Saturday, July 11, 2015

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Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian Kennedy Library | Home

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 09:32 AM PDT

"Cal Poly's ACRL award-winning Kennedy Library is seeking an enthusiastic, collaborative, and innovative individual for a unique tenure track library faculty position, leading and coordinating library programs in open education, open content, and digital publishing...."

Scholarly Communications Librarian – Digital Repositories Position Description

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 08:25 AM PDT

"Under the direction of the Director of Office of Scholarly Communications, the Digital Repositories Librarian [at Texas A&M University] is responsible for managing, planning, and administering the University's digital repositories and the connections among local and remote repositories including data repositories and disciplinary repositories used by the University's research community.  The Digital Repositories Librarian is responsible for collaborating with key stakeholder groups within the library and across the university in developing the university's digital repository strategy...."

The default is "open" | Foster

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 01:04 AM PDT

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee reveals the world's most influential open data leaders | Information Age

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:58 AM PDT

"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, last night awarded the people and organisations 'changing the world' with open data. The computer scientist founded the Open Data Institute (ODI) in 2012 with Sir Nigel Shadbolt to champion the free exchange of information around the world. Last night saw the ODI celebrate its second annual Open Data Awards, as 300 delegates convened at Bloomberg London to learn who had made the most impact through open data  From Kenya, Uruguay and Indonesia, to Brussels, Italy, and Ukraine, the ODI received over 500 nominations this year – more than double that of 2014 – reflecting growth across every sector, including industries such as pharmaceuticals, large corporations and finance ..."

Lodlam Open Data Prize for Polimedia | CWI Amsterdam | Research in mathematics and computer science

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:55 AM PDT

"Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), VU University (VU), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) , Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Institute for Sound and Vison have been awarded the Lodlam Open Data Prize for the Polimedia research project. The prize is an award for Linked Open Data in the field of Library Archives and Museums and was handed out at the LODLAM Summit in Sydney, Australia. Polimedia aims to stimulate and facilitate large scale cross media analysis of political events and is beneficial for researchers in communication science, politics, history and journalism. The main result of the research project is Polimedia.nl, a public web portal that links political debates to news articles that cover them over a timespan of fifty years, until 1995. In the project, the debate archives of the Dutch Parliament, and archives of newspapers and radio bulletins from the National Library of the Netherlands, have been connected to each other. The web service enables analysis of media coverage of politicians and political events and shows how debates and arguments have developed over time ..."

Top 5 take-aways from the UKSG annual conference | Microbe Post

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:53 AM PDT

"Last month I attended the UKSG annual conference in Glasgow, which was a dynamic meeting of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors. There were talks and plenary sessions which explored a number of different topics in scholarly communication, as well as plenty of opportunities to network with colleagues. Conferences are a vital way for us to engage with issues in the world of scientific publishing, and UKSG allows us to hear things from a librarian's perspective.  Here are my top five take-aways from the conference.  [1] A Strong Case for Open Data ... "

EU Copyright Reform May Wipe Thousands of Building Images from Wikipedia | ArchDaily

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:51 AM PDT

"The European parliament will vote today on an amendment to the EU's copyright rules, which if passed would restrict Freedom of Panorama throughout the EU. This could result in thousands of building images being deleted from Wikipedia, and put restrictions on which photos people can upload and share online.  Freedom of Panorama is an exception to copyright rules, allowing photographs of public spaces and buildings to be used without restriction, while protecting the rights of the architect or artist. Currently some countries in the EU have full Freedom of Panorama, while other countries have it in place only for buildings or only for non-commercial uses -- or not in place at all.  Amendment 421 proposes that Freedom of Panorama be restricted for commercial use, requiring that all photos or video footage of works in public spaces must obtain authorization to be used commercially. While this may not seem like a significant problem, the line between commercial and non-commercial use is often blurry. For example, although posting a Facebook photo is not a commercial act, users have to agree to Facebook's terms and conditions, which allows Facebook to use photos for commercial use and states that the necessary rights have already been cleared ..."

People needs all kinds of Data for Innovation: 2nd Data Hackers Meetup | OKFN:LOCAL Nepal

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:49 AM PDT

"Recently formed Developer Nepal (DN): Data Hackers Group organized their second edition of Data Meetup on the date of 8th July 2015 at Parewa Labs, Kupondole, Nepal. The main aim of the meetup and the group was to bring Data Hackers "Who plays lot's on different kinds of Data and Programming Languages like Python & JavaScript" at one place to plan somethings innovative and to share their problem & ideas. The plan of Developer Nepal (DN): Data Hackers Group  member is to organize informal Data Meetups on the regular intervals of time so, that everyone can be regularly informed & updated with the hackers / developers of Nepal. Entrepreneur of different Startups of Nepal joined the second edition of Data meetup, We the member of Open Knowledge Nepal also joined them so, that we can increase our contact with the Developer / Hackers of Nepal and can use their Knowledge for Open Knowledge Nepal upcoming projects. Our another aim of joining the meetup was to collect the views of the participant and know what kinds of data they currently are lacking and found difficult to collect ..."

Anti-Circumvention Rules Limit Reverse Engineering | July 2015 | Communications of the ACM

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:47 AM PDT

"Until the U.S. Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, reverse engineering of computer programs and other digital works was widely regarded as lawful in the U.S. The DMCA changed the law because the entertainment industry feared clever hackers could and would bypass technical protection measures (TPMs) that the industry planned to use to protect their copyrighted works from unauthorized copying and dissemination. The industry persuaded Congress to make it illegal to circumvent TPMs and to make or offer circumvention tools to the public. Circumvention of TPMs is, of course, a form of reverse engineering. This activity is now illegal not only in the U.S., but also in most of the rest of the world unless there is a special exception that permits circumvention-reverse engineering for specific purposes under specific conditions. The DMCA rules, for instance, include exceptions for law enforcement, intelligence, and national security purposes, for making software interoperable, and for encryption and computer security research under certain conditions ..."

Impact of Social Sciences – Dutch universities start Elsevier boycott — will this be a game changer or will publisher profits remain unaffected?

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:45 AM PDT

"Led by vice chancellors, Dutch universities have recently announced plans for a country-wide boycott of the academic publisher Elsevier. This boycott has the potential to be a significant game changer in the relationship between the research community and the world's largest academic publisher. But how will it affect open access momentum in the UK and around the world? Here we have brought together two expert views on the subject. Danny Kingsley, the Head of Scholarly Communication at University of Cambridge and Steven Harnad, longtime advocate for open access, share their views on what the Dutch boycott can hope to achieve ..."

ScienceGuide - Game-changer for open access?

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:43 AM PDT

"Dutch universities are in a fight with academic publisher Elsevier over its reluctance to change to open access. Scientists are therefore urged to put pressure on the publisher. The Dutch academic world gets support from Cambridge where scientists talk of a possible 'game-changer'. Last week Koen Becking (Chairman University of Tilburg) and Gerard Meijer (Radboud University) called for a boycot of Elsevier. The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has asked all scientists that are editor in chief of a journal published by Elsevier to give up their post. If this way of putting pressure on the publishers does not work, the next step would be to ask reviewers to stop working for Elsevier.  According to researchers from the University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication this boycot might be a possible game-changer. 'This boycott has the potential to be a significant game changer in the relationship between the research community and the world's largest academic publisher,' Dr. Ben Kingsley writes on his blog ..."

 

Data infrastructure key to the quality and impact of UK research | Jisc

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:41 AM PDT

"Jisc welcomes the publication of 'The Metric Tide' - a report on the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management, chaired by Professor James Wilsdon ... With our ethos of supporting open and interoperable data infrastructure to make research easier for universities, Jisc strongly supports the report's recommendations. In particular we commend its emphasis on identifiers being central to a more reliable, less burdensome and transparent research information management system. Jisc believes these can underpin more open and transparent research metrics and indicators. We fully support the report's view that there is a balance to be had, and metrics and indicators must be put in context with peer review ..."

About a FAIRy tale and more | TU: Librarian

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:33 AM PDT

"I attended the first two days of the IATUL conference 2015, on Strategic partnerships for access and discovery, on July 6 and 7, 2015. It has been a while that I visited an IATUL conference (the last time was in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2008), so it was nice that I was invited by TIB Hannover to give a keynote and be able to attend the meeting in Hannover, Germany. IATUL celebrated its 60th anniversary, and  last year the General Assembly had decided that members from other university libraries than technical ones are now also welcome to IATUL membership. Though of course at this conference there were still mainly representatives from technical libraries (which I like, perhaps because it potentially can provide a more focused flavour, though in the end we all have the same challenges of course). Let me mention a few observations I made during these first two days: The obvious topic of open access was immediately addressed on the first day by Martin Hofmann-Apitius, who gave a very explicit case and reason why publishers should allow automatic text mining and by doing so would save the lives of cancer patients ..."

Open Access morning trading: challenges and opportunities for the University of Lyon - University of Lyon

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:31 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "How to reconcile the economic issue, authors' rights, direct access to research results, and more and more open access to research data? In response to these questions that the University of Lyon organized on 5 May 2015, a morning of exchanges on the topic of open access. MM. Jean-Pierre Finance, President of Couperin, honorary president of the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy, Permanent Delegate of the CPU and the IRD in Brussels, Bernard Rentier, honorary president of the University of Liege, vice president of Belgian Federal Council for Science Policy, President of EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship), were invited to speak, under the moderation of Mr. Peter Wirtz, Vice-President Research at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3. We suggest discover (or rediscover) the video below each intervention."

New Boycott In Support Of Open Access: Third Time Lucky? | Techdirt

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:29 AM PDT

"Over three years ago, we wrote about a fast-growing boycott of the academic publisher Elsevier, organised in protest at that company's high prices, its 'bundling' of journals into larger collections, and its support for SOPA. Even though over 15,000 people eventually pledged not to work with Elsevier, the company is still going strong, making huge profits from the work of academics, and putting paywalls between the public and knowledge. Perhaps we should have guessed it would end like that. As we noted then, this was not the first or biggest boycott in the history of open access. In 2000, 34,000 scientists from 180 nations signed up to the following: 'we pledge that, beginning in September 2001, we will publish in, edit or review for, and personally subscribe to only those scholarly and scientific journals that have agreed to grant unrestricted free distribution rights to any and all original research reports that they have published, through PubMed Central and similar online public resources, within 6 months of their initial publication date.' The failure by many of them to follow through on that promise did have one positive effect: it led to the creation of what remains perhaps the most influential open access publisher, the Public Library of Science, which is still around today, and flourishing.  Both of these unsuccessful attempts to use boycotts to push forward open access are mentioned in a post by Dr Danny Kingsley on the Unlocking Research blog, which reports on yet another attempt to use this approach:  'A long running dispute between Dutch universities and Elsevier has taken an interesting turn. Yesterday Koen Becking, chairman of the Executive Board of Tilburg University who has been negotiating with scientific publishers about an open access policy on behalf of Dutch universities with his colleague Gerard Meijer, announced a plan to start boycotting Elsevier.   As a first step in boycotting the publisher, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has asked all scientists that are editor in chief of a journal published by Elsevier to give up their post. If this way of putting pressure on the publishers does not work, the next step would be to ask reviewers to stop working for Elsevier. After that, scientists could be asked to stop publishing in Elsevier journals.'  And here's why Kingsley thinks this time the boycott might work ..."

PLOS ONE: Fair Shares and Sharing Fairly: A Survey of Public Views on Open Science, Informed Consent and Participatory Research in Biobanking

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:26 AM PDT

"Biobanks are important resources which enable large-scale genomic research with human samples and data, raising significant ethical concerns about how participants' information is managed and shared. Three previous studies of the Canadian public's opinion about these topics have been conducted. Building on those results, an online survey representing the first study of public perceptions about biobanking spanning all Canadian provinces was conducted. Specifically, this study examined qualitative views about biobank objectives, governance structure, control and ownership of samples and data, benefit sharing, consent practices and data sharing norms, as well as additional questions and ethical concerns expressed by the public ..."

The Winnower: a “radical” publishing platform that encourages debate. Interview with Josh Nicholson - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted: 11 Jul 2015 12:24 AM PDT

"I discovered The Winnower at an open access event at Virginia Tech several years ago. Josh Nicholson, a PhD candidate at the time, was on a panel session discussing the merits of OA. He recently earned his degree (cell biology) and is focused on building a publishing platform. I admire the DIY aspect of his work and the founding principle that all ideas in should be discussed and debated. Our correspondence highlights what he is developing and how it is different from the intuitional repository movement ..."

A data revolution for whom? | openDemocracy

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 01:03 AM PDT

" ... But a politics of public information predominantly focused on the transparency, disclosure and 'opening up' of official information risks overlooking several critical parts of the bigger picture - including what information is generated, who uses it to what end, and how it organises collective life. We ignore at our peril the question of whether information routinely generated by public bodies for their manifold objectives (such as evaluating policies or delivering services) is attuned to the needs, interests and questions of civil society groups, journalists and others outside the public sector. What are the risks of these systems for whom? Can we assume that public bodies are already measuring what society collectively considers important? It would surely be a miraculous (not to mention suspicious) coincidence if public sector data systems were already optimised to address the vast and evolving constellation of concerns in democratic politics ... A politics of public information worth its salt surely needs to go beyond a focus on what data sees the light of day, towards developing ways of scrutinising, challenging, re-envisaging and re-calibrating the priorities, rationales and methods of public information infrastructures, holistically conceived ..."
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