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Public Rambling: Name that lab ...

by sennoma 2009-12-24 16:35 lostart · scienceasabusiness · scienceisasnakepit · management

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Four for Pharmboy: Thank you and a mission modification : Terra Sigillata

by sennoma 2009-12-24 16:32 lostart · abelpharmboy

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Biocurious: Analyze this

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:58 lostart

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The serials crisis and open access: a white paper for the Commission on Research, Virginia Tech - E-LIS

The open access movement is an attempt to free scholarly communication from restrictions on access, control, and cost, and to enable benefits such as data mining and increased citations. While open access is approached here from the problem of subscription inflation, open access is not merely a library issue; it affects the availability of research to current and future students and scholars. This white paper offers an introduction to open access as well as a look at its current development.

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:52 oa · oa.money · publishing · serialscrisis

http://eprints.rclis.org/17582 - cached - mail it - history

Open and Shut?: Open Access: Who pays? How much?

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:49 oa.money · publishing.models · richardpoynder

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-access-who-pays-how-much.html - cached - mail it - history

University of Toronto Press - Journal Article

Journal prices have long been a matter of controversy. Lacking has been any objective information on costs that could be used to judge whether price increases have been justified by rising costs. Using a rare, publicly available set of data for the American Economic Review, the premier journal in economics, this article normalizes costs for number of issues per annum, number of pages per issue, and print quantities per issue to construct an index for the costs of producing this journal. It shows that costs have in fact increased more slowly than the general rate of inflation and argues that the cost experience of this journal provides a reference point for academic journals generally.

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:43 oa.money · publishing · scholarlycommunication

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/076807036544p52u/?p=f895318b0b1a42e38ae65727a97245b8&pi=1 - cached - mail it - history

University of Toronto Press - Journal Article

Recession is currently causing a resurgence of the academic serials crisis. Profit-mongering by commercial publishers is once again denounced as the key driver of the crisis. However, a critical analysis of institutional and bibliometric data does not reveal excessive corporate greed in recent years; instead, it suggests that the present hurdles stem largely from years of inadequate budget allocations to academic libraries and from a publishing frenzy fuelled by simplistic methods of evaluating faculty productivity. To prevent what is likely to be the publishing equivalent of a tsunami in the next few years, universities and research institutions urgently need to re-emphasize quality over quantity in the publishing process, and they must find ways to include peer-reviewing efficiency among their criteria for productivity and impact.

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:42 scholarlycommunication · peerreview · publishing

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/hp2776l95462809n/?p=f895318b0b1a42e38ae65727a97245b8&pi=4 - cached - mail it - history

Pushing MRD out from under the geek rock « electronic museum

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:40 machinereadabledata · opendata

http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/07/13/pushing-mrd-out-from-under-the-geek-rock - cached - mail it - history

cotch dot net

the tedious details put together add up to an understanding of how the cell works and how it goes wrong. The details could be put together by a human, going through the thousands of papers on the topic, assembling the facts and finding the trends. Or, more plausibly, given the amount of tedious details out there, they could be assembled by a computer, with a database and a clever algorithm. Except that four in every five of those tedious details, discovered at great expense to taxpayers, will be inaccessible to that clever algorithm. They will be locked away in the basements of university libraries, hidden in human-readable prose that humans will never read. The results of billions of pounds of work searching for an understanding of cancer and a better chance at defeating it will be worthless, because they will never be amongst the parts that add up to the greater whole.

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:39 oaos.need · oa

http://www.cotch.net/blog/20091223_1558 - cached - mail it - history

Intellectual backing for the CC paradigm shift - Creative Commons

Our board member Hal Abelson points us to Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation , an important new paper by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel. If you’re interested in the theoretical case for the ascendancy of innovation and creativity in the commons — and for policy that does not cripple the commons — read, or at least skim these highly readable 29 pages.

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:36 intellectualproperty · copyright · creativecommons

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Against Monopoly

The "Compulsory Licensing" paper attacks this question directly - looking at an episode where the US "stole" a bunch of inventions by compulsory licensing after World War I. The consequent effect on innovation in the areas covered by the licenses? It went up by 20%.

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:22 intellectualproperty · patents

http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002084 - cached - mail it - history

OAN: Sciyo Becomes the First Academic Publisher to Introduce Usage-based Author Royalties

Sciyo Becomes the First Academic Publisher to Introduce Usage-based Author Royalties, press release, December 18, 2009. Authors publishing with Sciyo in 2010 will be the first in academic publishing to receive royalties based on the number of downloads of their publication. For every 10 downloads, 0.2 euro will be accredited to author’s account on an annual basis. Sciyo operates under the open access publishing model, replacing subscription fees with publication fees paid by the authors or their funders. All Sciyo’s publications are available online, free to view, download, print, copy and share under Creative Commons Attribution License and without sign up, which increases their visibility and citation rates. Author royalties will be accredited directly to the author's account, with the exception of royalties under 100 euro, which will be deducted from the author's publishing fee head on the next time he or she decides to publish with Sciyo. ... Sciyo's publishing fee of 470 euro is among the lowest in the open access publishing industry. ...

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:21 oa · oa.money · scholarlycommunication · publishing.models

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/12/oa-publisher-to-pay-author-royalties.html - cached - mail it - history

Blackall Starts “Open PhD” «

by sennoma 2009-12-24 15:20 openeducation

http://openeducationnews.org/2009/12/21/blackall-starts-open-phd - cached - mail it - history

Data-sharing culture has changed - DATA SHARING - Research Information

Simon Hodson of JISC examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data

by sennoma 2009-12-13 13:15 opendata

http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=243 - cached - mail it - history

Blogger: The Tree of Life - Post a Comment

by sennoma 2009-12-13 13:14 lostart

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Overcoming barriers: access to research information | Research Information Network

This RIN report ﬁnds that many researchers are encountering difﬁculties in getting access to the content they need and that this is having a signiﬁcant impact on their research. Based on the ﬁndings of ﬁve studies, the report investigates the nature and scale of key restrictions on access to information resources of importance to researchers; the impact of these restrictions and the ways in which they might be alleviated or overcome. The report examines the frequency with which researchers encounter problems in accessing content; researchers’ perceptions of the ease with which they can gain access and the issue of researcher access to information resources in the public and private sector which are not formally published and which are often subject to copyright restrictions. It also reviews academic and research libraries arrangements to provide access to researchers who are not members of their institutions. The report’s key ﬁnding is that access is still a major concern for researchers.

by sennoma 2009-12-13 12:48 oa · oa.access

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/overcoming-barriers-access-research-information - cached - mail it - history

Prisoner's Dilemma and Mechanical Turk - A Computer Scientist in a Business School

by sennoma 2009-12-13 12:19 mechanicalturk · gametheory

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2009/12/prisoners-dilemma-and-mechanical-turk.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_... - cached - mail it - history

Great Science, Great Scientists, and Icons

NIH grants vs. investigator age

by sennoma 2009-12-13 12:12 scienceisasnakepit · science.numbers · science.funding

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HUBzero - Platform for Scientific Collaboration

by sennoma 2009-12-13 12:04 collaboration · science · tools · oaos.tools

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What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? - The New York Review of Books

by sennoma 2009-12-12 16:42 economics · think · socialdemocracy · politics

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23519 - cached - mail it - history

Bieke Depoorter Photography

The Russian travel series is remarkable.

by sennoma 2009-12-04 03:03 photo

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About « Experimental Turk

About The goal of this blog is reporting evidence concerning the reliability of Amazon Mechanical Turk as an online subject pool for experiments in economics, psychology, and social sciences in general. Using AMT to run web-based experiments allows researchers to obtain large quantities of data in a cheap and efficient way. However, there is lack of evidence regarding the actual reliability of AMT’s workforce as a subject pool; as any new instrument, AMT requires to be tested thoroughly in order to be used confidently. This blog aims at collecting any individual effort made in order to validate AMT as a research tool. It reports results from experiments that increase or decrease the reliability of AMT as an online subject pool, as well as general guidance for running experiments through this service.

by sennoma 2009-12-04 01:25 mechanicalturk · x-phi

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Open Access: Unlimited Web Based Literature Searching

misleading title -- actually a review of literature on whether OA articles are cited more than TA ones

by sennoma 2009-11-29 22:10 oa.numbers · oa · scientometics · bibliometrics

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780014/?tool=pmcentrez&report=abstract - cached - mail it - history

Toby Burrows Photography

Uneven but contains some really arresting work. Including portraits, which I don't usually care for.

by sennoma 2009-11-28 17:12 photo

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The Wonder of Water on Vimeo

by sennoma 2009-11-28 16:46 for.will

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Scholarly Communications @ Duke » Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose (GBS again)

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:19 googlebooks

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/11/17/plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose-gbs-again - cached - mail it - history

Basket as a writing tool, SCAN as a collector « Freelancing science

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:16 tools

http://freelancingscience.com/2009/11/03/basket-as-a-writing-tool-scan-as-a-collector - cached - mail it - history

Zzzoot: Government and Open Source Software

A colleague of mine is having some difficulties getting an Open Source solution to be made available within his government organization. In providing support to him, I've collected the below resources. Of particular interest is the 2007 Government Open Source Policies from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, listing the Open Source policies of hundreds of national, state/province/territory and local governments (including Canada's).

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:13 open.govt · foss

http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/11/government-and-open-source-software.html - cached - mail it - history

News - STM

A follow up to the 2006 report, 'Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments,' 'The STM Report' collected the available evidence and provides a comprehensive picture of the trends and currents in scholarly communication.

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:12 scholarlycommunication · oa · oaos

http://www.stm-assoc.org/news.php?id=255 - cached - mail it - history

Open Access Submission Fees « putting down a marker

Mark Ware Consulting has been commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (www.knowledge-exchange.info), a partnership of JISC (UK), SURF (Netherlands), DEFF (Denmark) and DfG (Germany), to conduct a study into the feasibility of submission fees in open access journals (i.e. as distinct from publication fees).

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:11 oa.money · oa.businessmodels · oa

http://mrkwr.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/open-access-submission-fees - cached - mail it - history

Global Information Society Watch 2009 | Association for Progressive Communications

This third report in the GISWatch series is entitled “Access to online information and knowledge – advancing human rights and democracy” and reveals how vulnerable the internet as we know it is. The report unpacks the key issues impacting on access to online information and knowledge, including discussions on intellectual property rights, knowledge rights, open standards and access to educational materials and libraries. The report also offers an institutional overview and a reflection on indicators that track access to information and knowledge. 48 country reports –-ten more than last year— analyse the status of access to online information and knowledge in countries as diverse as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Mexico, Switzerland and Kazakhstan, while regional overviews offer a bird’s eye perspective on trends in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Europe. For the first time there is an innovate section that visually maps global rights as seen through the lens of Google searches, as well as a visual analysis of Twitter messages sent out during the recent Iranian political crisis.

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:10 mangosteen · oa · oa.access

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open...: A Modest Proposal: "How to Fix Capitalism"

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:09 capitalism · socialism · intellectualproperty · patents · copyright

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open...: The Copyright Ratchet Racket Explained

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:08 copyright

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/copyright-ratchet-racket-explained.html - cached - mail it - history

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data; standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation; restrictions on data sharing that reduce the ability of researchers to verify results and build on previous research; and huge increases in the amount of data being generated, creating severe challenges in preserving that data for long-term use. Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age examines the consequences of the changes affecting research data with respect to three issues - integrity, accessibility, and stewardship-and finds a need for a new approach to the design and the management of research projects. The report recommends that all researchers receive appropriate training in the management of research data, and calls on researchers to make all research data, methods, and other information underlying results publicly accessible in a timely manner. The book also sees the stewardship of research data as a critical long-term task for the research enterprise and its stakeholders. Individual researchers, research institutions, research sponsors, professional societies, and journals involved in scientific, engineering, and medical research will find this book an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in the digital age.

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:07 opendata · oaos.review

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BioMed Central Blog : What is original research?

growth in web technologies and increased transparency in the literature - and data - may be contributing to a shift in our perceptions of what constitutes a prior publication. Innovative online journals with virtually unlimited space provide researchers with opportunities to produce novel (original) contributions to the literature that are clearly and transparently linked to previously published articles. These include significantly extended/re-analysed reports of previously published summary findings in journals such as Trials and legitimate or incremental updates to previous studies in BMC Research Notes.

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:06 science · openscience · scholarlycommunication

http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/what_is_original_research - cached - mail it - history

Publication bias in clinical trials - Gobbledygook - Martin Fenner's blog on Nature Network

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:05 clinicaltrials · martinfenner

http://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/11/18/publication-bias-in-clinical-trials - cached - mail it - history

miscellaneous factZ - The online home of Rufus Pollock » Blog Archive » Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production

I’m posting up some work-in-progress entitled Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production (link to full pdf). Below I’ve excerpted the introduction plus list of motivational questions. Comments (and critique) very welcome!

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:05 oaos.examples

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How I Work: The Best of How I Work

by sennoma 2009-11-27 20:02 organising · tools

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Bryan Schutmaat

by sennoma 2009-11-27 19:57 photo

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Liza Faktor

by sennoma 2009-11-27 19:57 photo

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Julia Baum Photography - Untitled

by sennoma 2009-11-27 19:57 photo

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Marten Elder

by sennoma 2009-11-27 19:56 photo

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Patrick Madigan Portfolio - New Work, The Monumental, The Wild Wild, Reconstructed Memories, Twisted, Evolution of the Flesh, The Woods, Pregnancy, Other

by sennoma 2009-11-27 19:55 photo

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3quarksdaily

by sennoma 2009-11-27 19:25 education · for.will

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/11/educating-our-children-to-be-the-innovators-of-the-future.html - cached - mail it - history

Nonprofit stocks labs worldwide with Boston area throwaways - The Boston Globe

by sennoma 2009-11-27 18:26 work · think

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/11/23/nonprofit_stocks_labs_worldwide_with_boston_area_throwaways/?page... - cached - mail it - history

SSRN-Real Copyright Reform by Jessica Litman

Abstract: A copyright system is designed to produce an ecology that nurtures the creation, dissemination and enjoyment of works of authorship. When it works well, it encourages creators to generate new works, assists intermediaries in disseminating them widely, and supports readers, listeners and viewers in enjoying them. If the system poses difficult entry barriers to creators, imposes demanding impediments on intermediaries, or inflicts burdensome conditions and hurdles on readers, then the system fails to achieve at least some of its purposes. The current U.S. copyright statute is flawed in all three respects. In this article, I explore how the current copyright system is failing its intended beneficiaries. The foundation of copyright law’s legitimacy, I argue, derives from its evident benefits for creators and for readers. That foundation is badly cracked, in large part because of the perception that modern copyright law is not especially kind to either creators or to readers; instead, it concentrates power in the hands of the intermediaries who control the conduits between creators and their audience. Those intermediaries have recently used their influence and their copyright rights to obstruct one another’s exploitation of copyrighted works. I argue that the concentration of copyright rights in the hands of intermediaries made more economic sense in earlier eras than it does today. The key to real copyright reform, I suggest, is to reallocate copyright’s benefits to give more rights to creators, greater liberty to readers, and less control to copyright intermediaries.

by sennoma 2009-11-27 18:20 intellectualproperty · copyright

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1474929 - cached - mail it - history

Promoting Open Source Science | WalterJessen.com

by sennoma 2009-11-27 13:17 walterjessen · oaos.examples · interviews · openscience

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OAN: OA data: recent discussion and announcements

OA data: recent discussion and announcements

by sennoma 2009-11-27 13:01 opendata

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Open Research, Open Science « Helena’s Research Blog

by sennoma 2009-11-27 12:51 oaos.blogs · openscience

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Science 2.0 The birth of the Citizen Scientist - Rob's posterous

by sennoma 2009-11-27 12:47 oaos.misc · openscience · citizenscience

http://robertpaterson.posterous.com/science-20-the-birth-of-the-citizen-scientist - cached - mail it - history

Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential : JISC

This report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of data-intensive open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and far-reaching. There are implications for funding organisations, for research and information communities and for higher education institutions.

by sennoma 2009-11-24 23:47 oaos.review · opennotebookscience · openresearch · openscience

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Alexander Gronsky Photography

by sennoma 2009-11-21 22:29 photo · alexandergronsky

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Useful Chemistry: Mel Reichman's Drug Discovery Talk

by sennoma 2009-11-15 17:42 highthroughputscreening

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2009/11/mel-reichmans-drug-discovery-talk.html - cached - mail it - history

The Law of Unintended Consequences - September 19, 2005

Twenty-five years ago a law known as Bayh-Dole spawned the biotech industry. It made lots of university scientists fabulously rich. It was also supposed to usher in a new era of innovation. So why are medical miracles in such short supply?

by sennoma 2009-11-14 17:43 Bayh-Dole

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/09/19/8272884/index.htm - cached - mail it - history

Data Sculptures by Willem Besselink | Brain Pickings

by sennoma 2009-11-12 23:41 datavisualization

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

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

by sennoma 2009-11-08 23:03 scholarlycommunication · oa

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/disciplinary-case-studies-life-sciences - cached - mail it - history

FeedZero.com - bayesian filtering for RSS feeds

by sennoma 2009-11-08 22:25 webtools

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Philosophers' Playground: The Year of Living Humorously: A Stand-Up Philosopher's Pilgrimage - Part VII

by sennoma 2009-11-08 21:00 lostart

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CureHunter | Semantic Health Search

by sennoma 2009-11-08 01:05 search · oaos.tools · oa

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Distributed Science, Part 2 : Common Knowledge

by sennoma 2009-11-08 00:58 lostart

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An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse For Your Soul

by sennoma 2009-11-07 18:54 cool

http://www.eod.com/blog/2009/11/birdhouse-for-your-soul - cached - mail it - history

If It's Hip, It's Here: India's House With Balls. A Modern Residence & Fish Farm.

by sennoma 2009-11-07 15:46 design · concrete

http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2009/11/indias-house-with-balls-modern.html - cached - mail it - history

Marten Elder

by sennoma 2009-11-07 15:40 photo

http://www.martenelder.com/photography.php - cached - mail it - history

miscellaneous factZ - The online home of Rufus Pollock » Blog Archive » Open Notebook Social Science

"The other day I posted up some work-in-progress on the subject of patterns of knowledge production. That material is still in a fairly preliminary state. However, my decision to release it it in this form was a conscious decision and part of an ongoing attempt on my part to practice a more open “release early, release often” approach to research. In doing this I’m drawing direct inspiration from the open source and open notebook (science) communities and seeking to engage in what might be termed open notebook social science!"

by sennoma 2009-11-01 01:48 oaos.examples

http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/10/22/open-notebook-social-science - cached - mail it - history

What is the (Real) Cost of Open Access? - A Computer Scientist in a Business School

by sennoma 2009-11-01 01:38 lostart

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-real-cost-of-open-access.html?showComment=1257057493548 - cached - mail it - history

Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? : Common Knowledge

by sennoma 2009-11-01 01:20 johnwilbanks · oaos.misc

http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/10/open_source_science_or_distrib.php - cached - mail it - history

Journal of Participatory Medicine

by sennoma 2009-10-25 23:08 oaos.citizenscience · oa.laymanuse

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Science & Sensibility » Can we improve research by crowd sourcing peer review?

by sennoma 2009-10-25 23:06 oa.laymanuse · oaos.examples · scienceisasnakepit

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BIOLOGY MEETINGS, BIOLOGY CONFERENCES 2009, BIOLOGY MEETING WORLDWIDE

Welcome to Biology Meetings.Com - your first stop to find current, up to date links to major biology conferences, scientific meetings, biology seminars and biology meeting throughout the U.S. and the world! Some browsers do not support the graphical google map interface we are using to help find meetings.

by sennoma 2009-10-25 22:51 conferences · work

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Short communication: Online lab books for supervision of project students

Not really open, but it could be with the flip of a setting.

by sennoma 2009-10-25 17:01 opennotebookscience · ELN

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Matrix Analysis (SPARC)

by sennoma 2009-10-25 16:54 oa.waivers · oa.money

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That consumption binge? It’s mostly health care

by sennoma 2009-10-25 15:48 health_care

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Will Open Access inhibit innovation? « Myrmecos Blog

by sennoma 2009-10-25 15:47 oa.problems

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Words of Advice for NIH-Funded Authors

• 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?

by sennoma 2009-10-24 12:55 oa · oa.mandates

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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research

Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets. The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its researchers collaborate with one another, and with technologists, in areas of eScience such as databases, workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies. In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, the collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized.

by sennoma 2009-10-24 12:08 opendata · openscience

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14 great Cthulhu toys that make devouring souls fun | SCI FI Wire

by sennoma 2009-10-24 00:57 fun · cthulhu

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Beta Science: BioTorrents - a file sharing resource for scientists

BioTorrents is a website that allows open access sharing of scientific data. It uses the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing technology to allow rapid file transferring.

by sennoma 2009-10-23 01:35 opendata · oaos.misc

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4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board

recommended by Rafe Colburn

by sennoma 2009-10-23 00:40 technology · readthis · busreading

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The Museum of Everything

actually a museum of outsider art

by sennoma 2009-10-23 00:28 spouse · artbrut · travel · want2see

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Open Access - Greater Reach For Research

Dutch national website providing information for academics about the advantages of OA to publicly financed research

by sennoma 2009-10-20 12:43 oa · oa.reference · oa.resources

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ScieCom Info

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.

by sennoma 2009-10-20 12:41 oa · opendata · openscience · oaos.misc

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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings

Someone else who likes to have numbers to answer questions.

by sennoma 2009-10-20 03:09 oa.numbers · heathermorrison

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springpad - making content useful

by sennoma 2009-10-18 23:40 organising · webtools

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BioMed Central Blog : Ockham’s broom and the disclosure of dirty secrets – New in Journal of Biology

by sennoma 2009-10-18 23:35 lostart

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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Single molecule's stunning image

by sennoma 2009-10-17 22:56 for.will

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Google Image Result for http://ideonexus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/singlemolecule.jpg

by sennoma 2009-10-17 22:56 for.will

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

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

by sennoma 2009-10-17 22:34 oa · mangosteen

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The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful

by sennoma 2009-10-15 22:46 design · data · datavizualization · want

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About Us - SnagFilms

SnagFilms is committed to finding the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve. SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we’re also a platform that lets you “snag” a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 850 films, and rapidly growing, you’re bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.

by sennoma 2009-10-15 02:03 film · documentary

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TEO ORMOND-SKEAPING PHOTOGRAPHY

"What I struggle with is that every thing excites me, cities, supermarkets, roads, dirt, rubbish, car parks, advertising, people, deforestation, excavation, fires, floods and violence. All of these things can be beautiful, yet I see the damage; the pain the obscenity of everything. When I am in the city, I long for the country the open space around me, yet in the city I enjoy all that goes on around me."

by sennoma 2009-10-15 01:03 photo

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SSRN-Whose Metrics? On Building Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars by Chris Armbruster

As the Internet has enhanced the collection and provision of citation, usage and access metrics, the challenge lies neither in the technology nor the method, but in constructing databases that deliver services of value to the scholar. However, the development of metrics has hitherto been driven by the needs of external research assessment (governments and funders), while publishers and libraries have focused on their own needs (e.g. journal impact and usage factors). Scholars often criticize research assessment and the use of particular metrics as a zero-sum game whose undesirable consequences far outweigh the benefits. However, this is not to be confused with a general prejudice against metrics, which are principally compatible with the scholarly recognition and rewards system. But it does indicate that current metric information services often do not serve the needs of scholars. The question everybody should be asking is: What kind of metric information services would serve scholars? The argument proceeds in six steps. First, the problematic and controversial nature of assessment metrics is discussed. Second, the limited value of current metric information services is outlined. Third, the notion of metrics as research information services is clarified. Fourth, some examples of such services are offered. Fifth, the potential value is sketched from the perspective of a postdoc. Sixth, it is indicated that societies and publishers could begin building more metric information services since tried-and-tested technology and methods are available already.

by sennoma 2009-10-15 00:39 scientometrics · bibliometrics · scholarlycommunication · publishing

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A Conversation About Finding a Postdoc Position : DrugMonkey

by sennoma 2009-10-12 23:27 lostart

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

by sennoma 2009-10-12 23:07 oa

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Against Transparency

by sennoma 2009-10-11 03:24 lawrencelessig · transparency

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QUT ePrints

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]

by sennoma 2009-10-11 02:19 oa

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Income Models for Supporting Open Access (SPARC)

Developing a sound business model is a critical concern of publishers considering open-access distribution. Selecting the model appropriate to a particular journal will depend not only on the expense hurdle that must be cleared, but also on the publisher’s mission objectives, size, business management resources, risk tolerance, tax status, and institutional or corporate affiliation. This Web site and accompanying guide provide an overview of income models currently being used to support the open-access distribution of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals. These resources will be a useful tool both for publishers exploring new potential sources of income and for libraries weighing where to direct meager library funds.

by sennoma 2009-10-11 02:09 oa.money · publishing.models

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Science Pipes

SciencePipes is an environment in which students, educators, citizens, resource managers, and scientists can create and share analyses and visualizations of biodiversity data. It is built to support inquiry-based learning, allowing analysis results and visualizations to be dynamically incorporated into web sites (e.g. blogs) for dissemination and consumption beyond SciencePipes.org itself. For more information: * further introduction * presentations * status of the site * NSDL article about SciencePipes.org Alpha functionality demos: * uploading and running a Kepler workflow * editing a pipe in the SciencePipes.org authoring environment SciencePipes is a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Information Science Program and is funded by the National Science Digital Library.

by sennoma 2009-10-06 01:05 scholarlycommunication · openscience · webtools

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Against Monopoly

Examples of Outrageous Patents and Judgments Examples of (at least apparently) ridiculous patents and patent applications abound (more at PatentLawPractice): * Amazon's "one-click" patent, asserted against rival Barnes & Noble * Cendant's assertion that Amazon violated Cendant's patent monopoly on recommending books to customers (since settled) * The attempt of Dustin Stamper, Bush's Top Economist, to secure a patent regarding an application for a System And Method For Multi-State Tax Analysis, which claims "a method, comprising: creating one or more alternate entity structures based on a base entity structure, the base entity structure comprising one or more entities; determining a tax liability for each alternate entity structure and the base entity structure; and generating a result based on comparing each of the determined tax liabilities" * Apple's patent application for digital Karaoke * the suit against Facebook by the holder of a patent for a "system for creating a community for users with common interests to interact in" * the "absurdly broad patent [issued to Blackboard] for common uses of technology if that technology is employed in the context of education" (see also Patent Office Rejects Blackboard E-Learning Patent One Month After It Wins Lawsuit, Techdirt (Mar. 31, 2008) * Compton's (now Encyclopedia Britannica's) patent that "broadly cover[s] any multimedia database allowing users to simultaneously search for text, graphics, and sounds basic features found in virtually every multimedia product on the market" * Carfax's patent on a "method for perusing selected vehicles having a clean title history" * Acacia's patent for putting a unique transaction number on a receipt[26] * Pat. No. 6,368,227, covering swinging sideways on a swing

by sennoma 2009-10-05 22:56 intellectualproperty

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The Un-Scientific Method: or, how good science becomes bad press

by sennoma 2009-10-04 14:14 lostart

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The Art of Community Now Available For Free Download | Art Of Community Online

by sennoma 2009-10-04 13:20 community · creativecommons · collaboration

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