Monday, July 13, 2015

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Lever Initiative - Annapolis Group Presentation - 2015 - YouTube

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 04:35 AM PDT

"Recap of Annapolis Group Presentation on [OA book] Publishing - 16 June 2015 - Bryn Geffert - Amherst College."

Photomediations: An Open Book on tour | Digital meets Culture

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 01:09 AM PDT

"Photomediations: An Open Book, (http://www.photomediationsopenbook.net), produced by one of the pilots of the Europeana Space, has recently enjoyed an enthusiastic response from a variety of international audiences. Kamila Kuc gave a talk at the Archives of/For the Future NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) annual conference in Lodz, Poland (18-20 June 2015) titled 'Photomediations: An Open Book: Writing and Curating Visual Arts Online'. The talk explored the nature of this innovative digital platform in relation to the traditional book as a paper object. Part of the 'Post-Internet-Archives in Digital Aesthetics' panel, the presentation used Photomediations: An Open Book as a case study to argue for the need to experiment with new ways of displaying textual and visual content online by using resources under Creative Commons and other open licenses ..."

Open access in Botswana | EIFL

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 01:04 AM PDT

"EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is delighted to announce a new project, 'Open access in Botswana', that will increase access to valuable local research that can be used to enhance development and raise living standards in the country. EIFL will work with the Botswana Library Consortium  to advocate for open access (OA) in Botswana. Advocacy will especially target research managers and administrators in academic and research institutes. The project will build advocacy capacity of OA advocates, OA journal editors and publishers, and repository managers, and increase understanding of OA among parliamentarians, policy makers and important stakeholders in the development sector, like health and agricultural workers ..."

The battle for open-access information ~ Stephen's Web

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:58 AM PDT

"I've been an AAAARG member for a long time, though in recent years it has become less useful (as people have been sharing citations, but not actual papers). AAAARG has survived legal cases, public opposition, and more, and I imagine it will survive this article, which w[h]ile it sounds sy[m]pathetic, ultimately insists that the site is doing something wrong, trotting out the old and well-worn argument to do so: 'To state the obvious, most anti-copyright activists have never had to rely on [lending rights] payments or royalties to pay rent. More than that, it has always struck me as odd that many on the left support working wages for the poor, but not the right of authors to earn a living from their work, which is one of the things copyright facilitates.' If royalties were the only way to pay authors, I would be in agreement. But they're not, and the way we do it now has resulted in the least efficient and most unfair system possible ..."

OpenURF Is Now Open! | Open Undergrad Research Foundation

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:57 AM PDT

"We are to present Open Undergrad Research Foundation (OpenURF). The foundation aims to build a community that fosters PI's and their undergrad in order to promote Open Science and give the undergrads an upper-hand for their future of research. The main focus is collaboration with others giving and receiving feedback to/from peers and learning about the tools within Open Science and the scientific work flow. Even though it is summer, we want to get everything ready for the Fall term. We are seeking both PI's, undergrad researchers, and those who are apart of the Open Science (Open Access/Data also) movement to help us to be ready. If you want to join in, please use the contact form below. Our wiki and forums are not up yet, but we will post a blog post when they are up. The usage of the wiki is to collect member profiles, project management, and other things. The member profiles will allow members of OpenURF to meet each other. OpenURF will have community projects and the wiki along with forum discussions will keep track of these projects. Community members are allowed to start projects also. The forums will also allow members to meet each other, get help on questions that they may have and give solutions ..."

GLAM/Newsletter/June 2015/Contents/Open Access report - Outreach Wiki

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:56 AM PDT

Use the link to access the newsletter.  " ... A paper entitled 'Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science' was posted on arXiv. It concluded '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' and generated quite some discussion around the interaction of open access and Wikimedia ... The session proposal on the Wikimedia Foundation's new Open Access policy finally did not make it into the program, which leaves Wikimania 2015 with two sessions related to Open Access ... The following represents a selection of the files that have been uploaded this month from open-access sources. Most of these came from PubMed Central through the Open Access Media Importer, whose uploads now total over 20,000. If you can think of wiki pages where these files (or other files from the same source articles) could be useful, please put them in there or let us know ..."

Walt at Random » Blog Archive » The Open Access Landscape: 20. Megajournals and Miscellany

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:44 AM PDT

"This chapter covers two groups: megajournals, journals that publish articles in a wide variety of fields and had at least 1,000 articles in 2011, 2012 or 2013, and miscellany, journals so broadly defined as to include most anything (including, for example, student research journals and some interdisciplinary journals) and some fields that I couldn't find a place for ..."

Open Access in Italy | Foster

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:42 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.  

BeerBrarian: I Got Soul, But I'm Not a Soldier: On "a quiet culture war in libraries"

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:41 AM PDT

"University of Utah Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections Rick Anderson has published an opinion piece in Insights, titled 'A quiet culture war in research libraries – and what it means for librarians, researchers and publishers.' This article is illuminating and instructive, but not, I suspect, for the reasons Anderson intended. Rather than revealing or elucidating a problem – the author offers no evidence beyond his opinions as the first comment on the article points out and cites only himself – it is a useful look into the mindset of a dean, one that I suspect is shared by others, as well as university and associate university librarians throughout North America. The article can also be read as an apologia for the current state of scholarly communication and library and information science (LIS) practitioners' roles in that ..."

A quiet culture war in research libraries – and what it means for librarians, researchers and publishers

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:30 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article from UKSG Insights.  [Abstract] There is a growing rift between those who believe the library's most fundamental purpose is to support and advance the goals of its host institution and those who believe the library's most important role is as an agent of progress and reform in the larger world of scholarly communication. Although these two areas of endeavor are not mutually exclusive, they are in competition for scarce resources and the choices made between them have serious implications at both the micro level (for the patrons and institutions served by each library) and the macro level (for members of the larger academic community). The tension between these two worldviews is creating friction within librarianship itself: as tightening budgets increasingly force us to choose between worthy programs and projects, there is growing conflict between those whose choices reflect one worldview and those who hold to the other. How this conflict plays out over the next few years may have significant implications for the scholars who depend on libraries for access to research content and for the publishers and other vendors for whom libraries are a core customer base.

Project REVEAL: The Harry Ransom Center takes a huge digital step forward - Book Patrol: A Haven for Book Culture

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:25 AM PDT

"One of the kinks in the harried digital evolution for university special collections and archives has been the focus on getting their best stuff processed first. This selective approach to digitization, which of course has its roots in the pervasive financial and human resource constraints faced by most repositories, can have a profound long-term effect on what information finds the public realm. Project REVEAL, which stands for Read and View English & American Literature, by The Harry Ransom Center hopes to change that. For Project REVEAL the entire manuscript collections of 25 of some of the best-known writers from nineteenth and early twentieth century American and English literature have been digitized. No cherry-picking here, every item in every author collection digitized with over 22,000 high-resolution images now available. Why is this big? First, The Harry Ransom Center at the University Texas has perhaps the greatest collection of modern English and American literature in the world and second, they are removing the requirement for permission and use fees for a significant portion of its online collections. A comprehensive approach to digitization coupled with open access = pure happiness for us here at Book Patrol ..."

The Ohio State University Press

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:19 AM PDT

"The mission of The Ohio State University Press is to disseminate the best scholarship as widely as possible. Towards that end, we are making the complete texts of certain books available from our website. You will need the free Adobe Reader or some other PDF-enabled program to read the text.  All titles available this way, whether old or new, have gone through the exact same peer review process as our printed books. Any book that carries our imprint—no matter what medium is being used—has been approved by our Editorial Board after a thorough vetting process.  All such works remain under copyright protection and may not be used for any commercial purpose.  The Press very gratefully acknowledges The Ohio State University Libraries for funding and overseeing the digitization of these titles.  Titles currently available on-line are ..."

First the tide rushes in. Plants a kiss on the shore… | FOLLOWERS OF THE APOCALYPSE

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:08 AM PDT

"I'm genuinely at a loss to describe how good James Wilsdon's report of the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management ("The Metric Tide") is. Something that could so easily have been a clunky and breathless paean to the oversold benefits of big data is nuanced, thoughtful and packed with evidence. Read it. Seriously, take it to the beach this summer. It's that good. It also rings true against every aspect of the academic experience that I am aware of – a real rarity in a culture of reporting primarily with an ear on the likely responses of institutional management. Wilsdon and the review team have a genuine appreciation for the work of researchers, and recognise the lack of easy answers in applying ideas like 'impact' and 'quality' to such a diverse range of activity. Coverage so far has primarily centred on the implications for research metrics in REF-like assessments (the ever eloquent David Colquhoun and Mike Taylor are worth a read, and for the infrastructure implications Rachel Bruce at Jisc has done a lovely summary) but towards the end of the report come two chapters with far-reaching implications that are situated implicitly within some of the more radical strands of critique in contemporary universities ..."

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Michigan scholar, named University Librarian | UC Berkeley News

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:04 AM PDT

"Jeffrey MacKie-Mason — a scholar with expertise in human interaction with online information, economics and public policy, along with administrative experience in higher education — has been named UC Berkeley's University Librarian. MacKie-Mason comes to Berkeley from the University of Michigan, where he has served as dean of the School of Information since 2010. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele announced his new appointment in a June 12 CalMessage, following approval by the UC regents.  Much of MacKie-Mason's scholarly work 'has concentrated on questions concerning digital libraries and electronic access to materials and journals,' Steele wrote in his message to campus. As a scholar and a dean, he has 'considered the very issues now facing university libraries' ... In 2013 a faculty Commission on the Future of the UC Berkeley Library finalized a report to the campus administration, whose findings MacKie-Mason endorses. Among its key recommendations, he notes the following: complete a major renovation of Moffitt Undergraduate Library, promote digital literacy, offer innovative data services and support a more sustainable and open scholarly publishing ecosystem ..."

Open Bioinformatics in The Irish Free Software State - GigaBlog

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 12:01 AM PDT

"While the internet might still be raging over Tim Hunt's comments about #distractlingsexy gender issues in the lab, and to a lesser extent Lior Pachtor's recent provocative blog on the 'myths' of bioinformatics code availability and licensing, here in Dublin this years BOSC conference was clear as ever about where they stand on both issues. Appropriately being held in the capital of the first country to legalise marriage equality by popular vote, this year's theme was 'Diversity'. This explicitly had the goal of opening the door even wider to participants who have historically been underrepresented in the world of open source bioinformatics. On top of race, gender and sexuality, this call for an increase in diversity was also made to more traditional biologists, and even taxa – with Holly Bik providing probably the first BOSC keynote that covered worm identification and marine nematodes (slides here). On as well as a panel discussion on the topic (Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community"), BOSC and OBF (it's parent organisation: the Open Bioinformatics Foundation) have made many steps over the last year to introduce a code of conduct (now implemented across ISMB), more travel fellowships, and the popular idea from Michael Crusoe to allow questions via index cards and twitter (inspired by this blog from Valerie Aurora).  Regarding the ongoing licensing arguments, while Ewan Birney circumvented the topic somewhat in his great keynote focussing on transparency, the OBF members and the large proportion of attendees representing the many open source bioinformatics communities beginning with 'Bio' (regulars like Biopython being joined on the program by newer kids on the block like BioJS) know which side of the licensing debate their open source soda bread was buttered ..."

chem-bla-ics: PubMed Commons: comments, pointers, questions, etc

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 11:56 PM PDT

"I could have sworn I had blogged about this already, but cannot find it in my blog archives. If you do not know PubMed Commons yet, check it out! As the banner on the right shows, they're in Pilot mode (yeah, why stick to alpha/beta release tagging), and it already found several uses, as explain in this blog post. Journal clubs is one of them, which they introduced at the end of last year. The pilot started out with giving access to PubMed authors, but since many of us are, that was never really a reason not to give it a try. Comments on PubMed Commons automatically get picked up by other platforms, like PubPeer, and commentators get a profile page, this is mine. Like the use cases people have adopted - see the above linked blog post - I have found a number of use cases ..."

OSTI, US Dept of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information | Speeding access to science information from DOE and Beyond

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 11:54 PM PDT

"Each year, representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), led by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), convene for their annual meeting.  At this year's working meeting of STIP representatives, held in April and hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory, there was something different in the air.  Each year there is lively discussion, new contacts are made, and important information is shared, but this year's meeting had a different feel overall.  Perhaps it was the record number of participants, perhaps it was the number of first-time participants who were eager to learn and gain insight from strong scientific and technical information (STI) management programs in place at other labs and offices, or perhaps it was the feeling of being part of something groundbreaking as the DOE STIP community works together to implement the Department of Energy Public Access Plan.  In reflecting on the April meeting, I have concluded that it was "all of the above."   This is an important and exciting time to be a part of the Department's STIP.Whether one is a program manager, contracting officer,  technical information specialist, or other designated STIP participant, all play a role in management of Departmental research results.  STIP participants help ensure that the results of DOE-funded research and development (R&D) and technical activities are identified, collected, preserved, and then made accessible through submission to OSTI – and that the requirements and benefits of public access to DOE-affiliated journal articles or accepted manuscripts are realized ..."
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