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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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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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by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:22 oa · openscience · reproducibleresearch · opendata
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by sennoma 2009-05-12 08:21 oa · openscience · reproducibleresearch · opendata
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by sennoma 2009-05-01 22:49 oa · openscience · oaos.talks
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by sennoma 2009-04-20 18:08 collaboration · oa · openscience · oaos.examples
http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/02/23/of-mice-and-academics-examining-the-effect-of-openness-on-innovation/ - cached - mail it - history
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
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/07/four-recommendations-for-open-science.html - cached - mail it - history
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
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/effects-of-openness-on-research.html - cached - mail it - history
a quote from the autobiography of Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and designer of the Apple I and II computers. "It's funny, I think back on it now -- the Apple II would turn out to be one of the most successful products of all time. But we had no copyrights or patents at all back then. No secrets. We were just showing it to everybody." (p.195)
by sennoma 2009-01-28 21:11 quotes · oa · openscience
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J. A. Evans's Report "Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship" (18 July, p. 395) suggests that (i) the average age of citations to scientific papers dropped over the years as more electronic papers became accessible and (ii) the citations are concentrated on a smaller proportion of papers and journals. Such conclusions are not warranted by Evans's data. To measure the evolution of the average (or median) age of the references contained in papers, one has to look at all the references in all published papers and observe the evolution of their age over time. As we have shown using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science data for the period 1900 to 2004 (for a total of 500 million references in 25 million papers), the average (and median) age of all references began to decrease in 1945 but has increased steadily since the mid-1960s. This trend is visible in all sciences, including the social sciences and the humanities (1, 2). The median age of references in fields of science and engineering moved from 4.5 years in 1955 to more than 7 years in 2004, and in medical sciences it increased from 4.5 to 5.5 during the same period (1). In fact, Evans's conclusions only reflect a transient phenomenon related to recent access to online publications and to the fact that the method used does not take into account time delays between citation year and publication year. Our data also show that in disciplines in which online access has been available the longest (such as nuclear physics and astrophysics), the age of references declines for a number of years in the 1990s but then increases from 2000 to 2007, the last available year of our data set. We have also measured the concentration of citations (and journals) by three different methods, including the one used by Evans. All three measures clearly show that concentration is in fact declining for papers as well as for journals (3). Although many factors affect citation practices, two things are clear: Researchers are increasingly relying on older science, and citations are increasingly dispersed across a larger proportion of papers and journals.
by sennoma 2009-01-05 16:43 oa · openscience · bibliometrics · scientometrics
http://www.sciencemag.org.liboff.ohsu.edu/cgi/content/full/323/5910/36a?sa_campaign=Email/toc/2-January-2009/10.1126/sci... - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-10-07 00:37 oa · openscience · structureofscience · science.is.doomed
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by sennoma 2008-09-18 20:31 openscience · oa · webtools
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/09/a_bundle_of_web_tools.html - cached - mail it - history
Open Content and Open Minds - Interview with Mike Linksvayer, Vice President of Creative Commons
by sennoma 2008-08-25 03:12 interviews · people · creativecommons · oa · openscience
http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jedsundwall/open-content-and-open-minds-interview-mike-linksvayer-vice-president-creative... - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-08-20 18:51 rufuspollock · people · oa · openscience · opendata · interviews
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/08/18/voices-from-the-future-of-science-rufus-pollock-of-the-open-knowled... - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-07-22 13:09 oa · openscience · bibliometrics
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/07/who_leaves_comments_on_scienti_1.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-07-13 13:41 oa · openscience · pacuroundtable
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/07/07/research-study-how-is-web-20-viewed-by-academics/ - cached - mail it - history
Add to the many benefits of OA: Digital books and magazines are at least two orders of magnitude more efficient than the print equivalents. These calculations may be back of the envelope, but they point to the urgent need to move to a more sustainable distribution system for the health of our planet and the long-term benefit of book and magazine publishing.
by sennoma 2008-06-07 13:28 oa · openscience
http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2008/06/carbon-footprint-of-digital-print.html - cached - mail it - history
Abstract: One of the most hotly contested issues in the field of intellectual property law concerns the existence, or non-existence, of patent thickets and the extent to which any such bottlenecks may be interfering with research. For decades, scholars warned that problems related to the over proliferation of patent rights would interfere with innovation. In contrast, a growing body of commentary argues that patent thickets are not a problem in modern industries. Either patent thickets do not exist, or if they do, patent thickets do not interfere with the progress of research. The rhetoric is particularly heated these days because of dramatic changes underway in patent law. Research bottlenecks, or lack thereof, are invoked either in support of or in opposition to such changes, and it is difficult to have a rational discussion when so much seems to be at stake. Stepping back from the rhetoric a bit, this piece suggests that one can sometimes indirectly observe effects, even if one cannot directly measure the extent of a phenomenon. With this in mind, the piece describes three approaches appearing in modern patent markets that are directed at mitigating the effects of patent thickets. These approaches can be described as Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer. From our vantage point, we may not be able to see or to measure the depth of the thicket. We can, however, observe the altered growth patterns that give us some indication of where the problems lie.
by sennoma 2008-05-06 15:49 openscience · oa · intellectualproperty · openlicensing
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127571 - cached - mail it - history
This article examines the relationship between Open Access to the scholarly literature and innovation. It traces the ideas of “end to end” network principles in the Internet and the World Wide Web and applies them to the scholarly biomedical literature. And the article argues for the importance of relieving not just price barriers but permission barriers.
by sennoma 2008-04-26 15:33 oa · openscience
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1808/version/1 - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-03-09 16:21 openscience · oa
http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/03/07/a-fair-trade-logo-for-academic-research/ - cached - mail it - history
online symposium on the Future of Scholarly Communication. Thanks to our panelists: Ira Fuchs, Paul DiMaggio, Peter Suber, Stan Katz, David Robinson, Andrew Appel, and Laura Brown.
by sennoma 2008-02-07 02:50 openscience · oa
http://citp.princeton.edu/symposium/ - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-01-18 00:24 openscience · oa
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/new-greek-oa-organization.html - cached - mail it - history
The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. Inspired by the Free Software movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification, copying and distribution of knowledge in four different but highly related fields: education, technology, culture and science.
by sennoma 2008-01-17 01:00 openscience · oa · openknowledge
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Last week, Pierre Lindenbaum made the bold move of creating a bookmarklet that would find the author's email in the HTML version of a paper and automatically create an email asking for an offprint (authors are generally happy to send copies of their own papers - at least they don't have to pay the postage any more).
by sennoma 2008-01-15 19:52 webtools · science · openscience · oa
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by sennoma 2008-01-14 04:59 oa · opendata · webtools · openscience
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Could the key to feeding the world be locked up in a company fridge somewhere? January 10th, 2008 by dwentworth That’s the question Australia’s Science Show asks to introduce a newly available podcast discussion featuring Science Commons’ own John Wilbanks and Brian Fitzgerald, who heads up Creative Commons Australia. The question isn’t nearly as tongue-in-cheek as it sounds; the discussion is about how to unlock the value of scientific research when so much of it is routinely balkanized — hidden away behind walls of secrecy, cost and technical obscurity.
by sennoma 2008-01-12 03:42 oa · openscience
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/01/10/could-the-key-to-feeding-the-world/ - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2008-01-10 03:01 oa · openscience · opennotebookscience · mememe
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0-great-new-tool-or-great-risk - cached - mail it - history
The "Bermuda Rules" may sound like standards for lawn tennis, but in fact they are guidelines for releasing human sequence data. Established in February 1996 at a Bermuda meeting of heads of the biggest labs in the publicly funded genome project, the rules instruct competitors in this cutthroat field to give away the fruits of their research for free. "The whole raison d'être for the communal effort was to get useful tools into the hands of the scientific community as rapidly as possible," says Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. But the rules also offer another benefit: They discourage the patenting of genes by sequencing labs, an activity executives of big pharmaceutical companies seem to despise as much as some academics do. The insistence on quick, unconditional release of data also lies at the heart of the dispute between publicly funded genome scientists and the private company that has just produced a draft version of the human genome, Celera Genomics of Rockville, Maryland.
by sennoma 2007-12-18 01:20 oa · openscience · opendata
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5507/1192 - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-12-13 15:20 lizlyon · oa · openscience
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html - cached - mail it - history
Barend Mons's first objective would be ambitious enough for most people: to meld some of the most important biomedical databases into a single information resource. But that's just the beginning. Mons, a bioinformatician at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, also wants to apply the Wikipedia philosophy. He's inviting the whole research community to help update a vast store of interlinked data. If he and his colleagues can pull it off — and even the project's advocates are not sure they can — they could transform the databases that are central to the work of many life scientists.
by sennoma 2007-12-10 02:28 oa · openscience
http://www.nature.com.liboff.ohsu.edu/nature/journal/v445/n7129/full/445691a.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-12-10 02:21 openscience · oa
http://www.journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/1/1/3 - cached - mail it - history
Sage Ross: editing wikipedia is probably the best way for historians of science to spend their working hours.
by sennoma 2007-12-09 16:08 openscience · oa
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Should watch this and take notes sometime.
by sennoma 2007-12-06 23:48 oa · opendata · openscience
http://cabtube.cab.unipd.it/conferenze/berlin5-open-access/esf-workshop/introductory-session/rust.flv/view - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-12-06 23:15 lostart · openscience · oa · opendata
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/12/the_scientific_paper_past_pres.php - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-11-23 13:00 openscience · oa
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/kelty/index.html - cached - mail it - history
I propose establishment of a Genome Commons, a public knowledgebase of human genetic variation and its effect, culled from databases and the scientific literature. Building on master curation of hundreds of small databases today, quality controls in the Genome Commons would be provided by experts overseeing entries in their domain of expertise. Entries would be systematically compiled by anyone with an Internet connection, access to academic journals, and appropriate training. Ultimately, such a repository of our common human inheritance would be a vast resource for research, medicine, and understanding ourselves. Private enterprise would play a vital role by contributing discoveries to the Genome Commons and making its contents accessible to clinicians and the public. As a central clearinghouse of intellectual property, the Genome Commons would reduce transactions costs, making more assays affordably available to patients and offering new revenue models for promulgating genetic discoveries. Any individual genome will typically have millions of differences from any reference genome; most are of little consequence, but some single mutations can be fatal. We need a navigation tool to relate each individual’s variations to the knowledge compiled in the Genome Commons. A technical challenge is that our genomes don’t come indexed for such analysis and that our knowledge is so multi-layered. Perhaps even more daunting is sifting through the millions of variations and ranking them so that we are not deluged with genomic marginalia. The Genome Commons navigator would present a status report focusing on genetic differences of greatest medical or personal importance.
by sennoma 2007-10-18 16:14 oa · openscience · opendata · oaos.examples
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The International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), Vol. 7, No. 1-2, October 2007, pp. 1-122, ISSN 1432-5012 (Print) 1432-1300 (Online) is a special feature on e-Science and Digital Libraries. Within the issue is a set of ten articles (six long and four short) representing a range of perspectives on eScience, and the use of digital libraries to organize science collections, that will be of interest to both the eScience and digital library communities. The articles highlight the synergies and differences between the communities, and the challenges present in managing massive collections. ... the digital library community is concerned with the scholarly life cycle, an essential component of eScience practices that are driven by the nature of scientific scholarship. As such, there will be benefits from increased partnership between the two communities. A closer partnership between the two communities can be developed around three areas: • Support for the range of the scholarly communication lifecycle • The role of data within both communities • Broader participation of the digital library community in eScience Connecting digital libraries to eScience: the future of scientific scholarship doi:10.1007/s00799-007-0030-9
by sennoma 2007-10-15 16:12 oa · openscience · readthis · busreading
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The NLM has published a comprehensive set of guidelines for citing email, usenet, websites. It’s great that they’re attempting to come up with some standard rules, but one has to wonder if the group coming up with the proposed rules has ever used our fine series of tubes.
by sennoma 2007-10-15 16:01 oa · openscience · blogs
http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/2007/10/14/the-nlms-ted-stevens-moment/ - cached - mail it - history
Wikis are a natural next step in the evolution of the academic review.
by sennoma 2007-10-11 05:04 openscience · oa
http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2007/10/05/the-directed-evolution-library-construction-wiki-review/ - cached - mail it - history
timeline of metadata
by sennoma 2007-10-04 15:14 oa · openscience
http://metadata.library.cornell.edu/history.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-09-29 18:03 oa · openscience · science · community
http://pbeltrao.blogspot.com/2007/09/ephemeral-journal-ii-via-deepak-earlier.html - cached - mail it - history
Why register your work? Authors and re-mixers need trust when publishing in the Internet. Registered Commons provides a permanent link to the work, its license and a digital timestamp. No matter if it's photography, poetry, a series of blog entries or an open source software project: Now anybody can have secure evidence about the author's permission for re-using it.
by sennoma 2007-09-23 23:21 openscience · oa · openlicensing
http://www.registeredcommons.org/ - cached - mail it - history
more grist for the "definitions" mill
by sennoma 2007-09-18 16:43 oa · openscience
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/372 - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-09-05 19:45 openscience · opendata · openlicensing · oa · openstandards · opensource
http://debianlinux.net/library/ - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-08-31 19:57 openscience · oa · readthis
http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/14/reinventing-academic-publishing-%e2%80%93-part-i/ - cached - mail it - history
Good list of key players. KRUU has a series of digital audio interviews with copyright and other activists in the "open" movement. Here's a sample: * Cory Doctorow, Sci-Fi Author, Copyright Reform Activist * David Lipman, National Institutes of Health * John Wilbanks, Science Commons * Mark Patterson, Virginia Barbour, Public Library of Science * Mike Linksvayer, CTO CreativeCommons.org * Melissa Hagemann, Open Society Institute * Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, CreativeCommons.org * Prayas Abhinav, Creative Commons India * Richard Poynder * Ronaldo Lemos, Lead of CreativeCommons Brazil * Siva Vaidhyanathan, Author and Historian * Vera Franz, OSI * Wendy Seltzer, OpenLaw.org
by sennoma 2007-08-25 15:30 oa · openscience
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/08/25/interviews-with-copyright-and-other-open-activists-from-kruu/ - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-08-24 21:59 oa · readthis · openscience
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Gah, it's in German. But Suber says it's good. Gaah.
by sennoma 2007-08-13 13:54 openscience · oa
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Currently, there is no convenient way to map the knowledge that is contained in one data set to that in another data set, primarily because of differences in language and structure. Doing so requires that the data sets share common definitions of terms and relationship among them (i.e. ontology), or that the ontology used by one data set can be mapped onto that of another data set. For the purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), an ontology is defined as a controlled vocabulary that describes objects and the relationships between those objects in a formal way. On one extreme, this problem could be solved by establishing a universal vocabulary along with an ontology and then requiring all NIH supported research to either use that vocabulary or to define how terms in a data set relate to the mandated vocabulary. Such an extreme approach is not likely to succeed for many reasons, including the rapid changes in the language used to describe biomedical research. New terms are invented daily to describe new biological structures or phenomena. Despite this obstacle, in some areas there are vocabularies and ontologies that are serving as emerging standards. Examples include the Unified Medical Language System, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/umlsmain.html, the Gene Ontology, http://www.geneontology.org/, the work supported by the caBIG project (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/VCDE/), and many of the ontologies listed at the Open Biomedical Ontology web site (http://obo.sourceforge.net/). Applicants are also strongly encouraged to federate their data under appropriate infrastructures when possible. One potential infrastructure is provided by the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (http://www.nbirn.net ). The caBIG™ infrastructure (http://cabig.cancer.gov ) is another well established infrastructure that researchers should consider. National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) (http://bioontology.org/) OWL (http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ ) and OBO (http://obo.sourceforge.net/ ) are two open formats that are broadly used and are well supported by the tools available from the NCBO. Both are also compatible with caGRID (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid ) and the LexBIG (http://informatics.mayo.edu/LexGrid/index.php?page=lexbig ) terminology server used in caBIG™. An example of an open content license governing use of a biomedical terminology may be seen at ftp://ftp1.nci.nih.gov/pub/cacore/EVS/ThesaurusTermsofUse_files/ThesaurusTermsofUse.htm. Another determinate of ontology acceptance is the degree to which the ontology conforms to best practices governing ontology design and construction. Criteria have been developed, and are undergoing empirical validation, by the Vocabulary and Common Data Element Work Group of caBIG™ (https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/projects/vocabcriteria ). Other criteria have been specified by the OBO Foundry (http://obofoundry.org/ ).
by sennoma 2007-08-07 03:46 openscience · oa · opendata · openstandards
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by sennoma 2007-08-05 15:44 oa · openscience · opendata · openlicensing · intellectualproperty · copyright
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/Preliminary%20Thoughts%20utah.pdf - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-07-21 22:45 lostart · oa · openscience · opendata
http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/shared-data-open-data/ - cached - mail it - history
Postgenomic organizes blog posts into four different types: reviews of papers, conference reports, original research and everything else. It can’t do this automatically - it needs a little prompting from you, the blogger. Why do we do it? Posts that are reviews of a particular paper can be listed above posts that cite the paper in passing. Posts about a particular conference can be grouped together. Original research can be timestamped and archived properly. We’re still working on these benefits... but it’s good practice to start making the changes on your blog now. At worst it makes your posts easier to find.
by sennoma 2007-07-17 12:51 openscience · oa · tools · scienceblogging
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The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other type of information. In the simplest form the definition can be summed up in the statement that "A piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it". For details read the latest version of the full definition (with explanatory annotations). The history page includes a changelog and links to all previous versions.
by sennoma 2007-07-14 16:15 oa · openscience
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by sennoma 2007-07-04 15:49 oa · openscience · grid
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The development of a new generation of cyberinfrastructure promises to increase and facilitate globally distributed scientific collaboration as well as access to scientific research via computer networks. But the potential for such access and collaboration is subject to concerns regarding the intellectual property rights that will be associated with networked data and with networked collaborative activity. Intellectual property regimes are generally problematic in the practice of science, because scientific research typically assumes practices of openness that may be hampered or obstructed by intellectual property rights. These difficulties are likely to be exacerbated in the context of networked collaboration, where the development and use of intellectual resources will likely be distributed among many researchers in a variety of physical locations, often spanning national boundaries. Such issues may be addressed by a combination of public and private approaches, including amendment of U.S. law to recognize transborder collaborative work, and adoption of clarifying contractual agreements among those who are collaborating via cyberinfrastructure, including cautious adaptation of “viral” licensing from the open source coding community.
by sennoma 2007-07-01 17:31 oa · openscience · openlicensing · intellectualproperty · readthis · busreading
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by sennoma 2007-06-19 12:49 openscience · oa
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Eric Mockensturm’s NSFEVO Wiki Much thinking-out-loud about publishing, OA and the web.
by sennoma 2007-06-18 21:45 openscience · oa
http://dssl.mne.psu.edu/NSFEVO/index.php/Main_Page - cached - mail it - history
One of the central questions around openness is: Who pays? If stuff is freely available, where does the money come from? In fact, the answer is simple: if the free stuff is valuable to certain people, those people will pay for it, even if it is free. Why? Because if they don't, it will disappear, and they will have lost something they valued. But what about the free riders? Well, what about them? If you are getting what you want for a price that you consider fair, what's your problem? In fact, it's the free riders who have the problem: after all, who wants to look in the mirror and see a parasite?
by sennoma 2007-06-08 11:22 oa · openscience · barf
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/06/resolving-open-conundrum.html - cached - mail it - history
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_06_03_fosblogarchive.html#4928944957351284611 R&D finds answers in the crowd Online communities of crowdsourcing problem-solvers offer participants an opportunity to deploy their knowledge skills. Tracey Caldwell reports on a new vista for information professionals. Tracey Caldwell, Information World Review 04 Jun 2007 With it taking anything up to 15 years and the help of a multimillion-pound budget to bring a single product on to the market, pharmaceutical and biotech companies are understandably eager to ensure that their scientists receive the best R&D support possible. But as information professionals and researchers in R&D know only too well, the solution to a research problem cannot always be found in-house. Outsourcing the research or a specific problem in the research is one option, but a new model of “crowdsourcing” offers businesses a way to tap into a larger, global community of scientists. A crowdsourcer is a business that has created a global, web-based scientific community whose scientists and professionals can be challenged to solve other companies’ R&D problems. So far, chemicals and life sciences have been the main users of crowdsourcers, offering rewards of up to $1m if they are successful. Innocentive , set up by drug giant Eli Lilly in 2001, is one such crowdsourcer, and other sites, such as Nine Sigma and Yet2.com offer similar models.
by sennoma 2007-06-08 11:17 oa · openscience
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/analysis/2191584/finds-answers-crowd - cached - mail it - history
In a first step, a submission is immediately published as a "discussion paper" in the online discussion forums of the journal ... ... Both the comments of interested peers as well as those of the official peer reviewers (who may opt to be anonymous) immediately become publicly available together with the discussion paper. The forum is ISSN-registered and all comments are individually citable. If accepted, the final paper and whole discussion leading to its publication becomes openly and permanently accessible.
by sennoma 2007-06-03 16:55 peerreview · openscience · oa
http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=19 - cached - mail it - history
Wonder what their Open Data policies are? Might be good journals for JCB... OTOH, this is NOT Open Science and we should beware dilution of the term.
by sennoma 2007-05-30 11:46 oa · openscience
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/OpenScience/FAQ.asp - cached - mail it - history
Another nail in the coffin of the horrid Impact Factor.
by sennoma 2007-05-26 13:10 oa · openscience · bibliometrics
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This Management Report summarizes the main descriptive results of a study on researchers' acceptance and use of Open Access publishing. The study was conducted in 2006 by the Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany, in cooperation with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
by sennoma 2007-05-11 12:43 oa · openscience
http://openaccess-study.com/publications.html - cached - mail it - history
Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing An Internet Discussion about Scientific and Scholarly Journals and Their Future
by sennoma 2007-04-27 11:58 openscience · oa
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_04_22_fosblogarchive.html#4060022206020177553 Effects of Intellectual Property Protections on the Conduct of Scientific Research: A Four-country Study This study is the culmination of a multi-year project leading to a 2006 survey of scientists and other professionals in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan to assess their experiences in acquiring, using, or creating intellectual property (IP). Conducted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with assistance from international collaborating partners, this study arose out of concerns over the effects of IP protections on the conduct of scientific research and how those effects might differ between national IP regimes.
by sennoma 2007-04-25 18:52 oa · openscience · openlicensing
http://sippi.aaas.org/Intl_Survey/index.shtml - cached - mail it - history
Includes good paper by PMR on open data
by sennoma 2007-04-24 13:37 openscience · oa · opendata
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~repwkshop/papers.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-04-24 01:23 lostart · oa · openscience
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/red_hat_lets_op.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-04-24 01:22 oa · openscience · bibliometrics
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Alma Swan in American Scientist.
by sennoma 2007-04-16 00:53 oa · openscience
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55131;__8tdD1?&print=yes - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-04-14 16:56 openscience · oa · peerreview
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2187722/road-old-peer-show - cached - mail it - history
Architecture/infrastructure for online collaboration.
by sennoma 2007-04-02 12:20 oa · openscience
http://digitalhistory.uwo.ca/dhh/index.php/2007/03/30/digital-infrastructure-for-collaborative-research/ - cached - mail it - history
List of OA mandates. What I want to know is, why does a mandate have to be Green or Gold? Why not just mandate OA, and let authors choose the mechanism?
by sennoma 2007-04-01 18:37 openscience · oa
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ - cached - mail it - history
The UK Serials Group (UKSG) and the online usage metrics organization COUNTER are exploring the possibility of using online statistics as a metric to determine the impact of a journal.
by sennoma 2007-03-28 14:00 bibliometrics · openscience · oa
http://pbeltrao.blogspot.com/2007/03/usage-based-measurements-of-journal.html - cached - mail it - history
note to self: propose an OA conference (in Bangladesh?)
by sennoma 2007-03-18 20:00 oa · openscience · mangosteen
http://www.mangosee.com/mangosteen/index.htm - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-03-13 16:39 oa · openscience · lostart
http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/2007/03/chemists-without-borders-conference.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-03-10 19:38 oa · openscience · opendata
http://sippi.aaas.org/Symposium_US/Symposium_Brief.pdf - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-03-04 17:45 openscience · oa · openstandards
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001452.html - cached - mail it - history
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
by sennoma 2007-02-17 23:34 oa · openscience · tools
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/12/26/ - cached - mail it - history
mine this for further refs and tools
by sennoma 2007-02-09 03:14 openscience · oa · reference
http://ictlogy.net/20070205-a-reader-on-open-access-for-development/ - cached - mail it - history
"Welcome to Open Context, a free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines. Open Context provides an integrated framework for users to search, explore, analyze, compare and tag items from diverse field projects and collections."
by sennoma 2007-02-08 13:56 openscience · oa · opendata
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The standards papers below are under consideration for publication in Nature Biotechnology. We urge you to participate in the development of these standards by sending us your comments, which will be collated and posted on this page each week. New papers will be added as they become ready, so please check back to this page from time to time.
by sennoma 2007-02-06 01:52 oa · openscience · opendata · openstandards
http://www.nature.com/nbt/consult/index.html - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-02-05 01:06 oa · openscience · readthis
http://www.citizendium.org/collab_prof.html - cached - mail it - history
List of OA journals, includes some things that aren't exactly journals.
by sennoma 2007-01-31 01:40 openscience · oa · webtools
http://www.elementlist.com/lnx/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=90 - cached - mail it - history
To me the most important reason for Open Access is for data mining
by sennoma 2007-01-30 01:36 openscience · oa · datamining
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=1 - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-01-15 15:18 openscience · oa
http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/01/15/chemrefer-free-direct-access-to-the-primary-literature - cached - mail it - history
The content of Authoratory is produced by analyzing large amounts of data from PubMed. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. Authoratory data-mining techniques make it possible to discover new information about the authors - the information that is not apparent by reviewing one or two of their articles. For each selected author Authoratory gives the following: * the author status: primary or non-primary (primary author publishes articles independently, while non-primary always publishes articles with another author or a group of authors) * the list of most frequent coauthors (navigate the social network between the authors using their join publications) * professional interests (as indicated by the MeSH keywords and by the statistical analysis of abstracts and publication titles) * the author's affiliated institution and contact information * the change of all these parameters across time Authoratory keyword search is unique as well. It uses keyword frequencies to rank authors against each other. The more papers the particular author publishes for a specific keyword, the higher his rank is in the keyword listings. With Authoratory keyword search it 's possible to quickly find all authors with the expertise in a specific narrow topic.
by sennoma 2007-01-13 17:48 openscience · oa · bibliometrics
http://www.authoratory.com/about/overview.htm - cached - mail it - history
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-submission portal; an archive of full-text articles, papers, and dissertations; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
by sennoma 2007-01-13 01:38 oa · openscience
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All scientists — rich or poor — should have free and open access to published data; any attempt to restrict such access is unacceptable, argues Donat Agosti.
by sennoma 2007-01-13 01:16 oa · openscience
http://www.scidev.net/opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readopinions&itemid=554&langauge=1 - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2007-01-01 13:34 openscience · oa · bestblogposts · lostart
http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-open-access-new-years-resolutions.html - cached - mail it - history
Further development of GNU EPrints and Citebase, together with the growing webwide database of Open Access (OA) articles, and the data we will collect and analyse from it, will allow us to do several things for which the unique historic moment has arrived with the Research Assessment Exercise's recent transition to metrics: (1) Motivate more researchers to provide OA by self-archiving; (2) map the growth of OA across disciplines, countries and languages; (3) navigate the OA literature using citation-linking and impact ranking; (4) measure, extrapolate and predict the research impact of individuals, groups, institutions, disciplines, languages and countries; (5) measure research performance and productivity, (6) assess candidates for research funding; (7) assess the outcome of research funding, (8) map the course of prior research lines, in terms of individuals, institutions, journals, fields, nations; (9) analyze and predict the direction of current and future research trajectories;(10) provide teaching and learning resources that guide students (via impact navigation) through the large and growing OA research literature in a way that navigating the web via google alone cannot come close to doing.
by sennoma 2006-12-30 14:15 openscience · oa
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12369/ - cached - mail it - history
BMC's OA advocacy kit for researchers. Cool.
by sennoma 2006-12-29 02:28 oa · openscience
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/advocacy?for=researchers - cached - mail it - history
by sennoma 2006-12-22 21:10 oa · openscience
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1306 - cached - mail it - history
Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care? Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences whilst questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.
by sennoma 2006-12-16 23:36 oa · openscience · openlicensing
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/korn-oppenheim/ - cached - mail it - history
The explosive development of "free" or "open source" information goods contravenes the conventional wisdom that markets and commercial organizations are necessary to efficiently supply products. This paper proposes a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon, using concepts from economics and theories of self-organization. Once available on the Internet, information is intrinsically not a scarce good, as it can be replicated virtually without cost. Moreover, freely distributing information is profitable to its creator, since it improves the quality of the information, and enhances the creator's reputation. This provides a sufficient incentive for people to contribute to open access projects. Unlike traditional organizations, open access communities are open, distributed and self-organizing. Coordination is achieved through stigmergy: listings of "work-in-progress" direct potential contributors to the tasks where their contribution is most likely to be fruitful. This obviates the need both for centralized planning and for the "invisible hand" of the market.
by sennoma 2006-12-16 01:36 openscience · oa
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0612071 - cached - mail it - history
Alma Swan, The institutional repository: what it can do for your institution and what the institution can do for the repository, a presentation delivered at the ANKOS Workshop 2006
by sennoma 2006-12-11 22:30 openscience · oa
http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/Conference%20presentations/ANKOS%20-%20Turkey.pdf - cached - mail it - history
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_12_10_fosblogarchive.html#116586166410512093 Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, 2006.
by sennoma 2006-12-11 22:26 oa · openscience
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_12_10_fosblogarchive.html - cached - mail it - history
Via Glyn. "If you're looking for a new perspective on copyright — one that doesn't criminalize you for sharing music, art, and literature freely with others — you'll find it here. Copyright was originally designed to subsidize distribution, not creation. Now that the Internet has fundamentally changed the economics of distribution, it's time to change how we think about copyright."
by sennoma 2006-12-04 02:08 oa · openscience · openlicensing
http://www.questioncopyright.org/ - cached - mail it - history
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_12_03_fosblogarchive.html#116517036121969905 These days it is easy to put things on line....The problem is not technical, its legal — every time you publish an article you sign an “author’s agreement” with a journal. If you are like me, you probably never read those agreements in detail and probably couldn’t understand the legalese even if you did. As a result a lot of us don’t feel comfortable putting PDFs of our articles on the web for anyone to access because we are afraid that we are violating our author’s agreements when we do so. Is there some way to avoid this problem? The answer, luckily, is yes. Peter Hirtle has an excellent (and short!) solution to this problem in his article Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives First he summarizes the problem....
by sennoma 2006-12-04 01:49 openscience · oa
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_12_03_fosblogarchive.html - cached - mail it - history
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