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Unravelling the true cost of publishing in open access | Jisc

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:56 AM PST

"Research Libraries UK (RLUK) estimates that the UK's universities now pay around £192m per year for access to academic journals and databases: that is nearly a tenth of the total QR budget for research funding ..."

USE AND AWARENESS OF SCHOLARLY INFORMATION RESOURCES BY DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF KARNATAKA UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:53 AM PST

"The purpose of conduct this study is to examine the awareness and usage of open
access information resources among research scholars of Karnataka University, Dharwad.
The study suggests that DOAJ is the most preferred and most frequently accessed directory of
online journals and other e sources. The article recommends that majority of the researchers
are having awareness of online resources and they are using the online resources very
effectively, even though there is a need to create some more awareness for the research
scholars in order to acquire and accessing of OA resources."

How open data will supercharge your business | Inman News

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:50 AM PST

" ... The open data movement continues to drive innovation across all industries. It will hold especially true in residential real estate for the following reasons: 1. The decision to buy, sell or rent a home is significant. Today's consumers enjoy nearly unlimited choice and are accustomed to evaluating troves of information for every product purchase decision they make. 2. Real estate is inherently subjective. The "right" conclusion is often different from situation to situation and person to person. Real estate is all about trade-offs, and house hunters spend lots of their time (and often their real estate agents' time) trying to get a handle on them. 3. Most individuals transact infrequently, and preparing them to buy or sell often involves an extended education process and survey of the market. Markets and personal preferences can change drastically between one transaction and the next — even seasoned buyers and sellers may need refreshers. 4. Listing information is just one part of the equation. It is integral to the home search and decision-making process, but is just one of many data sets that should be considered. Nuances at the city, neighborhood, block and even building level can have large effects on the way listing information is interpreted ..."

California Forward-- 2015: Open season for California open data

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:49 AM PST

"2015 should be the year for open data in California. A new crop of state lawmakers and constitutional officers, combined with activity underway in state and local governments, are pushing California closer to a 'tipping point' where the demand and use of data can truly transform the public sector. Other states – including New York, Texas, Maryland, and Utah – have all jumped on the Open Data bandwagon. In 2014, California cities, including LA and San Diego showed their commitment by hiring chief data officers. At the state level, the California Health and Human Services Agency is -growing its open data offerings, adding departments and data sets to its portal that started last year with public health data. The data-rich portal is essentially a pilot for the rest of state government.   The pioneers are demonstrating that data is a public resource that can stimulate economic investment, inform policy choices, guide public mangers to improve results and deepen citizen involvement in public decisions and community activities. And it should be pointed out that California private and nonprofit sectors are literally creating the tools of public sector innovation. Despite these advancements, California's public sector is on the trailing edge of this important development curve ..."

Press Releases - News - Stockhouse

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:12 AM PST

Open Source Health Inc. (CSE:OSH), (Frankfurt:0OS), a cloud based integrative healthcare platform that puts control into the hands of women to educate, advocate and collaborate on their own healthcare is pleased to announce its partnership with The DocGraph Journal 'DocGraph', an open source big data project that has identified all medical providers in the USA.

Exploring Open Science n°4: DNAdigest interviews Nowomics | OPEN-STEPS.org

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:10 AM PST

"This week I would like to introduce you to Richard Smith, founder and software developer of Nowomics. He kindly agreed to answer some questions for our post blog series and here it is – first hand information on Nowomics. Keep reading to find out more about this company ... 1. Could you please give us a short introduction to Nowomics (goals, interests, mission)? 'Nowomics is a free website to help life scientists keep up with the latest papers and data relevant to their research. It lets researchers 'follow' genes and keywords to build their own news feed of what's new and popular in their field. The aim is to help scientists discover the most useful information and avoid missing important journal articles, but without spending a lot of their time searching websites' ..."

University of Arizona Establishes New Medical Biorepository | KJZZ

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:05 AM PST

"The University of Arizona has many labs and biological samples scattered about it's campuses, often delaying and disorganizing samples. A new facility aims to fix that. UA announced it will build the Arizona Health Sciences Center Biorepository. A biorepository is like a bank of biological samples for research, with private and public access. Dr. David Harris of UA describes its purpose. 'To collect, process and bank and then later make available human clinical samples along with all of the information that goes along with that,' he said. Harris was appointed to establish and lead the project. He says not only will samples come to the facility, but staff will go out and get them ..."

University of Victoria announces new Honorary Resident Wikipedian - British Columbia - CBC News

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:02 AM PST

"The University of Victoria has just named its first resident Wikipedian, Christian Vandendorpe, a professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa, and a former magazine editor and author. He spoke with All Points West host Khalil Akhtar about his new position at the university ..."

New Year's Research Resolution #2 - Consider open access publishing via the GOLD route | BU Research Blog

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:58 AM PST

"Happy New Year to you all and welcome back to work! Each day this week we'll be posting a New Year's Research Resolution to help you get back into the swing of things. Today's resolution is to consider open access publishing via the GOLD route! Research shows that making your research freely available dramatically increases the number of citations and leads to more people downloading the research papers, this increasing the academic and societal impact of your research. The gold route to open access is considered at the moment to be the most sustainable method in the long term, and was recommended by the Finch report.  It involves publishing in a fully open access journal or website, or in a hybrid journal (i.e. the paper appears in the traditional print journal and is freely available online).  Authors usually need to pay for their work to be published via this route. BU has operated a central dedicated budget for open access payments via the gold route since April 2011.  The fund is open to all BU academics and PGRs, and you can find out how to apply here: BU Open Access Fund ..."

Open Access and Research at Staffordshire University | The Edge

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:54 AM PST

"This one hour workshop is being offered by librarians in Information Services' Academic Skills Know How team. It will provide an overview of the open access landscape, the University's Open Access policy and what and how to publish to the University Repository STORE with considerations for the HEFCE post 2014 REF. Included will be a demonstration of STORE and opportunities for questions and answers. It is recommend that all research active colleagues attend as well as those who are planning to undertake research. Workshops will be held on Wednesdays from 21/1/15 – 4/3/15 for each of the faculties, but you are welcome to attend any of the sessions. Please book a session by contacting Francine Bossons f.m.bossons@staffs.ac.uk and please share this invitation widely with colleagues ..."

Collabra - YouTube

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:48 AM PST

Use the link to access the video from the University of California Press.  

1/13/15, OF RECORD: Open Access Publication of the PhD Dissertation - Almanac, Vol. 61, No. 18

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:44 AM PST

"The public availability of dissertations through submission to the Penn Libraries and publication by ProQuest has long been a requirement for the PhD degree at Penn. The Graduate Council of the Faculties, in consultation with the Council of Graduate Deans, has now established a further requirement for open access publication of Penn dissertations, effective December 2015. The open access provision described below is intended to support the public dissemination of knowledge and will align our policies with those of peer universities.  The new policy has been published in the Pennbook and can be viewed at: https://provost.upenn.edu/policies/pennbook/2013/02/13/academic-rules-for-phds-and-research-master-s-degrees#p-publication Students are encouraged to discuss the benefits and implications of open access publication with their advisors. Open access publica tion of Penn dissertations has been available for nearly five years, and an increasing number of students have already chosen this option. Open access publication provides the author with a much wider audience and can help students market their ideas to potential employers. In cases where papers are in press, patents are pending, or there are other intellectual property concerns, it may be beneficial to delay (embargo) publication. Beginning in December 2015, students will be permitted to embargo the dissertation automatically for three years and may apply for an additional three-year extension with the permission of the Graduate Group Chair. Further extension of the embargo requires the approval of the Graduate Dean. To assist students in better understanding issues pertaining to open access, copyright, patents and intellectual property, the Dissertation Manual has been updated as an online guide, with links to a variety of resources at Penn and beyond. The new Dissertation Manual is online at: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/dissertation_manual Until December 2015, open access publication of the dissertation remains optional, with an automatic embargo of one year.  Questions about the policy may be sent to provost-ed@upenn.edu"

Announcing the Mozilla Science Lab Fellowship Program | The Mozilla Blog

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:42 AM PST

"With generous support from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, we are excited to announce the Mozilla Science Lab's first Open Science fellowship program. The grant is one of the first  investments by the Trust's new funding program dedicated to  collaboration, reproducibility, and infrastructure in biomedical  sciences. Our two-year, $1.7 million dollar grant builds on our existing educational work supporting skills training and capacity building for the biomedical and physical sciences. It features a fellowship program for early-career researchers focused on promoting more efficient, collaborative research and building leadership within  the community. The ten-month fellowships will include computational and data training and mentorship needed to serve as open science trainers. In addition to training, fellows will  develop new materials, tools, and projects to further science on the  web. The grant also supports curriculum design, a data training program and train-the-trainers activities for researchers, extending the Lab's existing work to provide learning pathways for researchers around open practice. The Mozilla Science Lab, an initiative of the  Mozilla Foundation, works with partners around the world to bring principles and values of the open web to advance scientific discovery. Launched in 2013, the Lab serves as a hub for the research community, providing open science skills training, mentorship and community support to build and scale a community of practitioners working  in the open. The first call for fellows goes live this spring, with an initial focus on the biomedical and physical/natural sciences. Join our mailing list for more information or visit us at mozillascience.org. You can also read more about today's announcement on the Science Lab's blog ..."

Announcing new support to build capacity for Open Science | Mozilla Science Lab

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:32 AM PST

"We launched the Mozilla Science Lab 18 months ago to explore how the principles and values of the open web could advance scientific discovery. We've made significant progress in recent years in building awareness and tools for "open science", but we're still facing gaps in training, implementation and scale. Since our launch, we've been working to meet researchers where they are and provide open science skills training, mentorship and community support to build and scale a community of practitioners working in the open. Through a collaboration with Software Carpentry, an open source project that runs computational skills workshops for researchers, we've reached over 4,900 researchers and librarians, run over 130 events, and onboarded over 200 volunteer instructors to help run workshops globally in the past year alone. Teaching 4,900 researchers is no small task, and we're extremely grateful to the dedication, passion and time contributed by the network of volunteer instructors and others involved in supporting those training activities worldwide. But there is so much more opportunity for impact when it comes to hitting the scale and growth needed for systemic and lasting change in the sciences.  With new support from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable  Trust, we're excited to announce a new fellowship program for Open Science training for early-career researchers. This two-year, $1.76  million dollar grant will build on the our existing educational work to  explore skills training and capacity building for the biomedical and  physical sciences. The grant is one of the first investments by the Trust, part of a new funding program announced today dedicated to  collaboration, reproducibility and infrastructure in biomedical  sciences. (More in their press release here.) ..."

Should journals pay peer reviewers $50 per hour?

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:26 AM PST

"The journal Nature has hosted, in effect, a year-long sporadic conversation about the status and prospects of peer review in the digital age. The most recent contribution frankly advocates paying reviewers, and suggests a pay rate. In a 23 January 2014 letter, Dan Graur of the University of Houston's department of biology and biochemistry, who has served as associate editor of several refereed journals, charged that "the biggest consumers of peer review seem to contribute the least to the process." He proposed that "journals should ask senior authors to provide evidence of their contribution to peer review as a condition for considering their manuscripts." Whether or not Graur meant his phrase "contribution to peer review" broadly, among the thoughts offered in nearly a dozen online comments was the proposition that senior authors often contribute in other ways, closely related to the reviewing of papers. A month later, a letter citing Graur from Sascha Ott and Daniel Hebenstreit of the systems biology center at the University of Warwick, UK, proposed that peer review be made subject to market forces. Instead of following Graur's suggestion for corralling more peer reviewers, scientists could supplement their salaries by becoming professional reviewers part time ... Now, in Nature's 8 January edition, a letter citing Ott, Hebenstreit, and Arns has appeared from University of Toronto professor and biomedical researcher Eleftherios P. Diamandis. He attaches a possible number to the free-market remuneration idea: 'say, US$50 per hour.' He continues ..."

Save the Date: Fair Use Week 2015 to Be Celebrated in February | Association of Research Libraries® | ARL®

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:18 AM PST

"Mark your calendars! Fair Use Week 2015—a community celebration of fair use coordinated by the Association of Research Libraries—will take place February 23–27 ... Fair Use Week is an annual celebration of the doctrine of fair use and the important role this limitation on copyright plays in achieving the Constitutional purpose of intellectual property rights: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. The flexible nature of the fair use doctrine has permitted copyright to adapt to new technologies and changes.  While Fair Use Week 2015 will be celebrated February 23–27, we believe that every week is fair use week. Indeed, fair use is employed on a daily basis by students, faculty, librarians, journalists, and all users of copyrighted material. Fair Use Week is simply a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented by fair use, celebrate successful fair use stories, and explain the doctrine ... The level of participation in Fair Use Week is entirely up to each participant. Some will have a blog post on fair use on one day during the week, while others might have events each day of the week. Below are some examples of ways to participate in Fair Use Week 2015 ..."

Universities think about boycott Elsevier - resource.wageningenur.nl

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:16 AM PST

[From Google's English] "The Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU) and Elsevier negotiating for months about embracing open access. In this system pay authors advance the costs of scientific articles and are free for everyone. In the traditional system shut down universities subscribe large journal bundles that lie behind toll gates. VSNU wants all researchers at Dutch universities are 'open' to publish in magazines Elsevier no rate hikes. Such a deal has previously been reached with Springer, though not all the details public. However succeed VSNU not to close a 2014 agreement with Elsevier. The old deal was therefore automatically extended to January 1, 2016 and the discussions now ongoing. Any boycott would consist of multiple steps, Meijer explains in NRC . Initially, scientists from Dutch universities editor or consultant at Elsevier asked to resign their positions. Then the VSNU will not call all researchers to assess longer work colleagues for Elsevier journals. Or even cease publication at this publisher ..."

Eventseer.net - Workshop on open research and practice in is

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:08 AM PST

"This full-day workshop will provide a developmental forum for participants to discuss and develop research-in-progress investigating a wide variety of "open" phenomena and practices, such as the Peer Production of Knowledge Goods (e.g. open source software, hardware, content and design; the collaborative economy and the sharing society; etc.), Collective Intelligence, Action and Resources (e.g. open innovation; the wisdom/wealth/power of crowds; social media in extreme events; citizen science; volunteer computing; crowdsourcing/funding; etc.), Open Science and Education (e.g. open data/access; publishing and data management conflicts; open teaching and learning; micro-scholarship; open peer-review; etc.) The workshop will focus on small group work, with round-table discussions of thematically linked research-in-progress, and moderated by a member of the workshop's mentoring committee. The emphasis will be on focused, pragmatic engagement to support researchers in solving the problems they are presently facing with the work (e.g. theory development, data analysis, communication of results, etc.) There will also be opportunities for broader discussion amongst the full group of workshop participants ..."

Foundation Supporting Open Science Initiatives | Science and Enterprise

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:59 AM PST

"Helmsley Charitable Trust is awarding $6.4 million in grants to three not-for-profit organizations that foster more open and collaborative science. The awards, from the foundation's Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program, support new research platforms, data management tools, and training programs. The Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program aims to support new technologies and systems that encourage more pooling of ideas and sharing of data platforms that build on existing techniques or explore new ways of working. The Helmsley Charitable Trust also supports health-related research on type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel and Crohn's disease, rural health care, and basic medical research. Funding for the foundation, based in New York, comes from the estates of the late real estate executive Harry Helmsley and his wife, hotel executive Leona Helmsley ..."

Open Science & Altmetrics Monthly Roundup (December 2014) - Impactstory blog

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:53 AM PST

"In this month's roundup: a university allegedly attempts to hire its way to the top of the rankings, NISO's altmetrics initiative enters its next phase, and seven other ways December was an interesting month for Open Science and altmetrics. Read on! ..."

German stakeholders on the advantages of Open Data | European Public Sector Information Platform

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:36 AM PST

"A number of key German stakeholders from across the field of Open Data have published a plea in the trade journal 'Kommune 21'.  In the article, Jan-Ole Beyer (Federal Ministry of the Interior), Christian Heise (Open Knowledge Foundation Germany), and Christian Herzog (researcher, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg) explain that the potential of open data can only be fulfilled if data is available right across the country.  Here are a number of key points from the article: [1] The authors point to the direct and indirect economic potential of open government data, also stating that geo-referenced data are most common until now. [2] Third parties, such as house seekers or school students, also profit from new possibilities through digitally usable data [3] Use cases opened data can be various - recent German research data induced a scientific boom; open data on the water level of major rivers is now used for civil protection apps - however, data is only available for nationally controlled rivers, not for rivers controlled by Federal states. [4] Data available in a re-usable formats can improve processes within administrations, and can produce a better data quality through the outside scrutiny. You can access the whole article (in German) by clicking here."

Lawsuit over HathiTrust Digital Library resolved | U-M Library

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:17 AM PST

"The lawsuit brought by the Author's Guild alleging copyright infringement by the University of Michigan and additional HathiTrust institutions came to a formal conclusion on January 6. Earlier federal district and appeals court rulings upheld the library's digitization and limited use of the copyrighted works in its collection. In the final court filing, parties stipulated that the defendants have and will continue to follow specific procedures required by the Copyright Act when making 'replacement copies' of digitized copyrighted works.   HathiTrust, a partnership of academic and research institutions that holds millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world, enables full-text search over the texts in its collection (including copyrighted works) and unprecedented access for users who have print disabilities. Over the course of the lawsuit, which began in the fall of 2011, a series of court decisions affirmed that these uses are lawful, non-infringing, and fall within the definition of 'fair use' (a codified right to use copyrighted works for certain purposes without the authorization of the copyright holder). HathiTrust Executive Director Mike Furlough said, 'These rulings remind us that copyright law's purpose is to promote the progress of knowledge and discovery by balancing the rights of the public and copyright holders.' Furlough also expressed gratitude for the support of many organizations and individuals, and to all of the universities named as defendants for their unwavering commitment to the principles at stake. Michigan's co-defendants were the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Cornell University ..."

One Reason to Offer Free Online Courses: Alumni Engagement - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:13 AM PST

"Conversations about the atomic bomb can go only so far among a classroom of 20-somethings. It's hard for today's students to imagine living in 1945, experiencing a world war, or, for most, serving in the military. But bring alumni—with many more years of experience to share—into the equation, and class discussions can get a lot more interesting. That's what Karen Harpp is doing in her Colgate University course 'The Advent of the Atomic Bomb'" Next semester she will offer the course for a second time as a MOOC of sorts for Colgate alumni. It is not, strictly speaking, a "massive open online course" because it is not open to the public—only to alumni and others who make special requests to join. Colgate calls its class, and others like it, 'fusion' courses. Kevin Lynch, the university's chief information officer, said they had been given the name because they are in-person courses for Colgate students with an additional online component that brings in alumni ..."

Stanford University Press Awarded $1.2 Million for the Publishing of Interactive Scholarly Works | Stanford University Libraries

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:09 AM PST

"Scholars of digital humanities and computational social sciences will soon have an academic publisher offering a validated, peer-reviewed process for their interactive scholarly research projects. Stanford University Press, with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will accelerate the integration of interactive scholarly works, usually revealed as Web sites, and new narratives enriched with digital objects and rich linking, into its publishing portfolio. Stanford University Press will undertake a digital publishing process that mirrors the rigor and consideration of book publishing. 'Adding interactive scholarly works to traditional publishing programs will lead to the next generation of university press publishing,' said Michael A. Keller, university librarian at Stanford and publisher of the Stanford University Press ..."
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