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- 'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- anthropologies: Issue 12
- Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - How to broaden the debate and utility of scientific communications: the open access journals
- The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science
- Towards mainstreaming of biodiversity data publishing: recommendations of the GBIF Data Publishing Framework Task Group
- Jobs, Innovations Follow Open-Access to Data , 12.15.2011
- Landsat at AAG 2012, 03.01.2012
- NASA Policy Directive (1/18/12): Use, Control, and Loan of Lunar Samples for Public and Educational Purposes
| Posted: 04 Mar 2012 10:32 AM PST chronicle.com Only the intro to this article is OA. Excerpt from the TA part of the text: "The editorial boards of the OMICS journals, which typically list several dozen members, serve to attract submissions as well as the support of those who serve on those boards. For some faculty, joining OMICS editorial boards appears to offer an easy means of professional advancement. Several professors and researchers said they agreed to serve on OMICS editorial boards to add a line to their résumés; others said they joined because were intrigued by a new journal in their field of study. Nearly all of the half-dozen editorial board members contacted for this story had limited knowledge of how OMICS operates and how the peer-review process works...." |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2012 08:50 AM PST www.anthropologiesproject.org “anthropologies: A Collaborative Online Project” is described as a site to “explore contemporary anthropology through essays, short articles, and opinion pieces written from diverse perspectives. There is no single way to define the field, hence ‘anthropologies.’ By presenting various viewpoints and positions, this site seeks to highlight not only what anthropology means to those who practice it, but also how those meanings are relevant to wider audiences.” The ‘anthropologies’ editorial team are graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Kentucky, Texas State University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Access to the archives is provided, dating back to the first issue appearing in March 2011. The website also provides information on upcoming issues and submission guidelines. The theme of the current issue is, “Occupy and Open Access.” |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:42 AM PST www.scielo.br "The new communication technologies applied in the academic environment are revolutionizing the way the relationship between scientists from different scientific areas. Open access to a particular journal and its articles in electronic version has expanded and facilitated this access. Brazil, in the area of Cardiology, has researchers with significant results regarding their participation as authors of scientific knowledge in the country. In turn, the increasing availability of publications regarding their evaluation raises new arguments, especially on the issue of quality assessment that the paper presented. We discuss the use of quantitative indicators such as the impact of publications as measured by their impact index or H factor. However, if we are facing a new paradigm for that scientific communication, we shall consider other ways to assess these publications and their benefit to the scientific community...." |
| The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:36 AM PST BMC Bioinformatics 12 (Suppl 15), S2 (2011) From the abstract: Free and open access to primary biodiversity data is essential for informed decision-making to achieve conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development. However, primary biodiversity data are neither easily accessible nor discoverable. Among several impediments, one is a lack of incentives to data publishers for publishing of their data resources. One such mechanism currently lacking is recognition through conventional scholarly publication of enriched metadata, which should ensure rapid discovery of 'fit-for-use' biodiversity data resources....We review the state of the art of data discovery options and the mechanisms in place for incentivizing data publishers efforts towards easy, efficient and enhanced publishing, dissemination, sharing and re-use of biodiversity data. We propose the establishment of the 'biodiversity data paper' as one possible mechanism to offer scholarly recognition for efforts and investment by data publishers in authoring rich metadata and publishing them as citable academic papers. While detailing the benefits to data publishers, we describe the objectives, work flow and outcomes of the pilot project commissioned by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility in collaboration with scholarly publishers and pioneered by Pensoft Publishers through its journals Zookeys, PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, BioRisk, NeoBiota, Nature Conservation and the forthcoming Biodiversity Data Journal. We then debate further enhancements of the data paper beyond the pilot project and attempt to forecast the future uptake of data papers as an incentivization mechanism by the stakeholder communities....We believe that in addition to recognition for those involved in the data publishing enterprise, data papers will also expedite publishing of fit-for-use biodiversity data resources. However, uptake and establishment of the data paper as a potential mechanism of scholarly recognition requires a high degree of commitment and investment by the cross-sectional stakeholder communities. |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:33 AM PST BMC Bioinformatics 12 (Suppl 15), S1 (2011) From the abstract: ...There is broad consensus in the scientific and conservation communities that data should be freely, openly available in a sustained, persistent and secure way, and thus standards for 'free' and 'open' access to data have become well developed in recent years. The question of effective access to data remains highly problematic....Specifically with respect to scientific publishing, the ability to critically evaluate a published scientific hypothesis or scientific report is contingent on the examination, analysis, evaluation - and if feasible - on the re-generation of data on which conclusions are based. It is not coincidental that in the recent 'climategate' controversies, the quality and integrity of data and their analytical treatment were central to the debate. There is recent evidence that even when scientific data are requested for evaluation they may not be available....In recent decades, the advance of computer-based technology linked to global communications networks has created the potential for broader and more consistent dissemination of scientific information and data. Yet, in this digital era, scientists and conservationists, organizations and institutions have often been slow to make data available. Community studies suggest that the withholding of data can be attributed to a lack of awareness, to a lack of technical capacity, to concerns that data should be withheld for reasons of perceived personal or organizational self interest, or to lack of adequate mechanisms for attribution....There is a clear need for institutionalization of a 'data publishing framework' that can address sociocultural, technical-infrastructural, policy, political and legal constraints, as well as addressing issues of sustainability and financial support. To address these aspects of a data publishing framework - a systematic, standard approach to the formal definition and public disclosure of data - in the context of biodiversity data, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, the single inter-governmental body most clearly mandated to undertake such an effort) convened a Data Publishing Framework Task Group. We conceive this data publishing framework as an environment conducive to ensure free and open access to world's biodiversity data. Here, we present the recommendations of that Task Group, which are intended to encourage free and open access to the worlds' biodiversity data. |
| Jobs, Innovations Follow Open-Access to Data , 12.15.2011 Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:30 AM PST trapeze.gsfc.nasa.gov "The European Commission...is planning to provide open access to all public data—geographical, statistical, meteorological, publicly-funded research data, etc. Their goal is to make data collected with taxpayer dollars easy to find, access, and re-use at little or no cost. European public sector agencies that have revised data policies to make data available for little or no cost have seen increased data use by 1,000–10,000 percent. Cost-lowering has spurned new and innovative data uses and attracted new types of data users. Open-access to geographic information —one of these key data sets— not only results in new data uses and users, but also creates jobs. As the geomatics magazine GIM International reports, “The market size and growth of the geographic information sector shows the potential of public data as an engine for job creation. The German market for geo-information in 2007 was estimated at €1.4 billion, a 50 percent increase since 2001. In the Netherlands, the geo-sector accounted for 15,000 full-time employees in 2008. Other areas such as meteorological data, legal information and business information also form the basis of steadily growing markets.” ..." |
| Landsat at AAG 2012, 03.01.2012 Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:08 AM PST landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov "Several NASA and USGS scientists gave Landsat presentations at the 2012 Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting held in New York City February 24-28th....[Bruce] Cook also described how open access to Landsat data has ushered in a new era for scientists interested in high-resolution global datasets, spawning a new wave of algorithm development and operational applications...." |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:03 AM PST nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov ". It is NASA's policy to allow public access to lunar samples from the Apollo Program by providing opportunities for as many people as possible, both in the United States and in foreign countries, to view and study Apollo lunar samples in formal and informal educational settings...." |
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