Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Journals and scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean: its visibility in SciELO, RedALyC and SCOPUS (article in Spanish)
- 2012 Vivek Kundra Discussion Paper - Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect
- As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- A Open Archive of My F1000 Reviews
- Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography
- The Research Works Act: a damaging threat to science : The Lancet
- Lessig on the Lobbiest Threat to Open Access…
- Elsevier's Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke - Forbes
- From white paper to newspaper: Making academia more accessible to journalists
| Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:06 AM PST aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co 1.246 different journals from 16 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are included in SciELO,RedALyC and SCOPUS. These sources are complementary. |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2012 06:07 PM PST www.hks.harvard.edu "In the information economy, data is power and we face a choice between democratizing it and holding on to it for an asymmetrical advantage....We generate and store more data today than any other time in history. In fact, data is predicted to continue along its exponential growth curve to 1.8 zettabytes in 2011. To get a sense of this exponential growth, a zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes; that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000....If this data isn't sliced, diced and cubed to separate signal from noise, it can be useless. But, when made available to the public and combined with the network effect—defined by Reed's Law,4 which asserts that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network—society has the potential to drive massive social, political and economic change....In today's world, open data leveraged by networks is the fuel that powers important decisions at each level of society—from government, to business, to community, to households—but it is also a product of our every activity at every level of our existence. Channeling the power of this open data and the network effect can help: [1] Fight government corruption, improve accountability and enhance government services, [2] Change the default setting of government to open, transparent and participatory, [3] Create new models of journalism to separate signal from noise to provide meaningful insights, [4] Launch multi-billion dollar businesses based on public sector data...." |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2012 05:58 PM PST chronicle.com "An approach called altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked. "There's a gold mine of data that hasn't been harnessed yet about impact outside the traditional citation-based impact," says Dario Taraborelli, a senior research analyst with the Strategy Team at the Wikimedia Foundation and a proponent of the idea....Jason Priem, a third-year graduate student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a leader in this push to track impact via the social Web. Scholarly workflows are moving online, leaving traces that can be documented—not just in articles but on social networks and reference sites such as Mendeley and Zotero, where researchers store and annotate scholarship of interest....Mr. Priem helped write a manifesto, posted on the Web site altmetrics.org, which articulates the problems with traditional evaluation schemes...." |
| A Open Archive of My F1000 Reviews Posted: 29 Jan 2012 05:54 PM PST I wish you'd made me angry earlier, (28 Jan 2012) "Following on from a recent conversation with David Stephens on Twitter about my decision to resign from Faculty of 1000, F1000 has clarified their terms for the submission of evaluations and confirmed that it is permissible to “reproduce personal evaluations on institutional & personal blogs if you clearly reference F1000″....As such, I am delighted to be able to repost here an Open Archive of my F1000 contributions...." |
| Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography Posted: 29 Jan 2012 05:33 PM PST Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 100 (1), 73 (2012) A review of Bailey's bibliography by Paul Blobaum. "This bibliography is recommended for everyone interested in open access publishing..." |
| The Research Works Act: a damaging threat to science : The Lancet Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:18 AM PST www.thelancet.com An editorial in The Lancet against the RWA: "This short and hastily put together legislation is not in the interests of either science or the public. Putting limitations on the dissemination of a scientist's own work is a startlingly ill-considered strategy. Science is a public enterprise. A scientific publisher's primary responsibility is to serve the research community. Their own interests—financial and reputational—depend upon the trust the public has in science. Obstructing the dissemination of publicly funded science will damage, not enhance, that trust. The RWA brings publishers and publishing into disrepute. Already, several academic publishers have spoken out against this Bill, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Lancet also strongly opposes this Bill...." |
| Lessig on the Lobbiest Threat to Open Access… Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:11 AM PST OUseful.Info, the blog..., (29 Jan 2012) "One of my favourite podcast subscriptions is a seminar series from the Long Now Foundation. The most recent release is a presentation by Lawrence Lessig on the way that campaign finance from US lobby groups can distort both US legislation and the legislative process: Lawrence Lessig: “How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It” The whole seminar is fascinating listening, but I think this 2-3 minute fragment from 9 minutes or so in to the seminar may be of interest to the open access/OER community....Among other things, it provides a humourous take on the sense in which open access academic research publications are free, as well describing how it’s possible to legislate to make it illegal for a funder to mandate that research publications be opened up after a year...." |
| Elsevier's Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke - Forbes Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:09 AM PST www.forbes.com "However, there’s something hapening that might change this, for Reed Elsevier shareholders, quite delightful position. That is, a revolt of the academics who provide both the papers and the readership. A start was made by British mathematician Tim Gowers, in a blog post here. That wasn’t the very start, but it looks like one of those pebbles that starts the avalanche rather than the one that just tumbles down the hillside....I have a feeling that this will indeed lead to some fairly major changes in the way that Elsevier is able to run its journal publishing division. At least, I rather hope so, for the entire cost base and financial structure is outmoded in this internet age. There’s a wider lesson here too though. Consumer sovereignty isn’t just some theoretical abstraction. However great the lock your business model might impose on the actions of those consumers, however great the collective action problems in trying to escape your grip, it is possible for them to do so if they get sufficiently riled up to really try...." |
| From white paper to newspaper: Making academia more accessible to journalists Posted: 29 Jan 2012 08:33 AM PST www.niemanlab.org "Of course, scholars aren’t producing daily stories on tight deadlines. Real knowledge-based reporting is hard. On some stories, the people most qualified to write them are probably your sources. So we journalists rely on interviews, past articles, and seemingly trustworthy material on the web and elsewhere. About 18 months ago, [Tom] Patterson and others at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center set out to make knowledge more accessible. They created a website called Journalist’s Resource, a curated, searchable index of high-quality research papers on topics of interest to reporters. The site’s editors write up studies in a journalistic way, plucking out facts and narratives that can be woven into stories. Unlike most academic products, Journalist’s Resource is openly accessible, well-designed, and licensed under Creative Commons. And now, as the pace of 2012 election coverage quickens, Journalist’s Resource is preparing to debut a special political section...." |
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