Friday, October 9, 2015

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What We Should Leak Instead of Celebrity Nudes

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 09:45 AM PDT

"As college costs have climbed, textbooks have also become more expensive. With student loan debt and tuition fees spiraling out of control in this country, many people would appreciate small improvements, such as cheaper textbooks, to help keep costs down. Free textbooks would make a difference for some students as well, and...we ought to make this a reality...."

Why the term 'sharing economy' needs to die | Technology | The Guardian

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 05:04 AM PDT

"The 'sharing economy' is a meaningless term that was only coined in the first place because of the tech industry's desire to pretend everything it does is new and groundbreaking. Now, almost a decade after it started seeing use, it's worse than simply being meaningless: it's actively obfuscatory, lumping together a hugely disparate bunch of companies, many of which push the definition to its limits, and the biggest examples of which have nothing to do with 'sharing' at all. The term grew out of the open-source community, where coders contribute to programs released to the world free-of-charge. The push for a similar model to be applied to the real world dates back to the early 2000s, but it took the financial crisis for it to grow from a niche idea to one taken seriously ..."

CC BY-SA 4.0 now one-way compatible with GPLv3 - Creative Commons

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 05:00 AM PDT

"In January we officially opened a public consultation (blog post) on CC BY-SA 4.0 unilateral compatibility with GPLv3, in accordance with our ShareAlike compatibility process and criteria. Following additional months of detailed analysis, discussion and deliberation with the Free Software Foundation and other stakeholders, we are very pleased to announce that we have added a declaration of one-way compatibility from CC BY-SA 4.0 to GPLv3 to our compatible licenses page! Put simply this means you now have permission to adapt another licensor's work under CC BY-SA 4.0 and release your contributions to the adaptation under GPLv3 (while the adaptation relies on both licenses, a reuser of the combined and remixed work need only look to the conditions of GPLv3 to satisfy the attribution and ShareAlike conditions of BY-SA 4.0) ..."

Open Access and Digital Scholarship Blog-Open Access and Digital Scholarship at Imperial College London. UK ORCID members meeting and launch of Jisc ORCID consortium at Imperial College London, 28th September 2015

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:57 AM PDT

"On Monday 28th September representatives of over 50 UK universities, ORCID, Jisc, GuildHE, RCUK and CRIS vendors met at Imperial College London for the first UK ORCID members meeting, and to launch the Jisc ORCID consortium. ORCID provides a persistent identifier that links researchers to their professional activities and outputs – throughout their career, even if they change name or employer. The unique iD ensures that authors receive credit for their work and allows institutions to automate information exchange with other organisations such as funders, thereby increasing data quality, saving academics time and institutions money. In 2014, Imperial College London was one of the first universities in the UK to make ORCID available to researchers, working with the Jisc-ARMA-ORCID pilot. We have since actively engaged with ORCID and the community to increase uptake and improve systems integration.The UK ORCID meeting was designed to bring together different strands of these discussions, andto facilitate a broad discussion about the next steps for ORCID in the UK. Following the pilot programme, Jisc has negotiated an ORCID consortium through which universities can benefit from premium ORCID membership at significantly reduced cost. The meeting was the official launch event for the consortium ..."

New De Gruyter model 'prevents double dipping' - Research Information

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:52 AM PDT

"De Gruyter is introducing a new pricing model that it says prevents 'double dipping' with open access publications. Double dipping is when publishers are paid twice for articles in hybrid journals, on the one hand through charging for the open access publication itself and, on the other hand, through the journal subscription price. Jacek Ciesielski, vice president open access at De Gruyter, said: 'Double dipping was a weak point in the publication process for open access. The price reductions that we are introducing at De Gruyter from 2016 will enable us to eradicate these weak points, offer our customers fair prices and thereby create greater acceptance for open access publications.' If five per cent or more of the articles published in one of De Gruyter's subscription journals are open access articles, the subscription price for the journal will be proportionally reduced. As part of consortium agreements, De Gruyter also offers to offset APCs (article processing charges) from the subscription price. Both reductions apply to the following year in accordance with the number of issues and required expenditure for the previous volume."

EURAPA moves to open access: Research trends and challenges in physical activity in old age

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:51 AM PDT

" ... EURAPA is the official publication of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity (EGREPA). EGREPA fills an important niche in the study of physical activity for the elderly. The first volume of EURAPA, as the official journal of EGREPA, was issued on the occasion of the 6th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity in London, Ontario, Canada in 2004. The first volumes were published without a publisher. The decision to publish EURAPA with Springer Publishers was taken in 2005. The first issue with Springer, Volume 3, Number 1, appeared in May 2006. EURAPA has meanwhile become a wellestablished and accepted peer-reviewed journal. With Volume 8, Number 1, 2011, EURAPA became an electronic-only version. The year 2011 also marked the introduction of new publication formats so that EURAPA began to accept papers in categories such as: original research, theoretical and methodological articles, brief reports, guest editors and guest editorials [3]. In January 2015 the journal began publishing with BMC with the intention of further expanding its role as an interdisciplinary platform for the development and dissemination of scientific research relating to physical activity and aging. A new editorial board, comprised of new scientists in all relevant areas was created. This is a great opportunity to express our appreciation and thanks to the founders of the journal – Prof. Michael Sagiv and Prof. Heinz Mechling. Prof. Sagiv was the Co-Editor-inChief for life and medical sciences and Prof. Mechling for behavioral sciences. Both of them were pioneers in research on physical activity and aging and contributed greatly to the success of the journal. We also extend our thanks to Dr. Michael Brach, who has served as an associate editor and continues to contribute in making the journal an important voice for research in our field ..."

SOAS Open Access Week - Setting Scholarship Free: Open Access and the Open Library of Humanities | SOAS, University of London

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:49 AM PDT

"This talk will consider the rapidly changing open access (OA) landscape and its impact on academic research. As government and funding council mandates for OA become implemented in various countries around the world, the move to open access is gaining pace - particularly in the humanities disciplines. Dr Caroline Edwards is a Founder and Director of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), which launched in September 2015 as a publishing platform for 'gold' OA articles, with no author-facing charges. Dr Edwards will outline how the OLH has grown and what it can offer scholars in terms of bring together the best of traditional publishing and editorial practices with cutting-edge technological innovations in digital publishing and infrastructure."

USDA Blog » Harnessing the Power of Global Open Data

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:44 AM PDT

"At the 70th United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly Meeting, the U.N. Member States agreed to a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) to eradicate poverty and hunger, protect the planet, and create sustainable economic growth globally. High-quality statistics and data are critical to achieving these goals by enabling us to better target our actions, develop innovative solutions to these global challenges, and ensure prosperity for all.  Recognizing the importance of this data, the Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data (Global Data Partnership) was launched on September 28.  This partnership envisions a world in which the power of timely, accurate, and high quality data leads to sustainable development — leaving no one behind.  It envisions a world in which data is produced, organized, shared, and used in an environment of trust, inclusion, creativity, efficacy, and efficiency, a world where "the right data is available to the right people at the right time to make the right decisions for the right outcomes." This Global Data Partnership will potentially stimulate and sustain political commitment to develop and share data and strengthen the global data infrastructure, improving interoperability and strengthening capacities for producing and using data.  It will also seek to foster innovation and build trust in the booming data ecosystems of the 21st century.  USDA is pleased to be an active founding member of the Global Data Partnership through the memberships of both the U.S. Government and the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. In particular, it has been exciting to support the GODAN Initiative and to pave the way for coordinating global efforts to make agriculture and nutrition data open.  Now with over 135 partners, GODAN will play a lead role in the Global Data Partnership and plans to focus its efforts in support of Global Goal 2:  End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture ..."

College Textbooks: Do You Get What You Pay For? | Nicole Allen

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:41 AM PDT

" ... A new multi-institutional study conducted by researchers at Brigham Young University looks at the academic outcomes of students assigned free, openly-licensed textbooks versus those assigned traditionally-published textbooks. What the study finds is the opposite of what folk wisdom tells us: expensive textbooks are not superior to free ones. In fact, the results show a striking trend that students assigned free, open textbooks do as well or better than their peers in terms of grades, course completion, and other measures of academic success. If traditional textbooks are not producing better outcomes, then what exactly are students paying for? ..."

Welcome to the Digital4Science platform! | Digital Single Market | European Commission

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:33 AM PDT

"I am delighted to announce the launch of the Digital4Science platform, set up to stimulate conversations on Excellence in Science and its activities around the Open Science Cloud, e-infrastructures, High Performance Computing, Future & Emerging Technologies and the FET flagships. Discussions have been launched on all these topics and are just waiting for you to enrich the debate. Our activities in the field of Excellence in Science are inherently forward-looking, building skills in the long term, focusing on current and the next generations of scientists, technologists, researchers and innovators and providing support for emerging talent from Europe and across the world. But we cannot do it without you. I want us to build bridges between the scientific communities involved in our activities, but don't want to stop there. Through this platform, I also hope to stimulate citizens' engagement in what we do, to help make a better future. I believe that it is possible to have citizens participate in our debates and also make a serious contribution to the scientific process. Citizen Science is the perfect way to do that and a discussion on this topic is also available here. We set up this platform to give you a voice; we want to listen to you, and establish a regular dialogue on our activities and policies. By talking to us and each other, you can contribute to our future policies and programmes designed to support science in the digital age and boost scientific discoveries. I am passionate about what we are doing and know that you are passionate too. Together we can build a better future by focusing on the new technologies that are needed to push science further. Please join us and help make it happen."

The booming of open access publications in science

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:31 AM PDT

"The last decade has witnessed a significant growth of open access (OA) publications1 . The existing forms of OA include OA options of traditionally closed-access journals (such as the Green and Gold OA routes) as well as a substantially different publishing model, known as OA publishing2 . OA is considered to be able to accelerate the production and dissemination of knowledge. Backed by dominant research funders across the world2 , it has fundamentally changed the landscape of scholarly publishing3 . The Web of Science (WoS) started to provide identifiers for articles from OA journals in 2014, offering an opportunity to explore the development of publications generated from the OA publishing model. This study uses the Web of Science–Science Citation Index Expanded (WoS–SCIE) to illustrate the trajectories of OA publications in science. We collected data on 30 June 2015 with the time span set as 2000–2014. Four document types (articles, letters, notes and reviews) were included4 ..."

DPLA Receives $250,000 from Anonymous Donor to Expand Technical Capabilities

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:21 AM PDT

"The Digital Public Library of America is thrilled to announce that an anonymous donor has committed to provide substantial support towards DPLA's mission in the form of a $250,000 grant to strengthen DPLA's technical capabilities. This grant will allow DPLA to expand its technology team to handle additional content ingestion and to implement important new features based around its platform and website. Today's grant represents the third investment in DPLA's mission by this anonymous donor. In 2013 they contributed to the rapid scaling-up of DPLA's Hub network, and in 2015 they provided support for DPLAfest 2015 in Indianapolis ..."

Press Release | Press Releases | Newsroom | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:20 AM PDT

"U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Al Franken (D-MN) and Angus King (I-ME) today introduced legislation designed to help students manage costs by making high quality textbooks easily accessible to students, professors and the public for free. This bill, known as the Affordable College Textbook Act, would create a competitive grant program to support the creation and use of open college textbooks—textbooks that are available under an open license, allowing professors, students, researchers and others to freely access the materials. Companion legislation was introduced today in the House of Representatives by U.S. Representatives Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) and Jared Polis (D-CO) ..."

Public Access Policy Compliance Webcast | sparc2.arl.org

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 04:02 AM PDT

"As US federal agencies continue to release their plans in response to the 2013 White House Directive, universities are considering how best to ensure compliance with these emerging new requirements. What is the role of libraries in supporting this compliance effort? What actions are libraries already taking to help researchers in following new public access requirements? On October 14th at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT, SPARC will host a members-only webcast exploring these questions with a panel of experts at the forefront of these compliance efforts ... In addition to presentations from our featured speakers, a large portion of the webcast will be reserved for Q&A.  This hour-long webcast is free for SPARC members, but registration is required. You can register at the link below.  Instructions for joining the webcast will be emailed the day before the event to those registered.  SPARC will also host a similar webcast for our Canadian members that will focus on the Tri-Agency policies and how Canadian libraries are working to support compliance. Details on this webcast will be announced shortly ..."

BMJ Blogs: The BMJ » Blog Archive » Jocalyn Clark: Predatory journals debate raises controversies—but they’re not going away

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 03:40 AM PDT

"I think it's fair to say that the topic of so-called predatory journals was the hot one at the recent World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) conference. The meeting coincided with the publication of new evidence of the enormous growth of the market of predatory open access journals. Shen and Bjork reported in BMC Medicine last week that the predatory journal market had grown in just five years to the level of the legitimate open access publishing business. Science Magazine led with a headline that "predatory publishers earned $75 million last year." The new estimates say 420,000 articles were published in 8,000 journals by 963 predatory publishers. This compares to about 10,000 journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals, which vets legitimacy. (By comparison the global publishing business is said to be worth $244 million for genuine open access journals, and an astonishing $10.5 billion annually for scholarly subscription journals.) I summarised the new findings during my talk on predatory journals at the WAME conference to support my argument that this is a growing problem that urgently needs more attention. I also urged delegates to demand more accountability and responsibility for the problem from multiple stakeholders—authors, institutions, funders, and professional bodies including WAME. Much discussion ensued ..."

Guest Post: Open Access is the way that new knowledge is made…easier - The University of Iowa Libraries

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 03:38 AM PDT

"During the month of Open Access week (October 19-25) we will be highlighting a number of guest posts from University of Iowa Faculty and Staff who have personal experience making their work Open Access.  We appreciate their contributions. The first guest post is by Associate Professor, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Ph.D. University of Iowa,  Departmental Executive Officer of the Department of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, Faculty member of the School of Art and Art History/Media, Social Practice, and Design ..."

North Dakota Quarterly Gets an Open Access Archive | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 03:37 AM PDT

"The North Dakota Quarterly now has an open access archive. (It's a literary journal.) 'I'm very happy to announce that we've worked with the HathiTrust to release the first 74 volumes of North Dakota Quarterly to the Open Access University under a CC-BY-ND license. The ND for all you open access crusaders who saw that and immediately started to sharpen blades is an unfortunate necessity because for much of NDQ's history we published without contracts or with very restricted contracts that only allowed works to appear in a particular volume of NDQ. We know that it's not idea[l], but it is better than nothing or a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.'"

Scholarly Publishing: Proprietary vs Open Access. A False Binary? « The Centre for Film and Media Studies

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 03:35 AM PDT

"CFMS recently hosted a panel discussion on scholarly publishing, a hot topic in the context of debates about expensive journal subscriptions and broader attempts to transform universities. The panel featured Eve Gray (Research Associate, IP Law Unit, UCT), Caroline Ncube (Associate Prof, Dept of Commercial Law, UCT) and Herman Wasserman (Prof, CFMS, UCT). The lively debate was chaired by Adam Haupt (Associate Prof, CFMS, UCT). Some of the hot topics the panel addressed were: ·       How viable is OA publishing? ·       What are the funding models? ·       Is publishing a mess? How did that happen? ·       How does OA relate to citations and journal impact factors? ·       How does OA impact upon concepts of peer-review? ·       How can south-south collaboration strengthen scholarly publishing? ·       What new financial models are developing in the global south? ·       How relevant is OA to decolonizing the university? Panelists agreed to arrange a follow-up session in order to explore these issues in greater detail. One hour could hardly cover it all… Listen to the proceedings: https://www.mixcloud.com/adamhaupt14/scholarly-publishing-proprietary-vs-open-access-publishing-a-false-binary/"

Prof. Jinyu Liu Helps Create Groundbreaking Classical Studies Project - DePauw University

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 03:30 AM PDT

"A collaboration involving Jinyu Liu, associate professor and chair of Classical studies at DePauw University, and other scholars of Western classics in China has led to a new digital humanities project. The goal of the new initiative, Dickinson Classics Online (DCO), is to make available significant works from the Greco-Roman classics have never been translated into Chinese.  DCO will create tools for learning Latin and Greek and accurate translations, along with commentaries from a Chinese perspective.  Over the summer, Dr. Liu worked with Christopher Francese and Marc Mastrangelo, both classics professors at Dickinson College, to organize an international seminar in Shanghai on creating open access resources for Chinese speaking scholars and students of Graeco-Roman Classics. That led to the launch of DCO, which now contains Latin-Chinese and Greek-Chinese lexica (the immediate products of the seminar's work over the summer), and interviews of a number of classicists and ancient historians from top Chinese universities.  DCO will be an ever-evolving resource ..."

This should not be my fight « Walt at Random

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 03:27 AM PDT

"This should not be my fight I've probably said this before, but thinking about yesterday's post reminded me of it once again. That is: This should not be my fight. No, I haven't gone to each site that wrote a story touting the Shen/Björk article to point out the problems with the data–especially now that it's clear what the response will be. Somebody should. They have the actual data. But it shouldn't be me. It's really not my fight. I didn't even start out to discredit Beall's lists. I did cross swords with him on his absurd notion that the Big Deal had solved the serials crisis, but I did a real-world study of the journals and publishers on his lists to get a reality check. I was fully ready to believe that the picture was as bleak as he painted it–and if that's how the data had come out, that's how I would have published it. After all: I don't publish any OA journals. I'm not on the editorial board of any OA journals. I don't need publications for tenure (I'm retired and was never in a tenure-track position). I don't make big bucks from speaking fees (haven't done many appearances lately, and that's OK). I sure as heck don't make big bucks from the data gathering and analysis, although ALA Editions has published some of my work in the area (not big bucks, but some bucks and a venue I regard highly). For that matter, I've been the subject of ad hominem attacks from Stevan Harnad as well as Jeffrey Beall, so I'm not even well-liked among all OA folks. What I've been trying to do is see what's actually happening and bring my 26 years of off-and-on experience with OA to bear in looking at what's going on now and what's being said. My mildly obsessive personality and retired status, and reasonably well organized techniques, have allowed me to do some large-scale studies that wouldn't have been done otherwise. (With modest funding, I'd keep on doing them.) ..."
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