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• ArXiv | Technology
• Scientific publishing policy should be based on facts, not politics | TheHill
• Publishers arguing badly for longer embargoes, again.
• 2015 DLF Forum: Vancouver
• Digital National Framework to be incorporated in Open Address initiative | News releases | Press Office | Policy and media | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT
• Loop | Open Access and Open Science at EGU 2015
• Good news stories about data sharing? | Unlocking Research
• The future is Open Access - Video Dailymotion

ArXiv | Technology Posted: 21 Apr 2015 09:29 AM PDT "The arXiv (pronounced "archive", as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, χ) is a repository of electronic preprints, known as e-prints, of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archived on the arXiv. Begun on August 14, 1991, arXiv.org passed the half-million article milestone on October 3, 2008, and hit a million by the end of 2014. By 2014 the submission rate had grown to more than 8,000 per month...."

Scientific publishing policy should be based on facts, not politics | TheHill Posted: 21 Apr 2015 05:25 AM PDT "Congress...should be sure to avoid doing harm to America's historic partnership between scholarly researchers and publishers of scientific and technical journals to serve the public at large....Two recently introduced bills, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) and the Public Access to Public Science Act (PAPS) would do just that, undermining this country's global leadership in scientific publishing....The Association of American Publishers (AAP) represents more than 100 professional and scholarly publishers...."

Publishers arguing badly for longer embargoes, again. Posted: 21 Apr 2015 05:20 AM PDT "The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is arguing that an AAP-funded study supports the AAP position that federal open-access policies should allow longer embargoes.  http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/239435-scientific-publishing-policy-should-be-based-on-facts-not The AAP argument is deceptive. Among other things, it doesn't mention that the study on which it relies was AAP-funded. While I have no quarrel with the study itself, the argument from the study to the AAP's pet conclusion is utterly invalid. See my analysis at the time the study appeared, anticipating the current AAP position, "What doesn't justify longer embargoes on publicly-funded research." https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/gPRFVdDD8Dg "

2015 DLF Forum: Vancouver Posted: 21 Apr 2015 01:09 AM PDT "The 2015 DLF Forum will be held in Vancouver, BC, October 26-28. We are looking forward to our first Forum outside of the United States. The conference will be held at the Pinnacle Vancouver Harbourfront Hotel. The Call for Proposals is open until June 22, and the program will be announced in August. You can keep up to date on Forum news by subscribing to our mailing list, listserv, or following us on Twitter ..."

Digital National Framework to be incorporated in Open Address initiative | News releases | Press Office | Policy and media | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT Posted: 21 Apr 2015 01:05 AM PDT "The Location Information Specialist Group (LISG), part of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is delighted to announce that Open Addresses has been selected to take the Digital National Framework (DNF) forward. Open Addresses is the nation's first open data address company run by the Open Data Institute. BCS was invited to administer and make the award of funds left over from the DNF collaboration to an initiative that would take the concept forward ... The DNF was created by a group of small and medium sized software companies including: 1Spatial, Dotted Eyes and Manchester Geomatics. Together they worked with Ordnance Survey and the British Geological Survey to define a framework for linking geospatial data which culminated in production of a number of specification and guidelines for best practice to link data - these can be found at www.dnf.org.uk.  In addition, as a practical outcome of the DNF work, Great Britain advocated that the EU INSPIRE programme adopt already existing Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs) as unique record codes rather than creating another Unique Reference Number from scratch, with associated costs of creating and cross-matching existing references ... "

Loop | Open Access and Open Science at EGU 2015 Posted: 21 Apr 2015 12:53 AM PDT "Through their publishing arm, Copernicus, the EGU has a range of Open Access journals. Thus, it was fitting that this concept - and the broader concept of 'open science' - were represented at sessions and debates throughout the duration of the conference. The key highlights in this regard neatly bookended the conference, taking place on Monday, 13 April and Friday, 17 April, respectively ..."

Good news stories about data sharing? | Unlocking Research Posted: 21 Apr 2015 12:32 AM PDT "We have been speaking to researchers around the University recently to discuss the expectations of their funders in relation to data management. This has raised the issue of how best to convince people this is a process that benefits society rather than a waste of time or just yet another thing they are being 'forced to do' – which is the perspective of some that we have spoken with ..."

The future is Open Access - Video Dailymotion Posted: 21 Apr 2015 12:12 AM PDT Use the link to access the video.

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