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- BOAI Forum: boaiforum messages
- WSIS Knowledge Communities: Mainstreaming the use of Open Educational Practices (OEP) will really transform education
- Secret Computer Code Threatens Science: Scientific American
- Directory of Open Access Books
| BOAI Forum: boaiforum messages Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:09 PM PDT threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk [The following bookmark was forwarded from th BOAI Forum with this additional note: Forwarding from Marianne Buehler, who added this description in a separate email: "Our survey is focused on multiple intersections that encompass a variety of sustainable activities in academic libraries, including infusing scholarly communication into the curriculum and promoting open access to research." --Peter Suber.] “Please accept this invitation to participate in the *Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability* survey. This survey explores the level of engagement of academic libraries and information studies schools in the emerging focus of educating for sustainability on university and college campuses across North America. The expected benefits associated with your involvement include creating a better understanding of the role of libraries in educating for sustainability and may also reveal some opportunities for further research. We are committed to analyzing the results and sharing key findings of this survey. We anticipate the survey will take 10-20 minutes to complete. There are no foreseeable risks associated with this survey. The confidentiality of your responses will be protected. Please share this survey with colleagues in academic libraries and LIS schools. Those who complete the survey may be entered in a random drawing at the close of the survey for the following prizes: One of ten Better World Books gift certificates valued at $20 each and one of ten Starbucks gift certificates valued at $10 each. If you wish to participate in the drawing, please provide your email address at the end of the survey. The survey closes on May 2, 2012. Please click here to take the survey ... With much appreciation ...” |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:20 PM PDT www.wsis-community.org Use the link above to access an archived debate. The debate took place using the WSIS OA Knowledge Community (WSIS KC) platform. Under the umbrella of UNESCO’s Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) the WSIS KC “ is a global, professional communities of practice network committed to supporting the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development (MDG) Goals through ICT for Development solutions.” The debate took place from October 12 - 24, 2011. The debate was moderated by Sally Johnstone and participants included Glen Moriarty (Pro), Neil Butcher (Contra), Mary Lou Forward, and Tel Amiel. A brief overview of the debate reads as follows “The Debate is being held in the framework of the OPAL project, where UNESCO is a member of the project Consortium. The OPAL project (http://www.oer-quality.org/ ) has examined the concept of open educational practices (OEP) over the last two years. In this regard, a number of instruments, including the OEP Guidelines and Registry have been developed. This debate will examine if this concept really represents a transformative evolution for teaching and learning, and if so how.” Use the tabs provided to view the full text of the opening remarks by the moderator, the guest statements, and the position statements taken by the debaters. In addition the record of audience comments and voting are also available. |
| Secret Computer Code Threatens Science: Scientific American Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:13 PM PDT www.scientificamerican.com “Modern science relies upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify success or failure. But most scientists still don't share one crucial piece of information — the source codes of the computer programs driving much of today's scientific progress. Such secrecy comes at a time when many researchers write their own source codes — human-readable instructions for how computer programs do their work — to run simulations and analyze experimental results. Now, a group of scientists is arguing for new standards that require newly published studies to make their source codes available. Otherwise, they say, the scientific method of peer review and reproducing experiments to verify results is basically broken. ‘Far too many pieces of code critical to the reproduction, peer-review and extension of scientific results never see the light of day’ said Andrew Morin, a postdoctoral fellow in the structural biology research and computing lab at Harvard University... Missing source codes mean extra headache for scientists who want to closely follow up on new studies or check for errors. Such unavailability of source codes can also lead to more bad science slipping through the cracks — unreleased and irreproducible codes played a part in a Duke University case that led to study retractions, scientist resignations and canceled clinical drug trials for lung and breast cancer in 2010. But of the 20 most-cited science journals in 2010, only three require computer source codes to be made available upon publication. Morin and six colleagues from universities across the U.S. proposed making such policies universal in a policy forum paper that appears in today's (April 12) issue of the Journal Science (Science is one of the three top journals that require the availability of source codes). Public funding or policy-setting agencies should throw their weight behind the idea of sharing source codes openly, researchers said. They also proposed that research institutions and universities should use open-source software licenses to allow for source-code sharing while protecting the commercial rights to possible innovation spinoffs from research. ‘The encouraging thing is that all of the proposals we have made have already been implemented by various journals, funding agencies and research institutions in one form or another — so there is not a lot of innovation required,’ Morin told InnovationNewsDaily. Many scientists have learned to write computer code without formal training, and so they may simply not know of the open-source software culture of sharing such codes, Morin and his colleagues said. Others may simply be embarrassed by the "ugly" code they write for their own research. But even one-off computer code scripts written for a single study should undergo examination and peer review, Morin said. He has often ended up sharing, reusing or adapting code he had originally written with the intention of a single use. ‘If I knew there was a publication requirement for my code, I probably would have done things like comment it better, kept better track of it, and generally put a bit more thought and effort into my code — which would have certainly helped me and others later on when I inevitably tried to reuse or share it, even if just with others in my own research group,’ Morin said.” |
| Directory of Open Access Books Posted: 15 Apr 2012 07:43 AM PDT |
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