Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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THE CASE OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND AUTHORS’ PERCEPTION IN INDIA

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 03:19 AM PDT

Abstract:  Open access publishing is the best option to tackle the price hike of journals in the libraries. This paper investigates the attitude of Indian authors towards open access publishing. 64.84 percent of authors have experience in open access publishing. Majority of them use e-mail as medium to send their 'manuscripts' to publishers. The perception of larger readership than subscription based journals and impact factor are the main factors that affect the authors' decision to choose open access journals in India. Majority of the population (82.81%) are willing to publish in open access publications in future. It is also clear that more than half of the population (51.95%) believe 'more likely' to publish in open access journals in future.The institutions and funding agencies should insist and encourage authors to publish their research in OA journals. 

How open data helped TravelTime go from idea to SME | News | Open Data Institute

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:31 AM PDT

"As with most businesses, the location-based search software provider iGeolise began because a problem was noticed that needed a solution. I'd realised that when searching for local amenities like hotels, restaurants and businesses, the search results listed weren't always relevant to me because they seemed impossible to get to. The lightbulb moment was seeing that these searching sites use miles radius to find the closest results, but when was the last time anyone said 'my hotel's only 2 miles radius from the beach' or 'I'm running late, be there in 3 miles radius'? We discuss distance in minutes because we can't go as the crow flies. Search engines and apps can calculate time from point A to B, but what if you don't know where you're going? My idea for the TravelTime platform was an API that could return ranked and sorted location results, based on minutes rather than miles. Searchers can specify their location, time of day and mode of transport to get more reliable results that are 'within X minutes' rather than 'within X miles radius' ..."

Why Digital Platform Solutions Are Needed in Academic Publishing | Digital Book World

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:27 AM PDT

" ... For academic users, platform solutions deliver convenience, overall cost savings and higher utility. Professors and institutions can standardize on high-quality digital content libraries with a single recommendation (or institutional purchase), and professors know that students will have access to a large library of content without worrying that any student chose to skip buying a specific recommended resource. Students get everything they need through one portal without having to make, or weigh the value of, individual purchases. Ancestry.com is an example of a subscription-based publishing platform for a very specific knowledge domain: genealogy. While traditional book publishers might think of Ancestry.com as an online tool for building family trees, it is really a domain-specific digital library delivered on a specialized platform. Subscribers to the site get access to thousands of ebooks as well as millions of data records. While it might be possible to value the ebooks in Ancestry.com's collection, the data records, document scans and community-created family trees represent a valuable collection of content that is immune to commodification, price comparison or being devalued by simplistic ideas like 'All ebooks should cost $2.99.' My company, Faithlife Corporation, offers more than 80,000 ebooks related to Bible study. All of these books work with Logos Bible Software, a highly-specialized tool for working with Greek, Hebrew and the standards and conventions of Bible study. The ebooks are connected to the toolset and to each other by dozens of specialized content databases that add annotation, organization and connections to the traditional content. Distance education curriculum was specially developed to take advantage of the large digital library, smoothly integrating required reading with video teaching segments ..."

Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Open Culture

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:24 AM PDT

"You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering 'five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.' If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications' collection of free art books and catalogs.  You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the Met has kept adding to their digital trove since then, and, as a result, you can now find there no fewer than 448 art catalogs and other books besides. Those sit alongside the 400,000 free art images the museum put online last year ..."

Copyright: promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts by preventing access to 105-year-old quarry maps | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:16 AM PDT

" ... For the preprint, as for this blog-post (and indeed the previous one), I just went right ahead and included it. But the formal version of the paper (assuming it passes peer-review) will by very explicitly under a CC By licence, so the right thing to do is get formal permission to include it under those terms. So I've been trying to get that permission. What a stupid, stupid waste of time. Heinrich's paper appeared in the somewhat cumbersomely titled Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe, published as a subscription journal by Wiley. Happily, that journal is now open access, published by Pensoft as The Fossil Record. So I wrote to the Fossil Record editors to request permission. They wrote back, saying: 'We are not the right persons for your question. The Wiley Company holds the copyright and should therefore be asked.' Unfortunately, I do not know who is the correct person. I didn't know who to ask, either, so I tweeted a question, and copyright guru Charles Oppenheim suggested that I email permissions@wiley.com. I did, only to get the following automated reply ..."

POP-UP Publishing, NIH & Open Access Policies (One-on-One) - LibCal - University of California, San Francisco

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:14 AM PDT

"Do you have questions about how to assess the publishers flooding your email in box with solicitations? Learn how to get a PMCID and manage My Bibliography. Get information about the UC Open Access Policy and how it affects you. In this one-on-one consultation with Anneliese Taylor, Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications & Collections, get answers to your questions about publishing tools, the NIH Public Access Policy, and the UC Open Access Policy."

AISA onlus | Associazione italiana per la promozione della scienza aperta

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:12 AM PDT

"AISA is a non-profit organization that undertakes to advance open access to knowledge. The mission of AISA is to: disseminate a culture of Open Science; publish studies on the implementation of Open Science principles provide staff training programs to promote Open Science practices in research performing organizations (universities and research centres) which have embraced the OA principles; engage international cooperation through networking with legal entities involved in the promotion of Open Science; promote participation in international research projects and grant applications linked to the association's mission; raise awareness among decision makers, and in particular Italian and European legislators, to further the promotion of Open Science in research assessment and intellectual property policies. On June 18th 2015, the first Board of Directors was elected during the general assembly chaired by Roberto Caso. The first Aisa annual conference will take place on 22nd-23rd October 2015 in Pisa ..."

AISA 1st Annual Conference

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:11 AM PDT

"The openness of science – in its debate, data and papers – was not born from some kind of administrative imposition: it was born as a social norm, shared by informal knowledge communities. The open access movement, however,  has been involved early in administrations, which, while yielding some advantages, entails a danger both philosophical and political. In research systems more and more bureaucratized  and conditioned by oligopolies, openness might be enforced and perceived just as an administrative burden among others: hence, we might more easily forget that openness is crucial for the public use of reason that allows everyone of us – as scholars and as human beings – to be more than a gear of a machine, by enabling us to call into question the meaning of our actions. Or else, more  pessimistically, the open science ideal  might never be attained,  because of the pressure exerted by standards and parameters of evaluation agendas that,  by now,  are rarely written by researchers. The conference goal is to foster a peer conversation among scholars regarding the meaning of their work and a sharing of experiences and tools overcoming disciplinary boundaries and national borders. We are well aware that those who have something to say on our topic are many more than the invited speakers of our first conference in Pisa. We do hope, however,  to be able to give the floor to other AISA members and speakers as well as to build or rebuild a more comprehensive and fruitful dialogue among people and  with institutions in our future meetings already set."

What is an Academic Journal? | The Scholarly Kitchen

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:09 AM PDT

"We spend much time these days wondering when the academic journal as we know it will cease to exist. Opinions on the future of journals vary widely. There are those who say it will live forever and others who see the journal as an ugly reminder of the sins of big publishers – exploitative vehicles for dragging a profit from those who can't afford to pay. Perhaps it is worth taking a step back and asking ourselves why the journal exists in the first place. What are the hard-to-replicate functions of a scholarly journal in our connected age? Here I refer back to Michael Clarke's excellent 2010 post in the Scholarly Kitchen entitled 'Why Hasn't Scholarly Publishing Been Disrupted Already?' Let's start with 'validation'. For a journal article to be considered seriously – and thus the journal be taken seriously – there must be an acceptable process of quality control. This means peer review. Then there is 'designation'. Clarke says that '…perhaps the hardest (function) to replicate through other means, is that of designation. By this I mean that many academic institutions (and other research organizations) rely, to a not insignificant degree, on a scientists' publication record in career advancement decisions. Moreover, a scientists' publication record factors into award decisions by research funding organizations. Career advancement and funding prospects are directly related to the prestige of the journals in which a scientist publishes.' 'I know all this', you might say, so why bring it up now? I was thinking this through in the face of Tim Gowers' recent announcement of a new type of journal – the overlay journal. What is an overlay journal? It is really the word 'overlay' that matters. Whether we are talking about a journal is arguable, and I discuss this a little later. The basic idea is that an overlay journal does not produce its own content. Rather, it links to already available content, most likely residing in a preprint server. One such server is arXiv, a preprint server in mathematics, physics, astronomy, some computer science, and other related fields. Anyone may submit a preprint of their articles to arXiv, though there are moderators who ensure some level of relevance ..."

The Right of No Sale: Academic Publishing is Broken and Librarians are to Blame — Medium

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:06 AM PDT

" ... The Open Access movement (cf. arXiv, PLOS, OERs) has disrupted, to varying degrees, the economic models of traditional publishers by providing unfettered access to scholarly literature. Just as with the vanity presses of old, the system is subject to abuse in the form of sham publishing houses, but nowadays the moniker 'predatory publisher' is best suited to commercial entities with obscene profit margins who capitalize their market share and place content behind a paywall ... Open Access holds promise for helping libraries endure the crunch of budget cuts and spiraling journal costs. Which is why it's so disheartening to see academic authors act more like Lars Ulrich than scholars who want their results to be seen and their ideas to be read. Rather than advancing researchand expanding discourse, they willfully embargo their content and practice other forms of self-censorship by donating their work not to the public, but institutions which limit access in the name of turning a profit.  There's nothing wrong with making an honest buck, but when you're conducting funded research on your employer's property, you have no business charging for your scholarship. The disdain most educators have for the retailization of teaching and learning—as in for-profit colleges, or outsourcing operations to corporations—is inexplicably missing when it comes to providing the sole source of income to commercial publishers.  Don't fault companies for trying to make money. That's their purpose. The only reason costs have grown exponentially is because customers have been willing to pay more. It is therefore our responsibility as librarians, should we have any qualms about bearing such prices, to stop accepting them ..."

Open Access policy typology: A briefing paper for research institutions

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 02:02 AM PDT

[Summary] There are now over 700 Open Access policies around the world, two thirds of them in universities and research institutes, and the rest adopted by research funders. This briefing paper will illustrate the main types of policy currently in use across the globe, as well as indicate which factors combine together to make a particularly 'strong' or 'weak' policy. It will provide examples of these policies and recommendations based on these to gain optimum effectiveness when formulating or updating a policy ..."

Insects | Free Full-Text | Insects – An Open Access Journal of Entomology

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:56 AM PDT

[Excerpt] Conventional thought would suggest that there are sufficient venues for the publication of entomological scientific inquiries and begs the question: "Why begin another outlet for insect-related scientific comment?" The open access journal Insects is a response to the pressing global thirst for information and an acknowledgement of the potential of electronic media. Dissemination of information is critical to growing the global knowledge base through easy and open access. This new journal is a celebration of the diversity of insects, other arthropods, and their relationship with humans in our shared environment. [...]

OAK Fund Annual Report: 2013-2015

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:51 AM PDT

[Abstract] The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications. The OAK Fund was established to help fulfill Texas A&M University's commitment to the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (http://www.oacompact.org/). The Texas A&M Libraries and the Vice President for Research committed $25,000 each to fund Open Access publications for the 2013-2015 academic years, with additional funding of $20,000 added for the second academic year. This document reports on the outcomes for the two years of the OAK Fund program. This report outlines program outcomes for the two-year pilot program.

Accessing Biomedical Literature in the Current Information Landscape

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:50 AM PDT

[Abstract] Biomedical and life sciences literature is unique because of its exponentially increasing volume and interdisciplinary nature. Biomedical literature access is essential for several types of users including biomedical researchers, clinicians, database curators, and bibliometricians. In the past few decades, several online search tools and literature archives, generic as well as biomedicine-specific, have been developed. We present this chapter in the light of three consecutive steps of literature access: searching for citations, retrieving full-text, and viewing the article. The first section presents the current state of practice of biomedical literature access, including an analysis of the search tools most frequently used by the users, including PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase, and a study on biomedical literature archives such as PubMed Central. The next section describes current research and the state-of-the-art systems motivated by the challenges a user faces during query formulation and interpretation of search results. The research solutions are classified into five key areas related to text and data mining, text similarity search, semantic search, query support, relevance ranking, and clustering results. Finally, the last section describes some predicted future trends for improving biomedical literature access, such as searching and reading articles on portable devices, and adoption of the open access policy.

Club Research: Economics of academic publishing. What costs the access to new knowledge? - Open Access Week

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:42 AM PDT

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

All Things Open interview with Kaitlin Devine, 18F | Opensource.com

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:40 AM PDT

"If you haven't heard of 18F, it's time to get them on your radar. 18F is a digital consultancy in an independent agency, a startup within the General Services Administration (GSA), and a major advocate for open source and open data. I've been watching and learning more about this group since shortly after its inception in March 2014. When I saw Kaitlin Devine on the speaker list for All Things Open (happening in Raleigh, North Carolina October 19-20), I immediately reached out for an interview. Kaitlin is the engineering director as well as a Python developer at 18F. In this interview, she shares a few open source success stories from her time with the agency, open source tools that are helping to break down the silos of open data, and much more ..."

Impact of Social Sciences – Enter Alternative Metrics: Indicators that capture the value of research and richness of scholarly discourse

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:34 AM PDT

[Summary] Many scholars have begun to turn to alternative metrics over traditional impact indicators as the online transmission and referencing of research outputs requires an updated understanding of how research makes an impact. Danielle Padula and Catherine Williams introduce the changing landscape. This article is an excerpt from The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics, a collection on the state of research impact co-produced by Scholastica and Altmetric.

Are We Wasting a Good Crisis? The Availability of Psychological Research Data after the Storm

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:33 AM PDT

[Abstract] To study the availability of psychological research data, we requested data from 394 papers, published in all issues of four APA journals in 2012. We found that 38% of the researchers sent their data immediately or after reminders. These findings are in line with estimates of the willingness to share data in psychology from the recent or remote past. Although the recent crisis of confidence that shook psychology has highlighted the importance of open research practices, and technical developments have greatly facilitated data sharing, our findings make clear that psychology is nowhere close to being an open science.

“Christmas is over. Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!” - LERU : League of European Research Universities

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:32 AM PDT

"Nowadays, European universities pay publishers significant parts of their university budget. Hundreds of millions of euro's. Money which is not directly spent on research and education, even though it is largely taxpayers´ money. As Harvard University already denounced in 2012, many large journal publishers have rendered the situation 'fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive', with some journals costing as much as $40,000 per year (and publishers drawing profits of 35% or more). If one of the wealthiest universities in the world can no longer afford it, who can? It is easy to picture the struggle of European universities with tighter budgets. In addition to subscription costs, academic research funding is also largely affected by 'Article Processing Charges' (APC), which come at an additional cost of €2000/article, on average, when making individual articles Gold Open Access. Some publishers are in this way even being paid twice for the same content ('double dipping') Is this how the EU envisions access to the results of academic research? 'Christmas is over', says Prof Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary-General LERU: 'I call upon the European Commission and the forthcoming Dutch EU Presidency to work with all stakeholders and bodies involved, to bring sensible solutions to the fore.' In the era of Open Science, Open Access to publications is one of the cornerstones of the new research paradigm and business models must support this transition. It should be one of the principal objectives of Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the Dutch EU Presidency (January-June 2016) to ensure that this transition happens. Further developing the EU´s leadership in research and innovation largely depends on it. With this statement 'Moving Forwards on Open Access', LERU calls upon all universities, research institutes, research funders and researchers to sign this statement and give a clear signal towards the European Commission and the Dutch EU Presidency ..."

“Christmas is over. Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!" Moving Forwards on Open Access -- LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:28 AM PDT

[Summary] Nowadays, European universities pay publishers significant parts of their university budget. Hundreds of millions of euro's. Money which is not directly spent on research and education, even though it is largely taxpayers´ money. As Harvard University already denounced in 2012, many large journal publishers have rendered the situation 'fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive', with some journals costing as much as $40,000 per year (and publishers drawing profits of 35% or more). If one of the wealthiest universities in the world can no longer afford it, who can? It is easy to picture the struggle of European universities with tighter budgets. In addition to subscription costs, academic research funding is also largely affected by 'Article Processing Charges' (APC), which come at an additional cost of €2000/article, on average, when making individual articles Gold Open Access. Some publishers are in this way even being paid twice for the same content ('double dipping'). Is this how the EU envisions access to the results of academic research? Christmas is over, says the League of European Research Universities (LERU), and calls upon the European Commission (EC) and the forthcoming Dutch EU Presidency to work with all stakeholders and bodies involved, to bring sensible solutions to the fore. In the era of Open Science, Open Access to publications is one of the cornerstones of the new research paradigm and business models must support this transition. It should be one of the principal objectives of Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the Dutch EU Presidency (January-June 2016) to ensure that this transition happens. Further developing the EU´s leadership in research and innovation largely depends on it. With this statement 'Moving Forwards on Open Access', LERU calls upon all universities, research institutes, research funders and researchers to sign this statement and give a clear signal towards the EC and the Dutch EU Presidency."

What is the future of open access publishing? | Digital Single Market | European Commission

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:20 AM PDT

"What is the future of open access publishing? Green? Gold? Or something else altogether? On 12 October 2015, the European Commission is hosting a Workshop on 'Alternative Open Access Publishing Models: Exploring New Territories in Scholarly Communication' designed to pool information and expertise on how to move forward the debate on open access to publications. The event is being webstreamed and can be followed on Twitter under #AlterOA. Why are we running this workshop? After the Commission announced its rules on open access in Horizon 2020 in late 2013, it quickly became clear that there are many different ways of complying with the open access to publications mandate, one of the central requirements of the policy. Discussions soon went beyond the classic 'green versus gold open access' discussion (green: depositing articles in an online repository and granting open access after an embargo periods; gold: paying scientific publishers a fee upfront to provide open access on publication). New and alternative open access publishing models are emerging. These could optimise existing arrangements and put forward new ones. - Which models exist? - How do they work? - Why have they been chosen and how have they evolved? - What works well in these models and what challenges still need to be addressed? Whether or not you participate in the workshop, your opinions on these questions are needed! Please post your input here."

The Daily Tar Heel :: U.S. bill offers online alternatives for textbooks

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:14 AM PDT

"Instead of piling on textbooks and prices, U.S. Congress is considering legislation for online alternatives. The Affordable College Textbook Act, originally proposed in 2013 and re-introduced this month, would establish a grant program to lease open textbooks to students. The plan intends to save students stress and thousands of dollars in the process. During an open source conference call Thursday, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-I.L., and U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-M.N., discussed the large financial burdens of buying textbooks.  Based on statistics from the College Board, Durbin said the average student budget for textbooks and supplies in a single school year has reached $1,225 ..."

Open doors in your career through open research #vitaechat — Vitae Website

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:05 AM PDT

"During this live Twitter chat, the host will lead participants through a discussion of the potential career benefits and opportunities associated with open research, as well as the steps researchers need to take to prepare themselves to be effective in an open research environment, both within an academic career and beyond. The chat will cover aspects such as What 'open' environments and expectations are you interacting with? What skills can you gain from being more open in your research? How can those skills open career doors? How can professional development help researchers flourish in an open environment? What are the responsibilities of funders, universities, researcher developers and researchers themselves? The open research environment is already here, but you can take steps to prepare yourself for a new way of interacting with research, capitalise on the opportunity to develop yourself, and open doors in your career ..."

ProQuest Adds ORCID to Its Dissertations and Theses Database -- ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 01:02 AM PDT

"The ProQuest Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Administrator, a popular submission and review platform, now enables dissertations and theses authors to add or create an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) when they submit their work. ORCID is a community-driven initiative that allows researchers to easily and precisely distinguish their work through the assignment of a unique identifier that's maintained in a central registry. ORCIDs will be assigned as part of the deposit process into ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global), the renowned database of graduate works from the world's leading universities ..."

European Commission - Streaming Service -- Workshop on Alternative Open Access Publishing Models

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:55 AM PDT

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Openness, integrity & supporting researchers | Unlocking Research

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:53 AM PDT

"Universities need to open research to ensure academic integrity and adjust to support modern collaboration and scholarship tools, and begin rewarding people who have engaged in certain types of process rather than relying on traditional assessment schemes. This was the focus of Emeritus Professor Tom Cochrane's* talk on 'Open scholarship and links to academic integrity, reward & recognition'  given at Cambridge University on 7 October. The slides from the presentation are available here: PRE_Cochrane_DisruptingDisincentives_V1_20151007 ..."

Predatory Journals Lure In Arab Researchers - Al-Fanar MediaAl-Fanar Media

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:52 AM PDT

"Predatory publishers that don't take science seriously are exploiting those eager to climb the academic career ladder. Universities rely on publishing as a measure of a researcher's success. Predatory publishers charge the researchers to publish their papers without providing genuine peer review. Some researchers are victims and others are willing accomplices. Some publishers seem to be aware that what they are doing is wrong and others say they're just trying to make money by doing what big-name publishers do, but faster and more cheaply. Such publishing hacks see an opportunity to make quick money by taking advantage of researchers who seek prompt publication, says Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver in the United States. Since 2008, Beall has curated an online list of dodgy publishers and dishonest standalone journals. He coined the term 'predatory publisher' to describe them. Several of these publishers are either based in the Arab world or are seeking out Arab researchers in search of international recognition. Predatory journals are something that Haider Sabah Kadhim, head of the microbiology department at Al-Nahrain University in Iraq, is familiar with. Kadhim says he once evaluated a candidate for promotion who submitted research from fake journals ..."

OLH partners with LingOA and Ubiquity Press to provide long-term sustainability for flipped journals | Open Library of Humanities

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:50 AM PDT

"We are very pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has partnered with the LingOA initiative and with Ubiquity Press to support the transition of subscription linguistics journals to a pure OA model. The LingOA project is designed to move linguistics journals out of unaffordable subscription models and into a pure, gold OA environment. Ubiquity Press is the technological platform provider that underpins the OLH. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium, rather than any kind of author fee. The LingOA project has significant funding to achieve its goals over a five-year period. Yet five years is only the beginning. OLH will offer its model as the long-term sustainability plan for flipped journals, ensuring that authors never have to pay article processing charges. Journals that are to convert to an OA model will be proposed to the OLH's Library Board in aim with our charitable objects to make high-quality knowledge available to all. The first journals to be proposed will be the subscription publications LaPhon and the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics ..."

Publisher wants to take journal Open Access | Drugmonkey

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:47 AM PDT

"Someone forwarded me what appears to be credible evidence that Wiley is considering taking Addiction Biology Open Access. To the tune of $2,500 per article. At present this title has no page charges within their standard article size. This is interesting because Wiley purchased this title quite a while ago at a JIF that was at or below my perception of my field's dump-journal level. They managed to march the JIF up the ranks and get it into the top position in the ISI Substance Abuse category. This, IMO, then stoked a virtuous cycle in which people submit better and better work there. At some point in the past few years the journal went from publishing four issues per year to six. And the JIF remains atop the category. As a business, what would you do? You build up a service until it is in high demand and then you try to cash in, that's what. Personally I think this will kill the golden goose. It will be a slow process, however, and Wiley will make some money in the mean time. The question is, do most competitors choose to follow suit? If so, Wiley wins big because authors will eventually have no other option. If the timing is good, Addiction Biology makes money early and then keeps on going as the leader of the pack. All y'all Open Access wackaloons believe this is inevitable and are solidly behind Wiley's move, no doubt. I will be fascinated to see how this one plays out."

The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: Medicine « Walt at Random

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:44 AM PDT

" ... Chapter 10 is Medicine–which probably should be broken into, say, half a dozen subsets, but I don't know enough to make that breakdown. It's by far the largest subject, as noted in the excerpted version. A few items from the book's coverage: [1] While a majority of articles published in serious gold OA journals in 2013 and 2014 involve APCs, a majority of those in 2011 and 2012 were in no-fee journals. [2] Fee-based articles have more than doubled since 2011. [3] 44% of articles involving APCs appeared in journals within the most expensive segment, $1,960 and up–and the average for articles involving APCs was $1,446 per article ($854 per article overall). [4] There does seem to be a gold rush of APC-charging journals starting in 2007 and peaking in 2009-2010. [5] You can probably guess the two countries publishing the most medicine articles in 2014, but maybe not the order: UK first, US second. Iran is sixth. For the rest of the 22 countries with at least 1,000 articles, see the book. Much, much more in the book ..."

The security infusion - O'Reilly Radar

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:42 AM PDT

"Hadoop jobs reflect the same security demands as other programming tasks. Corporate and regulatory requirements create complex rules concerning who has access to different fields in data sets, sensitive fields must be protected from internal users as well as external threats, and multiple applications run on the same data and must treat different users with different access rights. The modern world of virtualization and containers adds security at the software level, but tears away the hardware protection formerly offered by network segments, firewalls, and DMZs. Furthermore, security involves more than saying yes or no to a user running a Hadoop job. There are rules for archiving or backing up data on the one hand, and expiring or deleting it on the other. Audit logs are a must, both to track down possible breaches and to conform to regulation. Best practices for managing data in these complex, sensitive environments implement the well-known principle of security by design. According to this principle, you can't design a database or application in a totally open manner and then layer security on top if you expect it to be robust. Instead, security must be infused throughout the system and built in from the start. Defense in depth is a related principle that urges the use of many layers of security, so that an intruder breaking through one layer may be frustrated by the next. In this article, I'll describe how security by design can work in a Hadoop environment. I interviewed the staff of PHEMI for the article and will refer to their product PHEMI Central to illustrate many of the concepts. But the principles are general ones with long-standing roots in computer security ..."

Digital Science Launches GRID, A New, Global, Open Database Offering Unique Information On Research Organisations - Digital Science

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 12:39 AM PDT

"Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations. The GRID dataset addresses the problem of messy and inconsistent data on research institutions, ensuring that each entity is included correctly and only once. Built in-house, the online database contains 50,000 manually curated institutional names, along with unique identifiers and geo-location information across 212 countries. The data are derived from openly accessible funder and publication sources such as the NIH reporter, PubMed and the UK Gateway to Research. It includes the majority of  institutions worldwide that have received research funding and is openly available under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence, which allows the user to share or adapt the content available for any purpose, even commercially. GRID's aims Spark innovation by providing data scientists, developers and entrepreneurs with a base of open, standardised information about organisations, which will be interoperable with existing technologies and platforms, and which can act as a gateway between many different datasets;     Open up insight, transparency and accuracy by allowing anyone to efficiently map data to a common, well-formed, international list of research organisations; Create accessibility by enabling data visualisation of datasets related to research organisations around the world ..."
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