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Happy 9th Birthday to the Open Knowledge Foundation!
Nine years ago today the Open Knowledge Foundation was born. We’ve come a long way from our humble beginnings in Cambridge in 2004. From government to science to culture, open knowledge is now on its way to being established as an essential part of our information environment.See also the Global Open Knowledge Foundation MeetUp, wich will take place in the Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA, this thursday, June 6th, 2013.
Science Europe denounces ‘hybrid’ Open Access | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Hybrid options are typically far more expensive than ‘pure’ open access journal costs, and they don’t typically aid transparency or the wider transition to open access.OKFN Blog.
4 Ideas for Defending the Open Data Commons
Idea #1: defend a real choice in terms of open data licences (“pro-choice” approach) Ideal #2: the General Interest Data, G.I.D. Idea #3: Contribution peering: I contribute/I receive Idea #4: Contributive pricing on use (GET>POST)
OKF Blog.
Making Open Science Possible
Making Open Science PossibleThe Global Young Academy, that sees itself to help empowering and mobilizing young scientists to address issues of particular importance to early career scientists, published a statement on Open Science on the Open Knowledge Foundation website.
Especially, the statement wants to address still existing obstacles that stand in the way of releasing Open Science, such as financial stability, scientific sustainability and data sustainability.
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open accessThe government wants to make all publicly funded research available – but the same must be demanded of pharmas also.
Cory Doctorow’s column series Digital Rights, Digital Wrongs for The Guardian.
Read also this blog entry on open access to all data from clinical trials by Tom Jefferson, member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
This article on how open data can save money refers to Tom Jefferson’s blog entry advising that
pharmaceutical companies must release all the results of their clinical trials as open data, so that independent researchers can check what has been found.
Reputation Factor in Economic Publishing
Reputation Factor in Economic PublishingDaniel Scott, Founder and Director of Social Sciences Directory and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation OKFN, sets a guideline by listing the next four steps to overcome reputation:
- (…) Who needs journals? What you want is a large collection of articles that are well indexed and easily searchable, and freely available. (…) It will increase usage and reduce cost-per-download (…) whilst helping to increase citation and impact.
- Ensure quality control of peer review by setting guidelines and adhering to them.
- De-couple the link between publishing and tenure & department funding.
- (…) University administrators need to take the bold decision to change, to pick an end date as a ‘cut off’ after which they will publicly state that they are switching to new policies in support of OA. (…) Editors, authors and reviewers will be encouraged to offer their services elsewhere, which will in turn rapidly build the reputation of new publications.
Open Knowledge Festival
Open Knowledge FestivalThe 2012 theme of OKFestival, which is organized by Kat Braybrooke, London-based Community Coordinator for the Open Knowledge Foundation, is Open Knowledge in Action.
Dates: Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd of September, Helsinki, Finnland.
Costs: 50Euro day ticket, 120Euro Weekticket, financial aid provided if needed.
Comment on European Commission’s release on opening up scienitific data
Comment on European Commission's release on opening up scienitific dataJonathan Gray from the Open Knowledge Foundation looks at what the European Commission’s recent announcement on access to scientific data could mean for science and for public engagement with science.
Gray mentions that open data is seen as open not only to scientists but also to all citizens.
The Guardian. Data Blog.
Call for Papers: Open Data Academic Research at Open Knowledge Fest
Call for Papers: Open Data Academic Research at Open Knowledge FestThe Open Data research session will focus on the impact of Open Data research within the academic environment.
Submission Deadline 20th July 2012.
Opening up scientific data with CKAN and the DataHub
Opening up scientific data with CKAN and the DataHubCKAN is a free, open-source data management system. It is used to get data out in the open by local andnational governments as well as international bodies, but it was originally designed for the more community-oriented use of which the DataHub is an excellent example. On the DataHub, anyone can create a dataset in a couple of minutes. Data can be uploaded or linked to elsewhere on the web. Different data ‘resources’ (such as files of any kind) can be collected together in a dataset, and annotated with information about their author(s), provenance, availablity for re-use, etc.
The Right to Read Is the Right to Mine
The Right to Read Is the Right to MineThe Open Knowledge Foundation set definition, principles and stragegies on text / content mining.
While Open Access (OA) is improving the ability for researchers to read papers (by removing access barriers), still only around 20% of scholarly papers are OA. The remainder are locked behind paywalls. As per the vast majority of subscription contracts, Subscribers may read paywalled papers, but they may not mine them.
The next revolution in Science: Open Access will open new ways to measure scientific output
The next revolution in Science: Open Access will open new ways to measure scientific outputCompared with the current practices, all of which are based on citations only, the inclusion of altmetrics plus online usage statistics and post-publication peer-review in an open access world will represent a true revolution in the way that science is perceived by all, scientists included.