tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/3649/feed_itemslterrat's bookmarks2017-09-07T17:42:37-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760692017-09-07T17:42:37-04:002017-09-07T17:42:37-04:00IPPro The internet | Default judgement could cost Sci-Hub $4.8 million | ipprotheinternet.com<p>"US academic publisher the American Chemical Society (ACS) is demanding $4.8 million in damages from Sci-Hub owner Alexandra Elbakyan as part of its request for a default judgement in their copyright infringement dispute.</p>
<p>ACS filed a lawsuit in June, alleging that Elbakyan had made most of its catalogue of more than 150,000 research papers available on the Sci-Hub website illegally.</p>
<p>The society also claimed that Sci-Hub had cloned aspects of its website and committed trademark infringement and counterfeiting.</p>
<p>Elbakyan was made aware of the litigation, but didn’t respond, leading to ACS seeking a default judgement in the case."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760682017-09-07T17:39:28-04:002017-09-07T17:39:28-04:002017 MI OER Summit - Event Summary | Online Registration by Cvent<p>"<span>Michigan Colleges Online is pleased to announce the 2017 MI OER Summit – a gathering of OPEN enthusiasts and those who are interested and eager to learn, network and advocate. This year’s event is hosted by Kellogg Community College (Battle Creek, MI) at the Binda Performing Arts Center on September 22, 2017.</span>"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760662017-09-07T17:36:47-04:002017-09-07T17:36:47-04:00Disassembly of scientists over the scandal and blocking useful resource - micetimes.asia<p>"<span>In 2015 the Dutch publishing house Elsevier (Elsevier) filed a lawsuit in an American court as he faced losses after the launch of the Sci-Hub, and won it. Now the founders of the project needs to pay the company $ 15 million.</span>"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760602017-09-07T17:35:25-04:002017-09-07T17:35:25-04:00Pranayraj Vangari has written a new Wikipedia article every day for the last year – Wikimedia Blog<p>"<em>Today, Pranayraj Vangari concluded a 365-day challenge where he created a new article on the Telugu Wikipedia every day for the past year, including on his wedding day and busy work days."</em></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760572017-09-07T17:33:13-04:002017-09-07T17:33:13-04:00Announcing the BASE ORCID Search & Link Wizard | ORCID<p>"<span>You may not have heard of it, but </span><a href="https://www.base-search.net/">BASE</a><span> </span><span>(Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world’s largest academic search engines - indexing more than 100 million documents. It has been developed and is run by Bielefeld University Library in Germany. Several things are special about this search engine. First, it does not crawl the web. Instead, it harvests institutional repositories and journals via a more precise standard protocol called OAI-PMH. Second, it is non-commercial, free to use, ad-free and transparent: information about its index size and regional coverage are readily</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.base-search.net/about/en/">available</a><span>. Third, it favours open access: results with freely available full text are listed first by default.</span></p>
<p>To make its output even more useful and reliable, BASE has recently integrated with ORCID, so that users can now easily associate their own publications in BASE with their ORCID iD. In future, a search for an author by ORCID iD in BASE will return results only by that author and not by anybody else who happens to bear the same name - including documents published under the author’s other names and name variations."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760562017-09-07T17:21:41-04:002017-09-07T17:21:41-04:00Reproducible Document Stack – supporting the next-generation research article | Labs | eLife<p>"<span>Today, </span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/e6038800/elife-supports-development-of-open-technology-stack-for-publishing-reproducible-manuscripts-online">we announced a new project collaboration</a><span> between </span><a href="http://substance.io/">Substance</a><span>, </span><a href="https://stenci.la/">Stencila</a><span> and eLife, to support the development of an open technology stack that will enable researchers to publish reproducible manuscripts through online journals. In this blogpost, we outline the background and remit of this project. We welcome feedback and contributions: please comment publicly on the article using </span><a href="https://hypothes.is/">Hypothes.is</a><span> or email </span><a href="mailto:innovation@elifesciences.org">innovation@elifesciences.org</a><span>."</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760382017-09-07T17:14:48-04:002017-09-07T17:14:48-04:00eLife supports development of open technology stack for publishing reproducible manuscripts online | For the press | eLife<p>"<span>The Reproducible Document Stack will ultimately allow authors to submit their manuscripts in a format that includes embedded code blocks and computed outputs, and for publishers to preserve these assets in an enhanced version of the published online article."</span></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760142017-09-07T16:35:01-04:002017-09-11T17:02:30-04:00ScienceGuide - What is the price per article?<p>"<strong>In 2015 the Dutch universities reached a deal with the publishing houses. The 'golden route' was supposed to lead to more open access publictions. But at what price? Leo Waaijers took a look at the recently revealed contracts and did some calculations."</strong></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760252017-09-07T16:47:17-04:002017-09-07T16:47:17-04:00Deadline Approaches for Faculty Awards | University of Arkansas<p>"<span>The deadline for University of Arkansas faculty to </span><a href="http://libraries.uark.edu/oer/oer-application-for-stipend-2016.docx">apply</a><span> for $3,000 and $7,500 awards for adopting or creating open educational resources for the spring and fall 2018 semesters is 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. The purpose of submitting an application is to express interest only; University Libraries and the Global Campus will assist faculty in the planning and development of these resources. "</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760172017-09-07T16:45:51-04:002017-09-07T16:45:51-04:00Dive into Your Scholarly Community: Sharing Your Work Online - LibCal - Kansas State University<p>"Want to learn more about the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), K-State’s digital repository? Have research or creative works that you want to share online? Join us to explore how K-REx and posting your works online can help increase your scholarly impact.</p>
<p>Posting your work online is a great way to increase exposure and may help boost citations. This information session will dive into the role that K-REx plays in the K-State community, open access, authors’ rights to their work, and sharing work online through repositories and academic social networks such Academia.edu and ResearchGate. If you’re a faculty or staff member who might not know about K-REx, if you’ve been submitting to K-REx for years but want a refresher, if you’re a graduate student advisor who would like to learn more about the system your students submit their theses and dissertations to, or if you just have an interest in sharing your research and creative work online, then this information session is for you. Register here so we’ll know you’re coming. See you on the 12th!"</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760162017-09-07T16:39:33-04:002017-09-07T16:39:33-04:00Recommended versus Certified Repositories: Mind the Gap<p>"Researchers are increasingly required to make research data publicly available in data repositories. Although several organisations propose criteria to recommend and evaluate the quality of data repositories, there is no consensus of what constitutes a good data repository. In this paper, we investigate, first, which data repositories are recommended by various stakeholders (publishers, funders, and community organizations) and second, which repositories are certified by a number of organisations. We then compare these two lists of repositories, and the criteria for recommendation and certification. We find that criteria used by organisations recommending and certifying repositories are similar, although the certification criteria are generally more detailed. We distil the lists of criteria into seven main categories: “Mission”, “Community/Recognition”, “Legal and Contractual Compliance”, “Access/Accessibility”, “Technical Structure/Interface”, “Retrievability” and “Preservation”. Although the criteria are similar, the lists of repositories that are recommended by the various agencies are very different. Out of all of the recommended repositories, less than 6% obtained certification. As certification is becoming more important, steps should be taken to decrease this gap between recommended and certified repositories, and ensure that certification standards become applicable, and applied, to the repositories which researchers are currently using."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760152017-09-07T16:37:40-04:002017-09-07T16:37:40-04:00‘Predatory’ journals: the situation is urgent, so why don’t we fight back? | Times Higher Education (THE)<p>"<span>One thing that institutions can do is to start rewarding their faculty and research staff for depositing data and preprints of their studies in repositories, so that these actions count towards hiring, promotion and tenure decisions in the same way that legitimate journal publications do. </span><span>This may remove some of the burden on researchers to publish (anywhere) or perish.</span></p>
<p><span>Legitimate open access publishers can address this issue in their own way, as can funders. Many authors are priced out of traditional open access journal publishing. While some publishers offer APC waivers for open access, authors from upper-middle or high-income countries (who we now know constitute a large part of the problem) are typically ineligible because they do not live in a qualifying country. This leaves the door open to anyone willing to fill this gap for a lower fee."</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760132017-09-07T16:32:01-04:002017-09-07T16:32:01-04:00Zusammenarbeit von Schülern, Schülerinnen und Studierenden in OER-Projekten – ZLL<p>From Google Translate: "The vision of the Hamburg Open Online University to open up to new target groups will actually become reality in two HOOU projects. We recently reported on the online learning project <a href="https://mikie.rz.tuhh.de/">Mikie -</a> Mikroben in which students, together with high school students from Goethe-Schule-Harburg, developed process plans for the use of extreme microorganisms. Within MikiE is the <a href="https://www.tuhh.de/tm/startseite.html">Institute for Technical Microbiology</a>diverse Open Educational Resources to teach the complex microbiological learning contents, such as a Wiki with Infotexten, videos and quiz elements. The contact with the pupils of the Goethe-Schule-Harburg had come about by Olaf Zeiske, who as a speaker in the MINT- and mediareferat of the authority for school and vocational education has a special interest in natural sciences."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22760082017-09-07T16:26:50-04:002017-09-07T16:26:50-04:00Ciencia, open access… y Sci-Hub – soluciones en marketing local<p>From Google Translate: "As in the case of the content industry, the important thing is not whether the page is still open or not: what is really significant is to question business models when they cease to adapt to the environment in which they live. Content publishers began to have problems when technology developed better and more efficient ways of accessing works, and they began to stop having them when a wide range of simple and relatively inexpensive offers that took advantage of that technology appeared to improve that access, call Spotify, Netflix or whatever. In the world of science it might be reasonable to aspire for the same thing to happen, and that the hundreds of <em>journals</em> which today parasitize academics and institutions with high-priced subscriptions find ways to disseminate scientific material that match their need to obtain a reasonable level of profitability with the requirement that science be broad and readily available to all. As in the case of The Pirate Bay, Sci-Hub will not close due to prosecution, lawsuits and fines: it will close when it is no longer necessary. Meanwhile, the raven will still have the key."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759872017-09-07T15:55:26-04:002017-09-07T15:55:26-04:00EU copyright reform threatens Open Access and Open Science — Open letter to the members of the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament<p>"We represent a large group of European academic, library, education, research and digital rights communities and we are writing to express our alarm at the draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, and in particular at the potential impact of Articles 11 and 13. We are concerned that these provisions will create burdensome and harmful restrictions on access to scientific research and data, as well as on the fundamental rights of freedom of information, directly contradicting the EU’s own ambitions in the field of Open Access and Open Science.</p>
<p>We therefore urge the Legal Affairs Committee to remove Articles 11 and 13 from the draft Directive. Furthermore, the Committee should ensure that Articles 3 to 9 support new forms of research and education and not work against them."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759862017-09-07T15:53:55-04:002017-09-07T15:53:55-04:00Ökonomenstimme: Open Science in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften<p>From Google Translate: "<em>How do economists and economists research and publish in the future? Will open access be enforced, has PDF paid out and peer reviews paid? This article brings together 12 theses from IT specialists on the future of research and provides these survey results among economists to their assessment of the future of research and publishing in 20 years.</em>"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759852017-09-07T15:42:35-04:002017-09-07T15:42:35-04:00PCORI's Data-Sharing Initiative: An Update | PCORI<p>"<span>At PCORI, we try to ensure transparency in everything we do. It’s part of our commitment to the patients, caregivers, researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders we serve. This transparency includes our efforts to support open science, making scientific research—including the data and results it generates—widely accessible to the public. Two examples are our process for peer-review and public release of the findings of those studies and funding public access to journal articles that present key results. Our latest initiative in this area is our developing policy for sharing the data generated by our funded studies.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.pcori.org/sites/default/files/PCORI-Data-Access-Data-Sharing-DRAFT-for-Public-Comment-October-2016.pdf">We drafted this policy last year</a> as a way to advance scientific knowledge beyond the immediate impact of our funded studies. In this post, we provide updates about the progress we’re making in finalizing and eventually implementing this policy.</p>
<p>As with all of our work, we knew stakeholder input would improve the draft policy. We sought public comments through our website last winter. We received 32 responses from stakeholders including patients, clinicians, and researchers, as well as representatives of health systems, patient advocacy organizations, and other professional organizations. Those comments can be found <a href="https://www.pcori.org/get-involved/provide-input/data-access-and-data-sharing-policy-public-comment">here</a>."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759802017-09-07T15:35:29-04:002017-09-07T15:35:29-04:00Open Science Evening Talks | Epfl-innovationpark.ch, EPFL Innovation Park<p>"<span>The EPFL Library is pleased to invite you to Open Science Evening Talks 2017. The talks will take place from Monday 25</span><span>th </span><span>to Thursday 28</span><span>th</span><span> </span><span>September, from 6pm to 7:15pm, at the Rolex Learning Center on EPFL Campus. Each day will focus on a specific aspect of Open Science:</span></p>
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<li><strong>Tuesday 26<span>th</span></strong> Publications</li>
<li><strong>Wednesday 27<span>th</span> </strong>Research Data</li>
<li><strong>Thursday 28<span>th</span> </strong>Code and tools</li>
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<p>The main goal is to encourage a constructive thinking and stimulate discussions about Open Science, offering every evening two or three short public talks followed by an aperitif, to allow participants exchange in an informal and convivial context.</p>
<p>The event is open to EPFL community, as well as all those who would like to learn more about Open Science, getting an overview of its main stakes and the related evolution of academic research."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759652017-09-07T15:27:51-04:002017-09-07T15:27:51-04:00Center for Open Science Workshop: Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research<p>"October 24 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm</p>
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<p>There are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their work. Please join us for a workshop, hosted by the <a href="https://cos.io/">Center for Open Science</a>, to learn easy, practical steps researchers can take to increase the reproducibility of their work. The workshop will be hands-on. Using example studies, attendees will actively participate in creating a reproducible project from start to finish. Topics covered will include:</p>
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<p>This workshop is aimed at graduate students and postdocs, across disciplines, who are engaged in quantitative research. The workshop does not require any specialized knowledge of programming. Participants will gain a foundation for incorporating reproducible, transparent practices into their current workflows. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop in order to fully participate."</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759592017-09-07T15:15:12-04:002017-09-07T15:15:12-04:00Policy Officer job with SANGER INSTITUTE | Guardian Jobs<p>"<span>The Policy Officer will assist in the development of the Institute's policies and positions on genomics and UK science. They will support on</span><span> </span><em>ad hoc</em><span> </span><span>and ongoing projects relating to the Institute's mission to use Genomics and Biodata to improve global health. Support will include scoping, research, evidence gathering, event organisation and report writing on a wide range of projects. A particular focus will be on the open access data sharing policy, and promotion of the Institute's commitment to rapid data release.</span></p>
<p>The Policy Officer will manage the data access processes for Institute projects and data access requests. They will need to maintain strong working relationships with key partners including the European Genome-phenome Archive, the primary repository for the Institute's human genomic data, and with the Wellcome Trust Policy Team."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759562017-09-07T15:11:20-04:002017-09-07T15:11:20-04:00AGU Provides Open Citations and Content Sharing - Eos<p>"<span>AGU is now participating, along with a number of other publishers, in an initiative to open up citations in scholarly content. The </span><a href="http://i4oc.org/">Initiative for Open Citations</a><span> (I4OC) works through </span><a href="https://www.crossref.org/">Crossref</a><span>, one of the official agencies that registers Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). Most publishers also send CrossRef their tagged reference lists, and participating publishers have now agreed to open these for study. Tagging means that the various elements of the reference such as the title, authors, journal, etc. are clearly identified. In the future, tagging might include other information about the reference, such as how or in what context it is cited."</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759452017-09-07T15:06:49-04:002017-09-07T15:06:49-04:00HathiTrust Research Center Text Mining and Analysis Workshop - LibCal - NYU Libraries<p>"<span>This workshop will introduce attendees to the</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc">HathiTrust Research Center</a><span>’s tools and services for utilizing the massive HathiTrust Digital Library in computational text analysis. The HTRC leverages the scope and scale of HathiTrust Digital Library’s holdings to allow researchers the opportunity to perform text data mining. The workshop is open to beginners and experienced users. Topics that will be covered include:</span></p>
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• How to identify relevant volumes and build worksets (collections) of content for analysis.
• How to use HTRC off-the-shelf tools for text analysis and visualization.
• How to access HathiTrust data and metadata via provided APIs, request procedures, and open datasets.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759402017-09-07T15:03:20-04:002017-09-07T15:03:20-04:00Scholarly Communications Librarian Job Opening in Indianapolis, Indiana - Book Business Job Connection<p>"<span>Butler University Libraries invite applications for an Electronic Resources Librarian, a 12-month, non-tenured (continuing appointment) position with the rank of assistant professor, reporting to the Associate Dean for Collections and Digital Services. The Scholarly Communication Librarian position provides leadership for scholarly communication and digital scholarship initiatives at Butler University Libraries. Scholarly communication is a strategic priority for Butler Libraries and this position is responsible for managing and developing the library’s institutional repository (Digital Commons via bepress), digital publishing initiatives, and digital humanities projects. The librarian in this position leads education and outreach to faculty and provides guidance to library colleagues and others on issues relevant to the evolving scholarly publishing landscape, including author rights, open access (OA) publishing, and other publishing trends as related to metrics, tenure, and promotion. The position also serves as the Libraries’ primary resource on copyright compliance, fair use, and other intellectual property issues that pertain to library collections and services. As a library faculty member, the Scholarly Communications Librarian has liaison responsibilities to provide library instruction, collection development, and research support for a selected college or department(s). "</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759392017-09-07T15:02:11-04:002017-09-07T15:02:11-04:00Your student government: Open Educational Resources | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder<p>"<span>As your student body presidents of the</span><span> </span><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/cusg/">University of Colorado Student Government</a><span>, we are excited to present to you a statewide effort to alleviate the cost of higher education. </span></p>
<p>We recognize that textbook costs are growing at an alarming rate and hindering students ability to effectively learn, grow and excel in the classroom. After meeting with staff and faculty, we have extended our reach to the Colorado Department of Higher Education and joined in an effort to explore the area of 'Open Educational Resources' (OER)."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22759382017-09-07T14:59:49-04:002017-09-07T14:59:49-04:00Episode 5: Eine Reise durch die OER-Projektwelt – OERlabs<p>From Google Translate: "What are the OER projects? And how do I find these? Bence Lukács and Matthias Andrasch go on a small journey through the German-speaking OER projects to make the abstract theme of Open Educational Resources more tangible. We are also trying to think critically about the projects. This podcast is primarily about projects that deal with learning materials. Feedback is always welcome!</p>
<p>The mentioned short introduction to OER can be found here: <a href="https://oerlabs.de/oer">oerlabs.de/oer</a>"</p>