Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Artifact
- Open Access, virtual science libraries, geospatial analysis and other complementary information and communications technology...assets to address development issues, with particular attention to education; Report to the Secretary-General of the UN
- Adoption of CERIF in UK HEIs – report just published | Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN
- Open Science - Download free content from Oxford University on iTunes
- Transparency Life Sciences
- "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Re" by James L. Mullins, Catherine Murray-Rust et al.
- Times Higher Education - Sandwiches are us
- Not sure what to make of this new "Datasets.Com" effort from Hindawi
- Introduction to the Altmetric Explorer on Vimeo
- Nature News Blog: UK research funders suggest liberated open-access policy : Nature News Blog
| Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:47 AM PDT scholarworks.iu.edu "Artifact is an international research journal about design....On 6 December 2011, Artifact was relaunched as an Open-Access journal. Artifact premiered in 2007 as a print medium. The initiative to relaunch was taken by the Danish Centre for Design Research...." |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:42 AM PDT www.un.org "This report provides an overview of how open access, virtual science libraries, and geographic information systems (GIS) could be harnessed to address development challenges, especially in the area of education. It contains recommendations for consideration by national governments and the international community, with a view to encouraging and expanding further development and adoption of these ICT assets." |
| Adoption of CERIF in UK HEIs – report just published | Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:08 PM PDT isc.ukoln.ac.uk “Adoption of CERIF [Common European Research Information Format] in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study by Rosemary Russell of UKOLN [United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking] ISC has just been published and is available in PDF and Word formats. The study documents the extent of adoption and engagement with CERIF in UK Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in late 2011/early 2012. 51 institutions in the UK are using CERIF Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), indicating a 30.7% adoption of CERIF. All institutions are using commercial CERIF CRIS with one exception. The current market leader in the UK is Pure from Atira (based in Denmark), which has 19 university installations (other systems being used are CONVERIS and Symplectic Elements). However despite the widespread use of CERIF as an underlying standard, many institutions are not engaging with CERIF directly. Staff find CERIF complex and rely on external expertise from CRIS vendors and UK user groups; only institutions involved in JISC projects are properly engaging with CERIF. Many staff are keen to engage more – this is likely to happen as local CRIS implementations are completed and institutions are able to start exploiting the many efficiency benefits offered by CERIF.” |
| Open Science - Download free content from Oxford University on iTunes Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:13 PM PDT itunes.apple.com [Use the link above to access the podcast from iTunesU] “Description In this series of podcasts we consider the impact of opening up science: allowing both the research community and the public to freely access the results of scientific work. Individuals can be fully informed about medical or environmental research, students worldwide can get access to the latest work, and software agents can roam the vast scientific knowledge base seeking patterns and correlations that no human has observed. Ultimately, it may profoundly change the way science is done.” |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:08 PM PDT transparencyls.com "Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Our goal is to develop medicines for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising drug compounds, designing studies via crowdsourced methods, and conducting those clinical studies with unmatched productivity...." |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:43 AM PDT docs.lib.purdue.edu "This report briefly presents the findings and recommendations of the "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success" project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further capacity could be built. The research described (consisting of a survey, some case studies, three workshops, and a set of further reading recommendations) was mainly conducted between October 1, 2010, and September 30, 2011. It was supported by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Libraries Studies, made to Purdue University Libraries in collaboration with the Libraries of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah...." |
| Times Higher Education - Sandwiches are us Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:24 AM PDT www.timeshighereducation.co.uk " 'A commercial breakthrough.' That was how Desmond Ponzi, the manager of our staff snack bar, The Big Hub, described the fundamental changes he is making to his current 'retailing strategy'. From now on, customers will be required to make their own sandwiches at home and then transport these to the snack bar, where Mr Ponzi and his staff will bundle them up together with a whole set of different and largely unappetising sandwiches (mango and Spam, taramasalata and marmalade) and then sell them on to other customers at an extraordinarily high price. Our reporter asked Mr Ponzi how he had hit upon such an idea. There was after all something very original about a retailing venture that required sandwich consumers to pay a great deal of money for sandwiches that Mr Ponzi had acquired for absolutely nothing from sandwich makers. Mr Ponzi conceded that the idea had not been entirely his own but had come to him 'in a flash' while he was browsing through the journals section of the university library...." |
| Not sure what to make of this new "Datasets.Com" effort from Hindawi Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:28 AM PDT phylogenomics.blogspot.com "Just got this email and I thought I would share. Not sure what to make of this effort. I do support the sharing of data sets but I think we probably do not need a whole new cadre of data journals to handle this data...." |
| Introduction to the Altmetric Explorer on Vimeo Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:17 AM PDT vimeo.com "Take a quick tour of the Altmetric Explorer, a powerful web app that allows you to explore the attention received by scholarly journals and articles online...." |
| Nature News Blog: UK research funders suggest liberated open-access policy : Nature News Blog Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:10 AM PDT blogs.nature.com "Taxpayer-funded science papers should be made free to access within six months of publication, according to a draft policy from Research Councils UK (RCUK), the umbrella body for the United Kingdom’s seven research councils (government-funded grant agencies). The papers should not only be made free to read, but should also have a liberal publishing licence (Creative Commons CC-BY), which would make their content free to text-mine or otherwise re-use, subject to proper attribution. And if necessary, scientists should spend some of their research grants — or other grants for university overheads — to pay publishers to make the work public....The suggested strategy comes after a year of discussion in Britain on how to improve access to research papers. Open-access publishing is gaining ground, helped by mandates such as those from the US National Institutes of Health and the (privately-funded) UK Wellcome Trust. In the United Kingdom, the research councils, which together spend around £2.5 billion (US$3.9 billion) of taxpayers’ money on grants each year, have since 2006 said that they would like research to be made free as soon as possible after publication. But only one, the Medical Research Council, now puts a time-stamp on that, insisting that research be made free within six months of publication. And “none of the policies are enforced 100%”, points out Mark Thorley, of the Natural Environment Research Council, who has led the RCUK discussions. A new approach began last May, when the UK science minister David Willetts announced that RCUK and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (another government-funded body, which gives universities some £1.6 billion for research annually), would work together to ensure greater open access to public research. In September, Willetts set up a working group, chaired by Janet Finch, a sociologist at Manchester University, to look at the issue. (A parallel study from the Royal Society, launched last May, is now looking at opening up scientific data). The recommendations of Finch’s working group, expected this May, will ultimately set the agenda for widening access to research findings. But in parallel, RCUK has been having its own informal discussions, talking to policy-makers, scientists, librarians and publishers, says Thorley....If publishers ask authors to pay them to make the work public (reasoning that they are losing revenue by opening up the publication to everyone), then RCUK says that the money should come from research grants or grants for university overheads. The long-term aim is that money that libraries now spend on subscribing to journals would instead be diverted towards scientists paying to make their own work open. “In the long term, it’s a zero-sum game,” says Thorley...." |
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