Saturday, June 20, 2015

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Scholarly Communication Officer - UC Berkeley

Posted: 20 Jun 2015 09:15 AM PDT

"UC Berkeley Library is looking for a service-oriented Scholarly Communication Officer whose principal role will be to educate the university community about scholarly publication modes, intellectual property/copyright, and open access issues and services. S/he will be a campus resource on local, national and international scholarly communication developments and activities and their impact on scholarly inquiry and instruction...."

Case studies in OA – profit versus mission

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 11:05 PM PDT

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DPLA, Europeana, Creative Commons Collaborate on International Rights Statements

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 11:02 PM PDT

"The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) joined forces with Europeana and Creative Commons (CC) to create a collaborative, interoperable platform for international rights statements. The International Rights Statement Working Group (Working Group), composed of representatives from the three organizations, spent the past 12 months outlining a proposal for a common framework to provide rights statements for both national and international cultural heritage objects. Currently a range of 12 different rights statements are being proposed. These will be hosted in their own namespace, rightsstatements.org, and will be available in multiple languages. The framework takes much of its inspiration from CC, which provides access to usage licenses as a not-for-profit third party. Much as users are now able to associate a CC license for materials on the web by referencing its uniform resource identifier (URI), the new international rights statement platform will provide persistent links to representations of the statements ..."

F1000Research and INCF join forces to create digital, open-access community journal

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 11:00 PM PDT

"Open science publishing platform F1000Research is working in partnership with the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) to create a dedicated, digital, open publishing solution for INCF's members and the expanding neuroinformatics community. The new INCF Community Journal will provide an affordable, open publishing channel to capture research from the INCF Neuroinformatics Congress and workshops, plus research articles from the neuroinformatics field. Articles will be published using F1000Research's immediate publication and transparent peer review model, without limitation on article size, type, or perceived impact. The journal, which will be launched in August and will be the first of its kind for INCF, will also enable the organisation's congress and workshop attendees to share and publish academic posters and slides in one searchable domain ..."

Bytes, sweat and tears: what it takes to build an open data exchange ecosystem | Foster

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:56 PM PDT

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Public Access to CRS Reports, Revisited

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:54 PM PDT

"'Congressional Research Belongs to the Public,' declared a New York Times editorial today, and it is 'absurd' that Congress would place any obstacles in the way of public access to Congressional Research Service reports, which provide impartial analyses of current policy issues. Yet such obstacles continue to exist, and most CRS reports are not publicly disclosed by Congress. A measure to require the online publication of non-confidential CRS products (H.Res. 34) was introduced in the House of Representatives last January by Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) and Rep. Martin Quigley (D-IL). But like several prior initiatives along the same lines, there is no sign thus far that their pending measure will advance into law or policy. For the time being, at least, it is easier to circumvent congressional restrictions on distribution of CRS reports than it is to modify those restrictions. Noteworthy new and updated CRS reports obtained by Secrecy News include the following ... Not everyone values the kind of policy analysis that CRS performs, particularly since CRS reports are even-handed to a fault, and they refrain from advocacy of specific outcomes. As such, they do not immediately advance any particular policy agenda ..."

EMBL Goes OA | The Scientist Magazine®

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:49 PM PDT

"One of Europe's largest life-science research institutions, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), is embracing open access. The Heidelberg, Germany-based EMBL has instituted a broad open-access publishing policy that went into effect this week (June 15). EMBL-affiliated scientists must now make their peer-reviewed papers available on the open-access Europe PubMed Central within six months of publication in a journal, according to the new policy. What's more, the institution is encouraging researchers to publish their work with a Creative Commons with attribution (CC-BY) open-access license to enable text analytics and text mining in the future ..."

Data bank launched for global access to ancient DNA

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:40 PM PDT

"Medical and other researchers and science teachers around the world will be able to compare ancient DNA from humans from thousands of years ago with the genetics of modern day humans, thanks to a new world-first open access databank at the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD).  The Online Ancient Genome Repository (OAGR) catalogues a significant collection of DNA data from ancient human skeletons and microbes found in their dental plaque. Both raw and analysed data, along with details about the individual humans such as where they were found and how the data was produced, will be freely accessible in a searchable format.  OAGR will enable researchers to investigate key genetic and microbial changes over human evolution and the potential relationships to modern health. It may also be of interest as an education tool for science teachers who could direct a class in comparing ancient individuals with the genetic makeup of humans today ..."

Environment Agency makes LiDAR data open

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:36 PM PDT

"The Environment Agency is placing two sets of LiDAR data – an aerial map created by laser scans – into the open data realm as part of a move to encourage more third parties into flood risk modelling. It plans to release the full tiled dataset of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data gathered since 1998, and a composite set derived from a merged and resampled combination from the tiled set. The move is scheduled for September and they will be available under the Open Government Licence through the agency's Datashare portal. In an agency blogpost, its geomatics manager Dr Alison Matthew said it will be free of charge, even for commercial use. 'We hope that by removing any cost barriers, our data will improve the quality of flood risk modelling used by businesses and local communities and allow for the development of innovative tools and techniques to further benefit the environment,' she said. The move comes two years after the Environment Agency released the LIDAR data for non-commercial use, following which more than 1 million sq km have been downloaded. After the winter floods of 2014 it said it would make as much of its data as possible free of any charges and restrictions. LiDAR data now covers 72% of England, mainly flood plains, coastal zones and urban areas. Its cost has fallen to the point that it now used by most people who work with maps, according to the blogpost. The move adds more momentum to the open data campaign, following the announcement by Ordnance Survey in March that it would it make its OS Open Map of street level data freely available ..."

Born-open data - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:28 PM PDT

"'Jeff Rouder writes: Although many researchers agree that scientific data should be open to scrutiny to ferret out poor analyses and outright fraud, most raw data sets are not available on demand. There are many reasons researchers do not open their data, and one is technical. It is often time consuming to prepare and archive data. In response my [Rouder's] lab has automated the process such that our data are archived the night they are created without any human approval or action. All data are versioned, logged, time stamped, and uploaded including aborted runs and data from pilot subjects. The archive is GitHub github.com, the world's largest collection of open-source materials. Data archived in this manner are called born open.'  Rouder continues: 'Psychological science is beset by a methodological crisis in which many researchers believe there are widespread and systemic problems in the way researchers produce, evaluate, and report knowledge. . . . This methodological crisis has spurred many proposals for improvement including an increased consideration of replicability (Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, 2012), a focus on the philosophy and statistics underlying inference (Cumming, 2014; Morey, Romeijn, & Rouder, 2013), and an emphasis on what is now termed open science, which can be summarized as the practice of making research as transparent as possible.'  And here's the crux: 'Open data, unfortunately, seems to be paradox of sorts. On one hand, many researchers I encounter are committed to the concept of open data. Most of us believe that one of the defining features of science is that all aspects of the research endeavor should be open to peer scrutiny. We live this sentiment almost daily in the context of peer review where our scholarship and the logic of our arguments is under intense scrutiny. On the other hand, surprisingly, very few of our collective data are open! ..."

Open Access Information Session | EducationResearchAtWestern

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:25 PM PDT

"The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) invite the Canadian research community to an information session on their recently announced Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. The session will be an opportunity for the research community to learn more about the policy and its impacts on agency-funded research publications. The information session will be delivered by webinar."

Integrating Hypothesis using Ajax and CORS | Hypothesis

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 10:21 PM PDT

"We've recently added two ways to integrate Hypothesis with other systems: CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) and Atom. We'll explore what you can do with CORS here, and with Atom feeds in another post. It's long been possible to embed Hypothesis in an iframe on a web page. On this page you can see two examples. The first embeds a user's stream of annotations, and the second embeds an individual annotation along with its attached threaded conversation. When these views meet your needs, the iframe method is a simple and easy way to include them in web pages. But what if you need to show the data in a different way? Hypothesis provides an API that developers can use to query the service and create novel views of the annotation data. Until now you could do that almost any programming language or environment except JavaScript. Without explicit permission from a web service, a browser can't use JavaScript to make requests to that service's API. With CORS support now in place, Hypothesis gives that permission. As a result, a developer can embed JavaScript code on a page that queries the Hypothesis API and injects results into the page. You can see a simple example here. It's a widget that displays the most recently-annotated URLs in the Hypothesis database and counts the annotations for each URL. I look forward to seeing the inventive and stylish widgets that developers will create using this new affordance!"
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