Thursday, May 28, 2015

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Science AMA Series. PLOS Science Wednesdays: I’m Jelte Wicherts, here to talk about a data simulation study published in PLOS ONE that showed why publishing everything is more effective than just publishing significant findings — AMA! : science

Posted: 28 May 2015 06:35 AM PDT

"Hi Reddit, My name is Jelte Wicherts and I am an associate professor at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, where I lead the Human Factors in Statistics group. Our research focuses on how researchers in the social sciences deal with the analysis of their data, errors with statistics, publication bias, and reproducibility. I recently published a study titled Why Publishing Everything Is More Effective than Selective Publishing of Statistically Significant Results in PLOS ONE. In this article, we argue that the best way forward in science is to publish all results rather than just those that are significant. We used simulation, a data fabrication technique that is ethically acceptable because it lets us see what happens in particular circumstances, to show that publishing all relevant results leads to much better estimates of effects in the literature. Publishing these results in PLOS ONE aligns closely with the journal's guidelines to not focus exclusively on novel or important results, but instead publishes sound research regardless of whether results are significant or not. I will be answering your questions on May 27 at 1pm EST — AMA! Don't forget to follow me on Twitter @JelteWicherts."
This is a subreddit page where Jelte Wicherts discusses his new article. 

LINQ 2015 Successfully Concluded in Brussels | LINQ 2015

Posted: 28 May 2015 06:25 AM PDT

""Learning Innovations and Quality" Conference 2015 in Brussels Welcomes Eminent Researchers, Key Players in Global Learning Quality Development Over one hundred participants from four continents gathered in Brussels to share and advance the most exciting trends in innovations and quality development for learning, education and training. Representatives from internationally-renowned education initiatives joined LINQ participants in Brussels from 11-13 May 2015. The location and attendance allowed for a rewarding shared experience with lively discussions and an intimate atmosphere."

Open Access - Chibnik - 2015 - American Anthropologist - Wiley Online Library

Posted: 28 May 2015 06:20 AM PDT

This article from the editor of the American Anthropologist discusses OA and the possibility of the journal becoming OA and what may make the society decide to stay a traditionally published journal or become a gold open access journal. 
"In recent years, increasing numbers of scholarly journals have become "gold open access," in which all content past and present is freely available online. Tom Boellstorff, my predecessor as AA editor-in-chief, advocated in one of his last from-the-editor columns (Boellstorff 2012:389) that the American Anthropological Association (AAA) should "work creatively to make … [their] journals gold open access in a sustainable manner that provides sufficient resources for these publications." When I read this column, I wondered how this would work. Although Tom acknowledged that there would be challenges in "implementing an alternative model to subscription-based financing," he nonetheless said that "anthropologists are a resourceful lot" and saw a need for an expanded discussion of funding possibilities for open access (Boellstorff 2012:391). In my first from-the-editor column (Chibnik 2013), I observed that many potential readers of AA, especially those living outside the United States, lacked access to both recent and older copies of the journal. I briefly noted that there were complex logistical and financial obstacles to providing the entirely open access that many of us would consider desirable. I promised that I would say more about this important topic at unspecified later date. This seems like an opportune time to do so. The prestigious AAA-sponsored journal Cultural Anthropology (CA) is now publishing gold open access. Furthermore, there has been extensive discussion within the AAA about both the financial sustainability of the association's journals and open-access possibilities.1 I now think that gold open access publication is unlikely to be feasible in the near future for AA. The ideas that I present here are mine alone and should not be regarded as reflecting the positions of either the AAA or other editors and staff associated with AA.

Publicly funded science must be transparent

Posted: 28 May 2015 06:10 AM PDT

"When you shut down direct public access to the scientists, you reduce transparency. The public has no way to tell whether the government is actually basing decisions on research results"
This article is a discussion from Lawrie McFarlane on public access how it should work, and how it is working. 

Free UKSG webinar - Creative Commons and Education – are we there yet? | UKSG

Posted: 28 May 2015 06:06 AM PDT

"A look at Creative Commons licences, their impact and use in education.  Date: Tuesday 9 June 2015 Time: 1400 BST Duration: 45 minutes including Q&A (up to 60 minutes maximum if there is sufficient demand for an extended Q&A)"
Register for  this webinar on Creative Commons use with Open Education here.

bmj.com at 20 years | The BMJ

Posted: 28 May 2015 05:46 AM PDT

"When we registered the URL "bmj.com" there were fewer than 20 000 websites in the world. Now there are nearly one billion. When we launched the world's first general medical website with a substantial web presence, 20 years ago this month, 40 million users could access the world wide web.[1] Now over three billion people—40% of the world's population—can. The arrival of the web was one of the biggest things that happened in the past few decades; it was certainly the biggest thing that happened to this journal."
BMJ is celebrating the 20th year. Read the summary of progress, success, and change. Also see the additional correction.

Welcome to Digital Odyssey

Posted: 28 May 2015 05:42 AM PDT

"Governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal level have started to embrace and publish open data for transparency and efficacy. Academics are increasingly facing mandates (and finding incentives) to preserve and share their research data, enabling verification of their results and new insights based on their data. Citizens and community groups want to use open data to inform business decisions and suggest policy directions; other groups want to digitize, preserve, and share their heritage materials to maintain a historical record. Cultural heritage institutions such as libraries and archives have the professional mandate and skills to preserve, organize, and facilitate access to that data."
Read about or register for Digital Odyssey 2015: Open Data, Open Heritage conference on June 12 in Toronto, a conference from the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association.

Open data tool to help arts and heritage reach communities | Nesta

Posted: 28 May 2015 05:28 AM PDT

"An online platform that helps arts and heritage organisations with funding bids has won Nesta and the Open Data Institute's (ODI's) Heritage and Culture Open Data Challenge."
This article discusses Culture Everywhere, a platform focused on open data, heritage, and culture.

NASA Launches API Portal to Encourage Use of Data Sets | ProgrammableWeb

Posted: 28 May 2015 05:23 AM PDT

"NASA has launched an API portal as part of its ongoing attempts to encourage reuse of the significant data sets available from the U.S. space agency's missions and other ongoing projects. The API portal complements other initiatives, including the recently launched NASA Data Portal, open source code libraries and GitHub account."

PLOS ONE: Why Publishing Everything Is More Effective than Selective Publishing of Statistically Significant Results

Posted: 28 May 2015 05:17 AM PDT

"Background De Winter and Happee [1] examined whether science based on selective publishing of significant results may be effective in accurate estimation of population effects, and whether this is even more effective than a science in which all results are published (i.e., a science without publication bias). Based on their simulation study they concluded that "selective publishing yields a more accurate meta-analytic estimation of the true effect than publishing everything, (and that) publishing nonreplicable results while placing null results in the file drawer can be beneficial for the scientific collective" (p.4)."
This article examines the benefits of selective publishing and the benefits of publishing all results.

Published Open Access Papers Set to Increase Soon – Smithsonian Libraries Unbound

Posted: 28 May 2015 05:10 AM PDT

"The Smithsonian will soon develop procedures for complying with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's directive on public access to federally funded research. That means that most papers authored by Smithsonian staff and affiliates will be made available to the public at no charge, some after an embargo period. There are several methods being developed by other federal agencies to meet this requirement and the Smithsonian has kept abreast of these policies. But aside from the White House mandate, it is clear that Smithsonian authors are increasingly making their scholarship freely available via publishing with an open access (OA) publisher. On average, there are about 350 OA papers published each year by Smithsonian scientists. This represents nearly 15% of research output."
This article discusses how and when the Smithsonian will begin to comply with the OSPT direct ire on public access. Doing so will increase OA to research written by Smithsonian authors.

Virginia community colleges pilot open textbooks -- GCN

Posted: 28 May 2015 04:52 AM PDT

"The Virginia Community College System announced a pilot program to replace traditional college textbooks with open digital texts for students at 15 of 23 of the commonwealth's community colleges. Funded by a $200,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the program will allow students to download freely accessible and openly licensed digital textbooks customized to fit each school's curriculum. The idea was based in part by Tidewater Community College's all-Open Educational Resources (OER) or "Z-Degree" program, a business degree that uses open educational materials. Tidewater and Northern Virginia Community College started using OER textbooks in 2013. Over the last three years, more than 100 faculty members at 16 community colleges have created more than 70 open courses."
This article discusses a program from  Virginia Community College System  to fund OERs and Open textbooks for students.

Open Access: A Collective Ecology for AAA Publishing in the Digital Age — Cultural Anthropology

Posted: 28 May 2015 03:56 AM PDT

"Just over a year ago Cultural Anthropology went Open Access. It has been an exhilarating experience, which has seen the journal engage new publics and conversations, as well as explore new intellectual and editorial possibilities. For those involved in the running of the journal, it has also demanded a steep learning curve. We, the Board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, thought it would be a good idea to put down in writing some of these lessons whilst responding to a recent memorandum (5/4/15) to Section Presidents, Journal Editors, and Section Treasurers that recapitulates the AAA's history of scholarly publishing. As we write, Michael Chibnik (AA's Editor-in-Chief) has published an editorial expressing his hesitation towards an OA solution for American Anthropologist.1 We take this opportunity to reply to Chibnik's text too...."

Green Open Access | Recommendations on the Future of Scholarly Publishing

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:50 AM PDT

Use the link to access and comment on the recommendations.

Can monies spent globally on journal subscriptions be completely transitioned to an OA business model to free the journals? | SciELO in Perspective

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:46 AM PDT

"Could we take all the funds spent globally on scientific journal subscriptions by academic libraries, research centers and others, and transition them, or re-purpose them to pay for publishing those same journals and articles in open access? This would achieve a dream of the Open Access movement, and for society as a whole. Access to all published knowledge resulting from scientific research would no longer be restricted, anywhere in the world, by any form of barrier such as a paywall! The public good would be upheld. With no additional investments. A recent and very interesting study1 by the Max Plank Digital Library, published as a White Paper on Open Access Policy, looks at precisely this scenario. It quantifies, for what appears to be the first time ever, if such a dream is possible and concludes that it is indeed! ..."

United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:42 AM PDT

"The Asian Library Association (ASIALA) in collaboration with the Delhi Technical University (DTU), organized ASIALA 2015 with a seminar on 'Managing Knowledge and Learning Resources Repositioning Libraries in Virtual Era', on 16 May 2015, at DTU, Shahbad Daulatpur, Rohini, Delhi ..."

Several new journals in Diamond Open Access | episodic thoughts

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:32 AM PDT

"I have again added some new journals to my list of those in Diamond Open Access (plus some with currently a fee waiver) : three from Cedram.org : [1] a new journal in applied math that looks set to be of the highest quality : SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics [2] a well-established pure math journal that has recently switched to Diamond Open Access : Annales de l'Institut Fourier [3] another journal that seems completely open too is PMB Algèbre et Théorie des Nombres from the university of Besançon two from MSP which I had overlooked : [1] the Journal for Software in Algebra and [2] Geometry and Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems ..."

Project Open Access Journals Integrated service System Project (GoOA) | NCBO BioPortal

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:28 AM PDT

"As a precursor aiming to explore the method on discovery, selection, evaluation, conservation, and recycling construction of OA resources, GoOA provides a one-stop platform for the OA journal articles discovery. Plant Diversity Ontology(PDO) constructed by National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences has been applied to support concept retrieval and concept extension for GoOA."

Rebecca Reznik-Zellen on Open Access: Considerations for Accessing and Using Scholarly Literature · AEA365

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:21 AM PDT

"I am Rebecca Reznik-Zellen from the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In my work, Open Access (OA) is an issue that I encounter regularly. But OA is becoming a familiar term to many. We hear it from publishers, funders, and research institutions about scientific and scholarly publication. For some, OA conjures ideals of democratizing access to research by removing subscription barriers that keep important findings away from public, industry, and government entities. For others, OA inspires concerns about article processing charges, predatory publishers, and inconvenient processes for bureaucratic mandates. Which inclination is correct? By definition, OA is the free and unrestricted online access to scientific and scholarly work. It enables broad and rapid dissemination of research, informs the public, and expedites the scientific process. When research articles are available to be downloaded, read, and reused, they demonstrate greater impact than articles locked behind subscriptions. OA has been growing steadily since the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration defined and formalized it in the early 2000s. The Directory of Open Access Journals lists over 10,000 individual titles that publish research openly, comprising approximately one-third of all scholarly publications. Members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association agree, by virtue of membership, that OA is an established approach to scientific publishing. But while OA has become more established, it is still a communication model undergoing transformation. Determining the actual costs of publication is more difficult than it might seem, so the article processing fees designed to recoup these costs are highly variable. Unethical publishers who take advantage of an author's desire to publish openly have emerged. And the complexities of complying with the NIH's Public Access Policy can detract from the perceived value of OA. So, both characterizations of OA are correct: OA IS a democratizing force in an otherwise unbalanced scholarly publishing system, AND the practicalities of implementation are challenging ..."

Public consultation on Slovenian draft document regarding open access to scientific publications and research data 2015-2020 : OpenAIRE blog

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:17 AM PDT

"The European Commission has determined mandatory open access to all peer-reviewed publications from projects, co-funded by the Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation. The open research data pilot will be carried out in the years 2014 and 2015. The EU member states should adopt the same mandates for the national research funding. The public consultation  on the draft document entitled 'Open Access in Slovenia 2015-2020: Principles and Regulation Regarding the Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Slovenia for the Period from 2015 to 2020'  is open at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport web site till 2 June 2015. The Republic of Slovenia is preparing the mandate on open access to scientific information resulting from the national research funding. The vision of the Republic of Slovenia is open access to scientific information from publicly funded research and the exemption of scientific information from the payment for use and reuse. Openly available scientific information should benefit Slovenian citizens, researchers and businesses as well as stakeholders worldwide ..."

What every UK CIO should do about Open Data

Posted: 28 May 2015 12:12 AM PDT

"UK CIOs who haven't yet much attention to Open Data, should start doing so soon. This holds true for CIOs in the public sector and for those in the private sector. An increasing number of opportunities to access new, valuable information will arise — and by the way, so will pitfalls ..."
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