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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:15 AM PST
"Last October, UC3,  PLOS, and DataONE launched Making Data Count, a collaboration to develop data-level metrics (DLMs). This 12-month National Science Foundation-funded project will pilot a suite of metrics to track and measure data use that can be shared with funders, tenure & promotion committees, and other stakeholders. To understand how DLMs might work best for researchers, we conducted an online survey and held a number of focus groups, which culminated on a very (very) rainy night last December in a discussion at the PLOS offices with researchers in town for the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:09 AM PST
"How does digitalisation change the world of science? We spoke to Lambert Heller from the Open Science Lab about Open Access, the Impact Factor and a new operating system for science ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:07 AM PST
"This video will provide Murray State University faculty with an overview of institutional repositories to showcase our research and scholarship. This is the fifth video in a series that examines different topics related to open access. More resources are available on our Research Guide on Scholarly Communication, http://libguides.murraystate.edu/open...."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:05 AM PST
"My role as CEO/Co-Founder of Mendeley and VP of Strategy at Elsevier includes engaging with and supporting promising startups in the science and research space (we recently launched Elsevier Axon and returned from hosting Axon@LeWeb). So it gives me great pleasure to announce that Elsevier has just acquired Newsflo, an innovative London-based startup that allows researchers and institutions to track media coverage and social media mentions of research. Newsflo was founded by two PhD students at Imperial College London — Ben Kaube and Freddie Witherden — who set out to build an intuitive service to enable institutions to monitor their research impact across a broad range of media sources. With increasing competition for funding and attracting students, universities and researchers face a constant challenge to demonstrate the impact of their research on society. So far the Newsflo service has only been available on a subscription basis, but we will now work together to integrate it into individual researchers' Mendeley profiles, providing our users with additional evidence of the societal impact of their research ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST
"In this introductory whitepaper, we highlight how innovative governments apply and leverage the four pillars of open data's value: citizen experience, data-driven decision making, operational efficiency, and economic impact ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:58 AM PST
"This is part of a weekly series here at TSS: Early Modern and Open Access regularly showcases peer reviewed articles (or other resources) of interest to early modernists that are freely available in open access formats ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:56 AM PST
"CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is a service provided by the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), based at The Open University, United Kingdom. The goal of the project is to aggregate all open access content distributed across different systems, such as repositories and open access journals, enrich this content using text mining and data mining, and provide free access to it through a set of services.[1] The CORE project also aims to promote open access to scholarly outputs. It fully supports the taxpayer's entitlement to the research they have funded and facilitates the wide dissemination of the open access content. CORE works closely with digital libraries and institutional repositories. Based on the open access fundamental principles, as they were described in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the open access content not only must be openly available to download and read, but it must also allow its reuse, both by humans and machines. As a result, there was a need to exploit the content reuse, which could be made possible with the implementation of a technical infrastructure. Thus the CORE project started with the goal of connecting metadata and full-text outputs offering, via the content aggregation, value-added services, and opening new opportunities in the research process ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:53 AM PST
"The open-access movement has been around for a decade or so, but Vox writes that traditional academic publishers remain 'firmly in place.' In the traditional approach, Vox's Julia Belluz notes that taxpayers fund much of the research, academics review manuscripts for free, and journals then charge readers to access the papers. In the US, Belluz says that universities and government groups wind up spending $10 billion a year for journal access. 'That's ten billion dollars to buy back content we have often already paid for in the first place,' she says. Despite recent efforts to move toward an open access model of academic publishing — a number of funders, including the National Institutes of Health, require that its researchers make their results freely available within a certain timeframe — the traditional model persists. The University of California, Berkeley's Michael Eisen, a co-founder of the open-access Public Library of Science, tells Belluz that's mainly because researchers strive to publish in prestigious, high-impact journals — like Science, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine — that are not open access ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:48 AM PST
"The predatory journal named Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology has accepted a bogus, computer-generated paper entitled "Robots No Longer Considered Harmful." The paper's "authors" are listed as I.P. Freely, Oliver Clothesoff, Jacques Strap, Hugh Jazz and Amanda Huginkiss. The journal's publisher, the so-called American Research Institute for Policy Development, lists the journal's editor-in-chief as Dr. Pauline Ratnasingam from the University of Central Missouri .."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:46 AM PST
"We are very excited to announce that Loop was launched today! It's been a challenging and exciting journey, and the Frontiers team and myself are all truly proud to introduce Loop, the first research network that is open to be integrated into any publisher's or academic organization's website. Loop profiles are already integrated into many places of the Frontiers platform: into our article pages, editorial boards and our Collaborative Review Forum, for example. We are honored to announce that our first partner to integrate Loop into their article pages is Nature Publishing Group. When we launched Frontiers back in 2007, we were full of dreams that have since become a reality. We dreamt of the ultimate Open-Science platform, where the academic community can take publishing into their own hands to build fair, transparent and community-driven journals, make their discoveries freely accessible to anybody in the world, so they can be read and re-used without any boundaries. We dreamt of a platform that would benefit researchers and society beyond open access publishing, a place where our discoveries would become easily understandable to the world, where we could get feedback on the performance of our articles and the readership for our articles would be magically enhanced by clever software. We invented impact metrics for articles in an online environment in 2008, and in 2010 for authors, enabling researchers to obtain real-time feedback on their performance.  More recently, we created an open access journal for young audiences that that involves kids and teens in the review process and translates today's research articles into an easily understandable language so the youth and public can truly enjoy and benefit from cutting-edge research. Today we launched Loop. Our dream for Loop was simple: increase readership for articles and enhance the reputation of academics within their academic communities and even beyond to society in general ... Loop offers a rich set of features to automatically promote academic achievements. Most significantly, Loop is the only network that integrates into third-party websites, boosting visibility even further. For the very first time, academics are discoverable via their published content and across all participating publishers and organizations. Loop also offers detailed impact metrics and machine learning algorithms that disseminate research articles to the people that matter. Loop works on behalf of researchers to maximize the readership and impact of their work ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:40 AM PST
" ... What my Wall Street friend didn't mention is that in the world of scholarly communications there is yet another factor driving combinations, the mandates for open access (OA) imposed by various funding agencies. This is a disruptor that you don't have in, say, the steel business or in pharmaceuticals. I suppose that if all drugs were to lose patent protection six months after their release, the pharma world would be going through some of the same soul-searching and deal-making that scholarly publishers are today. Surely when the large funding agencies first contemplated OA mandates they did not anticipate that these mandates would lead to even greater consolidation in the publishing industry, but no soul brimming with good intentions is immune to the Law of Unintended Consequences. Why the push for acquisitions? Because in uncertain times, many organizations opt for size as a way to combat unwelcome change. (This is analogous to the tendency for investors to flee to U.S. Treasury bonds whenever the economy is under sudden stress.) Small entities lose their confidence that they can operate alone; large companies strive to become even larger, the better to withstand challenges from the other large outfits. People seek to control their environment. A hopeless task? Maybe, maybe not, but one can be assured that seeking such control is going to be a prominent theme this year. While commercial enterprises may call in the bankers and determine what to buy (or debate whether to sell), in the not-for-profit arena, where a sale is not an option, the proxy for a sale is a different kind of marriage, where a society places its publications in the hands of one of the larger publishers. I have written about this before and don't want to repeat the argument beyond saying that the aggregator, the large publisher that takes on professional societies as clients, does very well financially by providing these services without having to come up with the cash for a full acquisition. Perhaps in 2015 some society publishers will begin to consider the option of an outright sale of their publications ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:36 AM PST
"In September 2014, a group of more than 40 Australian journal editors submitted a letter entitled Journal Reviewing and Editing: Institutional Support is Essential to the Australian Research Council, the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, Universities Australia, the Australian academies, and all Australian Deputy Vice Chancellors of Research. In it, they argued that the review and editing of scholarly papers is a critical element of academics' work and should be recognized as such by their institutions and funding bodies ...  However, it's hard to argue with the perception that peer review is facing, if not a crisis then at least challenging times. With research output – and articles – continuing to grow at 3-4% annually, more reviewers than ever are needed.  The Australian letter highlights the concerns of today's journal editors, that, 'To help maintain the publication quality that Universities and the ARC expect and rely upon, research-active academic staff must be involved [in] peer-review or editorial activities." While the VOYS letter reflects the concerns of the next generation of reviewers and editors, who believe that," Without recognition in the REF we risk reviewing of both papers and grant applications becoming a marginal activity and inevitably inconsistent and shoddy.' Specific issues include ... The tension between the pressure for researchers to publish in peer-reviewed journals and the lack of support for peer review from their institutions and funders ... The excessive value placed on publication output by institutions and funders, as opposed to other contributions researchers make to the scholarly endeavor ... The increasing difficulty of finding researchers who are willing to undertake peer review ... The particular challenge of finding reviewers for special issues which, the Australian letter suggests, are increasing in frequency ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:29 AM PST
"One of the huge benefits of being a graduate student (or otherwise in possession of a university library log-in) is access to published research that otherwise is locked behind paywalls. Paywalls for academic journals are EXPENSIVE – per-article costs around the US$30 mark are not uncommon. Given that even a relatively narrow search of the academic literature can yield dozens of articles, the cost soon gets prohibitive and many museum professionals are effectively locked out from accessing these papers.  There is a lot of discussion about open access in academic circles, which I won't repeat here besides to say I've made the decision to make my PhD thesis open-access once my degree is conferred (weeks, if not days away – I promise!). Once it's available, I'll post a link.
But this post is not about the open access debate per se. Rather, I wanted to share ways that you *can* get access to original research, or at least decent summaries that extend beyond what the abstract tells you, without having to fork out the big bucks ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:25 AM PST
Use the link to access more information about the new open access journal from the University of California Open Press."We think everything in the journal publishing process should be open and shared: research, recognition, reward. That's why we created Collabra.  Collabra is the mission-driven Open Access journal that shares not only the research but also the value created by the academic community. That means all of us ... We've made it more affordable and raised the rewards. We know high Article Processing Charges (APCs) mean great work may not make it into the world and that the editors and reviewers who make it happen don't get the recognition they deserve. We want to change that.  With low up-front APCs, a sponsorship fund for authors unable to pay, and sharing actual revenue with editors and reviewers, Collabra builds a fair and welcoming ecosystem. The option to pay it forward funnels the value generated by reviewers back into the research community ... We're not about building profit for shareholders. As not-for-profit publishers, we were free to create an OA journal that removes expensive barriers, rewards participation, and pays value forward so research becomes the focus ... When you volunteer your time and expertise as an editor or reviewer, your efforts should be recognized with more than a thank-you. We do that by giving you the option of either being paid for the work you do or paying that value forward to the research community ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:20 AM PST
"A new open access scientific journal hopes that paying peer reviewers a little hard cash will help strengthen efforts to make research results freely available to the public. Collabra, an online journal to be formally introduced tomorrow at a conference in the United Kingdom, plans to break with the research community's longstanding tradition of reviewing journal submissions for free by paying small sums to the reviewers and editors who decide what gets published. In a further twist, the journal will give the payees a choice of what to do with their money. They can keep the cash, donate it to a fund that helps cash-strapped scientists pay the journal's $875 publication fee, or contribute it to their own institution's open access activities ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:11 AM PST
"The goal of Libraccess is to aggregate, deduplicate, clean and index scientific resources in open access repositories, from all countries, from all disciplines, and make them available to all, through a website and with APIs."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:04 AM PST
"Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their APCs will more than double in number by 2018. Much of the difficulty in assessing the costs arises from the fact that the market is not transparent. Furthermore, the price of the APC is just one part of the true figure."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:01 AM PST
"The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is a new initiative of the University of Lethbridge Library and the University of Lethbridge School of Graduate Studies.  The goal of this incubator is to address the issue of the sustainability of scholarly communication in an open access, digital age by aligning it with the educational and research missions of the University. In this way, the production of scholarly communication, which is often understood as a cost centre that draws resources away from a host university's core missions, is transformed into a sustainable, high-impact resource.
You can read more about the Incubator's conceptual background and developments plans here. The Incubator is in the process of developing partnerships with other public and private publishing concerns and organisations: these partnerships will involve exchange of best practice, cooperative development, advice and support, and, potentially, opportunities for commercial internships for students in the programme. A partial list of organisations currently discussing partnerships with the Incubator can be found here."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:58 AM PST
"We believe that science and research are the fabric of modern society and researchers are our modern-day heroes. Loop was created to celebrate these researchers and their discoveries, and in doing so boost their scientific impact.  Our mission is to enhance academic reputation and impact for researchers within their communities as well as to the public.  Loop is the first research network available for integration into all journals and academic websites – making researchers discoverable across the boundaries of publishers and organizations. In addition, we maximise the readership and discoverability for researchers, enable them to stay up to date with new research and connect with their peers."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:55 AM PST
"Legal watchers are worried a decision to stop publishing judgments on the websites of Alberta's courts will make the judicial system less transparent. While written rulings by the province's judges will still be available online through a countrywide database, U of C law professor Jennifer Koshan is concerned this week's move will result in delays of at least a day in the public release of precedent-setting decisions ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:53 AM PST
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge. In January last year, Sander Dekker, the Dutch minister for education, culture and science, decreed that 60 percent of Dutch research articles must be open access by 2019 and 100 percent by 2024. Dutch university presidents responded by agreeing to make their renewal of subscription deals dependent on publishers taking steps to realize this goal.  Gerard Meijer, president of Radboud University and one of the lead negotiators for the Dutch universities, said that in addition to preserving access to their subscription journals, the universities wanted publishers to permit all future articles whose corresponding author has a Dutch affiliation to be published on an open access basis for no extra charge. He said universities were also unwilling to tolerate any more above-inflation price rises.  A deal that meets the universities' requirements was recently made with Springer, the world's second-largest science journal publisher. Professor Meijer said this showed that the transition to a fully open access business model could be made by traditional publishers.  Discussions have also begun with Wiley, Sage and Oxford University Press. But in November, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, known by the acronym VSNU, revealed that negotiations with Elsevier, the world's largest science journal publisher, had broken down after the Amsterdam-based firm tabled an offer that 'totally fails to address' the universities' demands ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:25 AM PST
"We are pleased to announce that all articles published by Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine are now freely available to read, download and share! Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine became Open Access in 2015, joining the Wiley Open Access publishing program of fully open access journals. To cover the cost of publishing, a publication fee will be charged. Please refer to the article publication charges page for more details ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:13 AM PST
"The VSNU – Association of universities in the Netherlands have reached an agreement with the publisher Springer on Open Access publishing for (corresponding) authors in 2015 and 2016. Under the Agreement, all articles published by corresponding authors affiliated with a Dutch VSNU or NFU member institution will be published in Open Access free of charge for the author. The agreement covers around 1500 journals within the Springer OpenChoice program. Journals form Learned Societies, and journals in BiomedCentral and SpringerOpen are not covered by this agreement. The agreement applies to all articles accepted in the eligible journals as of January 1st 2015. In the new workflow, eligibility to publish your article as Open Access under this agreement will be verified by the library of the institution you selected and Springer during the production process. This will require no extra work for the corresponding author, nor extra time in the publication process. On http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/springer-open-choice/agreements/42388 all article types and journals covered by the VSNU-Springer agreement are specified. For questions on the workflow, verification process or institutions covered please refer to www.openaccess.nl or http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/springer-open-choice/agreements/42388  or get in touch with the university library for further information."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:07 AM PST
"Here's a nice juicy report on Open Access for you to sink your teeth into one evening. Bedtime reading anyone? Seriously, we're always looking for stats and facts about Open Access and this report is packed full of them. Joy! See link below. Entitled 'Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European & World Levels—1996–2013', the report was prepared for the European Commission and is CC BY so feel free to read and re-use it, with attribution. A few stand-out findings: - As of April 2014, more than 50% of the scientific papers published in 2007- 2012 can be downloaded for free on the Internet! - On average, the citation advantage of OA papers is 40.3% while the citation disadvantage is 27% for non-OA papers! - The proportion of articles in Gold OA journals (like us) minimally doubles every 4.1 years. Now what makes this report pretty important is the size of the sample which is large ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:03 AM PST
"Springer is celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of its highly successful open access journal, SpringerPlus. Opening for submissions on 12 January 2012, the journal has published over 1,600 articles to date. SpringerPlus publishes sound science from all disciplines, accepting submissions that present original research, case descriptions, and methods. The journal also welcomes the submission of data reports and large datasets. Peer-reviewers are asked to focus their attention to data presented in the article, rather than whether there is an advance in the field. All submissions are screened before being sent out for review. Authors receive feedback on their submissions even when the manuscript cannot be accepted for publication. Published articles are indexed in Scopus and PubMed. SpringerPlus' exceptional editorial board includes leading academics from all disciplines, and is undergoing expansion at present thanks to a growth in the number of submissions ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:47 AM PST
"Two new versions of the MIT amendment to publication agreements have been released, in order to provide MIT authors with an amendment that incorporates the public access requirements of the 2013 White House Directive. This directive from the Office of Science and Technology Policy focuses on 'Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research,' including making publications funded by major US agencies openly accessible.  The revised versions of the amendment are currently appropriate for researchers funded by the Department of Energy, whose requirements for sharing publications under the Directive began taking effect in October 2014.  Other major US agencies that sponsor research are expected to be releasing their requirements early in 2015, and the revised versions of the amendment are designed to be appropriate for those agencies as well.
There are two versions of the MIT amendment: one for faculty authorswhich also references rights related to the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, and one for other MIT authors, which does not reference rights related to the faculty Policy.  These new versions, as with prior versions, may be attached to a standard publication agreement, with an indication that the signature on the agreement is subject to the attached amendment, which is also signed by the author.  The MIT amendment provides legally vetted language that retains key rights of interest to many MIT authors (such as the right to share their articles openly on the web) and rights required to meet the obligations of research funders, as well as those reflected in the faculty's Open Access Policy ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:56 AM PST
"EDP Sciences and SICOT (International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology) are pleased to announce the launch of a new open access journal, SICOT-J. The journal will be part of the EDP Open portfolio and will cover the entire field of orthopaedics and traumatology. SICOT-J will place a high priority on rapid publication and seeks to publish a broad range of research study types including original clinical, basic and translational research. In addition, the journal will publish editorials, review articles, surgical technique papers, and case reports as well as the latest congress proceedings and letters to the editors ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:53 AM PST
" ... these are some of the changes or trends in librarianship in the year of 2014 that resonated with me or occupied me. A lot of it probably is highly specific to my current institution and environment so your mileage might vary ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:47 AM PST
Use the link to access the full text article from BMC Bioinformatics.  "BackgroundMass spectrometry analyses of complex protein samples yield large amounts of data and specific expertise is needed for data analysis, in addition to a dedicated computer infrastructure. Furthermore, the identification of proteins and their specific properties require the use of multiple independent bioinformatics tools and several database search algorithms to process the same datasets. In order to facilitate and increase the speed of data analysis, there is a need for an integrated platform that would allow a comprehensive profiling of thousands of peptides and proteins in a single process through the simultaneous exploitation of multiple complementary algorithms.ResultsWe have established a new proteomics pipeline designated as APP that fulfills these objectives using a complete series of tools freely available from open sources. APP automates the processing of proteomics tasks such as peptide identification, validation and quantitation from LC-MS/MS data and allows easy integration of many separate proteomics tools. Distributed processing is at the core of APP, allowing the processing of very large datasets using any combination of Windows/Linux physical or virtual computing resources.ConclusionsAPP provides distributed computing nodes that are simple to set up, greatly relieving the need for separate IT competence when handling large datasets. The modular nature of APP allows complex workflows to be managed and distributed, speeding up throughput and setup. Additionally, APP logs execution information on all executed tasks and generated results, simplifying information management and validation."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:45 AM PST
"For several years we have been carrying out a wide-field imaging survey of the globular cluster populations of a sample of giant spiral, S0, and elliptical galaxies with distances of ~10-30 Mpc. We use mosaic CCD cameras on the WIYN 3.5-m and Kitt Peak 4-m telescopes to acquire deep BVR imaging of each galaxy and then analyze the data to derive global properties of the globular cluster system. In addition to measuring the total numbers, specific frequencies, spatial distributions, and color distributions for the globular cluster populations, we have produced deep, high-quality images and lists of tens to thousands of globular cluster candidates for the ~40 galaxies included in the survey. With the survey nearing completion, we have been exploring how to efficiently disseminate not only the overall results, but also all of the relevant data products, to the astronomical community. Here we present our solution: a scientific portal and archive for extragalactic globular cluster systems data. With a modern and intuitive web interface built on the same framework as the WIYN One Degree Imager Portal, Pipeline, and Archive (ODI-PPA), our system will provide public access to the survey results and the final stacked mosaic images of the target galaxies. In addition, the astrometric and photometric data for thousands of identified globular cluster candidates, as well as for all point sources detected in each field, will be indexed and searchable. Where available, spectroscopic follow-up data will be paired with the candidates. Advanced imaging tools will enable users to overlay the cluster candidates and other sources on the mosaic images within the web interface, while metadata charting tools will allow users to rapidly and seamlessly plot the survey results for each galaxy and the data for hundreds of thousands of individual sources. Finally, we will appeal to other researchers with similar data products and work toward making our portal a central repository for data related to well-studied giant galaxy globular cluster systems. This work is supported by NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award AST-0847109. Author(s): Michael Young1, Katherine L. Rhode1, Arvind Gopu1"
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:42 AM PST
"The University of Delhi has approved a uniform embargo on Ph.D. thesis of the University to be/uploaded on INFLIBNET-Shodhganga repository to Open Access for two years. The period of two years will be counted from the date of
submission of the thesis. The decision has been taken by the Shodhganga Committee of the University in its meeting held on 08.12.2014 and has been approved. Similar embargo has also been implemented for thesis submitted in the last two
years. In case any student wants to put his/her thesis in Open Access immediately or wants to change the duration, he should inform the INFLIBNET through theStudent Approval Form."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:39 AM PST
"The National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium scientists are working together with the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genomics Institute to provide public access to cancer proteomics data via the UCSC Genome Browser. This effort extends accessibility of the CPTAC data to more researchers and provides an additional level of analysis to assist the cancer biology community.  CPTAC investigators have been working to extensively characterize the proteome content of breast, colorectal and ovarian cancer biospecimens that were initially sequenced by The Cancer Genome Atlas. Multi-dimensional 'omics data derived from these samples represent the largest collection of extensively characterized and integrated proteogenomic datasets to date. The ability to visualize and analyze CPTAC proteomics data in genomic context with other biomedical datasets will allow researchers lacking background in proteomics to interact with the data and develop novel hypotheses ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:37 AM PST
"Please help us to spread the word about a free repository of open access scientific protocols ScientificProtocols.org. We are a not-for-profit site aiming to solely to help scientists and are without commercial vested interest of any kind. By sharing scientific protocols we hope to encourage transparency in research and promote reproducibility of published results.   ScientificProtocols.org is built on the GitHub API. This allows us to provide free sophisticated version control of all protocols submitted to the site. This means you can easily track changes to a protocol over time. Learn more about GitHub and the open science movement.   ScientificProtocols.org is also part of the Reproducibility Initiative an initiative designed to identify and reward high quality reproducible research via independent validation of key experimental results. This initiative is a collaboration between Science Exchange, PLOS, Figshare and Mendeley.   Every protocol published on the site also automatically gets a digital object identifier (DOI) free of charge thanks to our integration with Zenodo.   Please help us make a meaningful contribution to the open science movement by trying out the site and telling your friends and colleagues about it if you think it's useful. We'd also love to hear feedback and suggestions about improving the usability of the site. Thank you!"
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:34 AM PST
Use the link to access the complete list of resources.  "The open-source curriculum for learning Data Science. Foundational in both theory and technologies, the OSDSM breaks down the core competencies necessary to make data useful."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:32 AM PST
"Open data is data that is made available by organisations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share. To find out what open data can do for you, contact us. Thank you to the World Bank and Partnership for Open Data for their support in the creation of this video ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST
"So, apparently Elsevier are launching a new open access mega-journal some time this year, joining the bandwagon of similar efforts from almost every other major publisher. A lovely acknowledgement of the roaring success of PLOS ONE, who did it first a long time ago. They're only ~8 years behind, but they're learning. I for one am pleased they are asking the research community what they want from this new journal. One of their 'key points' in the press release is: 'the journal will be developed in close collaboration with the research community and will evolve in response to feedback'  Well, I'm a member of the research community. I'm a BBSRC-funded postdoc at the University of Bath. I publish research myself AND I re-use published research, so I have a dual perspective that Elsevier should find useful. Here's my feedback on their new open access journal proposal ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:23 AM PST
"TL;DR. WE outline the tools and pipeline which ContentMine will show on Sunday at Force2015. They are very general and accessible to everyone.... ContentMine technology and community is maturing quickly. We've just had a wonderful three days in Berlin with Johnny West a co-Shuttleowrth Fellow. Johnny runs http://openoil.net/ - a project to find public information about the extractive industries (oil/gas, mining). Technically his tasks and ours are very similar - the information is there but hard to find and locked in legacy formats. So at the last Shuttleworth gathering we suggested we should have a hack/workshop to see how we could help each other. I thought this would initially be about OCR, but it's actually turned out that our architecture for text analysis and searching is exactly what Openoil needs. By using regexes on HTML (or PDF-converted-to-HTML) we can find company names and relations, aspects of contracts etc. The immediate point is that ContentMine can be used out-of-the-box for a wider range of information tasks ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:21 AM PST
"In cooperation with the Open Greek and Latin Project of the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig the SLUB scans books dating between 1922-1984. In particular, we are digitising editions that are in the public domain under European law. The EU allows its state members to assert copyright protection over scholarly editions for up to 30 years after publication. The argument has been made that an edition's critical apparatus constitutes a separate work. In light of this debate and of all applicable copyright regulations, we have adopted the following strategy: Editions published after 1922 whose editor(s) died before or during 1943 are being digitised in full (reconstructed text and critical apparatus). Editions published after 1922 whose editor(s) died after 1943 are onlypartially digitised (reconstructed text only).This digital collection will be ingested by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.  Für alle Objekte dieser Kollektion gilt die Lizenz 'Freier Zugang - Rechte vorbehalten'. Bitte beachten Sie die Nutzungsbestimmungen."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:15 AM PST
"The much-praised Chilling Effects DMCA archive has taken an unprecedented step by censoring its own website. Facing criticism from copyright holders, the organization decided to wipe its presence from all popular search engines. A telling example of how pressure from rightsholders causes a chilling effect on free speech.  On an average day Google now processes more than a million takedown requests from copyright holders, and that's for its search engine alone.  Thanks to Google's transparency report the public is able to see where these notices come from and what content they're targeting. In addition, Google partners with Chilling Effects to post redacted copies of all notices online.  The Chilling Effects DMCA clearing house is one of the few tools that helps to keep copyright holders accountable. Founded by Harvard's Berkman Center, it offers an invaluable database for researchers and the public in general.  At TF we use the website on a weekly basis to spot inaccurate takedown notices and other wrongdoings. Since the native search engine doesn't always return the best results, we mostly use Google to spot newsworthy notices on the site.  This week, however, we were no longer able to do so. The Chilling Effects team decided to remove its entire domain from all search engines, including its homepage and other informational and educational resources."
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