Tag Archives: academic research
Sascha Friesike on Research in the Digital Age
In German onlyOpen access mandate narrowed in formal proposals
The UK funding councils have narrowed the scope of their proposed open access mandate for the post-2014 research excellence framework.TimesHigherEducation.
We cannot afford to keep research results locked away in ivory towers
Opening up British research may seem obvious, writes science minister David Willetts. But it is not just inertia that blocks this.The Guardian. Blog on Political Science.
The Canadian war on public science, basic research and the free and open exchange of scientific information
The Minister of State for Science and Technology effectively voted against:
- the free and open exchange of scientific information
- evidence-based policy-making
- federal government scientists must be enabled to discuss openly their findings
- federal government should maintain support for its basic scientific capacity across Canada
- the world-renowned Experimental Lakes Area Research Facility
FASTR – Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act
This bill will give the American people greater access to the important scientific research results they’ve paid for,” Congressman Doyle said today.”Supporting greater collaboration among researchers in the sciences will accelerate scientific innovation and discovery, while giving the public a greater return on their scientific investment.See also this article on FASTR by Robin Lloyd, responsible for editing and assigning stories and managing the twitter feeds for Scientificamerican.com or this article by John Morgan, deputy news editor of TimesHigherEducation.co.uk Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project, collects major information material on FASTR here. Berkman Center provides further detailed information here.
figshare will host data for PLOS
The new functionality on PLOS allows the files to be discovered through a portal on figshare that will go live in the coming weeks. This, combined with figshare’s API functionality, should allow easier linking of research outputs and the potential to build on previous research.Read also this entry on PLoS Blogs.
How librarians can help widen access to research
Librarians play an important role in helping to change the ways research is disseminated.Librarians explain how libraries can help to advance to open access. The Guardian.
Create better PDFs for the use in academic research and repositories
AMI2 is a project to turn PDFs into fully semantic computable, searchable, executable documents with human intervention.A project by Peter Murray-Rust, advocating the liberation of knowledge, Department of Chemistry, Univeristy of Cambridge.
List of academic journals by preprint policy
List of academic journals by preprint policyThe list contains all preprint policies for academic journals in the sectors mathematics and physics. The Wiki allows to fulfill the list.
Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?As Harvard balks at subscription cost and others take a page from its book, open access publishers get a fresh look.
Open your minds and share your results
Open your minds and share your results“Science’s capacity for self-correction comes from its openness to scrutiny and challenge.”
Nature.
PeerJ
PeerJA new open access publishing model starts in Fall 2012.
PeerJ is establishing a new sustainability model. Researchers will be able to purchase Lifetime Memberships, starting at just $99, giving them the rights to publish their articles in our peer reviewed journal. All published articles are made freely available to the public. Subscription fees made sense in a pre-Internet world, but now they just slow the progress of science. It’s time to change that.
Wikipedia founder to help in government’s research scheme
Wikipedia founder to help in government's research schemeAcademic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online.
The Guardian.
UK to make academic research available free on the net
UK to make academic research available free on the netThe UK plans to give the public access to academic research via the internet free of charge.
Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales might have agreed to advise the UK government on how to ensure the move would promote “collaboration and engagement”.
BBC.
Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shift
Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shiftOpening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it.
The Guardian.
Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge.
Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge.The free online Encyclopedia Wikipedia answers questions of millions of users every day. Wikipedia’s mere existence, growth, (social and technical) functioning and quality also raises an enormous number of research questions. The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general.
Life after Elsevier: making open access to scientific knowledge a reality
Life after Elsevier: making open access to scientific knowledge a realityAs more than 10,000 scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier on the Cost of Knowledge website, its creator looks to the future.
The Guardian.
Google Scholar Metrics
Google Scholar MetricsGoogle Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. While most researchers are familiar with the well-established journals in their field, that is often not the case with newer publications or publications in related fields - there’re simply too many of them to keep track of! Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.