Sunday, September 27, 2015

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Can Open Data Drive Innovative Healthcare? | Techonomy

Posted: 27 Sep 2015 12:46 AM PDT

" ... Privacy concerns are one of the thorniest obstacles. Even as the open data movement gains strength, many questions remain about how to protect information about individuals. Without proper controls, such information could enable discrimination, cause embarrassment, or be used for other undesired or abusive purposes. Commercial realities present another major obstacle. Private healthcare companies, such as those that process insurance claims or implement hospital information systems, often prefer to sell data rather than share it. If they can't monetize health data, some companies have little incentive to collect it at all. Health researchers conducting clinical trials or policy evaluations might also hesitate before sharing data. While doing so can invite collaboration and faster validation of results, it can also empower competitors to make their own discoveries or publish results first. With patents, research grants, professorships, and other rewards at stake, competitive pressures can often discourage data sharing. The hesitancy to share data can also persist after research is completed. If a study didn't lead to meaningful findings .. To overcome these challenges, a growing array of stakeholders -- including healthcare and tech companies, research institutions, NGOs, universities, governments, patient groups, and individuals -- are banding together to develop new regulations and guidelines, and generally promote open data in healthcare.  Some of these initiatives focus on improving transparency in clinical trials. Among those pushing for researchers to share more clinical trials data are groups like AllTrials and the Yale Open Data Access (YODA) Project, donor organizations like the Gates Foundation, and biomedical journals like The BMJ. Private healthcare companies, including some that resisted data sharing in the past, are increasingly seeing value in open collaboration as well ..."

Workshops open access week 2015 - University Library - Universiteit Utrecht

Posted: 27 Sep 2015 12:42 AM PDT

"During Open Access Week 2015, Utrecht University has organised a series of workshops on Tuesday 20 and Thursday 22 October. Open access to publications and data has become an essential part of everyday research practices and often there is an obligation in the research grant to publish articles and data in open access. This workshop series is aimed specifically at researchers from Utrecht University to familiarize them with the do's and don'ts of open access ..."

Introducing the ARPHA Writing Tool | Pensoft blog

Posted: 27 Sep 2015 12:41 AM PDT

"The former Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT) appears under new name with exciting functionalities customized to your needs It's been almost two full years since we first launched the Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT) as the first ever workflow that supports the full life cycle of a manuscript, from authoring, to peer-review, publishing and dissemination. Now it is time to move a step forward with an updated tool that incorporates all our accumulated experience and your invaluable feedback. PWT is now transforming into ARPHA Writing Tool (AWT) – a rebrand that means much more than a change of name and design ..."

U.S. Secretary of Education highlights Schools using OER to #GoOpen - Creative Commons

Posted: 27 Sep 2015 12:26 AM PDT

"I'm pleased to announce two important updates from the U.S. Department of Education!  #1: Williamsfield Community Unified School District embraces OER Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Williamsfield Community Unified School District in Illinois to highlight the progress the rural school district has made in shifting to digital and open educational resources (OER) to connect their students to the world. 'The walls break down,' Zack Binder, the Pre K-12 Principal said. 'You're no longer in Williamsfield, Illinois. You have the same access to this information that anyone in the world does.' Over the past two years, the 310-student district decided to adapt and adopt OER (e.g., EngageNY) rather than procuring new commercial textbooks for students, and direct those savings towards new devices for students ...  #2: U.S. Dept of Ed hires its first full-time OER leader ... Secretary Duncan announced today the hiring of the Department's first full-time OER position to lead a national effort to expand schools' access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources and help districts and states follow the path of Williamsfield. Andrew Marcinek will serve in the Department's Office of Educational Technology (OET) as the first 'Adviser for Open Education' ..."

Open access fees hike universities’ journal bills | Times Higher Education

Posted: 27 Sep 2015 12:23 AM PDT

This graphic shows the cost of journal subscriptions to seven of the most popular publishers for 24 UK universities in 2014 ... University College London spent the most – almost £3 million – while Imperial College London, and the universities of Birmingham and Bristol, all spent more than £2 million.  The graphic also shows the cost of open access article processing charges (APCs) that the universities paid to 'hybrid' journals, which offer both open access and subscription-only content, plus administrative costs. The figures shed light on the scale of 'double dipping', where universities must pay both subscription fees and APCs to a publisher ... The seven publishers whose fees are included in these totals are Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Sage, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley."

Creative Commons awarded $450,000 from the Arcadia Fund to support open access publishing for authors - Creative Commons

Posted: 27 Sep 2015 12:21 AM PDT

"Creative Commons is pleased to announce a grant award in the amount of $450,000 over 3 years from the Arcadia Fund, the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Since its inception in 2001, Arcadia has awarded grants in excess of $331 million. Arcadia works to protect endangered culture and nature. Creative Commons will use funds from Arcadia to develop tools that complement the current CC license suite and empower authors to retain or regain their right to publish so they can make their scholarly and academic works available for public use. Building on the success of the current CC licenses — now with nearly 1 billion licenses in use across over 9 million websites — Creative Commons is enthusiastic about developing tools that can be used by authors who "write to be read" but face all too common barriers to making their research openly available. These resources will be developed for global use, taking into account country-specific copyright laws, customs, and language. Once in widespread use, these tools are expected to increase the number of articles and publications that are available for broad public use. To accomplish this ambitious goal, Creative Commons will work with CC's international network of over 100 affiliates working in over 80 regions around the world. This core group will next convene at the 2015 Creative Commons Global Summit on October 14-17 in Seoul, South Korea. A dedicated summit session will be held to discuss the best approach to formulating tools and materials that enable authors to retain and regain their rights, while also addressing the needs of publishers. Collaborators on this project include Authors Alliance, Free Culture Trust, and SPARC, all of whom are dedicated to supporting authors, institutions, and the public in promoting access to research and scholarly work. Importantly, this group also includes academic publishers who support or have interest in promoting open access principles. Creative Commons is grateful to the Arcadia Fund for its essential support of our work. We look forward to sharing our progress and success with all of you!"
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