Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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Is science broken? The reproducibility crisis - On Biology

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 05:25 AM PDT

"Reviewers can also contribute substantially to these efforts in encouraging open practices (e.g. Agenda for Open Research)...."

The Challenge Arising From Open Access

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 03:46 AM PDT

An editorial in The Journal of School Nursing about problems with the open-access model, including predatory publishers. 

'Open Source, Open Science' meeting report - March 2015 - GigaBlog

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 02:26 AM PDT

"Open Science has emerged into the mainstream, primarily due to concerted efforts from various individuals, institutions, and initiatives. This small, focused gathering brought together several of those community leaders.  The purpose of the meeting was to define common goals, discuss common challenges, and coordinate on common efforts. We had good discussions about several issues at the intersection of technology and social hacking including badging, improving standards for scientific APIs, and developing shared infrastructure. We also talked about coordination challenges due to the rapid growth of the open science community.  At least three collaborative projects emerged from the meeting as concrete outcomes to combat the coordination challenges ..."

CESSDA Research Data Management for Open Data doctoral training series: RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT AND OPEN DATA | Foster

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 02:21 AM PDT

"The main goal is to promote open data in the research community and raise awareness about sharing research data and using existing research data. The course is designed for doctoral students from the field of social sciences and humanities. Training consists of lectures and hands-on sessions focused on good Research Data Management practices and issues related to data sharing within the current EU frameworks, which foster open science ..."

The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing sign open access agreement

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 02:17 AM PDT

"The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSCL) and IOP Publishing (IOP) are delighted to announce the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding to support open access publications for Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers. The Memorandum indicates the commitment of both organisations to work together to create sustainable open access options for the future. CAS introduced its Open Access Policy in May 2014 and the NSCL has been working to establish efficient and streamlined processes with publishers like IOP to fulfil this policy. As a result of this agreement, IOP will support CAS authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by directly depositing papers published in IOP's journals in the CAS repository. NSLC has also agreed to fund a proportion of article publication charges for CAS authors who wish to publish with IOP on a gold open access basis. IOP and CAS will also work together to explore longer term sustainable solutions for funding open access publishing, including an agreement to balance article publication charges and subscription fees ..."

journals - Elsevier open-access fee waived for subscribers? - Academia Stack Exchange

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 02:13 AM PDT

"I have recently been comparing publishers regarding their policies on double dipping (charging an open-access fee for publishing in a hybrid journal and then charging again a subscription fee). Many publishers (Springer, Wiley, Taylor and Francis) state they lower the subscription fees based on the amount of open-access articles to not charge their authors / readers / customers twice for the same article. Elsevier has a different approach. They state: 'Elsevier's policy is not to charge subscribers for open access articles and when calculating subscription prices only to take into account subscription articles – we do not double dip. [source]' But how is this implemented? The Elsevier support team was of no help when I asked there. I only got links to the help pages, which I have read forwards and backwards three times already. I even created an account and started a test submission to two of their hybrid journals but there wasn't even a box to tick for selecting Open Access. Has anyone made use of this policy and asked for a waiver based on a journal subscription?"

Open Access and Open Education: Background, lobby tips, and continuin…

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 02:08 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.  

University of Rochester Libraries join HathiTrust : NewsCenter

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 02:04 AM PDT

"The University of Rochester Libraries have become one of the newest members of HathiTrust, a worldwide partnership of more than one hundred major research institutions and libraries working to preserve and provide access to the cultural record in digital form. The University's membership offers students, faculty, and staff access to nearly five million books in the public domain ..."

AC-11: Access to Research | Colorado State University | Scorecard | Institutions | AASHE STARS

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:58 AM PDT

"CSU has a Committee on Open Access and Scholarly Communication to address open access issues. The CSU Open Access Commitment was adopted by the CSU Libraries Faculty Council on May 2, 2012. The policy is a campus-wide commitment designed to ensure that all Faculty research is available through open access to the global community. To accomplish this, CSU employs a number of strategies: - Depositing articles (as well as all Thesis and Dissertations) on Direct Access (one of the best systems in the nation - the software has been adopted by other libraries and universities) - The Open Access Fund - helps faculty publish in open access repositories so that their research is available not just to CSU community-members but to everyone. - Subscriptions to databases - all faculty and students have access to a wide range of journals and databases - For any journal article, published by CSU faculty or more broadly, a journal article request can be made and and will be delivered free-of-charge via email or print. All faculty (and students) can access any of their peer's published research thanks to Direct Access through the library which will deliver a digital copy to their email upon request."

Call for input into open data study | GISuser.com

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:32 AM PDT

"The Government is progressing its open data agenda with the launch of the Open Data 500 Australia at the Locate15 conference in Brisbane ... The Open Data 500 is the first comprehensive study of Australian companies and non-profit organisations that use open government data to generate new business, develop new products and services, improve business operations or create social value.  The collaboration between the Department of Communications and GovLab, a team of researchers at New York University, will create new case studies on how Australian organisations are using public sector data and provide a basis for assessing the social and economic value of open government datasets ..."

ScienceGuide - Dekker wil Europees Open Access

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:26 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "Sander Dekker with his British Tory colleague Greg Clark 'Universities, Science and Cities "called on all EU Member States for Open Access. The two ministers argue that only in the European context publishers may be forced to move to Open Access publications."

EdX Partnership with Microsoft, Smithsonian Could Provide Professional Preparation | News | The Harvard Crimson

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:22 AM PDT

"In response to news that edX will collaborate to offer courses with Microsoft and the Smithsonian Institution, some higher education experts said the platform's non-university partnerships could serve to prepare students for the workforce and provide insights into teaching within higher education. EdX, a massive open online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012, will launch seven courses on programming and cloud technologies in collaboration with Microsoft. Although Microsoft already has its own platform, Microsoft Virtual Academy, for learning content, the company's motivation to partner with edX was partly to offer content that follows the MOOC model, according to a joint statement by Jatinder P. S. Kohli, director of product, and Björn C. Rettig, director of content at Microsoft ... In addition to Microsoft, edX also partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to launch three courses on American history—one taught by Stan Lee, former president of Marvel Comics ..."

Wikimedia adopts open licensing policy for foundation-funded research - Creative Commons

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:16 AM PDT

"Last week the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is adopting an open access policy for research works created using foundation funds. According to their blog post, the new open access policy 'will ensure that all research the Wikimedia Foundation supports through grants, equipment, or research collaboration is made widely accessible and reusable. Research, data, and code developed through these collaborations will be made available in Open Access venues and under a free license, in keeping with the Wikimedia Foundation's mission to support free knowledge ..."

NSF Releases Incremental Plan for Public Access | SPARC

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:12 AM PDT

"Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released its plan to establish policies to ensure public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive.  The plan calls for researchers to deposit final accepted manuscripts (or published articles) into the Department of Energy's 'PAGES' repository – a dark archive – with public access to be provided via links to publisher's websites.  All articles will be made available to the public no later than 12 months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal ..."

Guest Post: Karin Wulf on Open Access and Historical Scholarship | The Scholarly Kitchen

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:02 AM PDT

"As a regular reader of The Scholarly Kitchen, I was delighted to meet Rick Anderson at the annual conference of the American Historical Association earlier this year. I was startled, however, by Rick's description of the hostility towards open access (OA) that he perceived in the conversations he witnessed there — conversations that, as he put it, '(used) the kind of language to describe OA advocates that I'm used to hearing OA advocates use to describe commercial publishers' ... I want to be clear: historians definitely aren't hostile to access, or even necessarily to open access. In my experience, however, and certainly this is the case for the Institute I direct and the journal we publish, the William and Mary Quarterly, many historians are beginning to look more critically at the problems that open access proposes to solve, the monolithic solutions that are offered, and the potential consequences for scholars and their scholarship. What we find is troubling, even while there is tremendous enthusiasm among historians, as there has been for decades, for seeking ways to disseminate historical scholarship more widely ... But we also now have ample evidence of the great divide between the circumstances in STEM publishing that have resulted in the emergence of OA policies and mandates from funders, governments, and universities and the realities of humanities and social sciences (HSS) scholarly publishing ... There needs to be more and regular attention to the importance of heterogeneous models of access, dissemination, and production. Scholarship is developed in very different ways, within very distinctive research and publication ecosystems. No one would suggest that biologists and film scholars organize, finance, and undertake their research along similar lines. And we know very well that the resulting scholarship is not consumed in the same way. Why, then, should we assume that the results of that research–published scholarship—can be produced and disseminated in the same way? Especially when analyses now suggest that this is an unlikely—perhaps even undesirable—outcome.  It worries me deeply that most conversations flatten out these differences, and that few mention, let alone prioritize, the importance of the scholarship itself. Financing circulation is obviously important, but creating scholarship is a more complex and collaborative process than OA advocates and policies recognize or accommodate, involving many layers of skill and labor. I'm going to confine my remarks in this post to the way that humanities scholarship, and more specifically scholarship within my own discipline of history, is developed and produced within scholarly journals ..."
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