More than 10000 free journals available. Journals for Free has a broad definition for what open access journals are:
- journals that provide free documents immediately upon publication, with no delay;
- journals with free information after a delay (embargo period);
- journals with free information for a certain period in the past.
The ARC’s new policy will free up a lot of basic research. But far from all of it. There are loopholes, there is wiggle room, and there are ways for researchers and universities to drag their feet.
An invitation to an open panel discussion organised by the National Union of Journalists and hosted by The Wellcome Trust.The event will take place on Wednesday 6 February at 7pm in London.The venue is The Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
“With Japanese researchers, there’s a kind of resistance or barrier to using a creative commons license; particularly, people tend to have the attitude that the rights to a paper are the publisher’s concern, so they don’t think to actively go for a creative commons license themselves,” Mr. Bando states.
(& where they end up, and why).The blog Free U.S. ETD’s is a blog created and managed by Gail Clement, Librarian and Associate Professor in Digital Services & Scholarly Communications at the Texas A&M University Libraries.
In a recent post, Caren Cooper focused on scientist-driven citizen science. This perspective offers a framework for many citizen science projects. Citizens participate in established research agendas to assist scientists collect, aggregate, and/or analyze large data sets. But citizen science can also be participant-driven.
PLOS Blogs.
Good science should have no boundaries. That was the strong message from Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European commissioner for research, last month at the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference at Stellenbosch University.Business Daily.
Transparency is essential for trust and credibility in the research community, and true openness brings great opportunities for academia. The internet facilitates the free flow of information and knowledge, and permits new forms of communication both for researchers and for the general public. Already, today’s children can listen freely on the internet to university courses taught by world-leading scientists, and everybody has the best encyclopaedia ever written (Wikipedia) at their fingertips. These are real game changers. Opening up the research literature is the next logical step.David Shotton. See also this and this post.
“When you think of citizen science, what do you think of? I know in my case, I think of people out (maybe with their kids) measuring snowfall, finding birds, or listening at night to hear different kind of insects in various environments.
And yes, that is all definitely citizen science. But citizen science can be, and should be, much more than that.”
Scientific American Blogs.
requirement for stating as many details of the hardware and software as possible (…) to build a central repository of code that contains a variety of different protocols along with their attendant parameters (…) (and) a uniform standard for the analysis and presentation of data.
Hosted by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) of Brasil, the 2nd Summit of the Global Research Council will take place from 27 to 29 May 2013 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin, Germany. (…) Participants of the summit will establish and endorse a Statement of Principles on Research Integrity and agree on an action plan for implementing Open Access to Publications as the main paradigm of scientific communication in the following years.
Ireland already has considerable expertise in developing Open Access to publicly funded research, aligned with international thinking and initiatives, and is now seeking to strengthen its approach to support international developments on Open Access led by the European Commission, Science Europe and other international agencies.
I expect secrecy from Pharma, but not from Academia, which I think abuses the freedom to pursue knowledge for its own sake on the public’s dime. At the same time, I expect more innovation to originate within Pharma and not simply be imported from Academia with taxpayer subsidies.
NHS Hack Days are weekend events that brings together doctors, nurses, developers, designers, and other “geeks who love the NHS” to create disruptive solutions to problems in the health space.
Any referee who, in a given year, has refereed three or more papers for any of the journals will receive a letter acknowledging their contribution and a free subscription to their choice of one of the journals. More importantly, we have recently introduced a system by which our referees can download a statement of the number of papers they have refereed for us. This report is available by logging into the ‘My Account’ page on any Nature journal’s manuscript submission and tracking system and reflects the refereeing activity across all Nature journals.
Nature.
To support data reuse and reproducible research, rOpenSci is happy to announce an open science challenge. If you can propose a research project (or enhance an existing effort) involving one or more of our packages, our team will provide you with all the support you’ll need to complete and publish this effort.
Deadline to application: Janary, 31st, 2013.
See also this blog entry.
John Dupuis, Acting Associate University Librarian, Information
Services at York University, Toronto, Canada, talks about one year of open access advocacy.
Blog post on ScienceBlogs.
PLOS and PeerJ, two very different beasts.
A description on ways of open access publishing prossibilities and science 2.0.
GitHub has big dreams for open source software and more.
Quentin Hardy for the New York Times.