, suggested a 5 star deployment scheme for Open Data. Here, we give examples for each step of the stars and explain costs and benefits that come along with it....* make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license... ** make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)... *** use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel).... **** use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff.... ***** link your data to other data to provide context...." |
| A Fistful Of Dollars: Why Corporate Publishers Have No Place In Scholarly Communication Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:19 PM PST bjoern.brembs.net "With roughly four billion US$ in profit every year, the corporate scholarly publishing industry is a lucrative business. One of the largest of these publishers is Anglo-Dutch Elsevier, part of Reed Elsevier. According to their website, their mission is to 'publish trusted, leading-edge Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) information – pushing the frontiers and fueling a continuous cycle of exploration, discovery and application.' However, Elsevier recently admitted to publishing a set of six fake journals, aimed to promote medical products and drugs by the company Merck, but with the appearance of peer-reviewed, scholarly literature. Clearly, trust is not Elsevier's top priority. What is Elsevier's top priority, though, is making money...." |
| BioMed Central opposes Research Works Act Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:14 PM PST Open and Shut?, (20 Jan 2012) "BioMed Central strongly supports the NIH's role in enhancing open access through the operation of PubMed Central and through its Public Access Policy for employees and grantees. We are opposed to the RWA's proposal to roll back that policy, and feel that the success of open access publishers such as BioMed Central clearly demonstrates the invalidity of the arguments, made by supporters of the RWA, that public access undermines the ability of publishers to seek fair recompense for the service they provide...." |
| Tellus A and Tellus B open up – free access to all content Posted: 24 Jan 2012 11:41 AM PST Tellus A 64 "As of 1 January 2012 both Tellus Series (A and B) are published by the Open Access publisher Co-Action Publishing (www.co-action.net)....We hope that this change will lead to an increased number of submissions of high quality papers and, as a consequence, higher status and higher impact factors." |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:45 AM PST chronicle.com "The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his tenured position to aim for an even bigger audience. Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he has departed the institution to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes. He made the surprising announcement during a presentation at the Digital – Life – Design conference in Munich, Germany...." |
| Towards a Digital Public Library of America Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:05 AM PST |
| A Professor’s Personal Open Access Policy Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:02 AM PST A Professor8217s Personal Open Access Policy MIT Libraries News, (24 Jan 2012) "Kai von Fintel, Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has announced a personal open access policy. He sets requirements for openness for his journal articles, book chapters, and books. For journals, he “will only publish in, review for, and serve on editorial boards for journals that allow authors to deposit at least the final manuscript version (“postprint”) in an open access repository (such as MIT’s Dspace or the Semantics Archive), without any embargo (such as having to wait for 24 months before making the OA version available).” His publishing policy for book chapters is the same as for journals, but he “will consider reviewing books or book chapters that are not OA-friendly, because books are a different business from research journals,” though he “wish[es] that there was more movement towards OA books.” ...Professor von Fintel has been taking action for more open access to research and scholarship for many years...." |
| DLD Conference BREAKING: Sebastian Thrun launches Udacity.com Posted: 24 Jan 2012 08:59 AM PST dld.tumblr.com "Sebastian Thrun gave one of the DLD12’s most inspiring speeches today, presenting his newest initiative in free online education [called Udacity]. By offering free world class education, Thrun said, we can truly change the world...." |
| Udacity - Educating the 21st Century Posted: 24 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST www.udacity.com "We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world...." |
| Scholarly licence to print money Posted: 24 Jan 2012 07:17 AM PST www.theaustralian.com.au "WHO pays the piper in scholarly publishing is a very hot global topic....Scholarly publishing, especially for the six or seven huge multi-national journal publishers, is one of the most lucrative global businesses. US based Simba Information reported on January 6 that, "Amid budgetary pressures and a slow economic recovery, the combined markets for science, technical and medical (STM) publishing grew 3.4 per cent to $US21.1 billion ($20bn) in 2011". The Economist reported last year that Elsevier, the biggest publisher of journals, made pound stg. 724m ($1.069 billion) in 2010 on revenues of pound stg. 2bn - an operating-profit margin of 36 per cent....Figures for other major publishers in 2010 or early 2011 are similar: Springer's Science+Business Media, pound stg. 294m on revenue of pound stg. 866m - 33.9 per cent; John Wiley $106m on revenue of $253m - 42 per cent; and the Academic division of Informa, pound stg. 47m on revenue of pound stg. 145m - 32.4 per cent....The academic community, supported through the salaries and infrastructure of the institutions, gives away its scholarly content to commercial publishers. Peer reviewing of millions of articles is then undertaken, almost totally without charge, by that same academic community. The publishers then impose restrictive copyright regulations on the scholarly content, which they then sell back at ever increasing profit margins to universities which originally created the material. Logical? ..." |
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