Wednesday, October 21, 2015

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Your Questions Answered on open access research

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 06:56 AM PDT

"What good is research if no one can access it? That's the question behind the open access movement – researchers, academics and publishers are opening up their work to the masses. Open Access Week, running from October 19 to 25 this year, is a global event dedicated to that push. Open access might be a noble goal but is it all positive? What are the costs involved (and what does it mean for the people paying)? How can you figure out who and what to believe? Where should you even start if you're looking for information? And what does the future hold for open access scholarship? Here's your chance to find out. Ask your questions and we'll put them to our experts. You can submit your questions below in the comments, on Facebook.com/conversationEDU or on Twitter using the #YourQuestionsAnswered hashtag. We're taking questions until Tuesday, October 20, and we'll report back with a full panel of experts in open access knowledge answering your questions. We look forward to hearing from you!"

A conversation on academic rigor and OA- check article for full information and questions.

The evolution of open science – how digitization is transforming research

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 06:50 AM PDT

"Digitization is constantly transforming the way we conduct research. Terms like open access, open data, transparency and collaboration are widely discussed in the scientific community as well as in politics and the media. This month, various field experts met to discuss Science 2.0 – Science in Transition at the Quadriga Debate in Berlin. The buzzword combines innovative forms of research and publication processes that aim to benefit research collaboration, participation and the interaction of science with society. During the panel discussion, different questions were raised such as "How does digitization change research and publishing processes?" and "What are the limits of Science 2.0?" Dr. Stephane Berghmans (@StefEurope), Elsevier's VP of Global Academic & Research Relations, took part in the panel, after which we spoke about developments in open science and where they might take us."

Read more about about the panel in the article.

Introducing Ryerson Library’s Open Access Wall of Fame | Ryerson University Library & Archives

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 06:34 AM PDT

"Ryerson Library is very proud to announce the inaugural inductees for the Library's Open Access Wall of Fame! The Wall of Fame honours researchers who have demonstrated a commitment to ensuring their research is open and available to all. Our aim is to acknowledge and support those who consider open access avenues when publishing their work. Open Access material is scholarly work that is made legally available with no restrictions so the anyone can access the full text. This year's inaugural inductees are Dr Harald Bauder and Dr Enza Gucciardi."

U.S. Appeals Court Rules Google Book Scanning Is Fair Use

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 06:31 AM PDT

"The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled on October 16 that Google's library book scanning project is protected by fair use and so does not constitute copyright infringement. The decision, which rejects the latest challenge in Authors Guild v. Google, a class-action lawsuit first filed in 2005, also held that Google's provision of digital copies of the scanned books to participating libraries is non-infringing."

Read full article for all information.

The Lamar Soutter Library Celebrates Open Access Week 2015! | Lamar Soutter Library - University of Massachusetts Medical School

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 06:28 AM PDT

"The Lamar Soutter Library Celebrates Open Access Week 2015! By Lisa Palmer

October 19, 2015

Open Access Week is an international event for the academic and research community to learn about and participate in the global movement toward the open sharing of research. Open Access is "free, unrestricted, online access to scientific and scholarly research." Open Access has implications for all academic disciplines including medicine and for society as a whole. This year's Open Access Week is being held October 19-25, 2015. The Lamar Soutter Library will have an information table set up for the week showcasing information, resources, and benefits of Open Access. Please stop by anytime to learn more, ask questions, and pick up resources. Join us anytime this week or throughout the year to learn more about Open Access. For more resources anytime visit http://libraryguides.umassmed.edu/OpenAccess"

Illinois senator pushed to end college textbook costs

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 06:06 AM PDT

"An Illinois senator last week announced proposed legislation for free college textbooks. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin hosted a phone press conference Oct. 7 with 20 college journalists to announce the Affordable College Textbook Act. By introducing this bill, Durbin's goal is to establish a grant program for the creation and use of free high-quality textbooks. "Freer access to these open textbooks will save students hundreds of dollars and put pressure on traditional college textbook markets to open up and be affordable," Durbin said. The University of Illinois used a $150,000 federal grant to try an open textbook project, he said. The school created a textbook titled "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation," and the textbook was published electronically for free and open use, he said."

 

To read the entire article on the bill proposed in Illinois to create Open textbooks to lesson the cost of college education for students, read the full article.

New prize competition seeks innovative ideas to advance open science

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 05:55 AM PDT

"NIH Record Institute/Center NIH Office of the Director (OD) Contact NIH Office of Communications 301-496-5787 Related Links Open Science Prize Website External Web Site Policy Federal Register Notice External Web Site Policy NIH Associate Director for Data Science Blog Big Data to Knowledge Initiative Website Subscribe Receive NIH news releases by e-mail For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 9:00 a.m. ET New prize competition seeks innovative ideas to advance open science Applicants asked to develop new products or services to harness the power of "big data" to improve health Print this page Share on email Share on facebook Share on twitter The National Institutes of Health has partnered with London-based Wellcome Trust to launch a global science competition for new products or services to advance "open science," a movement to make scientific research data broadly accessible to the public. Up to six teams of technology experts and researchers stand to win $80,000 each to develop their ideas into a prototype or to advance an existing early stage prototype. The prototype judged to have the greatest potential to further open science will receive $230,000. "Research is a global, data-driven enterprise and our ability to improve health increasingly hinges on our ability to manage and make sense of the enormous amounts of data being produced by scientific research," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "I expect the Open Science Prize to generate innovative ideas to improve data access and establish new international collaborations that will illustrate the transformative power of sharing research data." Open Science Prize logo. The volume of digital information generated by biomedical research often called "big data" is growing at a rapidly increasing pace. Researchers' ability to derive knowledge from data is hindered by their ability to find, access and use it. The goal of the Open Science Prize is to support the development and prototyping of services, tools and platforms to overcome these hurdles to ensure data can be used to advance discovery and spur innovation. "As an early advocate of open access and data sharing, the Wellcome Trust believes passionately in the power of freely available, reusable research outputs," said Jeremy Farrar, O.B.E., FMedSci, FRS, director of the Wellcome Trust. "With the Open Science Prize, we hope to tap into the innovative spirit of the global open science community to use open data to deliver global health benefits." The first phase of the competition is accepting applications through Feb. 29, 2016. Six teams will be selected based on the advice of a panel of experts External Web Site Policy to receive the prize money to advance their ideas to prototypes, and will be required to submit their prototypes by Dec. 1, 2016. The overall winner is expected to be selected on Feb. 28, 2017. More information about the Open Science Prize can be found at: http://openscienceprize.org External Web Site Policy."

CaseStudy_Figshare_F1000.pdf

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 05:53 AM PDT

From the article:

"F1000Research is an Open Science publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication followed by transparent refereeing of scientific papers. Managing Director Rebecca Lawrence says that the two-year old platform is changing the way publishing is done in a number of respects. Firstly, it reduces the time between when a researcher is ready to share their research and when it actually becomes publicly available for the scientific community to use, analyze and discuss the findings (typically about 7 days). This is largely achieved through process innovation. Secondly, F1000Research's transparent invited peer review process, conducted post-publication, aims to tackle the bias that is inherent in the traditional anonymous peer-review and pre-publication processes, where papers move from journal to journal, causing a negative impact on both speed of publication and disclosure of findings. Data disclosure is mandatory F1000Research also has a mandatory disclosure policy that requires authors to share the data underlying any science reported in their article (as long as there are no issues with data privacy/security etc). This can help improve data re-use and research reproducibility. The philosophy is that if authors claim to have made a scientific discovery, they should be willing to share the data that underpins that claim, so that readers can analyze it and make their own judgement. Rebecca acknowledges however, that some researchers are not fully comfortable with sharing all of their data. A major impediment to the desire to share all underlying data, especially small or negative components, is the amount of time it takes to properly format, document and curate them. F1000Research is keen to reduce that time and effort so researchers will be more likely to engage in the process and increase transparency. "The biggest challenge we face is that we are trying to change scientific culture," says Rebecca. "We want a situation where all stakeholder groups are going in the same direction, building incentives in such a way that authors are encouraged t o document and share their data but in ways in which they are not overwhelmed." The ideal technology would provide a system in which the author's supporting content would be published automatically in the background as it is being prepared. Key integrations into the author workflow F1000Research is using Figshare as an application service for associated research objects. They have selected the Viewer, Portal and Datastore solutions from Figshare."

Read the full case study for information on implementation of Figshare into F1000.

Skidmore College joins OLH LPS model | Open Library of Humanities

Posted: 22 Oct 2015 05:42 AM PDT

This article discusses why Skidmore College decided to join Open Library of Humanities.

See full article.

"The OLH 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. Marta Brunner, Skidmore's librarian, said that the goal of the OLH is to expand the reach of humanities scholarship throughout the world by creating a sustainable, high-quality publishing platform for humanities scholarship. "Economic pressures in scholarly publishing have made it harder for college libraries like ours to maintain journal subscriptions and have put a particular squeeze on publishing opportunities in less conventionally 'profitable' or 'practical' fields within the humanities," explained Brunner."

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN SENATE: Open Access to Research Articles

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:08 PM PDT

"In response to SEC's request, the Senate Committee on General University Policy (GUP) and the Senate Committee on the Library reviewed the previous subcommittee reports on the Open Access policy, in order to formulate a single coordinated campus recommendation. Both the GUP committee and the Library committee support the University Policy Statement on Open Access to Research Articles, as it was forwarded from the University Senates Conference (USC) ... The Senate Executive Committee recommends the Senate of the Urbana-Champaign communicate to USC its approval of the attached University Policy on Open Access to Research Articles ... Each Faculty member, for the purpose of making his or her scholarly articles widely and freely available in an open access repository, grants to the University of Illinois a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same. Any other systematic uses of the licensed articles by the University of Illinois must be approved by the Campus Senate. This policy does not transfer copyright ownership, which generally remains with Faculty authors under existing University of Illinois General Rules (Article III. Section 4(a)) ..."

International Open Access Week Monday 19 – Friday 23 October 2015

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:05 PM PDT

"If you have any questions about open access publishing or simply want to find out more, come and meet the open access team ..."

(Science Summit) Scientists call for more support in 'open science' - The Korea Observer

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:04 PM PDT

"The results of scientific research and big data should be more accessible to people at all levels to accelerate the development of science and technology, two world leading scientists said Tuesday. A staunch advocate of the so-called open science, Sergio Bertolucci, the research and computing director at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, said what scientists discover is not under their sole possession but is for everyone. Touchscreens and the World Wide Web are some of the examples that were first invented for research purposes at CERN but later shared with the public, Bertolucci said in a lecture during a global science meeting in Daejeon. Citing his experience in astronomy, Phil Diamond, director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, also said open science, a collaborative way of doing research, leads to improved results ..."

Open data, open mind: Why you should share your company data with the world | ZDNet

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:02 PM PDT

"If information really is the lifeblood of modern organisations, then CIOs could create huge benefits from opening their data to new, creative pairs of eyes. Research from consultant McKinsey suggests that seven sectors alone could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data: that is, taking previously proprietary data (often starting with public sector data) and opening up access. So, should your business consider giving outsiders access to insider information? ZDNet speaks to three experts ..."

Environment Agency begins open data releases

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:01 PM PDT

"Publication of National Dataset List kicks off Defra's programme for the government's largest data giveaway The Environment Agency has published a list of the data it holds as a first step in the programme of its parent ministry – the Department for Envirnoment, Food and Rural Affairs (Deffra) – to release at least 8,000 datasets over the next year. The National Dataset List was made available last week to show some of the some of what might be released as open data. A Defra blogpost says the list is still "a work in progress" and that some may not be released for legal or national security reasons, and is likely to be updated monthly. It has also produced a guidance document with further information on issues such as possible repetition, incorrect data names and third party data not being on the list ..."

An Open Dialogue On Open Data | README

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:57 PM PDT

"In order to further discuss the implications and applications of Open Data, an open dialogue was held at the Sri Lanka Press Institute, organized by Transparency International Sri Lanka and Internews Network, which is a US-based News and ICT agency. The speakers for the day, apart from being well versed in the areas of Open Data, were also well-known figures ..."

What's the future for Open Knowledge?

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:55 PM PDT

"Partners from the Open Knowledge Hub project will meet at IDS 21-23 October 2015 to share learning and explore the future role of Open Knowledge approaches in addressing development challenges."

Online Contest for 2015 Open Access Week | Open Access @ UNT

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:54 PM PDT

"How has open access impacted your research or studying?"

Research Hub @ HSL presents UNC Open Access Policy: What it Means for You | UNC Health Sciences Library

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:53 PM PDT

"In celebration of Open Access Week, please join the University Libraries for a presentation on UNC's Open Access Policy by Anne Gilliland, Scholarly Communications Officer for University Libraries, and Tim Shearer, Director of Library and Information Technology. UNC Open Access Policy: What it Means for You ..."

It’s Open Access Week! Nay, Open Access Month! What Now? | Open Access @ CUNY

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:52 PM PDT

"This week, October 19-25, is International Open Access Week, an annual opportunity for students, faculty, and other researchers to learn about open access (OA) to scholarly literature, find out how to make their works OA, and help make OA the new norm in scholarship and research. (Read more about Open Access Week and about OA in general.) Of course, CUNY is a very big place, and we like to think big. So here at CUNY, it's not just Open Access Week but Open Access Month: Numerous CUNY librarians are making a point to promote understanding, acceptance, and adoption of OA alllll monnnnnth looooong. (Actually, we're always happy to talk about OA — any day, any week, any month, any year!) During Open Access Week/Month, you might hear about open access from many sources ..."

The State of Open Access in 18 Statements

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:51 PM PDT

"The major question associated with open access is no longer whether OA should be at the centre of the mainstream scholarly communication system, but how? The key challenges are now about how to make OA work, not whether it should happen at all. That was the conclusion I came to following a large-scale analysis of the OA discourse from the last five years. In that time, we seem to have moved from a position of 'whether' to one of 'how.'  I looked at the peer-reviewed literature on OA and also at relevant reports, press articles and 'informal' communication channels (blogs, email discussion lists etc) which together make up the OA discourse. I used a textual analysis tool (VOSviewer) to visualise important terms from 589 key articles on OA identified from peer-reviewed journals (a corpus of over 2.5 million words). I then used the output from VOSviewer to identify major themes which could then be explored further both in the peer-reviewed literature and other sources ..."

Open Access + Open Scholarship = Maximum Impact | LIBRARY

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:49 PM PDT

"Open Access is supporting public access to published academic writing that is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In making scholarship available to the world, it encourages the exchange of ideas between scholars. The UNH Law Library has joined the international movement to support open access ideals with our institutional repository.  With author and publisher permission, the repository collects the published works of UNH Law faculty and makes them available to the public via our Scholars' Repository. To visit the UNH Law section of the repository go to http://scholars.unh.edu/law_facpub/  To learn more go to http://scholars.unh.edu/about.html"

Open Access Week 2015: Why You Should be Publishing OA (If You Aren’t Already!) | ECS Redcat Blog

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:47 PM PDT

"For well over a year now, ECS has been actively pursuing its mission to Free the Science™ with our Author Choice Open Access program. We have seen amazing uptake, and we would like to take a moment to thank these authors for their valuable contributions to both our journals and our mission. We would also like to take a moment to encourage those who have yet to publish OA to do so—after all, it is Open Access Week! Publishing OA helps authors, researchers, and the society at large (not that there isn't some overlap between those categories) – here's how ..."

Happy Open Access Week! | Savage Minds

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:37 PM PDT

"This week is Open Access week! In fact, by the time you read this it will already be Tuesday or Wednesday of Open Access Week because I'm not getting to writing this post until Monday PM Honolulu time. But regardless of how far into it you are: Happy open access week! Open Access Week is a time to celebrate Open Access, get people involved in Open Access opportunities (like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon) and discuss the challenges that Open Access faces in the future. A quick google search shows that we've been celebrating Open Access Week on this site for at least five years ..."

Questions, answers during International Open Access Week | The Brock News

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:36 PM PDT

"As International Open Access Week gets underway, librarian Elizabeth Yates is gearing up for the phone calls and e-mails. She and her colleagues at the James A. Gibson Library have been getting a lot of these lately. Researchers want to know more about the federal government's new Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. The policy, effective May 1, requires government-funded researchers to make their publications freely accessible within 12 months of publication, either through an Open Access journal or via an online archive such as the Brock Digital Repository ..."

Open Textbooks with Nicole Allen and David Wiley at Colorado State University - Open Access Week

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:35 PM PDT

"This is an exciting opportunity for instructors and students to learn from national experts about Open Textbooks and how their adoption by faculty and instructors can lower textbook costs for students. Nicole Allen, director of open education for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and David Wiley, education fellow at Creative Commons and chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, will present in the Morgan Library Event Hall."

Survey: ND college professors know 'open source materials,' but some have questions | Prairie Public Broadcasting

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:33 PM PDT

Use the link to access the audio recording.

The Daily Targum :: NJPIRG hopes to bring Affordable College Textbook Act to Rutgers

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:31 PM PDT

" ... A new bill has been proposed by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.), called the 'Affordable College Textbook Act,' which would create affordable textbook access to college students around the country. The senators wrote the bill in accordance with members of NJPIRG and USPIRG, two public interest research groups, and it provides grants to state universities to incentivize the adoption of open source textbooks, according to Congress.gov. Open source textbooks are textbooks licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online for free to be used by students. For universities to adopt open source books, administrations need to start a grant program that would give professors a monetary incentive to change their syllabi and use open resources as opposed to traditional textbooks, said Kizmann, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. If the bill passes, it would do just this, according to The Huffington Post. The bill would create a grant program for colleges and universities that would allow textbooks to be accessed online for free ..."

The purpose, practicalities, pitfalls and policies of managing and sharing data in the UK | Unlocking Research

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:28 PM PDT

"As part of the Office of Scholarly Communication Open Access Week celebrations, we are uploading a blog a day written by members of the team. Tuesday is a piece by Dr Danny Kingsley reflecting the talk she gave this morning to  the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group conference – Measurement, Information and Innovation: Digital Disruption in the Chemical Sciences."

Open Science Prize

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:26 PM PDT

"The Open Science Prize is a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit. The Prize provides funding to encourage and support the prototyping and development of services, tools or platforms that enable open content – including publications, datasets, codes and other research outputs – to be discovered, accessed and re-used in ways that will advance discovery and spark innovation.  It also aims to forge new international collaborations that bring together open science innovators to develop services and tools of benefit to the global research community.   This first round of the Prize consists of a two-phase competition. For the first phase, international teams will compete for funding to take new ideas for products or services to the prototype stage, or to further develop an existing early-stage prototype.  Up to six prizes of $80,000 each will be awarded to successful teams to develop their innovation over an eight to nine-month period. In the second phase, the phase I prize recipient judged to have the prototype with the greatest potential to advance open science will receive a prize of $230,000 ..."

Who is your repository? - BioMed Central blog

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:24 PM PDT

"For Open Access week we're examining the role of the library in improving the impact and visibility of an institution's research output. Guest blogger, Kimberly Chapman, Director of Campus Repository Services at the University of Arizona, discusses faculty relationships and their value in growing an institution's repository."

Open Access Week – continuing on the journey | OUPblog

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:22 PM PDT

" ... Of course, our OA caravan has been dragging itself slowly across the plains of academia for many years. But since 2012, the UK has been travelling at breakneck speed, aided by the rocket-boosting Finch Report. We have spent the last three years establishing a proper framework for the UK, moving us all forward in a decisive direction, with a new raft of policy requirements setting the scene. Funders, publishers, universities, and others have been working flat-out to avoid any nasty bumps and make this as smooth a ride as possible. Many people have told me that the most significant milestone passed since the Finch Report was the announcement last year that all articles and conference papers submitted to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise would be subject to an OA eligibility test. That move has been described as a game-changer because it has raised the stakes considerably. The REF matters a great deal to UK research, and universities must now deliver OA for the bulk of papers their academics produce or face difficulties in getting them assessed for future funding. This has led to a flurry of activity within UK universities to deliver on these requirements. Universities have spent the last 18 months formulating or updating their institutional OA policies, educating their researchers, putting in place processes, and updating their technology. Software developers and vendors, as well as players like Jisc and Sherpa, have been hard at work developing new technical solutions to support funders' policies. And publishers and learned societies have burst into life with new activities and initiatives to support their authors ..."

Collective, Collaborative, Complementary — That Is What Makes The OAN Unique - Digital Science

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:21 PM PDT

"Collective open access models are all the rage. This past summer the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study got underway, looking at the feasibility for sustainable cooperative scholarly publishing. Last week the European Union hosted a Workshop on Alternative Open Access Publishing Models, where one of the more interesting themes to arise was the compelling nature of the consortial approach to funding OA projects. And this week we celebrate Open Access Week, with its theme of 'Open for Collaboration,' which celebrates the other side of the equation, that of the increasing cooperation between and among allied communities: OA publications, open educational resources, and open data. Collective, collaborative, and complementary — these are also at the heart of the Open Access Network (OAN), a transformative model of OA publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships among scholarly societies, research libraries, and other partners (e.g., collaborative e-archives, repositories, university presses) who share a common mission to support the creation and distribution of research and scholarship and encourage affordable education. Although a new organization, we are pleased to have already as members of the Network a number of publishers, scholarly societies, university presses, and academic libraries from across the spectrum — liberal arts colleges, public colleges and universities, and large private universities — as well as technology companies committed to advancing scholarly collaboration and access. Among our members, we are delighted to say, is Digital Science ..."

Common myths about open access...busted!

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:19 PM PDT

"With open access publishing making up an increasingly growing element of the scientific literature, attitudes are certainly changing. However, many authors still have preconceptions about open access, which we aim to expose as myths, and then bust them with real–life data and examples ..."

What's So Bad About The Impact Factor - Part 3. What Did You All Say? - Digital Science

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:18 PM PDT

"Over the past couple of weeks, I've taken a brief look at Impact Factor (IF) and some of the criticisms that are levelled at it. As promised, I'm going to report on some of the feedback that we've received, particularly on the Twitter hashtag #IFwhatswrong. The week before last, I focused on one of the statistical objections to IF, put simply – it's an arithmetic mean, but should be a median. The mathematical argument appealed to Riccardo Sapienza, from King's College, who tweeted about it ..."

Creative Commons: A License to Share Knowledge - LibCal - Penn Libraries

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:46 PM PDT

"Creative Commons (CC) licenses clearly state what people are allowed to do with certain copyrighted material and encourage sharing and reusing art and ideas. We will discuss types of CC licenses, how to assign them to your work, and how to find CC licensed material – images, texts, and other original works – to use in teaching, scholarship, and creative productions. Katie Rawson, Coordinator for Digital Research and Sarah Wipperman, ScholarlyCommons Repository Services Manager & Analyst. This event is part of the Penn Libraries' 2015 Colloquium on Open Access: Open Dialogues on Open Access .."

GW launches open-access resource - The GW Hatchet

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:45 PM PDT

"GW opened access to research and scholarly works created by faculty, staff and students on Monday, according to a University release. The repository, called ScholarSpace, is designed to act as a permanent record of papers, articles, data sets and other scholarly works created at GW. Anyone at GW can access these works for free through the website, and are just required to cite them when repurposed in their own work ..."

Why an open access publishing cooperative can work: A proposal for the AAA's journal portfolio | Corsín Jiménez | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:44 PM PDT

"The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of managing the association's publishing program (see Schmid 2015). The new contract would begin January 1, 2018 and likely run for the next ten years. Because the AAA is the world's largest publisher of anthropology titles (twenty-one journals and Anthropology News), this new publishing contract will shape the discipline's public image and scholarly communications for years to come. At this critical juncture we must ask: Will AAA publications spend yet another decade locked within a publisher website where only research libraries can afford to purchase them? Or can our scholarly work join the growing body of research that is publicly available and accessible as a public good? In this piece we propose a concrete, practical, and financially sustainable way that the AAA can make their publishing program open access: a cooperative model of scholarly publishing. This tailor-made design will cost the AAA nothing, and give the AAA a chance to be at the forefront of global innovation in scholarly communication. We urge the AAA to take it seriously as they think about the future of their publishing program ..."

SABC News - Opening up access to research and information isn’t a luxury:Tuesday 20 October 2015

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:43 PM PDT

"Children struggle to learn when they don't have science labs and libraries. Learning becomes difficult in classrooms that are falling apart, or where children are expected to sit on the floor because they have neither desks nor chairs. A lack of infrastructure is just one contributor to South Africa's entrenched and ongoing educational inequality. There is another, less frequently discussed issue that is deepening this inequality: access to quality peer-reviewed information. Such information should be available to all South Africans whether they are school children, university students, researchers or citizen scientists. This will encourage lifelong self-learning. It will spur continued research and innovation. Access to information can bolster education, training, empowerment and human development. International Open Access Week offers a good opportunity to explore how South Africa can improve its citizens' access to information ..."

Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication Celebrates Open Access Week 2015 | Harvard Library Portal

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:41 PM PDT

"Open Access Week is an international event highlighting open access to research and promoting it as the new default for peer-reviewed scholarship. This week, the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) planned a series of outreach efforts to showcase the advantages of open access. OSC has also released posters and table-tents throughout campus highlighting the benefits of depositing materials in DASH, Harvard's open-access repository ... These messages point to the public good served by Harvard's program to supplement conventional journal publication with free online access through DASH. Peter Suber, director of the OSC, adds: 'Why do we do this? Because open access increases the visibility, retrievability, audience, impact, and usefulness of research' ... Faculty at all Harvard schools have now adopted open-access policies. Under these policies, faculty retain their freedom to submit new work to the journals of their choice. However, these policies also grant Harvard non-exclusive rights to distribute the peer-reviewed manuscripts through DASH. With more than six million downloads, works in DASH are reaching a global audience larger than that of any scholarly journal ..."

FASTR Ensures that Publicly Funded Research Belongs to the Public | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:39 PM PDT

"When taxpayers pay for research, everyone should have access to it. That's the simple premise of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (S.779, H.R.1477), or FASTR. If enacted, FASTR would keep federally funded research where it belongs, in the hands of the public. Under FASTR, every federal agency that spends more than $100 million on grants for research would be required to adopt an open access policy. Although the bill gives each agency some leeway in adopting a policy appropriate to the types of research it funds, each one would require that published research be available to the public no later than six months after publication ..."

Peter Suber and Open Access | The University of Tampa Library Blog

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:37 PM PDT

"If you want to learn more about Open Access one of the best places to start is with the works of Peter Suber. Peter Suber is the Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center, Senior Researcher at SPARC, and Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College. He's been writing about open access issues since the turn of the century, and participated in 2001 in the world's first major international open access initiative, the Budapest Open Access Initiative. His most recent work addresses good practices for university open-access policies. You can read an electronic version of his book available through the library's online catalog. You will need to log in using your Spartans domain username and password to gain access to Open Access by Peter Suber. (You can find open access versions of the book here.)"

First Africa Open Data Conference (with images, tweets) · worldbankict · Storify

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:33 PM PDT

" ... In recognition of the need for a regional dialogue, the Government of Tanzania has volunteered to host an Open Data Conference for African countries. This Conference was held on September 4 and 5, 2015 at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar Es Salaam and featured a diverse cohort of participants, including government representatives, private industry, civil society, the development community, and international organizations committed to promoting or supporting open data and open government. The events around the Conference included a number of pre-conference workshops and diverse sessions, among them activities for technical training, sessions on open innovation to promote the production and consumption of open data in Africa, as well as thematic and sectoral tracks. A world-class roster of speakers and leading open data experts contributed to a meaningful transfer of knowledge and helped catalyze a productive conversation about opportunities to extend the potential of open data in the region ..."

Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers—for free - Quartz

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:32 PM PDT

"Academic papers aren't all freely available online as paywalls prevent many from accessing peer-reviewed information. Those without logins are often expected to pay $30 or more per article to read the latest research. Now academics are using the hashtag #icanhazpdf to freely share copyrighted papers. Scientists are tweeting a link of the paywalled article along with their email address in the hashtag—a riff on the infamous meme of a fluffy cat's 'I Can Has Cheezburger?' line. Someone else who does have access to the article downloads a pdf of the paper and emails the file to the person requesting it. The initial tweet is then deleted as soon as the requester receives the file ..."

OpenAIRE workshop: Sharing research data and open access to publications in H2020 | European Public Sector Information Platform

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:30 PM PDT

"The OpenAIRE2020 project and Ghent University have teamed up to host a full-day workshop this November.  The aim of the event is to provide answers, exchange experiences and define problems and barriers that might be faced when implementing Open Access policies under Horizon2020 framework ..."

Scholastica Blog — The Open Access Stories: Jesper Sørensen,...

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:29 PM PDT

"Next in The Open Access Stories - an interview with Torsten Reimer, Scholarly Communications Officer at Imperial College London! Scholastica welcomes Jesper Sørensen to The Open Access Stories blog series! Share this story and your own on Twitter by using the hashtag - #MyOAStory. Jesper Sørensen is the Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Professor and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Professor in the Department of Sociology (by courtesy). He is Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science, an open-access, online, peer-reviewed, international journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes ..."

Why An Open-Access Publishing Cooperative Can Work: A Proposal for the AAA’s Journal Portfolio — Cultural Anthropology

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:27 PM PDT

"The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of managing the association's publishing program (Schmid 2015). The new contract will begin on January 1, 2018 and will likely run for the next ten years. Because the AAA is the world's largest publisher of anthropology titles (twenty-one journals and Anthropology News), this new publishing contract will shape the discipline's public image and scholarly communications for years to come. At this critical juncture we must ask: Will AAA publications spend yet another decade locked within a publisher website where only research libraries can afford to purchase them? Or can our scholarly work join the growing body of research that is publicly available and accessible as a public good? In this piece we propose a concrete, practical, and financially sustainable way that the AAA can make its publishing program open-access: a cooperative model of scholarly publishing. This tailor-made design will cost the AAA nothing, while giving the organization a chance to be at the forefront of global innovation in scholarly communication. We urge the AAA to take our proposal seriously as it thinks about the future of its publishing program ..."

Open Access and Open Science in Argentina | Tensiones y oportunidades de los repositorios digitales abiertos | OCSDNET

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:22 PM PDT

"OCSDNet is participating in #OpenAccessWeek2015. In this blog, Mariano Fressoli and Valeria Azra write about Open Access digital repositories and the culture of Open Science in Argentina.   Mariano and Valeria are a part of an OCSDNet research project seeking to understand how practices of Openness can impact 'alternative science' agendas, and the potential implications for development ..."

Post-Grant Open Access Pilot (FP7, OpenAIRE) | euroCRIS

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:19 PM PDT

"The post-grant Open Access Pilot facilitates the reimbursement of publication fees after the end of a grant agreement within the FP7 programme through the OpenAIRE project. The pilot provides an additional instrument to improve access to research results from FP7 projects, but does not affect authors' choice on how their project publications are made Open Access. The OpenAIRE2020 project (in which several euroCRIS-members are participating) aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data. OpenAIRE2020 will assist in monitoring H2020 research outputs and will be a key infrastructure for reporting H2020's scientific publications as it will be loosely coupled to the EC's IT backend systems. The EC has published Guidelines that will guide you through the policy behind this initiative."

The Future of Scholarly Communication, Monographs, and the Lever Press

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:17 PM PDT

"The Future of Scholarly Communication, Monographs, and the Lever Press A conversation with Charles Watkinson, Publishing Director of the University of Michigan Press, and Mark Edington, Director of Amherst College Press ..."

(Science Summit) Full text of Daejeon Declaration on Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies for the Global and Digital Age - The Korea Observer

Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:13 PM PDT

"The following is the full English text of the Daejeon Declaration on Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies for the Global and Digital Age, which was announced Wednesday after the two-day OECD Ministerial Meeting Daejeon 2015, World Science Forum ..."
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