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Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 04:09 AM PDT

Abstract: With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. This article approaches such a comparison through academic references made within the worlds 50 largest Wikipedias. Previous studies have raised concerns that Wikipedia editors may simply use the most easily accessible academic sources rather than sources of the highest academic status. We test this claim by identifying the 250 most heavily used journals in each of 26 research fields (4,721 journals, 19.4M articles in total) indexed by the Scopus database, and modeling whether topic, academic status, and accessibility make articles from these journals more or less likely to be referenced on Wikipedia. We find that, controlling for field and impact factor, the odds that an open access journal is referenced on the English Wikipedia are 47% higher compared to closed access journals. Moreover, in most of the worlds Wikipedias a journals high status (impact factor) and accessibility (open access policy) both greatly increase the probability of referencing. Among the implications of this study is that the chief effect of open access policies may be to significantly amplify the diffusion of science, through an intermediary like Wikipedia, to a broad public audience.

Microsoft, IBM, ARM back open patent database | ZDNet

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 02:21 AM PDT

" ... Voluntary and non-profit, ORoPO already offers online the details of patents owned by its founding members: ARM, BAE Systems, Conversant, Finjan, IBM, Microsoft, Patent Properties, and Shazam. Sir Nigel Shadbolt Photo: Wikipedia Currently information as to who owns patents is recorded at 180 patent offices worldwide, ORoPO said. But it estimates that 25 percent of this information is inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. This inaccuracy has 'serious consequences for the exploitation of the intellectual property assets that now account for up to 70 percent of enterprise value'. One of the chief backers of ORoPO is Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the co-founder of the Open Data Institute ..."

Work needed to unlock farm benefits of drones, robots and data sharing | Pig World

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 02:17 AM PDT

"Data sharing between farmers has the potential to generate improved efficiency and productivity, while also contributing to a better use of resources, but only when data collection and sharing systems start to work properly ... Maintaining that the use of big data could help farmers to step into the future of farming and achieve better targets, he highlighted several areas which were in need of urgent attention ..."

National consortium for ORCID set to improve UK research visibility and collaboration | Jisc

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 02:15 AM PDT

"ORCID – a researcher identifier solution which enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem – will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc ..."

Growing chorus calling for CRS reports to be open to the public - Sunlight Foundation Blog

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 02:05 AM PDT

"The Sunlight Foundation, along with a range of allies, have been pushing for consistent public access to Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports for years. Now, some powerful voices have joined the chorus. Last week, The New York Times published an editorial, titled 'Congressional Research Belongs to the Public,' that makes a forceful case for public access to these vital reports. The CRS is a $100 million-plus agency that serves as a nonpartisan source of research for Congress. Its expertise covers the full range of policy areas regularly faced by Washington policymakers, and its reports are respected for their unbiased nature and clarity. Unfortunately, opponents of openness at this taxpayer-funded agency as well as in Congress have prevented wide public release of these reports. The New York Times editorial outlines the history of public access to CRS reports and the arguments in favor of it, leading with one stunning point that is well worth repeating here: There is a robust secondary market for these taxpayer funded reports. It's not just open government groups and the newspaper of record who want to see CRS reports opened to the public. In a recent poll posted on Cloakroom, a social network for Capitol Hill folks, 70 percent of staffers that responded favored opening CRS reports to the public. Congressional proponents of opening CRS reports should be ready to take advantage of this growing support. There is already bipartisan legislation in the House that would make many reports public. Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., has also made attempts to push the issue from his seat on the Appropriations Committee. The fight to open CRS reports to the public has been a long one, but if news like this continues, it could be nearing its final rounds. If you're interested in this topic, you can find a range of resources here."

Open Access - Science.gc.ca

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 02:03 AM 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 ..."

DET – interest levels rising - OASPA

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:57 AM PDT

"OASPA wants to support and create a vibrant and competitive market for open access publishing that also stimulates innovation. In recent years there's been good progress towards these goals as reflected by the membership of OASPA. Not only have we seen strong growth in fully open content published by OASPA members, there are also publishers experimenting with business models, different approaches to peer review, and new ways of presenting content. This is all good, but it's happening quite slowly, and so OASPA is also on the lookout for areas where members can work together to accelerate open access and innovation. One idea emerged over a year ago at an OASPA board meeting on the topic of article-level metrics and indicators – an idea which rapidly developed into the project called the DOI Event Tracker (DET). One of our challenges is that OASPA is now quite a mixed bag of publishers: old and new; hybrid and fully OA; mega and micro; radical and conservative; commercial and non-profit; journals and books; and all the scholarly disciplines. This is a sign of progress of course, but it does mean that there are topics where it's hard for us to reach a consensus. One of the things many of us can agree on, however, is that current methods of research evaluation are deeply flawed. We seem to be stuck in a system where researchers are judged by where they publish their work, rather than what they've actually accomplished and how it affects their field. As outlined in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, there are lots of reasons to change this. What is particularly relevant for OASPA is that most researchers feel they have to publish in established traditional journals, and that tends to stifle innovation and open access where most of the publication venues tend to be quite new. Publishers as well as scholars seem to be slaves to this antiquated system. How can we break out of this, so that scholars can explore new publication venues without fearing that their work will be 'downgraded' simply because of where they chose to publish it? One approach is to move away from a single journal-based metric – the impact factor – towards indicators (qualitative and quantitative) about the article itself. In a digital environment, when an article is downloaded, bookmarked, written about, commented on, cited etc, all of this can be tracked. The same is true for other research outputs like data, code, blog posts and so on. One of the pioneers in such article-level metrics was PLOS (disclaimer – I worked at PLOS when article-level metrics were first released), but there are now a host of projects and organisations with article metrics as a focus. It's a promising area with a lot of potential to support more sophisticated and meaningful approaches to research evaluation. It's also an area that needs to be approached with much caution – the importance of an individual research output cannot be reduced to a single number (an "article impact factor"). Used with care, however, article-based indicators can provide evidence of different kinds of outcomes, and they can also serve many other purposes such as revealing links between content, people, and other research outputs ..."

SciELO adopts CC-BY as main Open Access attribution | SciELO in Perspective

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:55 AM PDT

"SciELO is the most important Open Access program (OA) among developing and emerging countries and one of the leading worldwide. The pioneer adoption of OA in 1998 under the leadership of FAPESP, BIREME/PAHO/WHO and quality journals from scientific societies and academic institutions is a milestone in the development of the research and scholarly communication in Brazil. The SciELO model was adopted the same year by Chile and it has expanded as a network of journal collections that now covers 16 countries which, altogether, index about 1,000 journals and accumulate more than 500,000 Open Access articles. Since then, the adoption and implementation of OA has contributed decisively to increase the visibility of journals from Brazil and other countries of the SciELO Network. The publication in Open Access is an integral part of the principles and objectives of SciELO aiming the continuous improvement of the journals it indexes and the sustainable increase of use, influence and impact of the research they report. The development of SciELO is currently guided by lines of action on professionalization, internationalization and financial sustainability, which are reflected in the new SciELO Indexing Criteria published in September 2014. The formalization of the Open Access at the journals and articles level is one of the indexing criteria of SciELO. It is fulfilled through the adoption of access attribution of the Creative Commons (CC) system that encourage reuse and distribution of indexed articles in their collections. The license identified as CC-BY is defined as the main OA attribution by the new SciELO Criteria, replacing the previously adopted CC-BY-NC. With this decision, SciELO aligns with the leading journals and international Open Access publishers ..."

Courses and Webinars - Library Publishing Coalition Professional Development Guide - Research Guides at University of Kentucky

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:50 AM PDT

"The production of this guide is sponsored and coordinated by the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Professional Development Committee, which bears primary responsibility for assessing professional development needs and planning and implementing professional development and training opportunities for LPC members throughout the year. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to both Adrian Ho at the University of Kentucky Libraries and Sarah Lippincott at LPC ..."

How is software development like scientific research? - BioMed Central blog

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:47 AM PDT

" ... As a publisher of open access scientific journals, we know that the research world changes fast – assumptions that we make at the start of a project are likely to change while we are working. While we can take a pretty good guess and do thorough analysis upfront, we can't predict 100% accurately what the research community will want and need in 18 months' time. Instead of guessing and hoping that we're building websites that match how the research community want to read, find and use scientific content, we accept that things may change and we work in a nimble way that allows us to react and respond in a timely way. In our technology team, we work using a software development methodology that is built on similar principles to scientific research. Researchers propose a hypothesis, analyse data, and develop a thesis; in technology, we build a little bit at a time, measure usage and user feedback, and use what we've learnt to refine and improve what we're doing continually ..."

Open Science Takes Major Leap Forward -- NEW YORK, June 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:45 AM PDT

"Last June, a dedicated global team of Ebola researchers began an ambitious project to track the virus using large-scale genome sequencing. Their research, which was written on the research platform Authorea and published June 18 in the journal Cell (Park 2015), reveals critical information about how the virus traveled and mutated over seven months of the recent Ebola outbreak. Today Authorea is pleased to announce that the working draft, data, workflows, and full edit history of the paper are available to the public for free on Authorea. This is the first time that such complete details have ever been released for a scientific paper. This release provides unprecedented transparency and detail, empowering students and researchers to review every change and edit to every word during the writing of this landmark research paper, using Authorea's 'History' feature ..."

Vote on copyright will not deliver on text and data mining - Science|Business

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:43 AM PDT

"Earlier in June the European Parliament passed a vote on recommendations for amending copyright law, agreeing to a much-debated text and data mining element of the European Commission's proposal for EU copyright reform. But while some provision on text and data mining has been allowed, the vote is nowhere near strong enough. The final text was neutered, believes Kurt Deketelaere, secretary-general of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). 'The mandatory exception for text and data mining - which several MEPs suggested in their amendments - has now been reduced to the need, 'to properly assess the enablement of automated analytical techniques for text and data',' Deketelaere said ..."

[YEAR-AC2015] Open Access requirements and Open Research Data Pilot in H2020 | Foster

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:32 AM PDT

Recording of the keynote by Liisa Ewart at the YEAR Annual Conference 2015 in Espoo, FI, about Open Access policy in Horizon 2020.

DARPA's Biology Is Technology conference discusses problems with open-source big data.

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:30 AM PDT

" ... Making scientific data open-source is a logical way to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and democratize fields that are often stratified. It seems particularly exciting and promising when paired with big data—as computers have become powerful enough to process enormous data sets, the opportunity to make connections and draw conclusions seems irresistible. And large data repositories have been the foundation of major biomedical discoveries and achievements. Joel Dudley, a biomedical informatics researcher at Mount Sinai, talked at the conference about a counterintuitive molecular similarity between skin disease and Alzheimer's that was discovered only because of large-scale data mapping. He also showed how broad access to patient medical histories and genotypes can reveal things like subpopulations within Type 2 diabetes patients in which each group is predisposed to have different types of conditions alongside diabetes. The more data sets that are openly available, the more work like this can occur. But even something as potentially powerful as the open-source movement can be dead in the water if no one wants to engage with it ..."

Sharing Policy Draws Criticism; Elsevier Responds

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:27 AM PDT

"On April 30 the academic publishing company Elsevier announced that it would be updating its article sharing policies. In a post on its website titled Unleashing the power of academic sharing, Elsevier's director of access and policy Alicia Wise outlined a framework of new sharing and hosting policies, which include guidelines for sharing academic articles at every stage of their existence, from preprint to post-publication, and protocol for both non-commercial—that is, repository—and commercial hosting platforms. 'This is our first major refresh since [2004],' Wise told LJ. 'What we needed to do was to build in greater clarity about how authors could share open access content,' as well as provisions for sharing articles on commercial platforms such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and Mendeley (which is owned by Elsevier). The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) responded on May 20 with a statement against Elsevier's sharing policy, which at press time had been signed by more than 2,000 organizations and individuals worldwide, including the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the American Library Association (ALA), and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). It read, in part: 'This policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders' open access policies.' The statement, which urged Elsevier to reconsider its policy, received a number of comments, including several from Wise, who maintained that the new sharing policies were 'more liberal in supporting the dissemination and use of research' ..."

bjoern.brembs.blog » Whither now, Open Access?

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:23 AM PDT

"The recently discussed scenario of universal gold open access brought about by simply switching the subscriptions funds at libraries to have the libraries pay for author processing charges instead, seemed like a ghoulish nightmare. One of the few scenarios worse than the desolate state we call the status quo today. The latest news, however, seem to indicate that the corporate publishers are planning to shift the situation towards a reality that is even worse than that nightmare. Not only are publishers, as predicted, increasing their profits by plundering the public coffers to an even larger extent (which would be bad enough by itself), they are now also attempting to take over the institutional repositories that have grown over the last decade. If successful, this would undo much of the emancipation we have wrought from the publisher oligopoly. This move can only be intended to assure that our crown jewels stay with the publishers, rather than where they belong, in our institutions. Apparently, some libraries are all too eager to get rid of their primary reason d'être: to archive and make accessible the works of their faculty ..."

Report: Taking open data to next level requires quality data, committed leaders | California Forward

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:21 AM PDT

"In a perfect world, all governmental agencies would have an open data portal that is easy to access and analyze. This would allow citizens to find out how their tax dollars are being spent, from finding when the last time the water main on their street was replaced to seeing the latest health inspection results of their favorite restaurant. Open data leads to government transparency which eventually leads to a better quality of life for its citizens, say advocates. But we are far from that world, and in fact, many cities are in need of robust standards to help them create and maintain their open data initiatives. Those are the findings of a report by Open Data LA, a joint project of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Lead researcher and USC faculty member Dana Chinn found that a new framework needed to be created because there are a lot of misconceptions about open data ..."

Open access requirements and Open Research Data Pilot in H2020 | Foster

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:19 AM PDT

"In this keynote presentation at the YEAR Annual Conference 2015 in Espoo, FI, Liisa Ewart explained the policy behind the Open Access in Horizon 2020 and how the idea of the openness has been evolved since the open access pilot in FP7."

Open Access through Institutional Repositories: Broadening access and increasing impact, the A 3 ir Conference

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:17 AM PDT

Use the link to access the infograhic.  

Ex Libris Declares Conformance with NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:14 AM PDT

"In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), Ex Libris Group, a global leader in library automation services, is pleased to publically declare its support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and conformance with ODI's recommended practice for pre-indexed "web-scale" discovery services. The ODI Working Group's main objective is to promote transparency in content discovery and to improve the collaboration between discovery-index stakeholders. As one of the founders and an active member of ODI, Ex Libris remains committed to the ODI objectives and has published an ODI Conformance Statement which articulates its efforts to meet ODI's recommendations for discovery service providers. In line with ODI Conformance Checklist, Ex Libris already fully complies with the recommendations that pertain to content neutrality. Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution displays search results that are ranked according to their relevance to the user's search context and the preferences set by libraries for their users. The ranking of search results, linking to content, inclusion of materials in Primo Central, and discovery of open access content all uphold the principles of content neutrality. Ex Libris continues to work toward full compliance with ODI recommendations ..."

ET | ORCID offered through national consortium

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:12 AM PDT

"ORCID – a researcher identifier solution which enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem – will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc, a UK charity which promotes the use of technology within education and research.  The agreement, negotiated by Jisc Collections, will enable universities to benefit from reduced ORCID membership costs and enhanced technical support. This should accelerate adoption and provide a smoother path to ORCID integration for  UK universities. It will  ultimately help to transform the management, re-use, and efficiency of the UK research output by improving the integration of research systems and processes, and enhancing data quality ..."

Arts librarian receives 2015 Robert Oakley scholarship | News and Press Center

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:11 AM PDT

"The American Library Association (ALA) today awarded Kathleen DeLaurenti the 2015 Robert L. Oakley Memorial Scholarship. The Library Copyright Alliance, which includes ALA, established the Robert L. Oakley Memorial Scholarship to support research and advanced study for librarians in their early-to-mid-careers who are interested and active in public policy, copyright, licensing, open access and their impacts on libraries.   DeLaurenti serves as the arts librarian at the College of William and Mary, where she led a user-centered re-design of the Music Library, including adding new equipment, collections, and services. She also is the first librarian at William and Mary to receive a Creative Adaption Grant to begin a pilot project to help faculty incorporate Open Educational Resources into their courses. The Oakley scholarship will support DeLaurenti's work in copyright education, focusing on students' understanding of music licensing and copyright basics ..."

CyberLeninka as a part of Russian Open Science infrastructure - Открытая Наука

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:08 AM PDT

"The issue of scientific knowledge openness is urgent worldwide, but for Russia it is particularly crucial for two reasons: open access policy is still not accepted by government and the most cited academic journals are poorly accessible. Solution for this issue is proposed by means of the gold-oriented method which is implemented in the project of open access repository called as CyberLeninka. It is designed in order to improve scholarly communication, promote science and research activities, control research papers quality and increase citation/download rates of journals in Russia and CIS ..."

Institute, Google Combine Effort for Biomedical Research

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:07 AM PDT

"Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is teaming up with Google Genomics to explore how to break down major technical barriers that increasingly hinder biomedical research by addressing the need for computing infrastructure to store and process enormous datasets, and by creating tools to analyze such data and unravel long-standing mysteries about human health. As a first step, Broad Institute's Genome Analysis Toolkit, or GATK, will be offered as a service on the Google Cloud Platform, as part of Google Genomics. The goal is to enable any genomic researcher to upload, store and analyze data in a cloud-based environment that combines the Broad Institute's best-in-class genomic analysis tools with the scale and computing power of Google. GATK is a software package developed at the Broad Institute to analyze high-throughput genomic sequencing data. GATK offers a wide variety of analysis tools, with a primary focus on genetic variant discovery and genotyping as well as a strong emphasis on data quality assurance. Its robust architecture, powerful processing engine and high-performance computing features make it capable of taking on projects of any size. GATK is already available for download at no cost to academic and non-profit users. In addition, business users can license GATK from the Broad. To date, more than 20,000 users have processed genomic data using GATK. The Google Genomics service will provide researchers with a powerful, additional way to use GATK. Researchers will be able to upload genetic data and run GATK-powered analyses on Google Cloud Platform, and may use GATK to analyze genetic data already available for research via Google Genomics ..."

Update of the Open Access Reporting Checklist | OA Good Practice Pathfinder Project - Bath

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:57 AM PDT

"The recently published checklist has been updated with the data required for version 2 of the RCUK APC spreadsheet as applicable to HEI APC expenditure reporting in January 2016. The changes were identified in an email from Stuart Lawson to the UKCORR discussion group dated 21st May 2015 and reported by Neil Jacobs on the Jisc Scholarly Communications blog ."

Accelerating Open Access Adoption | John Dove | LinkedIn

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:53 AM PDT

" ... Some of the most important funding organizations in the world have mandates that research which they fund must be reported on in open access journals (again, sometimes after an embargo). Now close to 100 universities worldwide have adopted open access policies strongly encouraging scholars at their universities to post the results of their scholarly work in an institutional repository. The success of the Open Access efforts over the past 15 years can be seen by looking at the list of members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. http://oaspa.org/membership/members/ It includes almost every one of the scholarly publishers in the world as well as the leading copyright rights management organization (CCC).    However, even with mandates, policies, and endorsement from publishers only a small percentage of scholarly journal articles worldwide are ending up open to all scholars to read. It's apparently the case that wherever there are mandates or policies in place close to universal adoption of open access is achieved, but this represents only a small portion of all scholarly work and does not cover research that was done before the mandates or policies were in place. I've heard from talking to a senior person at SPARC that the self-archiving rate in places where there is no mandate or policy is less than 15%.     Here's a little exercise which I've now done looking at research papers in a wide variety of disciplines. Look at the referenced sources in a recently published paper. Unless you are reading this paper at one of the few fully funded research libraries you will find that a majority of the referenced sources are unavailable to you ... I think there's a case to be made that journal publishers may be missing a trick. There is a point in time when a publisher's self-interest in the quality of their about-to-be-published work would be well-served by encouraging authors of referenced sources to self-archive their past articles. This is also a moment in time at which the authors of referenced sources are also missing a trick but are unaware of it.  Imagine the publisher of an article about to be published. They could examine the soon-to-be-published article and take note of the referenced sources in that article. Which of them are originally published in an open access journal or have had a version of the article archived in an institutional repository? The utility of this about-to-be-published article is clearly enhanced by having as many referenced sources as possible be eventually made open ..."

'Open' Ed. Resources' Draw Interest From K-12 by Education Week on Prezi

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:49 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.  

Shifting the Scientific Culture toward Transparency: ARL Signs onto Guidelines to Improve Research and Publishing Practices | Association of Research Libraries® | ARL®

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:47 AM PDT

"Transparency and reproducibility are cornerstones of how science creates knowledge. Evidence for scientific claims should be shared openly so others can evaluate, question, replicate, or extend scientific studies. When evidence cannot be reproduced independently, then it should not be accepted as credible evidence. Despite their importance, transparency and reproducibility are not often rewarded. Lack of transparency reduces the credibility of published results, which in turn undercuts the efficient and effective use of funding to support scientific advancement. To improve research transparency, the scientific community is undertaking a series of reforms. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is expressing its commitment to the principles of transparency in scientific research and is joining this effort to reform research and publishing practices. Today in Science Magazine, the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee has published the TOP Guidelines, a set of author guidelines that journals can adopt to enhance the transparency of the research they publish. These guidelines represent a concrete and actionable strategy toward improving research and publishing practices. Already, 111 journals and 34 organizations, including ARL, have expressed support for the principles of transparency and openness and have pledged to consider adopting them within the next year. ARL joins a broad coalition across scientific disciplines including societies such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and the Association for Psychological Science ..."

Trial data: charity hits back at CRO’s anti-transparency bid

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:44 AM PDT

"Contract research organisation Richmond Pharmacology is challenging a decision by the Health Research Authority, part of the UK Department of Health. HRA governs clinical research and supports transparency, including registration of all studies and publication of results. Last week Sense About Science, the UK charity behind the "All Trials" campaign for access to clinical trial data, announced a counter-attack ..."

Webinar #6: Web-Centric Solutions for Web-Based Scholarship (July 2015) — World Data System: Trusted Data Services for Global Science

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:41 AM PDT

Use the link to access more information about the recent event.  "Over the past fifteen years, my perspective on tackling information interoperability problems for web-based scholarship has evolved significantly. My initial work, including OAI-PMH and OpenURL, started from a repository-centric approach. It took into account the existence of the Web, but merely piggyback on it. Starting with OAI-ORE, the approach became web-centric and started to fundamentally embrace the Architecture of the World Wide Web and related technologies. This shift is characterized by an approach that consists of first translating a problem related to scholarly information interoperability to a problem for the Web at large, next devising a Web-centric solution at that level, and then bringing it back to the scholarly Web. I have come to consider this Web-centric approach not just as a design choice but rather as an essential component for sustainable Web-based scholarly infrastructure. In this webinar, I will illustrate this shift by means of design patterns from various interoperability efforts, including Open Annotation, Memento, ResourceSync, Signposting the Scholarly Web, and Robust Links.

Where Should You Keep Your Data? - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:36 AM PDT

"Federal funding agencies have made it clear that grant proposals must include plans for sharing research data with other scientists. What has not been clear is how and where researchers should store their data, which can range from sensitive personal medical information to enormous troves of satellite imagery. In the past, investigators have had to fend for themselves. Although data-sharing requirements have been in place for years at key grant agencies, universities have been slow to assist principal investigators in meeting those obligations. As a result, many keep data on individual hard drives and field requests for it on their own. The good news is that formal policies — with recommendations for storage — are beginning to emerge from federal agencies. The bad news is that if you don't comply with the new policies, you might be prohibited from receiving additional grant money ..."

Broad Institute, Google Genomics to develop online tools to analyze genetic data | BetaBoston

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:30 AM PDT

"The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, which has amassed the world's largest collection of genetic data about diseases, is teaming up with Google to create a simpler way to help far-flung scientists pursue their own research online. The partners will give researchers from Boston to Beijing easy online access through Google to the Broad Institute's tools for converting genetic data gathered from blood and tissue samples into useful information about mutations that underlie cancers and other diseases ..."

The public impact of Latin America's approach to open access - Stanford Digital Repository

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:28 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article.  "This study explores the extent to which research published in Latin America—where the vast majority of which is made freely available to the public—has an impact and reach beyond the academic community. It addresses the ways in which the study of research impact is moving beyond the counting citations, which has dominated bibliometrics for well over the last 50 years. As more of the world's research is made freely available to the public, there is an increasing probability that the impact and reach of research extends beyond the confines of academia. To establish the current extent of public access, this study explores who the users of Latin American research are, as well as their motivations for accessing the work by using a series of simple pop-up surveys, which were displayed to users of the two largest scholarly journal portals in Latin America. The results, after thousands of responses, indicate that traditional scholarly use makes up only a quarter of the total use in Latin America. The majority of use is from non-scholar communities, namely students (around 50% of the total use) and from individuals interested for professional or personal reasons (collectively around 20% of the total use). By linking the survey responses to the articles being read, it was also possible to identify points of convergence and divergence in student, faculty, and public interest groups. Finally, this study employed methods from a new field of inquiry, altmetrics, in an attempt to capture engagement with research on the social Web. The success of such methods for the Latin American case were limited due to low coverage levels, but the research nevertheless contributes to the understanding of nascent field of altmetrics more broadly. The study concludes with a discussion of the conceptual, political, curricular, and methodological implications of this new approach to scientific communication."
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