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- Evolution and Future of the Knowledge Commons: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Less Developed Societies
- Publishers Oppose Bill on Scholarly Open Access
- Scholarly Communication Strategies in Latin America's Research-Intensive Universities
- Invisible institutional repositories: addressing the low indexing ratios of IRs in Google
- Why Open Education Matters
- Introducing: The World Academic Publishing
| Posted: 06 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PST Note this links directly to an undated docx draft. To be published in Knowledge Management for Development Journal. Abstract: This article addresses the emerging field of the knowledge commons in relation with the challenges of international development. It reviews the history of academic knowledge since the Enlightenment, its evolution and current trends, with the purpose of exploring the future of the knowledge commons. Assuming that knowledge is the most important resource in the twenty-first century, the intention of this article is mapping the conditions for taking advantage of this resource. Which are the barriers to access and use common pool of knowledge that is being generated currently? The supply and the demand sides of the knowledge sharing equation are reviewed to understand their particularities and trends. Particular attention is given to the demand side of this equation to identify the barriers that are preventing people from less developed countries taking full advantage of this fast growing resource. |
| Publishers Oppose Bill on Scholarly Open Access Posted: 06 Mar 2012 06:05 AM PST Inside Higher Ed, (06 Mar 2012) "The American Anthropological Association, which caught flak last month from some of its members after its executive director wrote a note to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy criticizing public access mandates, did not sign on to either letter [of opposition to FRPAA]." |
| Scholarly Communication Strategies in Latin America's Research-Intensive Universities Posted: 06 Mar 2012 05:51 AM PST SUSE Open Archive, Stanford University School of Education, (Feb 2012) In Revista Educación Superior y Sociedad (forthcoming). From the Introduction: In Latin America, the broad embrace of OA was entirely consistent, in a very timely way, with the latest of many transformations to the higher education system in the last decades. The transformations explored by many of the authors include: expanded enrolments; consolidation of the private sector (in some countries the largest provider of higher education services); acceptance of social sectors previously excluded from the universities; expansion of fields of study; expansion of graduate programs (MAs, MBAs, and PhDs); implementation of accreditation and national evaluation practices; incorporation of new forms of delivery of classes (TV, hybrid, online); and great expansion in the use of computers. These transformations were spurred on by a blend of local and global demands, needs, and environments, with this latest set of developments reflecting the impact of the digital era on scholarly communication, especially as digital technologies enable significantly greater levels of participation and distribution in this communication. The open access movement has complemented these transformations and global trends. OA is a significant player in shaping the research landscape and it is OA and OA initiatives that drive some of the transformations. This paper seeks to document some of these initiatives and how they are affecting the evaluation of research, the definition of editorial quality, and the organization of the research itself in the digital era. |
| Invisible institutional repositories: addressing the low indexing ratios of IRs in Google Posted: 05 Mar 2012 12:26 PM PST Library Hi Tech 30 (1), 60 (2012) From the abstract: "Google Scholar has difficulty indexing the contents of institutional repositories, and the authors hypothesize the reason is that most repositories use Dublin Core, which cannot express bibliographic citation information adequately for academic papers. Google Scholar makes specific recommendations for repositories, including the use of publishing industry metadata schemas over Dublin Core. This paper aims to test a theory that transforming metadata schemas in institutional repositories will lead to increased indexing by Google Scholar....The authors conducted two surveys of institutional and disciplinary repositories across the USA, using different methodologies. They also conducted three pilot projects that transformed the metadata of a subset of papers from USpace, the University of Utah's institutional repository, and examined the results of Google Scholar's explicit harvests....Repositories that use GS recommended metadata schemas and express them in HTML meta tags experienced significantly higher indexing ratios. The ease with which search engine crawlers can navigate a repository also seems to affect indexing ratio. The second and third metadata transformation pilot projects at Utah were successful, ultimately achieving an indexing ratio of greater than 90 percent...." |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2012 12:15 PM PST whyopenedmatters.org "Today Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Institute launch the Why Open Education Matters Video Competition. The competition will award cash prizes, provided by the Open Society Institute, of up to $25,000 for the best short videos that explain the use and promise of free, high-quality open educational resources and describe the benefits and opportunities these materials create for teachers, students and schools...." |
| Introducing: The World Academic Publishing Posted: 05 Mar 2012 09:10 AM PST Scholarly Open Access, (03 Mar 2012) “The newest addition to my list of questionable open-access publishers is China-based The World Academic Publishing... The publisher currently has a portfolio of seven journals, and they all began publishing in 2011. The domain name is registered to an address in Wuhan, Hubei, China, but the site itself lists a Hong Kong address... Though the publisher makes its content openly available, it does not follow practices that other open-access publishers do regarding article licensing. Authors are required to sign over copyright to the publisher,[2] and all articles bear a copyright statement... I examined several articles to see if they contain any plagiarized content, and the second one I looked at did... I am always tipped off when unidiomatic language in an article suddenly becomes idiomatic... I assume that this publisher charges author fees; however I could find no mention of them anywhere on the site. The journals do contain a good number of articles in each issue, and they are from all over the world, as are the members of the journals’ editorial boards. I will continue to monitor the progress of this new open-access publisher. Journals Published by The World Academic Publishing [1] The Communications in Information Science and Management Engineering [2] The International Journal of Energy Engineering [3] The International Journal of Environmental Protection [4] The International Journal of Multimedia Technology [5] Journal of Control Engineering and Technology [6] The International Journal of Energy Science [7] International Journal of Information Engineering...” |
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