Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Despite recommendations, FAA still not budging on mandatory bird strike reports
- Pressemitteilung: Elsevier-Boykott: Akademischer Frühling in Deutschland eher verregnet
- Diamond Sutra -- Ancient Buddhist Sanskrit Is Oldest Printed Open Access Text
- Open Access Week 2012 - October 22-28th - Let's get started! - Open Access Week
- Threat to EU transparency grows as trilogues begin on access to EU documents
- Publishers and Georgia State See Broad Implications in Copyright Ruling
| Despite recommendations, FAA still not budging on mandatory bird strike reports Posted: 16 May 2012 05:42 AM PDT news.medill.northwestern.edu "Last month the FAA announced a revised plan to lower the risk of bird strikes to aircraft through research and wildlife management. This strategy relies on database analysis and predictive models, yet fails to make reporting bird strikes mandatory – a move some experts say will hinder the effectiveness of the program....The FAA’s decision to not make bird strike reporting mandatory goes against recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board dating back to 1999....[T]he FAA drew criticism from experts and lawmakers in 2009 when it proposed a federal law to make its national bird strike database off-limits to the public....Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood chucked the FAA’s proposal and said the public had a right to the information...." |
| Pressemitteilung: Elsevier-Boykott: Akademischer Frühling in Deutschland eher verregnet Posted: 16 May 2012 04:33 AM PDT www.zbw.eu From Google's English: "An early May poll conducted ZBW about the current boycott Elsevier and Open Access makes it clear: The established system of expensive Subskriptionszeitschriften Although unpopular, but is operated primarily for lack of reasonable alternatives further....A total of 813 economists / inside participated in the survey. 8 percent of respondents had signed the Elsevier boycott. 39 percent of the scientists / inside, however, have made a conscious decision not to participate in the academic revolt. Another 8 percent were neither informed nor interested. The lion's share of respondents, however, that is 46 percent, had to start the survey on 2 May 2012 not yet heard from the Elsevier boycott....On the subject of open access 73 percent of respondents replied that they, in principle, the open-access support idea, but lack of alternatives publish mainly in classical Subskriptionszeitschriften because they often have a better reputation and better ranking feature. Only 6 percent of respondents already publish in open access journals. 6 percent of the scientists / inside the other hand, hold the open access idea is not viable to continue and continue to publish in traditional subscription journals...." |
| Diamond Sutra -- Ancient Buddhist Sanskrit Is Oldest Printed Open Access Text Posted: 15 May 2012 01:45 PM PDT www.science20.com “The Diamond Sutra is a 16-foot scroll of Buddhist texts dealing with the practice of non-abidance. A dated colophon is included, making it the first known block-printed text to carry an explicit date. Translated, the date of printing was May 11, 868 but that isn't the most fascinating part of the colophon. It reads... ‘Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 15th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong’ which makes the Diamond Sutra the oldest copyright-free work as well. Should you be at the British Museum in London (a long way from the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in Turkestan, along the Silk Road, where it was discovered) and also be an aficionado of Science 2.0, the open publication parts anyway, it has to be worth a look for that reason alone.” |
| Open Access Week 2012 - October 22-28th - Let's get started! - Open Access Week Posted: 15 May 2012 01:40 PM PDT www.openaccessweek.org “Welcome and hello from SPARC! We are looking forward to another action-packed OA Week on October 22-28th! It’s been an amazing year for Open Access across the globe so what better way to continue progress than to get inspired for your own OA Week events! Use our many downloadable files available to personalize your own events with posters, stickers, and tons of OA information. It’s also great looking back to the videos posted and how others planned their events last year! If you are new to the site, please look around. A great place to start learning about OA is with our brief OA Introduction sheet. We are working on lots of exciting things and will get back to you soon with more information.” |
| Threat to EU transparency grows as trilogues begin on access to EU documents Posted: 15 May 2012 09:32 AM PDT www.access-info.org The threat that the right of access to information from European Union bodies will be reduced moved a step closer to reality when the 27 Member States approved a document from the Danish EU Presidency which would add broad exceptions to the existing rules. The 10 May document obtained by Access Info Europe shows that the “compromise” position adopted by the ambassadors of the EU 27 includes: • Limiting and narrowing the definition of a document; • Limiting access to databases; • Adding a presumption that transparency harms legal advice coupled with a severe weakening of the public interest test; • New blanket exclusions for documents relating to investigations and documents submitted to courts by non EU actors (e.g.: private companies); • New exceptions for staff selection and awarding of contracts and grants; • Doubling of time limit for reviewing appeals; • Providing access to only some documents in the case of request for a large number of documents or a long document. |
| Publishers and Georgia State See Broad Implications in Copyright Ruling Posted: 15 May 2012 08:40 AM PDT chronicle.com The publisher plaintiffs in the closely watched lawsuit over Georgia State University's use of copyrighted material in electronic reserves say they are "disappointed" with much of the ruling handed down by a federal judge on Friday. But they made the best of it in statements issued Monday, playing up points on which the judge had agreed with them. And one plaintiff, Oxford University Press, said that the decision "marks a significant first step toward addressing the need for clarity around issues of copyright in the context of higher education." |
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