Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Scientists, Fight For Access! | EvoEcoLab, Scientific American Blog Network
- Proposed Bill Threatens Open Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research
- DOAJ and Open J-Gate: A Comparative Study
- Boycott research on firefighters that is not Open Access
- - 8 international research funders announce the winners of the 2011 Digging into Data challenge
- Set Culture Free - Joel Poindexter - Mises Daily
- Antony Williams, Scientists Database
- More Legislative Shenanigans: Research Works Act (H.R. 3699)
- Historical British newspapers at a price
- opacmo: Release 2 of the Open Access Mortar
- Academic Productivity » Bollocks to waiting 10 years for progress
- Lobbying Spending Database - Reed Elsevier Inc, 2011 | OpenSecrets
- File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden | TorrentFreak
- “Sorry, we will only allow you to email the PDF to one researcher”….
- Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data - Slashdot
- Public Domain Day 2012: Five things we can do in the US
- The stupidity of SOPA in Scholarly Publishing
- Testing the Feasibility of OER-Course Certification | OERtest
- Open document standards mandatory in Hungary government | Joinup
- Cengage Learning VERSUS the free web and public access to research funded by the public
- Comments on IS DATA PUBLICATION THE RIGHT METAPHOR? | Open Citations and Semantic Publishing
- Research Councils UK Impact Report 2011
- Congress Considers Paywalling Science You Already Paid For | Wired Science | Wired.com
- The Tree of Life: YHGTBFKM: Ecological Society of America letter regarding #OpenAccess is disturbing
- One Scientist’s Wish List for Scientific Publishers
- In Lieu of Flowers: An Open Letter to the American Association of Cancer Research
- Why SOPA Would Be A Disaster For Scientific Publishing | Techdirt
- IRrweg Institutionelle Repositorien
- Behind the Research Works Act: Which U.S. Representatives are Receiving Cash from Reed Elsevier?
- Mendeley Open Access Update
- Help Preserve the Canadian Public Domain: Speak Out on the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations
- Twitter conversation with timoreilly
- Harvard response to the White House RFI on OA publications | Office for Scholarly Communication
- Open Access: What You Need to Know Now
- Open and transparent: the review process of the</I> Semantic Web <I>journal</I>
- Beyond mandate and repository, toward sustainable faculty self-archiving
- Call to action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a bill to block public access to publicly funded research
- Take Action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a new bill to block public access to publicly funded research
- Scientists, The White House Seeks Your Opinion On Open Access
- Research Works Act is an anti-entrepreneurial bill
| Scientists, Fight For Access! | EvoEcoLab, Scientific American Blog Network Posted: 07 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST blogs.scientificamerican.com "Why are some of the smartest people in the country allowing publishing companies to fleece them, their institutions and libraries, the federal government and the american taxpayers of their money? Sadly, what is occurring is not illegal, but to the average person it might sound like a fine line between fee-for-service and embezzlement of taxpayer money....Not satisfied with [the NIH policy]..., the American Association of Publisher’s, has been fighting back and curiously appear to have secured a few members of Congress in their back pocket. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) introduce HR3699, the “Research Works Act“, into Congress just before Christmas. And it not a tenuous link that Maloney and Issa both received donations from major publishing companies in 2011...." |
| Proposed Bill Threatens Open Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research Posted: 07 Jan 2012 06:27 AM PST TheBlaze.com - Stories, (07 Jan 2012) |
| DOAJ and Open J-Gate: A Comparative Study Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:45 PM PST informindia.co.in I can't insert an excerpt because J-Gate disabled cutting/pasting on this page. (Why?) |
| Boycott research on firefighters that is not Open Access Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:43 PM PST wildfiretoday.com "We all hate paying for something and then not receiving what we paid for. That is what is happening now to taxpayers who pay for government-funded research and then have no access to the findings. We have ranted about this before, and documented another example a few days ago when we discovered that it will cost us $41 to obtain a copy of the findings from research conducted by the University of Georgia. Associate Professor Luke Naeher and others found that lung function decreases for firefighters who work on prescribed fires for multiple days and are exposed to smoke. Further, it showed that respiratory functions slowly declined over a 10-week season....There is no reason for firefighters to go to extreme lengths to help researchers advance the researcher’s career paths unless the firefighters can receive some benefits from the project....Here is what we [Wildfire Today] are proposing: [1] Firefighters, administrators, and land managers should not cooperate with researchers unless they can be assured that findings from the research will be available to the public at no charge immediately following the publication of the findings, or very shortly thereafter. [2] Researchers should conform to the principles of Open Access. [3] Scientists who assist in the peer review process for conferences or journals should pledge to only do so only if the accepted publications are made available to the public at no charge via the internet...." |
| - 8 international research funders announce the winners of the 2011 Digging into Data challenge Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:39 PM PST www.firstscience.com "Analysing 600 years of music, drilling down into population databases, understanding social unrest through digitised newspapers – these are just some of the new lines of research that the winners of the second Digging into Data Challenge will now undertake as part of an international competition that promotes innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Funded by eight international research organisations from four countries the successful 14 teams announced today involve a mixed group of researchers from the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States and will receive grants of over £3 million in total to investigate how computational techniques typically applied to the sciences can also be applied to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research...." |
| Set Culture Free - Joel Poindexter - Mises Daily Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:36 PM PST mises.org "Recently Salon featured an interview with author Robert Levine, entitled "Does culture really want to be free?" Levine has written a new book, Free Ride, on the subject of intellectual property (IP). His subtitle is How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, the thesis of which is predicated on a misunderstanding of property rights and a poor grasp of economics...." |
| Antony Williams, Scientists Database Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST www.slideshare.net "This presentation provides an overview of ScientistsDB, a database of scientists based on MediaWiki that integrates Wikipedia articles about scientists and also allows community contribution of article...." |
| More Legislative Shenanigans: Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:25 PM PST MPublishing, (05 Jan 2012) "In case SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, hasn’t given you enough heartburn, here’s another development on the legislative horizon to be concerned about–H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act. The Association of American Publishers has provided a summary of what they hope the bill will accomplish, which is a frightening read for those of us committed to the principles of Open Access. It appears that H.R. 3699 would seriously threaten public access to federally funded research and deal a critical blow to the Open Access movement, which has been buoyed by exactly the kind of activity H.R. 3699 seeks to curtail in the AAP’s view, namely public access mandates and the development of repositories for publicly funded research...." |
| Historical British newspapers at a price Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:21 PM PST Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog, (03 Jan 2012) "In the midst of all activities around Christmas the British Library has launched a massive digital collection, the British Newspaper Archive. You might think that in 2012 I would have found a message about its launch in a tweet, but I stumbled upon it without using the digital tool for this virtual activity. Within a minute it became crystal clear that you can have here “history at your finger tips” as the blurb on the site puts it, depending of course on your specific search, but then the signs appear that you have to pay to view the contents you have just found. As for the search possibilities, the advanced search mode should satisfy the most exacting scholars. The free trial is very meagre, just a few pages, so you might grudgingly decide not everything valuable comes free. You have to pay to use this wonderful Christmas present to its full extent...." |
| opacmo: Release 2 of the Open Access Mortar Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:04 PM PST Joachim's Blog, (05 Jan 2012) "In July 2011 I [Joachim Baran] introduced the Open Access Mortar — www.opacmo.org — that supports biologists, physicists and life science researchers to search for publications linked to biological entities as well as to provide an entity-centred fingerprints of publications in the broader research context. The latest release 2 of opacmo links publications to genes, species, diseases, chemical entities, cellular components, biological processes and molecular functions. This blog post gives an update of opacmo’s current state and I highlight its further development plans...." |
| Academic Productivity » Bollocks to waiting 10 years for progress Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:59 PM PST www.academicproductivity.com "Imagine real time discussions about science you did yesterday, not last year when you first submitted your paper...." |
| Lobbying Spending Database - Reed Elsevier Inc, 2011 | OpenSecrets Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:43 PM PST www.opensecrets.org "Total Lobbying Expenditures [for Reed Elsevier in 2011]: $1,150,000." |
| File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden | TorrentFreak Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST torrentfreak.com "Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism – which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing...." |
| “Sorry, we will only allow you to email the PDF to one researcher”…. Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:29 PM PST |
| Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data - Slashdot Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST interviews.slashdot.org A discussion thread at Slashdot. |
| Public Domain Day 2012: Five things we can do in the US Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST Everybody's Libraries, (01 Jan 2012) "1. Find and free newly public domain unpublished works....2. Increase worldwide availability of public domain works....3. Restore access to obscure copyrighted works from 1936 (and earlier)....4. Strengthen and sustain coalitions for reasonable copyright limits....5. Give copyrights of your own to the public domain...." |
| The stupidity of SOPA in Scholarly Publishing Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:25 PM PST cameronneylon.net "Here I wanted to point out how utterly and stupendously stupid SOPA is in the academic communication space. Nature, every Elsevier journal, and every other academic communication medium, are full of copyright violations. The couple of paragraphs of methods text or introduction that keeps being used, that chunk of supplementary information that has appeared in a number of such places, that figure that “everyone in the field uses” but no one has any idea who drew it, as well as those figures that the authors forgot that they’d signed over the copyright to some other publisher – or didn’t understand enough about copyright to realise that they had. And that’s before we get to plagiarism issues. Or the fact that legal position over the signing of copyright agreements by authors is fraught to say the least. Now of course reputable publishers have in place mechanisms by which authors sign off that they’ve done the right things so the journals are ok right? No. That’s the whole point of SOPA (and its partner in the US Senate, PIPA). It gives copyright holders or interested parties the right to take down an entire site based on it being the medium by which copyright violations are transmitted. So if someone, purely as a thought experiment you understand, crowd-sourced the identification of copyright violations in papers published by supporters of SOPA, then they could legitimately take down journal websites, like Science Direct and Nature.com. That’s right, just find the plagiarised papers, raise them as a copyright violation, and you can have the journal website shut down. This is of course, just an example of why SOPA is entirely the wrong approach to dealing with online piracy. But with supposedly technically savvy organisations lined up to support it, they should be aware of what it might cost them...." |
| Testing the Feasibility of OER-Course Certification | OERtest Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:20 PM PST www.oer-europe.net "The OERtest project is a two year (Oct. 2010 - Sep. 2012) project funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of European Commision. Its aim is to support the mainstreaming of OERs within Higher Education and to test the feasibility of assessing learning exclusively achieved through the use of Open Educational Resources...." |
| Open document standards mandatory in Hungary government | Joinup Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:19 PM PST joinup.ec.europa.eu "Hungary's public administrations will by default use open document standards for their electronic documents, as of April this year, the government ministers agreed on 23 December, and all public organisations are encouraged to move to open source office tools...." |
| Cengage Learning VERSUS the free web and public access to research funded by the public Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (06 Jan 2012) "Dear Cengage: consider this a wake-up call. Your library customers care very much about access to information and freedom of information. Please retract your support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as soon as possible, and denounce the actions of your membership association, the Association of American Publishers, in supporting the Research Works Act which, if passed, would be a significant blow to dissemination of research funded by the public in the public interest. Dear Cengage customers: note that Cengage's major competitors are not on the list of SOPA supporters or members of the Association of American Publishers. Please consider adding support for fair and balanced copyright law to your list of required criteria for acquisitions...." |
| Comments on IS DATA PUBLICATION THE RIGHT METAPHOR? | Open Citations and Semantic Publishing Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:11 PM PST opencitations.wordpress.com |
| Research Councils UK Impact Report 2011 Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:06 PM PST www.rcuk.ac.uk "As the public bodies charged with investing tax payers money in science and research, the Research Councils take seriously their responsibilities in making the outputs from this research publicly available – not just to other researchers, but also to potential users in business, Government and the public sector, as well as to the public. Each Research Council publishes comprehensive information about its own research outputs and achievements on their website. In addition there are several projects underway to enhance the accessibility of the research findings funded by the Research Councils....RCUK is playing an active in part in a new national Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings which was established in autumn 2011.The purpose of the group is to provide a means through which research funders, the research community, publishers, and libraries can examine how most effectively to expand access to quality-assured published outputs of research, and to propose a programme of action to that end...." |
| Congress Considers Paywalling Science You Already Paid For | Wired Science | Wired.com Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:09 PM PST |
| The Tree of Life: YHGTBFKM: Ecological Society of America letter regarding #OpenAccess is disturbing Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:55 AM PST phylogenomics.blogspot.com "Wow -- I am really disturbed by the letter the Ecological Society of America (ESA) has written to the White House OSTP in regard to Open Access publishing...."Publishers such as ESA have a long record of reporting, analyzing and interpreting federally funded research" OMG - seriously? Apparently ESA is doing the analyzing and reporting and interpreting. Not the scientists writing the papers. But the publisher. Seriously. This is completely ridiculous...."It is not appropriate for the federal government to expropriate the additional value publishers add to research results. " They can't be serious. This is not expropriation in any way. This is the trying to guarantee that research taxpayers have paid for - that is done by scientists that taxpayers pay the salaries of - is not then published in a way that forces the taxpayers to pay for it again....ESA is saying "Taxpayers - we want your money -but you are too stupid to understand what we are doing with it." ..." |
| One Scientist’s Wish List for Scientific Publishers Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:51 AM PST |
| In Lieu of Flowers: An Open Letter to the American Association of Cancer Research Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:50 AM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, (06 Jan 2012) "This is a call for the American Association of Cancer Research to remember your purpose: helping the millions of people around the world who suffer and die from cancer, and the doctors and researchers who dedicate their lives to helping them. Please denounce the Research Works Act, which would greatly limit dissemination of literature on cancer, and the Association of American Publishers for supporting this...." |
| Why SOPA Would Be A Disaster For Scientific Publishing | Techdirt Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:48 AM PST www.techdirt.com "One of the many dangerous aspects of SOPA/PIPA is that its backers seem to have given no thought to what the unintended consequences might be. In particular, there is no awareness that it might wreak serious damage in areas that are very distant from the core concerns of unauthorized copies of music or films – such as scientific publishing....Scientific publishers...could therefore find their own Web sites shut down repeatedly thanks to this law they are currently backing by default, since none has yet come out against SOPA. Looks like US politicans aren't the only ones who haven't really thought this through." |
| IRrweg Institutionelle Repositorien Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:29 AM PST |
| Behind the Research Works Act: Which U.S. Representatives are Receiving Cash from Reed Elsevier? Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:59 AM PST Shreds and Patches, (06 Jan 2012) |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:58 AM PST RepositoryMan, (05 Jan 2012) "In the last six months since I analysed Mendeley's contribution to Computer Science OA in June 2011, they appear to have increased their membership of that community by 37% and the ratio of full text documents to community members has increased from 0.66 to 0.71. The number of OA documents has increased by 47% to 11,757 and the number of OA active users (i.e. users who have made at least one document public through Mendeley's servers) has risen by 46% to 2,441 but still represents only 15% of the total membership of that community. Congratulations to Mendeley - their service is obviously rising in popularity and hence in significance to the community. OA analysts will note that the increase in open access documents comes from increased membership, rather than a change in behaviour of the community." |
| Help Preserve the Canadian Public Domain: Speak Out on the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:56 AM PST Michael Geist Blog, (06 Jan 2012) "[T]he Canadian government filed notice of a public consultation on December 31, 2011 on the possible Canadian entry into the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations, trade talks that could result in an extension in the term of copyright that would mean nothing new would enter the Canadian public domain until 2032 or beyond....Now is the opportunity to help preserve the public domain in Canada by speaking out against TPP copyright provisions that would extend the term of copyright or impose even stricter digital lock rules. The consultation is open until February 14, 2012...." |
| Twitter conversation with timoreilly Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:13 AM PST twitter.theinfo.org The Twitter dialog between Tim O'Reilly and Darrell Issa on the Research Works Act. |
| Harvard response to the White House RFI on OA publications | Office for Scholarly Communication Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:50 AM PST osc.hul.harvard.edu "In summary, we strongly support White House action to require and enhance public access to government-funded research. We provide our general recommendations, as well as more detailed responses to the eight particular questions that were called out in the RFI below. However, we emphasize that decisions on many of the detailed issues under discussion here and in the other responses to the RFI are secondary to the general principle of requiring public access. We endorse the view that every federal agency funding non-classified research should require free online access to the full-text, peer-reviewed results of that research as soon as possible after its publication. There are three powerful reasons to take such a step. First, taxpayers deserve access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. It is their right. Second, public access maximizes the visibility and usefulness of this research, which in turn maximizes the return on the public’s enormous investment in that research. Third, public access accelerates research and all the benefits that depend on research, from public health to economic development, manufacturing, and jobs...." |
| Open Access: What You Need to Know Now Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:37 AM PST Learned Publishing 25 (1), 76 (2012) A review of Walt Crawford's book on OA. |
| Open and transparent: the review process of the</I> Semantic Web <I>journal</I> Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:35 AM PST IOpen and transparent the review process of theI Semantic Web IjournalI Learned Publishing 25 (1), 48 (2012) Abstract: While open access is established in the world of academic publishing, open reviews are rare. The Semantic Web journal goes further than just open review by implementing an open and transparent review process in which reviews are publicly available, and the assigned editors and reviewers are known by name, and are published together with accepted manuscripts. In this article we introduce the steps to realize such a process from the conceptual design, over the implementation, a overview of the results so far, and up to lessons learned. |
| Beyond mandate and repository, toward sustainable faculty self-archiving Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:31 AM PST Learned Publishing 25 (1), 29 (2012) Abstract: Harvard's approach to deposit in their digital repository and further ways to engage faculty are described. Current approaches to self-archiving at Harvard are proving successful according to the number of participating faculty but require a high degree of mediation; a model for integrating self-archiving into the academic authoring workflow is proposed - the model has the added benefit of creating a comprehensive institutional 'view' or record of published scholarship along with other efficiencies for faculty authors. |
| Call to action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a bill to block public access to publicly funded research Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:10 AM PST Alliance for Taxpayer Access - Full Feed, (06 Jan 2012) "A new bill, The Research Works Act (H.R.3699), designed to roll back the NIH Public Access Policy and block the development of similar policies at other federal agencies, has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives....Essentially, the bill seeks to prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online. Supporters of public access need to speak out against this proposed legislation. We strongly urge you to contact these offices to express your opposition TODAY, or as soon as possible. To support you, draft letter text is included below...." |
| Take Action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a new bill to block public access to publicly funded research Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:09 AM PST SPARC - Full Feed, (06 Jan 2012) "A new bill, The Research Works Act (H.R.3699), designed to roll back the NIH Public Access Policy and block the development of similar policies at other federal agencies has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives. Co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)....Essentially, the bill seeks to prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online....Supporters of public access to the results of publicly funded research need to speak out against this proposed legislation. Contact Congress to express your opposition today, or as soon as possible...." |
| Scientists, The White House Seeks Your Opinion On Open Access Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:45 AM PST bjoern.brembs.net "Now, it's impossible to know if the following two events are related, but it sure is some strange coincidence. The internet right now is abuzz with talks about a new piece of legislation being introduced in the US, apparently threatening to prevent Open Access to publicly funded research, the Research Works Act, H.R. 3699. There is a ton of information on this proposed bill, from The Atlantic, Michael Eisen, Jonathan Eisen, Tim O'Reilly, John Dupuis or Peter Suber, Boing Boing and many more. People are writing to their representatives to try and prevent this legislation from being signed into law. And right now the deadline has been extended to answer the 'Requests for Information' (RFI) from the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on public access to publicly funded research. With these RFIs, the Obama administration is basically asking for your opinion on Open Access....[T]he publishing industry is working to stop Open Access and this is not the first time. A huge counter-movement stopped this initiative dead from the start and we need to do this again right now. A democracy works by the numbers, so now is the time to make sure Washington hears your voice. If you're in the US, contact your representatives and explain to them why the Research Works Act is a bad idea (maybe like this). No matter where you are based, answer the RFIs of the OSTP to let the White House know how important Open Access is to the entire world...." |
| Research Works Act is an anti-entrepreneurial bill Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:15 AM PST csid, (06 Jan 2012) "[C]urrent digital technology provides a real opportunity for the creative destruction of scholarly publication. This opportunity for entrepreneurship will remain, even if the Research Works Act becomes law. But some of the motivation for change in the current business model for scholarly publishing will have been removed...." |
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