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- Open-Access Monograph Publishing and the Origins of the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing at Penn State University - Journal of Scholarly Publishing - Volume 46, Number 3 / April 2015 - University of Toronto Press
- UNESCO: Introduction to Open Access
- Medical and Scientific Writing: Excellent guide on the publication of open science: understanding everything into 15 pages!
- Guide to Open Science Publishing | Discussions – F1000 Research
- In the Library with the Lead Pipe » Randall Munroe’s What If as a Test Case for Open Access in Popular Culture
- National Institute of Standards and Technology: Plan for Providing Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research
- Overview of funders' data policies | Digital Curation Centre
- The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2015 first quarter
- David Mumford | Wake Up!
- AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Special Collections
- NIST Joins Other Agencies in Spelling Out an Open Access Policy
- Current Research Information System : #LibTechNotes
- Special Track at MTSR 2015 : Metadata and Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
- College honors SFSC professor as ‘textbook hero’
- Open Access Webinar: What’s Next for Your Business?
- Open Educational Resources: Developing and Evaluating in Master of Educational Technology Learning´s Students
- NeuroElectro :: Home
- The Brain Wikipedia - Scientists Launch Open-Access Neuron Database
- The CITE: OER, For-Profits Can Work Together
- 1. StacksExchange: My New Favorite Form of Open Science | Sak on Science
- A Quick Look Around the Open Data Landscape | OUseful.Info, the blog...
- ORCID receives $3 million grant to build international engagement capacity | EurekAlert! Science News
- HTTBU | 50 years of scientific activity, 50 years of open access, 50 collaborations
- Seeing through the fog: Digital problems and solutions for studying ancient women | McAuley | First Monday
- Next Up for Agency Public Access Plans: NOAA | SPARC
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:57 AM PDT Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing. "This essay explains the background of open-access monograph publishing as developed principally by university presses, often in association with libraries. It begins with discussions at Princeton University Press in the early 1970s about how to deal with the crisis of scholarly monograph publishing and moves on to describe a joint library/press project in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) in the early 1990s. The failure of that project to be funded led the library and press at Penn State to launch a jointly operated Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing in 2005, which supported one of the pioneering programs in open-access monograph publishing. The CIC project, in particular, anticipated the proposal by the Association of American Universities / Association of Research Libraries, announced in June 2014, to subvent the publication of first monographs using an open-access model." |
| UNESCO: Introduction to Open Access Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:52 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text curriculum. |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:47 AM PDT [From Google's English] "This blog contains many tickets Open Access , but this world is complex and I meet a lot of experts who are unfamiliar with these developments. Sometimes I quoted in my interventions few reflections Peter Suber , Harvard, who published in 2012 (MIT Press), an excellent book on Open Access: My honest belief from experience in the trenches is que la Largest obstacle to OA is misunderstanding ... To look less ignorant, I suggest you read the excellent book published in March 2015 F1000Research whose title is 'Guide to open science publishing' I prepared slides from this guide. Some passages are biased and in favor of open access, so stay critics (eg peer review open for which we do not have evidence to say that this is the best system). In less than 20 pages, short and well-documented chapters provide insight into ..." |
| Guide to Open Science Publishing | Discussions – F1000 Research Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:43 AM PDT "We recently published the Guide to Open Science Publishing – a PDF that you can download, print, and share with your colleagues. It contains information about open access, open peer review, post-publication peer review, open data, and other aspects of open science, and it was based on a series of blog posts we published last year ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:38 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article from In the Library with the Lead Pipe. "Open access to scholarly research benefits not only the academic world but also the general public. Questions have been raised about the popularity of academic materials for nonacademic readers. However, when scholarly materials are available, they are also available to popularizers who can recontextualize them in unexpected and more accessible ways. Randall Munroe's blog/comic What If uses open access scholarly and governmental documents to answer bizarre hypothetical questions submitted by his readers. His work is engaging, informative, and reaches a large audience. While members of the public may not rush to read open access scientific journals, their availability to writers like Munroe nevertheless contributes to better science education for the general public. Popularizers outside of academia benefit significantly from open access; so do their readers." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:32 AM PDT "This document establishes a plan to enable public access to the results of research funded wholly or in part by NIST; NIST's Public Access Policy will be informed by this Public Access Plan. To the extent feasible and consistent with law, agency mission, resource constraints, U.S. national, homeland, and economic security, and the objectives listed below, NIST intends to make freely available to the public, in publicly accessible repositories, all peer-reviewed scholarly publications and associated data arising from unclassified research and programs funded wholly or in part by NIST. Subject to the same conditions and constraints listed above, NIST will also promote the deposit of scientific data arising from unclassified research and programs, funded wholly or in part by NIST, to make it available free of charge unless otherwise excepted, in publicly accessible databases. NIST's Public Access Plan promotes the following objectives: Establish NIST's commitment to providing public access to scientific research results Support governance of and best practices for managing peer-reviewed scholarly publications and digital scientific data across NIST Ensure effective access to and reliable preservation of NIST peer-reviewed scholarly publications and digital scientific data for use in research, development, education, and scientific discovery Enhance innovation and competitiveness by maximizing the potential to create new business opportunities." |
| Overview of funders' data policies | Digital Curation Centre Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:28 AM PDT "The coverage of funders' publication and data policies and the support they provide is summarised in the table below and the clarifications that follow. Further details are available on the individual funders' policy pages and from each funders website. Download the Cross Council Policy Overview handout which includes the table below. The policy webpages were created in light of our 2009 Curation Policies Report. Although the report has not been updated, the webpages are regulary reviewed to reflect changes in funder policy. A couple of new studies have been released and will be reviewed to integrate into the guidance here: [1] Demystify the data management requirements of research funders [US study] [2] Funder Requirements for Data Management and Sharing [An analysis of health funders]" |
| The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2015 first quarter Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:23 AM PDT "Data for the first quarter of 2014 (the 11th year of publication of this series) are now available in the dataverse. Error note re Dec. 31, 2014 version: the number for Electronic Journals Library was copied incorrectly (total journals mistook for free full-text journals). Noted as an error in the current version, will result in under-reporting of growth of this initiative in the near future ... OpenDOAR added 129 repositories for a total of 2,857. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine added close to 3 million documents for a total of over 71 million documents. Another 7,690 authors joined the Social Sciences Research Network for a total of over 275,000 authors. Internet Archive added 1.7 million texts for 7.8 million ... The Directory of Open Access Journals, in spite of vigorous weeding and re-organizing over the past year or so, is back to showing consistent strong growth, adding 254 titles this quarter for slightly under 3 titles per day. Over the past year, the growth in articles that can be retrieved through a DOAJ article-level search grew by over a quarter of a million articles for a total of over 1.8 million articles! 20 more publishers joined the Directory of Open Access Books - as of today, DOAB includes 100 publishers. Highwire Press added 9 completely free sites this quarter. The number of journals with immediate free access inPubMedCentral increased by 43 to a total of 1,443. Congratulations and thanks to all of the people and organizations working hard to make open access happen. This is a major step for every author signing up for a repository, every journal moving to immediate free. I wish I had the time to thank and celebrate each of your accomplishments individually. This post is part of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access series." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:19 AM PDT "The world of professional publishing, of scholarly communication, is in a state of profound transformation. In some fields, for example physics and computer science, researchers have embraced this transformation and are forging new policies and better customs. In my experience, however, mathematicians are one of the most conservative research communities, clinging to old habits in spite of the opportunity to improve their working life. The impetus for this blog at this time is the death of Klaus Peters, a publisher who, more than any other that I have met, saw publishing in mathematics as a service to the professional community and strived tirelessly to find new ways to assist our community. But the changes that have happened in the commercial publishing world deeply disturbed him. I want to make a plea to my colleagues to spend more time considering how we should shape this aspect of our profession and then being open to radical changes: you have nothing to lose but the chains that are binding you to capitalist exploitation and you can gain a freer, simpler world to work in. Book and journal publishing have been rocked by two major changes during my lifetime. The first was the takeover of smallish niche publishers by their CFO's, subsequent mergers and the entry into this business of private equity firms. The second was the expansion of the internet to a state where it can provide instant availability of whole libraries everywhere at your fingertips ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:14 AM PDT "The Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies (JCMS) has an overall focus on the care and exhibition of collection items. The scope thus includes conservation science, artefact studies, restoration, museum studies, environment studies, collection management and curation. Please contact the editors if you are not sure whether your research falls into these categories ..." |
| NIST Joins Other Agencies in Spelling Out an Open Access Policy Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:10 AM PDT "Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced on April 3, 2015, that they plan to set up a central repository of free-to-read academic articles to comply with recent federal open access requirements. The institute was the last major scientific agency to establish an open access policy. According to their plan, starting in October of 2016, copies of all articles reporting research funded by NIST will be archived on a free, publically accessible server operated by the institute. Access to the stored articles would begin after a 12-month embargo period from the date of publication ..." |
| Current Research Information System : #LibTechNotes Posted: 09 Apr 2015 05:07 AM PDT "A few weeks ago we went to Córdoba to attend the 14th REBIUN Workshop on digital projects and the 6th OS-Repositorios Conference, 'Los horizontes de los repositorios' (The future of repositories). There we met scientists and professionals who, like us, manage institutional, educational and scientific repositories in university libraries. At the conference we were able to hear and learn about new developments, experiences and ways of working ... The content of the conference is available in its entirety through Helvia, the University of Córdoba's institutional repository ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:50 AM PDT "The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly important aspect of scientific activity. Text publications are traditionally the main way of publishing research output and challenges still exist for their optimal recording and dissemination. Scientific communities increasingly recognise the immense significance of storing, discovering, processing, preserving and re-using data sets as well as other types of research objects like workflows and software. Furthermore, Public Sector Information, potentially valuable for research purposes, is provided openly by governments although not always in forms that enable re-use. Metadata is a critical factor in this area, actually providing the means to promote black-box digital files to discoverable and re-usable objects. Rich metadata about research output needs to be recorded and disseminated, including contextual and provenance information (for example, relationships of publications and data sets with people, organisations, funding information, facilities and equipment). For certain use cases, metadata needs to be uniformly accessed across research domains, to foster collaboration and re-use of data sets among different disciplines and vertical communities. However, the recording and utilisation of domain-specific information is also significant in many circumstances. A range of open research and technical issues have to be addressed towards these goals, while it is also recognised that international harmonisation on standards and technologies is of critical importance. The aim of this Special Track is to serve as a forum for experts to present recent results and experiences, establish liaisons with other groups and reflect on the state-of-the-art of metadata and semantic aspects of open repositories, research information systems and data infrastructures." |
| College honors SFSC professor as ‘textbook hero’ Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:44 AM PDT "South Florida State College physics and astronomy professor Erik Christensen was honored recently as a "textbook hero" by Rice University's OpenStax College and was present for the formal dedication of the Christensen Conference Room. Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas. For the past month, Christensen has been collaborating in the production of short and dynamic videos about physics with OpenStax College and Trailer Park Inc., a Hollywood, California-based video production company. The first video on terminal velocity was recently completed. 'This is our proof-of-concept and, if we can get funding, our goal is to produce 30 more short videos, each linked to a specific chapter or topic in the OpenStax College physics textbook,' Christensen said. Christensen was the textbook's anchor reviewer. During the past three years, the textbook has gained 20 percent of the national market share of algebra-based physics textbooks ..." |
| Open Access Webinar: What’s Next for Your Business? Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:39 AM PDT "Open Access publishing models are a business reality for an ever-growing number of scientific and scholarly publishers. Article Processing Charges (APCs) are making OA possible, but the revolutionary changes propelled by Open Access business models touch every aspect of publishing. New customers. New compliance requirements. New challenges. For publishers, the challenge is to identify end-to-end solutions that manage the change, minimize the business burden, and maximize the publishing results. Join us for a complimentary webinar on April 21 or April 24 at 11:00 AM EDT/15:00 GMT ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:36 AM PDT The purpose of this research was to develop and evaluate one Open Educational Resources (OER), identifying: (a) instructional design strategy to facilitating the meaningful learning, (b) build an OER about making concept map with quality and (c) evaluate it and contribute to OER debates. This investigation was conducted in a Mexican University (Master of Technology Learning). The epistemological orientation was a constructivist philosophical stance, research paradigm used was mixed. The method used was Educational Technology Research and Development (R&D).The research was a diagnosis and the development was an OER. This method is a design-based research to develop new products to improve education. For Kozma (2000) this method, 'demonstrate that this research is now at the center of some of the most creative, original, and powerful work in education'. We applied a three level process of formative evaluation proposed by Dick, Carey & Carey (2005) and used their recommend instruments: (1) trying out OER one on one; (2) a small group tryout with eight students; and (3) a field trial with a whole class of learners (twenty students).After, we did a summative evaluation by seven experts. The participants were eighteen students. The research findings were: a new OER was created to facilitate the meaningful learning about making concept map, summative evaluation was conducted an evaluation about the OER´s design strategy by seven experts to provide a professional and qualified judgment and to determine the overall value of the instruction, an analysis and interpretation of the evaluations. The instruments were questionnaires ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:28 AM PDT "The goal of the NeuroElectro Project is to extract information about the electrophysiological properties (e.g. resting membrane potentials and membrane time constants) of diverse neuron types from the existing literature and place it into a centralized database." |
| The Brain Wikipedia - Scientists Launch Open-Access Neuron Database Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:23 AM PDT e human brain is one of the biggest and most intriguing mysteries scientists are tackling. It's an incredibly active, bustling place that keeps us going and effectively makes us the people we are. There are about 100 billion neurons processing and transmitting information through electrical and chemical signals and to make things even more complicated, each of these neurons has about 10,000 different connections to neighboring brain cells. Needless to say, mapping and understanding all these neurons and connections is a gargantuan task – that's why computer scientists and biologists from Carnegie Mellon University in the US have created an open-access database indexing all the known physiological information about neurons ... Basically, they've developed a wiki-like system called NeuroElectro (website here) ... I took a look at the website, and I have to say, it's a fantastic achievement. The design is pleasant, information is easy to access (if you know what you're looking for), and speaking of information – there's a LOT of it. The roughly 300 types of neurons are arranged, discussed and presented in an almost exhaustive fashion. The database was created by computational neuroscientist, Shreejoy J. Tripathy, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, who analyzed almost 10,000 published papers describing how neurons react to various inputs. He then used text-mining algorithms to 'read' each of the papers, retrieving information on how they function, how they respond, and how the data was gathered ..." |
| The CITE: OER, For-Profits Can Work Together Posted: 09 Apr 2015 04:13 AM PDT "While open educational resources (OER) are sometimes free to the user, there are always costs involved in the production and delivery of the content. To cover those, many OER providers turn to for-profit companies to keep the content available to students. That opens the door to criticism that nonprofits are selling out. Advocates counter that the for-profit world has a role in keeping OER in front of students ..." |
| 1. StacksExchange: My New Favorite Form of Open Science | Sak on Science Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:33 AM PDT " ... Recently, I have been experiencing considerable Open Science ambivalence. Specifically, though I am a big believer in the the principles of Open Science, I have found myself struggling by the practicing of Open Science. For example, I have had an OSF account for nearly the whole academic year, but I just haven't found it a good time to "take the plunge", beyond the single project that I have posted there. Perhaps trying to change the organizational framework I use for my research during my dissertation and job-search year wasn't the most well thought out plan. I'm hopeful that when I start my upcoming postdoctoral position, that I will be able to start making the transition. While I wait for the moment when I am able to reconcile my principles and practices of Open Science, I have begun participating in StacksExchange. In a nutshell, Stacks is a conglomerate of community-based Q&A sites, dedicated to particular topics. Good questions and answers are up-voted by community members, and members receive 'reputation' points and achievements for their participation. CrossValidated and StacksOverflow are two Stacks sites for questions about statistics and programming, respectively ..." |
| A Quick Look Around the Open Data Landscape | OUseful.Info, the blog... Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:29 AM PDT "I haven't done a round up of open data news for a bit, so I here's a quick skim through some of my current open browser tabs on the subject ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:12 AM PDT "Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) has been awarded an 18-month, $3 million grant by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption and technical integration of Open Researcher and Contributor ID identifiers, through staff expansion, regional workshops and localized member technical support ..." |
| HTTBU | 50 years of scientific activity, 50 years of open access, 50 collaborations Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:08 AM PDT [From Google's English] " ... For archives that are filed or reported it, HAL-Unice there is a good corpus to give to see all collaborations between laboratories and research facilities ? We can always try. Each instruction is associated affiliation of the author . This affiliation is almost always expressed in two ways, when it is the name of the lab and affiliated university of it; or triple when there is a UMR, attached to both the CNRS and the University. On average, a resource is affiliated with six research organizations, with a maximum of 56 for all studied ... We can therefore consider that each article is the result of collaboration between the research structures to which the authors belong. Each article reveals a collaboration between two research structures. More generally (that is to say, looking at the links between research structures, not record by record but for the entire body), it discovers a continuous network between institutions ..." |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:04 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article from First Monday. "In spite of the proliferation of online resources dedicated to the study of the ancient world, there is nonetheless room for the improvement and expansion of methodology and content. This paper identifies two predominant problems in the realm of digital classics: the perpetuation of traditional methods of presenting research rather than the promotion of technology-driven analysis, and the virtual invisibility of ancient women in cyberspace. Arguing that there is a gender imbalance in Web-based resources for antiquity, two solutions are proposed beginning with the addition of more material regarding ancient women to existing platforms in the interest of equalization. Using an analogous project from McGill University as inspiration, an approach that combines ancient data with GIS analysis is proposed in order to make room for technology-driven research while beginning to mitigate the invisibility of women in the ancient world and on the Web." |
| Next Up for Agency Public Access Plans: NOAA | SPARC Posted: 09 Apr 2015 01:53 AM PDT "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its plan to create policies ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. The agency's plan places a strong emphasis on building on its current technical infrastructure, as well as leveraging its well-established culture of data sharing. NOAA Plan for Articles: Establish NOAA Institutional Repository NOAA's plan calls for the agency to establish an internal repository for its funded articles. The repository will be built using the 'Stacks' technology created by and currently in use by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which will act as the systems provider for the repository. The NOAA plan calls for all agency-funded intramural and extramural researchers to deposit final, accepted manuscripts into the agency's repository upon acceptance in a peer-reviewed journal. Unlike many of the other agencies that have released plans to date, NOAA will also require its investigators to submit technical reports, data reports, and technical memoranda into the repository as well – significantly increasing the scope of the materials covered by the agency's policy. NOAA will use the OSTP-suggested 12-month embargo period as its baseline. Like other agencies, it will provide stakeholders with a mechanism for petitioning the agency to change the embargo period. The plan indicates that requests must include evidence that outweighs the public benefit of having the embargo remain at one year. Given the interdisciplinary nature of its research, NOAA notes that it may also coordinate embargo period changes with other agencies or departments ..." |
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