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- Can’t I just say “data available for educational and research use”?
- 5 star Open Data
- Lincoln Cars For Lease
- Volvo For Lease
- Honda For Lease
- Frontiers | Open Peer Review by a Selected-Papers Network | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
- Artists Against Copyright
- Altmetrics in the Wild: Using Social Media to Explore Scholarly Impact
- BioMed Central | Duplicate publication
- Dr. Allan Ernest Talks About What is Quantum Theory, Gravitational Quantisation and Dark Matter
| Can’t I just say “data available for educational and research use”? Posted: 24 Mar 2012 01:19 PM PDT Research Remix, (23 Mar 2012) “I’ve been having an email conversation with someone who is starting up a small new discipline-specific data repository. They hadn’t considered data licenses. I gave them an overview and the CC0 spiel (why CCZero? see here and here). A few days later they — quite reasonably! — followed up with me, essentially saying ‘that all sounds complicated. Can’t I just say ‘this data is available for academic, research, and non-profit use’? I am not sure how the commercial access would fly with a lot of the SUBJECTAREA folks.’ Here’s my response ... (I had a paragraph talking about how CC-BY (NC) might not even be appropriate for data, because data isn’t usually copyrightable… but that muddied the water more than helped. Better clear intent through standardized terms than free text sentences!)... ‘The data will have terms of use no matter what — it’s just up to you what they are and how explicitly and clearly you state them. A ‘license’ (or waiver) simply says you are doing something explicit about copyright…. useful for those who want to know how they may use your content. Explicit is better: it means people don’t have to guess. Clear is also better. To be as clear as possible, it helps to use language that someone else has already figured out (with lawyers etc) rather than what appears to be a simple sentence but may actually contain a lot of ambiguity. (what do you mean by educational? nonprofit? what about if it is a commercial educational use? etc.) If you want to prevent commercial use (or rather, require separate conversations for each commercial use), you could use CC-BY-NC. More and more people are becoming familiar with Creative Commons licenses (from open access publications, flickr photos, wikipedia, etc). Creative commons has figured out the legal language and has a nice description page that makes it really clear and explicit that you can link to. I’d strongly recommend this rather than crafting your own sentence. Many academics are hesitant about allowing unrestricted commercial use for the data they collect. I think it is a discussion worth having, however, and a key value that your data repository will bring. It isn’t truly “Open” data if it can’t be used commercially (as per all Open Access consensus statements). See this discussion (about the literature, but substitute “data mining” for “text mining” and it is the same case): http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2012-March/001466.html Especially when the data was collected with taxpayer money, a strong case can be made that the data should support economic growth… commercial use is a key part of that.’” |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 01:17 PM PDT 5stardata.info “Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and Linked Data initiator, suggested a 5 star deployment scheme for Open Data. Here, we give examples for each step of the stars and explain costs and benefits that come along with it.” Use the link above to view the infographics. |
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| Frontiers | Open Peer Review by a Selected-Papers Network | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:40 AM PDT www.frontiersin.org Abstract: A selected-papers (SP) network is a network in which researchers who read, write, and review articles subscribe to each other based on common interests. Instead of reviewing a manuscript in secret for the Editor of a journal, each reviewer simply publishes his review (typically of a paper he wishes to recommend) to his SP network subscribers. Once the SP network reviewers complete their review decisions, the authors can invite any journal editor they want to consider these reviews and initial audience size, and make a publication decision. Since all impact assessment, reviews, and revisions are complete, this decision process should be short. I show how the SP network can provide a new way of measuring impact, catalyze the emergence of new subfields, and accelerate discovery in existing fields, by providing each reader a fine-grained filter for high-impact. I present a three phase plan for building a basic SP network, and making it an effective peer review platform that can be used by journals, conferences, users of repositories such as arXiv, and users of search engines such as PubMed. I show how the SP network can greatly improve review and dissemination of research articles in areas that are not well-supported by existing journals. Finally, I illustrate how the SP network concept can work well with existing publication services such as journals, conferences, arXiv, PubMed, and online citation management sites. |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:32 AM PDT OWNI.eu, (21 Mar 2012) "Throughout history artists have given up intellectual property rights over their works. In arguing for a voluntary public domain, they have contributed to the project of rethinking copyright in the digital age...." |
| Altmetrics in the Wild: Using Social Media to Explore Scholarly Impact Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:27 AM PDT arxiv.org Abstract: In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. This study explores the properties of these social media-based metrics or "altmetrics," sampling 24,331 articles published by the Public Library of Science. We find that that different indicators vary greatly in activity. Around 5% of sampled articles are cited in Wikipedia, while close to 80% have been included in at least one Mendeley library. There is, however, an encouraging diversity; a quarter of articles have nonzero data from five or more different sources. Correlation and factor analysis suggest citation and altmetrics indicators track related but distinct impacts, with neither able to describe the complete picture of scholarly use alone. There are moderate correlations between Mendeley and Web of Science citation, but many altmetric indicators seem to measure impact mostly orthogonal to citation. Articles cluster in ways that suggest five different impact “flavors,” capturing impacts of different types on different audiences; for instance, some articles may be heavily read and saved by scholars but seldom cited. Together, these findings encourage more research into altmetrics as complements to traditional citation measures. |
| BioMed Central | Duplicate publication Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:20 AM PDT www.biomedcentral.com "Any manuscript submitted to a BioMed Central journal must be original. The manuscript, or substantial parts of it, must not be under consideration by any other journal. In general, the manuscript should not have already been formally published in any journal or other citable form. But, if made clear and justifiable upon submission, there are several exceptions to this rule....Posting a manuscript on a pre-print server such as ArXiv or Nature Precedings is not considered to be duplicate publication. BioMed Central will also consider peer reviewing manuscripts that have been posted on an author's personal or institutional website. Material that has formed part of an academic thesis and been placed in the public domain, as per the awarding institution's guidelines, will also be considered by BioMed Central's journals. BioMed Central also encourages self-archiving by authors of manuscripts accepted for publication in its journals...." |
| Dr. Allan Ernest Talks About What is Quantum Theory, Gravitational Quantisation and Dark Matter Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT InTechWeb Blog, (21 Mar 2012) "[Q:] Do you feel there are more benefits to publishing Open Access in comparison to traditional publishing? [A:] I think it is extremely important that researchers can openly share their information and findings. No university can maintain subscriptions to every journal, and it is particularly difficult for the poorer ones in underdeveloped and developing countries. Open access has the potential to enable researchers in all universities to read articles that they may not necessarily have easy access to otherwise. That must be good for research and further expanding our scientific knowledge...." |
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