Wednesday, June 3, 2015

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"Redirecting Library Budgets in Support of Open Access" by Andrée Rathemacher

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:36 AM PDT

[Abstract] This is a text of a panel presentation given at the Women's History in the Digital World 2015 conference at Bryn Mawr College on May 22, 2015. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Julie R. Enszer (University of Maryland) titled "Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals in the Digital Age: Rebroadcasting Our Values." Co-panelists were Ken Wachsberger (Azenphony Press) and Laura X (The Laura X-Laura Rand Orthwein, Jr. World Institute for the Legacy and Learning of Social Justice Movements.)

New HHS chief technology officer is long-time open data supporter | Healthcare Dive

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:32 AM PDT

"Dive Brief: The Department of Health and Human Services has appointed Susannah Fox to replace Bryan Sivak as its new chief technology officer.  Most recently, Fox served as entrepreneur in residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to that, she spent 14 years as the director of health and technology at the Pew Research Center.  Fox is a long-time proponent of the 'data liberación' effort, which aims to make health data more easily available and accessible to the public ..."

Digital Human League Publishes 1st Set of Open Data | Animation Magazine

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:27 AM PDT

"The Digital Human League has released the first batch of data in its attempt to overcome the 'uncanny valley' effect in creating digital versions of humans. The league is a group of artists started by Christopher Nichols of Chaos Group that is exploring photorealistic human faces and how to construct and render them. The work is open and the files are fully published to advance the state the of the art. The data for the second version of Digital Emily was first released at FMX. It's based on Emily O'Brien, who agreed to be rescanned at higher resolution that the original version. Digital Emily 2 is the first subject used in the Wikihuman project. This data, along with work done by the Digital Human League, is now available for download. The files include the model (in Alembic format), the textures (in EXR format), and the shader (in OSL format). The creators also included a Maya scene with the shaders set up in V-Ray. The files can be downloaded here. More information on the project can be found here."

New open digital humanities resources | Opensource.com

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:23 AM PDT

"Open source software is changing academic research, enabling new discoveries and innovation in ways that were previously impossible. Every month I take a look at open source tools you can use in your digital humanities research and some humanities research projects that are using open source tools today ..."

CESSDA - Open Data

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:18 AM PDT

"CESSDA takes the position that social science data produced within publicly funded projects should in principle be: available for re-use outside of the original research team; free and easy to discover and access; curated according to international standards by a professional archiving institution ..."

edX makes it easy for authors to share under Creative Commons - Creative Commons

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:14 AM PDT

"edX has added the ability for authors to apply a Creative Commons (CC) license to their courses and videos on its platform. More than 50 academic institutions, including MIT and Harvard, use edX to offer free courses that anyone in the world can join. Now, authors at these institutions and elsewhere may license their courses for free and open reuse directly on the edX platform."

Muzzled Open Access | ScienceBorealis.ca Blog

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:09 AM PDT

"When federal scientists asked Ottawa to enshrine scientific integrity in their upcoming collective agreement, the mainstream media began to take notice (again). The muzzling of federal scientists has been discussed for years in several venues, including an investigative report by CBC's The Fifth Estate and a 2012 story in the high-profile journal Nature. Currently, a dedicated group of scientists called Evidence for Democracy are actively working to keep the topic in the public eye. However, even though the topic is discussed regularly in Canadian scientific circles, scientist muzzling is surprisingly low on the radar of Canadian science bloggers. All of that changed recently when former Fisheries and Oceans Canada biologist Steve Campana made the interview rounds upon his retirement from the federal government. Michael Rennie, who left government science for academia, wrote on his appropriately titled blog, Unmuzzled Science, that Steve sure knows how to make an exit ..."

urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-253484 : Cross-border Copyfight : European libraries re-thinking the InfoSoc Directive

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:07 AM PDT

"This master's thesis focuses on the argumentation of library organisations and European national libraries in their contributions to the European Commission's public consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules. This study aims to explain how the debate around copyright limitations and exceptions is constructed in library stakeholders' contributions. The construction is explained through argumentation analysis and a theoretical framework of the relations between structural, instrumental, and discursive power. The main findings are that library stakeholders in general are strongly supportive of a EU copyright reform, arguing that democratic values as well as the EU Single Market would benefit. There are also library stakeholders who argue against legislative change, either suggesting extended collective licences, or arguing that the Member States' sovereignity is more important than a pan-European copyright legislation. Furthermore, many library stakeholders propose either a general "fair use" exception in EU copyright law, or adding several specific exceptions, e.g. for text and data mining, e-lending, publicly funded research openly available, and that contracts and technical protection measures cannot override limitations and exceptions. National libraries and library organisations from the Central and Eastern European Member States' are more supportive of a copyright reform than their Western European counterparts. They do not mention licences as a possible solution. In general, the library stakeholders agree that the interoperability, exchange and cooperation in activities and projects involving several EU Member States suffers from the current copyright legislation ..."

Open data use breaks out of startups and London, says ODI

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:03 AM PDT

"Open data is being used commercially outside London and beyond startup companies, according to the research by the The Open Data Institute (ODI). The findings from the Open data means business: UK innovation across sectors and regions research draw on the testimony of 270 companies with combined sales of £92bn and more than 500,000 workers. Almost 40% of companies using open data are more than 10 years old, with some more than 25 years old, according to the research. It revealed the most popular datasets being used by the companies are geospatial/mapping data (57%), transport data (43%) and environment data (42%). The companies surveyed listed 25 different government sources for the data they use. Ordnance Survey data was cited most frequently, by 14% of the companies. The non-government source most commonly used was OpenStreetMap ..."

Dream Institutional Repository Project -- DIRP Instructions - Google Docs

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:59 AM PDT

" ... In an effort to answer this question, I have put together a spreadsheet where we can crowdsource an informal functional specification of our 'dream repository' from the community. The information received is inherently valuable because it collects data in an open-ended way without leading to any specific product other than a better understanding of the community's needs. Individual developers may use this data to get ideas for functional enhancements to existing open source IRs, and community members may refer to individual proposed requirements and debate their merits in an open forum. Companies may use this document as well to get ideas for extending their own proprietary IRs, but this is not the goal of the project. If you have an opinion on how institutional repositories could work, add a line to the DIRP Response spreadsheet and make your opinion known ..."

NEWS FROM EAHIL: Letter from the President

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:55 AM PDT

"Over the past couple of years, EAHIL has become a signatory to, or member of, various initiatives to promote access to information. I'd like to use this letter to summarise the initiatives so that EAHIL members see some of the "behind the scenes" activities of the Association, and also I hope that by outlining the initiatives you could also help promote them among your own colleagues and local networks, to raise awareness and support ..."

TRLN Statement on announcement of Elsevier policy that limits open access and sharing

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:49 AM PDT

"Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) has been committed to improving access to scholarship and information for over eighty years. In a digital age, the opportunities for access and sharing have increased dramatically. One way in which TRLN implements its commitment to improving access is by advocating for author's rights and fair publication agreements. The recent changes in its author rights retention policy by academic publishing giant Elsevier therefore raises significant concern. At a time when funding agencies' policies make sharing more necessary than ever, and the advantages of greater access are increasingly clear and urgent, it is deeply unfortunate that Elsevier has decided to impose embargos on author self-archiving of even earlier versions of their articles. This comes in spite of the lack of evidence that author self-archiving is doing any harm to subscriptions - and substantial evidence that openness serves the values of scholars and scholarship - and is a step back from Elsevier's previous policy, which allowed more immediate sharing in many cases. For this reason, and because of its long-standing commitment to access, sharing and collaboration, TRLN endorses the recent statement from the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and many other groups which asks Elsevier to reconsider this harmful and unnecessary retreat from the sharing of scholarship. TRLN is a collaborative organization of Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the purpose of which is to marshal the financial, human, and information resources of their research libraries through cooperative efforts in order to create a rich and unparalleled knowledge environment that furthers the universities' teaching, research, and service missions ..." 

Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder « Wikimedia blog

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:38 AM PDT

"Reading scholarly work on print often involves frequent interruptions, as footnotes and endnotes would often call for midstream re-evaluation for readers who dart back and forth from passage to citation. This jumping around has become a natural process of reading on the Internet, where bright blue hyperlinks can be followed with a single click. Still, while hyperlinks may have smoothed out the jarring experience of reading printed scholarly text, they do have one major disadvantage. Geoffrey Bilder calls it 'link rot': the demise of hyperlinks that no longer point to their original resource. Bilder has spent 15 years in the scholarly communication industry and has used Wikipedia since the early 2000s. He tells us that the average lifespan of a hyperlink has been a mere six years—after that time, the many of the pages being linked to will be taken down or moved to a new location. As such, the original link is no longer useful as a citation tool. This widespread 'link rot' troubles Bilder, who is concerned that broken citations can undermine the reliability of online scholarly work. To address this issue, he joined CrossRef, a non-profit organization that provides web resources and the infrastructure to keep hyperlinks working ..."

Implementation of the HEFCE Open Access policy for the post- 2014 REF: a progress report to Jisc | Jisc Scholarly Communications

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:33 AM PDT

"Over the past month, Research Consulting has been undertaking a review of UK higher education institutions' progress towards implementation of the open access policy for a post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Based on the six institutional workshops, completed with the support of the Jisc Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder projects, as well as interviews with Jisc and HEFCE staff, the study has identified how much progress has been made across the sector to implement the policy and distinguished where there may be further opportunities to support institutions in this area ..."

DOAJ, Impact Factor and APCs | Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir les savoirs communs

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:29 AM PDT

"In May 2015 we conducted a pilot study correlating OA APCs and the journal impact factor, using data from 2010, 2013 and 2014. Here are some early results: [1] about 10% of the journals listed in JCR are DOAJ journals [2] over 10% of the journals listed in DOAJ have an impact factor [3] about 40% of the DOAJ IF journals had an APC as of May 2015 (estimate; higher than overall journals with APC) [4] average APC of IF journals in 2014 more than double overall average APC ($1,948 as compared with overall average of $964) [5] average APCs of IF journals increased by 7% in a 5-month period from 2013 to 2014 and by 16% from 2010 to 2014 [6] over 80% of APC / IF journals increased price by 6% or more in a 5-month period from December 2013 to May 2014 [7] about 20% of APC / IF journals increased price by 10% or more in a 5-month period from December 2013 to May 2014 [8] 7% of APC / IF journals increased price by 20% or more in a 5-month period from December 2013 to May 2014 Conclusion: about 10% of DOAJ journals have impact factors, and about 10% of impact factor journals are DOAJ journals. Open access journals (or some OA journals) using the APC business model may be exploiting impact factor status as a means to raise prices. Further investigation warranted ..."

Open access awareness: What scholars need to know | Congress 2015 | Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:23 AM PDT

"Open access is a social movement that supports the sharing of new research knowledge with all who might benefit from it. Our knowledge distribution system is in a time of transition and our speakers will address how best to remodel this system for the good of researchers, the university and society."

Workshop Part 4: Open Access Marketing Update (BioMed Central Brazil …

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:00 AM PDT

"The fourth and final presentation in the 2015 BioMed Central author workshop presented at institutions in Brazil. In this segment, Balaram Poddar, Marketing Specialist, gives an overview of the trends, services, and new developments in open access author marketing."

Introduction to Open: OER, Open Pedagogy, & Open Access

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 11:57 PM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.

Open Access…or Free Access? | The Grumpy Geophysicist

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 11:50 PM PDT

"Well, recently Elsevier added another chapter to their ongoing saga of how little they value the people who generate all their income: they added a new layer of prohibitions on "green" open access versions of journal articles. This has the Open Access community up in arms…but then, they have noticed that Elsevier is fundamentally the Evil Empire crossed with a cable company, no? I mean, they bundle a lot of crappy journals in with the few that anybody would pay for in order to avoid real ala carte payments and also to be able to claim high circulation on their crappy journals. (Why does anybody keep publishing with these guys?  ANY Open Access advocate who publishes in Elsevier should question their own stance). Anyways, the thing that gets the Grumpy Geophysicist's goat is that when you see the high dudgeon that Open Access advocates get into over this, you get the distinct impression that (1) all research is publicly supported, (2) all research should be free to publish and freely available and (3) publishers provide no value. Arguably all these are in error ..."
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