Tuesday, July 14, 2015

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Open Research Glossary

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 06:28 AM PDT

This glossary is designed to be a resource to inform people about the culture of "open scholarship". 

Update: June 2015 | Lever Initiative

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:53 AM PDT

"We are making considerable progress in our plans for the Lever Press. We have formed a partnership with Amherst College Press and Michigan Publishing. The Oberlin Group Task Force on Scholarly Publishing is working with these two organizations to craft a proposal that we will be sharing this summer. The proposal will include: editorial plan: We will propose a process for establishing the initial editorial focus for the Lever Press. This process will provide an opportunity for faculty on our campuses to participate in the creation of monograph series that will feature materials broadly of interest to our campuses. governance plans: We are creating governance documents for both the editorial program and overall planning and oversight of the press. This too will provide an opportunity for interested librarians and faculty to play a role in shaping the direction of the press going forward. business plan: a five year financial plan that will allow the press to establish and sustain itself. The Lever Press will not all by itself change the face of scholarly communication, but we are increasingly convinced that it represents an excellent opportunity for us to collectively intervene to help transform this system, and to provide a platform for innovation in the liberal arts."

AAAS, Publisher of Science, Acquires Peer Review Evaluation (PRE) Service to Help Promote... -- WASHINGTON, July 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:48 AM PDT

"The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, today announced the acquisition of 'Peer Review Evaluation' (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original research more transparent and verifiable ..."              

The Research Council of Lithuania is planning to adopt an Open Access Policy | Vilnius University Library

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:43 AM PDT

"The scientific community and the representatives of institutions involved in science policy were invited to participate in a seminar 'Policies on Open Access to Scientific Results: Present Day Situation and Future Goals' organized on July 8, 2015 by the Research Council of Lithuania. Participants discussed about the development of the policy on Open Access to scientific publications and data in Lithuania ..."

Nigerian Open Data Access: This innovation of FUTA students is the next best thing

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:40 AM PDT

" ... Three final year students of the Federal University of Technology Akure have created a Nigeria Open Data Access (NODA) portal, with the support of Connected Developmemt, Open Data For Development and School of Data. The NODA project was unveiled on Saturday at an event in Akure which was be graced by data experts including Seun Inigbinde of BudgIT,  Nkechi Nkwuone from the School of Data and Oludotun Babayemi from Connected Development. The Nigeria Open Data Access is a platform for making data in Nigeria available for Nigerians and the World, free of charge and without any restriction. The data will be available in the public domain and downloadable in Excel, XML and PDF formats ..."

Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls for open healthcare data by default - Computer Business Review

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:38 AM PDT

"Heatlhcare data should be open by default in order to support research and medical breakthroughs, according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Speaking at a roundtable event hosted by the Open Data Institute, Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, said: 'I want to use this opportunity to put in a big plea for clinical data being by default available for research.' The topic of data use in healthcare has been a sensitive subject for many, with the Care.data scheme receiving strong criticism from the Major Projects Authority, which deemed it 'unachievable'. One of the main issues with using healthcare data is public concern over the sensitivity of the data and who has access to it. Berners-Lee, said that a form of accountability could be set up, which would allay fears of any infringements on the privacy of individuals. In theory, people could have records of how their data has been used and by whom ..."

Will Open Access change the Game? | Sven Fund - Academia.edu

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:36 AM PDT

Abstract:  Open access has been the pivotal change in rela-tionsbetweenlibrariesandacademicpublishersinthelastdecade. Not only has it introduced a potentially disruptivebusiness model threatening the publishing ecosystem, butit has also put the individual researcher back into the fray.The long-term impact of the emerging pattern of differentforms of publishing has been largely overlooked so far. Itis about to change academic publishing from a producing,content-driven industry into a service industry, with sig-nificantconsequencesforallpartiesoftheecosystem.

How open is publishing? | The Bookseller

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:35 AM PDT

"The most important people in publishing are the writers and illustrators, those who create brilliant books and stories. Last week I read comments from [new Publishers Association president] Joanna Prior in The Bookseller regarding innovation in publishing: "We're not a closed world that is difficult to get into, we're open to innovation, to doing things in new ways." I thank her for starting the debate because I think publishing can be seen as a closed shop and needs to do much, much more to harness the masses of untapped creative talent that I see every day. Low entry-level pay and unpaid internships are stifling creativity in publishing ... And then I get annoyed because publishing is missing a trick, and countless sales opportunities are lost. As Dan Holloway, author of Opening up to Indie Authors, and a speaker at this year's London Book Fair, says: "I understand that big publishers genuinely want to find new and exciting things but I don't think they know how to do it or where to look. As long as they keep recruiting and interning from the graduate elite, they will always be pulling from an opinion base whose sense of taste and quality and innovation has been moulded in a very controlled and limited environment. What are they doing to get in touch with street artists and aspiring rappers, and out into the poorest schools and after school clubs to ensure that those kids whose parent(s) don't have a room of their own, let alone a space for their kid to do homework in, will be inspired, encouraged and enabled to convert the angers and passions and hopes of their experience into the great literature of 10 years' time? ... "

program 2015 | EAJRS -- European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:30 AM PDT

Use the link to access the program for the upcoming event.

Emerald news - Green Open Access Trial for LIS and IKM journals announced

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:24 AM PDT

"Emerald Group Publishing, global publisher linking research and practice, today announces the launch of its Green Open Access, Zero Embargo trial, applicable for all mandated articles submitted to the company's Library and Information Science (LIS) and selected Information and Knowledge Management journals. This change allows authors to deposit the post-print version of the article into their respective institutional repository immediately upon official publication, rather than after Emerald's 24 month embargo period for mandated articles. Emerald made the decision to trial the zero month embargo period following consultation with its newly formed Librarian Advisory Group (LAG). The group is made up of leading editors and authors from Emerald Library Studies and Information Management journals, alongside other key academics in Library Studies and adjacent disciplines. The group discusses and advises Emerald on issues of common interest in the LIS field including Open Access policy and editorial best practice ..."

ORCID and CHORUS Partner to Support Researcher Workflow | CHORUS

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:22 AM PDT

"We are pleased to share the news that CHORUS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications. Close collaboration among organizations like CHORUS and ORCID, which provide services that support the flow of research communications, is vital to evolving its interoperable, scalable, and sustainable infrastructure to meet the changing needs of the scholarly community ..."

FactorsDB

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:20 AM PDT

"FactorsDB is an open-source repository of experiments that run natively in a web browser. FactorsDB was created to curate a collection of high-quality browser-based experiments for classroom demonstrations. The experiments require no additional software to run, making it easy for instructors and students to use the experiments in a classroom setting. Anyone is free to use, contribute to, or modify the experiments on this site. The site is hosted on GitHub and the entire contents of the site is a GitHub repository. All of the experiments on FactorsDB are created with the jspsych experiment library. jspsych is a free, open-source JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments that run in a web browser. FactorsDB was created by Josh de Leeuw at Indiana University ..."

Web Literacy in Open Science | Mozilla Science Lab

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 01:05 AM PDT

"Something we think about a lot at Mozilla is understanding how different people use and experience the web. Much of this conversation has recently centered around examining what skills and knowledge people need to have in order to successfully use the web to its fullest potential in their jobs and lives, for their own purposes; these skills compose something we call the Web Literacy Map (2.0, if you've been following this work previously). Open science is made possible in large part by the web, and is largely the combination of a number of practices that only began to become feasible with the web's creation. Without the enormous power that an open web gives us to publish, consume and exchange information as independent researchers and individuals, open science would be very difficult to imagine (carrier pigeon APIs? Mail order pull requests?); open source, open data and open access publishing simply would not be feasible. But, every community uses and experiences the web differently; what the scientific community wants and gets out of the web is different than any other. Our colleagues would like your help to understand how the open research movement uses the web, and what Web Literacy means to you. We'll be holding a one-hour live focus group with volunteers from the open science community to discuss Web Literacy, and we'd be delighted if you would participate. For a preview of what to expect, have a look at the existing Web Literacy Map; how would you interpret each element in terms of your own work? Or, to turn it around, what do you think doing open science on the web requires in terms of: Reading. What sort of skills do researchers need to be able to consume information (of any kind) on the web? Writing. What skills do researchers need to be able to create content that can be consumed on the web that is useful to other researchers, and the public more broadly? Participating. What skills do researchers need to be able to successfully collaborate on science on the web? ..."

Fair Use in Text and Data Mining: ARL Publishes Issue Brief | Association of Research Libraries® | ARL®

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:58 AM PDT

"ARL has released an 'Issue Brief: Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States' (PDF), which describes the role and usefulness of text and data mining, provides a short background of fair use, and presents an analysis of fair use in text and data mining, including eight cases that support fair use in this context ..."

DCAT Meeting July 2015 - Community Groups - DuraSpace Wiki

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:54 AM PDT

Use the link to access more information about the upcoming event.  

African rock art goes digital

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:51 AM PDT

"Uganda is one of 19 African countries whose rock art is to be published online in digital form by the British Museum, under The African rock art image project. The project started in 2013 and has catalogued around 25,000 digital photographs of rock art from across Africa. Originally it was from the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) with support from the Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund, supporting charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment. The project leader is Elizabeth Galvin, curator of the department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas of the British Musuem. Combining a wide range of research from the British Museum, TARA and colleagues in Africa, the project is cataloguing and digitally preserving African rock art to ensure global open access to the rock art well into the future. Countries have been grouped into three regions; from Northern / Saharan Africa, Eastern and central Africa, Southern Africa. There are 19 countries under the project. Already, work is complete in Egypt,Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Niger, Chad, and Mauritania. Next in line are   Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, and Tanzania. The southern African countries will be last including Angola,Malawi, Namibia,Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. In all countries, photographs of the rock art are provided on an interactive map of the country. Libya, with 3899 photos, has the biggest collection, followed by Niger 2439, and Sudan has the least; with 163 ..."

PD Series: Open Textbooks and the Evolving Role of Libraries - YouTube

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:44 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.  

Unglue.it Goes Non-Profit | unglue.it

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:43 AM PDT

"Since its beginning 4 years ago, Unglue.it has been a part of Gluejar, Inc., a privately held for-profit company. We initially thought Unglue.it would be mostly about crowd-funding books into the public commons. While unglue.it has always put a public benefit at the center of its mission, the for-profit status made sense for a crowdfunding business. Over the past two years, Unglue.it has shifted into the nuts and bolts of distributing and promoting freely-licensed ebooks, because we realized how dysfunctional the commercial ebook supply chain had become. The for-profit status made less and less sense. Over the last year, we've also started working on GITenberg, and effort to improve the ebooks in Project Gutenberg. To our great surprise and pleasure, we got grant funding for this work from the Knight Foundation, and fiscal sponsorship from the Miami Foundation. Suddenly, our eyes opened to the realization that we would be better able to continue our work as part of a non-profit entity. So a bunch of us have created the Free Ebook Foundation. It will be the corporate home for both Unglue.it and GITenberg. There might even be some new projects. We're really excited about it ..."

The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant - Shorenstein Center

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:29 AM PDT

"A new paper by David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center, explores the successes, challenges and opportunities for news organizations using APIs. An API (application programming interface) enables websites and applications to talk to each other and efficiently share data and functionality across sites and platforms. In 2008 The Guardian, The New York Times and NPR all developed open APIs, with the hope that software developers around the world would use the resources and data to create interesting and useful apps and tools. Although little of this initial vision came to pass, all three news outlets did benefit enormously from using APIs. Distributing content across multiple sites, building iPad apps, and adapting content for social media are just a few projects made much easier through the use of an API. In this paper, Weinberger provides both practical recommendations for creating open APIs and a vision for a future of online news where open APIs become commonplace – enabling a new era of interoperability and shareability across the Web."

Dutch universities and Elsevier fail to reach consensus | UA Magazine

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:24 AM PDT

" ... The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU- its Dutch acronym) has announced that the negotiation with Elsevier over open access is going nowhere, because it is in a deadlock. Last year, the association began negotiating with Elsevier to reach consensus on open access and journal subscription matters. But so far, compromise and agreement remained elusive. The statement release by the VSNU made clear that Elsevier brought forward a series of proposals. None of them, however, appeared good enough to be accepted by the team of negotiators appointed by VSNU. The association's position is to get the renewal of the previous agreement on a bundled package of journal subscription, which is known as 'big deal'. The association further demanded that Elsevier allows full access (through open access) to sixty percent of the country's scientific output by 2016 and a hundred percent by 2024. While the negotiations with Elsevier showed no result, the VSNU made clear that negotiations on open access with other major publishers such as SAGE, Springer and Wiley have succeeded. The VSNU, disappointed and frustrated by the deadlock, has called up on academics to play a vital role to break the deadlock. First and foremost, the VSNU hopes, the academics on the editorial board may use their leverage to exert pressure on Elsevier. If this yields no result, it will request the academics to also quit Elsevier's editorial board and also stop publishing on Elsevier's journals ..."

The Need for ‘Diamond Engagement’ around Open Access to High Quality Research Output

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:22 AM PDT

"In this Opinion Paper, the Science Europe Scientific Committee for the Social Sciences recognises the Open Access (OA) efforts that have been made to date by research funders, managers of digital repositories, researchers and end users of research and invites them to undertake a co-ordinated cultural shift in their engagement with access to resources in order to make peer-reviewed articles available to a wider audience.  This Paper addresses two audiences: scientists, especially those who have been traditionally more resistant to the OA approach, and policy makers. The Scientific Committee is well aware of the difficulties that some research communities face in engaging with the OA approach and would like to offer a way forward to address the current status quo . Social scientists in particular have been struggling with the discussion on OA, given the length of time that the current quality standards and good practice for publication took to set up. The community of researchers perceives that these standards are now guarded by the peer-reviewed ranked journals which do not offer OA for either articles or books, a situation that is certain to persist for some time.  The other important aspect is that payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs) to journals for OA publication is often unaffordable given the limited resources available to the social sciences disciplines. In this context, this paper illustrates how the deposition of articles in public repositories can be beneficial to the research community. At the same time, this Paper encourages policy makers to better invest in the harmonisation of research information metadata standards across Europe using existing public infrastructures, and to ensure good quality of records, interoperability and discoverability. It also links the discussion of OA with an issue that is crucial in both research and policy agendas: demonstration of the impact of publicly-funded research. The proposals outlined here do not replay the current debate surrounding OA policies; the 'Diamond Engagement' concept, which the Committee proposes here, can exist in parallel with, but also enhance well-established practices of publishing. The recommendations proposed for 'Diamond Engagement' are based on the following three principles ..."

Open Innovation at LEGO: an interview with Erik Hansen | Open Your Innovation

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:18 AM PDT

"As LEGO presents one of the first companies that successfully introduced various Open Innovation practices, we were wondering how they perform nowadays and what thein main challenges are. Insipired by our last article 'Open Innovation, crowdsourcing and the rebirth of LEGO', that summarize how LEGO avoided bankruptcy by introducing at the turn of the century various Open Innovation practices, we recently had an interesting interview with Erik Hansen, Senior Director of Technology & Open Innovation at Lego (26/03/2012) ..."

“Dear Dr. S …” – Invitations from predatory publishers | kangaslampi.net

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:06 AM PDT

[First paragraph] An interesting side effect of having published an article in a widely indexed open access journal has been the influx of invitations to publish articles/reviews/comments/anything at all or to review research articles in a variety of journals with names ranging from Medical Sciences to the Austin Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences. In a similar vein, I have been invited to appear as a distinguised speaker at, e.g., the annual 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Immunology and the International Conference on Brain Disorders and Therapeutics.

SPARC Europe sponsors The One Repo | The One Repo blog

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:05 AM PDT

"We are delighted to announce that SPARC Europe has sponsored The One Repo with funds to get us started with harvesting repositories. We're honoured that SPARC Europe sees the same vision as us, and very proud to consider them our partners in this work."

Help Outernet and Creative Commons build a #LibraryFromSpace - Creative Commons

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 01:15 AM PDT

Hubble Space Telescope and Earth Limb / NASA on The Commons / No known copyright restrictions

If you could send a folder with 50 MB of content to every human on Earth, what would you include? This weekend Creative Commons volunteers and Outernet are hosting a CC Content Edit-a-thon to populate the first Outernet library to be broadcast from space. The edit-a-thon will take place at Mozilla Festival East Africa (MozFestEA) in a weekend-long track that will be kicked off Saturday morning by Outernet and CC volunteers from Uganda and Kenya. During the first hour, Outernet will introduce the initiative and set guidelines, and CC volunteers will provide basic knowledge and training about how and where to find open content. This first hour will be recorded and posted to the Outernet wiki and Outernet's YouTube channel so that anyone in the world may participate.

Remote participation from anywhere in the world is encouraged! Here's how you, your friends and colleagues can participate:

  • Tell people about it! Send them to this blog post, or this one by Outernet, or http://editathon.outernet.is and tweet using #LibraryFromSpace.
  • Re-post this on your own blog – this blog post is public domain (CC0).
  • Register (free) to help Outernet anticipate the number of participants.
  • Come to a physical edit-a-thon. In addition to the MozFestEA session in Kampala, Uganda, CC volunteers in Guatemala will host their own satellite edit-a-thon to start building a CC library in Spanish for Latin America. CC volunteers in Nigeria will participate remotely as well.
  • On 18-19 July, head over to the Outernet wiki: https://wiki.outernet.is/wiki/Outernet_Wiki. Video, guidelines, directions, and the links to where you'll be curating, creating, and editing open content will all be here. There will also be an open chatroom to communicate directly with MozFestEA participants and CC volunteers in Guatemala, Nigeria, and anywhere.

We hope to find and curate the best content for each country that is openly licensed or in the public domain. All new content created as part of this event will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

In addition, Outernet is working on its CC platform integration to provide options for individuals who want to release their content into the public domain (via CC0) or under CC licenses.

Outernet and CC volunteers are building a library that everyone can enjoy, even without an Internet connection. Be one of the first to put content on its shelves!

More about Outernet

Outernet is Humanity's Public Library, a free data signal broadcast from space that eludes censorship and is publicly editable. To receive the Outernet signal, a user can build their own receiver or purchase one from Outernet. Once an Outernet receiver is active, a user can browse the content they have received using any Wi-Fi enabled device.

More about MozFestEA

MozFestEA brings together different groups of people to build open innovative solutions and to brainstorm ideas and solutions to the current challenges in East Africa with the help of the web as a platform and web literacy. This years MozFestEA will take place at Victoria University in Kampala, Uganda on 17-19, July 2015.
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