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The DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinde, announces competition for new models of open access publication for monographs

The DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinde, announces competition for new models of open access publication for monographs

For detailed information see the announcement (in German).

Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen oder Wissenschaftler, die – gegebenenfalls im Verbund mit Wissenschaftsverlagen oder vergleichbaren Dienstleistern – im Rahmen von Pilotprojekten tragfähige und nachnutzbare Geschäftsmodelle für die Publikation von Monographien im Open Access entwickeln und umsetzen.
Anträge werden bis zum 1. März 2013 entgegengenommen.

Publish means “make public”. Paywalls are the opposite of publishing

Publish means “make public”. Paywalls are the opposite of publishing

Mike Taylor, open access advocate and research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol says that preventing publication to make profit is wrong.

Nothing is wrong with publishers making a profit. (…)If you can make money by publishing research, that’s great. The issue is not publishers who make money. The issue is corporations that go by the title “publishers”, but which in fact make money by preventing publication.

Digital access to knowledge: Research chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber

Digital access to knowledge: Research chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber

“Imagine what would happen if all journalists who write about scholarship had access to primary sources themselves,” Suber says. “Imagine if they could put links to primary sources in their publications, and imagine if readers could click through for free online to those primary sources.”

Journalist’s Resource.

Crowd-sourcing a cure for cancer through the internet

Crowd-sourcing a cure for cancer through the internet

Mr Iaconesi has been diagnosed with cancer. He set up a website where he shares his medical records. He is crowd-sourcing a cure. 

“Grab the information about my disease if you want and give me a cure, create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to find a solution for my health problem,” he wrote.

                     

BBC News.

CC0 the no-copyright license

CC0 the no-copyright license

The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Excerpt of CC0 1.0 (universal) public domain dedication.

The 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012

The 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012

The Munin conference is an annual conference on scientific publishing, with an Open Access approach. The duration of the conference this year will be held at 22–23 November 2012 at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

See the conference’s program on open access and how publishers see their publishing process could work in the future.

Registration is open until November 9th 2012 (registration is not free of charge).

Anatomy of a crowdfunding process

Anatomy of a crowdfunding process

Ethan O. Perlstein, PhD. at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University on the structure and dynamics of a crowdfunding process:

Crowd­sourc­ing Dis­cov­ery our “Open Sci­ence” study of the effects of amphet­a­mines on brain cells, went live last Thurs­day Octo­ber 4th. We kicked off the 45-day crowd­fund­ing cam­paign with an evening launch party at Deweys Flat­iron in New York City.

RCUK Open Access Policy – When to go Green and When to go Gold

RCUK Open Access Policy – When to go Green and When to go Gold

Mark Thorley, NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), Head of Science Information and Chair RCUK Research Outputs Network on the Research Councils UK policies concerning open access:

Our policy requires that peer reviewed research papers which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the Research Councils must be published in journals which are compliant with Research Council policy on Open Access.(…) So what does this mean for authors?  If the journal they want to publish in only offers policy compliance through a Gold route, they must use that journal’s Gold option. (…) if a journal offers neither a Green nor a Gold compliant route, it is not eligible to take RCUK funded work, and the author must use a different, compliant, journal. (…) The Research Councils are not anti-Green and support a dual approach for delivering OA.  However, we do have a strong preference for Gold, and I will explain why in my next blog post. 

Cameron Neylon gives lecture at Zijzaal Refter Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Cameron Neylon gives lecture at Zijzaal Refter Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

During the Open Access Week 2012 Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director at the PLOS (Public Library of Science) will talk about the revolution in science: Zijzaal Refter Radboud University Nijmegen, Tuesday, Oct. 23rd 2012. Admisson free, subscription required.