tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/3816/feed_itemsAmyluv's bookmarks2017-12-17T13:02:48-05:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23368802017-12-14T14:22:26-05:002017-12-17T13:02:48-05:00Students have vital role in creating and spreading OER<p>"When I first started learning about open education and open educational resources about five years ago, I knew OERs were different than other educational resources in that they have an <a href="http://opendefinition.org/guide/">open license</a>, but I thought of them as similar in the sense of being created by instructors in educational institutions. But it’s clear to me now that students also have a valuable role to play in creating and revising OERs, as well as in promoting open education more widely."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23369722017-12-14T15:57:48-05:002017-12-17T12:51:59-05:00The Open Speakers Database : find experts on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)<p>"The Open Speakers Database is a crowd-sourced database of regional experts on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data, put together by the Right to Research Coalition and OpenCon. When possible, clicking on the name will allow you to email the speaker. Contribute to Open Speakers Database Know someone in your country, region, or institution who can offer expertise on Open scholarship who isn't in the database?"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236282017-11-28T12:03:40-05:002018-01-23T15:29:16-05:00Accelerating academy-owned publishing – IO: In The Open<p>"How can libraries develop more robust mechanisms for supporting services and platforms that accelerate research sharing and increase participation in scholarship? What kind of funding and partnerships do scholarly communities, public goods technology platforms, and open repositories need to transform into true, academy-owned open access publication systems? In an initiative formerly known as “Red OA,” these are the questions a group of ARL deans and directors have recently committed to address through engagement with scholarly communities and open source platform developers. The current system of scholarly journal publishing is too expensive, too slow, too restrictive, and dominated by entities using lock-in business practices. Fortunately, there are a growing number of scholarly communities embracing services and platforms that accelerate research sharing and increase participation in scholarship. Some of these communities are keenly interested in integrating journal publishing and peer review services into repository platforms, and bringing greater transparency and efficiency to the peer review process itself. At the same time, there is a global movement to build value-added services on top of distributed, library-based repositories, in order to “establish [open] repositories as a central place for the daily research and dissemination activities of researchers,” rather than the commercial sphere."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236302017-11-28T12:11:11-05:002017-11-28T14:07:40-05:00Expanding Open Educational Resources for Lifelong Learning in Kazakhstan<p>"A three-day workshop on “Expanding Open Educational Resources for Lifelong Learning in Kazakhstan” will be organized by UNESCO in Astana on 11-13 December. The workshop is to contribute to the establishment of an enabling environment for the development and implementation of national Open Educational Resources’ policies. We have invited experts and representatives from the Ministries of Education of the other Central Asian countries to share their experiences, compare the existing policy frameworks with the advanced international practices and recommendations, identify possible gaps and determine ways to address the remaining challenges. The enhanced policy framework will contribute to improved quality of education."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236292017-11-28T12:09:37-05:002017-11-28T14:06:32-05:00Research Data Metadata Librarian (JPF01633) - UC San Diego AP On-Line Recruit<p>"Working primarily in the Research Data Curation Program, the Research Data Metadata Librarian is also a member of the Metadata Services Program. This position serves an important collaborative role between these programs, as well as working with other programs in the Library and a wide range of campus research constituents."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236672017-11-28T12:45:22-05:002017-11-28T14:04:24-05:00Sparks & Co | IPR, Data management and open-access plan for your EU-funding project - Sparks & Co<p>"Since the early days of Sparks & Co in 2014, our mission has been to communicate about science in the best and brightest way. We’ve been working hard and we are now partners on 6 Horizon 2020 projects! Based on our experience through these projects and the partnerships we had with the different stakeholders in EU projects, we decided to launch an avant-garde seminar to understand and process the intellectual property of the project you really want to build. Prepare for the 2018-2020 Work Programme and be an EU-funding champion by making sure you are ready to tackle one of the most stressed make-or-brake point: IP and Data management in proposals!"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236662017-11-28T12:42:22-05:002017-11-28T14:03:23-05:00The End Of The Hundred Dollar Textbook | KUER 90.1<p>"If you’ve ever taken a college course you know the shock of textbook prices. They can set a student back thousands of dollars each year and some of them hardly get used. But, there might be a better option. In an entry level math course at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Brenda Gardner, the professor, sketches out an equation on the board."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236652017-11-28T12:40:58-05:002017-11-28T13:59:28-05:00Emergence of OA sources and IRs in India « Librarians « Cambridge Core Blog<p>"Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce that it has recently set up its South Asian Librarian Advisory Board [SALAB]. The new board, whose fourteen members are senior librarians from universities across the whole of India, enjoyed a very successful meeting in New Delhi at the end of October. Two of the board members were invited to give presentations at the meeting. You can read details of the first presentation on Innovation in Library and Information Services by Dr Rama Patnaik here. The second presentation was by Dr Nabi Hasan, University Librarian at Aligarh Muslim University, who spoke on the Emergence of OA sources and IRs in Indian Libraries."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236982017-11-28T13:03:37-05:002017-11-28T13:58:01-05:00SIMONE ALIPRANDI BLOG: Pubblicare in Open Access: opportunità e regole per la ricerca universitaria. Tavola rotonda a UniGE<p>From Google translate:</p>
<pre>"Post in Open Access: Opportunities and Rules for University Research. Round table at UniGE</pre>
<pre>On Monday, December 4 in the afternoon I will be with Elena Giglia (co-author with me and others in the book "Fare Open Access") at the University of Genoa for a round table entitled "Publish in Open Access: opportunities and rules for university research" (see press release ).
We will discuss how to exploit the fruits of scientific research by exploiting the opportunities offered by Open Science and we will do it with illustrious home theater speakers. The appointment is at 3 pm at the DIMI Multimedia Department (Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties) in Viale Benedetto XV, 6 in Genoa (see map).
Free admission. Event with the patronage of AIB Italian Libraries Association.
Here is the poster and the program below."</pre>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23236992017-11-28T13:09:08-05:002017-11-28T13:57:07-05:00The EOSC Stakeholder Forum: Shaping the future of the EOSC | Digital Single Market<p>"The event aims to chart a course towards a concrete and sustainable European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), identifying the first steps on the EU added-value of EOSC and its building blocks to make European Open Science a user-friendly reality."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23237002017-11-28T13:11:55-05:002017-11-28T13:52:14-05:00Digital collection of Alberta flora launched at University of Calgary | UToday | University of Calgary<p>"Understanding global change in living systems requires knowledge of baseline biodiversity. Thanks to a collaborative project between the University of Calgary’s herbarium and Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR), a new digital resource collection of every species in the flora of Alberta is now available to researchers and naturalists across the globe. The herbarium, located in the Biological Sciences building, has provided indispensable botanical resources for teaching, research and industry for more than 40 years. With an extensive collection of land plants from Alberta and around the world, the herbarium is dedicated to the collection, preservation and documentation of past and present plant biodiversity."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23237012017-11-28T13:14:03-05:002017-11-28T13:51:01-05:00US Court Issues Injunction Against Open-Access Publisher OMICS | The Scientist Magazine®<p>"Last week (November 22), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it won an initial court ruling against OMICS, a publisher of open-access journals. The preliminary injunction stems from a complaint filed in August 2016 by the FTC against OMICS CEO Srinubabu Gedela, and affiliated companies ImedPub and Conference Series, alleging that they published articles without standard peer review, misrepresented numerous scientists as editors, and made multiple deceptive claims towards researchers. According to the complaint, OMICS did not disclose to researchers that they would have to pay extraordinarily high publishing fees until articles were accepted for publication. The company also failed to disclose that it calculated its journal impact factors in an unorthodox fashion, FTC claims, and falsely stated that its journals are indexed by federal research databases such as the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed and Medline services."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23237102017-11-28T13:16:55-05:002017-11-28T13:48:51-05:00LILLE 2018 – 47th LIBER Annual Conference (Research Libraries as an Open Science Hub: from Strategy to Action), July 04-06, 2018, LILLIAD Learning center Innovation, University of Lille, France | bluesyemre<p>"The Call for Papers for LIBER’s 2018 Annual Conference — in Lille, France from 4 to 6 July 2018 — is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 19 February 2018. Guidance and conference topics are outlined in detail below."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23237302017-11-28T13:23:17-05:002017-11-28T13:47:18-05:00Walking the walk: how the scientific community is embracing open data : Naturejobs Blog<p>"The 2017 Better Science through Better Data event in London, UK, hosted by Springer Nature and Wellcome, was a full day exposé of emerging open data practices, tools, strategies, and policies. Among the potential benefits of open data are replicability, reproducibility, and reusability. While open data is a relatively new hype, some evidence suggests that open data does indeed increase reproducibility. The 2017 State of Open Data Report, handed out to every attendant at the event, states: “Open data is like a renewable energy source: it can be reused without diminishing its original value, and reuse creates new value”. In the opening remarks of the event program, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature, wrote that the event is meant to showcase the experiences of researchers and technologists who are “walking the walk of open, reproducible research”. Among those walking the walk was Thomas Lecocq, a seismologist who is involved with the Gräfenberg array: a series of seismological stations in Germany that record continuous seismic data and make it available in real-time through an open source platform. Using the “noise” data — the part of the continuous data signal free of recorded earthquakes — Lecocq showed that the signal can be used for monitoring changes to ground water storage on a very fine spatial scale. This is an ideal example of how data that is collected for a given purpose, such as earthquake detection, can be reused in highly creative ways for novel purposes."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22877062017-09-28T15:06:43-04:002017-09-28T15:06:43-04:00Race to the Moon · DPLA Omekatag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22877052017-09-28T15:03:29-04:002017-09-28T15:03:29-04:00American Empire · DPLA Omeka<p>"<span>The United States is no stranger to strange lands. From its founding as a British colony to its settlement of the West, America is rooted in a tradition of exploration, conquest, and opportunism. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a new era in American expansion. A growing US economy was hungry for more resources and new markets. Politicians pressured the government to protect and promote American interests worldwide. </span><span>An expanding population</span><span> was redefining American society. Each of these factors contributed to the age of American imperialism</span><span>—</span><span>an era of unprecedented territorial and </span><span>political growth and cultural development.</span><span> Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, the US emerged as a formidable world power with territories across the Pacific and Caribbean. Of course, these new borders came with growing pains. As US imperialists insisted that the country had a responsibility to civilize "inferior" peoples, opponents lobbied on behalf of the colonies, insisting that imperialism contradicted the nation's founding principles of sovereignty, equality, and democracy."</span></p>