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- The Good, Bad, and Ugly- Open access into the sunlight
- OAPEN-UK Researcher Survey released
- My science work | Home
- Non-profit offerings: Options expand for those who find paying a problem - FT.com
- Guidelines Proposed for Content Aggregation Online - NYTimes.com
- Publishing in an open access age: preserving the scribbles, getting heard, and assuring the quality of information - Alexandrov - 2011 - Brain and Behavior - Wiley Online Library
- Clinical Epigenetics is now a fully open access journal
- Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces by David Hansen :: SSRN
- Why open science failed after the gulf oil spill
| The Good, Bad, and Ugly- Open access into the sunlight Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:13 AM PDT www.openbiomed.info, (07 Mar 2012) "JQ Johnson, Director of Scholarly Communications & Instructional Support for the University of Oregon Libraries, took a crack at a simple mash up of SCImago Journal Rankings (SJRs) with open access journals that appear in the Directory of Open Access Journals to create a list of highly cited (good) open access journals. And he also threw in a similar calculation of article influence from eigenfactor.org , the metric system from ISI Web of Science....JQ’s Tables could probably jump-start an institutional conversation on high quality and effective open access. One of his conclusions is that, with just a few exceptions, “The vast majority of highly ranked OA journals are in biomedicine.” ..." |
| OAPEN-UK Researcher Survey released Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:07 AM PDT groups.google.com "Today I [Caren Milloy] am releasing the OAPEN-UK Researcher Survey – this survey invites humanities and social science researchers to tell us about what they value in the publishing process for scholarly monographs as both authors and readers. It explores the issues of prestige, how they currently choose publishers, what they value from being published and their publisher’s services, looks at whether they would self-publish and their understanding of open access and what would be priority to them in an open access model. I welcome your assistance in disseminating the OAPEN-UK researcher survey...." |
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| Non-profit offerings: Options expand for those who find paying a problem - FT.com Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:44 AM PDT www.ft.com "High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e76e91a0-63a4-11e1-9686-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1ouEEdkpY Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides free and open access to video lectures and other materials for 35 non-credit courses taught by faculty at Yale. The OYC site had more than 3.5m unique visitors by the beginning of February 2012....High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e76e91a0-63a4-11e1-9686-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1ouEKKMXg Since 2006, the project has been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which has donated nearly $4m. Diana Kleiner, founding director of OYC, confirms that it has just received the last portion of funding that will support the service until the end of this year. “We are always looking to make the project financially scalable. We continue to attempt to bring costs down without losing quality,” she says. In December 2011, a “donate” button appeared on the OYC website with a message encouraging people to support the project. Money has been coming in. OYC has also formed a partnership with Yale University Press. The plan is to convert the transcripts from a course into a printed book and an ebook. Professors who edit the books receive royalties and a percentage of Yale University Press’ profits will be shared with OYC. There are three titles due out in spring 2012...." |
| Guidelines Proposed for Content Aggregation Online - NYTimes.com Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:43 AM PDT www.nytimes.com "So where is the line between promoting the good work of others and simply lifting it? Naughty aggregation is analogous to pornography: You know it when you see it....Two approaches to giving credit where credit belongs were announced at the South by Southwest Interactive festival here in Austin. In one instance, an ad hoc group is using a kind of trade association approach to articulate common standards. In the second, someone who makes a living by mining the Web is deploying symbols to create a common shorthand for attribution....Buckle up, here comes the Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation....On another panel in Austin, one in which I participated, Maria Popova, better known as brainpicker on Twitter, suggested that the failure to give credit was growing endemic. On Friday, she and her collaborator, the designer Kelli Anderson, announced the Curator’s Code, a site that offers a way of expressing where things come from. The Curator’s Code will use a symbol resembling a sideways S to express that a piece of content came directly from another source, and a different figure — a curved arrowlike symbol — to signal what is commonly known as a “hat tip,” or nod to a source that inspired a further thought. The Curator’s Code supplies the appropriate symbol and then the blogger or writer simply puts in a hyperlink behind it as they normally would...." |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2012 03:51 PM PDT onlinelibrary.wiley.com "With the launch of this open access, multidisciplinary journal, we offer a broad scientific community a forum for rapid publication of original contributions, covering all aspects of neurology, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry....The open access publishing model gives authors an opportunity to disseminate their results to an extremely wide audience in new ways. Authors can publicize their work knowing that readers can instantly access it without the need for institutional or personal subscriptions. Given this landscape and the fact that publishing in this digital age is evolving rapidly, it is anyone’s guess as to where we will end up in the future...." |
| Clinical Epigenetics is now a fully open access journal Posted: 11 Mar 2012 03:46 PM PDT www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "We are pleased to announce this first open access volume of Clinical Epigenetics following its transfer to BioMed Central one year after appearance of the first article in Clinical Epigenetics....The transition of Clinical Epigenetics to an open access publishing model has been made with the intention to reach out to the continuously increasing audience that expresses an interest in the field [3-6]. All articles will now be freely and universally accessible online to a much larger readership than any subscription-based journal.....The open access publishing model brings a number of considerable advantages to the journal including better inde x ing oppor tuni t i e s , immedi a t e publ i c a t ion upon acceptance and high visibility within the field. In addition, we anticipate that the number of online downloads will continuously increase, as well as the number of citations, potentially leading to a high citation impact....Authors hold the copyrights for their work and grant anyone the right to reproduce and disseminate the article, provided that it is correctly cited and no errors are introduced. In addition, the journal’s articles are deposited in widely and internationally recognized open access repositories.... Particularly in view of recurring worldwide financial and economic crises that may affect some countries more than others, it is important to us that the open access publishing model guarantees that a country’s economy will not influence its researchers’ ability to access articles because resource-poor countries (and institutions) will be able to read the same material as wealthier ones...." |
| Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces by David Hansen :: SSRN Posted: 11 Mar 2012 02:34 PM PDT papers.ssrn.com Abstract: This paper surveys a range of proposed orphan works solutions. The goal is to acquaint the reader with the wide variety of solution types, and to identify the positive and negative aspects of each. The paper discusses four general categories of proposed solutions to the orphan works problem: Remedy-limitation approaches, such as the one advocated in the 2006 U.S. Copyright office proposal, that are predicated on a user’s good-faith, reasonable search for rights holders; administrative systems, such as the one adopted in Canada, that allow users to petition a centralized copyright board to license specific reuses of orphan works; access and reuse solutions that are tailored to rely upon the existing doctrine of fair use; and extended collective licensing schemes, which permit collective management organizations ('CMOs') to license the use of works that are not necessarily owned by CMO members, but that are representative of the CMO members’ works. About this Paper: This white paper is the second in a series from the Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project, an effort organized by Berkeley Law professors Pamela Samuelson, Jason Schultz, and Jennifer Urban. The project aims to investigate copyright obstacles facing libraries and other like-minded organizations in their efforts to realize the full potential of making works available digitally. More information can be found on the project’s website. |
| Why open science failed after the gulf oil spill Posted: 11 Mar 2012 01:39 PM PDT arstechnica.com "At last month's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of science, there was an inspiring talk about how the open sharing of scientific data could provide new avenues for research. But the same session also provided a cautionary tale of all the factors that can get in the way of effective sharing of data. That talk came courtesy of Vernon Asper, a researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi....Asper said that there was a clear "truth" about the spill that everybody was interested in: how much oil was spilling into the Gulf, and at what rate. But, in the absence of any way of directly measuring it, everybody was forced into relying on indirect ways of estimating the flow. If the gulf oil spill were a situation where nobody had money riding on the final outcome, these estimates might be combined to provide a rough final number along with a sense of the uncertainty associated with that number. Unfortunately, this wasn't a case where nobody cared. According to Asper, there were three groups that had a vested interest in the final value of the amount of oil spilling out into the gulf. The companies (like BP and Halliburton) that had been drilling the well wanted the number to be small. The media, which can attract eyeballs through drama, wanted the number to be large. Scientists, in general, just wanted the actual number. Here, the scientists shared an ally in the government, which also wanted the most accurate number possible. Unfortunately, the government and scientists had different ideas about what to do with the numbers they were generating. Researchers, as is their tendency, wanted to share it through collaborations and publications. The government, however, was preparing for the inevitable court case against the companies involved, and wanted to keep the numbers it generated private until they could be used in the legal arena...." |
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