Wednesday, April 22, 2015

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Open Science Developer : Hinxton, United Kingdom

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 09:05 AM PDT

"We are looking to recruit an Open Science Developer to work on the THOR project. You will join the Literature Services team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK...."

EPT Awards | Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 07:15 AM PDT

"The primary objective of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is the advancement of access to research publications for researchers in the developing world. The establishment of Open Access to previously inaccessible scholarly publications has opened the door to a more equitable system for sharing research information and the advancement of science.
The EPT Award scheme was established in 2011, in order to recognise and acknowledge the great effort being made by individuals to further this development. During our work in support of this objective, we became very aware that there are many 'unsung heroes' working hard to inform, train and support their research colleagues and their organisations making the move to provide open access to the literature. These people were working over and above their normal work responsibilities to hold meetings, provide information or organise training courses, and implement OA initiatives...."

California's multi-million dollar online education flop is another blow for MOOCs - The Hechinger Report

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 01:04 AM PDT

"Three years later, the Online Instruction Pilot Project has become another expensive example of the ineffectiveness—so far, anyway—of once-vaunted plans to widen access to college degrees by making them available online, including in massive online open courses, known as MOOCs. This story also appeared in U.S. News & World Report 'We spent a lot of money and got extremely little in return,' said Jose Wudka, a physics professor at UC-Riverside who previously chaired the Systemwide Committee on Educational Policy of the Academic Senate, which represents faculty in the UC System. The project, which cost $7 million to set up at a time when the state was cutting higher-education funding, aspired to let students take courses across campuses. A UCLA student, for example, would be able to take a UC-Irvine class online ..."

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Publication Cost Data 2014

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 01:00 AM PDT

"Following 2013 (http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.988754), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) makes its publication costs spent in 2014 (esp. for Open Access) publically available. The dataset includes payments for publications of authors funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) via following programmes: 'Peer-Reviewed Publications': https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/peer-reviewed-publications/ 'Stand-Alone Publications': https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/stand-alone-publications/ In addition to 2013, this dataset includes also costs for Open Access books and other venues ..."

SHARE Launches Beta of SHARE Notify for Informing Stakeholders When Research Is Released | SHARE

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:55 AM PDT

"Stakeholders in the research enterprise—funding agencies, institutions, and individual researchers—often find it challenging to keep track of new research activities that may be relevant to their work. To make research more widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable, SHARE is launching today a public beta version of its free notification service, SHARE Notify. SHARE Notify generates a normalized feed of research release events—such as posting a preprint to a disciplinary repository, depositing a data set into a data repository, publishing a peer-reviewed article—from diverse sources and with varied schema. This service will enable all stakeholders to have the information necessary to improve their workflows for tracking research outcomes, outputs, and impact. SHARE Notify currently includes metadata from 30 providers and more than 615,000 release events. SHARE Notify is the first project of SHARE, a higher education initiative to maximize research impact. SHARE was co-founded by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) in 2013 and is funded, in part, by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Center for Open Science (COS) has been SHARE's technical partner since June 2014 ..."

Open all hours: How open data is helping some of the world's most impoverished countries | Civil Service World

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:52 AM PDT

"Midtown Manhattan could hardly feel further away – both literally and figuratively – from the frontline of development. But later this year, government leaders and representatives of civil society groups and non-governmental organisations will gather there, drawn by the need to finalise the next set of global development priorities at the nearby headquarters of the United Nations. These Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will seek to address major global issues of justice, human rights, social inclusion, prosperity and the environment over the next 15 years. It's quite a list. Policymakers, though, possess a huge advantage over their predecessors: the recent proliferation and potential of open data to measure progress and discover solutions ... It's already becoming clear that open data holds particular resonance for international development. By 2013, 12 of the 41 available national platforms for accessing open data had been created by developing countries. And with the African Development Bank becoming the first pan-African entity to provide regional information through a central platform, it is increasingly likely that open data will form a central part of the plans for the SDG framework.  The timing is certainly significant. Driven by a push for greater aid effectiveness and accountability from development programmes, there has been an increasing need to measure results using reliable, transparent data as evidence. But its potential is not just limited to tracking aid effectiveness ..."

US Department of Energy and CHORUS Sign Participation Agreement to Advance Public Access | CHORUS

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:42 AM PDT

"The US Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a Participation Agreement with CHORUS to contribute to the implementation of DOE PAGESBeta, the DOE's Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science. The agreement, which is effective immediately, solidifies the collaboration that was announced in August 2014 and moves a two-year effort into the next phase of production ..."

OSTI, US Dept of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information | Speeding access to science information from DOE and Beyond

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:33 AM PDT

"For science agencies, access to federally funded research is a key part of our mission.  And the very first requirement for federal agency public access plans directed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was that the plans must encompass 'a strategy for leveraging existing archives, where appropriate, and fostering public-private partnerships with scientific journals relevant to the agency's research [emphasis added].'  This 2013 OSTP memo is replete with calls for public-private partnerships ... From the first, and even before the clarion calls and requirements from Congress and OSTP for partnerships with stakeholders, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) acting for DOE has made collaboration a byword.  DOE was an early adopter of the concept of a distributed approach to public access in the kind of public-private partnership that OSTP later encouraged in its memo on public access.  DOE worked with the publishing community through participation in CrossRef's FundRef project.  FundRef provides a standard way to report funding sources for published scholarly research, thereby helping an agency identify and account for journal articles resulting from its research investments.  Publishers deposit funding information from articles and other content using a standard taxonomy of funder names.  DOE worked with CrossRef to provide an accurate taxonomy of agency funding sources.  OSTI is a member of the FundRef Advisory Group and has been involved since the first FundRef pilot project in 2012.  Most recently, we have added an OSTI employee to a working group for SHARE, the SHared Access Research Ecosystem, which describes itself as a 'higher education and research community initiative to ensure the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research outputs.'  We believe that collaboration is going very well ..."

WHO | WHO Launches Open Access to the WHO Global Medicines* Safety Database

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:29 AM PDT

"Pharmacovigilance, or drug safety, is the primary method used to identify hazards associated with medicinal products and with minimizing the risk of any harm that may come to patients. It is based on timely information sharing and transparency, so that noxious and unintended effects due to medicinal products, medication errors such as overdose, and misuse and abuse of medicines can be quickly addressed. To improve patient safety, increase transparency and encourage the reporting of adverse effects from medicinal products, the World Health Organization (WHO) will launch VigiAccessTM on 17 April. VigiAccess is a new web application that will allow anyone to access information on reported cases of adverse events related to over 150 000 medicines and vaccines. More than ten million cases from over 120 countries are held in VigiBaseTM , the WHO database of suspected adverse reaction reports maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden ..."

WHO | WHO calls for increased transparency in medical research

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:24 AM PDT

"WHO today issued a public statement calling for the disclosure of results from clinical trials for medical products, whatever the result. The move aims to ensure that decisions related to the safety and efficacy of vaccines, drugs and medical devices for use by populations are supported by the best available evidence ..."

WHO Opens Its Database Of Medicines Side Effects To The Public

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:20 AM PDT

"The World Health Organization has announced that its Global Medicines Safety Database is now open to the general public. The database named VigiAccess can now be accessed on any computer or smartphone in the world. Speakers at a 17 April press briefing said VigiAccess can be access through a user-friendly platform but cannot be used to assess if a medicine is bad or good. According to the VigiAccess website, the database provides suspected side-effects from various medicinal products. The WHO global database for adverse drug reactions is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Center (UMC), in Uppsala, Sweden. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director-general, said the database contains some 10 million reports of adverse drug reactions across 110 countries. She said the WHO issued a position statement earlier calling for greater transparency of clinical trials results and now is launching an open access database on adverse drug reactions. Research and knowledge related to health products should become global public goods, she said. The information about adverse drug reactions is vital for governments in public health decision-making, she said, as it is among the top ten causes of death in some countries, she added ..."

Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa: Collaborative publishing: the difference between 'gratis journals' and 'open access journals'

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:17 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article from the institutional repository of the Universidade de Lisboa.

Training the trainers for Open Access (OA) and Open Science (5) | Foster

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:12 AM PDT

Training for PhD candidates

Plan for the training: 1. What is Open Access? 2. OA publishing models 3. How to publish in OA? 4. Journals and bases in OA. Disciplines and institutionals repositories in Poland and in the world. 5. Creative Commons licences and elements of copyright. 6. Other tools in young researcher work. 7. Open Educational Resources

The open data and the environment | Open Vienna

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:08 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "Indeed, open data - open data - which aims to make available public data reusable spread rapidly since the political field is the appropriate (Chignard, 2012). In the environmental field, the process encounters a strong social demand information related to a requirement of equity to risk, so access to information, and a growing interest in the shared environmental knowledge. The environmental data that are relevant data to the study of the environment in free access, and everyone is free to use and distribute, can understand the data in the public domain, those administrations or those that have been made available under a free license. These are, for example, data relating to the quality of air, water, biodiversity ... The convergence of data digitization, democratization of the tools of their management and the multiplication of instances where discusses land induces a growing movement of environmental data: whether support mapping to organize space , decision-making elements ... These data are mobilized largely beyond the context of disciplinary communities or businesses in which they were produced. Associations of Open Data now create sections all dedicated to the environment. For example, the working group 'Open Sustainability' of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Spotted at http://sustainability.okfn.org/ ), the thematic related to organic food, management of energy and the emissions of pollutants ..."

Open business models, open data, and the public interest - Creative Commons

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 12:00 AM PDT

"Less than one month ago, Creative Commons began a project designed to explore and develop business models built on CC licensing. Starting from the methods in the best-selling Business Model Generation handbook, Creative Commons is developing new tools specifically tailored for ventures that utilize CC-licensed or public domain content as a central component of their strategies. We are also working one-on-one with a handful of companies and organizations to brainstorm new business models and paths to sustainability. In this short span of time, we have seen there is a real desire for this sort of work, and Creative Commons is uniquely-suited to lead it. And in just these first few weeks of this project, we have learned an incredible amount about all of the fascinating ways nonprofits, universities, and businesses are leveraging CC licensing in what they do. One immediate observation about these ventures is how the public interest plays a role in all of them. Whether for-profit or not, the social good furthered by the product or service is an important part of the value proposition. Meet Openwords: A great example of that phenomenon is a young startup called Openwords, a company CC has been fortunate to work with in our business models initiative. Openwords is a foreign language learning app with a social mission – to provide free and open language learning technology for languages that currently have little or no options for mobile language learning. The small startup is able to do this at low cost thanks to open data. Openwords mines the vast pools of existing open data on sites like Wiktionary and Apertium and transforms the data into language learning tools for a wide range of languages, large and small. Openwords' open data strategy has already been successful. Openwords has mined content for over 1000 languages. While Openwords uses existing open data to fuel its product, it is also giving back new open data and content to the public. Everything Openwords creates — the modified data, software code, and educational content – is either dedicated to the public domain using CC0 or offered under an open license. This virtuous circle makes it possible for this for-profit venture to fulfill its social goals ..."
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