Sunday, February 8, 2015

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Open Access and the Problem of Predatory Publishers | Lisa A. Martin - Freelance science copywriter/editor

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:58 AM PST

Last year, I had two scientific papers published in the Journal of Experimental Botany (here, and here, if you're interested!). For one of these, I was the first author, which was incredibly exciting! Little ol' me, without so much as a Masters, let alone a PhD, with a publication record! Hurrah!

However, being a published author brings certain annoyances, largely the problem of 'predatory journals'.

The Future of Scholarly Communications in Economics — Economics E-Journal

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:58 AM PST

"In recent years, scholarly communication has changed in several ways in response to the growth of the internet, for example open access to research findings and research data has become much more common. Moreover the Web has given rise to new forms of scholarly communication like collaborating and commenting on papers and evaluating and publishing of papers via social media channels, blogs, wikis, and scientific networks. These internet-driven changes to the research process are affecting the roles of publishers, libraries, and scientific communities. Our workshop, co-organized by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW) affiliated with the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0, wants to address these issues with several interesting presentations from economists and information scientists. In addition, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal is planning to publish a special issue on the topic of the workshop. Further information on this special issue you may find at ..."

Everyone should take part of the researchers' knowledge - soon | Research & Progress | Popular Science magazine

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:49 AM PST

[From Google's English] " ...The change was made possible by technological development, just like in the music industry. The driving force is also partly the same - more people will be able to access the material easier, faster and cheaper. Therefore, the simple principle husbandry obvious: open access is good. Something that is also enshrined in a brand new report from the Swedish Research Council, recently handed over to the Government: Draft national guidelines for open access to scientific information. A large part of the scientific activity of publicly funded through grants to universities and colleges, and grants from government research bodies and public or private foundations. Thus it is we who pay jointly, and then it is reasonable that everyone has free access. But there are important differences between music and science publications, which complicates the transition. One difference is that scientific publishing should be reviewed by colleagues before publication, so-called peer review . It is a costly process, both in time and resources, which are very important for the scientific quality. It is now not uncommon for the costs of publishing are taken by the writer instead of the reading. Subscription is free and the researcher must pay. It is also common to first publish in a traditional Subscribed journal and then after some time publish the same article openly. In some cases it also happens that you publish immediately in several places, but then pay an additional fee for it. In principle, all in favor of a more open model. It also shows the Research Council's report. The report can be summarized by saying that we should seek immediate open access, but it can take time to get there. First, in ten years, all publicly funded research be immediately openly available. It may seem slow. Why must we wait for ten years? ..."

Open access (Open Access) scientific publications: a real bazaar | Language Teaching / FLE - Claude Springer

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:38 AM PST

[From Google's English] "Following publication of mishap, it seemed important to do a post about an issue that concerns doctoral students and faculty members. We are indeed in a real mess difficult to understand for the authors we are. Dacos Marin and Jean-Claude Guédon (Cleo Revues.org) offer this definition: "By 'open access' to [research literature validated peer], we mean its free availability on the public internet , allowing anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles, analyze automatically index them, use them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial barrier, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access and use of the Internet. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this context should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. " Take my unfortunate example. The article in question ( Collaborative Learning and webcollaboration ) was presented to the conference in Valencia in 2013 and accepted after rereading in 2014. It was to be published in the No. 7 Synergies Spain late 2014, but this number is still not online . For personal reasons, not related to a will also pre-publication, I tabled this article on HAL (I wanted to make it accessible for teacher training in early December). One speaks in this case preprint or preprint. I obviously signed a contract that prohibited postpublication but said nothing about the pre-publication. What is it? What is a preprint? ? a post-publication We are in an absurd and schizophrenic position as explained Eric Monnet: 'What you see above shows is the lack of consistency in journals support policies: very different models co-exist , ignore or do a little beneficial competition , the question of the distribution is not put at a global level including both publishers, libraries, research institutes and journals editorial boards, and finally, the subsidy system is illegible and very transparent.' France is endowed with Revues.org, Perseus and Cairn electronic dissemination portals high-performance journals that allowed French journals to better benefit from changes related to the Internet than those of many European countries. But today is the underlying economic model that is the problem , at a time when the university and the French Research undergo numerous restructuring ..."

Reps. Zeiger and Stambaugh introduce textbook cost-saving measures - Washington State House Republicans

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:35 AM PST

"Twenty-fifth District Reps. Hans Zeiger and Melanie Stambaugh have introduced legislation to address the increasing costs of textbooks for students in higher education. Zeiger's proposal, House Bill 1958, would cap textbook costs at $100 unless there is no lower-cost comparable alternative and no available substitute through open course materials ..."

Bet and won on Open Access: InetBib betting game over | LIBREAS.Library Ideas

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:27 AM PST

[From Google's English] "After 18 months of waiting for the results of the InetBib wagering game on Open Access and Open Science, which at the 12th InetBib meeting in Berlin carried out was, it now says 'All in,' the future is now. The poker players bet on the various events occur in the future and forecast the development of Open Access and Open Science. Now, back in the future, we have to wait for the invention of the Hoverboards still; the results of the bets and the name of the lucky winners were, however, already been released by an independent jury of experts ..."

Proteins and Wave Functions: Open Science - a brief rant

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:24 AM PST

"A colleague asked me for feedback on a draft of a viewpoint article on open source and data.  I know at least one of my group members enjoys a good rant so I pasting part of my reply in here and calling it a (free) blog post: In my mind there is one aspect in all this that is missing, which is essentially a moral or ethical one. Much of my research (and my salary being at a state run school) is payed for by tax payers.  One of the reasons I publish OA is because I feel the same tax payers have the right to read these papers and use the content  any way they see fit.  The same applies to the code my group produces. Now, I'm not a zealot.  I actually feel that being open helps my research and career as you also point out, but the ethical principle is still there in the background.  Society is not paying me to to advance my career, society is paying me to advance society.  IMO, that is the real reason funding organizations should insist on Open: it is better for the society - who pays the bills.  All the perceived negatives affect me, the researcher, but it is not about me. Science funding will not increase unless society sees an advantage in this and this closed, what's-in-it-for-me? attitude among scientists that has led to the reproducibility crisis (which, IMO is a much bigger crisis for long-term science funding than people realize) is incredibly damaging in that regard."

Open Knowledge Switzerland’s 2014 in review, big plans ahead | Open Knowledge Blog

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:17 AM PST

"It has been a big year for us in Switzerland. An openness culture spreading among civil administration, NGOs, SMEs, backed by the efforts of makers, supporters and activists throughout the country, has seen the projects initiated over the past three years go from strength to strength – and establish open data in the public eye.  Here are the highlights of what is keeping us busy – and information on how you can get involved in helping us drive Open Knowledge forward, no matter where you are based. Check out our Storify recap, or German- and French-language blogs for further coverage. To see the Events Calendar for 2015, scroll on down ..."

International Open Data Day on February 21 | netzpolitik.org

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 02:09 AM PST

[From Google's English] "The global initiative calls this year for the fifth time in the Open Data Day. The idea is to identify events with decentralized the benefit and value of open data to network activists to work together on projects and to bring more interested with hands-on workshops in topics Open Data. The cooperation and networking with data providers of such authorities and cultural institutions is the goal of Open Data Days The format is open to anyone and everyone can participate and organize an event yourself. Currently, the community wiki listed in 40 participating countries on six continents 100 events. In Germany also Hackathon and workshops are organized, among other things, by the Open Knowledge Labs , correct! v and other open data initiatives. On the side de.opendataday.org the events are listed that you can visit. If your city is not here yet? Then you do with girlfriends, NGOs, journalists, or city and hosts itself an event, such as a hackathon, a workshop or an open meeting for those interested. For instructions are in the wiki . Prototypes, applications, visualizations, and other ideas from the last year are in Hackdash the Open Data Days 2014. As such a Hackday might look like is the video  from the Open Data Day from Berlin ..."

It's Time to Open Materials Science Data | The White House

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 01:55 AM PST

"In 2011 President Obama launched the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), committing the nation to discover, develop, and deploy cutting-edge materials twice as fast and at a fraction of the cost at that time. Almost four years later, the MGI is a far-reaching endeavor with over $400 million committed to help support over 500 research scientists and activities to accelerate the development of advanced materials. A key element of the MGI is ensuring open access to and innovative uses of materials-science data. The materials-research community has taken a number of initial steps to achieve this vision, including the release of an OSTP-, NSF-, and NIST-supported MGI Combinatorial Report advocating for new tool sets that would open up a much larger scale of materials property data than is available today, and the first ever materials hackathon – organized by Citrine and hosted by the Materials Research Society – showcasing the tremendous opportunities to innovate with open data. Federal agencies have also stepped up to support new data repositories for the materials community, including the Materials Project for novel batteries, DOE's hydrogen storage materials database, and the AFLOWLIB.org repository for quantum materials ...   The Federal government is stepping up to this challenge, and has been working with agencies across government to finalize plans to increase public access to the results of Federally funded research, including both scientific publications and research data, across the broad range of scientific disciplines – including materials science.  In a recent report to Congress, OSTP Director John P. Holdren explained the Administration's position, stating: "That data underlying scientific publications are not available for confirmatory analysis, reuse, and repurposing is an anachronism that we aim to address." In essence, policy is being used as a tool to drive the conversation on what the materials community needs in terms of infrastructure and standards for data sharing. OSTP is encouraged to see such steps starting to happen ... Recently, several scientific journals have stepped up and announced actions to further increase access to the data underlying the conclusions in peer-reviewed scientific publications, including: [1] Earlier this week, thirteen advanced material journals, including: Acta Biomaterialia, Acta Materialia, CALPHAD, Composites Part A, Computational Materials Science, Construction and Building Materials, Materials Discovery, Materials Science & Engineering A, Materials Science & Engineering B, Materials Science & Engineering C, Polymer, Scripta Materialia, and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells announced that they will enable new data services for their contributing authors. This includes submission of data points which turn into interactive graphs, the ability to share data sets alongside their articles using a tool called Open Data, and the ability to submit a microarticle that describes data associated with their article. In 2014, the participating journals published 7500 articles, authored by tens of thousands of researchers based in over 95 countries. [2] Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation, published by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), is now providing an Open Access platform for the presentation of novel efforts seeking to build an integrated engineering framework to solve a pervasive or recurring need in materials and manufacturing. Datasets submitted in support of articles will be archived at a data repository run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For this journal TMS has also introduced a 'Data Descriptor' article type specifically geared to materials data.  Over the course of the coming year Federal agencies will continue work to open access to research data and provide robust solutions to data storage and services ..."

Smithsonian Joins Forces with 14 Museums to Pool Data on American Art

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 01:46 AM PST

"Imagine typing 'John Singer Sargent' into a search engine and being able to see every painting the artist ever made that's owned by an American museum. Today it's not that simple. Museum collections are like closed-off silos that you have to access individually to get the information you want. The Smithsonian Museum of American Art hopes to change that. It has launched the American Art Collaborative (ACC), a consortium of 14 museums across the country that will connect these silos, creating what you might call the art-world version of the Digital Public Library of America. "Art museums share a commitment to helping audiences of all ages experience, learn about, appreciate and enjoy art — thus our missions also include promoting access to our collections and research," SAAM director Elizabeth Broun said in a release. The project has been described as a database, but it's actually much more like a web. Current data from museum collections will be placed in the cloud and tagged with Linked Open Data (LOD) — something that's already prevalent in the scientific world, but less so in the cultural sphere. For the technologically un-inclined, just know that it's going to make it a whole lot easier to find connections and relationships between works, artists, materials, and styles across collections.  'As an example, a museum within the AAC might have the latest research on a specific portrait painting but the detailed biographical information about the sitter may be held an in archival collection,' Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, collections data manager at the participating Yale Center for British Art, told Hyperallergic. '[LOD] would allow us to make these semantic relationships without needing to set up a central relational database.'  Though the project was first announced by the Smithsonian February 2, it's been around for a while now. The collaborative first came together after SAAM began its own internal LOD project to make 44,000 collection records more accessible a few years ago. It eventually evolved into an informal group of museums interested in exploring what the technology could offer. Last July, the Mellon Foundation issued a $50,000 grant to the Smithsonian to help educate participating museum officials about LOD ahead of a two-day meeting in DC this week. During the gathering, representatives from the museums met to work up a plan for converting their collection data and managing it ..." 

LITA Members Talk Tech Trends | ALA Midwinter 2015

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 01:38 AM PST

" ... Carpenter began his trend discussion by outlining the 'tremendous amount' of technology used to support subscription-based assets and content, including subscription agents, electronic data interchange (EDI) to communicate and process orders, International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) assignments, and metadata management. 'My trend is, essentially, how are those systems going to have to change, as open access really transforms how scholarly communication takes place?' Carpenter said. Estimating that paid academic subscriptions were a $12 billion business in 2014, Carpenter added that 'we don't have a model for how that system would work, and I guarantee you that the publishing community…the patron community, and institutions…do not want to process anything like $12 billion on departmental credit cards.' Open access already accounts for between 10 percent and 20 percent of scholarly articles published each year, and it is currently growing 18 percent per year, Carpenter said. 'At what point does this trend significantly impact the library systems that need to manage that information?' These concerns would apply not only to the systems used to process open access articles, but to discovery systems that may need to surface open access content in hybrid journals containing both paid subscription and open access content. 'You're talking about managing metadata on an article level, not a journal level, which is a significant difference,' he said ..."

Open Access: Early English Books and Eighteenth Century Collections Online » blog.findit.lu

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 01:29 AM PST

"EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database. The EEBO corpus consists of the works represented in the English Short Title Catalogue I and II (based on the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short title catalogs), as well as the Thomason Tracts and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Together these trace the history of English thought from the first book printed in English in 1475 through to 1700. The content covers literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavor. The assembled collection of more than 125,000 volumes is a mainstay for understanding the development of Western culture in general and the Anglo-American world in particular. The STC collections have perhaps been most widely used by scholars of English, linguistics, and history, but these resources also include core texts in religious studies, art, women's studies, history of science, law, and music. The following are but a small sampling of the authors whose works are included: Erasmus, Shakespeare, King James I, Marlowe, Galileo, Caxton, Chaucer, Malory, Boyle, Newton, Locke, More, Milton, Spenser, Bacon, Donne, Hobbes, Purcell, Behn, and Defoe ..."

OPEN ACCESS DISCUSSION MEETING

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 01:23 AM PST

"Since more than a year Open Access has been in the news regularly. After Secretary of State Sander Dekker presented the goal of 100% Open Access in 2024, the Association of universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) started negotiations with Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. By the end of 2014 it came to an agreement with Springer about open access publishing without article processing costs whereas the talks with the other publishers are still going on. Scientists were informed by different media about these developments and were called on to publish their articles Open Access as much as possible. However, the ambition of 100% Open Access deserves a debate among scientists about promises and pitfalls. Therefore Library & Archive and Strategy and Policy organize an Open Access discussion meeting on Wednesday February 18, 12:00-14:00 (lunch included). You are invited to join this meeting where Prof. Dr. Jos Engelen, chair of the Governing Board of NWO, will share his opinion about Open Access. Prof. Dr. Detlef Lohse, professor of Physics of Fluids, will act as co-referent and discussion leader ..."

EUagenda.eu - Learning Innovations and Quality (LINQ 2015) (11 May 2015: "The Need for Change in Education: Openness as Default?"

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 01:21 AM PST

"The 4th annual international conference 'Learning Innovations and Quality' (LINQ 2015) has extended the deadlines of its three calls to 4 March, 2015 after a clear demonstration of interest by the community. After the successful conference from 2013 in Rome and 2014 in Crete, LINQ has decided to return to its birthplace of Brussels to investigate the theoretical and practical potential of openness in education as a widespread default. Submissions to all three calls must be sent by 4 March, 2015, using the official LINQ templates available on the conference website. All submissions to the Call for Papers are limited to a maximum of eight pages and will be reviewed by the international scientific LINQ Programme Committee through double-blind peer review. All submissions of research project descriptions to the Call for Projects are limited to one page and all submissions to the Call for Workshops have to answer all questions on the template completely. Submitters will be informed of their acceptance by 20 March 2015. All accepted papers and project descriptions can be presented at the LINQ conference, will be published in the official proceedings (with ISBN) and distributed to all conference participants worldwide and online under open access guidelines. Selected papers will be invited to be published in an international journal. Attendance at the LINQ 2015 is subject to a conference fee and requires registration through the LINQ website, as space is limited. The conference fee includes all provisions, including warm lunches, coffee breaks, the conference bag, and a copy of the official conference proceedings. At least one author has to register for the conference for the publication of an accepted paper or paper in the proceedings."
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