Showing posts with label the Hypothes.is Project and the Mozilla Founda. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Helmsley Charitable Trust Makes Grants Totaling $6.4 Million to Sage Bionetworks, the Hypothes.is Project and the Mozilla Founda


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Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:52 PM PST
Use the link to access the full text article from the International Journal of Information Research.  "Aims to measure quantitatively the scholarly journals which were produced with full immediate open access (OA) from 2003 to 2013. Focuses on the amount of India's contribution to scholarly literature through the repositories of their institutions, amount of literature produced in various disciplines and the open source software's (OSS) used for it. Aims to know the current status of open access publishing in India. A survey of the open access journals indexed in the Directory of Open access Journals (DOAJ) and the repositories indexed in the Open DOAR is followed for this study. India started making its journals open access in 2003 with about 13 journals in a year and has reached about 197 journals till September 2013, which shows a growth of 15 fold of the open access journal output within a year. The percentage of the multidisciplinary repositories is highest with 43% and the repositories of the disciplines such as Technology, Chemistry and Chemical Technology and Physics and Astronomy are 18%, 15% and 14% respectively among the 64 repositories listed in OpenDOAR. With about 650 open access journals and about 64 open access directories, India has made important contributions towards the growth of Open access publishing."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:44 PM PST
"The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust today announced grants, which together total more than $6.4 million, to three pioneering nonprofit organizations that promote more open, accurate and collaborative science: Sage Bionetworks, the Hypothes.is Project and the Mozilla Foundation. The awards are the first made through the Trust's Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program, a new grantmaking program of the Trust dedicated to funding novel collaborative research platforms, data management tools and training initiatives that will improve research outcomes and speed biomedical discoveries ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:42 PM PST
A roundtable on various aspects of open access: OA impact and impact factor, embargo, validity, and others.
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:37 PM PST
"Luminos' Open Access model means libraries can make books freely accessible to anyone—and it gives them the option of supporting the academic community. When you become a member, your membership dollars go directly toward the costs of publication. And monies left over from subsidizing the titles we publish will go into an author waiver fund which will support authors who need assistance to get new research into the world. It's a model where everyone thrives.  WHAT YOU GET ...  Free access to any Luminos title in all digital formats. Yes, we said free. You also get enhanced MARC records and COUNTER compliant usage data with every title.  An optional membership program with an annual fee of $1,000. With that fee, participating libraries: [1] Directly support researchers in getting vital work into the world [2] Help ensure access to this work is open and free to everyone ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:34 PM PST
"Luminos is University of California Press' new Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:29 PM PST
Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in Science available from AAAS.  "The chief executive officer of edX, Anant Agarwal, declared that Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) should serve as 'particle accelerator for learning' (1). MOOCs provide new sources of data and opportunities for large-scale experiments that can advance the science of learning. In the years since MOOCs first attracted widespread attention, new lines of research have begun, but findings from these efforts have had few implications for teaching and learning. Big data sets do not, by virtue of their size, inherently possess answers to interesting questions. For MOOC research to advance the science of learning, researchers, course developers, and other stakeholders must advance the field along three trajectories: from studies of engagement to research about learning, from investigations of individual courses to comparisons across contexts, and from a reliance on post hoc analyses to greater use of multidisciplinary, experimental design."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:13 PM PST
"There is famous saying that says that outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. We at Open Knowledge tend to agree. This is why we decided to take one of Open Knowledge key resources, the Open Data Handbook, and give it a bit of a face lift in this upcoming year. The open data handbook has been an important resource for the open knowledge community for years. The handbook introduces and discusses legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It has been used by a wide range of stakeholders from open data beginners to data wizards, from government officials to journalists and civil society activists. It examines the following questions which are relevant to all: what is "open", why to open up data, and the how to 'open' data? Since it was first written, the handbook is read by thousands of users each month and has been translated into 18 languages (making the most widely translated Open Data resource out there) . However, open data is both a fast moving and a relatively field. As such, it is not surprising that open data initiatives have been launched and open data policies approved, we, as a community, have learned a lot about the opportunities and the pitfalls of open data. The last version of the book is from 2011 and at the time, government open data portals were few and far between and the open government partnership had only just launched. The book represents what we new/thought then but as the open data movement expanded both in terms of numbers and in geographical spread, we have decided that it is high time that we incorporate our learnings into a new version. This version of the Open Data handbook will focus mainly on one main type of open data: open government data, but a number of the sections can be applied to other types of open data. This project is supported by Partnership for Open Data – a collaboration between Open Knowledge, Open Data Institute and the World Bank ... How can you help? ..."
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:10 PM PST
"Mark Newton is the Production Manager at the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), a unit of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. At CDRS, Mark's work focuses on the development of the library's scholarly publications partnership program, the Academic Commons institutional repository, and a variety of faculty- and student-led digital scholarship projects. As academics continue to navigate the developing digital publishing landscape many libraries are finding new ways to stay at the forefront of scholarly communication. Academic libraries are shifting to be not only keepers of scholarship but also participants in content creation, by supporting journal publishing, creating homes for digital humanities projects, analyzing and disseminating data collected from digital repositories, and much more. Mark Newton, Production Manager for the Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), is on the frontlines of library publishing. Newton helps academics at Columbia and its affiliate institutions share their research with the world every day via CDRS' academic journal and special projects publishing services and its digital repository Academic Commons. In a recent interview, Newton shared information about CDRS and his thoughts on the outlook of the current and future role of the library in academic publishing ..."
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