Wednesday, April 29, 2015

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LIBER seeks Advocacy Officer

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 09:27 AM PDT

"LIBER is seeking an Advocacy Officer to work on our European projects relating to policy and advocacy and to support the Executive Director in developing our advocacy programme. The post-holder will work on advocacy and policy in the areas of copyright and text and data mining, open access, and research data management...."

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Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:51 AM PDT

"In the last decade, information and communication technology (ICT) advances have deeply changed the way research is conducted within research infrastructures (RIs). A Research Infrastructure is intended as the compound of elements regarding the organization (roles, procedures, etc.), the structure (buildings, laboratories, etc.), the resources (microscopes, telescopes, sensors, services, data, digital library resources), and the technology (hard- and software, network protocols, Internet, applications, etc.) underpinning the implementation of scientific research. In this respect research relies mainly on high-quality and digitally accessible research products (e.g. publications, datasets, experiments, software, web sites, blogs) in order to generate novel ideas, findings, and concrete results. Along the same line scientific communication has mutated in order to adapt its underlying mission (and business models) to such new scenarios. In particular, the traditional paradigm of research publishing by sole articles cannot cope with the increasing demands of immediate access and effective reuse of any research results. Scientists, funders, and research institutions are pushing for innovative scientific communication workflows (i.e. submission, peer-review, access, re-use, citation, and scientific reward), marrying an holistic approach where 'publishing' includes in principle any digital product resulting from a research activity that is relevant to the interpretation, evaluation, and reuse of the activity or part of it. Defining, taking up, and supporting such 'revolutionary' publishing workflows become urgent challenges, to be addressed by ICT solutions capable of fostering and driving radical changes in the way science is developed."

Guidelines on Patentability and Access to Medicines » infojustice

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:47 AM PDT

"Until recently, the link between the examination of patents carried out by national patent offices and the right of citizens to access to medicines was not at all clear. They were two functions or responsibilities of the State that apparently had nothing to do with each other. Examining the growing literature on intellectual property and access to medicines, it seems that the analysis of one actor has been left out: the patent offices. And the reason is clear: patent offices are administrative institutions. Patentability requirements are not defined by patent offices, but frequently by the courts, tribunals, legislation or treaty negotiators. There is now greater understanding that the examination of patents and the role played by patent examiners are key elements that could contribute to or obstruct access to medicines. Given the impact of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines, patent offices should draw up public policies and strategies that respond to national health and medicine policies ..."

The Inter-American Development Bank Launches its Open Data Portal: Numbers for Development | Benzinga

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:43 AM PDT

"The Inter-American Development Bank announced today the launch of its new open data portal Numbers for Development, which allows users to explore, visualize and download data from Latin America and the Caribbean. The data comes from diverse research analysis and sources used by the Bank to generate knowledge for its development interventions. The portal lets users find in a single place a variety of specialized datasets with indicators and raw data on topics such as education, labor markets, poverty, gender participation, global integration and agriculture policy, among others. Numbers for Development is aimed at researchers, students, policymakers, analysts, and others working in development issues and public policy. The Bank previously offered a BETA version of the portal to early adapters and the feedback was tremendously positive, helping the IDB to create the current version of this useful tool ..."

ODI welcomes manifestos on open data – with reservations

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:37 AM PDT

"The Open Data Institute has said political parties are taking open data seriously, but need to make further commitments The Open Data Institute (ODI) has given a qualified thumbs up to the main political parties' plans for open data in their manifestos for the general election. A blog by its policy lead, Ellen Broad, says the ODI is confident that open data will play a key role in any future UK government, and that the major parties share an awareness of its importance. But their commitments could go much further. It refers to an earlier warning by Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI's chair, that government has to make constant progress, making the opening up of data part of "business as usual". The blog says that none of the parties go into detail on how the publication and use of open data would be taken forward if they were to be in government after the election. There are, however, reasons to be optimistic. It rounds up the key points of the manifestos - taking in the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists, Greens and Plaid Cymru - and says that most highlight the importance of publishing more information to help government make decision and improve transparency and accountability. This compares favourably to the 2010 election, when only the Conservatives raised the issue in their manifesto. It also points out that the new documents contain commitments to publishing more information about public procurement, overseas tax and company details, healthcare, crime and education among other issues ..."

Rural lawyers concerned about funding cut for online legal research

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:32 AM PDT

"Rural sole practitioners say their work has become more difficult with the LibraryCo Toolkit that used to provide remote desktop case law search services no longer available since the beginning of the year. 'They are looking at the whole of the operation,' says Cheryl Siran 'When you are a person like me, I happen to be a single father raising five young kids at home by myself, so after business hours I need to be at home to look after my kids,' says sole practitioner Charles Lugosi. Lugosi lives in Brantford, Ont., where the local law library is open between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., a time when lawyers are generally in court. That makes doing research difficult for lawyers like him after the Law Foundation of Ontario discontinued funding for the online toolkit at the beginning of the year ..."

OpenGov Voices: Moving the food system forward with open data - Sunlight Foundation Blog

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:26 AM PDT

"Opening up agricultural and nutritionally relevant datasets has the potential to impact lives through more effective and transparent government, improved government services, better target development programs as well as improved research, science and innovation. A lack of open data and institutional, national and international policies limit the effectiveness of agricultural and nutritional data from research and innovation. So, opening up and sharing usable data in the agriculture and nutrition sectors is critical to moving forward. Advocating to make this change happen is at the heart of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. GODAN seeks to support global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible and usable for unrestricted use around the world. The initiative focuses on building high-level policy and public and private institutional support for open data. We encourage collaboration and cooperation among existing agriculture and open data activities, bringing together all stakeholders to solve long-standing global problems. The initiative is a growing network of over 100 partner organizations, including the Sunlight Foundation, that are committed to open data in agriculture and nutrition. Partners are highly diverse from small enterprises to large NGOs and foundations to national governments ..."

"The open-access is 15M science" - VilaWeb

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:22 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "Francisca Garcia Abad LIS professor and professor in the Department of History of Science and Documentation of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Valencia. After graduating in Medicine and doctoral thesis, his research focused on information systems science. He was responsible for coordinating the team that put up RODERIC the university's institutional repository. Is currently working on several projects open access to scientific study Spanish as well as in the international visibility of scientific publications of the University of Valencia ..."

Open access: challenges and opportunities for the University of Lyon - SCD - May 5, 2015

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:18 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "The University of Lyon invites you to a morning of exchanges with Jean-Pierre Finance and Bernard Rentier around issues of open access to optimize the dissemination of scientific production. Aware of the challenges of Open Access for Research Dissemination, the University of Lyon organizes a morning of exchanges around the open access to scientific publications. This is to sensitize researchers Site deposit their publications in open archives but also the possibility of publishing their articles in open journals. It is also recalled that the dynamics of Open Access is the responsibility of all stakeholders: researchers, school leaders, responsible for research, responsible for bibliometrics and recovery, in charge of information systems, publishers, librarians ..."

Global Collaboration to Fight Malaria - YouTube

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:09 AM PDT

Abstract:  At least one child dies of malaria every minute of every day, mainly in Africa and Asia. According to Matthew Todd, who leads the Open Source Malaria Consortium in Sydney, Australia, given minimal financial incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop new treatments and a high degree of suffering among the affected communities, a large-scale collaborative research model provides a solution. Todd turned publicly available data into a global effort to help identify new anti-malaria drugs. He did this by creating an open-source collaborative involving scientists, college students and others from around the world. They use open online laboratory notebooks in which their experimental data is posted each day, enabling instant sharing and the ability to build on others' findings in almost real time. Todd's Malaria Consortium could provide a model for researchers collaboratively tackling other daunting medical challenges, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Teaming Up: How to Build Your Open Science Collaboration | Mozilla Science Lab

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:08 AM PDT

"With the Mozilla Science Global Sprint coming up soon (submissions for project ideas are open until May 11), the community has been coming up with tons of awesome suggestions for projects to work on; meanwhile, new projects on everything from collaborative LaTeX to sleuthing out what references are open access on BMC to a curated bioinformatics reaction pathway database are cropping up on Collaborate, our project to highlight interesting open source and open science projects you can jump into, and learn by doing. But all of these projects have to answer the same question: how do you present an open source project in a way that appeals to people, gets them interested, and attracts collaborators who will stick around? Here are a few tips on what we've learned during the first six months of Collaborate ..."

Scholarly Metrics | Reference eReviews, April 15, 2015

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:03 AM PDT

"THESE DAYS, scholarly metrics are a high-stakes game and a lot of effort is being directed toward finding relevant and credible methods to assess and present scholarship. In LJ 1/15 (ow.ly/KQ4yY), we analyzed Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters) in which Impact Factor, the most consistently accepted metric for scholarly assessment, has held sway since 1975 (see also 'InCites Gets a Makeover,' ow.ly/KQ3Fn.—Ed.). We also evaluated two approaches for delivering article level alternatives—Plum Analytics (EBSCO) and Altmetric for Institutions (Altmetric)—and reviewed Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities (Cabell Publishing), in which directory-type information is combined with Cabell's journal analysis and ranking system. This time, we briefly revisit an updated Cabell's and consider Impactstory, whose stated goal is 'to build a new scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship,' along with another Thomson Reuters product, Book Citation Index, which aims to turn the static book citation into a dynamic research tool. Since several publishers now incorporate scholarly metrics into their own titles, we also take a look at the various approaches of BioMed Central (Springer), the Public Library of Science, the Nature Publishing Group (Macmillan), and Scopus (Elsevier) ..."

Harnessing the uncovered opportunities of open data | Kvartti

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:00 AM PDT

"This review is based on a systematic mapping of existing research reports, websites and interviews of experts in the field of open data, conducted at City of Helsinki Urban Facts (Helsinki Region Infoshare) during the summer 2014. The analysis focused on city level. Firstly, the study proposes open data to be approached and analysed from the perspective of its benefits. Secondly, it indicates that still uncovered opportunities of open data could be identified and utilised better. Finally, the study emphasises impacts of open data and suggests some future trends ..."

Penn State librarians approve open access policy for scholarly work | Penn State University

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 04:54 AM PDT

"Penn State University Libraries faculty voted recently to embrace open access principles when publishing their scholarly articles. The Open Access Policy, passed into legislation at the Feb. 11, 2015, Library Faculty Organization meeting, preserves the right of library faculty to publish where they wish, but encourages authors to take advantage of open access opportunities whenever feasible. An underlying principle of open access is to make scholarly output available at no cost to readers. In addition to the proliferation of reputable and high quality open access journals, many traditional publishers are amenable to authors making a version of their articles accessible online, either at the time of formal publication, or following an embargo period ... ScholarSphere, Penn State's repository for scholarly work launched in 2012, will be the institutional location for deposit and sharing of faculty research. ScholarSphere records are harvested regularly by search engines such as Google, increasing the likelihood of ready discovery over the Internet ... Penn State Libraries faculty join their colleagues at other institutions including Columbia, Arizona State, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, and the University of Northern Colorado, who have all voted to support the principles of open access for their scholarly work ..."

Global Collaboration to Fight Malaria - YouTube

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 04:50 AM PDT

"At least one child dies of malaria every minute of every day, mainly in Africa and Asia. According to Matthew Todd, who leads the Open Source Malaria Consortium in Sydney, Australia, given minimal financial incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop new treatments and a high degree of suffering among the affected communities, a large-scale collaborative research model provides a solution. Todd turned publicly available data into a global effort to help identify new anti-malaria drugs. He did this by creating an open-source collaborative involving scientists, college students and others from around the world. They use open online laboratory notebooks in which their experimental data is posted each day, enabling instant sharing and the ability to build on others' findings in almost real time. Todd's Malaria Consortium could provide a model for researchers collaboratively tackling other daunting medical challenges, such as Alzheimer's disease ..."

NLM and Publishers Launch Emergency Access Initiative, Granting Free Access to Books and Journals for Healthcare Professionals Responding to Earthquake in Nepal

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:36 AM PDT

"The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and publisher Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthcare professionals working on the response to the earthquake in Nepal. The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text from more than 650 biomedical journals and more than 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters. It serves as a temporary collection replacement and/or supplement for libraries affected by disasters that need to continue to serve medical staff and affiliated users. It is also intended for medical personnel responding to the specified disaster. EAI is not an open access collection. It is only intended for those affected by the disaster or assisting the affected population. If you know of a library or organization involved in healthcare efforts in response to the earthquake in Nepal, please let them know of this service. This is the fifth time the EAI has been activated. Previously support was provided following the earthquake and subsequent cholera epidemic in Haiti; flooding in Pakistan; the earthquake and tsunami in Japan; and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. NLM thanks the numerous participating publishers for their generous support of this initiative: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, American Society for Microbiology Press, B.C. Decker, BMJ, Cambridge University Press, EBSCOHost, Elsevier, FA Davis, Mary Ann Liebert, Massachusetts Medical Society, McGraw-Hill, Merck Publishing, Oxford University Press, People's Medical Publishing House, Springer, University of Chicago Press, Wiley and Wolters Kluwer."

ZB MED launches Open Access platform Living Handbooks | ZB MED - Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:32 AM PDT

"Scientific textbooks are usually heavy, expensive and quickly due to the rapid advancement in many fields of science is out of date. Authors of these textbooks have often beyond cede the rights to their texts to the respective publishers. The pilot project Living Handbooks ZB MED provides a remedy. On the platform can manuals from various disciplines of life sciences online and will be published freely accessible - jointly created by academic authors, while retaining the rights to their publications. Since the contributions can be updated by chapters and in free cycles, content not old, as may be the case with printed textbooks. Another advantage of the project is that not only text, but also images, graphics and videos on Living Handbooks can be published. 'All of our contributions Living Handbooks are quality assured, because each version passes through a peer-review process,' explains Ulrich Korwitz, Director of ZB MED. An editorial board of the respective field of study ensures that the peer review process. All contributions are also editorially revised. A permanent citation and findability is by assigning persistent identifiers - (Digital Object Identifier DOI guarantees). The first 'Living Handbook' could be triggered by Hand Surgery Worldwide eV together with Dr. Richarda Böttcher. The 'Living Textbook of Hand Surgery' is a handbook for Hand Surgery, of which the first contributions are now available online. The next Living Handbook created ZB MED in collaboration with the European Association of Urology (EAU). Other manuals from various disciplines of the life sciences are being planned ..."

Providing Universal Access to Modern Materials – and Living to Tell the Tale on Vimeo

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:27 AM PDT

"The Internet Archive started by archiving the Web, but now works with hundreds of librarians and partners to create digital collections both centralized and distributed. The challenges of presenting modern materials yield different solutions for each media type. Kahle shares his vision of how cooperation, shared technology and risk can result in many winners in the digital library world ..."

Popping the open source/open science bubble.

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:22 AM PDT

"One of the things that became clear to me over the last two weeks is just how much of a open source/open science bubble my blog and Twitter commenters live in. Don't take that as a negative -- I'm in here with you, and it's a great place to live :). But it's still a bubble. Two specific points brought this home to me. First, a lot of the Twitter and blog commentary on Please destroy this software after publication. kthxbye. expressed shock and dismay that I would be OK with non-OSS software being published. (Read Mick Watson's blog post and Kai Blin's comment.) Many really good reasons why I was wrong were brought up, and, well, I have to say it was terrifically convincing and I'm going to change my own policy as a reviewer. So far, so good. But it turns out that only a few journals require an actual open source license (Journal of Open Research Software and Journal of Statistical Software). So there is a massive disparity between what some of my tweeps (and now me) believe, and what is codified practice. Second, many eloquent points were made about software as a major product and enabler of research -- see especially the comments on 'software as communication' and 'software as experimental design' by others (linked to here - see 'Software as...' section). These points were very convincing as well, although I'm still trying to figure out how exactly to evolve my own views. And yet here again I think we can be quite clear that most biologists and perhaps even some bioinformaticians would have either no considered opinion on software, or be outright dismissive of the idea that software itself is intellectual output. Again, very different from what the people on Twitter and my blog think. I was already pretty surprised with how strong the case was for open source software as a requirement (go read the links above). I was even more surprised with how eloquently and expansively people defended the role of software in research. Many, many strong arguments were put forth. So, how do we evolve current practice?? ..."

Accessibility and added value: a personal perspective on publishing in PeerJ by Erin McKiernan | PeerJ Blog

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:16 AM PDT

"In just a few days the inaugural ARCS: Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship (Philadelphia, April 26-28) will begin. As PeerJ is one of the sponsors of the event we asked Erin McKiernan, (published author with PeerJ and ARCS co-organiser) to give a personal perspective on some of the scholarly communications challenges she has faced, and why she chose PeerJ. Here's what she said …"

First living scientific figure: articles can now keep pace with scientific discovery | Discussions – F1000 Research

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:13 AM PDT

" ... Now in 2015 we can present the first example of an auto-updating 'living' figure in a published, peer reviewed original research article. After reading Jure's post, behavioural neuroscientist Björn Brembs at the Universität Regensberg approached us at F1000Research to help create a dynamic figure that could visualize the variations in locomotor behaviour of Drosophila Canton S strains sourced from different labs. Canton S is the most frequently used wild type control strain in Drosophila experiments, and there is an unspoken assumption that these flies are effectively identical between labs. Björn, together with his collaborator Julien Colomb at the Freie Universität and the F1000Research development team (special nod to our whizz kid developer Ravi Kumarasighe), set about coding a living figure in R that could effectively illustrate this data whilst adhering to good scientific publishing practices. The first version of their article included a static Figure 4 and a call for other researchers to contribute their findings by uploading their data to the truly living figure in Version 2 of their article (see our previous blog post and interview with the authors). Version 2 has now been published, and today the first data from another group, Gregg Roman at the University of Houston, has been added to the now fully functional Figure 4. When a researcher submits their raw data to this figure, a principal component analysis is automatically run on all the strains and the results are plotted onto the three graphs; the closer the plots, the more similar the strains. The figure has full version control so users can see how the figure has progressed over time, every contributor is credited in the legend and each dataset is independently downloadable, citable and has its own DOI. As of writing, seven sub-strains have been added to the figure with the eighth expected within the next few weeks (keep a lookout for future data being added). The most recent data from Dr Roman's team do not appear to group with any of the previously added strains, providing further evidence that these hypothetically identical control flies can actually be quite different ..."

The Hague Declaration on Vimeo

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:04 AM PDT

"A short film about The Hague Declaration: Access to Facts, Data and Ideas for Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age. To learn more and add your support, go to: thehaguedeclaration.com"

PLOS Medicine: Rationale for WHO's New Position Calling for Prompt Reporting and Public Disclosure of Interventional Clinical Trial Results

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:56 AM PDT

"On April 14, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a new statement on the public disclosure of clinical trial results (S1 Text) [1]. The WHO statement not only re-affirms the ethical imperative of clinical trial results reporting, it also defines reporting timeframes, calls for results-reporting of older but still unpublished trials, and outlines steps to improve linkages between clinical trial registry entries and their published results. This updates and expands WHO's 2005 statement that 'the registration of all interventional trials is a scientific, ethical, and moral responsibility' [2] ... In its statement, WHO has outlined the need for reporting to occur in two modalities. The first is for the main findings of clinical trials to be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal within 12 months of study completion (defined as the final data collection date for the primary outcome measure), with a further 12 months allowed from first submission to publication. Thus the key indicator for tracking will be journal publication of results within 24 months of study completion. Additionally, the key outcomes (defined in the statement) should be made publicly available within 12 months of study completion by posting to the results section of the primary clinical trial registry. If the registry does not allow posting, then the results should be posted on another easily accessible website. Another important feature of the WHO statement is its call for public disclosure of results from older, unreported clinical trials ..."

open science: (1)

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:47 AM PDT

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Open Access toKnight - YouTube

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:31 AM PDT

"Our main story tonight – Open Access – will be of interest to more than that lowly PhD student who needs access to that must-have journal article in order to finally graduate; Open Access is important to furthering knowledge. Just think what we could achieve if the knowledge we needed wasn't a locked up difficult-to-access resource, but rather treated as a treasure free to be shared with the world."

China’s scientific progress hinges on access to data : Nature News & Comment

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:26 AM PDT

" ... It is hard — and getting harder — for Chinese scientists to access high-quality domestic data. Most of the public data are held by government departments, some of which are strengthening their monopoly and making it harder for researchers to access the information. This affects researchers in the humanities and social sciences especially, but also extends to fields such as environmental science and public health, because the data involved can be politically sensitive. At conferences, I hear numerous complaints from colleagues about how hard it is to extract routine figures such as air-pollutant levels from the authorities, for example. Even when data are published, some are likely to be of poor quality because they have not been collected properly. The most notable example is the controversy on China's gross domestic product (GDP). There is a significant — and widening — difference between the official national estimate and the total calculated by adding up the GDPs of each of China's 31 province-level divisions. The National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing admits that different data-collection methods are used at the provincial level, and is trying to harmonize them. So far, progress has not been encouraging. Public data sharing has been turned into a profit-making scheme. It would be useful, for example, to compile data on pollution from road vehicles in China. Done properly, this would require access to detailed records on the number of each type of vehicle licensed, road congestion, detailed engine parameters and fuel standards. Research institutions struggle to get even basic figures on vehicle ownership from public agencies, so they must use less rigorous — and often misleading — sales data that industry groups collect from manufacturers. Ironically, the same wealthy automobile manufacturers that inflate their own numbers can get objective, reliable data about their competitors' sales by buying them from special channels that are linked with some government departments — at a price that public institutions and scientists cannot afford. In such an environment, it is no surprise that some research teams in China do not want to publish their own data. Ownership of data represents intangible capital that gives scientists a competitive advantage in some academic fields ..."

There is no reason not to publish Open Access - Video Dailymotion

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:22 AM PDT

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