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- Open and Shut?: Emerald Group Publishing tests ZEN, increases prices: what does it mean?
- Dr. Eric Eich and the crusade for open science | Department of Psychology
- Interview with Steve Song, founder of the Village Telco project | Opensource.com
- Open data: what is it and why are people so scared of it? - News - Gadgets and Tech - The Independent
- Impact of Social Sciences – Who’s talking about your research? Tune in to the digital debate and discover what happens post-publication.
- Biology’s Data Barrier: Europe’s à la carte solution — PLOS Comp Biol Field Reports — Medium
- From the Hindenberg to Marilyn Monroe, 10 moments from the new archival footage released to YouTube
- Researchers Open Repository for ‘Dark Data’ – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
| Open and Shut?: Emerald Group Publishing tests ZEN, increases prices: what does it mean? Posted: 23 Jul 2015 01:02 AM PDT Given this background, I was intrigued by a recent news item on Library Journal's infoDOCKET reporting that Emerald has decided to undertake what it calls a Zero Embargo trial. The trial, which will involve 21 Library and Information Science and Information and Knowledge Management journals, will allow researchers submitting to these journals (even if the author is subject to an OA mandate) to deposit the post-print versions of their articles "into their respective institutional repository immediately upon official publication, rather than after Emerald's 24 month embargo period for mandated articles". It is an interesting development. But what impact is it likely to have? ... What Emerald has not been trumpeting, however, is that it is simultaneously increasing the article-processing charge of 32 Engineering and Technology journals, from £995 ($1,595), to £1,650 ($2,695) per paper — a rise of nearly 70% ..." |
| Dr. Eric Eich and the crusade for open science | Department of Psychology Posted: 23 Jul 2015 12:57 AM PDT "UBC Psychology Professor Eric Eich has been with the University of British Columbia since 1983. During his time at UBC, Dr. Eich has served as Psychology Department Head, was named a Distinguished University Scholar, and received the Killam Research Prize and the Knox Master Teacher award, as well as many other honours. He also served as editor-in-chief of Psychological Science from January 2012 until June 2015. Now, he's tackling a new challenge: addressing what he identifies as a crisis in psychology and in science at large. Openness, transparency, and reproducibility, Eich feels, are conspicuously lacking from the scientific research culture. He is not alone in this belief. Dr. Eich Along with an astounding thirty-eight other co-authors, Eich recently published a paper in Science entitled 'Promoting an open research culture'. The paper outlines the new Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, which were created with the aim to 'translate scientific norms and values into concrete actions and change the current incentive structures to guide researchers' behaviour toward more openness'. The guidelines include standards that apply to eight different aspects of scientific research: citation, replication, design, research materials, data sharing, analytic methods, preregistration of studies, and preregistration of analysis plans ..." |
| Interview with Steve Song, founder of the Village Telco project | Opensource.com Posted: 23 Jul 2015 12:54 AM PDT "'Open is a means to an end—and that end is trust.' So writes Steve Song, a social entrepreneur, Shuttleworth alum, and blogger who writes extensively about openness and access to affordable communication infrastructure in Africa. Steve's posts exploring the paradoxes, moral philosophy, and future of open are a fascinating read. I recently caught up with him to learn more ..." |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2015 12:48 AM PDT "The internet age is entering its next phase, one in which a global network of things looks set to accelerate human progress to break-neck speeds. At the heart of this technological transition is data. But not just any kind of data — open data. To understand what that means, and thereby understand why there's been such resistance to the idea, it's important to first divorce the term data from all its NSA-Wikileaks-Hacking associations. Data is simply information, digitised. And on the internet, everything is data. There's financial data, scientific data, geographical data — and right now almost all of it is closed. By closed, I mean 'not public' — and not exactly allowed to share. That may sound all well-and-good, but who wants all their info out there for anyone to see and use? But not only is that line of thinking short-sighted, it's woefully misinformed. Your personal data isn't being opened up. It's yours and it will stay yours. So I held a series of interviews with leading figures at the quango Open Data Institute (ODI) about its government-backed data-driven project ... In an attempt to clear up the complexities of data classification, and tackle the public's pretty poor data literacy, the ODI has designed the above infographic to show what type of data goes where ..." |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2015 12:44 AM PDT "How is your research being used? Who's talking about it? Today researchers and their institutions, as well as donors, the media and even the general public are increasingly demanding answers to these questions. But as we all know, discovering what happens to your research after publication can be something of a challenge. It can be difficult even to get a sense of whether people are thinking about or discussing your research, let alone whether your work is having any big, real-world impact. Thanks to the Internet however, and especially to that sub-set of the internet known as social media, there's a good chance that if people are talking about your research at all, some of those conversations are likely to be taking place online and in the public eye. And when this happens it usually leaves some kind of digital trace which can in principle be collected and analysed. Indeed because the very nature of social media it is theoretically possible not just to find isolated citations, but also conversation threads, where your ideas are being discussed and developed within a wider context, just as they might in a seminar or conference in the real world. They are effectively narratives; real-world stories about other people's reactions to your research. So how might we find and track these online conversations? Tuning in to the digital debate ... At IDS our approach has been to experiment with different combinations of software applications, including some high-end media monitoring systems such as Meltwater and Vocus, but also some of the many powerful low-price applications, such as Zapier ... The result of all this is a timeline, showing a chronological sequence of articles, tweets, Facebook posts, blogs or e-discussion posts, each of which refers, in some way, to the research you're trying to track ..." |
| Biology’s Data Barrier: Europe’s à la carte solution — PLOS Comp Biol Field Reports — Medium Posted: 23 Jul 2015 12:40 AM PDT "Confidentiality, sense of proprietorship and exclusivity has long been a bottleneck in research dissemination. Gladly, recent years' open science movements have managed to make some impact on that front. Thanks to various open science initiatives (i.e. ISCB Policy statement) an increasing number of funding bodies are now enforcing a requirement to publish open access articles and accessible data. New publishers and research consortia are emerging with offers to support the hosting of large data sets, which otherwise would be a burden on author's part. Despite these motivations or otherwise pressures, data liberty is not yet a common practice. One initiative led by the KU University of Leuven is hosting an "à la carte" solution in addressing this issue. In a highlight track presentation in the recently concluded ISMB/ECCB 2015, KU Leuven's researcher Amin Ardeshirdavan presented a scheme called 'NGS-Logistics' where researchers can freely share the results to start with, without compromising the confidentiality of the data. He identifies that, many researchers can be reluctant to publish or make their data accessible while others remain in complete darkness about mere existence of the data. (see video talk) ..." |
| From the Hindenberg to Marilyn Monroe, 10 moments from the new archival footage released to YouTube Posted: 23 Jul 2015 12:02 AM PDT "The Associated Press and British Movietone are uploading more than 550,000 clips to YouTube that feature news events dating back to 1895, becoming the largest collection of archival news content on the video sharing website. Filmmakers, historians and curious individuals will all have access to freshly released footage while the two archival providers will gain a popular platform to promote licensing deals. The archival footage is a visual record of the people and events that have shaped history, says Alwyn Lindsey, AP's director of international archive. 'At AP we are always astonished at the sheer breadth of footage that we have access to, and the upload to YouTube means that, for the first time, the public can enjoy some of the oldest and most remarkable moments in history.' The content is being added to two YouTube channels: AP Archive and British Movietone. Here are 10 of the notable clips containing milestone events, historical figures and cultural trends of the 20th century ..." |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2015 01:05 AM PDT
The goal of the project, called DataBridge, is to expand the life cycle of so-called dark data, said Arcot Rajasekar, the lead principal investigator on the project and a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at Chapel Hill. It will serve as an archive for data sets and metadata, and will group them into clusters of information to make relevant data easier to find. "You can reuse it, repurpose it, and then maybe someone else will reuse it, and see how we can enable that to get more science," Mr. Rajasekar said. A key aspect of the project will be how it allows researchers to make connections, "so that a person who wants to use the data will be able to pull in other data of a similar nature," he said. The hope is that eventually researchers from around the country will submit their data after publishing their findings. Also involved in the project are researchers at North Carolina A&T State and Harvard Universities, and it was funded by the National Science Foundation three years ago. The researchers are also interested in including another type of "dark data": archives of social-media posts. For example, Mr. Rajasekar has imagined creating algorithms to sort through tweets posted during the Arab Spring, for researchers studying the role of social media in the movement. The project could save researchers time, said Laura Mandell, director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University at College Station. "People spend a lot of time cleaning their data, and we don't need to each be reinventing the wheel, performing the same tasks on the same data sets," she said. And in some cases, the project could serve as a model for libraries at research institutions that are looking to better track data in line with federal requirements, said Bruce Herbert, director of digital services and scholarly communications and a geology professor at Texas A&M. He said it could also extend researchers' "trusted network" of colleagues with whom they share data.  |
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