Friday, January 30, 2015

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Position Description: Policy Director, AccessNow.org

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 09:36 AM PST

"Access is seeking a Policy Director to manage a broad portfolio with responsibility for Access' policy initiatives and strategic partnerships. The position is a senior management position, with multiple staff across the world, reporting to the Executive Director. Access (AccessNow.org) is a growing organization dedicated to defending and extending the digital rights of users at risk around the world. Our policy work centers on five focus areas: privacy, digital security, freedom of expression, network interference, and business and human rights. Our policy, advocacy, and technology teams have staff presences in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East/North Africa, Central Africa, North America, and Southeast Asia, to provide global support to our mission...."

Scholarly Publishing Data Analyst – California Digital Library, University of California: California Digital Library

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 09:16 AM PST

"re you a data-driven information professional passionate about transforming scholarly communication?  Do you want to understand how academic research institutions can support the shift to open access?  So do we!
The California Digital Library (CDL) has an exciting and unique opportunity for a Scholarly Publishing Data Analyst to help us model the financial implications of a shift to open access for large research-intensive universities.  We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and data-driven individual to coordinate data collection and analysis for a largescale collaborative study of new economic models of scholarly journal publishing.  Working with an outstanding cross-institutional project team  of librarians and academic researchers, the Scholarly Publishing Data Analyst will have primary responsibility for assembling expenditure and bibliometric data documenting the financial investment of large research universities in scholarly journals, to support models of how those investments might change under various open access scenarios...."

Executive Editor - Nature Communications : London, United Kingdom : Naturejobs

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 08:59 AM PST

"Nature Communications is Nature Publishing Group's flagship Open Access journal. Since its launch in 2011, the journal has grown very rapidly — it now attracts in excess of 18,500 submissions per year, and in 2014 will publish almost 3,000 papers. The journal covers a range of topics across the life sciences and physical sciences, and recently celebrated its highest impact factor to date – 10.742.
As the journal has grown so rapidly, and with the move to being fully Open Access, Nature Communications now faces different challenges as well as new opportunities. We are therefore creating an exciting new position — Executive Editor, Nature Communications — to meet the journal's evolving needs.
The newly appointed Executive Editor will lead Nature Communications through the next phase of its development. He or she will work with the editorial teams across the biological and physical sciences to create an editorial strategy for the journal, and then support an implementation plan to achieve these strategic goals. They will be the 'face' of the journal, both within NPG and externally, where they will need to be able to speak knowledgeably about its aims, scope and policies...."

Open Library of Humanities Update, Part 1: Now accepting submissions; Religious Studies and Theology editors in place | Omega Alpha | Open Access

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 05:50 AM PST

Z as in Zero: Increasing College Access and Success through Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees | Hewlett Foundation

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:48 AM PST

"The Hewlett Foundation gives nearly $8 million each year to get Open Educational Resources  (OER) into mainstream use. We believe that one of the natural consequences of widespread OER adoption will be an increase in students' educational access and success—with the average U.S. college student now spending $1200 each year on textbooks and other course materials on top of tuition, it's easy to see how those costs are hindering lower income students from attending college. And that's not all: a 2014 study by the Student Public Interest Research Group showed that a majority of college students actually base course selection decisions on textbook prices and avoid courses with expensive content. Other students simply don't purchase required textbooks or show up on the first day of class without a textbook because the cheaper used version they found online is still at the online merchant's warehouse. Amazingly, the cost of textbooks now sometimes exceeds the cost of tuition, particularly at the community colleges that have traditionally provided a lower-cost alternative (e.g., programs at Cerritos College in California). But there is light at the end of this dark textbook tunnel. Last year, faculty and administrators at Tidewater Community College (TCC) in Virginia accomplished something remarkable. Relying heavily on OER, TCC designed a curriculum that allows students to skip nearly $3700 in textbook costs and achieve a two-year degree in Business Administration. The 'Z-Degree,' as it's known, has had some incredible impacts. In the first year of Z-Degree implementation, TCC saw a significant increase in the percentage of students completing courses with a C or better, while simultaneously cutting the cost to graduate by 20-30%. TCC also saw a significant decrease in withdrawal rates among students enrolled in the Z-Degree. In a recent report, TCC administrators indicated that they are hopeful that other institutions will follow their lead: 'Tidewater intentionally developed a model that can be reproduced. All of their curriculum materials are openly available under a Creative Commons Attribution License, and there is a wealth of additional open resources available.' Indeed, several other institutions and systems are developing or have developed their own zero-textbook-cost degrees, including the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), the Virginia Community College System, the Washington State Community College System, Thomas Edison State College, and the University System of Maryland. The zero-textbook-cost degrees at institutions like TCC and NOVA represent models that other institutions can adopt or adapt to help their own students lower the costs of higher education while increasing college access and success ..."

Conclusions on Open Education at ICDE-UNESCO Policy Forum | Open Education Europa

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:46 AM PST

"The ICDE-UNESCO Policy Forum that took place in Bali, Indonesia, on 20 Nov 2014 was a high-level meeting of policy-makers and senior management in higher education institutions. The forum served two purposes: first, to inform about the ongoing consultation process for the post-2015 global education agenda, and second, to discuss how technology-enhanced learning is contributing to the future of education. The International Council for Open and Distance Education (IDCE) met on the theme of Leadership Challenges: Approaches towards Successful Open Education Models. The discussion centred on the emerging Open Education approaches and practices, enabled by new digital technologies. They focused on the opportunies such practices offer for improving students' success, making education more affordable and accessible, and providing access to flexible and lifelong learning.    The policy forum that took place following the IDCE meeting highlighted issues of equity and inclusion in education, and resulted in a set of 20 recommendations for governments, quality assurance agencies, institutions and faculty. The leaders who participated agreed that 'access to, and success in, open, online and flexible learning are key solutions to the pressing development challenges and needs of 21st century societies'.    More details about the policy forum is available here. Dowload the PDF"

OpenText Helps Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency to Digitize the Past -- WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:43 AM PST

"OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that the National Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands has implemented OpenText Discovery Suite to automatically classify and organize non-integrated, unstructured and unmanaged data. Working with OpenText, the National Cultural Heritage Agency can automatically organize millions of historical and architectural documents, creating a repository for academics and Dutch citizens. The National Cultural Heritage Agency is part of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands. The Agency currently uses OpenText Process Suite and OpenText Content Suite to manage the documents and workflows required when applying for, and granting, permits and subsidies. And, with a national government objective requiring departments to be 100% digitally accessible and available by 2017 for citizens and businesses, the Agency turned to OpenText once again ..."

LIBER | Pablo de Castro Joins LIBER as Open Access Project Officer - LIBER

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:41 AM PST

"Pablo de Castro has joined LIBER as our new Open Access Project Officer and will be leading the OpenAIRE2020 Gold Open Access Pilot. Until very recently, Pablo worked on research information workflows and management systems at GrandIR Ltd in Edinburgh, building on the previous work carried out for the UK RepositoryNet+ Project at EDINA National Data Centre (2012-13). He holds a MSC in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), has a background as Institutional Repository manager for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, 2007-2009) and as an Open Access advocate for Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M, 2009-2011). Besides being an ORCID Ambassador and having until very recently served in ORCID Technical Steering Group member, Pablo is also a member of the euroCRIS Board."

SPIE Digital Library now available to high schools, two-year colleges at no or low cost

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:38 AM PST

"One of the most extensive, widely cited digital libraries in the dynamic field of optics and photonics is now available to high school and junior college students and faculty at no or very low cost. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced today that it is making access to the complete SPIE Digital Library available to high schools for free and two-year colleges at a subsidized price ... The new program is aligned with the not-for-profit society's mission to ensure affordable access to its publications to the greatest number of researchers possible, Pepper said. SPIE also provides free or low cost SPIE Digital Library access to institutions in eligible countries through the INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) program, and to researchers in participating countries through the eJDS (electronics Journals Delivery Service) program of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).  The SPIE Digital Library contains more than 420,000 articles from SPIE journals and proceedings, as well as more than 200 eBooks. Abstracts are freely searchable, and an increasing number of full articles in the society's 10 peer-reviewed journals are published with open access. Approximately 18,000 new research papers, eBooks, and other publications are added each year ..."

New agreement with Springer: how it favours Open Access - UM - Maastricht University Library

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST

"The new agreement on the transition to Open Access reached with Springer serves to collectively buy off the article processing charges (APCs) for individual articles by all corresponding authors at institutions like Maastricht University.  The agreement with Springer applies to all articles accepted from 1 January 2015. A substantial part of the APCs for publishing have been bought off from the journals. As a result, individual researchers will no longer have to pay for Open Access publication. Details on the journal titles for which Open Access publication is possible without extra charges, and the type of articles, may be found via the chapter Agreement with the Association of Dutch Universities on Springer's website ..."

Buen Conocer / FLOK Society Summit Declaration

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:28 AM PST

Use the link to access the declaration available in both Spanish and English.  

The pursuit of Open Access | Science: Miscellaneous

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:24 AM PST

[From Google's English] "At first glance, the Open Access trivial pursuit. Thanks to the internet every scientist can make his or her articles very easily and very cheaply put on the internet. Anyone with an Internet connection can then read them. But this idea is not realistic. It completely ignores the quality scientists impose another. Want an article qualifying get scientific, it must be rated as good by recognized experts (a process called peer review) and published in a reputable scientific journal. This quality is generally seen as an indispensable part of the process of scientific publishing. If items haphazardly on the Internet are put, it is extremely difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Not only for the readers, but also for managers of research institutions and those responsible for national science policy ..."

Freely accessible publications - UT News

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:22 AM PST

[From Google's English] "The State wants to change course: in ten years, all Dutch scientific publications can be freely accessed. Because why would doctors, businessmen or teachers have to pay to read scientific articles, as the research of scientists from public funds paid? ... Dekker has a preference for the gold version of open access. 'In the green variety is often subject to long embargo periods. You then publishes a magazine and can put the article only after six months, a year or even after two years in a database. I think that is not optimal, because you only have free access to knowledge that might obsolescence' ... Yet many other countries tend to the green variety. Together with his British colleague Dekker has written a discussion paper that will soon come out. In it he makes no fundamental choice of gold or green, as he does in the Dutch policy ..."

9. Open Access Day in Zurich | H-Soz-Kult

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:19 AM PST

[From Google's English] "7-8. September 2015 will be held the 9th Open Access Day in Zurich. The conference is organized open-access.net of the main library of the University of Zurich in cooperation with the information platform. All submissions are welcome on open access, however the following priorities to be set in this year ..."

Public Knowledge for the Public Good: Working Toward Digital Access in the Spirit of Aaron Swartz — Medium

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:12 AM PST

"In January 2013, after a brief but celebrated career as a programmer, technologist and Internet activist, Aaron Swartz committed suicide at age 26 on the eve of his trial in federal court. A year later I wrote about two ideas that guided his life's work, academic open access and open government. With the second anniversary of his death having just passed, I've again been pondering questions and issues he raised during his short life. Let's take stock of just a few of the information "bottlenecks" that have yet to be resolved ..."

Check Out the Oviatt’s Free Textbooks on Display | Cited at the Oviatt

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:10 AM PST

"The Oviatt Library is excited to be a part of OpenStax College's efforts to save students money when buying textbooks. Please come by and check out our free textbooks display on the fourth floor of the Oviatt Library in the Reserves, Periodicals and Microform (RPM) Room. You may be able to use some of these free textbooks in your courses. There are currently nine textbooks on display and 11 titles online:  Anatomy and Physiology; Biology; College Physics; Concepts of Biology; Introduction to Sociology; Introductory Statistics; Pre-Calculus; Principles of Economics; Principles of Macroeconomics; Principles of Microeconomics; and Psychology. Two are coming soon: Chemistry and U.S. History ..."

New movement to achieve scientific reproducibility | CauseScience

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:07 AM PST

"Highlighted in the Washington Post, a new movement aimed at ensuring scientific reproducibility- primarily by making data more publicly available.  Unfortunately, some amount of fraud and irreproducibility have been plaguing the current scientific system for some time (as mentioned in previous posts), and now there's a drive to fix these issues. And so there's a movement afoot, and building momentum rapidly. Roughly four centuries after the invention of the scientific method, the leaders of the scientific community are recalibrating their requirements, pushing for the sharing of data and greater experimental transparency. Top-tier journals, such as Science and Nature, have announced new guidelines for the research they publish ..."

Minutes from 6th Working Group Call | Open Education Working Group

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:05 AM PST

"This meeting was slightly different to previous calls as we had a 'meta community session' or 'open open session' – an opportunity for different Open Education groups come along and introduce themselves. Each person gave a 4 minute pitch on their group, what it does, who it's audience is, when it meets (online or offline), it's unique selling points etc. During the meeting we used an Etherpad for the agenda and notes. Here is a list of the groups represented ..."

Open Data and Economic Growth: the advice of a financial adviser. | Sleep mapping

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:01 AM PST

[From Google's English] "Bruno Mathis is manager of a company, Sterwen, firm specializing in advising companies in the financial and banking sector. As such, it has a notification light on exploitation of the data as a source of wealth creation, and offers his analysis of the current situation of access to the data in France ... Most importantly, Bruno Mathis seeks to primarily focus on the need not to 'publish the data on principle,' and not to bet on the quantity do well in the rankings. If this is the first to welcome the progress made ​​by France (including its progress in the ranking published by the Open Knowledge Foundation ), he recalled however that it is the intrinsic value of a given that determines the potential that can be drawn, not the number of data published as such ..."

7 Science Communications Trends we Love | A Listly List

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 01:56 AM PST

Use the link to access the list.  "Science isn't a bore. It's amazing! Trust us. But for anyone doubting, maybe you just haven't been exposed to some of these awesome experiments in sharing the stories of science."

Animal Biotelemetry | Full text | An open Web-based system for the analysis and sharing and analysis of animal tracking data

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 01:31 AM PST

Use the link to access the full text article from the journal Animal Biotelemetry available from BMC.  " ... Improvements in telemetry technology are allowing us to monitor animal movements with increasing accuracy, precision and frequency. The increased complexity of the data collections, however, demands additional software and programming skills to process, store and disseminate the datasets. Recent focus on data availability has also heightened the need for sustainable data management solutions to ensure data integrity and provide longer term access. In the last ten years, a number of online facilities have been developed for the archiving, processing and sharing of telemetry data. These facilities offer secure storage, multi-user support and analysis tools and are a step along the way to improving data access, long-term data preservation and science communication. While these software platforms promote data sharing, access to the majority of the data and to the software behind these systems remains restricted. In this paper, we present a comprehensive, highly accessible and fully transparent software facility for animal movement data ..."

OpenAIRE enters new phase of funding | European Public Sector Information Platform

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 01:25 AM PST

"OpenAIRE has entered a new phase of funding with a continuation project: OpenAIRE2020.  The project, which involves 50 partners (from all EU countries and beyond), aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data.  Having started in January 2015, the initiative brings together professionals from research libraries and open scholarship organisations, working alongside national e-Infrastructure and data experts, IT and legal researchers - showcasing the truly collaborative nature of this pan-European endeavor.  A network of people, represented by the National Open Access Desks (NOADs), will organise activities to collect H2020 project outputs, and support research data management. Backing this vast outreach, is the OpenAIRE platform, the technical infrastructure that is vital for pulling together and interconnecting the large-scale collections of research outputs across Europe.  The project will create workflows and services on top of this valuable repository content, which will enable an interoperable network of repositories (via the adoption of common guidelines), and easy upload into an all-purpose repository.  OpenAIRE2020 will assist in monitoring H2020 research outputs and will be a key infrastructure for reporting H2020's scientific publications as it will be loosely coupled to the European Commission's IT backend systems.  The EC's Research Data Pilot will be supported through European-wide outreach for best research data management practices and Zenodo, which will provide long-tail data storage. Other activities include: collaboration with national funders to reinforce the infrastructure's research analytic services; an APC Gold OA pilot for FP7 publications with collaboration from LIBER; novel methods of review and scientific publishing with the involvement of hypotheses.org; a study and a pilot on scientific indicators related to open access with CWTS's assistance; legal studies to investigate data privacy issues relevant to the Open Data Pilot; international alignment with related networks elsewhere with the involvement of COAR.  More information about OpenAIRE can be found in this press release."

The Daily Tar Heel :: NC Digital Heritage Center expands archives with grant

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 01:19 AM PST

" ... The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, found in the Wilson Library, received a $75,000 grant from two sources — the Digital Public Library of America and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation — to expand its digital library archives and services for North Carolina history.  The center provides digitization services for the entire state and anyone who has rare or special collections of North Carolina documents they want to share.  Nicholas Graham, program coordinator of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, said since receiving the grant the center has been able to hire more students to help in the digitization process and itallows them to begin documenting historic state films and videos ..."

Searching for Creative Commons and Public Domain Images | Amy's Scrap Bag: A Blog About Libraries, Archives, and History

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 01:15 AM PST

" ... Creative Commons Search is the best way to locate images with a creative commons license.  It is a website provided by the nonprofit Creative Commons organization, which also oversees the licensing.  While the images included in the search should hold a creative commons attribute, there is a disclaimer to check each photo's restrictions individually to ensure the proper attribute is given.  This means there is still a chance a copyrighted image could accidentally make its way into the search results. Here are the steps ..."
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