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Open source publishing tool

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. More fundamentally, Scalar is a semantic web authoring tool that brings a considered balance between standardization and structural flexibility to all kinds of material. It includes a built-in reading interface as well as an API that enables Scalar content to be used to drive custom-designed applications. If you’re dealing with small to moderate amounts of structured content and need a lightweight platform that encourages improvisation with your data model, Scalar may be the right solution for you.

Editor-in-Chief at Nature talks about open science

This article refers to the  conference “Science as an Open Enterprise: Open Data for Open Science,” held at FAPESP’s headquarters in São Paulo. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature magazine, chemist Martyn Poliakoff (Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society); and the FAPESP’s Scientific Director, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz talked.
Campbell went to explain, “The literature is published in many different scientific magazines, and if they are closed, it is impossible for any researcher to find them with ease. Since we need people from all disciplines and from several places working on climate change, it seems reasonable to make data open.”

What Open Access Needs Today Is Mandates, Not Money

No extra money is needed for Green OA self-archiving. It just requires a clear mandate (requirement) to self-archive, by depositing the author’s final, peer-reviewed draft in the author’s institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication. The deposit should be made OA immediately (or after an embargo period whose allowable length should be as short as possible).

Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access — And It’s Working

This seems to be the publishers’ new strategy against open access: not to fight it directly, but to use constant lobbying to inflict a kind of death by a thousand cuts — slicing off a provision here, lengthening an embargo there, pushing implementation further and further into the future — until the final result is almost no different from the status quo.
Blog entry on TechDirt.

What happens when you blog and tweet about an open access paper?

What happens when you blog and tweet about an open access paper?

“There have been almost 3 times that number of downloads from our institutional repository…I think its fair to say: It’s a really good thing to make your work open access. More people will read it than if it is behind a paywall. Even if it is the most downloaded paper from a journal in your field, open access makes it even more accessed” says Melissa Terras, Co-Director of University College London (UCL) Centre for Digital Humanities.

Publish means “make public”. Paywalls are the opposite of publishing

Publish means “make public”. Paywalls are the opposite of publishing

Mike Taylor, open access advocate and research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol says that preventing publication to make profit is wrong.

Nothing is wrong with publishers making a profit. (…)If you can make money by publishing research, that’s great. The issue is not publishers who make money. The issue is corporations that go by the title “publishers”, but which in fact make money by preventing publication.

Fraud as one aspect of motivation for to retracting scientific papers

Fraud as one aspect of motivation for to retracting scientific papers

Carl Zimmer, The Loom-blog author,  writes in the New York Times:

Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature. 

This article got corrected post published saying that fraud was not no.1- motivation for retracting an article but misconduct:

The earlier version also misstated the reason cited in the study for three-quarters of the retractions for which researchers could determine the cause. It was misconduct, not fraud. (Fraud or suspected fraud accounted for 41.3 percent of retractions; other forms of misconduct made up the rest.)

The New York Times.

30.000 Euro for open access publications: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany established fund for open access

30.000 Euro for open access publications: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany established fund for open access

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der JGU haben ab sofort die Möglichkeit, finanzielle Unterstützung für das Veröffentlichen von Beiträgen in Open Access-Zeitschriften zu bekommen. Die Universität hat dazu einen Publikationsfonds für die Finanzierung von Artikelbearbeitungsgebühren eingerichtet. Der für 2012 erstmals bereitgestellte Fonds umfasst 30.000 Euro. Bei der Vergabe der Fördermittel wird der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs bevorzugt behandelt.

In German.

Expanding access to research publications

Expanding access to research publications

UK: Further steps towards full open access environment.

The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch published on 18 June recommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research. Better, faster communication of research results will bring benefits for public services and for economic growth.

See also articles by The Guardian and Reuters and comments by Cameron Neylon and Stephen Curry.