September 12th 2012: Registration is open, costs: 40Euro, registration closes Sept. 9th 2012.
See also workshop on OA Statistics, that will be part of the program Vienna Open Access Days, Sept. 27th 2012.
The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on the unbalanced relationship between utilization, users and reutilization of copyright. Here is an article on copyright for scientists from the FAZ.
Die Balance zwischen Urhebern, Rechteverwertern und Nutzern ist gestört.
In German. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Infographics show the views, downloads of a paper by one example published by Ethan O. Perlstein, Princeton University.
Capetown, Friday 10 August 2012. The seminar Global participation in e-research and scholarly communication: Open access strategies for African institutions is an official pre-event to the international Berlin10 open access conference ‘Networked scholarship in a networked world: Participation in Open Access’, Stellenbosch, 6–8 November 2012.
The conference Archivia 12 on open archives will be held in Linz, Austria August 31st and September 1st 2012.
Registration is free of charge and already open.
The National Science Foundation (USA) nvites reporters to participate in a live webcast on citizen science on Tuesday, July 31, at 3:00 p.m. EDT.
This webcast will cover how citizen scientists are helping to advance science, the rapid growth and future of citizen science, and the Frontiers issue and conference on citizen science. The August 2012 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which is published by the Ecological Society of America (ESA), is titled Citizen Science-New Pathways to Public Involvement in Research and is available for free download starting at 12:01 a.m. on August 1 on the Frontierswebsite. This issue is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
As Harvard balks at subscription cost and others take a page from its book, open access publishers get a fresh look.
This article is on metrics, selection and access data.
The Atlantic.
All studies funded by Department for International Development after 1 November will be freely available for anyone to read.
The Guardian.
This fall, edX will offer seven MOOCs: artificial intelligence and software engineering from Berkeley, computer science and biostatistics and epidemiology from Harvard, and an introduction to solid state chemistry and an introduction to computer science and programming from M.I.T., along with another round of the circuits course it offered as a prototype.
Anant Agarwal, the president of edX, said that more than 120 universities around the world had expressed interested in working with the partnership.
The New York Times.
See also comment in German on free online learning platform Coursera, negotiated as for-profit company.
Open Call inciated by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Wellcome Trust, submission deadline: July, 31st 2012, 17:00; maximum funding £20,000.
The Finch report has stated that universities will have to be increasingly efficient in the way they pay for open access publishing in the form of article processing charges (APCs).
Responding to the recommendation, JISC and the Wellcome Trust, on behalf of the UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) are commissioning work to investigate how we can help universities, publishers and funders manage the charges efficiently and also what role an intermediary might play in making the process work smoothly.
Change in academic research is overdue according to Mark Henderson, Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust since January 2012 and author of “The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters” in
The Telegraph.
Stephen Curry on the costs of research referring to all reports recently published on opening up science.
Blogpost by Cameron Neylon on the weight societies have concerning scholarly research.
In a given space a scholarly society has a unique capacity to coordinate and organise assessment by domain experts. I can certainly imagine a society offering peer review as a core member service, independent of whether the thing being reviewed is already “published”.
Societies are all about community.
Interesting blogpost by David Worlock, chairman of Business Information Industry Association (BIIA) on the thinking that
Science is based upon measurement and evaluation, yet the activities of scientists have themselves been less measured and evaluated than the subjects of their research.
Worries about open access hit shares but analysts say developments unlikely to impact revenues yet.
The Guardian.
Axel Rhamelow (Deutschlandradio) in an interview with Heinz Pampel, working in the coordination office of the Helmholz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren.
In German. Deutschlandradio.
This website lists all documents in the development of the Commission’s policies on access to scientific information.
Jonathan Gray from the Open Knowledge Foundation looks at what the European Commission’s recent announcement on access to scientific data could mean for science and for public engagement with science.
Gray mentions that open data is seen as open not only to scientists but also to all citizens.
The Guardian. Data Blog.
Today we detail our plans to make available under open access all publications stemming from EU-funded research. We also commit to progressively open access to research data.
See also the official press release.
At launch, the ORCID Registry and system will include the following features:
- Usability: Individuals may claim and create their own record and manage their record and account, including assigning proxy access.
- Fields & Objects: The ORCID record will include mandatory fields for Name, email, and Organization, and additional fields to capture information about Publications, Grants, Patents and Education History.
- Privacy Management: Individuals (or proxies) may manage field-level privacy settings for the information stored in their record: Private (share with no one), Limited Access (share only with those specified), and Public (share with everyone).
- Member Read/Write Access Interface: Authorized ORCID Members may add information to an individual’s ORCID record using an OAuth API. ORCID Members may read public, and if authorized, limited access data from the ORCID registry via the OAuth API.
- Public Data Read Access Interface: Members and non-members may use a public API and interface to read public data from the ORCID registry.
- Widgets & Member Site Integration: Widgets, badges, instructions, and descriptions of ORCID will be available to support integration between sites.
- Logging & Tracking: The ORCID system will log key information on system performance and record changes.
Letter to Dame Janet Finch on the Government Response to the Finch Group Report: “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications”.
See also comment by Stephen Curry.
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today, 16th July 2012, unveiled its new Open Access policy. Informed by the work of the National Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Professor Dame Janet Finch, the policy at once harmonises and makes significant changes to existing Research Councils’ Open Access policies.
See also blogpost on nature.com.
Radical shakeup of academic publishing will allow papers to be put online and be accessed by universities, firms and individuals.
The Guaridian.