Saturday, February 7, 2015

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Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Technológiai Hivatal | Open Access

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:10 AM PST

"FUNDING National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA) Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) Proposals Lifecycle of proposals Panels and Scientific fields Evaluation system, review guide OTKA Board Decisions OTKA supported projects Ethics Open Access Programme informations Archive Open Access As a member of international associations, OTKA supports the recommendations on Open Access and participates in elaborating the relevant documents in the Science Europe Working Group on Open Access to Scientific Publications. OTKA requires that researchers of funded projects deposit their publications in open access repositories. It also publishes research reports on its own website. Science Europe Position Statement: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications (April 2013) PDF (173 KB) Based on OTKA support contract regulations 7.10: 'It is the principal investigator's responsibility to ensure free access to scientific papers prepared through OTKA funding according to Open Access policy by ensuring the right of free reading during publishing or by depositing the publications in Open Access repositories following their publication.'"

Why Big Foundations Ganging up for Open Access is Important - Inside Philanthropy: Fundraising Intelligence - Inside Philanthropy

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:08 AM PST

"Ford just became the latest large foundation to announce it will require its grantees to allow open access to the work it funds. It's a nice sentiment, and heavyweights making this decision builds real momentum toward breaking up closed models of exchanging information. Ford, Gates, Packard, Open Society, Hewlett. They're some of the largest and most influential foundations in the country. But they have another thing in common—they now all require grantees to publish their work under a Creative Commons license, an alternative to copyright that explicitly allows some level of open access by others.   A few of these funders have made this decision in just the past year or so, and are mandating the most open version of Creative Commons license (CC BY), which means grantees must allow use, reuse, and remixing, even for commercial purposes, asking nothing but attribution in exchange.  Why are these huge foundations getting onboard with giving away what otherwise might be considered copyrighted material?   ..."

COAR » COAR Interoperability Roadmap published

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:06 AM PST

"We are very pleased to announce the publication of the COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability. As you know, scholarly communication is undergoing fundamental changes, in particular with new requirements for open access to research outputs, new forms of peer-review, and alternative methods for measuring impact. In parallel, technical developments, especially in communication and interface technologies, facilitate bi-directional data exchange across related applications and systems. The success of repository services in the future will depend on the seamless alignment of the diverse stakeholders at the local, national and international level. The roadmap identifies important trends and their associated action points for the repository community and will assist COAR in identifying priority areas for our interoperability efforts in the future. This document is the culmination of over a year's work to identify priority issues for repository interoperability. The preparation of the roadmap was spearheaded by Friedrich Summann from Bielefeld University in Germany, with support from a COAR Editorial Group and input from an international Expert Advisory Panel. The roadmap is now available on the COAR website: https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability ..."

OA in Italy | NOADS

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:04 AM PST

In Italy research is performed mainly by higher education institutions (mainly public and few private universities, polytechnics, research centres) also  other types of public institutions, business enterprises, private not for profit organizations carry out research in different fields. The public funding comes mainly from central government and in smaller scale from  regional governaments. A relevant role is also played by EU framework programme funding ... The main public funder in Italy is the Ministero dell'Istruzione Università e Ricerca (MIUR, Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), but other ministries (e.g Ministry for the Economic Development, Health, etc) other central administration agencies and  regional governaments also play a role in funding research in specific areas (high-tech; nanotechnologies; environmental sciences and health, space research; etc.) and creating synergies among universities, research organizations and small-medium sized enterprises (as part of the EC Field Programs) ... The  research policy makers, administrators and the research communities have not reached yet a full level of awareness of Open Access and its benefits for researchers, institutions and for society; however several actions and initiatives to implement OA  policies are taking place in Italy. The awareness of research open data is still at early stage; in general the OA landscape is still quite fragmentary due to the lack of a national strategic vision on the needs and prospects of Italian research. The recent  central governament actions and the institutional commitment on OA give hope to a brighter future ..."

CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) (17-19 June 2015)

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:02 AM PST

Use the link to access more information about the upcoming event.  

CHAIN-REDS Conference: "Open Science at the Global Scale: Sharing e-Infrastructures, Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Progress" - Brussels, Belgium (31 March 2015)

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:00 AM PST

"The conference will bring together policy and research stakeholders from all the regions targeted by the project (Asia, Africa, Arabia, India, Europe and Latin America) to discuss major developments and perspectives in the field of global e-Infrastructures for Research and Education. The main outcomes of the CHAIN-REDS project will be presented on this occasion ..."

Open data — a ripe entrepreneurial opportunity - KPBJ Story

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:58 AM PST

"These are exciting times; an open data revolution. What that means — and why any non-technical person should care — becomes an excellent question ... On Feb. 18, West Sound Technology is hosting a luncheon briefing at Norm Dicks Conference Center in Bremerton with a panel of open/big data experts. Participants include Deep Dhillon, chief technology officer of Socrata, the world leader in cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. He will be joined by Wilford Saunders Jr., senior program manager of open data for the state of Washington, and Bud Harris, director of information service for Kitsap County. I will moderate a discussion suited to entrepreneurs, technologists, and citizens alike. Some of the questions we hope to answer are: What is the relationship between open data and big data, business intelligence and data analytics? What are the key attributes of open/big data? — a primer on the key terms. What are the opportunities for current and potential entrepreneurs regarding apps or solutions to solve problems? What are Washington state and Kitsap County doing for open data policies and coordination? Where are some of the issues and challenges with achieving the full potential of open data? What local applications exist now? What future events or partnerships (such as hackathons) can the public sector host to spark ideas? We hope you'll join us by registering at westsoundtechnolog.org."

Promoting Open Science among Young Researchers: Challenges and Opportunities | Foster

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:54 AM PST

"The aim of these 4 trainings is to increase young researchers' competence on open science and to develop practical skills on open access publishing and research data management. The series of workshops and a roundtable discussion with different stakeholders (policy makers, funding agencies institutional managers, research administrators, etc.) will be organized during the events. Representatives from the Research Council of Lithuania, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania, the National Points of Reference on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information will participate in the round table discussion. During the workshops is expected to train up to 300 people and by online video material reach additionally up to 400 researchers, doctoral students and 100 librarians. The librarians and young researchers after the workshops will organize the OA events at their institutions ..."

Walker seeks to keep UW research secret

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:51 AM PST

"An advocate of open information sounded an alarm Thursday over a provision in Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposal that could shield university research from public view. It's the third attempt in recent years at blocking public access to research before publication. Previous efforts have failed at the Capitol ... Current law allows state universities, like any state or local public authority, to deny access to records if they can make the case that the harm from release outweighs the presumption that the public is entitled to access. Walker's proposal would allow those involved in university research on a commercial, scientific or technical subject to withhold information about their projects until they are published or patented ... Marsha Mailick, a spokeswoman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Thursday that more than 20 states protect some public university research from public access. She said the exemption would allow the university to operate on 'a more level playing field' with those states. Mailick said the provision could also benefit Wisconsin researchers as they compete for funding ..."

BIOTEC: Semantic Search in the Life Science in the Era of Open Access

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:47 AM PST

"Researchers in the life sciences are struggling to keep up-to-date with the avalanche of the publicly available information. Scientific literature and biomedical resources such as domain ontologies and databases are growing extremely fast in numbers and volume. The indexed scientific literature in PubMed contains more than 24,000,000 articles. In parallel, the latest release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a major knowledge source in the life sciences, integrates information from 173 distinct biomedical resources and contains more than 3,000,000 concepts and 11,000,000 associated concept names. Given the plethora of the publicly available and highly heterogeneous resources (literature, databases, ontologies, microarray experiments, assays, biological networks) the modern biomedical knowledge worker needs efficient tools and engines to harness this information. Semantic search and related semantic-enabled technologies are the key to draw semantic bridges across the resources and integrate the information, providing powerful tools to the researchers. The presentation will focus on two SoA semantic search engines in the life sciences, GoPubMed and OpenScienceLink, explaining how the underlying technologies can cope with the heterogeneity and volume of the data, and provide novel tools and services to scientists working in the life sciences."

Draft National Guidelines for open access to scientific information

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:33 AM PST

[From Google's English] "Research Council is mandated to develop national guidelines for open access to scientific information and presents in this report its proposal for how the guidelines should be formulated. The report also includes suggestions for further assignments, investigations and allocation of responsibilities, and the proposal that the government establish a national coordination function at the appropriate authority, with the mandate to coordinate the effort ..."

Of Presidential Budgets and Open Access | SPARC

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:30 AM PST

" On Monday, President Obama released his FY16 Budget, which lays out the administration's policy and funding priorities for the coming year. We are pleased to note that key SPARC program priorities  - opening up access to federally funded research articles and data - continue to align with those of the administration, and are highlighted in the FY16 Budget.  Specifically, the President's FY16 budget prioritizes open access to federally funded research outputs with the following language:  'The Budget continues to invest in efforts to open up Government-generated assets, including data and the results of federally funded research and development—such as intellectual property and scientific knowledge—to the public. Through these efforts, the Government can empower citizens and businesses to increase the return on investment with innovation, job creation and economic prosperity gained through their use of open Government data and research results. The use of this data and scientific knowledge has impacted the private sector, including fueling innovative start-up companies and creating American jobs, increasing the transparency of retirement plans, helping consumers uncover fraudulent charges on their credit card bills, assisting potential homebuyers in making informed housing decisions, and creating new life-changing technologies, such as leading-edge vaccines.' (pg. 74) The Budget also includes other items specific to key SPARC priorities, including ..."

MacArthur Honors 9 Nonprofits for Their Creativity - Foundations - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:27 AM PST

"When advocates, lawyers, journalists, or others want to investigate the influence of campaign finance on public policy, they often turn to a nonprofit with a massive database: ­the National Institute on Money in State Politics. The institute's website, FollowTheMoney.org, offers the public access to an archive covering $52-billion in contributions to political candidates in every state over several decades ... Thanks to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the institute now has $1-million more to further its work, one of nine nonprofits that were honored today with a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.  The foundation gives the awards annually to nonprofits that engage in work central to its core programs, have previously received MacArthur support, have reached a critical point in their development, and show strong leadership and stable financial management ... This year's awards, ranging from $350,000 to $1-million, went to organizations working in areas including human rights, civics education, filmmaking, forests, and prisons ... Following are the other winners, the grant amounts, and how they plan to use some of the money ..."

Position Paper AG Open Access Gold Priority Initiative "Digital Information" released! | VÖBBLOG

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:14 AM PST

"The ad hoc working group open access gold in the Priority Initiative 'Digital Information' of the Alliance of German Science Organisations [1] would be the publication of its position paper 'Positions to create a scientifically adequate open access publication markets» announce can. The position paper is aimed at scientific institutions that deal with the Open Access publishing. It bundles and evaluates the requirements for contracts after the publication cost model. In addition, it draws on the combination of subscription and open access and are addressed to institutions suggestions for designing their open access strategies. The position paper can be under the following DOI retrieved:  http://doi.org/10.2312/allianzoa.008 ..."

Varium: Open Access closed

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:09 AM PST

[From Google's English] "In Spain, the open access repositories are grouped in RECOLECTA platform (**) (http://recolecta.fecyt.es). In addition, RECOLECTA ensures interoperability of all repositories and adds value added services such as statistics of visits and downloads made.  Recently, I could take a pulse to the health status of university repositories because I had to search those issues that perhaps are not significant or representative, but have made ​​me see where none expected some weaknesses of these deposits . One of the strengths would be the homogeneity or interoperability of individual seekers each university or institution. There are some that are out of the standards, but in general they are all very similar and that is appreciated and increases the call usability. Arguably the interface of the user query is practically the same when navigating between repositories from different universities.   One weakness is that the funds are still small (Figure 2, RECERCAT) and just interrogables than through a simple form and the option to sort by year of publication or incorporation and relevance.
A remarkable weakness is that no documents deposited in repositories, eg singularly and final master work, not on open access. That is, are placed in open access repositories documents actually have restricted access by the author.   In cases where we found did not indicate whether the restriction was subject to an embargo period (assimilated to the publications of 'commercial' editors). We do not know then if it is delayed open access. I tend to think that this restriction, undesirable for movement Open access can be justified fear of authors to their fledgling investigations are unduly appropriated by other authors unscrupulous who violates the appropriate academic label, intellectual property and that of cite sources and use quotes. In fact a master could be considered the limit of what would be considered 'public' perhaps (***). Moreover, although there will be good jobs not there are also high quality.  In any case it is a contradiction found in the Open Access closed documents. They say that at least we know that someone has made a study of something, but this is not the desired orientation ..."

Ford Foundation Announces Open Licensing Policy for Grantees | News | PND

Posted: 07 Feb 2015 12:01 AM PST

"The Ford Foundation has announced that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research, with the twin goals of promoting greater access to that material and transparency around its work. Effective immediately, grantees and consultants will be required to widely disseminate all copyrightable products funded by a foundation grant — including white papers, research reports, and websites — and make them available under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which allows others, free of charge and without needing permission, to copy, redistribute, and adapt such materials, provided they give appropriate credit. The Creative Commons requirement will be waived when the expected product contains sensitive or confidential material. The foundation itself is adopting the CC BY license for all materials on its website not subject to third-party ownership. Ford joins several other grantmaking organizations that have adopted Creative Commons licensing policies, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which requires CC BY for all project-based materials, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which adopted a CC BY open access policy for published grant-funded research and data ..."

OLH library consortium welcomes Tufts | Open Library of Humanities

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 11:57 PM PST

We're extremely pleased to announce that Tufts University has joined the Library Partnership Subsidy system that financially supports the Open Library of Humanities. Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at research and is committed to providing students with a personal experience. Tufts is a blend of both a research university and a liberal arts college, a unique combination that attracts students, faculty and staff who thrive in an environment of curiosity, creativity and engagement. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, Mellon-funded, open-access publisher with strong principles of peer review. Instead of charging author-facing fees for open access, as do many commercial publishers, the OLH is underwritten by an international library consortium who pool costs to get the best return for all.
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