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.
Capetown, Friday 10 August 2012. The seminar Global participation in e-research and scholarly communication: Open access strategies for African institutions is an official pre-event to the international Berlin10 open access conference ‘Networked scholarship in a networked world: Participation in Open Access’, Stellenbosch, 6–8 November 2012.
This article is on metrics, selection and access data.
The Atlantic.
Change in academic research is overdue according to Mark Henderson, Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust since January 2012 and author of “The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters” in
The Telegraph.
Blogpost by Cameron Neylon on the weight societies have concerning scholarly research.
In a given space a scholarly society has a unique capacity to coordinate and organise assessment by domain experts. I can certainly imagine a society offering peer review as a core member service, independent of whether the thing being reviewed is already “published”.
Societies are all about community.
Interesting blogpost by David Worlock, chairman of Business Information Industry Association (BIIA) on the thinking that
Science is based upon measurement and evaluation, yet the activities of scientists have themselves been less measured and evaluated than the subjects of their research.
Today we detail our plans to make available under open access all publications stemming from EU-funded research. We also commit to progressively open access to research data.
See also the official press release.
At launch, the ORCID Registry and system will include the following features:
- Usability: Individuals may claim and create their own record and manage their record and account, including assigning proxy access.
- Fields & Objects: The ORCID record will include mandatory fields for Name, email, and Organization, and additional fields to capture information about Publications, Grants, Patents and Education History.
- Privacy Management: Individuals (or proxies) may manage field-level privacy settings for the information stored in their record: Private (share with no one), Limited Access (share only with those specified), and Public (share with everyone).
- Member Read/Write Access Interface: Authorized ORCID Members may add information to an individual’s ORCID record using an OAuth API. ORCID Members may read public, and if authorized, limited access data from the ORCID registry via the OAuth API.
- Public Data Read Access Interface: Members and non-members may use a public API and interface to read public data from the ORCID registry.
- Widgets & Member Site Integration: Widgets, badges, instructions, and descriptions of ORCID will be available to support integration between sites.
- Logging & Tracking: The ORCID system will log key information on system performance and record changes.
Radical shakeup of academic publishing will allow papers to be put online and be accessed by universities, firms and individuals.
The Guaridian.
Open Digital Repositories Conference Edinburgh 2012. Opening Keynote from Cameron Neylon - Network Enabled Research.
If research film were streamed via online channels it would allow rapid feedback on research findings. It would also reach a much wider audience, compared with the current handful of readers of academic journals.
The Financial Times.
Philipp Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature said at a briefing by academic publishers on open access at the Science Media Centre:
“In the future, there will be text mining and tools … that need to get into that literature - I see that as a key part of the future and it’s hard to see how that could work without open access.”
The Guardian.
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.
Dates: June 29 - July 1 2012, Berlin. Registration closes on June 15th 2012.
A well researched article about the rise of the open access debate, including comments on iniciatives such as Open Knowledge Foundation or David Willetts.
Researchers of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec CANADA conclude that open access papers get twice as many citations as non-open access papers, and on top that open access raises quality.
We demonstrate that the greater citation impact of open access research is causal rather than an artifact of author bias (i.e., authors self-selectively making higher quality research open access) by showing that the citation increase is just as great when the open access is mandatory; the open access impact advantage is independent of other correlates of citation impact, and greater for higher quality research.
Video on USA petition for open access by FakeElsevier.
Visit www.access2research.org and sign the White House petition. We are closer than ever to making open access to taxpayer funded research a reality.
The release of the new Statement of Principles for Scientific Merit Review highlights six “key elements necessary for a rigorous and transparent review system.” They include the use of expert assessment of proposals and a transparent, impartial, and confidential review process.
Australian researchers discuss freeing up access to the “source code” of clinical trials.