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Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences | Research Information Network

sennoma — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:03:00 -0500

This report by the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) provides a unique insight into how information is used by researchers across life sciences. Undertaken by the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the UK Digital Curation Centre and the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services, the report concludes that ‘one-size-ﬁts-all’ information and data sharing policies are not achieving scientiﬁcally productive and cost-efﬁcient information use in life sciences. The report was developed using an innovative approach to capture the day-to-day patterns of information use in seven research teams from a wide range of disciplines, from botany to clinical neuroscience. The study undertaken over 11 months and involving 56 participants found that there is a signiﬁcant gap between how researchers behave and the policies and strategies of funders and service providers. This suggests that the attempts to implement such strategies have had only a limited impact. Key ﬁndings from the report include: * Researchers use informal and trusted sources of advice from colleagues, rather than institutional service teams, to help identify information sources and resources * The use of social networking tools for scientiﬁc research purposes is far more limited than expected * Data and information sharing activities are mainly driven by needs and beneﬁts perceived as most important by life scientists rather than ‘top-down’ policies and strategies * There are marked differences in the patterns of information use and exchange between research groups active in different areas of the life sciences, reinforcing the need to avoid standardised policy approaches Tagged by sennoma under scholarlycommunication, oa,

CureHunter | Semantic Health Search

sennoma — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:05:00 -0500

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Words of Advice for NIH-Funded Authors

sennoma — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:55:00 -0400

• Does the manuscript apply under the NIH Public Access Policy? • Which NIH grant awards supported the manuscript? Use the NIH Grants Lookup Tool to confirm grant award numbers. • Which journal will the manuscript be submitted to? • Which method of submission does the journal fall under? See the NIH chart on submission methods. • If a Method C or D form of submission journal, which author will be assigned as the responsible author for the review and approval tasks? See the short video: Approving Submission of an Article to PubMed Central which outlines the process for authors in response to an email from NIHMS asking for approval of a submission done by a publisher or third party. • Which author will be responsible for making sure that the work has a PMCID within three months post publication of the manuscript, and notifying all authors and PIs associated with the manuscript of the most current means of documentation of compliance with the NIH Policy (“PMC Journal – In Process,” or NIHMS ID) until the PMCID is assigned? Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.mandates,

Open Access - Greater Reach For Research

sennoma — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:43:00 -0400

Dutch national website providing information for academics about the advantages of OA to publicly financed research Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.reference, oa.resources,

ScieCom Info

sennoma — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:41:00 -0400

Mission: • To inspire new activities and facilitate knowledge exchange between Nordic/Baltic • stakeholder, and to increase the international visibility of Nordic and Baltic policies and initiatives • To stress the importance of Open Access in the Nordic and Baltic countries and to describe both theoretical and best-practice models for financing, rights management and other fundamental issues. • To disseminate to both a Nordic/Baltic and an international readership information about successful initiatives and other activities in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Tagged by sennoma under oa, opendata, openscience, oaos.misc,

NEW! “Why Open Access Matters in the Developing World” Video — Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009

sennoma — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:34:00 -0400

Hear Walter H. Curioso, M.D., M.P.H. talk about his views of open access and how it can help in developing countries. Tagged by sennoma under oa, mangosteen,

Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps « Jason Baird Jackson

sennoma — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:07:00 -0400

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QUT ePrints

sennoma — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:19:00 -0400

Fitzgerald, Anne M. and Hooper, Neale (2009) A review of the literature on the legal aspects of open access policy, practices and licensing in Australia and selected jurisdictions. [Review] Tagged by sennoma under oa,

BioMed Central Blog : Open access and the developing world - read the latest

sennoma — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:01:00 -0400

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Open Archives Forum - Home

sennoma — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:45:00 -0400

The Open Archives Forum provided a Europe-based focus for dissemination of information about European activity related to open archives and, in particular, to the Open Archives Initiative. The aim of the Forum was to facilitate clustering of IST projects, national initiatives and other parties interested in the open archives approach. In order to do so, the Forum brought interested parties together to build a community of interest, enable exchange of information and establish a web-based European information source for open archives. In addition, the Forum undertook comparative reviews of technical and organisational issues. Tagged by sennoma under oa,

aRDi Access to Research for Development and Innovation

sennoma — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:34:00 -0400

The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi) program is coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization together with its partners in the publishing industry with the aim to increase the availability of scientific and technical information in developing countries. By improving access to scholarly literature from diverse fields of science and technology, the aRDi program seeks to: * reinforce the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global knowledge economy; and * support researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level. Currently, 12 publishers provide access to over 50 journals for 107 developing countries through the aRDi program. Tagged by sennoma under oa, mangosteen,

How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network -- Greenberg 339: b2680 -- BMJ

sennoma — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:21:00 -0400

Objective To understand belief in a specific scientific claim by studying the pattern of citations among papers stating it. Design A complete citation network was constructed from all PubMed indexed English literature papers addressing the belief that β amyloid, a protein accumulated in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, is produced by and injures skeletal muscle of patients with inclusion body myositis. Social network theory and graph theory were used to analyse this network. Main outcome measures Citation bias, amplification, and invention, and their effects on determining authority. Results The network contained 242 papers and 675 citations addressing the belief, with 220 553 citation paths supporting it. Unfounded authority was established by citation bias against papers that refuted or weakened the belief; amplification, the marked expansion of the belief system by papers presenting no data addressing it; and forms of invention such as the conversion of hypothesis into fact through citation alone. Extension of this network into text within grants funded by the National Institutes of Health and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act showed the same phenomena present and sometimes used to justify requests for funding. Conclusion Citation is both an impartial scholarly method and a powerful form of social communication. Through distortions in its social use that include bias, amplification, and invention, citation can be used to generate information cascades resulting in unfounded authority of claims. Construction and analysis of a claim specific citation network may clarify the nature of a published belief system and expose distorted methods of social citation. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, oa, oaos.need,

Chicago Collaborative

sennoma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:07:00 -0400

Trojan horse? Tagged by sennoma under oa,

WHO | Open access: a giant leap towards bridging health inequities

sennoma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:05:00 -0400

Studies have shown that access to published health research by the research communities in developing countries is no longer “fit for purpose”.2 As has been well documented, rising costs of subscriptions and permission barriers imposed by publishers have barred access to the extent that local health research and health care have been damaged through lack of information.3,4 For example, Yamey5 tells of a physician in southern Africa who could not afford full access to journals but based a decision to alter a perinatal HIV prevention programme on one single abstract. The full text article would have shown that the findings were not relevant to the country’s situation. With the advent of the internet there is little justification for continuing to create barriers to access. Richard Smith, as the former editor of the British Medical Journal, said, “Most research is publicly funded, and when the internet appeared it made no sense for research funders to allow publishers to profit from restricting access to their research”.6 This is true not only for publicly funded research but for private health charities around the world. As the Open Access Policy of the Wellcome Trust states, “We . . . support unrestricted access to the published output of research as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible”.7 Science is a collaborative process and openness is fundamental to knowledge advancement. Tagged by sennoma under subbiaharunachalam, lesliechan, oa, WHO, mangosteen, oa.numbers,

WHO | A key piece of the jigsaw for improving world health

sennoma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:03:00 -0400

Impaired access to research information in health-related fields is not solely the preserve of developing countries but it is hugely exacerbated in poorer regions of the world. While these regions bear the brunt of the world’s health problems, only 10% of health research effort goes into these areas (referred to as the “10/90 gap”).1 If we are going to achieve what the World Conference on Science held by UNESCO and the International Council for Science in 1999 termed the true “orienting of scientific progress towards meeting the needs of humankind”, then we must improve the research effort on the health problems that afflict the greatest part of the world’s population. That cannot happen until research communication is optimized: at the turn of the new millennium more than half of research-based institutions in lower-income countries had no current subscriptions at all to international research journals.2 Tagged by sennoma under oa, almaswan, WHO, mangosteen, oa.numbers,

WHO | Building a bridge for research

sennoma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:03:00 -0400

will open access build a bridge to reduce health inequity? The potential is certainly great but the digital divide remains large, with estimates that only 13% of the developing world use the Internet, often on slow and expensive connections.9 Therefore, the inequity in accessing information and communication technology infrastructure will need to improve to allow people to get a foot onto the information bridge. But even once they are there, they will still only be able to access information that has been paid for – even when that information was created using taxpayers’ money. There is a role for more research funders and donors to support open access as an integral cost of undertaking the research itself to ensure public access.10 Tagged by sennoma under oa, WHO, mangosteen,

Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication

sennoma — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:39:00 -0400

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Mesa Redonda sobre Patrimonio Intelectual y Conocimiento Libre - Jean Claude Guedón (Argumento)

sennoma — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:16:00 -0400

"It is difficult to imagine, except rhetorically, how advocating for Open Access can be divorced from working for a different structuring of power in science." Tagged by sennoma under oa.quotes, jeanclaudeguedon, readthis, oa,

OA-barometer 2009

sennoma — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:37:00 -0400

In 2007-2008 a research team at Hanken developed an emperical method to measure the total amount of peer reviewed articles published globally as well as their OA availability. In this project they will renew and further develop the study as well as carry out a regional study of the Nordic countries. The Nordic part of the study will answer the following questions: * What share of scientific articles published in the Nordic countries is available open access? * What portion of the output of Nordic scholars is available as open access? * The project will also construct a list of the between 500-1000 scholary journals that are published in the Nordic countries and check their total article output as well as which part is available open access. The project can also see what kind of impact the establishment of institutional repositories in the Nordic countries has on the open access availabelity of Nordic scholary output. The target results of the project is a precise measure of how large a share of the overall volume of scientific journal litterature is available openly. By repeating a study from 2008 it will be possible to see trends concerning a possible increase in OA. The results concerning the Nordic journals and their open access availability would be interesting information for all participants in the OA discussion. Hanken and Lund university library are commited to repeating the study in 2011. Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, bochristerbjoerk,

Live-blogging the 2009 Vancouver PKP Conference — PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Blog 2009

sennoma — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:23:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oa, publicknowledgeproject, openjournalsystems, publishing, publishing.models,