sennoma's Bookmarks About (oa) "openscience"

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Promoting Open Source Science | WalterJessen.com

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

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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

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opensciencerpt.aspx - cached - mail it - history

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

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CureHunter | Semantic Health Search

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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PLoS ONE: Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals

by sennoma 2009-09-27 20:23 opendata · openscience · scienceisasnakepit · scholarlycommunication

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007078 - cached - mail it - history

The Ferryman: Growing significance of communities and collaboration in discovery and development

The benefits of community participation or collaboration should outweigh the costs to support a rational decision to pursue such routes. Lions usually prefer to hunt as a group as the shared food from group kills offers a better return and lower risk than hunting alone; in a similar manner organisations may also choose to collaborate to have greater success in acquiring new resources or income. The current convergence of a number of factors appears to be driving up the R&D collaboration benefit/cost ratio. The drivers include: 1. Scientific research is becoming more complex and multi-disciplinary, requiring researchers to move more away from “working in the expert’s box”. 2. Our work, economy and society are becoming more knowledge-oriented. (I define knowledge here as including understanding gained from experience and involves individual and collective knowledge in addition to explicit knowledge such as intellectual property (IP).) 3. Business models in the chemistry and pharmaceutical industry that worked fine historically, e.g., manufacturing products based predominantly on patents related to chemistry, appear to be increasingly lacking. 4. The goals of translational and personalized medicine have stronger requirements for networked and collaborative approaches over discipline and time than the historically relatively linear drug discovery and development process. Integrated services offer greater future value creation than stand-alone products. 5. Patient Safety has become an issue of growing concern requiring new more integrative approaches to data, knowledge and disciplines. 6. Computational Science continues to grow in importance, fueling overlaps and interactions between scientific disciplines including that of computer science. 7. The maturing of the Internet-based World Wide Web including enhanced usability, services, social software and the semantic web, provide new community and collaboration resource opportunities. 8. Challenging problems we face as a

by sennoma 2009-09-12 10:21 openscience · collaboration

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Data Sharing : Specials : Nature News

Sharing data is good. But sharing your own data? That can get complicated. As two research communities who held meetings in May on the issue report their proposals to promote data sharing in biology, a special issue of Nature examines the cultural and technical hurdles that can get in the way of good intentions.

by sennoma 2009-09-10 01:39 opendata · openscience

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

by sennoma 2009-08-15 12:01 mangosteen · oa

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Open Archives Forum - Home

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.

by sennoma 2009-08-10 01:45 oa

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aRDi Access to Research for Development and Innovation

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.

by sennoma 2009-08-09 23:34 oa · mangosteen

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

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.

by sennoma 2009-08-09 16:21 scientometrics · oa · oaos.need

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Chicago Collaborative

Trojan horse?

by sennoma 2009-08-05 00:07 oa

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

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.

by sennoma 2009-08-05 00:05 subbiaharunachalam · lesliechan · oa · WHO · mangosteen · oa.numbers

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

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

by sennoma 2009-08-05 00:03 oa · almaswan · WHO · mangosteen · oa.numbers

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WHO | Building a bridge for research

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

by sennoma 2009-08-05 00:03 oa · WHO · mangosteen

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Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication

by sennoma 2009-08-02 15:39 oa · oa.publishingproject

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The OpenScience Project » What, exactly, is Open Science?

by sennoma 2009-08-01 18:28 openscience · oaos.definitions

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

"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."

by sennoma 2009-07-25 15:16 oa.quotes · jeanclaudeguedon · readthis · oa

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MD Lab Blog: Open scientists have more and more early "Aha!" moments

An "Aha!" moment or event indicates a change in the cognitive state. I first heard about this concept from Frank Ohl and Henning Scheich, former colleagues, but recently also found it in the Wall Street Journal: A Wandering Mind Heads Straight Toward Insight, which serves as a better introduction. These moments need an environment in which they can flourish. As far as my moments are concerned, they come—surprisingly—reliably but only if I write about my work with the reader in mind. Most of my articles changed quite dramatically in the process of writing, although I used to start writing, only when I thought the creative work is seemingly finished. I learned nothing could be more wrong. So for me being engaged in making my work more transparent by writing about it at an earlier stage, while it is still in progress, is nothing less than forcing insight.

by sennoma 2009-07-13 20:17 oaos.examples · openscience

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Öffentliche Wissenschaft: Eine Bastelanleitung | sciencegarden - Magazin für junge Forschung

by sennoma 2009-07-12 20:37 openscience

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

by sennoma 2009-07-12 14:23 oa · publicknowledgeproject · openjournalsystems · publishing · publishing.models

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R4L_homepage

rebranding of HINARI, OARE and AGORA

by sennoma 2009-07-09 21:37 oa · mangosteen

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Scholarly Publishing in the New Era of Scarcity: AAUP Annual Meeting Plenary

by sennoma 2009-07-07 15:33 michaeljonjensen · oa · publishing.models · oaos.talks

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Paying for Peer-Review — or, What We’ve Learned from Financial Watchdogs « The Scholarly Kitchen

by sennoma 2009-07-06 14:04 lostart · peerreview · oa · submissionfees · publishing.models

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Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovatino in Communication Paradigms and Technologies; 13th Intl Conf on Electronic Publishing

Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group Building a Digital Library with Learning Materials Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project) Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models A Journal on the Web: What We Are Not, What We Do Not Want Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory A publishing system to extract and represent the knowledge content of scientific articles on Health Science in machine-processable format Self-Archiving in practice: What do the researchers say and is there any pain alleviation? Scoping Study on Issues Relating to Quality-Control Measures within the Scholarly Communication Process Overlay Publications: a functional overview of the concept The PROBADO-Framework: Content-Based Queries for non-textual Documents PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research PLoS One: background, future development, and article-level metrics Targeted knowledge: interaction and rich user experience towards a scholarly communication that “lets” Economic sustainability during transition: the case of scholarly publishing Automated Support for a Collaborative System to Organize a Collection using Facets Experimenting with the Trial of a Research Data Audit: Some Preliminary Findings about Data Types, Access to Data and Factors for Long Term Preservation Scientific publications on Web 3.0 Integrating Online Publications and Scholarly Discourse in the Context of Digital Libraries Incorporating Semantics and Metadata as Part of the Article Authoring Process Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals Building a Semantic Digital Library for the Municipality of Milan Rethinking Critical Editions of Fragmentary Texts by Ontologies Bibliometric factor maps for knowledge discovery in digital libraries Digital Futures:

by sennoma 2009-06-30 13:06 oa · oa.money · oa.numbers

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Create Change

"In the age of the Internet, the ways you share and use academic research results are changing — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly. There’s great potential in change. After all, faster and wider sharing of journal articles, research data, simulations, syntheses, analyses, and other findings fuels the advance of knowledge. It’s a two-way street — sharing research benefits you and others. But will the promise of digital scholarship be fully realized? How will yesterday’s norms adapt to tomorrow’s possibilities? This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher. A scholarly revolution is underway. It enables you to get a greater return from your research. All you have to do is share it."

by sennoma 2009-06-28 12:33 oa · publishing · publishing.models · scholarlycommunication

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Gunther Eysenbach's random research rants: Open Access journal JMIR rises to top of its discipline

by sennoma 2009-06-23 23:12 lostart · oa

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About | Science Collaboration Framework

The Science Collaboration Framework (SCF) is a software toolkit to establish web-based virtual team organizations for researchers in biomedicine. It enables researchers to publish and discuss on-line content such as articles, news, and perspectives, and to provide shared semantic context for this content using established scientific vocabularies and automated text mining.

by sennoma 2009-06-23 01:44 opendata · openscience · collaboration · semanticweb

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Open Access Policies Search

This page is designed to assist with searching across SHERPA/RoMEO, OAKList and AcqWeb simultaneously.

by sennoma 2009-06-19 18:49 oa.resources · oa.tools · webtools · oa

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The Council of Science Editors (CSE) - Events: Presentations From Selected 2009 Meeting Sessions

D2. The Evidence on Open Access Tim Ingoldsby, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Publisher Relations, American Institute of Physics; Philip M. Davis, PhD Candidate, Department of Communication, Cornell University; Jocalyn Clark, PhD, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine There is growing attention and obligation to disseminate research in open-access forums. Open access provides free availability to and unrestricted use of scientific literature. Speakers will discuss recent research that investigates the impact of open-access publishing and self-archiving on citation, readership, accessibility, and the influence of scientific articles. Moderator: Catherine Nancarrow, Managing Editor, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS Pathogens D2 Presentations Clark Davis Ingoldsby D3. Copyright, Open Access, Subscriptions, and Permissions: What Editors Need to Know in the New Digital Publishing Environment John Wilbanks, VP, Science, Creative Commons; Christopher Kenneally, Director, Author Relations, Copyright Clearance Center; Dale D. Berkley, PhD JD, Senior Attorney, National Institutes of Health Find out what science editors need to know about copyright and how it has traditionally been managed, as well as the various practices in place today (copyright transfer, license to publish, creative commons) and what they mean for authors and publishers (rights, liabilities, permissions). Discover copyright myths and facts, and learn what policies might be on the horizon (derivative use, attributions). Moderator: Joy Moore, VP, Global Partnerships, Seed Media Group D3 Presentations Wilbanks Kenneally F2. Research 101: How to Make Theory, Hypothesis Testing, Experimental Design, Statistics, and Google Analytics Work for You Julie Fiez, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh; Christian Schunn, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh; Robbin Steif, CEO, LunaMetrics, LLC This tutorial will cover how to conduct res

by sennoma 2009-06-18 00:39 oa · timingoldsby · philipdavis · jocalynclark · johnwilbanks · christopherkenneally · juliefiez · christianschunn

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SCIENCE COMMENT - Science Comment

Science Comment is dedicated to the advancement of sciences. Feel free to add your comment on publications, be it inspiring thoughts or critics, to propulse the scientific discussion and to enhance future results. Please use this site to help clarify certain aspects of science. Let's make a difference!

by sennoma 2009-06-15 23:59 peerreview · openscience · open.commentary

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ScienceDirect - Government Information Quarterly : Tale of two databases: The history of federally funded information systems for education and medicine

Access to scholarly information in the disciplines of education and medicine occurred primarily through the simultaneous development of two bibliographic databases. The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) originated as a resource designed to be comprehensive in its inclusion of peer-reviewed and unpublished literature for the entire education community. MEDLINE began as a resource of selective materials for physicians and researchers. Today, ERIC includes selected peer-reviewed literature directed primarily to researchers and practitioners, although others use the database, while MEDLINE is a vast information system serving all health professionals and consumers. This literature analysis of their policy history shows important differences in their evolution.

by sennoma 2009-06-15 23:06 openscience · scholarlycommunication

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SCOAP3

by sennoma 2009-06-13 20:22 oa · publishing.models

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T. Scott: Quantifying the value of peer review

by sennoma 2009-06-12 05:56 lostart · tscott · oa

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OASIS

OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and we invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement.

by sennoma 2009-06-12 05:49 oa · reference

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About | elnblog.com

"Hi, welcome to my Blog. I’m Simon Coles, co-founder and CTO of Amphora Research Systems, and this is just a simple blog of stuff related to Electronic Lab Notebooks and anything else that comes to mind. I’ve been doing ELNs for over 13 years now, and have experience of a wide variety of ELN implementations, so I hope there will be something here for everyone."

by sennoma 2009-06-09 16:57 ELN · openscience

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eCommons@Cornell: Report of the CUL Task Force on Open Access Publishing Presented to the Cornell University Library Management Team August 9, 2004.

The Task Force on Open Access Publishing was convened by Ross Atkinson in January 2004.The purpose of the Task Force is to study the information available on Open Access publishing and to provide the CUL Library Management Team with a report that addressed specific questions. Alternative publishing models that would offer free and unimpeded access to scholarship promise both a more affordable system for academic institutions and their libraries and a more democratic one for readers and authors. The present Report examines both aspects of the Open Access promise and offers recommendations for CUL's involvement in the arena of Open Access publishing. >>CLARIFICATION: This Report of the Cornell University Library's Task Force on Open Access represents the Task Force's initial examination into the Open Access publishing model and its impact on the Library. On October 7, 2004 the Library Management Team reviewed the report and requested additional analysis, particularly with regard to the underlying economic model from an institutional, rather than library, perspective and more consideration of projected costs and benefits,especially when considered from a multi-institutional or consortial point of view.

by sennoma 2009-06-09 00:44 oa.money · oa · philipdavis

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Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

members list

by sennoma 2009-06-09 00:34 oa · publishing · scholarlycommunication

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How do journals on the periphery compare with mainstream scientific journals? « Subbiah Arunachalam

by sennoma 2009-06-08 18:58 lostart · subbiaharunachalam · oa

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Fostering Innovation in Scholarly Communication | Scholarly Communication Program

Advancements in digital technology offer today's scholars and researchers countless new ways to create, share, and archive their work. Besides granting new knowledge unprecedented reach and impact, these developments have sparked a reevaluation and debate around the conventions of scholarly exchange. The Scholarly Communication Program at Columbia University aims to facilitate discussion of and innovative approaches to sharing scholarly work, as well as offer practical information about the opportunities and challenges presented by scholarship and research in a time of technological change. The program's overarching goal is to encourage the Columbia community's active participation in creating a system that best serves the needs—and maximizes the impact—of scholarship and research at Columbia.

by sennoma 2009-06-06 20:21 oa · oa.resources · reference

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» What percentage of open-access journals charge publication fees? The Occasional Pamphlet

by sennoma 2009-06-05 18:19 lostart · oa · stuartshieber

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» Open-access policies and academic freedom The Occasional Pamphlet

by sennoma 2009-06-05 17:42 oa · academicfreedom · stuartshieber

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gelatinoid: Jessica Mullen5-13-09INF390N Current Iss

by sennoma 2009-06-05 00:24 peerreview · oa · scholarlycommunication · publishing · readthis

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Science Commons » Blog Archive » What’s open science?

by sennoma 2009-06-04 15:14 openscience · import090501

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SPARC-OAForum@arl.org Mailing List Archive

by sennoma 2009-06-03 22:43 oa · oa.libraries · mikerossner

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PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy

by sennoma 2009-06-02 22:42 oa · publishing.models · philosophy

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Choosing a journal for the neck-posture paper: why open access is important « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Interesting perspective on OA and how to choose a journal. "So what criteria are we left with? Of the ten we started with, those left standing in the era of ubiquitous PDFs number just four: prestige, turnaround speed, figure reproduction quality and length restrictions/page charges. And this is excellent, because these are the actual services that journals provide to authors. A journal best serves authors by handling their manuscripts quickly and without charge, by imparting prestige due to the reputation of the editorial board and quality of previous issues, and by reproducing the figures well. I think it's great that we're moving inexorably towards an economy where the journals that get the best submissions will be the ones that provide the best services."

by sennoma 2009-06-02 20:14 oa · publishing.models · lostart

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The Consumer Price Index and the Argument for OA « The Scholarly Kitchen

by sennoma 2009-06-01 22:55 lostart · oa · serialscrisis

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Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)

by sennoma 2009-05-31 16:20 oa · mangosteen

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How do you deal with competitors in open systems? » Make the Future - by Jim Gilliam

So how do you deal with competitors, people who want you to fail, in an open, transparent, and collaborative system

by sennoma 2009-05-31 00:33 collaboration · jimgilliam · openscience · open.govt

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The OpenScience Project » Scientific Software Wants To Be Free

# We should create an open central repository location at which authors can release software and documentation. # Software release should be an integral and funded part of projects. # Software release should become an integral part of the publication process. # The barriers to publication of methods and descriptive papers should be lower. # Programming, statistics and data analysis should be an integral part of the curriculum. # There should be more opportunities to fund grass-roots software projects of use to the wider community. # We should develop institutional support for science programs that attract and support talented scientists who generate software for public release.

by sennoma 2009-05-26 13:55 opendata · openscience

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Biochem. Soc. Trans (2008) 36, 33-36 - Norman W. Paton - Bringing Together Biomolecular Simulation and Experimental Studies

Experimental processes in the life sciences are becoming increasingly complex. As a result, recording, archiving and sharing descriptions of these processes and of the results of experiments is becoming ever more challenging. However, validation of results, sharing of best practice and integrated analysis all require systematic description of experiments at carefully determined levels of detail. The present paper discusses issues associated with the management of experimental data in the life sciences, including: the different tasks that experimental data and metadata can support, the role of standards in informing data sharing and archiving, and the development of effective databases and tools, building on these standards.

by sennoma 2009-05-18 10:56 opendata · openscience · collaboration

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OAN:Good primer on publication agreements for scholarly authors

Timothy K. Armstrong, An Introduction to Publication Agreements for Authors, a hand-out for a workshop, May 13, 2009. Armstrong is a copyright specialist at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Comment. This is a very good primer for authors who don't understand copyright or why they should try to retain rights. It focuses on legal scholars writing for law reviews, but Armstrong has put it under a CC-BY-SA license and encourages others to adapt it for their own purposes.

by sennoma 2009-05-16 23:17 copyright · authoraddenda · oa

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Web 2.0 and scholarly communication « putting down a marker

Topics covered include: * What is Web 2.0? * Web 1.0 and scholarly communication * Web 2.0 and Open Access * Blogs * Social bookmarking * Social networking * Podcasts * Wikis * Data * Peer review * Reasons for lack of uptake to date

by sennoma 2009-05-14 15:54 scholarlycommunication · openscience · publishing · publishing.models

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Knowledge Ecology Notes » Prizes and Grants, Type I, II and III diseases, rich and poor countries, open and closed medicine development

OPENNESS For all innovation efforts, there are quite important issues concerning openness, and the hazards of enclosures of science and the hoarding of knowledge. A number of academics writers, patent professionals and R&D experts have called attention to the potential risks that innovation inducement prizes might lead to less sharing of knowledge, as people position themselves to win prizes. But this risk should be seen in a broader context. It is also often pointed out that patents can discourage upstream research and downstream product development. Government grant programs that encourage the privatisation of publicly funded R&D (like the US Bayh-Dole Act) can also move things in the wrong direction. It turns out this whole important topic is complicated. One area to pay attention to are the “Bayh-Dole” issues relating to prizes. In many of the US government funded prizes, and in the early X-prize designs, all of the intellectual property rights go to the recipient of the prizes. In some non-medical cases in the US, the government is barred from asking for licenses to use the inventions that win the prizes — an even worse outcome than for patents developed under federal grants, which are subject to (rarely used [fn1]) royalty free government licenses, and march-in and access requirements. So one debate is about obtaining the right bundle of rights in patents or data from prize winners, and managing also the disclosures. After a series of workshops on medical innovation inducement prizes, proposals also emerged to include new “open source dividends,” which involve sharing of prize money to entities that openly share access to knowledge, materials and technology. The open source dividends were modeled in several of the 2008 Bolivia Barbados prize proposals, and have unfortunately been ignored by some of those who have commented on those proposals. There are also much more transformation proposals for funding open source medicine, including the proposals to introduce “competitive intermediaries” that have as t

by sennoma 2009-05-12 21:41 openscience · oa · prizes · innovation · patents · intellectualproperty

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UK PubMed Central Blog: RCUK - further support for open access

Research Councils UK (RCUK) have published an independent study commissioned by the Research Councils into open access to research outputs. The purpose of the study was to identify the effects and impacts of open access on publishing models and institutional repositories in light of national and international trends. This included the impact of open access on the quality and efficiency of scholarly outputs, specifically journal articles. The report presents options for the Research Councils to consider, such as maintaining the current variation in Research Councils’ mandates, or moving towards increased open access, eventually leading to Gold Standard.

by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:28 oa · oa.money · publishing · oa.mandates

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The EAP Journal Archive. Free download of every single paper published in our journal since 1970!

# The Economics of Open Access Publishing (Christian Zimmermann) # The Stratified Economics of Open Access (John Willinsky) # But what have you done for me lately? Commercial Publishing, Scholarly Communication, and Open-Access (John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders) # Publishing an E-Journal on a Shoe String: Is It a Sustainable Project? (Piero Cavaleri, Michael Keren, Giovanni B. Ramello, and Vittorio Valli) # Open Access Models and their Implications for the Players on the Scientific Publishing Market (Steffen Bernius, Matthias Hanauske, Wolfgang König, Berndt Dugall) # Open Access Economics Journals and the Market for Reproducible Economic Research (B. D. McCullough) # Estimating the Potential Impacts of Open Access to Research Findings (John Houghton and Peter Sheehan) # The Economics of Open Bibliographic Data Provision (Thomas Krichel and Christian Zimmermann)

by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:27 oa · oa.money

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JISC response to publisher objections to the Houghton report

by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:25 oa · oa.money · publishing

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Links for Summer Interns « Software Carpentry

by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:22 oa · openscience · reproducibleresearch · opendata

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Software Carpentry

by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:21 oa · openscience · reproducibleresearch · opendata

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Michael Geist - The Friday Forum - A Weekly Series of Virtual Conferences - Open Access

**This first Friday Forum virtual conference is the first of three on open access. This collection of lectures focuses on the open access movement and latest developments. **The conference begins with an introduction to open access from Melissa Hagemann of the Open Society Institute **If you are looking for some introductory slides, SPARCs Heather Joseph has posted hers from a 2007 talk on the Growing Call for Open Access. For a history of open access in Canada, see Dean Giustini's wiki. **Next up is John Willinsky,... Open Access Policies and Practices for Increasing Scholarly Contributions. **The fourth and final speaker is Peter Suber, ... the Future of Open Access.

by sennoma 2009-05-08 21:26 oaos.talks · oa

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Open Access to Publicly-Funded Research: Let Them Eat Cake? | e-Patients.net

by sennoma 2009-05-06 21:07 oa.laymanuse · oa

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Past Events | Scholarly Communication Program

by sennoma 2009-05-01 22:49 oa · openscience · oaos.talks

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OAN: Eliminating quality bias in explaining the OA impact advantage

by sennoma 2009-05-01 07:40 oa · scientometrics · bibliometrics

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Capitalism and Society

by sennoma 2009-04-30 19:30 openscience

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RR links - Reproducible Research

by sennoma 2009-04-28 03:15 openscience · oaos.examples · reproducibleresearch

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OAN: New issue of European Review with section on OA

The current issue of European Review has a section on OA. (Thanks to Russ Swan.) * Gerard Van Trier, Focus: Scholarly Publishing and Open Access * Michael A. Mabe, Scholarly Publishing * Dieter M. Imboden, Scientific Publishing: the Dilemma of Research Funding Organisations * Robert Aymar, Scholarly Communication in High-Energy Physics: Past, Present and Future Innovations * Paul Ayris, New Wine in Old Bottles: Current Developments in Digital Delivery and Dissemination

by sennoma 2009-04-22 20:34 oa · scholcomm · publishing · publishing.models

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miscellaneous factZ - The online home of Rufus Pollock » Blog Archive » Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

by sennoma 2009-04-20 18:08 collaboration · oa · openscience · oaos.examples

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OAN: Using citation data to shed light on access restrictions

Patrick Gaulé, Access to the scientific literature in India, CEMI Working Paper 2009-004, February 23, 2009. Abstract: This paper uses an evidence-based approach to assess the difficulties faced by developing country scientists in accessing the scientific literature. I compare backward citations patterns of Swiss and Indian scientists in a database of 43'150 scientific papers published by scientists from either country in 2007. Controlling for fields and quality with citing journal fixed effects, I find that Indian scientists (1) have shorter references lists (2) are more likely to cite articles from open access journals and (3) are less likely to cite articles from expensive journals. The magnitude of the effects is small which can be explained by informal file sharing practices among scientists.

by sennoma 2009-04-20 17:54 oa · scientometrics · refswanted

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JISC Access Management Team » Blog Archive » Where is the I in Open Content?

I have created a quick (and definitely not exhaustive or particularly well informed) review of the traditional publishing model against the use of open content

by sennoma 2009-04-16 05:52 oa · openeducation

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Academic Matters

Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age_pic The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.

by sennoma 2009-04-15 01:33 oa

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Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal

First Monday Volume 14, Number 4 - 6 April 2009

by sennoma 2009-04-05 07:04 oa · publishing · publishing.models · oa.money

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InkSpot. Science. On Demand » Walled Gardens

a recent report by Hefce (Higher Education Funding Council for England) which summarises the financial performance of English Universities, showed that a 22% increase in funding in IP protection (to over £20M) had led to a 1% increase in income. Note — income, not profit.

by sennoma 2009-04-02 17:06 intellectualproperty · open.everything · openscience

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Michael Nielsen » Conscious modularity and scaling open collaboration

by sennoma 2009-03-30 23:19 openscience

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Open and Shut?: Open Access: Who would you back?

by sennoma 2009-03-10 22:43 oa · publishing.models · richardpoynder · readthis

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The Office of Scholarly Communication

by sennoma 2009-03-09 21:27 oa · publishing · publishing.models

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OAN: More sections in the PALINET OA cluster

Walt Crawford has added three sections to the cluster of pages on OA he's building at the PALINET wiki: * Open access: Why it matters * Open access issues * Open access controversies

by sennoma 2009-03-09 05:00 oa

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OAN: Four recommendations for open science

Open Access to Literature from Funded Research By "open access" to this literature, we mean that it should be on the internet in digital form, with permission granted in advance to users to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” Access to Research Tools from Funded Research By "access" to research tools, we mean that the materials necessary to replicate funded research - cell lines, model animals, DNA tools, reagents, and more, should be described in digital formats, made available under standard terms of use or contracts, with infrastructure or resources to fulfill requests to qualified scientists, and with full credit provided to the scientist who created the tools. Data from Funded Research in the Public Domain Research data, data sets, databases, and protocols should be in the public domain. This status ensures the ability to freely distribute, copy, re-format, and integrate data from research into new research, ensuring that as new technologies are developed that researchers can apply those technologies without legal barriers. Scientific traditions of citation, attribution, and acknowledgment should be cultivated in norms. Invest in Open Cyberinfrastructure Data without structure and annotation is a lost opportunity. Research data should flow into an open, public, and extensible infrastructure that supports its recombination and reconfiguration into computer models, its searchability by search engines, and its use by both scientists and the taxpaying public. This infrastructure should be treated as an essential public good....

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:57 oa · openscience

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OAN: Richard Poynder's Basement Interviews at Bloomsbury Academic

Richard Poynder's Basement Interviews "with leaders and thinkers from the growing number of free and open initiatives" should now have a higher profile and reach more readers. A new page collecting links to the interviews, and a preface introducing them, has been posted at the site of Bloomsbury Academic, the OA imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:27 oa.people · oa · richardpoynder

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OAN: Generalizing the OA impact advantage

Jan's hypothesis suggests a fascinating and potentially testable way to generalize the thesis behind the OA impact advantage: any kind of increased access should also increase impact. OA increases access in a large and conspicuous way. Systematically distributing non-OA reprints increases access in a smaller way, and for people outside medicine, a less conspicuous way; but it may carry its own impact advantage. As usual, the difficulty is to identify an appropriate control group so that we test the hypothesis by comparing apples with apples. Would it be enough to compare reprinted articles with unreprinted articles from the same journal? The same issue of the same journal? Would it be enough to compare the impact of an article before and after it was reprinted? What other kinds of access enhancements, short of OA, could be tested for an impact advantage? TA journal circulation?

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:21 oa · oa.citationadvantage

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OAN: Effects of openness on research

Overall, our findings highlight a neglected cost of IP: reductions in the diversity of experimentation that follows from a single idea.

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:19 oa · openscience

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OAN: Researcher reliance on online information

This short article discusses an emerging trend in the information-seeking behaviour of scientists, i.e. mere reliance on online information. Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists believe that what is not available online is not worth the effort to obtain it.

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:15 oa · search

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OAN:"The benefits of more OA – however it is achieved – outweigh the costs"

In a knowledge economy, the vast amount of research and scholarly information produced by UK higher education (HE) is incredibly important. ‘The full value of this knowledge can only be realised when it is effectively disseminated,’ argues Professor John Houghton of Australia’s Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University.

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:15 oa

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OAN: fostering epidemics of knowledge

Given that the diffusion of knowledge is central to science, it behooves us to see if we can accelerate it. We note that diffusion takes time. Sometimes it takes a long time. Every diffusion process has a speed. Our thesis is that speeding up diffusion will accelerate the advancement of science.... Science will progress faster if this diffusion lag time is diminished. The concept of global discovery is to transform this sequential diffusion process into a parallel process. This means that new knowledge flows directly to distant communities. The goal is to reduce the lag time from years to months and from months to days....

by sennoma 2009-03-09 04:15 oa

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The Price of Knowledge « Neuronism

by sennoma 2009-03-08 23:07 oa · oa.money · publishing

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