Saturday, September 26, 2015

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Rights group asks for land data sharing, National, Phnom Penh Post

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 01:20 AM PDT

"Rights group Licadho has called on the government to make available statistics on the full extent of economic land concessions (ELCs) in response to data collected by the organisation over five years. According to a statement issued by Licadho yesterday, government ministries have failed to provide comprehensive figures on ELCs, noting that various ministries have issued only incomplete lists of companies involved and concessions granted. Am Sam Ath, a senior investigator at Licadho, said the government's lack of transparency on ELCs meant that they were unable to collate complete data ..."

Data Collaboratives: Sharing Public Data in Private Hands for Social Good - Forbes

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 01:16 AM PDT

"Sensor-rich consumer electronics such as mobile phones, wearable devices, commercial cameras and even cars are collecting zettabytes of data about the environment and about us. According to one McKinsey study, the volume of data is growing at fifty percent a year. No one needs convincing that these private storehouses of information represent a goldmine for business, but these data can do double duty as rich social assets—if they are shared wisely. Think about a couple of recent examples: Sharing data held by businesses and corporations (i.e. public data in private hands) can help to improve policy interventions. California planners make water allocation decisions based upon expertise, data and analytical tools from public and private sources, including Intel INTC +1.13%, the Earth Research Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the World Food Center at the University of California at Davis. In Europe, several phone companies have made anonymized datasets available, making it possible for researchers to track calling and commuting patterns and gain better insight into social problems from unemployment to mental health. In the United States, LinkedIn LNKD -0.52% is providing free data about demand for IT jobs in different markets which, when combined with open data from the Department of Labor, helps communities target efforts around training ..."

Contribution of the institutional repositories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to the webometric indicators of their home institutions - Online First - Springer

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 01:04 AM PDT

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in Scientometrics available from Springer.  [Abstract] Starting from the perspective of Webometrics, this paper explores the improvement effect of institutional repositories (IRs) on their home institutions with respect to web presence and visibility. Taking 19 IRs from institutions affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as study samples, we calculate the contribution of IRs to the webometric indicators of their home institutions in terms of four indicators: page counts, PDF counts, URL mention counts, and link counts. According to their open-access (OA) status, the IRs of CAS were divided into an OA group and a non-OA group, which were compared with respect to differences in the above indicators as well as browse counts and download counts. The results of the study show that: (1) IRs showed a relatively significant positive improvement with respect to Google page counts, Scholar page counts, and Google PDF counts, although the improvement effect with respect to Scholar PDF counts was almost nonexistent; (2) repositories presented a certain improvement effect with respect to URL mention counts, but the contribution of link counts was limited; and (3) OA repositories manifested noticeable advantages in terms of Google PDF counts, URL mention counts, and download counts. We conclude that IRs can improve the web presence and visibility of their home institutions, while OA IRs offer more benefits to their home institutions.

Developing the first Open Peer Review Module for Institutional Repositories : OpenAIRE blog

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:59 AM PDT

"Why aren't articles on arXiv or any other open access repository formally credited as publications? What is it exactly that separates open access repositories from publishers? The simple answer is that publications in journals come with an amorphous quality indicator associated with the journal's perceived prestige. Articles posted on a repository on the other hand, are considered to be 'provided at the reader's own risk', as they are not accompanied by any measurable guarantee of their scientific merit. We think the time has come to change all that. With the support of OpenAIRE, Open Scholar will coordinate a consortium of five partners to develop the first Open Peer Review Module (OPRM) for open access repositories. Our partners that will deliver this work include: 1. The institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council (DIGITAL.CSIC) 2. The repository of the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (e-IEO) 3. The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) in Catalonia 4. The Multidisciplinary Laboratory of Library and Computer Sciences (SECABA) in Granada, and 5. A company of DSpace professional development and services (ARVO) ... Our project envisions the gradual conversion of existing open access repositories into fully-functional evaluation platforms that will provide the capacity needed to bring back research quality control to the community of scholars and help bridge the gap between academic institutions and publishers. The OPRM will initially be developed as a plugin for repositories using the Dspace software package, but will be designed in a way that will facilitate subsequent adaptation to other repository software suites such as EPrints and Invenio ..."

Open Science Revolution – New Ways of Publishing Research in The Digital Age

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:49 AM PDT

" ... Here is a handful of examples, implemented by three companies – a recently launched open access journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), an open publishing platform F1000Research from The Faculty of 1000 and a research and publishing network ScienceOpen. Each has something different to offer, yet all of them seem to agree that science research should be open and accessible to everyone ..."

Innovation in Open Access Publishing

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:43 AM PDT

"Open access publishing is a frontier, but it is a frontier that is too often constrained by discussions based in activist or anti-market views about information distribution and the role of government. I prefer to view open access as a laboratory for innovation. I agree government-funded research should be widely and easily accessible, but I don't believe there is one simple way forward. Instead I embrace those entities and people that are innovating new open access models. Further, the models needs to move more rapidly beyond journals and into monographs, archives and other digital items. I believe open access should be engaged as a business model; the end result being more and better types of content freely available to students and researchers as a result of entrepreneurialism, innovation and the very best of governmental and private sector thinking coming to bear on the opportunity. In this column I will describe a recent initiative to bring open access to a new Alexander Street anthropology archive and then introduce recent efforts in open access monograph and journal publishing from the University of California Press and Ubiquity Press ... At Alexander Street, we have long seen making silent voices heard a central component of our mission. In the field of anthropology, we know that the seminal ethnographies of the twentieth century that defined the discipline are underpinned by an enormous volume of unpublished and un-digitized field notes, photos and other forms of ephemera. Our standard business practice has been to select such un-digitized content and then to digitize, index and make salable; but the sheer volume of content in the corpus of twentieth century ethnography makes this nearly impossible, thus our exploration into open access alternatives. When we scanned the landscape of open access offerings in archives we found the vast majority to be government or institution-funded; the stand-out exception being the offerings of Reveal Digital, such the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Digital Archive, 1960-1969. Reveal Digital uses a sales threshold approach that is based on establishing a revenue target after which the archive becomes open to all. This, of course, relies on the largesse and good will of the well-funded and/or philanthropic to bring important archives open to the world.  At Alexander Street, we are bringing forth a new open access model for archive publication. Our new collection, Anthropological Fieldwork Online, will bring open access archival content to the world by merging 'for fee' and 'for free' content into a single offering. Based on the preference of the many archives we are working with to digitize their field notes of anthropologists such as Victor Turner, Margaret Mead and Bronislaw Malinowski, we will we present three alternatives side-by-side in one offering: for fee (traditional purchase or subscription), hybrid (for fee for a period of three to seven years and then freely open) and sponsored open access on publication ..."

FAO to launch Open Access Agricultural Data Portal | UA Magazine

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:36 AM PDT

"The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced that it will launch an Open Access portal for agricultural data in October. The agricultural data portal, once launched, will contain both raw and analyzed satellite data. It will be easily and freely accessible for everyone. The data and information from this Open Access portal will have far reaching impact for water management and improve agricultural productivity. The data portal should contribute towards the creation of sustainable agriculture. According to FAO, countries in the Near East, North Africa and others that are prone to recurrent droughts especially stand to benefit. Remote Sensing, consisting in part of satellite imagery, is a revolutionary new method of data collection. The collected data can be used to analyze the level of surface and ground water, health of crops, soil moisture and the level of precipitation. All are essential ingredients for agriculture and water management. The information extracted from the satellite imagery can be passed onto farmers in the field for practical application. There will be data on the continental level, the country (river basins) level and the irrigation schemes level ..."

⚡Presentation "Open Access to Biodiversity Scientific Data: A Comparative Study Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay and Andrés Guadamuz National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)"

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:34 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.  

Jisc Monitor Development – Staying informed and getting involved Tickets, London | Eventbrite

Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:33 AM PDT

"Why Jisc Monitor? For library teams who have the facility to manage compliance checking and APC costs through other systems (such as extended functionality within a CRIS or IR) the main benefit of Monitor will be the intelligence available from the UK Aggregation shared service. This will provide insights regarding costs and volumes elsewhere for the range of titles where APCs are being placed. Subject to ongoing work with the research funders, the UK Aggregation is also expected to provide a trusted mechanism for submitting data to funders, even for users not using Monitor Local. Monitor Local is a hosted software application enabling institutions to record and report on compliance and cost data relating to the publication of Open Access outputs by their academics. This will help the institutions to collected the necessary information related to the publication of open access academic outputs within the institution; to ensure funding for Article Processing Charges (APCs) is used appropriately; to support tracking of Gold and Green open access publication for any particular academic output; and to report internally and externally on open access publication and use of funds. What's the plan? Jisc is looking to develop these applications as services within the coming 2015-16 academic year, so the project team is currently going through a short phase of design and development planning (September to mid-November), with a view to commencing development and piloting immediately thereafter. We will therefore be running two full day workshops in London to present developments and elicit feedback: 12 October and 19 November (more information will follow on the second date, closer to the time).  Additional online webinars will also be run to update on progress and to consult on key design issues."
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