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- Supporting the advancement of science: Open access publishing and the role of mandate
- Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act
- Open Neuroscience Solutions for the Connectome-wide Association Era
- Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act
- Attribution stacking as a barrier to reuse
- How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books | ZDNet
- Cell Press launches a new open-access journal, Cell Reports
- Computing in Schools: The Great Ctrl-Alt-Del - Open Enterprise
- Free access to research documents on the High North - BarentsObserver
- Survey Finds Patients Excited, Physicians Hesitant About Open-access Medical Notes -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
- Fair-Use Guide Seeks to Solve Librarians' VHS-Cassette Problem - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Association of Research Libraries (ARL) :: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
- Research Works Act - Publishing Industry Tries Again to Make You Pay Twice | MapLight - Money and Politics
| Supporting the advancement of science: Open access publishing and the role of mandate Posted: 28 Jan 2012 07:17 AM PST www.translational-medicine.com Abstract: In December 2011 the United States House of Representatives introduced a new bill, the Research Works Act (H.R.3699), which if passed could threaten the public’s access to US government funded research. In a digital age when professional and lay parties alike look more and more to the online environment to keep up to date with developments in their fields, does this bill serve the best interests of the community? Those in support of the Research Works Act argue that government open access mandates undermine peer-review and take intellectual property from publishers without compensation, however journals like Journal of Translational Medicine show that this is not the case. Journal of Translational Medicine in affiliation with the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer demonstrates how private and public organisations can work together for the advancement of science. |
| Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act Posted: 28 Jan 2012 06:05 AM PST wwws.whitehouse.gov A petition against the Research Works Act at the We The People, the White House petition site. 25,000 signatures will trigger an Obama administration review and an official response. |
| Open Neuroscience Solutions for the Connectome-wide Association Era Posted: 28 Jan 2012 05:58 AM PST www.sciencedirect.com Abstract: The neuroimaging community is at a crossroads. Long characterized by individualism, the data and computational and analytic needs of the connectome-wide association era necessitate cultural reform. Emerging initiatives have demonstrated the feasibility and utility of adopting an open neuroscience model to accelerate the pace and success of scientific discovery. |
| Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:38 PM PST wwws.whitehouse.gov A petition opposing the Research Works Act, at We The People, the White House petition site. |
| Attribution stacking as a barrier to reuse Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:31 PM PST Wikimedian in Residence, (27 Jan 2012) "On Wednesday, I gave a talk and displayed a number of files that had been produced by others. They were all linked to a dedicated page containing all the metadata necessary for proper attribution of the source, but that page was not shown during the talk, so the audience only saw the images or videos and some rudimentary metadata. The talk was video recorded and is supposed to be released under a Creative Commons license. How would proper attribution look like in this case? The problem of attribution stacking has already been touched upon briefly in the description of the image featured on December 14 but let’s consider it in some more detail now...." |
| How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books | ZDNet Posted: 27 Jan 2012 06:56 PM PST m.zdnet.com "Apple has built its iBooks platform on the back of an open standard. With last week’s introduction of iBooks 2.0 and the free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X, Apple is deliberately locking out that popular open standard...." |
| Cell Press launches a new open-access journal, Cell Reports Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:23 PM PST www.eurekalert.org "Cell Press reinforces its commitment to provide a broad range of publishing options for the life sciences community with the inaugural issue of a new open-access journal: Cell Reports. Since the announcement in August, after 6 months of hard work on the part of our authors, reviewers, and editorial board members as well as our own editorial and production teams, the first issue is available online today, January 26, 2011....Through Cell Reports, Cell Press is happy to provide authors with the option to publish in a prestigious journal with immediate open access. Authors can choose to publish their work under one of two Creative Commons licenses, one of which is the most liberal available. Cell Press and Elsevier share an ongoing commitment to promote access to the scientific literature and to support a broad range of sustainable publishing models...." |
| Computing in Schools: The Great Ctrl-Alt-Del - Open Enterprise Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:20 PM PST blogs.computerworlduk.com "What we need is truly a reboot - the last Ctrl-Alt-Del - into openness. Not just a new operating system or office suite (those are mere details), but a new way of teaching and learning that reflect the worlds of open education, open source, open access, open science and open innovation that are the key intellectual developments of the early 21st century...." |
| Free access to research documents on the High North - BarentsObserver Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST www.barentsobserver.com “The University Library of Tromsø is launching a new service... ‘High North Research Documents...’ includes close to 100 000 documents. ‘This will be a very useful service for anyone interested in the High North, be it journalists, decision makers in business and public administration, politicians, NGOs, students and researchers...’ The service is based on all the open access documents available, from all over the world. ‘Here you easily find documents of relevance to the high north, within any subject area, written by scholars anywhere in the world. The service thus includes documents in many different languages. The majority of the documents will, however, be in English...’” |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:23 PM PST www.aafp.org "Patients want to see their doctors' notes. Some doctors aren't so sure that's a good idea... Researchers at the three sites participating in the OpenNotes pilot -- Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and the Geisinger Health System in central and northeastern Pennsylvania -- surveyed some 173 primary care physicians and nearly 38,000 patients during the sign-up phase of the 12-month pilot, which launched in summer 2010... The survey findings, which were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine...show that patients ‘expressed considerable enthusiasm and few fears (about viewing the notes), anticipating both improved understanding and more involvement in care.’ A recent release from the study authors indicated that although many of the primary care doctors who volunteered to participate in OpenNotes predicted possible health benefits, the balance of those who chose not to participate voiced doubts about positive impacts... ‘Among the 173 doctors completing surveys, the majority expressed concerns about confusing or worrying patients with the content,’ the authors said. ‘Doctors also anticipated that they would write their notes less candidly and that responding to patient questions might be exceedingly time-consuming...’ But to family physician Douglas Iliff, M.D., of Topeka, Kan., the study physicians' trepidation is just ‘silly.’ Giving patients access to their medical notes not only keeps him honest, said Iliff, it also engenders trust and calms patients' fears by offering proof that he is ‘shooting straight with them.’ In an editorial (excerpt) that accompanied the results of the baseline survey, co-authors Thomas Feeley, M.D., and Kenneth Shine, M.D., point out that although privacy concerns are important, patients have a legal right to see their own medical records and share them with whomever they choose. With the yearlong pilot study now over, researchers have begun to evaluate data from follow-up surveys completed by participating doctors and patients and analyzing other metrics, including how often patients reviewed their notes, shared them with others or corrected errors their doctors may have made. No date has been given for the release of final results from the pilot, which is being funded, in part, by a $1.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio." |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:20 PM PST chronicle.com “The Association of Research Libraries might have a solution to what some librarians call ‘the VHS-cassette problem.’ Here’s the scenario: An academic library has a collection of video tapes that is slowly deteriorating... A librarian would like to digitize the collection for future use, but avoids making the copies out of fear that doing so would violate copyright law. And the institution’s attorneys have advised the librarian that the fair-use principle, which might offer a way to make copies legally, is too flexible to rely on... The new code is one of a series published with the help of Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, a pair of American University scholars known for pushing back against the restrictions of copyright law... Brandon Butler, director of public-policy initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, said this guide is different than early fair-use guidelines for libraries, which he described as narrowly crafted ‘safe harbors’ that had the unintended effect of making it more difficult for librarians to do their jobs... The team assembled the code during nearly 40 hours of group discussions with research librarians, Mr. Butler said. It identifies eight common library practices to which the fair-use principle can be applied... Despite its well-meaning mission, the code is not devoid of controversial statements: It says explicitly that it was not negotiated with rights holders. Mr. Butler said the group chose not to include them because negotiations between rights holders and professional communities often result in what he called “really weak tea.’” |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:18 PM PST www.arl.org “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University... In dozens of interviews with veteran research and academic librarians, the researchers learned how copyright law comes into play as interviewees performed core library functions...The Code identifies the relevance of fair use in eight recurrent situations for librarians: [1] Supporting teaching and learning with access to library materials via digital technologies [2] Using selections from collection materials to publicize a library’s activities, or to create physical and virtual exhibitions [3] Digitizing to preserve at-risk items [4] Creating digital collections of archival and special collections materials [5] Reproducing material for use by disabled students, faculty, staff, and other appropriate users [6] Maintaining the integrity of works deposited in institutional repositories [7] Creating databases to facilitate non-consumptive research uses (including search) [8] Collecting material posted on the web and making it available...” |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2012 08:07 AM PST |
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