Liberation Movement: Open Access against stranglehold of Publishers
Liberation Movement: Open Access against stranglehold of PublishersInteresting broadcast about open access.
In German.
Deutschlandfunk.
News blog
Where Art and Science meet: WeatherDataMusicSculpture
Where Art and Science meet: WeatherDataMusicSculptureScientific data can be quite abstract, but for those who aren’t so good at abstract thinking and who learn by doing or touching, sculpture offers a way to make weather data tactile.
PLOS Blogs.
Altmetrics Collection
Altmetrics CollectionAltmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional scholarly impact measures that are based on activity in web-based environments. As scholarship increasingly moves online, these metrics track associated interactions and activity to generate fine-grained data, allowing researchers and policy makers to create a higher resolution picture of the reach and impact of academic research.
Check out the PLOS Altmetrics Collection.
PLOS.
Open access at the University of Southampton – pushing the boundaries and the art of the impossible
Open access at the University of Southampton - pushing the boundaries and the art of the impossibleFor ten years, the University of Southampton has been at the forefront of open access development. Researchers, academics, service providers and senior management have worked together in partnership to develop a successful open access strategy.
JISC.
Open Access – Repository Interoperability
Open Access - Repository InteroperabilitySince repository interoperability is paramount in order to achieve the goals of Open Access, it is a focal point for the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). This project is one of several tactics designed to promote the repository community’s understanding of the interoperability landscape, share current best practices, and provide knowledge and information necessary to chart and implement institutional strategies for interoperability that profit from the services made available through interoperability initiatives. This report is designed to be the first stage of a multi-phase process aiming to establish the COAR Roadmap for Interoperability.
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.
Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?
Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?Alice Meadows, Wiley and Sons, suggests to support golden access as publishing method but votes if this would succeed for more funding especially for young researchers.
Funding seems to be a key issue, with only 18% of authors receiving full funding for article publication. Additionally, young researchers are nearly twice as likely not to have funding as their older colleagues; somewhat counter-intuitively, however, they don’t see this as any more of a barrier to publishing OA. Presumably OA will rapidly move up the ranks as a factor in where researchers choose to publish as funder mandates start to kick in – the introduction of the RCUK mandate on April 1, 2013, and corresponding increase in APC funding for articles arising from UK funded research, should be a good indicator.
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.
How publishers feather their nests on open access to public money
How publishers feather their nests on open access to public moneyNot a peep from Finch as scholarly journal firms fly off to tax havens and grow ever more profitable. Simon Lilley, head of the University of Leicester School of Management, does the sorry sums.
See also the article below by Debby Shorley “It’s time for universities to reclaim publishing rights”.
Open Access strategies for scientific institutions: Modules and Examples
Open Access strategies for scientific institutions: Modules and ExamplesThe pdf is a summary of open access strategies, published this October by the task group Open Access Priority Initiative “Digital Information” by the Alliance of German Science Organisations, edited by Johannes Fournier (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Tina Klages (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), Heinz Pampel (Helmholtz Gemeinschaft).
In German.
Open Access and revisionism
Open Access and revisionismHendrik Bunke, working for the German National Library of Economics, University of Bremen, values the open access movement in Germany as calm and comments on this rank referring to the history of the social democrats in Germany, especially the revisionism conflict. Bunke says, that they stopped being revolutionary because of their strategy to incorporate anti-party platform developments instead of sticking to their revolutionary approach.
In German.
It’s time for universities to reclaim publishing rights
It's time for universities to reclaim publishing rightsUnless universities are bolder, open-access policies will leave control of publicly funded research in commercial publishers’ hands, says Debby Shorley, director of library services at Imperial College London:
Maybe the real benefit of the Finch report is not that it gives us a solution—it doesn’t—but that it has sparked discussion in high places. It may make those involved in publicly funded research bold enough to turn the current scholarly communications model on its head and allow our universities to regain control of their intellectual capital by disseminating the research they produce. (…) Publishing skills are publishing skills. What stops us from bringing them in-house, and using the prestige of our universities as brands?
MOOC – massive open online course
MOOC - massive open online courseThis article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links.
Help out open-access-like to create the definition of “MOOC - massive open online course” on wikipedia.
Open Access grows quicker than expected
Open Access grows quicker than expected“Approximately 17% of the 1.66 million articles published during 2011 and indexed in the most comprehensive article-level index of scholarly articles (Scopus) are available OA through journal publishers, most articles immediately (12%) but some within 12 months of publication (5%).” say Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk in their recently published study Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure.
Open Access Growth in economic science, PhD-Comics, SCOAP-critics, ORCID online.
Linked article in German.
New crowdfunding website for open science projects
New crowdfunding website for open science projectsBy removing the barriers associated with traditional finance, we will open the possibility of funding for projects which may fall outside the usual realm, including projects by schools and A-Level science students.
See also post below: a blogpost listing the current websites and platforms concerning crowdfunding for scientists (blogpost in German).
HACK DAY: Wellcome Trust commissioned hack day around open science and open data
HACK DAY: Wellcome Trust commissioned hack day around open science and open dataWe’re delighted to say that the Wellcome Trust has commissioned us to run a hack day around open science, and open science data. The project was instigated by Dr Kevin Fong, Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow, who will host the event.
December 8th and 9th 2012: London, UK.
OpenAIRE Conference 2012
OpenAIRE Conference 2012OpenAIRE provides guidance and assistance to researchers in publishing their research results in Open Access.
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany: November 21st and November 22nd 2012.
Registration open until November 16th 2012.
Aggregated article level metrics
Aggregated article level metricsThe following data have been made available at launch:
The aggregation of these data and the addition of usage information is a new service that IOP is offering as a direct result of requests from the scientific community.
- total full-text article downloads
- total video abstract views
- citations through CrossRef, PubMed Central, Nature Blogs and Google Scholar
- shares and bookmarks through Mendeley, CiteULike and Connotea
An open list of crowdfunding platforms for science
An open list of crowdfunding platforms for scienceThis blogpost lists several platforms and websites concerning crowdfunding for scientific projects.
In German.
What is open access all about?
What is open access all about?Rob Chalmers, Managing Director of Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd, University of Adelaide, posted a well researched text about the differences within open access: open source, open data, open innovation etc.
See also the blogpost by Cornelius Puschmann, open science researcher at HIIG Berlin, on open science and its debate.
See also blog entry by Carly Strasser, DataUp Project Manager at UC Curation Center, California DIgital Library.
Everyone has the right to open knowledge
Everyone has the right to open knowledgeA wrap up of the publication process and the new achievements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY
Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it’s all about.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Developing Blogpost: Podiumsdiskussion zu Open Science in Berlin (#oaweek)
Developing Blogpost: Podiumsdiskussion zu Open Science in Berlin (#oaweek)Nice summary of yesterday’s talk ‘Open Science - Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Wissenschaft’.
Listen also to the audio recording (in German).
See also this article on yesterday’s talk at HU Berlin.
Nobel-Worthy Open Access Research
Nobel-Worthy Open Access ResearchThis blogpost names the 2012 Nobel Prize winners that have published open acccess.
What do John Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka, Brian Kobilka and Serge Haroche have in common? (…) All of these Nobel laureates have also chosen to publish their research in open access.