Thursday, June 18, 2015

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"Open Data & the Future of Science" ANDS webinar - CODATA

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:59 AM PDT

"CODATA President, Professor Geoffrey Boulton, will participate to the Australian National Data Service* webinar, later today or tomorrow, depending on your time zone (Wed 16 June 12.00-13.00 AEST, 02.00-03.00 UTC) ..."

How Apple and Google Are Going to Help Cure Humanity's Diseases | Joseph Farrell

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:56 AM PDT

"Apple announced the open-platform medical research tool ResearchKit on April 15, and while it was overshadowed by news of the Apple Watch, it's a tool with staggering potential for humanity. 'We are incredibly confident that [ResearchKit] will have a profound impact on all of us,' Apple CEO Tim Cook said at WWDC in San Francisco. The initial apps released with ResearchKit included apps for asthma, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and breast cancer. So how does it work, and why is it important? Is it the future of healthcare research or just a flawed, creepy data collection tool? And what the heck does Google have to do with it?  With ResearchKit, anyone can participate in a scientific study. Researchers set the criteria and eligibility requirements in their app, and an interested iPhone user then downloads that app and fills out a questionnaire. The app then tells participants what to do. For the Parkinson's mPower app, for instance, users are asked to speak into their device's microphone and take several steps, allowing for researchers to track and measure gait to gauge the progression of the disease.  The robust technology of the iPhone and Apple Watch can give researchers never before imagined, real-world data. And the widespread use of the iPhone (and Apple Watch) means an exponential increase in the sample size available. Unlike traditional research, scientists won't be limited to slow, expensive, and laborious manual recruitment that yields relatively small sample groups. With ResearchKit and programs like it, any approved researcher can collect data on not dozens or hundreds but perhaps millions of people. This massive open access to research subjects and their data is what makes ResearchKit so important ... But apps are just one aspect of ResearchKit's ultimate potential. Apple is now expanding into genome territory. Partnering with UCSF and Mount Sinai Hospital, they're currently recruiting large numbers of participants for a massive genome-sequencing project. So far we don't know exactly what Apple plans to do with all this information, but there's immense value in the interaction between your genetic data and your lifestyle data collected by things your phone and watch already track (location, purchasing habits, diet, fitness, and sleep). Combined, these two data could give researchers an unprecedented look at how genetics and environment interact to affect our health ... The inherent problem for Apple, of course, is that no matter how big the ResearchKit numbers, the data will be reflective only of iPhone users. That means by necessity a higher income bracket, among other differentials. The median iPhone user in the US earns $85000, while the median income in the US is $51,939. It's even been found that, for the most part, iPhone users are better educated (or at least, states with a higher number of college graduates have a higher number if iPhone users).  Why does this matter? Certain health conditions, diet-related cardiovascular disease for instance, overwhelmingly affect poorer populations, making accurate date from iPhone users not that likely ..."

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA -- Archer Library -- The Tri-Agency Open Access Policy: How the Library can help

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:52 AM PDT

Use the link to access the infographic.  

USC Report Calls For Different Open Data Ratings  - Media Impact Project

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:48 AM PDT

"Cities and other government jurisdictions need detailed criteria and standards to help them efficiently develop their open data initiatives, according to a report released today by Open Data LA, a project of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. The report, The State of Open Data in Los Angeles County:  A Framework,  proposes that governments define open data success based on measurable indicators of a city's level of open data expertise and leadership in driving sustainable open data initiatives.  The framework suggests revising and blending two sets of existing criteria – the U.S. City Open Data Census ratings and the financial transparency criteria developed by CALPIRG, a public interest research group.  Eight incorporated cities in Los Angeles County are rated under the revised criteria, including the city of Los Angeles, which currently holds the top ranking in the census ..."

Significance Article Offers Roadmap to Fight Reproducibility Crisis - ScienceNewsline

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:44 AM PDT

"Dramatic increases in data science education coupled with robust evidence-based data analysis practices could stop the scientific research reproducibility and replication crisis before the issue permanently damages science's credibility, asserts Roger D. Peng in an article in the newly released issue of Significance magazine ..."

Open School of Archaeological Data, Second Edition - Archeomatica

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:41 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "The Laboratory MAP organizes the second edition of 'Open School of Archaeological Data to be held in Pisa 13 to 17 July 2015. It 'was extended the deadline to register. This year the project will open a training dedicated to the acquisition of knowledge and techniques of data-archeology . The school is structured into lectures and practical exercises. Participants will have the opportunity to work with concrete data, learn how to handle them, produce views. You do not need to have a computer training or be already experienced in the use of open data. The purpose is to provide basic knowledge that can allow any archaeologist working with open data, in order to understand its potential and encourage the use of open data in archeology from the datasets stored in the Repository Italian MOD (MAP - archaeological Open Data archive, http://www.mappaproject.org/?page_id=454 ) ..."

COAPI Welcomes Wave of Institutional Open Access Policies | SPARC

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:36 AM PDT

"As evidence of the continued importance of open access in contemporary research culture, several prominent colleges and universities have recently adopted open access policies or resolutions, maximizing the reach and impact of their faculty's scholarship: Pennsylvania State University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Dartmouth Faculty of Arts and Sciences.  Representing both faculty-wide and college/department-level approaches to policy adoption, these latest institutions join the ranks of an ever-expanding group of research organizations that have made public declarations about the value and necessity of providing free and unfettered access to scholarly research publications. Inspired by this momentum, the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) remains committed to advocating for the development and implementation of open access policies across the the country and around the world.  The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies. COAPI was originally formed to share information and experiences and to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access policies forward at member institutions, advocating for open access both nationally and internationally. For more information about COAPI, including how to become a member, please view our website, or email coapi@arl.org."

UA faculty backs free access to work

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:31 AM PDT

FAYETTEVILLE -- Faculty at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a new open access policy that would make much of its future scholarly work freely available online. This article discusses a new open access policy from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Open access: transforming science - EMBL

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:28 AM PDT

"EMBL's open access policy aims to make EMBL research widely and freely accessible. By ensuring that articles are published with a CC-BY licence, EMBL will make its research available not only for reading but for reuse, providing opportunities to enrich the scientific literature in ways that can transform the life and health sciences. Jo McEntyre, head of literature services at EMBL-EBI, explains how." This article discusses the OA policy of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Impact of Social Sciences – How can universities increase Green Open Access? Article deposit rates soar after direct solicitation from library.

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:23 AM PDT

"Authors who wish to provide open access (OA) to their scholarly articles have two options: Green OA and Gold OA. Green OA provides access to articles through disciplinary repositories such as arXiv, federal agency repositories such as PubMed Central, or institutional repositories such as ScholarsArchive@OSU. With Gold OA, access is provided to articles published in OA journals or in subscription journals, provided the author pays an OA fee. Academic libraries support Green OA by establishing and maintaining institutional repositories that disseminate university scholarship in the form of theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, university publications, historical materials, research data, and faculty articles. Libraries do this in order to make research that is largely paid for by taxpayers more widely accessible to the research community and the general public. Faculty who make their research open access benefit from increased readership and impact for those articles; the OA citation advantage has been demonstrated in numerous studies. Unfortunately, these benefits alone do not result in Green OA author self-deposit of their articles to repositories. The National Institutes of Health established their first public access policy in 2005 to 'make peer-reviewed, final manuscripts stemming from NIH-funded research available to the public free of charge on PubMed Central within 12 months after publication in a scientific journal'. As that policy only encouraged the deposit of articles, it remained largely unheeded until they enacted a stronger policy that requires deposit in 2008. The deposit rate stood at 7% for the period of 2005-2007 and increased to 75% by March 2012.  Universities have been unwilling to hold faculty accountable for depositing articles to institutional repositories, and have struggled to increase article deposit rates among their faculty. Even though OA policies passed at universities around the world often require article deposit to their respective institutional repositories, unlike the NIH policy these policies are generally not enforced. Deposit rates at the institutions vary widely. Faculty remain free to ignore the institutional OA policies. Most do.  Academic libraries are usually charged with policy implementation at OA policy institutions. A variety of methods for increasing article rates of deposit are used. Most often they focus on advocacy and education about the value of OA. Libraries continue to seek a reliable and practical solution for increasing article deposit rates.  In our recent Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communicationstudy 'It Takes More Than a Mandate', we found that direct solicitation of author manuscripts has been the most effective method of reaching a higher rate of article deposit at our university. In January 2012, OSU Libraries initiated a process to identify newly published OSU faculty research articles using Web of Science RSS feeds. Library staff then request and deposit faculty articles into the university's institutional repository ..."

agINFRA EC project successfully concluded and... continuing | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:19 AM PDT

"The agINFRA project of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2) was successfully completed. agINFRA aimed at developing a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural research data, with a strong focus on achieving a higher level of interoperability. agINFRA came to an end in February 2015 and the official review by the EC was released last week. The project received an extremely positive evaluation: it was ranked as "Excellent", which is the maximum ranking for an EC project and means the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals and has even exceeded expectations ..."

Figshare gets serious about storage

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:16 AM PDT

"We're excited to announce a new partnership with DuraCloud as a way to better manage and store your institution's research data. The collaboration will combine the end-user experience of figshare.com with the powerful storage, management, and preservation functionalities of DuraCloud. With figshare for Institutions, universities and colleges can manage their research outputs from point of creation and data management plan through to itspublication and subsequent impact. DuraCloud automatically copies institutional content onto several different cloud storage providers. The figshare and DuraCloud collaboration will then ensure all of the captured data is managed and preserved appropriately to align with institutional and funder policies ... One area where DuraCloud goes above and beyond is around preservation. DuraCloud is an open source software so it can live on the Amazon S3 storage or be built on top of existing institutional infrastructure. Since DuraCloud also ties directly into Amazon Glacier, the Digital Preservation Network through the DuraCloud Vault node (in partnership with Chronopolis, which is run out of the University of California, San Diego), institutions can use DuraCloud as a service for additional archiving and preservation of all figshare content as they see fit.  This is a really exciting development on our end because there's been a lot of thought put into the archiving and preservation capabilities of DuraCloud. As a result, the academic community will be able to take advantage of these tools to decide on what institutional data to preserve and how they want to preserve it ..."

The List is a Creative Commons App for Finding and Requesting CC Photos

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:09 AM PDT

"Finding the perfect photograph to use can be a challenge. Most photographers seek to copyright their work giving them the exclusive rights to its use and distribution. When you simply want to use a photo for a school presentation or your personal blog, navigating the legal landscape can be a nightmare. Luckily, the folks over at Creative Commons have created an Android app to allow you to find quickly and request images that you can legally use. Creative Common's app, The List, aims to connect content creators and users so that open license imagery can be created and shared. If you need an image of a 'cupcake with sprinkles' then just open the application and submit a request. Other members will then receive a notification and have the ability to fulfill your need ..."

Report: From Open Science to Open Innovation - Science|Business

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:05 AM PDT

"This paper highlights the need for developing appropriate new open innovation institutions, to help bridge this gap from open science to open innovation."

Benchmarks RSTI - Publications - Detail / From Open Science to Open Innovation - MEIE

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 02:01 AM PDT

"In this group the document Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management (IIKM), the authors highlight the need to design appropriate new standards in terms of open innovation, and to help bridge the gap between the open innovation and open science. The norms of open science promote the rapid dissemination of the latest knowledge and encourage a broader participation of partners in the discovery of new knowledge. As valuable as this broad participation, it does not guarantee efficiency in the commercialization of scientific knowledge. In an open innovation approach, good commercialization of new knowledge requires the development of a new business model. Certainly, the new model should create value in the innovation chain. However, it must also allow key players to get some. On intellectual property protection or excessive premature award at early stages of scientific research can stifle innovation rather than facilitate its progress. In the new business model based on open innovation, decision on the entrepreneurial risk level will be needed to define the most promising applications. An approach by trial and error will also be necessary to create value on a commercial scale. For more information: get the report IIKM ."

The Robber Barons of Open Access Publishing | Mittelalter

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 01:57 AM PDT

"Non-transparency, double standards, long wait. Facing this accumulated unpleasantness, the subject of debate, almost certainly, is the so-called double blind peer review. Given a plethora of critical and less critical considerations throughout academia, there is no need to rehash all the pros and cons here; neither do I want to make a general statement on digital humanities or digital medieval studies.[1] Indisputably, a thorough peer review is capable of improving any scholarly article, and even a rejection does not necessarily put an end to attempts at publishing a specific paper. However, at a time when scholars are advised to publish in so-called high-impact journals only, in order to collect research points to get more money and better positions, 'peer review' has grown to the ultimate advertising slogan for any journal in vague fear of losing relevance ... In recent times, born-digital open access journals have become an alternative to handle this quantity: they are often less cleaved to the traditional restrictions of printed media, and open minded towards new types of peer review such as open peer commentary. Given the undeniable enrichment of medieval studies through such journals, what is the purpose of my brief contribution? Most medievalists, I assume, have subscribed to several newsfeeds, providing them with updates on virtually any topic within the field, including calls not only for papers, but also for reviewing and editing start-up journals. Some of these offers are quite tempting — all journals have started from scratch. Yet, all is not gold that has key words such as 'humanities', 'digital' or 'medieval' in its title.  Occupying a popular term of medievalism and social criticism, I want to draw medievalists' awareness to the growing number of twenty-first century robber barons on the publishing road. Being a global phenomenon, the problem of so-called predatory open access journals is already well-aware at many universities and research facilities,[2] but, as far as I can see, still somewhat neglected (at least) within German academia. What is it all about?  ..."

Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 01:54 AM PDT

"The roles of intermediaries in open data is insufficiently explored; open data intermediaries are often presented as single and simple linkages between open data supply and use. This synthesis research paper offers a more socially nuanced approach to open data intermediaries using the theoretical framework of Bourdieu's social model, in particular, his concept of species of capital as informing social interaction. The study is based on the analysis of a sample of cases from the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries Project (ODDC) project. Data on intermediaries were extracted from the ODDC reports according to a working definition of an open data intermediary presented in this paper, and with a focus on how intermediaries link actors in an open data supply chain. The study found that open data supply chains may comprise multiple intermediaries and that multiple forms of capital may be required to connect the supply and use of open data. Because no single intermediary necessarily has all the capital available to link effectively to all sources of power in a field, multiple intermediaries with complementary configurations of capital are more likely to connect between power nexuses. This study concludes that consideration needs to be given to the presence of multiple intermediaries in an open data ecosystem, each of whom may possess different forms of capital to enable the use and unlock the potential impact of open data."  http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1449222

Partnership To Open Up Data for Social Enterprises | Pro Bono Australia

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 01:15 AM PDT

"New Sydney-based social enterprise, Community Insight Australia will partner with the Federal Government to help social purpose organisations access data. "There's a lot of data openly available that's not being used to target and design services for those in need," Community Insight Australia founder, social impact investor and analyst, Emma Tomkinson said. "Spreadsheets really put people off using data, so we've replaced the spreadsheet with a map. "Community Insight Australia will be a translation of Community Insight in the UK, which was nominated for an innovation award by the Open Data Institute." Tomkinson said Australian social purpose organisations will be able to define an area to analyse and then tailor their services to the needs of people in that area. "The new web-tool will incorporate over 50 key data releases by all levels of Australian Government, including Federal, State and local councils, for example, datasets from the Australian Bureau of Statistics," she said."

Future of textbooks increasingly looks digital | Online Athens

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 01:12 AM PDT

"Students and teachers in some University of Georgia introductory biology courses experimented with using a free digital textbook instead of expensive paper texts in fall 2013 courses, and liked it. About 86 percent of nearly 700 students surveyed after the courses said their online textbook was as good as or better than a traditional paper textbook. But that experiment was just a fraction of what's coming, according to Houston Davis, executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer of the University System of Georgia." This article discusses the University of Georgia's push to use electronic and open books for students in order to save money and have a positive economic impact.

Open data key to tackling neglected tropical diseases - SciDev.Net Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 01:07 AM PDT

"[CAPE TOWN] Open data access could promote collaborations among researchers in Africa and help in the fight against malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and neglected tropical diseases such as sleeping sickness, also called African trypanosomiasis. At a time when demand for open data in health and drug discovery is dominating the digital space, some researchers say the model could work for Africa and alleviate the sufferings of many from these diseases." This article discusses current ongoings in South Africa to further open data and open science in regard to tropical and infectious diseases.

Digital Public Library of America » Blog Archive » Call for Educator Participants

Posted: 17 Jun 2015 11:12 PM PDT

"The Digital Public Library of America is looking for excellent educators for its new Education Advisory Committee. We recently announced a new grant from the Whiting Foundation that funds the creation of new primary source-based education resources for student use with teacher guidance. We are currently recruiting a small group of enthusiastic humanities educators in grades 6-14* to collaborate with us on this project. Members of this group will: build and review primary source sets (curated collections of primary sources about people, places, events, or ideas) and related teacher guides give feedback on the tools students and teachers will use to generate their own sets on DPLA's website help DPLA develop and revise its strategy for education resource development and promotion in 2015-2016 If selected, participants are committing to: attend a 2-day in-person meeting on July 29-July, 30 2015 (arriving the night of July 28) in Boston, Massachusetts attend three virtual meetings (September 2015, November 2015, and January 2016) attend a 2-day in-person meeting in March 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts (dates to be selected in consultation with participants) Participants will receive a $1,500 stipend for participation as well as full reimbursement for travel costs."

IFLA/Brill Open Access Award 2015 goes to DOAB

Posted: 17 Jun 2015 11:05 PM PDT

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – Singapore (SG) – 17 June 2015 IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce that the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), from the Netherlands, has been selected as this year's winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access Award was created in 2013 for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing. This year the jury has chosen Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (the Netherlands)as the most outstanding and game-changing initiative in the field. Earlier winners were Open Book Publishers (2013) and Knowledge Unlatched (2014).
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