Sunday, October 11, 2015

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Towards the new paradigm of science and scholarly communication environment - e-Science, research data sharing, and research data infrastructures - – Open Access Week

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:27 AM PDT

"Research data is becoming one of the most important topics among academic stakeholders of research and scholarly communications. It has been recognized that research data is produced through research processes d is often held by researchers or the communities to which they belong, as their properties. Technological revolutions since 1990s of information and communications, especially on the Internet and the Web, thereafter wireless communications and mobile computing have made it easy to share the research data through those telecommunication commodities, which resulted in our strong capacity to deal with large volume and wide variety of data in research. This changing research environment leads to the 'Fourth paradigm' of scientific research which is expected as a new approach for the scientific discoveries. It means the same as e-Science, data-driven science, as well as data-centric science. In parallel, Open Access policy has been widely spread and stated around the academic world, and the openness also affected the research data context, in that researchers share the data among themselves under the name of Open Data and Open Science in several years. Now, we are tackling the issues on sharing research data towards the new paradigm of science. This seminar aims at giving opportunities for all stakeholders of research data including researchers, research administrators, engineers, publishers, and governmental agencies, those who are responsible for research support such as librarians and technical staff, and all the people who have the same interests towards the new paradigm of science, to understand what the essential is in the topic and what is needed for its supporting environment. It will hopefully be a trigger for all participants to start discussing the theme."

University Libraries Hosts Events to Support International Open Access Week

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:26 AM PDT

"University Libraries is hosting three events in October to support International Open Access Week, Oct. 19 through 25. The events will explore Open Access (OA) policies at universities, the benefits of institutional repositories, and how new models of publishing scholarly research can affect university presses, as well as faculty and researchers in both the sciences and humanities ..."

Open access papers 'more likely to be cited on Twitter' | Times Higher Education

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:22 AM PDT

"Articles that feature in open access journals are more likely to be cited on Twitter, a major study of how research is shared has found. Kim Holmberg, a research associate at the University of Turku in Finland, has conducted a study looking at around 4 million 'altmetric events' – the sharing of research using tools like Facebook and the academic bookmarking tool Mendeley - which might shed light on the impact of scholarly work beyond the traditional measure of citations by other academics.   Speaking to a conference on altmetrics on 8 October in Amsterdam, Dr Holmberg presented the preliminary findings, which showed that open access journals and articles have a 'big advantage' when it comes to being shared on Twitter compared with those behind a paywall. They were also more likely to be shared on Facebook, although to a lesser extent, he told the 2am:Amsterdam conference. However, on Mendeley and Wikipedia, articles behind a paywall were relatively more likely to be cited ..."

Elevating the quality and transparency of library-published open access journals - LibCal - IUB Libraries

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:20 AM PDT

"​Library publishers often straddle the line between journal publisher and journal host, which presents challenges for ensuring that journals meet certain standards for quality and transparency. At Indiana University, we conducted a self-evaluation to determine whether our library-published open access journals were following best practices for scholarly journals. This presentation will discuss the methods and criteria used, and how we developed new tools and approaches to educating journal editors based on our findings."

These lawmakers want to make textbooks cheaper - MarketWatch

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:18 AM PDT

"College students spend a small fortune for their textbooks. But imagine a world where the required reading list was affordable. A group of lawmakers is trying to turn that utopia into a reality with a bill that would establish a competitive grant program for universities to create textbooks that anyone could access free online. The hope is that by incentivizing colleges to develop a free alternative to traditional textbooks, students and faculty will have an affordable option and publishers could be forced to bring their prices down. The lawmakers are looking to take advantage of this moment where students and faculty are looking for cheaper alternatives. 'The traditional textbook market is changing,' said one of the sponsors of the bill, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), noting that students can now shop around online. 'Let's make it change for the benefit of the students.' Over the past few decades the cost of textbooks has skyrocketed 945%, according to calculations from Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics and finances at the University of Michigan-Flint. That's compared with a 262% increase in the consumer-price index—a measure of how prices change on a certain group of goods—during the same period. Last year, in-state residents at public four-year universities spent $1,225 on books and supplies on average, according to the College Board ..."

How can we advance data sharing in dementia research? - On Biology

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:17 AM PDT

"Last month, the INCF and OECD brought together policy-makers, funders, scientists and publishers to consider the barriers to data sharing in relation to dementia research and identify practical steps to promote data sharing in this field. Here, I report on the highlights and outcomes of the workshop."

ECS Takes Down the Pay Wall to Free the Science

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:12 AM PDT

"ECS (The Electrochemical Society) is celebrating Open Access Week this year by making all the content—over 120,000 articles—in the ECS Digital Library (ecsdl.org) freely accessible from October 19 through 25, 2015. The ECS Digital Library is home to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, the flagship journal of ECS, published continuously since 1902, and to the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, ECS Electrochemistry Letters, ECS Solid State Letters, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, ECS Transactions, ECS Meeting Abstracts, and Interface ..."

Open Science in der Soziologie: Eine interdisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme zur offenen Wissenschaft und eine Untersuchung ihrer Verbreitung in der Soziologie - E-LIS repository

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:11 AM PDT

[Abstract] Open Science aims to provide open access to all items produced within the research process, primarily to text publications, research data and research software. Moreover, Open Science should also bring transparency in moderating processes (such as the assessment and the review of text publications or data) and the production and utilizations of para-informations (as impact metrics). Open Science proponents describe it as a efficient, innovation-friendly and transparent science because open information can be disseminated,reused and re-analyzed more quickly and easily than closed information. The work is based on a multidisciplinary inventory of Open Access to text publications, Open Access to research data, Open Access to research software, Open Review and Open Metrics, all more typically in the STM subjects (Science, Technology, Medicine) to find than in the social sciences or humanities. Based on this synopsis the work is dedicated to the specifics of sociology, which is commonly regarded as a latecomer in the Open Science. It empirically investigates the prevalence and relevance of Open Science, Open Access to text publications, Open Access to research data, Open Access to research software, Open Review and Open Metrics in Sociology.

The issues of free access for the Human and Social Sciences - Open Access Week

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:08 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "This conference aims to discuss the issue of new forms of production and dissemination of works of research within the scientific community in SSH based on free access. The speaker as an actor of this new model will expose its experience in the field of scientific open access and interrogate with researchers on the challenges of this new model of science communication, based on free access to the various research actors in SHS."

Professor: Open-source textbooks will save students money — The Daily Campus

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:06 AM PDT

"Students spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks every semester, but a push toward open-source has offered universities free electronic alternatives to make higher education more affordable. With over $21,000 in funding from the Undergraduate Student Government, UConn professor Edward Neth will adapt a free open-source chemistry textbook for introductory chemistry courses in Fall 2016, Neth said.  Last fall USG passed legislation calling for the university to set-up an open-source textbook committee chaired by Vice Provost for Libraries Martha Bedard. This semester, the faculty-run UConn Senate passed a resolution in support of the open-source textbook initiative ..."

1,018 GP libraries set to become ‘Digital Knowledge Centres’ - The Hindu

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:05 AM PDT

As many as 1,018 gram panchayat libraries in six districts in the Hyderabad Karnataka region are being converted into 'Digital Knowledge Centres'. Speaking to presspersons on the sidelines of the Sixth KSCLA International Conference on 'Paradigms of digital library, e-resources, open access and information and media literacy' here on Friday, Satishkumar Hosamani, Director, Department of Public Libraries, said that the project was specific to the region under provisions of Article 371(J) ... Mr. Satishkumar said that it was a Rs. 50-crore project of which Rs. 25 crore would be utilised for construction of permanent structures for public libraries wherever sites were available. Each gram panchayat would get a grant of Rs. 10 lakh for the library building and construction work was being initiated at 184 gram panchayats where sites were available. The remaining Rs. 25 crore was being utilised for meeting infrastructural needs, he said.  Clarifying that there was no shortage of hands to run these public libraries, Mr. Satishkumar said that a recruitment process for filling 87 posts of librarians, assistant librarians and others for the Hyderabad Karnataka region had been on ..."

‘Libraries need to assume new role’ - The Hindu

Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:03 AM PDT

"'With the advent of the new media, e-learning tools, libraries and librarians need to assume a new role not only learning how to learn for themselves but also make others learn how to learn, how to unlearn and also relearn,' C.R. Karisiddappa, Professor Emeritus of Karnatak University Dharwad, has said. He was delivering the keynote address at the sixth KSCLA international conference on 'Paradigms of digital library, e-resources, open access and information and media literacy' organised by Karnataka College Libararians' Association (KSCLA), Bengaluru, in association with KLE Technological University here on Friday. He said there was a paradigm shift from standalone libraries to library and information networks, from printed publications to digital documents and from ownership to access and the shift was due to the advent of the Internet. UNESCO had been promoting media and information literacy to empower people with competencies for surviving and thriving in the highly complex world ..."
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