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Nederland wil een slimmer Europa

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 04:21 AM PST

From Google's English: "The Netherlands will give priority to the examination for evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme and Technological Development (2007- 2013), and as for the ERA to develop jointly scale research facilities. In addition, pay attention to the Netherlands rapid developments in science, which is becoming more digital and opener ("Science 2.0" or "Open Science"). ' In line with the recent government vision on science policy Netherlands shares the commitment of the Commission aimed at increasing the impact of science and will focus primarily on taking of Open Access, open access to scientific publications, and the use of research. Also encouraging public-private cooperation and participation of SMEs and thus application of scientific knowledge in the social challenges is important for the Netherlands, both through Horizon 2020 European space programs (Galileo and Copernicus)...."

SPARC Innovator: The Open Access Button | SPARC

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 01:04 AM PST

"For creating the Open Access Button, which tracks how often researchers hit pay walls and attempts to connect users with freely accessible copies of articles, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)  is honoring Carroll and McArthur, both 22, with its first Innovator Award of 2015. 'What allowed Joe and David to follow through on the idea was their passion, commitment, and unwillingness to take no for an answer,' says Nick Shockey, director of SPARC's the Right to Research Coalition. Dubbed affectionately by SPARC staff as 'The Button Boys,' the young pair of British researchers assembled an international team of volunteers to develop and launch the Open Access Button in the November of 2013.  The student-led project came to fruition on a shoe- string budget with minimal finances, but substantial in-kind support ..."

Wiley: Three Leading Wiley Journals Become Open Access

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 01:02 AM PST

"John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the transition of three journals to the Wiley Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of Wiley's open access titles to 47. From January 1, 2015, all published articles in Conservation Letters, Thoracic Cancer and The Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine will be open access and free to view, download and share. Conservation Letters with an Impact Factor of 5.032 is the first high impact conservation science journal to become completely open access. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research with significant implications for the conservation of biological diversity.  Thoracic Cancer is the official publication of the Chinese Society of Lung Cancer, International Chinese Society of Thoracic Surgery, and is endorsed by the Korean Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the Hong Kong Cancer Therapy Society. The only English language and international lung cancer journal from Asia-Pacific, Thoracic Cancer has an impact factor of 1.126. The Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine launched in 1987 and has an Impact Factor of 2.224. The official publication of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the journal's research advances veterinary medical knowledge and improve the lives of animals by publishing authoritative scientific articles of animal diseases ..."

Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:59 AM PST

"The founding of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) in 2013 appears to substantiate earlier claims from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that '[t]here is an emerging consensus that some sort of basic publishing services will become a core service for research libraries.'1 However, even with a growing LPC membership — and calls for digital publishing to be considered a new 'core competency' for librarians2 — complete consensus among library leaders about publishing has not yet been reached.3 The lack of agreement is hardly surprising: if publishing services do become part of the core identity of academic libraries, it will represent a fundamental shift in the role of libraries within the scholarly community ..."

Open Access at Oxford » Pilots underway for Open Access Service design project

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:53 AM PST

" ... The pilots are part of the project commissioned by the University's Research Committee to evaluate how best to support and promote compliance with HEFCE's open access policy for the next REF: for a journal article or conference contribution to be submitted, the final peer-reviewed ('author accepted') manuscript must be deposited in an institutional or subject repository within 3 months of the date of acceptance. The policy comes into effect for outputs accepted for publication from 1st April 2016 ..."

Open Access to University Research Policy « Library News

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:51 AM PST

"The University has a new Open Access to University Research Policy (2015). The University supports the principles of open access (OA), and is committed to enabling the broadest possible access to its scholarly outputs, including journal articles, monographs, datasets and higher degree by research theses. As part of the implementation of the new policy, the University has released all Sydney Research Online research publications collection metadata (2001–15), and will enable access to the publishers' versions of items within this collection wherever publishers' open access archiving polices allow. In addition, researchers are encouraged to supplement the Sydney Research Online collections by self-archiving scholarly works in the Sydney eScholarship Repository. Researchers are encouraged to enable access to completed research data sets (unless this is prevented by privacy or other requirements). All Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Students are encouraged to make their theses openly accessible wherever possible – after consulting with their research supervisors, of course! The University Library provides a number of established platforms and services to support the implementation of the new policy and enable the broadest possible access to the scholarly output and digital collections of the University, including ..."

Open Access: Ein Lackmustest (Open Access: A Litmus Test) by Jeanette Hofmann :: SSRN

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:45 AM PST

Use the link to access the full text article from SSRN.  "Open Access is an interesting policy domain, not only because it concerns the modes of production of academic knowledge, but also because it may contradict a common observation of copyright research. While the great copyright narrative assumes that intellectual property rights expand in a continuous and linear fashion, Open Access policies strive to achieve the opposite; to wit, academic standards, which allow a permission-free access and a re-use of publicly funded research results. This article aims to provide a broad overview of the diverse origins, the operationalization and institutionalization of Open Access policies. It starts with the emergence and formation of the market for academic journals, the most powerful counterpart of the Open Access movement, and it concludes with recent Open Access policies in the UK, one of the most interesting countries in this context because it illustrates that the devil is in the implementation details. The example of the UK not only offers lessons on how Open Access standards can be enforced but, more importantly so, on the political constellations that determine the future fate of Open Access, including that of the role of property rights for the circulation of academic knowledge."

Sierra Leone: Strengthening ‘Open Initiatives’ strengthens accountability and transparency  | Sierra Express Media

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:34 AM PST

"Sierra Leone passed the Right to Access Information Law in 2013 and joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2014. In its action plan submitted to the OGP, Government committed itself to launching an open data initiative. Then, it planned to go one step further to ensure its information is not only accessible, but open to the public in a way that allows users to explore, analyze and reuse such information. To this end, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFeD), Dr. Kaifala Marah, in May 2014, formally endorsed the Open Aid Partnership (OAP) and its principles making Sierra Leone the newest partner. Dr. Marah had requested the support of the OAP, which is hosted in the World Bank, to help improve access to development project data and to build the capacity of local stakeholders in that regard. The OAP is a multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together governments, development partners, civil society and media groups to collectively improve aid transparency and effectiveness. It has successfully provided such support in about 20 other developing countries ..."

The MOOC Hype Fades, in 3 Charts – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:31 AM PST

"Few people would now be willing to argue that massive open online courses are the future of higher education. The percentage of institutions offering a MOOC seems to be leveling off, at around 14 percent, while suspicions persist that MOOCs will not generate money or reduce costs for universities—and are not, in fact, sustainable. The latest figures come from the Babson Survey Research Group's annual survey, which was based on a 2014 survey of more than 2,800 academic leaders and was released on Thursday. The survey, which has tracked opinions about online education for more than a decade, started asking academic leaders about MOOCs in 2012, when free online courses seemed poised to disrupt the walled gardens of elite college instruction. Back then, 28 percent of respondents believed MOOCs were sustainable, while 26 percent thought they were not. In this year's survey, 16 percent believe MOOCs are sustainable, while 51 percent think they are not ..."

Elsevier Now Adding eBooks to CLOCKSS Archiving

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:27 AM PST

"Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its agreement to participate in CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) archiving of ebooks. CLOCKSS is a community-governed archive committed to open access. As a not-for-profit venture between academic publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS is building a sustainable, geographically distributed archive. This ensures the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications, such as Elsevier science and technology ebooks, for the benefit of the greater global research community ..."

MASSPIRG launches new open textbooks campaign : The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:18 AM PST

"A new campaign has been launched to raise awareness about open-source textbooks by MASSPIRG. Open source textbooks are textbooks licensed under an open copyright license, which allows faculty and students to download them for no cost or get affordable printed versions. According to Matt Magalhaes, a University of Massachusetts student working on the campaign, the objective is to educate students and teachers about this new tool that could possibly reduce student spending on textbooks by 80 percent. "Our goal is to teach professors about this relatively new tool and how it could possibly help students reach their full potential," said Magalhaes. The MASSPIRG Education Fund released a survey showing that about 65 percent of student consumers opted out of buying a college textbook in the past because of the cost. The University has already signed an Open Education Initiative during fall 2014, which supports faculty interested in providing students a low-cost alternative to commercial textbooks. However, the majority of the courses at UMass still require students to buy traditional school materials ... According to a study by the Government Accountability Office, the cost of textbooks grew 82 percent between 2002 and 2013. The College Board estimates the annual cost of textbooks and materials for the average college student to be approximately $1,168 ... Open-source textbooks are not only licensed in a way that they can be freely downloaded, but it also allows students to meet course standards and keeping up with current research. This is of particular importance, because it is one of the reasons professors are inclined to require the newest edition of a textbook for a particular course ..."

Supporting data-sharing to speed up innovation in Materials Science | Elsevier Connect

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:15 AM PST

"Materials find their way into most aspects of our lives, from our clothes to our phones and computers, to the chair I'm sitting on while writing this article. New materials have the potential to transform the way we heal, move around the world and communicate. To accelerate the development of new materials, researchers increasingly apply computational approaches requiring input of high-quality data to simulate material behavior. Validating predictions from these models requires intense scrutiny of both the published literature and experimental data. Herein lies the problem that affects scientists across all disciplines: while data is undoubtedly important in speeding up innovation, a global infrastructure is vital to ensure that research data can be stored, validated, publically accessible and usable. Internationally, research funders are focusing on making data publically accessible by increasingly requiring data management plans to be included in grant proposals and initiatives. At the same time, global working groups such as the Research Data Alliance are bringing together different stakeholders to make progress on the challenges around research data, ranging from standards and technical solutions to establishing best practices and policy recommendations ... n the material science community, 'making digital data accessible' has been one of the four axes of the Materials Genome Initiative Strategic Plan, released in December 2014. The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2011 with an overarching aim to help businesses develop new materials while greatly reducing the time it takes from idea to market from two decades to a few years. This move has resulted in more than $400 million in funding to support materials science research and data infrastructure.  As publishers, we see two main challenges to making research data widely sharable and accessible. First and foremost is encouraging scientists to share their data where suitable and appropriate. This is not easy as they have worked hard to acquire or create this data, and in some cases it contains the basis of what will become research articles and patents. The second issue is that once the data is accessible, it needs to be discovered and used. Key to enabling the re-use of datasets is the availability of the metadata that will allow for reproducing experiments and ensure that the data can be found and interpreted – making it crucial to have proper links to the published literature. In achieving this vision, we should also make sure that researchers get credited for all aspects of their reported work ..."

Open Education Group: The Review Project

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:09 AM PST

"This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption (including our own). The version originally published here in February 2015 was abstracted from of an article submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. We are continuing to add reviews of new articles as we become aware of them. If you know of an empirical research study on the impacts of OER adoption that is not included in this review, please leave a comment below ..."

Merck gives $7.5 million to the Structural Genomics Consortium at U of T | University of Toronto Media Room

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:07 AM PST

"Global healthcare leader Merck has joined the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the University of Toronto with a $7.5 million contribution. The SGC is a public-private partnership that supports the discovery of new medicines through open access research. Merck's contribution will fund the development of new chemical probes to study genetic traits. The probes will expand the understanding of biology in multiple disease areas, particularly cancer and inflammatory diseases ..."

OER Research Hub wins Engaging Research Award! |

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:05 AM PST

"The OER Research Hub is proud to announce that we were awarded an Open University Engaging Research Award 2015 for our P2PU Open Research course on School of Open today! The four-week course explored the concept and practice of open research, ethics in the open, dissemination and the role of open reflection and evaluation ..."

COAR-SPARC Conference 2015 - Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship (15-16 April 2015)

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 12:01 AM PST

"In a rapidly evolving world, academic and research institutions must think about becoming agents of change, with greater flexibility and responsiveness than ever before. Part of this change is a shift away from the notion that researchers simply conduct research and produce publications, but rather the research community itself must begin to take on responsibility for ensuring research outputs are widely and openly disseminated, properly curated, and preserved. In this sense, the institution becomes one node in a larger, interconnected network of content producers and stewards. There are both challenges and opportunities inherent in this new role. For instance, how do we create a seamless global research network in which all countries and researchers can participate? How can we evaluate research outputs based on their quality, and not on whether they are attached to a prestige publication? How can we manage increasingly large and complex data to support new modes of science and innovation? And how can we ensure that content is appropriately licensed, annotated and preserved to allow it to be re-used and integrated with other related content? Clearly, libraries and institutions must forge new partnerships, nurture new skills and competencies, and develop new organizational structures. This conference, co-hosted by SPARC and COAR, will address some of the important challenges facing our libraries as we attempt to re-define our roles in an age of constant flux ..."

Managing Open Access Publication: a system specification | Jisc Monitor

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 11:58 PM PST

"Before Christmas I blogged about the work we were doing on creating a specification for a system which could help institutions manage aspects of Open Access publishing at a local level. We started this work focussing on the data and processes related to the payment of APCs, but it very quickly became apparent that any system in this area would need to be able to handle some aspects of 'green' as well as 'gold' OA publication routes. We worked with several UK Universities to understand the workflows and data involved. We also reviewed the work of the Jisc Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder projects such as "End to End Open Access" (E2EOA), GW4 OA pathfinder and Pathways to Open Access. The outcome of this work was a document describing a system that could help UK HE institutions manage administrative data in relation to the publication of open access Academic Outputs. The document includes: A description the scope of such a system and the workflows it should support A description of an appropriate data model given the scope and workflows A number of illustrative wireframes for a user interface (UI) to such a system The document is available at: http://jiscmonitor.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2015/01/CopyofManagingOpenAccessPublicationasystemspecificationforblog.pdf"

Compliance Monitoring (By Richard Jones) | Jisc Monitor

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 11:53 PM PST

" ... Open Access compliance checking is currently a task carried out by humans, and there is no one single place to look for the relevant information. This means that it is time consuming, and a prime candidate for total or partial automation. Being able to quickly and easily check compliance of an article or a set of articles will be of benefit to both institutions and funders. Aspects of an article which may be considered (depending on policy) include: What is the licence a work has been published under? What embargo is the work subject to? Does the article include the funder acknowledgement? Is the article archived in a suitable repository? Does the article include an acknowledgement of the research materials? Is the article free-to-read (i.e. accessible without login/payment, irrespective of the re-use licence)? ..."
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