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Wellcome Library Open Access Fund

The Wellcome Trust opens up new funds for Wellcome Library research.
The Wellcome Library has made funds available to pay the open access publishing costs for research papers, monographs and book chapters that result from research based on the Wellcome Library's collections. In this video the Head of Library, Simon Chaplin, explains why the Fund has been created and what the benefits are for the Library and its users.
See also this post.

Privacy and Utility in Data Sets

(...) formal definitions may never capture some of the nuances in common understandings of “privacy” and “utility,” nuances that are highly contextual and that depend on social factors, not just numbers. By analyzing some of those nuances, we can begin to understand the policy choices inherent in deciding whether and how to regulate data privacy across varying social contexts.
See also Wu's paper here.

TYT Science on Open Access and Open Data

An overview of two big "open science" changes presented by Mike Galsworthy from TYT Science.
Open Access is the drive to make sure all the academic literature is freely available to everyone. Open Data is the drive to get scientists to publish their actual raw data so that integrity of science can be assured and the data can be re-used by others. Together these movements are ushering in something of a scientific revolution - but how will this all be done in practice? Mike takes us through what is happening right now. To see his recent article on Open Data, please click here.

Edinburgh: Publishing Conference 2 – Live stream

See also this summary.
The publishing industry is now changing faster than ever before due to internet services, digital publishing, free blogging platforms and open access journals. How will this continue to evolve in the future? Will the erosion of traditional publishing methods continue and how will publishing companies adapt? What are the growing entrepreneurial opportunities in this dynamic industry? Join us for a day of publishing talks, discussion and networking.

This video is of the “Copyright, Licensing, Open Access” session from the 18-19 March 2013 “MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?” event hosted by OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. As courses are being offered online to a diverse and geographically distributed audience, what are the challenges for licensing and clearing copyright for materials used in courses? Are there opportunities for advancing the conversation on open access with faculty? Featuring Brandon Butler, Director of Public Policy Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries; Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University; Kenny Crews, Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University; and Kyle K. Courtney, Manager of Faculty Research and Scholarship, Harvard Law School. See the MOOCs and Libraries event page athttp://www.oclc.org/research/events/2… for a complete overview of this event.
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