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- How to Protect Copyright Is Key Topic at Publishers' Meeting - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Open Source Paleontologist: Self-archival: a good start, but not the full solution
- Challenges in Library Management System
- Digital curation and the cloud
- Role and Challenges of Digital Repositories in Scholarly Communication
- The Case for Open Access in Tourism and Hospitality Research
- Japan and UK in agreement « Repositories Support Project
- The Energy Harvesting Open Access Data Repository Gathering Energy Information for Scientists
- Blog | @ccess | Sharing the results of scientific research
- Recommendations on RCUK OA Draft Policy
- Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students
- Research Councils UK Open Access Policy Consultation 2012: response
- Growing Green OA, Seed By Seed: Follow UK's Lead, Not OZ's Lag
| Posted: 15 Mar 2012 07:47 AM PDT chronicle.com Only the first paragraph of the article is OA. Excerpt from the full text: "Legislation is not the way to fight online piracy —at least not right now. That was the message broadcast at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers, held here on Wednesday. But the publishing executives who gathered at the McGraw-Hill headquarters in midtown Manhattan also heard that the need to protect copyright is as critical as ever, and that one challenge is to overcome the "disinformation" spread by reformers who want to loosen or do away with copyright restrictions....The recent tabling of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act was fresh in people's minds....The bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, "blew up on us after months of detailed work," said Tom Allen, the president of the publishers' association, which had supported the legislation. "We've learned a few lessons along the way." But Mr. Allen also noted a "worrisome" trend toward giving away research. (He did not refer by name to the proposed Federal Research Public Access Act, which would require that the published results of federally supported research be made publicly available no later than six months after publication.)...After "the digital tsunami" of opposition that brought down SOPA and PIPA, [Cary Sherman, the chairman and chief executive officer of the Recording Industry Association of America] said, it's hard now to imagine "just moving to legislation without first building consensus." ..." |
| The Open Source Paleontologist: Self-archival: a good start, but not the full solution Posted: 15 Mar 2012 07:40 AM PDT openpaleo.blogspot.com "We all want our work to be discovered, read and cited. There is little doubt that closed access systems hamper this - a paywall to an article is a hefty obstacle, and we all encounter them at least occasionally no matter how extensive our library access is. From an author's perspective, freely-available PDFs of their work are a major boost. In recent discussions on Twitter and in the blogosphere, I've chatted with Mike Taylor, Ross Mounce, and others about self-archival [sic] as one of many mechanisms to bring about open access. Mike's recent blog post at SV-POW! summarizes much of the discussion to date, and I thank him for helping me to crystalize my thoughts on the topic...." |
| Challenges in Library Management System Posted: 15 Mar 2012 03:07 AM PDT Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, (Feb 2012) Full (422pp) Proceedings of the National Seminar on Challenges in Library Management System (CLMS 2012), 24-25 February, 2012, Jadavpur, Kolkata. Includes invited papers, also sessions on Library as an Open System, Emerging Trends Including Knowledge Management, and others. |
| Digital curation and the cloud Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:58 AM PDT Enlighten, University of Glasgow Repository, (07 Mar 2012) This paper was prepared to inform the JISC Curation in the Cloud workshop on 7-8 March 2012. It will be updated based on the discussions and outcomes of that meeting. From the Executive Summary: There is considerable work to be done in helping institutions understand the cloud and its associated costs, risks and benefits, and how these compare to their current working methods, in order that the most beneficial uses of cloud technologies may be identified. Specific proposals, echoing recent work coordinated by EPSRC and JISC are the development of advisory, costing and brokering services to facilitate appropriate cloud deployments, the exploration of opportunities for certifying or accrediting cloud preservation providers, and the targeted publicity of outputs from pilot studies to the full range of stakeholders within the curation lifecycle, including data creators and owners, repositories, institutional IT support professionals and senior managers. |
| Role and Challenges of Digital Repositories in Scholarly Communication Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:48 AM PDT ROLE AND CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL REPOSITORIES IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology 1 (4), (03 Jan 2012) OA journal, requires registration for new users and login to access this paper. Abstract: Institutional repositories are digital collection of Institutes or university's resources which available to the users free of charge which has responded in two major factors, that is, first, it plays a role of catalyst in reforming the scholarly communication and second, in preserving the intellectual resources of the Institutes, therefore enhancing the visibility of the research and prestige of the organizations. An attempt has been made to explore institutional repositories from these perspectives and also its potentials and roles played by the various stake holders in the reforming scholarly communication process. |
| The Case for Open Access in Tourism and Hospitality Research Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:42 AM PDT Journal of Tourism and Hospitality 1 (2), (2012) Editorial: One major problem that plagues the tourism and hospitality research field these days is that the scholar community is separated from that of practitioners, and there is little knowledge transfer from the former to the latter. Practitioners largely consider tourism and hospitality research neither relevant nor timely. The traditional academic publishing model is partially to blame. The “publish or perish” model, plus the lengthy turnaround time of publication cycles, have successfully forced many scholars to focus on short-term projects and traditional research methodologies, rather than ask significant and meaningful questions lying in real industries. Many papers published will never be read by a hotel manager or a convention and visitors bureau marketer; most of the time, we scholars read and cite each other’s work in a closed circle. Open access journals will help the academic community to publish more timely and relevant research and bridge the gap between academia and industry. Journal of Tourism and Hospitality has made a laudable step in this direction. |
| Japan and UK in agreement « Repositories Support Project Posted: 14 Mar 2012 04:45 PM PDT rspproject.wordpress.com “In January, I wrote a post about my visit to the Digital Repository Federation in Japan. We wanted to formally mark the visit as the beginning of an ongoing relationship for our mutual benefit. So we agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding – we also invited UKCoRR (United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories) to be a partner. The Memorandum includes a commitment to [1] sharing experience and expertise [2] inviting and possibly sponsoring representatives from partners to participate in RSP and DRF events [3] joint efforts to seek funding and/or support... It is intended that [the MOU] forms the basis for future cooperation. The RSP [Repositories Support Project,UK] and the DRF have submitted a joint poster proposal to Open Repositories 2012 about the visit and the memorandum.” [Use the tag “oa.japan” to view the prior post referred to by the blogger] |
| The Energy Harvesting Open Access Data Repository Gathering Energy Information for Scientists Posted: 14 Mar 2012 04:40 PM PDT www.greenoptimistic.com “Imagine a Wikipedia of Energy Harvesting: free, standardized data, with continuous contributions from the community – this is The Energy Harvesting Open Access Data Repository, to be introduced at the ‘Energy Harvesting 2012’ conference. What is energy harvesting, since we’re talking? Many wireless electronic devices can be powered by collecting environmental vibrations, human motion, thermal gradients and light, in a word: energy harvesting. If such devices work on it, then they could very well fill in the place of primary batteries in low power wireless sensor nodes. They also hold a promise for the future, as implantable, wearable medical devices and other devices could become a reality thanks to energy harvesting. The idea of the database isn’t completely new: previous attempts have materialized in detailed vibration data from transport and machinery applications. However, the http://eh-network.org/data address is to receive uploads on wind, light irradiance and human body motion to make it thorough. For a more complete picture of the energy harvesting domain, we suggest you attend the ‘Energy Harvesting 2012’ event, on Wednesday,March 28 in London...” |
| Blog | @ccess | Sharing the results of scientific research Posted: 14 Mar 2012 03:43 PM PDT access.okfn.org The roots of open access and the need for sharing knowledge |
| Recommendations on RCUK OA Draft Policy Posted: 14 Mar 2012 12:00 PM PDT openaccess.eprints.org A license that formally allows more re-use rights (e.g., "Libre OA", CC-BY) is desirable, but it asks for more than just free online access ("Gratis OA") at a time when we are stiill far from having free online access. It thereby puts more constraints on authors, demands more of publishers, and makes it harder for that vast majority of institutions and funders who have not yet managed to reach consensus on adopting a Green OA self-archiving mandate to reach consensus, because of the added constraints. RCUK should strongly encourage "Lbre OA", but only "Gratis OA" (which automatically includes linking, downloading, local print-off, local storage, local data-mining, search-engine harvesting and search) should be required. The designated locus of deposit should be the fundee's own institutional repository, not an institution-external central repository. Central repositories and search engines can then harvest the metadata from the institutional repository for search for re-display. The optimal Green OA Mandate is ID/OA -- Immediate Deposit, Optional Access -- is identical to the RCUK Mandate in every respect except that it stipulates that the deposit itself must be done immediately upon acceptance for publication, rather than only after the allowable embargo period has expired. This means that users will see the metadata immediately, and can already make automated eprint requests to the author for single copies for research purposes during the embargo. Repository deposit should be officially stipulated as the sole mechanism for submitting publications for research assessment as well as for submitting publication lists for RCUK research proposals. |
| Posted: 14 Mar 2012 11:22 AM PDT Information Research 16 (4), (13 Mar 2012) From the Abstract: We examine doctoral students' awareness of and attitudes to open access forms of publication. Levels of awareness of open access and the concept of institutional repositories, publishing behaviour and perceptions of benefits and risks of open access publishing were explored. Method. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through interviews with eight doctoral students enrolled in a range of disciplines in a New Zealand university and a self-completion Web survey of 251 students. Results. While awareness of open access and repository archiving is still low, the majority of interview and survey respondents were found to be supportive of the concept of open access. The perceived benefits of enhanced exposure and potential for sharing outweigh the perceived risks. The majority of respondents were supportive of an existing mandatory thesis submission policy. |
| Research Councils UK Open Access Policy Consultation 2012: response Posted: 14 Mar 2012 09:48 AM PDT Heather Morrison, (13 Mar 2012) My comments on the RCUK draft policy. In brief: kudos on RCUK for leadership in this area; suggests strengthening language indicating permitting of embargo is temporary, goal immediate OA; suggests that to facilitate text and data-mining, requiring usable format with no licensing restrictions, but recommends against specifying CC-BY. |
| Growing Green OA, Seed By Seed: Follow UK's Lead, Not OZ's Lag Posted: 14 Mar 2012 09:07 AM PDT openaccess.eprints.org Let universities and research funders follow the UK's lead, not Australia's lag (apart from QUT!): Forget about Gold OA publishing for now and mandate the researcher keystrokes that would have given us 100% [Green] OA 20 years ago, had they only been done, unmandated, 20 years ago. The reward will not only be 100% [Green] OA at long last, putting an end to 20 years of needlessly lost research impact globally, but Gold OA at a fair price soon thereafter. |
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