Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- OpenEdition Facility of Excellence Awards (Equipex) - OpenEdition
- Brainstorm: Publishing Science in the Digital Era
- ARC encouraging on open access
- Digitizing endangered historical documents in India - SFU News - Simon Fraser University
- Now Launched: the European Library Standards Handbook | LIBER
- Presentation of the Inaugural Award for Advancing Open Access
| OpenEdition Facility of Excellence Awards (Equipex) - OpenEdition Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:35 PM PST "14 February 2012, the Digital Library for Open Humanities (DILOH) received the Label Equipex future investment award. The jury and French Higher Education and Research Ministry issued the award in recognition of OpenEdition’s role as a strategic platform for research and innovation. OpenEdition is set to 7 million euros over 8 years, with which it intends to build an online open-access international library for the digital humanities. The project is backed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo, Marseilles, Paris and Lisbon), in partnership with the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD, Lyon), the Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes (LSIS-CNRS, Marseille), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM, Washington) and the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (Oapen, the Hague)....It is our intention to reinforce the status of OpenEdition as a major open-access portal for the humanities and social sciences, while developing its international scope. To do this we have three objectives: [1] Develop OpenEdition platforms....[2] Introduce innovations enabling the exploitation of the possibilities offered by digital formats....Create an open-access economic model: OpenEdition has been developing the OpenEdition Freemium program, which finances open access to academic literature via the provision of exclusive paid services (access to detachable formats, services for libraries and their users)...." |
| Brainstorm: Publishing Science in the Digital Era Posted: 23 Feb 2012 12:19 PM PST Electron Café, (22 Feb 2012) “There’s been a rising swell of anger against certain scientific journals’ publishing practices in the research community. While I will not repost all the arguments here, one thing that keeps popping up is the realization that publishers are stuck in the print-age mindset. Over the last decade or so we’ve seen amazing advances in global communications via the internet and mobile devices. Publishers however appear weary to try anything new... If modern societies are now communicating in new and different ways through the internet and the publishers think that printing physical journals is still going to be critical in the near future, those publishers are going to be left behind... So, here’s a few ideas of what could be if publishers decided to seriously pursue all the tools online publishing offers: [1] It’s almost a given nowadays that if you look at any article, blog, tweet, post, what-have-you, scroll down to the bottom and there will be the ability for you to leave a comment or ask a question about what you have just read. Why can’t there be something similar for scientific articles online?... The benefit here being that it is open. Anyone can see this communication... The other benefit is that even if the authors don’t respond to my question, someone else could still come by and say... [2] With data storage being ridiculously cheap and manuscripts freed from the confines of physical paper, publishers still only limit authors to a Supplemental Information paper... Give me a little tiny bit of web server space to share these extra files with interested colleagues... [3] The open notebook was an idea put forth a few years ago. The basic concept is that published papers only really disseminate knowledge about the minority of experiments that worked. There is a large volume of data and information about experiments that didn’t work but isn’t made available anywhere. This so-called “Dark Data” (ominous!) is extremely useful for other researchers...” |
| ARC encouraging on open access Posted: 23 Feb 2012 11:53 AM PST www.theaustralian.com.au "OPEN access publishing by grant recipients was encouraged but not demanded by the Australian Research Council, chief executive Margaret Sheil said yesterday. "We encourage it as appropriate,'' Professor Sheil said. She was responding to the declaration by National Health and Research Council chief executive Warwick Anderson, that all council-funded research will have to be deposited in an open source repository within 12 months of publication...." |
| Digitizing endangered historical documents in India - SFU News - Simon Fraser University Posted: 23 Feb 2012 11:51 AM PST www.sfu.ca "I was in Mizoram as a part of a four-member pilot-project under the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP), a global rescue mission for the world's most endangered historical documents. Administered by the UK's British Library and funded by Arcadia, EAP researchers have in the past seven years fanned out across the globe, armed with little more than high-resolution digital cameras and strong stomachs. From the crispy Sahara to soggy Amazonia, the Programme selects from a world of possibilities: twentieth-century Bengali street literature, nineteenth-century Siberian glass-plate photographic negatives, eighteenth-century Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts. Digitization projects operate literally all the way to Timbuktu. The stakes are high. The princess to rescue is the world's most endangered written heritage; the dragons that threaten her are called climate, conflict, critters and carelessness...." |
| Now Launched: the European Library Standards Handbook | LIBER Posted: 23 Feb 2012 11:33 AM PST www.libereurope.eu "The Europeana Libraries project is working to build a robust aggregation model based on The European Library, which will make metadata to digital content from research and national libraries across Europe available on both Europeana and the new European Library portal. This handbook explains to data providers how this aggregation infrastructure can be used. The European Library Standards handbook serves as a handbook for libraries providing data to The European Library and other services such as Europeana. The document, produced as part of Europeana Libraries, clarifies the advantages of outsourcing specific data-provision tasks to an aggregator and provides a complete description of the process...." |
| Presentation of the Inaugural Award for Advancing Open Access Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST mssrfnvas video EPT Award function at MSSRF Feb 14, 2012 |
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