Saturday, January 24, 2015

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RESOLUTION URGING THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TO ADOPT AN 2 OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS POLICY

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:53 AM PST

"RESOLUTION URGING THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TO ADOPT AN OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS POLICY"  Use the link to access the full text document.  

Publishing Choices: Evaluating Traditional and Open Access Journals - School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:47 AM PST

 "... Join Claudia Holland from the Mason Copyright Resources Office to learn about the different scholarly publishing options available ..."

Patients creating solutions for their disease | Brain Blogger

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:41 AM PST

"We live in a time of transformation in the way scientific breakthroughsare created. Or more correctly, we all feel like it is time we will be living in times in which there is a transformation in the way scientific breakthroughs are created. People are more informed then ever and the free flow of information seems like the new normal way of life. Yet still, millions of people all over the world who suffer from rare, or orphan, diseases, find themselves alone in a battle- with diseases not well understood, not well addressed, under-researched and certainly under-cured. This article is about the emergence of new tools for patients to take control over their future and  accelerate the developments of treatments and cures for their own diseases. I first learned about the possibility of patients accelerating the development of treatments for their own conditions when I met Avi Kremer. I was then a young faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania researching the brain, and within that, many topics related the ALS — a terrifying disease that destroys the motor neurons activating the muscles leading to progressive paralysis and ultimately to death typically after only 3-5 years. There is no treatment for ALS and the only approved medication, riluzole, increases a patient's life span by approximately 2-3 months on average. I knew, of course, all those terrible facts. But I had never met an ALS patient and never prioritized my own research agenda according to the needs of ALS patients or any other patients. Avi changed that. Avi was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 29 years old, while an MBA student at Harvard Business School. The gap from being an MBA student at Harvard, with the world as your oyster, to being told you have 3-5 years to live and the only advice is "to make a will" was incomprehensible to Avi, and it was not comprehendible to anyone who ever met Avi. It seemed the sort of situation that would have been reasonable in the middle ages, not in the 21st century ... With that dream, with that spirit, Avi founded Prize4Life, a non-profit organization focused exclusively on accelerating the development of treatments, and a cure, for ALS using powerful and novel incentives. Avi was joined by Shay Rishoni, an Israeli ALS patient, and also a corporate executive, pilot, military colonel (ret.) and an Iron Man. These two have created a way for patients to create a change on their own. And on the way, they also got me, and several of my colleagues. We know that what they were planning would be more impactful than what we could do ourselves, alone in the lab ... Prize models: To achieve all of that, Prize4Life adapted the prize models-identifying the greatest barriers for development and clinical testing of ALS testing, and around each such barriers creating a prize program that attracts people to solve it. Prize4Life's prize model is inspired by similar programs such as X-prize for space travel, demonstrated to foster meaningful research. These programs raise awareness and bring new minds into a field and generate measurable results for well-defined goals. Prize4Life wants to bring all these benefits to ALS – awareness, new minds and measurable, highly needed, results – prize programs where the real prize is Life ..." 

Indiana Daily Student: :: IU works to lower textbook prices

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:33 AM PST

"The average college student spent $370 on textbooks during the fall 2013 semester, according to the National 
Association of College Stores. Brad Wheeler said he is working to make textbooks cheaper for IU students. Wheeler, the IU vice president for information technology and chief information officer, updated the Bloomington Faculty Council on the use of eTextbooks and open access textbooks during a meeting Tuesday. Since 2012, professors have had the option of requiring eTextbooks in place of 
traditional textbooks. Students will no longer be responsible for ordering their textbooks. Instead, a professor that requires an eTextbook orders one for each student. Then, each student automatically receives and is billed for the eTextbook. Not only are eTextbooks cheaper than traditional textbooks, but because each student automatically receives and is billed for an eTextbook, they are also compulsory, Wheeler said. ETextbooks allow the professor to share highlights and annotations with students, project paragraphs and pages on screens and allow the student to search for key words and phrases. The IU definition of an eTextbook, Wheeler said, expands upon the traditional definition of an eTextbook ..."

Open Call for Proposals « 3rd International Open Data Conference 2015

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:30 AM PST

"We are inviting the global open data community to shape the agenda and results of the 3rd International Open Data Conference (IODC) to be held in Ottawa on May 28-29, 2015. The conference aims to take stock of the rapid evolution of the open data community and chart the future of open data around the world. We are inviting three forms of contribution that will help us shape the conference agenda and its outcomes: Call for Impact: open data initiatives driving a data revolution Call for Action: building a roadmap for the global open data community Call for Sharing: independently organized sessions and workshops This is a truly global call. To the extent possible, the conference organizers will fund participants from developing countries to take part in person in the debates. We will give priority to those participants who make substantive contributions to the agenda. Please contribute! You may submit ideas to one or more of the calls, but each submission  must be made separately. Submissions must be received no later than February 20, 2015 ..."

Librarians urge publishers: get your metadata out there, everywhere - Research Information

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:27 AM PST

"Improving the Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Academic Library Priorities and Perspectives, a Sage white paper published today, discusses new ways for members of the scholarly communications supply chain to solve discoverability issues. Sage's Lettie Conrad, executive manager of product analysis, and Elisabeth Leonard, executive market research manager, surveyed 252 librarians about resource discovery practices and priorities. Survey findings include the following: Librarians considered the highest potential for increasing discovery indexing to be mainstream search engines (Google) and in academic databases (A&I); and The library catalogue remains a priority discovery channel for librarians. Discovery issues preventing libraries from purchasing/subscribing to scholarly resources include: Lack of metadata standards compliance = 23 per cent; Lack of transparency around discoverability = 33 per cent; Lack of collaboration = 26 per cent; and Lack of metadata = 33 per cent. The biggest discoverability challenges are found with audiovisual and multimedia materials. The paper discusses how content providers can promote discoverability by 'getting their metadata out there, everywhere' ..."

The Budapest Open Access Initiative to knowledge - Geopolityka.net - Polish portal about geopolitics | Geopolityka.net - Polish portal about geopolitics

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:24 AM PST

[From Google's English] "Ten years ago, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Budapest Open Access Initiative, Boai) launched a global campaign for open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications (OA). The participants of this initiative, did not invent the idea of ​​open access, on the contrary, consciously gathered existing projects to see whether they could 'work together to reach a wider, deeper, faster success.' Boai first initiative was, however, that for this purpose use the term 'open access'. As first proposed as common definitions. Defined strategies to implement open access, generalized call for open access to cover all disciplines and countries. As a first accompanied her also significant financial support ... We are not now on the verge of a global campaign for open access, nor can we say that we finished it. We are in the middle, we have a strong position with ten years of experience, and on this basis we formulate recommendations for the next ten years ... The problems that have hampered the adoption and implementation of open access to education, are resolved and expanded. However, the model of open access to education although spreading further problems that this model is the answer, in a large area remains intact. In this declaration accepting the conclusions and send the original of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Boai) undertake to make progress. We set ourselves a new specific purpose, which in the next ten years will make open access to scientific standard method of dissemination of research findings reviewed in every discipline and in every country.  Recommendations for the next decade ..."

What you need is a landing page | TU: Librarian

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:09 AM PST

"I attended APE2015 for 75%, i.e., I missed the second afternoon, the sessions I attended got of course my full attention. My report touches upon some highlights, for full coverage, please check the recordings or slides that will be put online later ..."

Research data spring – how did we do? | Research data management

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:05 AM PST

"The first phase of research data spring concluded last week. We have received an incredible number of ideas and have been busy reviewing them. We are really excited about your dedication and the smart solutions that you have identified. In a nutshell, out of 70 ideas posted, 42 of the authors are looking for collaborators, 15 still want some feedback, and 8 need pilot volunteers. The most active contributors were Christopher Awre from University of Hull and Christopher Gutteridge from University of Southampton, with four ideas each ..."
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