Friday, January 23, 2015

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The Open Access Citation Advantage « SPARC Europe

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST

"The OpCit project has for many years kept up to date a list of studies on whether or not there is a citation advantage for Open Access articles. That project has now completed and the list is no longer being managed. SPARC Europe is pleased to maintain the list henceforth and has brought it up to date. In 2010, a summary of all the studies to date was published. This, too, has been brought up to date, and the current summary table lists all studies, some comparative details of their methodologies, and their findings. We know the OpCit project's work was highly valued and SPARC Europe is pleased to continue to capture that value for users ..."

International Science Organization Makes Research More Accessible to the Public

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:30 AM PST

"The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Wiley have announced that starting in January 2015 they will offer free online access to all AGU journal content (published from 1997 forward) in public libraries throughout California for onsite use. In addition, schools and programs that participate in AGU's Bright Students Training as Research Scientists (Bright STaRS) program—which brings middle and high school students from after-school and summer research program to the annual AGU Fall Meeting to present their research alongside the leaders of the Earth and space sciences—will be given free access. By expanding public access to this groundbreaking Earth and space science research, AGU hopes to help improve public understanding of the impact science has on the world around them and its potential to help ensure a sustainable future for us all ..."

Touch Medical Media, the Provider of Peer-reviewed, Open Access and Multimedia Content, Launch Mobile Optimised Websites Across Their Online Physician Communities

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:28 AM PST

"Touch Medical Media, the provider of peer-reviewed, open access and multimedia content from world renowned physicians, launch mobile optimised websites across four key therapy areas: Oncology, Ophthalmology, Neurology & Endocrinology. This recent development will mean enhanced exposure of Touch Medical Media's four online physician communities which host concise, open access and cutting-edge reviews and original articles, written by some of the most respected physicians in the world ..."

After the Gates Foundation Open Access Policy – Slaw

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:24 AM PST

"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has demonstrated the power of philanthropy to reshape the world. Among the many instances, an earlier one touching my own area of work, which involves research on public access to research and scholarship, has been the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, which 'is the first open-access journal devoted to the world's most neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) …affecting the world's forgotten people,'  as the journal describes itself. The launch of the journal was funded by the Gates Foundation. The pointedness of its stance matters. The Foundation enabled a new and open journal that changes the field of research ... On November 21, 2014, the Gates Foundation announced an Open Access Policy for the research that it sponsors. As of January 1st, 2015, any publications resulting from research funded by Gates must be made 'open access' and placed under a Creative Commons license (CC by 4.0).  What is path-breaking to this policy, however, is its 'two-year transition period,' in which 'publishers will be permitted to apply up to a 12 month embargo period on the accessibility of the publication and its underlying data sets.' Then, 'this embargo period will no longer be allowed after January 1, 2017.'  The Gates Foundation is declaring that this concept of publishing embargoes – intended to protect journal subscriptions – is no more than a transitional stage on the road to a state when research and its underlying data 'will be accessible and open immediately.'  The Foundation has crossed a line. It is treating open access not as a concession subject to crippling terms, but as the natural state of research. It is 'how we work,' the Foundation declares on its website ..."

Schroer: The Cost of Knowledge | The Dartmouth

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:20 AM PST

"Dartmouth is counted among the best universities in the world, so why is it failing to lead on one of the world's most pressing issues? Most of our research — and most research in America — is published behind immense paywalls that keep the American public and students and scholars in developing nations from accessing the information they need. Preventive vaccines for the Ebola virus in primates were developed 14 years ago and published in Nature, an international science journal, behind a $32 access fee. Had this information been readily available to the general public after its date of publication, a human vaccine could have potentially been researched and tested prior to 2014's Ebola crisis. The open access movement believes that if knowledge is power, then timely access to information is an issue of global justice. Open access means widespread, freely available online access to scholarly research. It might seem like we have open access at Dartmouth because when we click on 'get PDF' through the Summon system, we're usually linked immediately to the article we want. We don't have to pull out our ID cards and use our DASH accounts to pay for access to each article. That freedom, however, is superficial. Twenty citations in an essay can be equivalent to over $600 in scholarly resources. Dartmouth shells out massive amounts of money every year to purchase journal subscriptions and make sure you get the scholarly information you need. Unless you're planning on attending another research institution after Dartmouth, your inexpensive access to scholarly information might end with graduation. Open access seeks to stop rising publishing fees. These fees have become so expensive that one of the richest institutions in the world — Harvard University — announced in 2012 that it could no longer afford to pay for them. If Harvard maintains the largest endowment of any American university — nearly $32.7 billion for 2013 —  and still can't pay for scholarly information, who can? The open access movement wants to change this system by making research available to global audiences, regardless of their economic status. While groups like Open Access Nigeria have been loudly advocating the benefits of open access, Dartmouth has been whispering around its edges. Although many individual faculty and staff — especially many of our librarians — provide support for the movement, a sustained commitment to open access at the institutional level is lacking. The faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, Harvard, and several other institutions already have open access policies that allow faculty members to retain rights to their scholarly and scientific articles before they sign these rights away to publishers. These policies allow institutions to develop open access repositories of their work, which disseminate their scholarship and encourage international access to information. There are more than 700 open access repositories in the United States. Dartmouth does not have an open access policy yet. The faculty Council on the Libraries has drafted an open access policy proposal, but it was tabled at the Nov. 2014 faculty meeting amidst objections from some faculty members ..."

Scholarship@Western & Open Access: What’s in it for me? | EducationResearchAtWestern

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:07 AM PST

"Publishing in an open access repository gives your research global reach. Wide dissemination of your work can mean more citations and more impact. Getting your scholarly work published is as easy as uploading a paper to a website. Find out how Scholarship@Western can benefit you and how it can help you meet the requirements of funding agencies for open access."

University of California Doubles Down on OA | The Scientist Magazine®

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:06 AM PST

"'The University of California's publishing arm, UC Press, this week (January 20) announced plans to roll out two new open-access (OA) publishing programs that it said will 'benefit authors and the entire academic community.' The first initiative is the launch of a mega journal modeled after PLOS One, called Collabra, which will publish original research. The second initiative, dubbed Luminos, will publish scholarly monographs. Collabra will pay its peer reviewers and editors, but they have the option to pass along that money to their institutions' OA funds or back to Collabra to support the journal's article processing charge-waiver fund. 'As part of the world's greatest public research university we knew that we needed to make a significant investment to meet the changing publishing and dissemination needs of our audiences,' UC Press Director Alison Mudditt said in a statement. 'These programs have been shaped by hundreds of conversations with faculty, librarians, and other key stakeholders.'   'There's a range of drivers here, but most importantly, OA is a natural extension of the research publishing we already do and aligns well with our mission of adding visibility and impact to transformative scholarship,' Mudditt told The Scholarly Kitchen. 'As a not-for-profit organization, we are in unique position to create partially subsidized models in which we can offset the high cost of entry and share revenues with the scholarly community in ways that allow more work to be published.'"

Public Domain festival celebrating the culture that awaits us! | OKF France

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 02:02 AM PST

[From Google's English] "Edvard Munch, Aristide Maillol, Jean Giraudoux, Glenn Miller and many others have the joy and pleasure to invite you to the first festival in the public domain to be held in Paris from 16 to 31 January. Why are all these famous authors? Because their works enter the public domain on January 1, 2015. After a long period covered by copyright, they finally offer to us fully. It is customary to say that a work enters the public domain as it would fall into the limbo of oblivion ... But it would not counting the valuable contribution of new technologies. If a public domain work is scanned, far from being forgotten, it acquires a new life: everyone can rediscover, distribute or modify the soil and make a new creation. More to ask permission or to pay money. She joins and forever our common cultural heritage. But to appropriate this culture now potentially available to all, what better than a real festival? To learn, train, cultivate, to scan and create together ... To address the public domain in all its forms and from all angles. Concerts, screenings, workshops, conferences, museums, libraries, hackerspaces, high schools ... 25 events, 20 venues, 30 organizations involved 100 participants. For two weeks in Paris and its region, a rich and varied free entrance festival is for everyone ..."

Call for transparency with clinical trial data

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:59 AM PST

"The U.S. Institute of Medicine says results from human clinical trials ought to be made available to independent researchers within 18 months. This makes new drugs and their potential side-effects easier to evaluate ..."

email : Webview : News from ARL-AAU-APLU's SHARE initiative to maximize research impact

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:56 AM PST

"SHARE presented an update on our progress at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2014 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC. Tyler Walters (dean of university libraries at Virginia Tech and SHARE director), Eric Celeste (SHARE technical director), and Jeff Spies (co-founder of the Center for Open Science), described SHARE's 2014 progress and in particular the work that has been done on the Notification Service prototype. Our project briefing was to a full room and the presentation slides are available on the CNI website. One aspect of SHARE that prompted discussion at this briefing was the open nature of SHARE data. We described some of the challenges to acquiring data that we could freely share with others, which prompted some concern that our data would be available for commercial exploitation. We reiterated that our intention is that SHARE data be open to all, whether their interest is academic or commercial ..."

More than just an initiative: Tim Wisniewski on open data - Technical.ly Philly

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:45 AM PST

" ... Per a blog post authored by Wisniewski on PhillyInnovates (the Managing Director's blog), some serious strides have been made in furthering this goal. City departments released over 30 datasets in 2014, including professional service contract data and commercial energy usage data. The city published an Open Data Strategic Plan on GitHub. For a more in-depth look at Wisniewski's plans for making open data stick in Philly, check out what he told us when we caught up with him a few months ago ..."

Office of Innovation homepage � University of Ulster | Universit

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:44 AM PST

"Datactics, an Ulster University Portfolio company, is a market leader in data quality and matching software and following a recent major client win is opening its new office in Belfast City Centre. Finance Minister Simon Hamilton MLA officially opened the premises that will house the company's expanding team of software programmers and data analysts supporting clients across Europe, Asia and North America. Datactics' software manages big data (hundreds of millions of records) and helps its capital markets, healthcare, government and supply-chain customers get their data in order. It provides clients with benefits like data quality measurement, easy data scrubbing, reduced manual effort, significant cost savings as well as the creation of consistent, clear and accurate information. Datactics is the engine for a number of blue-chip data analytics solutions like NHS England's procurement system, de-duplication of customer records for a major Dublin-based bank and the standardization of client data at 40+ installations for the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) supplier Kana.   During 2014, the company established a new financial services division specializing in the areas of regulation and compliance. The firm won two major orders in the final quarter of the year with Equiniti Data Services, the identity verification and tracing provider, and CounterpartyLink, the London and New York information vendor ..."

Lake Region State College professor pens free online textbook | Grand Forks Herald

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:33 AM PST

"Lake Region State College professor pens free online textbook By Anna Burleson on Jan 21, 2015 at 6:36 p.m. Email News Alerts Lake Region State College is pushing forward with providing free online textbooks to students. Michelle Murphy, an assistant professor of biology and other pre-nursing science courses at LRSC, recently wrote and implemented her own general biology textbook ..."

Fuse open science blog: ESRC vision includes plans to promote bold new approaches to knowledge exchange

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:19 AM PST

"An ESRC grant writing workshop last week organised by Durham University gave us some insight into the ESRC's vision and priorities for 2015 / 2016.  In a helpful overview, Sally Johnson at Durham Research Office, summarised the plans, which include a continued focus on excellent research, quality, timeliness, value for money and potential impact, both in and outside academia. ESRC's vision is to support 'transformative' research, pioneer methodological and theoretical innovation, extend partnerships in priority areas and deliver new, more effective approaches to knowledge exchange. And you don't have to be a senior academic to submit, as fresh ideas from Early Career Researchers are encouraged. Proposals which include international collaboration are particularly welcomed. There's more guidance available on the ESRC website ..."

AA DMCA Survey

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:17 AM PST

"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) seriously impedes the creation of multimedia e-books. While fair use allows authors to use copyrighted footage for purposes like criticism, commentary, and education, the DMCA makes it illegal physically access digital versions of that material, such as from a DVD or video streaming websites, when that copyrighted footage is protected by encryption measures. For example, while fair use rules allows an author to use a clip from the movie 'The Artist' to highlight lighting techniques used in modern black and white movies, the DMCA makes the process of physically taking the clip from the movie illegal. As such, while the author is allowed to use the clip, they have no legal means of extracting the clip from the DVD of the movie. Fortunately, the DMCA has an exemptions process that can be used to permit individuals to access the works they need. Certain multimedia e-book authors have one now—but it's about to expire. That's why Authors Alliance and a host of authors and organizations are fighting for a new exemption that will allow multimedia e-book authors to access the clips they need from DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and digital streaming services. The Copyright Office places a heavy emphasis on stories from creators who have been harmed by the DMCA in the past or are likely to be harmed in the future. In order to show the Copyright Office how important access to encrypted media is to e-book authors, please take 3 minutes to answer the following questions. Thank you for your help in this fight to preserve our fair use rights! ..."

10. APE Conference discusses Open Access: Who should pay? | Publishers | boersenblatt.net

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:12 AM PST

"That open access to scientific information is desirable, no one questions. At the Conference Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) was discussed but who is to this open access finance deals. For the tenth time authors, publishers, librarians, research managers, representatives of the Internet economy and lawyers meet in Berlin for the International Conference Academic Publishing in Europe (APE). More than 200 participants followed the invitation of the conference leader Arnoud de Kemp in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ..."

WEBINAR: Institutional & research repositories: Characteristics, relationships and roles | Library Connect

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:09 AM PST

"Many types of institutional and research repositories exist to address different institutional needs, digital collections and research outputs. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the approaches their institutions have taken, their mandates, software and systems, and staffing. They will also look at the relationships involved: between the library and research office, institutions and publishers, and repository staff and authors."

The Green Cure for Zeno's Paralysis - Open Access Archivangelism

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:08 AM PST

All the author opinions cited by U. Utah librarian Rick Anderson in his recent UKSG squib are familiar ones, based largely on author ignorance. Their rebuttals have been known for years (e.g., the self-archiving FAQ since 2001 and even earlier in the AmSci OA Forum). Most are covered in this: Harnad, S. (2006) Opening Access by Overcoming Zeno's Paralysis, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 8. Chandos. The very same prima facie author objections would no doubt have been voiced if authors had been polled in advance on the (universal) mandate to publish or perish. Although it's unclear what his underlying motivation is, Utah librarian Rick Anderson has consistently sounded like a publisher's advocate (or subscription agent!) for years and years now, and in his UKSG squib he is simply citing the persistence of author ignorance and the status quo as evidence and justification for the persistence of author ignorance and the status quo! The remedy, of course, is effective global Green OA mandates. Green OA and Green OA mandates grow anarchically, article by article and institution/funder by institution/funder, rather than journal by journal. So journals can only be cancelled once all or almost all of their contents are accessible via Green OA — and that day arrives only when Green OA and effective Green OA mandates have become global and are generating full or almost full compliance.

The Limits of Copyright: Text and Data Mining - Creative Commons

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:04 AM PST

"Today's topic is about supporting fair use, a legal doctrine in the United States and a few other countries that permits some uses of copyrighted works without the author's permission for purposes such as parody, criticism, teaching, and news reporting. Fair use is an important check on the exclusive bundle of rights granted to authors under copyright law. Fair use is considered a "limitation and exception" to copyright. One area of particular importance within limitations and exceptions to copyright is the practice of text and data mining. Text and data mining typically consists of computers analyzing huge amounts of text or data, and has the potential to unlock huge swaths of interesting connections between textual and other types of content. Understanding these new connections can enable new research capabilities that result in novel scholarly discoveries and critical scientific breakthroughs. Because of this, text and data mining is increasingly important for scholarly research. Recently the United Kingdom enacted legislation specifically excepting noncommercial text and data mining from copyright. And as the European Commission conducts their review of EU copyright rules, some groups have called for the addition of a specific text and data mining exception. Copyright for Creativity's manifesto, released Monday, urges the European Commission to add a new exception for text and data mining, in order to support new uses of technology and user needs. Another view holds that text and data mining activities should be considered outside the purview of copyright altogether ..."

Open Science - Studium Generale Utrecht University

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:00 AM PST

[From Google's English]"'I was yesterday at a meeting open access and it went all the time but one little thing: product availability,' says sociologist Christian Bröer (UvA). That is at the very end of the research process. His ambition is the openness that is in open access, to translate into all aspects of the research process. Between all the agreements and pressed by he freed time to tell me about his new initiative: Crowd Findings . Together with students and software developers, he created several prototypes of online platforms for collaborative research. For example, to investigate the interpretation of emotions in political statements. He argues that the rigid distinction between professional and seemed to fade is 'there are lots of people who know a lot.' Social media and modern software offer an openness that makes it possible to bring together different interpretations. This gives faster results and better understanding because there is a kind of discussion. So you can harness the collective intelligence of a group of people optimally ..."

Media-Newswire.com - Press Release Distribution - PR Agency

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:58 AM PST

"A new version of an online tool created by the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will help biofuels developers gain a detailed understanding of water consumption of various types of feedstocks, aiding development of sustainable fuels that will reduce impact on limited water resources. The newest version of the Water Assessment for Transportation Energy Resources ( WATER ) was released this week, and for the first time allows biofuels manufacturers to analyze water consumption associated with use of cellulosic feedstocks such as residue left from lumber production and other wood-based resources. The new tool also provides analysis down to the county level in the U.S. for the first time ..."

Library News: Research Data Management, Open Access and REF...

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:54 AM PST

"Last week I attended two events in London related to research repositories, with a focus on research data management (RDM), open access (OA) and REF2020. These events were looking at the systems and processes that are likely to be employed by academic institutes, with support coming from EPrints which is the repository software we use at GSA, RIOXX which will enable RADAR to record additional information about OA and HEFCE who have published documentation and policies related to OA. The considerations that research staff will have to make in relation to these areas of practice were also discussed with particular reference to the submission of journal articles and conference proceedings to ones repository. Further feedback information on OA will be disseminated soon, but if you have any questions related to OA, RDM or REF, do not hesitate to contact me: Robin Burgess (r.burgess@gsa.ac.uk) ..."

Merger is ‘bad news for universities’, say librarians | News | Times Higher Education

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:45 AM PST

"Librarians have warned that the merger between Macmillan Science and Education and Springer, announced last week, could result in even higher journal prices. According to Springer's website, its nearly 3,000 journals published more than 325,000 articles in 2014. Macmillan has only about 160 journals, which, according to its press office, published some 15,000 papers. But these include the prestigious Nature series of journals. Macmillan also includes the Palgrave Macmillan publishing house. According to Stefanie Haustein, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal, Springer and Macmillan combined published 13 per cent of all papers indexed in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science between 2009 and 2013, compared with 23 per cent by Elsevier, the market leader. Phil Sykes, university librarian at the University of Liverpool, said: 'History suggests that mergers like this are bad news for universities, because they further increase the power of publishers in a market that already conspicuously lacks a competitive dynamic.' David Prosser, executive director of Research Libraries UK, pointed out that of the 15 largest publishers identified in a 2002 Office of Fair Trading report, mergers and acquisitions meant that only nine remain ..."

The HEFCE report on Open Access Monographs: some reflections

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:36 AM PST

"The environment surrounding open access to monographs was significantly advanced today by the release of a report commissioned by the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) that translates the government's higher education budget allocation into usable funds. In April 2014, HEFCE announced that eligibility to receive future funding through its "quality-related" (QR) stream would depend exclusively upon the assessment of green open access material: a mandate. Specifically, authors must deposit the accepted version of their articles at the time of acceptance (Higher Education Funding Council for England 2014, para.17–19). However, monographs 'and other-long form publications', edited collections, non-text outputs and data are all excluded from this mandate (Higher Education Funding Council for England 2014, para.14). From the rhetoric deployed by HEFCE and the UK's Research Councils, some academics have surmised that these bodies would like to mandate monographs for a future exercise; after all, why should one form be deemed different to others in their eyes when both are supported by QR funding (Evans 2014)? However, in recognition of the additional barriers (and researcher sensitivities) surrounding open access monographs, HEFCE instead opted for now to mount an investigation into the subject, the first national-level funding council investigation of its type. The investigation was led by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, an ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of London and a Distinguished Professor of History and supported by an expert reference group, of which I was a member. My opinion of the process was that Geoff was extremely fair and open in his consultations. As I'll discuss, I'm not 100% in agreement with all of his conclusions — and that's fine. As the report notes, it is not the report of the reference group, it is Geoff's report. What I am sure of, though, is that he gave a fair hearing to all sides of the argument, consulted widely on the matter and went to great lengths to understand the concerns of a broad range of stakeholders ..."

European Parliament Report Proposes Wide-Ranging Copyright Reform, Including Reduction Of EU Copyright Term | Techdirt

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:33 AM PST

"Last year, we wrote about a European Commission consultation on copyright, which revealed the vast chasm between the views of the public and those of the copyright industry. In particular, where the former wanted many aspects of copyright to change, the latter thought things were pretty good, and should be left as they were. Often such consultations are just filed away, as is currently happening with the one on corporate sovereignty. But in the case of copyright, the person appointed to write a report on what should happen next is the lone Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament, Julia Reda, and she is clearly determined to use the results of the consultation to help reform EU copyright. The draft version of her report for the European Parliament evaluating the current 2001 copyright directive turns out to be remarkably faithful to many of the Pirate Party's ideas on copyright ..."
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