Researchers‘ results to be free for all
Researchers' results to be free for allOpen access discussion in Denmark.
The Copenhagen Post.
Tag Archives: Open Access
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoYwATEDAAM
An announcement for the new World Bank’s open access policy: claiming to do open access due to the need to be more transparent, more open and to encourage the exchange of open ideas.
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The Impact Factor: Past its Expiry Date
The Impact Factor: Past its Expiry DateThis is an article on how open access leads to higher quality in science and research listing these three arguments:
1) by counter-acting the publication bias in the current publication system,
2) by discouraging selective publishing on the part of the author,
3) by minimizing scientific fraud by the publication of underlying data.
We love your work… now show us your workings
We love your work… now show us your workingsJohn Naughton, The Observer, says that the Royal Society has overlooked the fact that for more open access, scientists should not only publish or make accessible data but also homemade software used by the scientists to get data needs to be published.
The Guardian / The Observer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ImPHobGiow
“Open Science - I welcome the Royal Society’s report” says Neelie Kroes, European Commission, responding to the (UK) Royal Society’s website about “Science as an Open Enterprise”.
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Report calls on government to back open access science
Report calls on government to back open access scienceBBC on Finch Report (see Finch Report post on June 19th 2012).
Follow discussion here.
UK: Daily Mail reports open access would put jobs at risk, referring to Finch Report
UK: Daily Mail reports open access would put jobs at risk, referring to Finch ReportUp to £1billion of income and thousands of jobs could be placed at risk as a result of a move by Downing Street to allow Google and other digital search engines ‘open access’ to the nation’s best academic and scientific research. A report commissioned by 10 Downing Street sociologist Dame Janet Finch will say that open access to public-funded research ‘offers significant social and economic benefits’.
Daily Mail.
Open access may require funds to be rationed
Open access may require funds to be rationedPaul Jump thinks, moving to gold model could cost sector an extra £60m a year like Finch group says.
The group’s long-awaited report, released earlier this week, estimated that the transition to open access would cost UK higher education an extra £50-£60 million a year.
See also comment by Professor Adam Tickell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham.
Science as an open enterprise – Final report by The Royal Society
Science as an open enterprise - Final report by The Royal SocietyDownload to the final report as pdf here.
Six key areas for action are highlighted in the report:
- Scientists need to be more open among themselves and with the public and media.
- Greater recognition needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communication.
- Common standards for sharing information are required to make it widely usable.
- Publishing data in a reusable form to support findings must be mandatory.
- More experts in managing and supporting the use of digital data are required.
- New software tools need to be developed to analyse the growing amount of data being gathered.
COAR has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses”
COAR has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses”COAR is currently working on agreements and licences for open access publications by collecting different versions of already existing licences through an open call: participate by writing to Anna Luden (see email below).
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses” with members representing both the repository community as well as the licensing community. (…) They are now collecting different versions of open access clauses (e.g. author rights, self-archiving, parallel publication, compensation for Open Access material etc.) from your existing licenses, and also samples of agreements with gold open access publishers. Please send your replies to anna.lunden@kb.se .
Timothy Gowers, advocate for open access is knighted by British Queen
Timothy Gowers, advocate for open access is knighted by British QueenRather gossip. Still, of interest is that open access is something one can be knighted for also.
Expanding access to research publications
Expanding access to research publicationsUK: 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.
Open Access Is Not for Scientists. It’s for Patients.
Open Access Is Not for Scientists. It’s for Patients.Guest blogger Paul Wicks from PatientsLikeMe explores why Open Access is not just for scientists.
A number of arguments have been made as to why generating political attention for this issue is important for science, but it wasn’t until I read Tom Webb’s blog post onNature Networks entitled “Confessions of an Open Access Agnostic” that I realized we might be missing an important point that we at PatientsLikeMe have been observing recently: open access is most critical for patients.
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook – practical steps for implementing Open Access
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook - practical steps for implementing Open AccessWith the growing interest in OA worldwide comes the increasing demand for training, knowledge development, and skills for the implementing of OA repositories and OA journals, the twin routes for making research results openly accessible.
Alma Swan is project coordinator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqlnyXuYGoQ
Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC and Key Perspectives on the Budapest Open Access Initiative BOAI at its 10th anniversary - recommendations for the next ten years.
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Open Research Conference February 2013 Auckland, New Zealand
Open Research Conference February 2013 Auckland, New ZealandThe conference will include formal talks as well as an unconference to encourage free discussion. If you’d like to take part by talking about something or leading a session, please get in touch.
PeerJ launches today, submissions open late summer.
PeerJ launches today, submissions open late summer.Researchers will only have to pay a one time fee of $259 ($99 per year per submitted article) to gain lifetime publishing privileges in the journal, which will focus on biology research, life and medical science.
See also comment by Stephen Curry, professor of structural biology, Imperial College, London.
Germany’s leading conservative party CDU/CSU speakes up for right to remix and for open access in copyright
Germany's leading conservative party CDU/CSU speakes up for right to remix and for open access in copyrightMichael Kretschmer and Dr. Günter Krings vote in “Diskussionspapier zum Urheberrecht in der digitalen Gesellschaft” pro open access and pro regulation/controlling of market dominating publishing houses by Federal Cartel Authority:
(only in German):
Die CDU/CSU-Bundestagfraktion unterstützt Open-Access Veröffentlichungen, die den digitalen Zugriff auf die wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen fördern. Da es Anzeichen für eine marktbeherrschende Stellung von wissenschaftlichen Großverlagen gibt, halten wir eine Überprüfung dieses Marktes durch das Bundeskartellamt für angezeigt. Zudem setzen wir uns für die Verankerung eines verbindlichen Zweitveröffentlichungsrechts in den Förderrichtlinien für Autoren wissenschaftlicher Beiträge im Internet ein. Ziel ist es, dass öffentlich geförderte Forschungsprojekte nicht ausschließlich in Verlagspublikationen veröffentlicht werden. Die Autoren sollen ihre Werke zeitnah auch durch Open Access der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen können. Für die Verwirklichung dieses Prinzips setzen wir uns auch auf europäischer Ebene ein.
Open Access Days, Vienna 2012
Open Access Days, Vienna 2012Open Access Days in Vienna September, 26th/27th 2012.
Registration possible only online until September 19th 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sJbi2eaPXc
Neelie Kroes, European Commission, on the importance of sharing and open access in scientific research: and her plans to build in open access to EU research and innovation funding.
Originally given to the Open Science: Structural Frameworks for Open, Digital Research — Strategy, Policy & Infrastructure , Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen June 11-13, 2012.
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Open Access Week 2012. Kick Off Webcast.
Open Access Week 2012. Kick Off Webcast.Invitation to webcast: June, 19th 2012, 10am Eastern US Time. http://www.openaccessweek.org/
To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.
How President Obama could really lead on open access
How President Obama could really lead on open accessMichael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science PLoS, claims that President Obama has the opportunity to complete the movement to make its output one of the great public resources.
“Academic Journals and the Price of Knowledge”, Future Tense, radio program on Radio National, ABC.
Interviews are held with, amongst others, Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University, and Dr Tyler Neylon, Mathematician and organiser of the ‘cost of knowledge’ petition and website.
Open access to research is inevitable, says Nature editor-in-chief
Open access to research is inevitable, says Nature editor-in-chiefPhilipp 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.