Monday, May 25, 2015

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Elsevier: Trying to squeeze the virtual genie back into the physical bottle - Open Access Archivangelism

Posted: 25 May 2015 07:30 AM PDT

...a few more of the howlers that keep making Elsevier's unending series of arbitrary contractual bug-fixes logically incoherent (i.e., self-contradictory) and technically nonsensical, hence moot, unenforceable, and eminently ignorable for anyone who takes a few moments to think instead of cringe. Elsevier is trying to use pseudo-legal words to squeeze the virtual genie (the Web) back into the physical bottle (the old, land-based, print-on-paper world):...

[1505.04293] Unuploaded experiments have no result

Posted: 25 May 2015 02:30 AM PDT

"The aim of this note is to attract once again attention of the quantum community to statistical analysis of data which was reported as violating Bell's inequality. This analysis suffers of a number of problems. And the main problem is that rough data is practically unavailable. This situation differs crucially from the situation in other domains of experimental research, for example, from molecular biology and genetics. Thus the first message of this note is that this situation is really unacceptable. Experiments which are not followed by the open access to the rough data have to be considered as with no result. The absence of rough data generates a variety of problems in statistical interpretation of the results of Bell's type experiment. Among them I mention the following four problems: a) statistical justification of no-signaling, b) 'Aspect's anomalies', c) the time window problem (coincidence loophole), d) general statistical analysis of Bell's experiment. May be this note would stimulate others to contribute to analysis of these problems as well as to create the open access data-base on Bell tests and other tests on quantum foundations."

Big Deals in the knowledge business: how scholarly publishing divides academia - Rear Vision - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Posted: 25 May 2015 02:25 AM PDT

"Rear Vision explores why the world of scholarly communication has become so divided over the control , access and cost of knowledge. The outsourcing of the production of the Medical journal of Australia has divided medical researchers because of the sacking of the editor in chief , Professor Stephen Leeder. At the centre of the controversy is multinational Elsevier Publishing. Elsevier is one of the big four global publishers that dominate the STM industry- Science, Technology and Medical publishing ..."

Incentives for open science: New prizes to encourage research integrity and transparency in social science. | USAPP

Posted: 25 May 2015 02:15 AM PDT

"In the last decade, the demand for evidence to inform the public policy has increased. While this demand has driven investment in data-intensive research, there are still a number of incentives, norms, and institutions that undermine the openness and integrity of social science research. This leads to a biased and incomplete record of research – which can create significant problems, because scientific evidence is used to support policies that can affect millions of people. Transparent research practices are integral to the validity of science.  To encourage best practices, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) has established The Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science. BITSS is an initiative of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley. The prizes, which provide recognition, visibility and cash awards to both the next generation of researchers and senior faculty, are generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation ... The competition consists of two categories. The Emerging Leaders in Open Social Science Research Prize will award cash prizes of up to $15,000 to early-career researchers who adopt transparent research practices or pioneer new methods to increase the rigor of research. The Leaders in Open Social Science Education Prize will award up to $10,000 to faculty leaders who mainstream research transparency into their teaching. Winners will receive their awards, and have the opportunity to present their research, at the BITSS Annual Meeting in December 2015 at UC Berkeley ..."

Open Data Research Symposium - 2015 Tickets, Ottawa | Eventbrite

Posted: 25 May 2015 02:11 AM PDT

"As open data becomes firmly cemented in the policy mainstream, there is a pressing need to dig deeper into the dynamics of how open data operates in practice, and the theoretical roots of open data activities. Researchers across the world have been looking at these issues, and this workshop offers an opportunity to bring together and have shared dialogue around completed studies and work-in-progress ..."

Open Data and the voluntary sector, revisited | arbitrary constant

Posted: 25 May 2015 02:07 AM PDT

"I posted on the topic of Open Data and the voluntary sector earlier today, and I'm very grateful for the time people have taken to respond. I thought I'd jot down a response to their response in the hope of continuing the conversation. My original post boiled down to 4 propositions: Given the novelty of Open Data in the public sector, I didn't think people would be that interested in voluntary sector Open Data. The motivation for public sector organisations to publish their data (transparency) doesn't necessarily hold for why a voluntary sector organisation would publish their data. The power dynamic between voluntary sector organisations and their funders means that Open Data could be used as a resource for undermining the voluntary sector. Voluntary sector organisations are extremely well placed to benefit from the publication of Open Data by public agencies ..."

31 Editors and an OA publishing company at loggerheads over editorial independence | Editage Insights

Posted: 25 May 2015 02:04 AM PDT

"Scientific editors, also referred to as 'gatekeepers of science,' aspire to ensure unbiased and accurate reporting of science. Editorial independence, which entails bestowing complete responsibility for the content a journal publishes without the interference of the publishing company, is therefore one of the cornerstones of academic publishing. Journals with a good reputation believe in practicing editorial freedom of judgment. However, a successful open access publishing company Frontiers that owns over 50 journals and employs over 50,000 academic editors has stirred a controversy over editorial independence. 31 editors of two of its journals have accused the company of denying them editorial independence and running the company for financial gains. They raised this issue formally in a 13-page Manifesto of Editorial Independence ..."

Milestone for MIT Faculty Open Access Policy: 3 million downloads | MIT Libraries News

Posted: 25 May 2015 01:58 AM PDT

"A new milestone was reached at the end of April 2015, when downloads of articles deposited in relation to the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy reached — and surpassed — 3 million. The Open Access Articles Collection in DSpace@MIT now contains over 16,600 articles, which collectively were downloaded over 90,000 times in April ..."

„Scientific repositories in Poland – challenges and chances” – organized by the Open Science Platform in Warsaw : OpenAIRE blog

Posted: 25 May 2015 01:52 AM PDT

"Nearly 40 repository managers, representing close to all repositories in Poland, gathered in Warsaw on April 27, 2015, for a one-day workshop entitled 'Scientific repositories in Poland – challenges and chances'. The workshop was organized by the Open Science Platform – an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw – who also function as the OpenAIRE 2020 NOAD in Poland ..."

Publisher pushback puts open access in peril

Posted: 25 May 2015 01:46 AM PDT

" ... This issue raised by COAR has been brought to the fore by a new policy announced by the giant publisher Elsevier relating to embargo periods for articles that can be shared via a 'Green O'" policy. Elsevier's new policy is a substantial tightening of its rules around Green OA. It states that, if no APC is paid, the author's accepted version of the article cannot be made publicly available via their institution's repository until after an embargo period, which ranges from six months to four years. In addition, the license required is the most restrictive possible, in that it prohibits commercial reuse, or use of excerpts of the work. For example, an author's colleague would not be able to use a figure from a manuscript in teaching without specific permission. The fully typeset version of the article is available only from the publisher's site after paying a subscription. Despite Elsevier heralding the policy as 'unleashing the power of academic sharing', it is really a reversal of the rights of authors with their own manuscripts ..."

OpenAccess@StAndrews: Open Access in the Netherlands: Solid citizens

Posted: 25 May 2015 01:41 AM PDT

"Despite its small size the Netherlands is punching above its weight in Open Access practice and advocacy, driven by a strong sense of social justice.  As early as 2009 The National Library of the Netherlands was involved with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in a pilot project looking at long-term preservation of electronic journal collections.  The Hague is home to the Ligue des Bibliothéques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER- Association of European Research Libraries). LIBER is currently coordinating the development of the EC FP7 Gold Open Access Pilot to pay article processing charges (APCs) for research papers up to 2 years beyond the life of the grant.  In April work translating the SHERPA/RoMEO interface into Dutch was completed and released while the translation of the publisher policies continues.  There is a national website for Open Access supported by Utrecht University Library.  Sander Dekker (pictured), the Dutch State Secretary Department of Education, Culture and Science is an enthusiastic supporter who favours international cooperation. Amsterdam is hosting the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.  Amsterdam is also the headquarters of the publishing behemoth Elsevier that dominates the medical and scientific publishing market. Elsevier recently caused controversy by unexpectedly changing its sharing and hosting policy, and is able to use its considerable resources as a major Dutch taxpayer to lobby for industry interests. Particularly controversial was its decision to reinstate embargoes for voluntary deposit of accepted manuscripts into institutional repositories like Research@StAndrews:FullText. It also introduced a policy to apply the most restrictive Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-ND) to accepted manuscripts against the spirit of many funder mandates and sitting uncomfortably alongside an embargo period. A statement has already been signed by many international organizations against the policy ..."

GWU Ethics and Publishing

Posted: 25 May 2015 01:33 AM PDT

Use the link to access more information about the upcoming event.  

From Elsinore to Berlin | Early Modern and Open Access

Posted: 25 May 2015 01:16 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article.  " This is part of a weekly series here at TSS: Early Modern and Open Access regularly showcases peer-reviewed articles (or other resources) of interest to early modernists that are freely available in open access formats ... "  [Abstract] In a famous essay of 1919 Paul Valéry has Hamlet survey the devastated Europe in the aftermath of the First World War. He invokes the familiar image of Hamlet to look at a world that has become radically unfamiliar. The two Berlin Hamlets examined in in this paper took a different approach. Asta Nielsen's Hamlet film (1920-1921), directed by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall, and Leopold Jessner's 1926 stage production defamiliarized Hamlet in order to immerse him in the currents of accelerating modernity, changing him so that he could participate in changing the world. Valéry's Hamlet, the paper argues, is a prophet of loss; theirs a bearer of promise; albeit a promise tragically thwarted in the political turbulences of the short-lived Weimar Republic ..."
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