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. 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. Worse, it overlooks the capacity the individual researcher to influence them. 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.
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.
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.
That’s it, folks. 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 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. 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. Ghent University Academic Bibliography. Departement EWI. S response to the recent article in Science entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” 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. 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. Universiteit op drift. Proportion of Open Access Peer Reviewed Papers at… Why Non-Commercial (CC-NC) #openaccess does not achieve useful outcomes for authors. The “non-commercial” licence CC-BY-NC option for “open access” is often promoted (e.g. by Heather Morrison) as a means to restrict inappropriate use of the article. It is suggested that NC will prevent pharmaceutical companies from using the information in the article. Guide to Creative Commons » OAPEN-UK. An output of the OAPEN-UK project, this guide explores concerns expressed in public evidence given by researchers, learned societies and publishers to inquiries in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and also concerns expressed by researchers working with the OAPEN-UK project.
We have also identified a number of common questions and have drafted answers, which have been checked by experts including Creative Commons. The guide has been edited by active researchers, to make sure that it is relevant and useful to academics faced with making decisions about publishing. This guide is made available in open access using a CC BY licemce. Readers can view the guide online (see below) or downlaod a PDF copy. 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. I have my head down and am trying to write code – to liberate knowledge (and I haven’t forgotten #scholrev!) But occasionally have to break off and blog. Simply: the standard of debate (if it can be called such) in #openaccess is appalling. Either non-existent or fuelled by prejudice and ignorance. Since (a) many of the “debaters” and academics to whom we might look for clarity, fairness and guidance and (b) we are losing billions (sic) by not getting our act together. Twitter retweeted. 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. May 23, 2012 My mind was blown yesterday by a tweet from Stuart Shieber: [Screenshot, for when case Twitter decides the original tweet is too old to be worth keeping around any more.] At first I didn’t believe it. But I found the relevant article (Reovirus-Mediated Cytotoxicity and Enhancement of Innate Immune Responses Against Acute Myeloid Leukemia) and went through the Permissions process for myself. And sure enough, there it was: You think I’m making this up, but I’m not. Go to the article.Note that it is in a journal called BioResearch Open Access.Oh, and note that the journal describes itself as “fully open access”.Click on the Permissions link in the Publication Tools pane at top right.Fill in the repeatedly-reloading form as in the screenshot above: send in an email / academic / full article / no / 1 / USD – $ and click QUICK PRICE.Feast your eyes, gloat your soul, on the $585 charge.
World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons. Diane Peters, April 10th, 2012. Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique. En 2011, les Recteurs des universités de la Communauté française et le F.R.S. -FNRS ont émis le souhait de voir mener une étude sur le développement de l'Open Access en Belgique francophone et ont décidé de confier la réalisation de celle-ci à la "Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique" (BICfB). Un rapport leur sera présenté au printemps 2012, lors de la prochaine Assemblée générale de la BICfB. Essay on open access scholarship. We are the provosts of 11 large research universities that engage in over $5.6 billion of funded research each year. That research is directed at serving the public good through medical advances, improved defense systems, enhanced agricultural and industrial productivity, technological innovation, and reasoned social policy.
In the aggregate, the outcomes of this research fuel America’s global leadership, improve the quality of life in our communities, and enrich the educational experience of our students. 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. In recent years I have noticed that it is pretty difficult for journalists not attached to big media to obtain interviews with Elsevier executives — except where the purpose of the interview is to talk about a new product, or the company’s latest financial results.
Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners With Oxfam. From Matt McKay, Head of Communications, BioMed Central. Elsevier — my part in its downfall. ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration. Tiny frog is world's smallest vertebrate. Michael Marshall, environment reporter (Image: Christopher C. 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. Amsterdam University Press.