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LO's 2011 Annual General Meeting Underscores Expansion and Growth Attendees traveled from far and wide to make this year’s annual general meeting in Los Angeles happen – an event marking the first opportunity of many of Lotus Outreach’s key players to meet in person. Board members, staff and supporters hailed from Colorado, northern California, Chicago, Nova Scotia, San Diego and Vancouver and India. Read more>>
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Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM: Newsletter September 2011
Liebe Quipi Tone,
(please find English text below)
Abenteuerlich und lehrreich, spannend und erzählenswert, manchmal geheim und mitunter romantisch: das sind Ihre Geschichten mit dem Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM. In den letzten zehn Jahren haben über 13.000 Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten mit dem Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM Geschichte geschrieben. Über 1.200 neue Geschichten kommen mit dem frisch entsandten Jahrgang 2011/12 in diesem farbenfrohen Herbst hinzu. An dieser Stelle: Herzlich willkommen im weltweiten Netzwerk des Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUMs. Die Erlebnisse zu teilen, macht Ihre Geschichte noch wertvoller. Haben Sie Lust, uns Ihre Geschichte zu erzählen? Wir möchten mit Ihnen das Jahrestreffen der Stipendiaten und Freunde des Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUMs feiern. Am 14. Oktober 2011 findet die Festveranstaltung zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum des Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUMs statt. Zusätzlich können Sie zum 625-jährigen Jubiläum der Universität Heidelberg in der Neuen Aula auf Entdeckungstour gehen: In einem bunten Rahmenprogramm lernen Sie die sechs Programmlinien und die Regional Chapter kennen. Erleben Sie beispielsweise mit allen Sinnen Europa, spielen Sie in stipendiatischen Filmen mit und knüpfen Sie in der Regional Chapter Lounge viele neue Kontakte.
Adventurous and informative, exciting and worth telling, sometimes secretive and occasionally romantic: your stories about the Baden-Württemberg STIPENDIUM. Over the past ten years over 13,000 holders of the Baden-Württemberg STIPENDIUM have written their stories. Over 1,200 stories have been added this colourful autumn with the brand new 2011/12 year. Let me take this opportunity to welcome you to the global network of the Baden-Württemberg STIPENDIUM. Telling others about your experiences makes your stories all the more valuable. Would you like to tell us your story? We would like to celebrate the annual meeting of the scholarship holders, alumni and friends of the Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM with you. The celebration for the tenth anniversary of the Baden-Württemberg STIPENDIUM takes place on 14th October 2011. You can also take a voyage of discovery in the Neue Aula at the University of Heidelberg: you will get to know the six programme lines and regional chapters in a varied programme of events. For example, you can learn about Europe with all of your senses, take part in films about the scholarship and make a lot of new contacts in the Regional Chapter Lounge. You don't want to miss the annual meeting? Then register by 1st October 2011 online on our website http://www.bw-stipendium.de/veranstaltungen/jahrestreffen-2011/anmeldung-jahrestreffen-2011.html.
We are looking forward to seeing you.
Best regards, Your Dr. Andreas Weber
Head of Education Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
Jahrestreffen in Heidelberg
Annual Meeting in Heidelberg
Jetzt noch schnell anmelden!
Bis zum 1. Oktober 2011 können Sie sich noch online für das diesjährige Jahrestreffen anmelden.
Unter dem Motto „10 Jahre Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM. Unendlich viele Geschichten." findet der Festakt zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum des Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUMs statt. Seit 2001 schreibt das STIPENDIUM Geschichte – mitunter sogar richtige Liebesgeschichten.
The celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM will take place under the motto "10 years of the Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM. Innumerable stories". Since 2001 the STIPENDIUM has even written some real love stories.
Mitfahrgelegenheit zum Jahrestreffen gesucht? Sie suchen noch eine Mitfahrgelegenheit zum Jahrestreffen am 14. Oktober 2011. Dann posten Sie Ihre Anfrage auf unserer Facebookseite. Weitere Informationen zum Jahrestreffen
Looking for a lift to the annual meeting? If you're still looking for a lift to the annual meeting on 14 October 2011, then post your request on our Facebook page. Further information on the annual meeting
Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM für Studierende Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM for University Students
L'art de vivre Stipendiatin Yamilia Putz will etwas bewegen! Mit ihrem Hilfsprojekt „L'art de vivre" will sie die Bildungschancen junger Menschen in Ruanda verbessern.
L'art de vivre Scholarship holder Yamilia Putz wants to move something! Her "L'Art de vivre" charity aims to improve the educational opportunities of young people in Rwanda. More about l'art de vivre
Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM "plus" Im September 2011 startete das Programm Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM „plus". Durch die Baden-Württemberg Stiftung werden damit innovative Kooperationen von baden-württembergischen Hochschulen unterstützt. Mehr Infos zu BWS plus
Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM "plus" The new program Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM "plus" started in September 2011. More about BWS plus
Coaching wirkt. Wie nachhaltig das Stipendiatentreffen 2010 in Böblingen wirkte, erlebte der Gewinner des letztjährigen Rätsels, Felix Pretschek, bei einem professionellen Karrierecoaching. Mehr zu Felix Pretscheck
Coaching works. The lasting effect of the scholarship holders' meeting in Böblingen in 2010 was experienced by the winner of last year's quiz, Felix Pretschek, in professional career coaching. More about Felix Pretschek
"Das hat meinen Horizont echt erweitert" Stipendiaten und Alumni beim Tübinger Theatersport Mehr zur Veranstaltung
"That really expanded my horizons" Scholarship holders and alumni at Tübingen theatre sports More on the event
Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM für Filmproduktion Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM for Film Production Wieder einmal ausgezeichnet! Preisregen für Studierende der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mehr zu den Preisträgern
More prizes won! Prizes rain on students at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy More on the prize-winners
Regional Chapters Regional Chapters
Termine der Regional Chapters Geocaching-Tour mit dem RC Heidelberg, Kaffeeklatsch mit dem RC Mannheim, Stammtische in Tübingen, Stuttgart und an viele weiteren Orten: Jetzt regional vernetzen. Mehr zu den Terminen der Regional Chapter
Regional Chapter dates Geocaching tour with RC Heidelberg, coffee break with RC Mannheim, regular meetings in Tübingen, Stuttgart and many other places: get networking regionally. More on the Regional Chapter schedule
Von Pforzheim bis München Es gibt zwei neue Regional Chapter. Ein bisschen Baden-Württemberg gibt es ab sofort auch in der bayrischen Landeshauptstadt und goldene Zeiten gibt es weiterhin in Pforzheim. Jetzt von Anfang an dabei sein! Mehr Infos zu den neuen Regional Chaptern
From Pforzheim to Munich There are two new Regional Chapters: You can also find a little piece of Baden-Württemberg in the Bavarian state capital and there are still golden times in Pforzheim. Be there from the very start! More information on the new Regional Chapters
Unterwegs auf dem Neckar Stocherkahnfahrt des RC Stuttgart in Tübingen Mehr zur Veranstaltung
On the Neckar RC Stuttgart punting in Tübingen More on event
Verein Association Unterwegs mit dem Verein Ab Mitte Oktober ist das neue Exkursionsprogamm des Vereins online. Mehr zu den Exkursionen
Travelling with the association The association's new excursion programme will be online from mid-October. More on the excursions
Was gibt es Neues? Das Protokoll der Mitgliederversammlung vom 27. Juni 2011 steht zum Download bereit. Mehr zum Verein
What's new? The minutes from the members' meeting on 27th June 2011 are available for downloading. More on the association
Sommer in Baden-Württemberg Das diesjährige Stipendiatentreffen der Walter-Hallstein-Stipendiaten fand am 25. August 2011 in Plochingen statt. Mehr zum Walter-Hallstein-Programm
Summer in Baden-Württemberg This year's scholarship holders' meeting for Walter-Hallstein scholarship holders took place in Plochingen on 25th August 2011. More on the Walter Hallstein Program
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"Yale has also taken steps to support open access policies. In May, Yale became the first Ivy to unveil a new policy that allows any internet user to access a catalog of millions of images from University museums, libraries and archives. The University does not restrict how these images are used...."
"The explosion of online, open access collections of ancient texts and artifacts, along with the secondary literature surrounding them, has transformed the speed and manner in which scholars of the ancient world perform their research. Among the various types of electronic resources for the study of the ancient world, open access collections of primary archaeological data—for example, the Archaeology Data Service ...and the Archaeobotanical Database... —are a particular boon for researchers, especially those for whom annual fieldwork may not always be possible, in that these collections bring large quantities of raw data directly to the researchers’ fingertips....Multi-institutional and multinational projects such as Open Context...are providing access to this primary archaeological data explicitly so that scholars and students can “easily find and reuse content created by others, which are key to advancing research and education.” ..."
"At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Because there are many different issues, both from an organizational/policy perspective, as well from a code development perspective, we ask for your input to help clarify the priority and focus. In this brief survey we are interested in identifying which challenges could and should be tackled first. Please do your best to indicate the highest priority level issues for your organization, recognizing that if everything is a priority then there may not be a clear starting point. So even if all of these issues are very important to you, please try to focus on which ones would make your life or the lives of your users and management significantly easier...."
"The movement to make research freely available got a high-profile boost this week with the news that Princeton University’s faculty has unanimously adopted an open-access policy....“Both the library and members of the faculty, principally in the sciences, have been thinking for some time that we would like to take a concrete step toward making the publications of our extraordinary faculty freely available to a much larger audience and not restricted to those who can afford to pay journal subscription fees,” said Karin Trainer, Princeton’s university librarian. She said they had encountered “no resistance at all” to the idea among faculty members...."
"During my keynote for the Zukunft Personal event in Cologne, I [Steve Wheeler] publicly announced that I would no longer publish my work in closed journals. In truth, the last time one of my papers was published in a pay-to-subscribe journal was quite some time ago. I'm not the first academic who has made this stand and hopefully I won't be the last. Many others now only publish their work in open access journals, and I intend to do the same....For a long time I have felt very strongly that some academic publishers are operating a sharp practice by exploiting the goodwill of scholars. Large groups of lecturers and researchers act as journal authors and reviewers without payment, and then the publishers sell this content on to other academics at grossly inflated prices. Other highly knowledgeable academics give up their time, also for no payment, to review and advise editors on the content, and this can be painstaking work - read this by Martin Weller on the real cost of 'free reviewing'. This is not sustainable and must change. The publishing industry should no longer be allowed to operate such cynical, profiteering business models. The content they sell has been given to them for free by exceptionally skilled academics who have spent their valuable time and energy researching and writing their reports. The price we are expected to pay to read the work of our own community is unjustifiable...."
"The success of any open-source project lies with the community contributing its collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. In the DSpace community valuable contributions come not just from our numerous volunteer developers and committers, but also a group known as the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT. The primary goals of DCAT are to help review and facilitate community discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace committer group in producing software releases...."
"Creative Commons is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Brian Fitzgerald as a new Director of the corporation and member of the Board....Many of you may be familiar with Brian, who has been the legal lead of CC Australia since 2004 and has made an outstanding contribution to the CC and broader open access communities. The adoption of CC licenses by the Australian government, in which he was critically involved, continues to be a leading example of CC implementation, particularly as data management becomes a more and more prominent issue in open access debates...."
"The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to announce that the University Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh has entered into a major partnership with PKP, furthering a commitment to the development of scholarly communication software. As a result of this agreement, the ULS will provide significant financial and in-kind support to assist with PKP’s ongoing development and support of its open source software suite—Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release in the coming year...."
"Drs. Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa are the joint recipients of the 2012 Herman Skolnik Award presented by the ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF). The award recognizes outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science and related disciplines....Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa are recognized for their continued efforts to advance the field of chemical informatics, particularly in electronic and online forms, for opening standards to facilitate first-class science, and promoting new [and open] ways to collaborate and exchange chemical data....Their work has had a huge impact in the fields of chemical document analysis, chemistry on the Internet and in the orchestration of a viable strategy for making electronic chemistry information as widely accessible and usable as possible in our information age...."
"The Pirate Party has hovered on the edge of politics for a while now, acting as a kind of gadfly to traditional parties - annoying but not able to inflict much damage. Its seats in the European Parliament have proved important in terms of raising issues and obtaining access to hitherto restricted information. But last week's events in Germany are perhaps even more significant: "The German Pirate Party has scored a massive win in the elections for the Berlin state parliament today. Two hours after the voting booths closed the first results show the Pirates achieving 9 percent of the counted votes. This translates into 15 parliament seats...." Why does that matter to the outside world - or to readers of this blog? Because the programme of the Pirate Party touches on many key topics regularly discussed in these pages. As well as copyright reform that would allow private digital copies to be made, patents would be scaled-back too, avoiding “absurd patents” in the fields of software, genes and business processes. The party supports open access to knowledge...."
The new, second edition of a (TA) book on writing textbooks offers advice on OA. "New topics include pricing solutions, market segmentation in scholarly publishing, academic self-publishing, digitization, open access, wiki-textbooks, and author-editor/ author-publisher relations...."
"Zea E-Books is the digital [and OA] imprint of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Our goal is to publish academic works (books, journals, multimedia) by scholars who are affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln or are working on research already well defined at UNL. We are a new venture, starting in the fall of 2011; however, we are also a natural outgrowth of UNL’s successful Digital Commons [UNL's institutional repository]..., an enterprise which has been publishing electronic books for five years....Your work will be available online in an open-access format. UNL Libraries is committed to maintaining permanent online access to materials in the Digital Commons....Works are published under a non-exclusive permission to publish agreement....The authors retain ownership of all rights in the work, including copyright, and may publish elsewhere without limitation...."
"The UK’s major research librarians are to intensify their pressure on publishers, funding agencies and policymakers to ensure that publicly-funded research is available in open access repositories, according to their strategic plan published earlier this week. Research Libraries UK, a network of libraries of the Russell Group universities and national libraries, has already warned journal publishers Wiley and Elsevier that they will not renew subscriptions at current prices. One of the aims of its three-year plan, published on 23 August, is “shaping ethical and effective publishing”. This includes extending “our well established commitment to support open access to research outputs”. Executive Director David Prosser said in a telephone interview with Research Fortnight Today that the group is in discussion with the Higher Education Funding Council for England to see if the rules for the Research Excellence Framework could include a requirement that papers submitted to the REF be made available in open access repositories. RLUK, he said, is also talking to research councils to see if their contracts with research grantees can be amended to ensure that all outputs are publicly available in addition to being available in a commercial journal...."
