News. Free Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software. Today, Apple announced new iPhone models, a watch, and a payment service. In response, FSF executive director John Sullivan made the following statement: It is astonishing to see so much of the technology press acting as Apple's marketing arm. What's on display today is widespread complicity in hiding the most newsworthy aspect of the announcement -- Apple's continuing war on individual computer user freedom, and by extension, free speech, free commerce, free association, privacy, and technological innovation.Every review that does not mention Apple's insistence on using Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to lock down the devices and applications they sell is doing an extreme disservice to readers, and is a blow to the development of the free digital society we actually need. We urge users to investigate ways to support the use of mobile and wearable devices which do not restrict users' essential freedoms.
Knowledge Unlatched wins the 2014 IFLA/Brill Open Access Award – Knowledge Unlatched. Knowledge Unlatched has been selected as the 2014 winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access Award was created in 2013 for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing. This year the jury voted unanimously for Knowledge Unlatched, recognising it as the most outstanding and game-changing initiative in the field.
The jury of the IFLA/Brill award said that they are ‘deeply impressed with the simplicity and elegance of the original concept, with the daring scope of the project, bringing together libraries, publishers and other organisations from around the world, and with the highly successful outcome of the pilot phase that tested the concept. A full announcement is available here. OA: open access. Removing barriers to knowledge sharing Most research is published in commercial e-journals, but high subscription costs mean that users in developing and transition countries are disadvantaged. Undergraduates in Egypt showing support for Open Access (photo by Mandy Taha) Open access is the immediate, online, free and unrestricted availability of peer-reviewed, research literature.
It provides the means to maximize the visibility and use of research output. We advocate for open access to promote knowledge sharing. EIFL-OA in action ... Building capacity to launch open access repositories and to ensure their long-term sustainability. Our achievements The EIFL Open Access (OA) programme has been chosen as the winner of the 2011 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. Contact us EIFL-OA Programme Manager: Iryna Kuchma, iryna.kuchma[at]eifl.net EIFL-OA Programme Coordinator: Gwen Franck, gwen.franck[at]eifl.net.
Sign in – Slides. Open Access — yes you can. For researchers who have never dipped a toe into the debates on open access that surge across the blogosphere it is all too easy to imagine that they need not get involved. For sure, people are increasingly aware that a decision of some sort needs to be made about OA once their paper is accepted for publication but that’s about as far as it goes.
The complexity of the issue is off-putting — who has the time? — and there is in any case a vague sense that funding agencies (RCUK, HEFCE, NIH, the Wellcome Trust and the like) have the matter in hand so any sense of involvement or responsibility is, with little effort, shrugged off. But to do so misses the real significance of the changes seeping through academic publishing. In this post I want to go through a number of recent examples — some of them pretty straight-forward — that show how simple it can be to take part in the push for open access. “© 2013 Elsevier Ltd. There, I’m done (for now). Why I, a founder of PLOS, am forsaking open access. I co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open access publishing model PLOS espoused and has come to dominate was good for science, scientists and the public.
Over the past decade open access has become a personal crusade – my own religion – one I have fervently promoted here on this blog, on social media, and to thousands of colleagues at meetings and social engagements. To back up my commitment to open access, since 2000, I have exclusively published papers from my lab in open access journals, and have urged – some might say hectored and harassed – my colleagues to do the same. But in the last few weeks I have had a major change of heart. Yesterday at group meeting I told the members of my lab that they are free to send their papers to any journal they want to – including (and especially) the previously reviled especially Nature, Cell and Science.
The most immediate reason is that, to be honest, I’m jealous. Science wins as PLoS goes hard on Open Access. Academic journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) has changed its policy so that authors are now required to make the data underlying their scientific findings available publicly, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article. PLoS's articles have always been released according to Open Access principles, with Creative Commons (CC BY) licences. PLoS has also always required authors to make their data available to other academic researchers who wish to replicate, reanalyse or build upon the findings published in PLoS's journals.
From 2 March, 2014, all authors who submit to a PLOS journal (including PLoS One, PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics) will have to provide a "data availability statement" which describes where and how others can access each dataset that underlies the findings. But what does PLoS mean by data? This may present a challenge to researchers who have terabytes of simulation data -- the sort of data run on supercomputers. Elsevier steps up its War On Access. I thought Elsevier was already doing all it could to alienate the authors who freely donate their work to shore up the corporation’s obscene profits.
The thousands of takedown notices sent to Academia.edu represent at best a grotesque PR mis-step, an idiot manoeuvre that I thought Elsevier would immediately regret and certainly avoid repeating. Which just goes to show that I dramatically underestimated just how much Elsevier hate it when people read the research they publish, and the lengths they’re prepared to go to when it comes to ensuring the work stays unread. Now, they’re targeting individual universities. The University of Calgary has just sent this notice to all staff: The University of Calgary has been contacted by a company representing the publisher, Elsevier Reed, regarding certain Elsevier journal articles posted on our publicly accessible university web pages. We have been provided with examples of these articles and reviewed the situation.
That’s it, folks. Like this: 941 - Open Access to science and data = cash and economic bonanza. OA_Button: The #OpenAccess Button has... Workshop: Legal and Sustainability Issues - Save the Date. 21 October 2013 5 November, 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania We are Live streaming the workshop from 9:00 - 15:30: Open access infrastructures need to be maintained in the long-run.
At present these infrastructures tend to develop within project environments, and approaches in setting them up as permanent infrastructures remains to be answered. In addition, any e-infrastructure which primarily relies on harvesting external data sources (e.g. repositories) need to be fully aware of any legal implications for re-use of this knowledge, and further application by 3rd parties. OpenAIRE is currently carrying out two studies into these legal and sustainability issues. The sustainability and business model for OpenAIRE study will examine the costs and maintenance of the elements of a permanent infrastructure, identify the key stakeholders and will put forward a viable business model for OpenAIRE. Premise of the workshop The goals of this consultation workshop are: Start 9.00 - 15:30. Open Access Publishing. In another post, we’ve shown that it is perfectly possible to make your work Open Access even if you’re not publishing in Open Access Journals.
This post wants to give an overview of recent trends and challenges in Open Access Publishing. (‘for dummies’: I am sure that a lot of information can be added. Please leave your remarks in the comment section below!) In traditional publishing systems,researchers submit their articles to journals. To have access to these journals, institutions pay subscription fees to the publishers of these journals. The rising cost of these subscriptions (often sold in packages), were one of the catalysts of the rise the Open Access movement.Because Open Access articles are freely available to the public, authors soon experienced that the visibility of their work increased pretty impressively, often resulting in more sharing and more citations (check this bibliography curated by Steve Hitchcock for more information) Don’t forget: APCs (article processing fees)
Openaccess_be. Ghent University Academic Bibliography. Europe PubMed Central Blog: 5 annoying things about Open Access. To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating… 1. The often incorrect definition of green and gold routes to Open Access I am a relative newcomer to Open Access having only been working in this area for a couple of years. Before that I was a research scientist, and the movement had largely passed me by, with the exception of noticing that I didn’t have to click through the university journal subscription pages to download some articles.
In brief, green is self-archiving in a repository and gold is open access delivered by journals. There may be associated costs, but that is not the defining difference. 2. Crucially, Europe PMC enables both green and gold routes to Open Access. Of course, it’s more complicated than that, as the ‘choice’ is often affected by publishing options, for example. 3. Shutterstock_127171886 4. Last, and by no means least: 5. Ghent University Academic Bibliography. EWI-focus 15 | Open Access | Departement EWI. Open Acces in Vlaanderen Eén jaar na de ondertekening van de Brussels Declaration on Open Access brengen we stakeholders samen met de bedoeling verder te bouwen aan een toekomstig beleid voor Open Access in Vlaanderen. Kijken vanuit verschillende perspectieven Met dit doel voor ogen nodigen we Daniel Spichtinger van de DG Research and Innovation van de Europese Commissie uit om ons uit te leggen op welke manier de principes van Open Access vorm zullen aannemen in Horizon 2020, het nieuwe Europese kaderprogramma.
Ook luisteren we naar Marc Dupuis van SURF Nederland, die ons over het beleid in Nederland zal vertellen. Inge van Niewerburgh van Open Access Belgium bekijkt de zaken vanuit het perspectief van de stakeholders, en Johanna Kuhn van BioMedCentral leert ons meer over Open Access Publishing. De presentaties zijn soms in het Nederlands soms in het Engels. Programma Persbericht. S response to the recent article in Science entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” | Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
Below is a statement from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) in response to the recent “sting” that was reported in Science in an article entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” OASPA was established in 2008 to bring together a growing community of high-quality publishers, who were showing how research could be published according to the highest standards and made freely and openly available at the point of publication. Our goal was, and continues to be, promoting best practices in open access publishing and providing a forum for constructive discussion and development of this field.
Open access publishing has continued to grow since the establishment of OASPA, and is now a well-established part of the scholarly publishing landscape. A second reason for the establishment of OASPA was the emergence of a group of publishers that were engaging in open access publishing without having the appropriate quality control mechanisms in place. Researcher Posts Protected Mars Papers to Protest Journal Paywalls. A prominent critic of scientific journals that charge subscriptions to read government-funded research results has launched a high-profile protest by posting five copyrighted Science papers on his personal website. “I am taking a stand [on] the accessibility of research carried out by the government,” geneticist Michael Eisen of the University of California, Berkeley, tells ScienceInsider.
“But I’m not interested in breaking the law.” Eisen posted the papers without asking permission of the copyright holders, an apparent violation of U.S. law. But it would be up to the authors of the papers, not the journal, to take any legal action against Eisen, copyright lawyers say. Yesterday, Eisen caused a stir in social media by downloading and then reposting the papers, which appear in today’s issue of Science and describe discoveries about martian geochemistry by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Eisen is no stranger to the fight for making scientific research accessible. Science’s statement: Universiteit op drift. Krijgt iedere maatschappij de universiteiten die ze verdient? De academische wereld lijkt al even doorgedraaid als de echte, met die sterke nadruk op productie, cijfers en output. Het gevolg: slechtere wetenschap, en onderzoekers op de rand van een zenuwinzinking. Humo brengt twee weken lang het menselijke verhaal achter de schermen van het academische bedrijf. 'De besten blijven over?
Nee, ze vertrekken of raken gedemotiveerd' In november 2012 kreeg psycholoog Wouter een mail waarvan hij had gehoopt hem nooit te krijgen. ‘Onderwerp: vraagje Dag Wouter, Je weet dat ik voortwerk aan jouw onderzoeksproject. Wouter wist akelig perfect wat er gebeurd was. ‘Ik weet wat het probleem is,’ schreef hij terug. Eindelijk kon hij eerlijk toegeven dat hij een fout had gemaakt, dat hij zijn data niet systematisch genoeg had verzameld, ook al liet hij in de publicatie die hij daarover had geschreven uitschijnen dat dat wel het geval was geweest.
Het was zowel een noodgreep als een noodkreet. Proportion of Open Access Peer Reviewed Papers at… | InfoDoc MicroVeille. Why Non-Commercial (CC-NC) #openaccess does not achieve useful outcomes for authors. Guide to Creative Commons » OAPEN-UK. JISC Collections - The trusted experts in negotiating, procuring, and licensing digital content for libraries. Octg4tkj Shared by. Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - #openaccess The current standard of “debate” is unacceptable; arrogant and ignorant « petermr's blog. Specials : Nature. Mail from the White House. Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Brussels-declaration-on-open-access. G_fra : #oaweek cartoon made by... Brussels Declaration on Open Access.pdf uploaded by @openaccess_be. OpenAccess - HOME. Open Acces Belgium wil vrije toegang wetenschappelijk onderzoek op politieke agenda zetten - Belga Algemeen.
Pc22A1215f51. Pc22A121ftitlepage. “Open Access to Excellence in Research” « Open Access Belgium. Home « PEER. I would like an explanation for why it costs $585 to email an open-access article. World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons. Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique. Essay on open access scholarship. Who needs access? You need access! ‘Het moet maar eens uit zijn met die wurgcontracten' Elsevier’s Alicia Wise on the RWA, the West Wing, and Universal Access. Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners With Oxfam.
Elsevier — my part in its downfall | Open access in science. ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration. Tiny frog is world's smallest vertebrate. Chapter/Belgium. News. Introductie tot Open Access door Gert Buelens. Open Access Week 2011 24.docx uploaded by @openaccess_be. What's holding Open Access publishing back? Ourgirlinthetrenches › Inloggen. G_fra. Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals.
OA Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research” OpenAIRE. Open Access Workshop. OpenAIRE Opening science to all. Together. - Research Infrastructures - Research. 8/2/11. INTERVIEW - Suber: Leader of a Leaderless Revolution. News Desk: JSTOR and the Case of the Over-Downloader. The 7th CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7) Summary. Restricting online access « Elizabeth Eva Leach's research blog. Copyright and Open Access for Academic Works by Frank Müller-Langer, Richard Watt. OAR - Open Archief VIOE Publicaties. SPARC-OAForum Mailing List Archive. Open Access eBooks, Part 5. Changing the World. Barbara Fister: 4 options for librarians. Open Access eBooks, Part 4. Libraries.
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