Friday, June 19, 2015

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Immediate Open Access in the Biosciences: Prospects and Possibilities

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:12 PM PDT

"An open access article is freely available to all interested readers and is preserved for posterity (Suber 2003). At this time, open access to scholarly research in the biosciences remains partially realized. According to research published by Mark Ware in 2012, approximately 30% of STM content is open access in some form, whether immediately or after a delay (Ware 2012). This mixed approach remains in effect today. Publishers such as PLoS and BioMed Central make their articles immediately available to everyone upon publication. In the case of publishers like Elsevier and NPG, most of their articles are provided immediately to subscribers or licensees, and eventually to everyone else after an embargo period. In this article, "immediate open access" designates an article that is open access upon publication. It is feasible to distribute new articles online at little to no marginal cost, which supports the notion that open access is economically feasible. This contention has driven the acrimony between open access advocates and publishers, with advocates claiming that research content should be free and publishers responding that they continue to deliver worthwhile value in the scholarly publishing chain (Alliance for Taxpayer Access 2015; Anderson 2014). Both perspectives exhibit ends-based reasoning, and for that reason are overly simplistic. I support open access publishing, and also believe that publishers would have an essential role to play in a fully open-access world. Although the rancor between open access advocates and publishers is usually expressed in financial terms, economics is not the most important factor in this discussion. If online scholarly publication were simply a matter of more efficient distribution, then immediate open access would now be a reality (Clarke 2010). Michael Clarke made this observation in 2010, in the course of arguing that much of scholarly publishing practice supports the cultural values of the academy. These values are currently impervious to financial considerations. I will focus on Clarke's piece in the next section of this paper. For now, it suffices to say that the imprimatur of journal publication remains essential to success as a researcher in the biosciences. As yet no new means of credentialing have supplanted publication in prestigious journals. As long as this is true, established subscription-based journals will remain an essential component of scholarly publishing in the biosciences ..."

Donations as a Source of Income For Open Access Journals: An Option To Consider?

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:10 PM PDT

[Abstract] Online open access journals allow readers to view scholarly articles without a subscription or other payment barrier. However, publishing costs must still be covered. Therefore, many of these publications rely on support from a variety of sources. One source of funds not commonly discussed is donations from readers. This study investigated the prevalence of this practice and sought to learn about the motivation of journal editors to solicit donations, and also to gather input on the effectiveness of this strategy. Results show that very few open access journals solicit donations from readers, and for those that do, donations represent only a very small portion of all support received.

Zen and the Art of Metadata Maintenance

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:09 PM PDT

[Abstract] Metadata is the lifeblood of publishing in the digital age and the key to discovery. Metadata is a continuum of standards and a process of information flow; creating and disseminating metadata involves both art and science. This article examines publishing-industry best practices for metadata construction and management, process improvement steps, practical applications for publishers and authors such as keywords, metadata challenges concerning e-books, and the frontiers of the expanding metadata universe. Metadata permeates and enables all aspects of publishing, from information creation and production to marketing and dissemination. It is essential for publishers, authors, and all others involved in the publishing industry to understand the metadata ecosystem in order to maximize the resources that contribute to a title's presence, popularity, and sale-ability. Metadata and the associated processes to use it are evolving, becoming more interconnected and social, enabling linkages between a broad network of objects and resources.

HathiTrust and a Mission for Accessibility

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:07 PM PDT

[Abstract] When it comes to digital content, access and preservation are two sides of the same coin. Without ongoing efforts to ensure preservation, access services falter and become uncertain; without clear evidence of access and supporting services, the mandate to preserve materials loses its force. At the HathiTrust Digital Library this understanding of digital preservation has influenced development of the repository and services as well as HathiTrust's mission 'to contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.'[1] Preservation and collection of digital materials is tied to access to and use of the content. One key facet of the access services that HathiTrust provides is to users who have disabilities (such as blindness, dyslexia, physical or cognitive impairments, etc.) that prevent them from being able to easily read printed material (disabilities commonly referred to as 'print disabilities'). Outlined below are the strategies that HathiTrust has implemented to ensure that users with print disabilities can use the website and access digital materials in the library corpus, activities driven by the mission of HathiTrust as well as its short, albeit eventful, history.

The Users of Library Publishing Services: Readers and Access Beyond Open

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:05 PM PDT

[Abstract] This article analyzes the discourse of library publishing, examining how the needs of library users have (or haven't) been framed as core concerns in key collaborative documents from the 2007 Ithaka Report to the 2014 Library Publishing Directory. Access issues, including not only open access but format options, usability, accessibility, and general user experience, have most often been absent or sidelined in this discourse. Even open access has been less central than one might expect. Moreover, even in later documents where it is more commonly trumpeted as a value of libraries, open access is often not presented as a service to readers but to authors. For these reasons, I argue the promotion of library publishing has missed a key opportunity to promote such services as offering a holistic approach that incorporates the needs of both authors and readers by drawing on the history of user studies in libraries. The absence of the user as information seeker, and especially reader, in this discourse should concern libraries lest library publishing services replicate existing access problems with commercial publishers beyond the question of openness. The opportunity exists for organizations such as the Library Publishing Coalition to foster discussion of reader needs for digital formats and, where feasible, promote a set of best practices.

Delivering Impact of Scholarly Information: Is Access Enough?

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:03 PM PDT

" ... Our focus at ITHAKA, an international not-for-profit organization, is on using technology to advance knowledge and higher education as broadly and cost-effectively as possible. We were founded in 1995 and pursue this mission in ways that are transformative for people and for organizations, largely through three areas of focus and related services. First, we work to preserve scholarly materials, which are the building blocks of knowledge. Second, we provide access to these materials and work with researchers, teachers, and students to create continually better tools for their productive use and engagement. Finally, we conduct research and offer strategic guidance in the form of consulting, workshops, training, and publications to those primarily responsible for educating people and leading changes to improve higher education around the world. This article draws on our experience with JSTOR, our original and most well-known service. JSTOR is a large-scale digital library that provides access to scholarly materials to people from 170 countries. Although JSTOR is not an open access resource, as a mission-based organization, we have been committed to providing access to JSTOR as widely and as cost-effectively as possible. From our earliest days, we worked with foundations to fund and provide access to people at educational institutions in developing countries. As JSTOR established a reliable financial base, enabling us to be confident about our ability to fulfill our long-term promise to sustain the archive, we began offering the JSTOR library at very low or no cost to increasing numbers of institutions and people with fewer financial resources. For many years we did this exclusively through educational and other non-profit institutions in 94 countries. In 2011, we added programs to provide free access to portions of our journal collections directly to everyone in the world. Based on our experience providing free access to scholarly materials to people in developing nations, we find that access alone is not enough to ensure that information has the desired impact of increasing knowledge and understanding. Is the content being used? ..."

Beyond Open: Expanding Access to Scholarly Content

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:00 PM PDT

"Although open access has only recently become established as a business model, publishers have been providing some degree of public access to content for much longer—primarily through philanthropic programs. These programs are intended to provide readers who can't afford to pay for a subscription (such as researchers in developing countries, patients, and their caregivers) with access to the content they need. In many cases, this access is completely free of charge; in others, it is very deeply discounted. This paper will describe and, where possible, evaluate some of the major public/low-cost access initiatives, as well as consider some possible ways forward. One of the earliest such initiatives was the New School for Social Research's Journal Donation Project (JDP); it was launched in 1990 in response to the critical need for scholarly journals in the former Soviet Union and in East and Central Europe, where they had been unavailable for almost 45 years. The JDP now works with 246 libraries in 25 countries to provide free or deeply discounted access print subscriptions (many of which now also include online access). These countries include Russia, Nigeria, Cuba, and Vietnam, as well as countries throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe. The free access may be granted by the publisher or sponsored by a foundation grant, and the JDP currently provides subscriptions to over 4,000 journals from more than 200 publishers. Because the project is primarily print-based, usage information is not available. More recent publisher-supported public access initiatives include Research for Life, the International Network for Access to Scientific Publications (INASP), and Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), all of which—as part of their mission—provide online access to scholarly content for libraries and researchers in developing world countries. Other public access initiatives include patientACCESS, which provides access for patients and their caregivers and Access to Research, which provides access to UK public library users. In addition, the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) provides temporary free access to biomedicine titles to healthcare professionals, librarians, and the public, following a disaster. I will outline each of these and, where available, provide recent data on usage and reach ..."

The Changing Publication Practices in Academia: Inherent Uses and Issues in Open Access and Online Publishing and the Rise of Fraudulent Publications

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:58 PM PDT

[Abstract] Open access and online publishing present significant changes to the Australian higher education sector in a climate demanding increasing research outputs from academic staff. Today's researchers struggle to discern credible journals from a new wave of 'low credibility,' counterfeit, and predatory journals. A New York Times article on the issue resulted in hundreds of anonymous posts, having a whistleblower effect. An analysis of reader posts, examined in this paper, demonstrated that fear and cynicism were dominant, and that unscrupulous publishing practices were often rewarded. A lack of quality control measures to assist researchers to choose reputable journals and avoid fraudulent ones is becoming evident as universities' funding and workforce development become increasingly dependent on research outputs. Online publishing is also redefining traditional notions of academic prestige. Adapting to the twenty-first century online publishing landscape requires the higher education sector to meet these challenges with a combination of academic rigour and innovative tools that support researchers, so as to maintain quality and integrity within changing academic publishing practice.

Aligning Open Access Publication with Research and Teaching Missions of the Public University: The Case of The Lethbridge Journal Incubator (If 'if's and 'and's were pots and pans)

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:56 PM PDT

[Abstract] The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is a joint project of the University of Lethbridge Library, School of Graduate Studies, and Faculty of Arts and Science. Its goal is to address the issue of the sustainability of gold open access journals by aligning the publication process with the educational and research missions of the public University. In this way, the open access publication, which is more commonly understood as a cost center that draws resources away from a host university's core missions, is transformed into a sustainable, high-impact resource that improves retention and recruitment. It does this by providing graduate students with early experience with scholarly publishing (a proven contributor to in- and post-program student satisfaction and career success), highly-sought after research and technical skills, and project management experience. This article provides a background to the problem of financing gold open access publication and reports on the experience of the researchers responsible for establishing the incubator as it leaves its experimental phase and becomes a center of the University.

Book Review: Martin Paul Eve. Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies, and the Future

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:54 PM PDT

"With Open Access and the Humanities, Martin Paul Eve offers a slender, but surprisingly thorough, volume engaging many of the major preoccupations of the open access movement in scholarly communication. In fact, the book's strongest virtue may be the clarity and economy with which Professor Eve gathers and presents the benefits, risks, and feasible means of adapting Humanities disciplines to open access licensing, distribution, and funding models. Much of this gathering and presenting can feel fairly familiar to anyone already immersed in the slightly more mature conversation associated with STEM publishing (many of the "contexts" and "controversies" to which the book's subtitle alludes). There really is much to review, however, and as a primer for the open–access curious humanist, Eve's review should come across as congenial, convenient, and in many cases even demystifying ..."

OpenAIRE and the Services of the National Open Access Desk (NOAD) | Foster

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:52 PM PDT

"This presentation gives an overview on the project OpenAIRE and the Services of the National Open Access Desk (NOAD) in Austria. It was held at the workshop 'Open Access und Open Data in Horizon 2020 – Rechtliche Vorgaben und praktische Umsetzung' on 11 June 2015 in Vienna, organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (www.ffg.at/en)"

TigerPrints - A repository of copyright educational resources for higher education: Open Access: A Researcher's View

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:49 PM PDT

"ASERL presentation on Open Access and the publishing options available for faculty"

Impact & Ethical Issues of Scholar Publication

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:47 PM PDT

"This figure was used in a PhD course in Switzerland as an introduction to impact and ethical issues of scientific publication. Behind the apparent classical and traditional form of a Research Paper, ie Title | Authors | Introduction | Material & Methods | Results | Discussion | Bibliography | Acknowledgement | Declaration of conflict of interest | Bibliography, there are several new practice of publication. The traditional digital Research Paper can be linked to Open Research Data set, Material & Methods can be linked to Open protocols, the Research Paper can be linked to a Data journal article. The Research Paper itself may be in Open Access immediately for researchers, citizen and governments. With the rise of Open Research Data, and increasing collaborative science even rules applied for authorship of article may change. Post-Reviewing and Open Reviewing may change the way and tools used for the evaluation of science validity. Some claim that these new tendencies may improve science validity and evaluation of bias, and enhance reuse of data for new discoveries. The Open Publication trend will participate to the wider Open Science movement.  But one should also pay attention to personal data protection, avoid predatory journals and publishers, and take care about journal indexation by search tools and keywords selection of article metadata to be visible in the today overload of scientific information."

Elizabeth May Introduces Open Science Bill NorthumberlandView.ca

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:43 PM PDT

"Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich - Gulf Islands), introduced her open science private member's bill in the House of Commons today. The bill would make all publicly funded scientific research publicly accessible by law. Ms. May stated: 'My bill will ensure that no prime minister can ever bury government science again. While this problem is not new, the Harper years have seen a shocking burial of evidence into places where Canadians will never see it.  The work our scientists do is too important to be hidden from view, simply because it is inconvenient to the Prime Minister's agenda. The challenges we face require an open and transparent engagement with the facts' ..." 

Permanent allocation of research data | Foster

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:41 PM PDT

"This presentation gives an overview on research data and its permanent allocation. It was held at the workshop 'Open Access und Open Data in Horizon 2020 – Rechtliche Vorgaben und praktische Umsetzung' on 11 June 2015 in Vienna, organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (www.ffg.at/en) ..."

What does impact really mean? - Research Information

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:39 PM PDT

"Digital Science recently hosted a Research Impact Spotlight event, the second in our Spotlight series following on from our Open Data Spotlight in March, writes Jonathan Adams. The aim of the Digital Science Spotlight series is to 'shine a light' on key topics in scholarly communication, exploring a variety of perspectives on the issues and providing an opportunity for discussion among the research community.   June's Spotlight highlighted a seemingly simple question about an increasingly debated topic: what is 'impact'? Greater expectations of research, increased competition for funding, the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework, more non-traditional outputs, new data tools and social media metrics all put 'impact' at the heart of scholarly communication and require rigorous examination ..."

Open Access and Open Data in Horizon 2020: Legal Requirements | Foster

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:37 PM PDT

This presentation gives an overview on the legal requirements of the Grant Agreement regarding Open Access and Open Data in Horizon 2020. It was held at the workshop 'Open Access und Open Data in Horizon 2020 – Rechtliche Vorgaben und praktische Umsetzung' on 11 June 2015 in Vienna, organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (www.ffg.at/en)"

Introducing Show Us Your Research! An Open Access Anthropological Project | These Bones Of Mine

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:34 PM PDT

"One of the aims of this blog, especially more so since it has grown in the past few years, is to highlight the opportunities available to both bioarchaeology researchers and the public alike.  As a previous post highlighted, never has there been a better time to be involved with bioarchaeological research and never has it been so open before to members of the public to engage with it (for instance, try your hand here or check out some resources here!).  The communication of the aims, and the importance of the discipline, in the aid of understanding past populations and their lifestyles is of vital interest if we are to remain a dynamic and responsive field.  As such it gives me great pleasure to announce that, starting from now, I'll be helping to disseminate the results of the Show Us Your Research! (SUYR!) project spearheaded by researchers at the University of Coimbra and the University of Algarve in Portugal ..."

Share – and boost Australian research by up to five billion dollars

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:32 PM PDT

"Share your data and boost science productive is the message of a national workshop in Canberra today. Over 40 data collections will be released – covering everything from cloud measurement to pavements and roads, ancient DNA, oral histories of Western Sydney and the changing coastline. A national study conducted earlier this year showed that sharing and reusing data generated by publicly-funded research activities could lead to haring data could boost Australian research output by between $1.4 billion and $4.9 billion. Amongst the data collections being released are ..."

Disaster response gets boost from AI, crowdsourced data | ExtremeTech

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:29 PM PDT

"It may indeed be possible to save the world with a click. Digital humanitarianism is a new grass-roots movement that employs advanced technologies (like robots), social media (and crowdsourcing), and cutting-edge computing (like artificial intelligence) to accelerate relief efforts during major disasters such as the recent Nepal earthquake. In essence, Digital humanitarianism uses crowd-sourcing, social media, aerial imagery, and disaster mapping to save lives and find actionable data in the flood of information following a disaster. The idea originated as part of Patrick Meier's personal endeavor to locate a family member on Jan. 12, 2010, in the aftermath of the devastating Haiti earthquake. It quickly developed as a crowd movement, with thousands of volunteers all around the world contributing to the mapping of areas hit by disasters. Here's how it works: Tweets, tagged images, hashtags, and disaster victims reporting their experiences on social media can all be added to a map of the disaster area in order to determine where the area was most heavily hit. Using this data, the more tags or confirmations of damage there were reported, the more certain the digital humanitarian can be that the information is accurate. Arial photographs and satellite images are shown to volunteers who lend their eyes and observations to the effort. The more confirmations there are of damage to a structure, the more accurate the information is. They form part of the crowd-sourcing required to pull all the information together into a comprehensive, accurate, and actionable crisis map ... Here are some organizations you can join to learn more about and get involved in digital humanitarianism: [1] MicroMappers is an experimental, free, open source platform that aims to combine crowdsourcing with machine learning to look for those 'needles' in haystacks: actionable pieces of information that could be potentially life-saving. [2] Standby Task Force organizes digital volunteers into a flexible, trained and prepared network ready to deploy in crises. The concept for the Task Force was launched at the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping to streamline online volunteer support for crisis mapping following lessons learned in Haiti, Chile and Pakistan, and to provide a dedicated interface for the humanitarian community. [3] The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team applies the principles of open source and open data sharing for humanitarian response and economic development. [4] The Digital Humanitarian Network aims to form a consortium of Volunteer and Technical Communities, and to provide an interface between formal, professional humanitarian organizations and informal yet skilled-and-agile volunteer and technical networks ..."

Pathfinder projects point the way to effective OA implementation | Jisc

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:25 PM PDT

"At the start of this month we published the spring update from our open access good practice pathfinder projects including the latest developments in other Jisc open access (OA) services and projects that were discussed in detail at March's Digifest ..."

OCLC signs agreements with leading publishers worldwide

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:20 PM PDT

"OCLC has signed agreements with leading publishers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and other subject areas to add metadata for books, e-books, journals, databases and other materials that will make their content discoverable through WorldCat Discovery Services ..."

What early career researchers need to know about open access publishing? | Scholarly Communication and Open Science

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:16 PM PDT

"I attended a workshop today about 'how to get published in academic journals'. The attendees were mostly PhD students. I noticed how little early career researchers know about open access (OA) publishing. There are two types of OA –Gold OA and Green OA. Gold OA refers to online journal articles which are either totally or to some extent made freely accessible to the public by the publishers. Gold OA can be divided into three categories: Direct OA, Delayed OA and Hybrid OA (Björk et al. 2010). Direct OA refers to journals that are published immediately as open access. Delayed OA journals make articles freely available after a delay of certain embargo period. Hybrid OA gives authors the choice to pay for their articles to be made freely accessible within an otherwise subscription-based journal. Most Gold OA requires author fee which is called Article Processing Charge (APC). Major publishers such as Springer and Elsevier adopted the APC-funded model since 2004 and 2006, respectively. Authors can choose to pay for approximately USD 3,000 to allow their articles to be open access published in an otherwise subscription-based journal. Green OA refers to the self-archiving of an author's work. These open access articles are supplied by the authors on a web site that is freely available without publisher mediation. An author may deposit their articles in institutional repositories, subject-based repositories or their own websites. From April 2013, RCUK's Open Access policy arranged to pay block grants to universities and other institutions for setting up publication funds for APC if RCUK funded researchers choose to publish in Gold OA journals. However, as many PhD students and early career researchers are not funded by RCUK, Green OA might be the way to go. But which repositories should you choose and which version of articles can you deposit online? I've checked a few journals' OA policies recently as I was looking into publishing from my PhD work. The SHERPA/RoMEO database is a good place to look into if you are checking for quite a number of journals ..."

OA Pathfinder Case Study: University of Hull | Optimising resources to develop a strategic approach to Open Access

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:13 PM PDT

"Over the past few months our Pathfinder has been busy travelling around to various HEIs and carrying out focus groups with key stakeholders in Open Access. The results of this work will be a series of case studies highlighting OA good practice in a four HEIs with a range of different backgrounds. Each case study will focus on progress towards OA implementation across five broad areas: Costs Structure and Workflows Institutional Policy and Strategy Advocacy, training and awareness Systems and compliance The first of these to be released is the University of Hull, and you can read it below or download it. Please do get in touch either via the discussion below this post, Twitter (@davidyoungres) or email (david.g.young@northumbria.ac.uk) if you have any questions or comments on this or the work of the Pathfinder ..."

Thomson Reuters Breaks New Ground in Journal Evaluation with Release of 40th... -- ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:10 PM PDT

"The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, is changing the face of scholarly journal evaluation with today's release of the 2015 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR)  that includes the integration of a new metric, the Journal Impact Factor Percentile; a Normalized Eigenfactor®; detailed analysis of underlying journal level data; an Open Access (OA) Filter; and a variety of user updates that allow for increased transparency and easier access to a greater amount of data. The JCR is the world's most influential resource for evaluating peer-reviewed publications and the source of the annual Journal Impact Factors (JIF). Since 1975, the JCR has annually provided an assessment of a journal's standing in scholarly literature through the objective evaluation of statistical information. The 2015 release, with 2014 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,149 journal listings in 237 disciplines; 82 countries are represented. A total of 272 journals received their first JIF; 53 percent of journals saw an increase in JIF from last year and 43 percent saw a decrease. Additionally, 39 journals were suppressed to ensure the integrity of the reports. Suppressed journals are re-evaluated after a year for reconsideration in the JCR. Here is a look at this year's game-changing advancements ..."

Open access - Bee Hive

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:06 PM PDT

"Open access (OA) means unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly research. Open access is primarily intended for scholarly journals, but is also provided for a growing number of theses, book chapters, and monographs. Open access comes in two degrees: gratis open access, which is free online access, and libre open access, which is free online access plus some additional usage rights. These additional usage rights are often granted through the use of various specific Creative Commons licenses. Only libre open access is fully compliant with definitions of open access such as the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. The two ways authors can provide open access are (1) by self-archiving their journal articles in an open access repository, also known as 'green' open access, or (2) by publishing in an open access journal, known as 'gold' open access. With green open access authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article for gratis public use in their institutional repository, in a central repository (such as PubMed Central), or on some other open access website. With gold open access, authors publish in open access journals, which provide immediate open access to all of their articles, usually on the publisher's website. Hybrid open access journals are subscription journals that provide gold open access only for those individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay an open access publishing fee ..."

Buen Conocer/FLOK Society: public policy and sustainable models for a social knowledge economy in Ecuador | P2P Foundation

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 11:45 PM PDT

[From Google's English] "The Buen Conocer / FLOk Society research project, presents the results of its work in the book Buen Conocer / FLOK Society: public policy and sustainable models for a social economy of common and open knowledge in Ecuador. The book analyzes and proposes lines of political action and productive projects in 14 subjects of the Ecuadorian economy considered strategic to change the productive matrix, such as education, science, culture, agri-food and bio-diversity, design and manufacturing, software, hardware, connectivity, ancestral knowledge and the popular and solidarity economy. The launch of the book Buen Conocer / FLOK Society: public policy and sustainable models for a social economy of common and open knowledge in Ecuador will take place on June 16, 2015 in Quito, Ecuador. The book contains the results of the research on public policies for the construction of a social economy of common and open knowledge in Ecuador; the edition of the book includes along its 800 pages, 14 documents, 27 authors, 14 reviewers, 911 comments of 122 people on the digital platform Co-ment, 196 participants (co-creators) in the Buen Conocer Summit in Quito and a total of more than 1,500 participants. During the presentation of the book, the content of the Declaration of Buen Conocer, issued at the end of the Summit, held in Quito from 27 to 30 may 2014, will be re-edited. This declaration synthesizes the proposals of this transition to a common and open knowledge economy. The Buen Conocer / FLOK Society book will be available for download since Tuesday, June 16 2015, at the site http://book.floksociety.org/, licensed by Creative Commons BY-SA (attribution share equal) Ecuadorian (v.3.0) and international (v.4.0) and GFDL (GNU free documentation license. The book was published in its digital version for the Buen Conocer /FLOK Society community, with the collaboration of aLabs association. It also has a co-edition in print by IAEN/CIESPAL ..."

Text Mining | Telepolis

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 11:42 PM PDT

"Open science proponents no longer toil only with the open access to scientific articles and books or research data. Man fights these days just to be allowed to be able to evaluate scientific publications using text mining and data mining, and faces the resistance of publishers as rights holders exposed. While open access publications can be used openly by anyone, are closed-access publications only the scientists available for use, their institutions have purchased these works by publishers sale. To be more precise: they are the scientists ready only for reading but not for automatic evaluation by text mining and data mining. In principle it is technically relatively easy to do, evaluate machine for human analysis unworkable large masses of publications and research data through Text Mining or Data Mining. However Dement counter are the interests of publishers as rights holders who wish to stop this machine evaluation. They are sometimes harshly criticized for its obstructive attitude in science, are digital availability and the possibility of automatic evaluation but the feature par excellence of the data-driven science that makes statistical patterns in data-seas in order then to explain this scientifically. Which moveth resistance manifests itself among others in the The Hague Declaration , which calls for the establishment of a legal claim to mining ..."

How universities incentivise academics to short-change the public | Symptoms Of The Universe

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 11:39 PM PDT

"This is going to be a short post (for a change). First, you should read this by David Colquhoun. I'll wait until you get back. (You should sign the petition as well while you're over there). In his usual down-to-earth and incisive style, Colquhoun has said just about everything that needs to be said about the shocking mismanagement of King's College London. So why am I writing this post? Well, it's because KCL is far from alone in using annual grant income as a metric for staff assessment – the practice is rife across the UK higher education sector. For example, the guidance for performance review at Nottingham contains this as one of the assessment standards: "Sustained research income equal to/in excess of Russell Group average for the discipline group". Nottingham is not going out on a limb here – our Russell Group 'competitors' have similar aspirations for their staff. What's wrong with that you might ask? Surely it's your job as an academic to secure research income? No. My job as an academic is to do high-quality research. Not to 'secure research income'. It's all too easy to forget this, particularly as a new lecturer when you're trying to get a research group established and gain a foothold on the career ladder. (And as a less-new lecturer attempting to tick the boxes for promotion. And as a grizzled old academic aiming to establish 'critical mass' on the national or international research 'stage'.) What's particularly galling, however, is that the annual grant income metric is not normalised to any measure of productivity or quality. So it says nothing about value for money. Time and time again we're told by the Coalition that in these times of economic austerity, the public sector will have to "do more with less". That we must maximise efficiency. And yet academics are driven by university management to maximise the amount of funding they can secure from the public pot. Cost effectiveness doesn't enter the equation. Literally ..."

Copyright reform would create more uncertainty for researchers - Science|Business

Posted: 18 Jun 2015 11:32 PM PDT

"EU moves to make data mining by researchers exempt from copyright law would not remove the technical barriers. The right way to open up this resource is through a single sign-on licensing service, says Duncan Campbell, Director at John Wiley & Sons"
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