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- Nine ways scientists can help improve science journalism
- BOAI Forum: Open Access Therapeutic and Experimental Drug Database
- Scholarly Articles For Everyone! JSTORs Register and Read Program Launches
- Accelerating Scientific Progress Through Public Availability of Research Data #aaasmtg · natnetnews · Storify
- Paywalls and Hassle Barriers: a brief word about the drag of reading papers in the journal Science
| Nine ways scientists can help improve science journalism Posted: 07 Mar 2012 06:44 AM PST Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk, (07 Mar 2012) "We propose, in no particular order, nine possible ways scientists can improve science journalism and nine possible questions for science journalists. We are calling on Guardian readers to help us triage these to the top three in each list, which will then be discussed at the upcoming Royal Institution debate on Tuesday 13 March. So please help us by commenting on our article....7. Make it public. Scientists face unrelenting pressure to publish in the most respected journals, placing much science behind paywalls. The ethical concerns this raises, especially for publicly funded science, have been underlined at length (see for example here, here, and here). We can post our articles on our websites but a coordinated move to open access publishing may require changes in government policy ...." |
| BOAI Forum: Open Access Therapeutic and Experimental Drug Database Posted: 06 Mar 2012 05:57 PM PST threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk “An announcement posted to the BOAI Forum reads as follows: “Sciclips has launched an open access therapeutic and experimental drugs database as a part of company’s initiatives for open inonvation [sic]. This database contains a list of drugs that are primarily extracted from issued patents and patent applications. Each drug types are listed based on their functionality and associated drug targets. More than 15,000 drugs are currently listed in this database...” |
| Scholarly Articles For Everyone! JSTORs Register and Read Program Launches Posted: 06 Mar 2012 05:50 PM PST INFOdocket, (05 Mar 2012) “Register and Read is an experimental program from JSTOR and features full-text content from 75 publications/40 publishers, a subset of the complete JSTOR database. It’s FREE to register for the program and then access the full text articles (max 3 items, items must remain for a minimum of 14 days). You do not need to be affiliated with a JSTOR member to register and use the service. Read and Register is available globally. Here’s a spreadsheet with a list of the journals and publishers participating in the program. More titles to come. Additional Details [from JSTOR]: [1] Register & Read follows the release of the Early Journal Content as the next step in our efforts to find sustainable ways to extend access to JSTOR, specifically to those not affiliated with participating institutions. [2] JSTORs “Register and Read” includes content from the first volume and issue published for these journals through a recent year (generally 3-5 years ago). [3] You may have up to three items on your shelf at any time, for as long as you’d like. But an item must stay on the shelf for a minimum of 14 days before it can be removed and replaced with a new item. [4] The Early Journal Content Initiative Continues...” [Additional links to JSTOR materials about Register and Read including a handout, FAQ, and getting a MyJSTOR account are provided by the blogger] |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2012 12:27 PM PST storify.com The above link connects to a Storify. Storify is described as a social media tool that “lets you curate social networks to build social stories, bringing together media scattered across the Web into a coherent narrative.” The creator describes the current Storify as “detail[ing] the online conversations around the ‘Accelerating Scientific Progress Through Public Availability of Research Data’ session at the 2012 AAAS meeting. The session was held at 8 - 9.30am on Sunday 19th February.” The Storify was generated by curating tweets made by meeting attendees and captures their view of the salient points made by each presenter. The presenters were Atul Butte (Translational Medical Discoveries Through Data Transparency and Reuse), Vernon L. Asper (Data Sharing and Access Challenges Associated with the Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Research), and Heather A. Piwowar (Costs and Benefits of Public Data Archiving). |
| Paywalls and Hassle Barriers: a brief word about the drag of reading papers in the journal Science Posted: 06 Mar 2012 12:25 PM PST bengoldacre - secondary blog, (05 Mar 2012) “We're all familiar with the problem of closed access journals, where you have to pay $30 for an article, even though the researchers who wrote the work are often publicly funded, and so on. But there's another problem thrown up by closed access journals: and that's hassle, the time cost of jumping through the hoops they erect to prevent people reading their papers. I just linked a piece in Science. Unlike most academic journals, they don't have a login link for Shibboleth or Athens, the two services commonly used to gain access to papers if you're staff or student at a university. So to use your institutions subscription - like you would for any academic publication - you have to go through the hassle of VPN'ing into your university, opening a remote desktop, starting a browser, copying and pasting the URL (which is often a hassle as you might have to "send the clipboard"). Or you can add the fiddly stuff to the URL that makes the page go through your library proxy. Or you could set up a proxy service on your machine. And so on. These are payments in time and hassle. People value their time highly, especially now, and especially, I suspect, academics. I genuinely think that this Hassle Barrier, supplementary to their paywall, will slowly contribute to an erosion of Science's impact, as it will subtly reduce peoples' inclination to read content published there...” |
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