Open Source, Open Data, Open Science
Open Source, Open Data, Open ScienceCheck out this presentation by Björn Brembs.
Hear him speak live, tomorrow at the DataCite Workshop in Köln.
Check out this presentation by Björn Brembs.
Hear him speak live, tomorrow at the DataCite Workshop in Köln.
The recent blogpost 50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science in the Huffington Post by Dr. Douglas Fields generated quite a few responses.
Have a look at the whole story: See also our post from October, 20th 2012.
Dr. Douglas Fields draws out the dark sides of the shift currently happening in the publishing industry.
Newsweek is dead. But we have Twitter. Harper-Collins just closed its last warehouse of books in the United States. Cambridge University Press, the oldest publisher of scholarly books and journals in the world, printing continuously since 1584, ceased printing operations this year and will outsource printing to another company. The Press survived tumultuous changes since the Middle Ages — the coming and going of plagues, the rise and fall of empires, wars and famine — but it could not sustain itself in the new environment of digital publication and self-publication that the electronic medium feeds.
Dr. Douglas Fields. Huff Post. Science. The Blog.
See also the comments by Björn Brembs, declaring that Fields is wrong on open access.
Please have a look at this post by Jalees Rehman, cell biologist and as a physician at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), too.
This article describes the importance of open access data from scientists for scientists referring to the RG-score at ResearchGate.
In German.
Die Tageszeitung (taz).
See also the review by Universität Wien, Universitätsbibliothek (Vienna university library) with slides by Björn Brembs and others. Also in German.
Open Access: a new horizon for scientific research? This is a 30min panel discussion on Open Access starring Ross Mounce (OKFN panton fellow), Rita Gardner (director of the Royal Geological Society), Timothy Gowers (field’s medalist) and Björn Brembs.
Initiated by The Voice of Russia London.
This is a nice review on the last few actions done in Germany for open access. It contains an interview in German with Björn Brembs, PhD, neurobiology, FU Berlin.