Report Knowledge Exchange workshop
Making data count - Research Data and Research Assessment, 11-12 April 2013, Berlin
CC Global Summit – Creative Commons – Buenos Aires August 2013
We are pleased to confirm that Professor Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and one of Creative Commons’ founders and current Board members, will be presenting a keynote at this year’s Summit.
We’d also like to remind you that the call for papers for the Summit closes this week. Have you papers in by 24 May.
PeerJ Now Indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals
PeerJ is pleased to announce that we are now listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
MOOCs or campus? In the future, you choose
A napster moment; the end of boring lectures; a tipping point. These are all common responses to the emergence of MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses.
UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNESCO will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open license. Following a decision by the Organization’s Executive Board in April, UNESCO has become the first member of the United Nations to adopt such an Open Access policy for its publications. The new policy means that anyone will be able to download, translate, adapt, distribute and re-share UNESCO publications and data without paying.
Registration is now open for the 5th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing | Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 5th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) which will be held in Riga, Latvia, September 18th – 20th, 2013. Registration and accommodation information for COASP 2013 can found on the conference website:http://oaspa.org/conference/
An Interview with F1000 director Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
In our ongoing quest to learn more about open access publishing, this week we’ve been chatting to Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Outreach Director for Faculty of 1000, about his belief in encouraging transparency, sharing and debate.
Towards Open Access to Government Science: The Obama Administration Takes Some Important Steps – The Equation
This week, the National Research Council is holding public comment meetings on increasing public access to federally funded research—both access to the data and publications. We encouraged the UCS Science Network to weigh in with their own ideas on how the government can increase public access to its science. After all, this is the science that we all pay for through our tax dollars.
Publisher Threatens Librarian With $1 Billion Lawsuit : NPR
A scholarly publisher has issued a warning to Jeffrey Beall, a Colorado librarian who writes about what he calls “predatory” practices in the journal industry, threatening him with a $1 billion lawsuit for his blog posts about the company. The publisher, based in India, says he could also face jail time.
Emerald | Library Review | Philosophy of Escapism in the Open Access World: Studying Author Pay Model
Findings - Open access journal publishers have to evolve up a mechanism that will share the burden of the authors interested in publishing in OA journals that levy article processing charges.A study by Tariq Ahmad Shah, (University of Kashmir), Sumeer Gul, (University of Kashmir) on open access publishing strategies.
Hanging out with “We the Geeks” | The White House
The White House is kicking off “We the Geeks,” a new series of Google+ Hangouts to highlight the future of science, technology, and innovation here in the United States.
Note: Watch the first ‘We the Geeks” Hangout on Thursday, May 16, at 2:00 p.m. EDT on WhiteHouse.gov and on the White House Google+ page. You can join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #WeTheGeeks.
The Cost of Open Science
..the hidden “costs” of open science — the cost of pushing science forward as a whole, sometimes at the expense of one’s own career…
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When should I publish with open access? A handy flow chart by Mike Taylor.
The Limits of Crowdsourcing in the Scientific Disciplines
Social networking and crowdsourcing have attributes that may make them both incompatible with the goals and process of science. Can we accept that?The Scholarly Kitchen.
One step forward for better evidence for healthcare…
Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week, should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely divided opinion on exactly how data sharing should happen.F1000 Blog.
Video: The importance of publishing negative studies
Keith Flaherty is Director of Developmental Therapeutics at the Massachusetts Cancer Center. In his talk he addressed the benefits of publishing negative results. He focused his talk on therapies for cancer, in particular melanoma, since that’s the area he is most familiar with. (…) In closing, he emphasized that publishing negative data in preclinical and clinical studies would save time and money, and could open up new pathways of investigation.See the video here.
Scientific fraud, sloppy science - yes, they happen
So why do scientists cheat? And, also, why are scientists sloppy? Of course, scientists are people, fame is fame and money is money, but some other possible answers are listed below.
Seeking Outstanding “Open Science” Champions of Change
The White House Champions of Change program highlights individuals, businesses, and organizations whose extraordinary stories and accomplishments positively impact our communities. (…) Anyone can nominate an “Open Science” candidate for consideration by May 14, 2013 (under “Theme of Service,” choose “Open Science”).See also this blog entry on OKNF.
How radical are Open Access and the Digital Humanities?
Mercedes Bunz in an interview at the republica conference in Berlin. Audio stream in German.Atomium-Culture Survey: When open access becomes a top issue in politics
FAZ. In German.
See also this article on the survey. In English.
Crowdfunding: Another Form of Science Outreach
Science crowdfunding changes the equation by adding a powerful new incentive for scientists to engage the public with science: the potential for raising money for research directly from the public. What makes crowdfunding such a powerful potential lever to connect science and society is that the amount of money that can be raised in this way is directly proportional to the size of the audience that has been built.
Free-for-all: Open-access scientific publishing is gaining ground
Budgets are tight, and pressure for access to be open is growing.
Open Access: Scientists attack publishers by founding their own journals
Billiger, besser, fairer: Für freien Zugriff auf Forschungsergebnisse sollen die Urheber zahlen. Mit eigenen Journalen wehren sich Forscher gegen Verlage.Die ZEIT. In German. See also this article in Der TAGESSPIEGEL. Also in German.
GrandIR open access repository
GrandIR provides technical support to institutional repository projects in universities and research centres. Repositories are databases of self-produced research works which the abovementioned institutions offer in an Open Access way, that is, freely available via the Internet.