tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/3855/feed_itemsalespierno's bookmarks2019-01-25T09:02:06-05:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24725602019-01-25T09:02:06-05:002019-01-25T09:02:06-05:00Open APC: quanto paghiamo per l’accesso aperto? | AISA<p>[google transl.] Open APC: How much do we pay for open access?</p>
<p>Open APC collects data on the costs incurred by universities and research institutions to fund open access for a fee, through so-called APCs. Preparing these data - as Paola Galimberti writes about the University of Milan - requires careful control work, but their aggregation would allow us to have the pulse not only of the overall expenditure, but also - for example - of which publishers derive the most from hybrid open access.</p>
<p>The data can be viewed according to different criteria: OpenAPC, however, is of little use to Italian scholars and administrators because, at the time this text was written, only one institution in our country was able to provide them with the statistics available to them.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24725592019-01-25T08:58:34-05:002019-01-25T08:58:34-05:00Plan S: luci ed ombre (Milano, 29 gennaio 2019) | AISA<p>[google transl.] Plan S: lights and shadows (Milan, 29 January 2019)</p>
<p>The University of Milan organizes, in collaboration with INFN and under the patronage of AISA, a morning of discussion on Plan-S, to illustrate its objectives and especially to discuss with those directly concerned - professors, researchers, and PhD students.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24725582019-01-25T08:55:26-05:002019-01-25T08:55:26-05:00Accesso aperto ibrido in Italia: solo una questione di “nudge”? | AISA<p>[google transl.] Open hybrid access in Italy: just a matter of "nudge"?</p>
<p>In the first days of last October we tried to draw the attention of researchers, students, librarians and administrators of universities and research institutions to an aspect of the current CARE contract with the publisher Elsevier, the so-called "Pilot Open Access Gold". This contract, which is now very late, in terms of duration and content, compared to European and international practice, allows Elsevier to profit from the so-called double dipping, because it provides that the same institution can pay more money to put open access to some articles in magazines for which it already pays a subscription. For this very reason, we hoped that the authors and their institutions would reject this option, preferring the green way, i.e. the subsequent deposit of a version of their texts in institutional and disciplinary archives, without additional costs compared to subscriptions. A discussion of the OA-Italy mailing list, however, leads us to fear that it is not at all easy for a researcher to make this choice.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24725572019-01-25T08:48:12-05:002019-01-25T08:48:12-05:00CEIT Otranto - Workshop “Scienza Aperta: nuovi modelli di comunicazione scientifica e valutazione della ricerca” - CEIT, 30 gennaio 2019<p>[google transl.] Workshop "Open Science: new models of scientific communication and research evaluation" - CEIT, 30 January 2019</p>
<p>On January 30, 2019, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.30, the Open Science Workshop will be held in Cavallino (LE), in the Seminar Hall of the former Dominican Convent: new models of scientific communication and research evaluation", organized by CEIT (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Technological Innovation for Cultural and Environmental Heritage and Biomedicine), coordinated by Virginia Valzano, in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics and Physics and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Salento, with CAFRE (Interdepartmental Centre for Upgrading, Training and Educational Research) of the University of Pisa, the Museum of Cavallino, the Municipality of Cavallino and CLIOedu.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24660762018-10-29T13:42:08-04:002018-10-29T13:42:08-04:00Acciones de la UHU - Semana Internacional del Acceso Abierto 2018 - Guías de la BUH at Universidad de Huelva<p>[google transl.] International Open Access Week 2018: UHU Actions</p>
<p>The University Library of Huelva has programmed the diffusion of different actions linked to open access and to the diffusion of the visibility and scientific production of its researchers on the occasion of the Open Access Week 2018.</p>
<p>Series of conferences on open access to scientific production at the University of Huelva</p>
<p>A cycle aimed at all members of the university community who contribute to and participate in the generation of scientific production and research activity in general, in a context in which the role of production repositories and open-ended research data is increasingly important, as stated in the European guidelines (Horizon 2020), in the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Policy and Innovation 2017-2020 and in the University of Huelva's own Research and Transfer Policy Strategy 2018.</p>
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<p>Dissemination of different operational improvements in the Arias Montano Repository of the University of Huelva. </p>
<p>Author profiles. Improvements and interoperability.</p>
<p>Permanent exhibition Rebiun infographics about Open Access and Research Data in the Central Library. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24660742018-10-29T12:57:18-04:002018-10-29T12:57:18-04:00El número de artículos científicos de la UZ se ha duplicado este año hasta alcanzar los 5.000 - Aragón Universidad<p>[google transl.] The number of UZ scientific articles has doubled this year to 5,000.</p>
<p>The repository for scientific publications of the University of Zaragoza, called "Zaguán", has a total of 48,151 documents. This year the number of scientific articles on the campus has doubled to 5,000. These days the Open Access Week is celebrated in Zaragoza.</p>
<p>The Library of the University of Zaragoza celebrates Open Access Week and this Tuesday has invited one of the heads of Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, better known as MPDI, the leading organization in publishing scientific publications with free and open access, to promote the scientific culture of open knowledge. A real revolution in the publishing world, usually covered by journals to which institutions must subscribe in order to have access to the articles published by their own researchers.</p>
<p>Facundo Santomé, Scientific Editor and Head of Communications and Marketing at MDPI, will be at the Faculty of Sciences this Tuesday 23 October at 12.00 to talk about this new editorial trend that seeks to escape the tyranny of paid subscriptions and to which several authors from the University of Zaragoza have already joined.</p>
<p>In 2013, the University of Zaragoza initiated an Open Access policy, with the approval of the Agreement of the Governing Council of the University of Zaragoza, on open access to knowledge and the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access.</p>
<p>Following this, the institutional Mandate of the University of Zaragoza for Open Access for scientific publications was issued and the Instruction for the open publication of doctoral theses was signed on 30 May.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24660732018-10-29T12:48:19-04:002018-10-29T12:48:19-04:00Open access, Gallo (M5S): ricerche scientifiche accessibili online a tutti<p>[google transl.] Open access, Gallo (M5S): scientific research accessible to all online</p>
<p>Thanks to a 5 Star Open Access MoVimento bill, soon scientific research funded with public money will be accessible to all online.</p>
<p>Through a national search engine, a fundamental tool to combat the spread of fake news, knowledge will be disseminated without the need to subscribe to expensive magazines. We want to put an end to the privatization of scientific research and reaffirm the principle of sharing ideas.</p>
<p>Luigi Gallo, president of the Chamber's Culture Committee and first signatory of the bill currently being examined in Montecitorio, launches a video on Facebook, on the occasion of the week of open access to knowledge, which is celebrated until October 28.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24660692018-10-29T12:39:04-04:002018-10-29T12:39:04-04:00CARTAGENA / Díaz Morcillo: «El gran reto de la sociedad es la gestión de la información, que es casi infinita» - murcia.com<p>[google transl.] Díaz Morcillo: "The great challenge for society is the management of information, which is almost infinite".</p>
<p>The great challenge of society is the management of information, which is almost infinite. For this reason, we must know how to combine transparency, ethics, security, utility and business, said the rector of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.</p>
<p>Cartagena, Alejandro Diaz, at the opening of the day 'The Opening of data: an opportunity for transparency', held this Friday at the UPCT.</p>
<p>According to the Rector, "this opening of data is understood in the UPCT in two areas. The first, the institutional, which promotes corporate transparency and accountability. The second area is linked to generated knowledge, open and collaborative research, especially science generated with public funds. </p>
<p>Díaz recalled that the UPCT website was considered in 2017 as the only transparent according to the Transparency Examination of the Commitment and Transparency Foundation. Among other information, the Polytechnic of Cartagena made public last January its first report on Accountability, "the first of a university in the region," said the Rector. The website also published an open-ended report on Corporate Social Responsibility, carried out by the Chair of Culture and Management and Business Ethics.</p>
<p>The Polytechnic University of Cartagena signed the Berlin Declaration and drafted its first version of the Open Access Institutional Policy in 2010. At the same time, he pointed out that the UPCT Digital Repository contains more than 7,000 documents in open access. An increasingly open and collaborative science.</p>
<p>The Rector expressed his gratitude to the Council of Transparency of the Region of Murcia and the Círculo de Economía for the organization. He has also thanked the mayoress of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón and the councillor of Transparency, Participation and Spokesperson, Noelia Arroyo for their presence and support. "It is essential that public administrations are the driving force behind this opening up of data," she said. He also thanked the speakers and especially the philosopher Adela Cortina, Doctor Honoris Causa for the UPCT. Diaz stressed that this conference will contribute "to the knowledge of everything that can be done or can be imagined on open data within the limits set by ethics and safety. And this will promote transparency, usefulness and reputation of institutions, companies and public administration.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24660672018-10-29T12:28:45-04:002018-10-29T12:28:45-04:00Medialab Prado se insertará en su nueva etapa en ecosistemas de innovación con talleres de prototipos y más colaboración<p>[google transl.] Medialab Prado will be inserted in its new stage in innovation ecosystems with prototype workshops and more collaboration.</p>
<p>The new stage of Medialab Prado will seek in its new programming 2018-2019 to be inserted in new ecosystems of innovation in the city, and for this will launch open calls, prototyping workshops, collaborative research, learning communities and working groups. This has been indicated this Friday in the presentation of the new stage of the 'citizen laboratory' its artistic director, Marcos Garcia, who has been accompanied by the general director of Landscape ...</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24660662018-10-29T12:22:07-04:002018-10-29T12:22:07-04:00La Comunidad realizará una total apertura de datos científicos y divulgativos en la web de 'conocimiento abierto' | La Verdad<p>[google transl.] The Community will carry out a total opening of scientific and divulgative data in the web of 'open knowledge'.</p>
<p>The Department of Transparency offers technical and human advice to municipalities to join this initiative through the publication of open data. The Community will make a total opening of scientific and informative data on the web of 'open knowledge', as announced on Friday the Minister of Transparency, Participation and Spokeswoman, Noelia Arroyo, at the opening of the Third Conference on Transparency 'Opening the data: an opportunity for Transparency', at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT). Arroyo valued the work done by the Community to launch an Open Knowledge website, which currently publishes more than 400 documents of a scientific, technical and informative nature. The Councillor stressed that the objective is to achieve a "total opening" of all documents financed with public money and that add value to society before 2020, as recommended by the European Commission on 25 April this year.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646802018-10-12T07:56:43-04:002018-10-12T07:56:43-04:00Questionario Open Access | Open Science<p>[google transl.] Open Access Questionnaire</p>
<p>Fill in the Open Access questionnaire for SUPSI researchers.</p>
<p>The Open Access questionnaire aims to gather information on how SUPSI research collaborators distribute their publications and what they think about Open Science. The questionnaire is aimed at the implementation of the SUPSI Open Access Action Plan and aims to collect questions and comments to be addressed during SUPSI's Open Science Week.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646792018-10-12T07:52:21-04:002018-10-12T07:52:21-04:00Open Science Overview – martedì 9 ottobre 2018 dalle 9.00 alle 12.00. | Open Science<p>[google transl.] Open Science Overview </p>
<p>Open Science Overview is a meeting on good practices related to open data, open government, open access and open software. Tuesday, October 9, 2018, from 9:00 to 12:00, Classroom A103 Campus Trevano SUPSI. In Italian and English with discussion in English.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646782018-10-12T07:43:50-04:002018-10-12T07:43:50-04:00Una 'escuela' de familias para facilitar el éxito de los hijos - La Opinión de Murcia<p>[google transl.] A 'school' of families to facilitate children's success</p>
<p>The project has training programmes for parents to contribute to children's education.</p>
<p>The virtual classroom will help to make it compatible with daily and work activities.</p>
<p>The project ´Escuela for Familias´ starts this course with training programs aimed at families to contribute to the education of their children. Thus, it will focus on topics such as improving the academic performance of students, school coexistence, educational success and the use of new technologies, among others. This was presented yesterday by the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Adela Martinez-Cachá, who stressed the importance of this project which considers "essential the role of the family in the education of students" and is committed to "actively increase their involvement in the participation bodies of schools, reinforcing the learning of different areas such as school coexistence, study techniques or the safe use of new technologies.</p>
<p>The measure seeks to facilitate educational skills and abilities to improve family practices, acquire theoretical-practical knowledge about the conduct of children or adolescents, know patterns of action and different approaches to address various difficulties in these ages and provide families with more knowledge and resources to promote a more effective involvement in academic monitoring of children.</p>
<p>This ´Escuela for Familias´ offers knowledge and resources to improve the learning possibilities of the children and the coexistence in family and in the educational centre. Among the main blocks in training, ´Saber estudiar´, ´Dificultades of aprendizaje´, ´Uso responsible for Internet´, ´Lectura in familia´ or ´Inteligencia emocional´ stands out. Within each of them, there will be training activities such as ´¿My child knows how to study?´, ´Dislexia and TDAH´, ´Estrategias for internet use at familia´, ´Introducción for intelligence emocional´ and ´Leer with hijos´.</p>
<p>The didactic materials have been designed by various professionals such as psychologists, pedagogues, social mediators or teachers, among others. Specifically, the materials of the Interactive Families School have the license ´Creative Commons´ and have been made by selecting the proposals of existing open educational resources of the National Center for Curricular Development in Non-Owner Systems (CEDEC), Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, National Institute of Cybersecurity, Office of Internet Security and is4k (Internet Segura for kids), among others.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646772018-10-12T07:26:54-04:002018-10-12T07:26:54-04:00Premio Nobel all’economista che cerca il dialogo con le scienze dure | V. Bosetti<p>[google transl.] Nobel Prize to the economist who dialogues with the hard sciences</p>
<p>William Nordhaus is an undisputed pioneer of the climate change economy. His integrated assessment models are tools that allow a dialogue between the macroeconomic and climate systems, integrating discoveries from many disciplines.</p>
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<p>Models for an "open" science</p>
<p>These are some of Nordhaus' empirical works that have paved the way for countless econometric studies that look at the effects of temperature on economic growth, but the Nobel Prize's motivation makes explicit reference to his modelling work.</p>
<p>Integrated evaluation models, of which Bill Nordhaus is the undisputed pioneer, are tools that allow a dialogue between the macroeconomic and climate systems. The first was a simple linear programming model that allowed the demand for energy to be projected over a century. Then Dice was born (to get more information or just "play with it", this is the web page) which is a growth model like Ramsey, connected with a module that describes the carbon cycle and a module that describes the climate system. A damage function closes the cycle, describing the climate feedback on the economy. The model allows you to answer questions such as: What is the optimal path of emissions to maintain temperature growth below 2°C? What is the optimal temperature, taking into account the costs and benefits of climate change mitigation? What is the social cost of carbon?</p>
<p>One of Nordhaus's genius shots was to make the model totally "open source". On its website the equations, the code, the calibration, everything is meticulously described and absolutely reproducible. In the best spirit of open science, Nordhaus opens the door of integrated modelling to a whole generation of researchers. For those who know this shy and kind man, the gesture is the result of a genuine desire to confront each other on an equal footing, whatever the discipline they belong to, through the universal language of mathematics.</p>
<p>For economists, engineers, climate scientists and physicists, the Dice model, in its simplicity, allows infinite variations and developments (for example, stochastic versions or versions with endogenous technological change, versions with multiple regions that use basic concepts of game theory, versions that include sophisticated preferences towards inequality, versions with multiple or heterogeneous agents). In short, the door is open to all (there are thousands of job quotes describing the basic structure of the Dice model in scientific journals from many different disciplines). Even its major detractors or those who have written about potential shortcomings or weaknesses in its model recognize that criticism is possible precisely because Nordhaus has made the tool public - and thus improveable.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646762018-10-12T07:17:21-04:002018-10-12T07:17:21-04:00Expertos reclaman revisar el sistema de evaluación de los investigadores para impulsar la ciencia abierta - Noticia - ISGLOBAL<p>[google transl.] The revision of the system of evaluation of research personnel is essential to promote open science.</p>
<p>Experts and experts, convened by B-Debate, an initiative of Biocat and Obra Social "la Caixa", agreed that the revision of the evaluation system for research personnel is essential to promote open science, a movement that promotes a science that is more accessible to everyone, that is effective, reproducible and transparent.</p>
<p>Currently, many times the evaluation of a researcher's professional career continues to focus on the number of publications and the impact factor of the scientific journals where his or her articles appear. Various international movements have already stressed the importance of revising this system to improve the way in which the quality of research results and impact are assessed, such as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Evaluation. Apart from quantity, research evaluation must also take quality into account.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646732018-10-12T07:02:51-04:002018-10-12T07:02:51-04:00Objetivo: impulsar la ciencia abierta<p>[google transl.] Objective: to promote open science</p>
<p>Experts gathered in the framework of B-Debate agree that it is necessary to revise the system of evaluation of researchers, define actions to promote the reproducibility of experiments or include citizens in research to achieve this end.</p>
<p>International experts, convened by B-Debate, an initiative of Biocat and Obra Social "la Caixa", agreed that the revision of the system of evaluation of researchers is essential to promote open science, a movement that promotes a science that is more accessible to everyone, that is effective, reproducible and transparent.</p>
<p>Currently, many times the evaluation of a researcher's professional career continues to focus on the number of publications and the impact factor of the scientific journals where his or her articles appear. Various international movements have already stressed the importance of revising this system to improve the way in which the quality of research results and impact are assessed, such as the "San Francisco Declaration on the Evaluation of Research". Apart from quantity, research evaluation must also take quality into account.</p>
<p>The ideologist of the RRI concept, René Von Schomberg, who refers to responsible research and innovation, commented in Barcelona that the current evaluation system generates efficiency at an individual level, but inefficiency at a systemic level. This means that, for example, the level of publications in Europe is very high, but not translated into similar levels of innovation. For this reason, the European Commission (EC) plans to invest in multi-stakeholder coalitions that work cooperatively to find better solutions to persistent and complex problems.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646702018-10-12T06:56:12-04:002018-10-12T06:56:12-04:00Camera, la prossima settimana in comm. Cultura audizioni di Sacco su Pompei e Cnr su Open Access | AgCult<p>[google transl.] Italian Government, next week in comm. Culture Sacco auditions on Pompeii and CNR on Open Access</p>
<p>Questions for immediate answer will be held on Thursday on matters falling within the remit of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.</p>
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<p>Thursday will be heard at 9 a.m. by the VII Commission Donatella Castelli in the framework of the proposed law on Open Access. Questions for immediate answer will be held from 2 p.m. on matters falling within the competence of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24646692018-10-12T06:51:24-04:002018-10-12T06:51:24-04:00Nueva edición del curso en Twitter sobre acceso abierto | Biblioteca de la UOC<p>[google transl.] New edition of the Twitter course on open access</p>
<p>Do you want to know how the world of open access works? The UOC Universitat Oberta de Catalunya] is coordinating, with the collaboration of other Catalan universities and Universitat Jaume I, a new edition of its free Twitter course on open access.</p>
<p>The course on open access via Twitter is one of the main activities during the International Open Access Week, from 22 to 28 October. By means of different tweets it will be possible to get to know how the world of open access is articulated and to know good practices and advice to optimise this type of publication.</p>
<p>All you have to do is follow the @moocmicro account and the #OAMOOC label (#OAMOOC18 in English), from where contents will be published every day (Monday 22nd to Friday 26th) at 10am. From this account or the label you can send your comments and questions to interact with the organization. This initiative, although especially aimed at researchers and university students, is open to anyone who is interested.</p>
<p>This second edition of a micro-MOOC, which has more than 600 followers, will serve to bring closer basic concepts and notions about open access, with an informative language, facilitating a transversal vision of good practices, initiatives, standards and tools on a series of topics (Introduction to Open Access. RRI and Open Science, Publishing on Open Access, Research Data, Publishing Licences and Authors' Rights and Visibility and Impact) with articles, images and videos, among other resources. This course will be taught in Catalan and English.</p>
<p>This micro-MOOC has been coordinated by the UOC -also within the framework of the UOC R&I Meeting Days- cycle- and forms part of the impulse that the university is giving to open knowledge within the framework of its Open Knowledge Action Plan. It has the support for the elaboration of the contents of the libraries of the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Girona, the University of Lleida, the Rovira i Virgili University, the Ramon Llull University, the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia and the Universitat Jaume I. The Consortium also collaborates with the University of Barcelona, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Girona, the University of Lleida, the Rovira i Virgili University, the Ramon Llull University, the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia and the Jaume I University. Also collaborating are the Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC), the European University Association (USA), the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) and SPARC Europe.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24639722018-10-04T11:53:14-04:002018-10-04T11:53:14-04:00Accesso all’informazione scientifica, audizione esperti - AGV<p>[google transl.] ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION, HEARING OF EXPERTS</p>
<p>On Tuesday, October 2, at 12:30 p.m., the Culture Commission will hold a hearing with Daniele Checchi, member of the Board of Directors of Anvur, and Paola Gargiulo, coordinator of the Italian Open Science Support Group (Iossg), as part of the examination in the referent's office of the bill containing "Amendments to Article 4 of Decree-Law No 91 of August 8, 2013, converted, with amendments, by Law No 112 of October 7, 2013, on open access to scientific information".</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24639712018-10-04T11:46:07-04:002018-10-04T11:46:07-04:00Così “la prima vittima di Internet” controlla l’editoria della scienza | Liguria | high_tech | Il Secolo XIX<p>[google transl.] So "the first victim of the Internet" controls the science publishing industry</p>
<p>Genoa - In 1995 the economics weekly Forbes made a forecast. Dutchman Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of scientific journals, would be the "first victim of the Internet". The Internet was in fact created to put researchers (and the military) in contact, giving them the opportunity to share their work free of charge.</p>
<p>Over the years, with the Internet, the percentage of scientific articles "open access" (ie free for readers) has grown continuously, as recalled by a recent article in Nature: from 11.5% in 2012 to 18.9% in 2016. The Università Statale di Milano alone publishes about thirty "open" journals.</p>
<p>Yet, in 2017 the profitability of sales of Elsevier, that is, its gain for every 100 euros of sales volume, was 36.8%: better than 26.4% of Alphabet, the holding company of Google, and better than 26.6% of Apple. Gemma Hersh, vice-president of Elsevier's open science division, attributes her company's excellent results to careful management: "Every year," she says, "we ensure that costs are lower than turnover. We are very efficient. By belonging to the Relx Group (a multinational based in London, ed) we are able to reduce costs in infrastructure, technology and services, which we share with the other companies in the group.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24639702018-10-04T11:34:23-04:002018-10-04T11:34:23-04:00La difficile transizione all'Open Access | Scienza in Rete<p>[google transl.] The difficult transition to Open Access</p>
<p>On 4 September, a group of 12 European research funding agencies announced the initiative to convert to Open Access (OA) Plan S, which provides for mandatory publication in OA by 2020 for all researchers who receive funds from European public bodies. Among the subscribers to this initiative there is also the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the only Italian body. "The INFN has an Open Access tradition and has been at the forefront of its promotion for years with projects such as SCOAP3 in collaboration with CERN," said Fernando Ferroni, president of the INFN.</p>
<p>The plan was developed by cOAlition S, a consortium of 12 national funding agencies coordinated by the organisation Science Europe, with the support of the European Commission's head of Open Access, Robert-Jan Smits. The 10 principles of Plan S impose very stringent constraints on publications. Only 15% of the total number of journals that comply with the requirements of the Plan S are journals. Newspapers that allow free consultation of articles only six months after publication, the so-called delayed open access, are excluded, as are those with a hybrid model that normally provide for paid access but allow individual articles to be published in OA by asking the author to pay a commission, called an article processing charge (APC). The proposed model is inspired by the Bill & Melinda Gates Fundation model, which has had some success in convincing some magazines to convert their business model.</p>
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<p>Plan S could change the fate of the conflict between research funding agencies in Europe and scientific publishers, first and foremost Reed Elsevier, which has been known as the RELX Group since 2015. The Dutch giant alone covers 24% of the scientific publications market, with an annual turnover of £2.5 billion in 2017. Together with Springer, Wiley-Blackweel, Tayor & Francis and Sage, Elsevier publishes over 50% of its scientific articles. By December 2016, the German university library consortium Projekt DEAL had suspended (stopped paying) its subscription contracts for access to the Dutch group's journals. In May of this year, the Swedish members of the Bibsam Consortium followed their example by refusing to renew their contract with Elsevier. For a transitional period, hoping to conclude the negotiations successfully, the publishing house guaranteed access to its contents to researchers affiliated with these consortia, but in July 2018 it decided to raise its paywalls.</p>
<p>The protest of European universities and research institutions is originated by the rising prices for access to scientific content, unsustainable also because of the growing budget constraints for research. More generally, it represents the opposition to a business model that George Monbiot on The Guardian called a robbery.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24639692018-10-04T11:27:45-04:002018-10-04T11:27:45-04:00La UJI también es «Uni-digna» - Levante-EMV<p>[google transl.] The UJI [The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) of Castelló] is also "Uni-digna."</p>
<p>The University of Castelló supports the manifesto against the hardening "to the absurd" imposed by the ANECA</p>
<p>The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) of Castelló joins the manifesto of the "Uni-Digna" platform to demand a system of evaluation and accreditation of university teaching staff that is "comprehensive, reasonable and fair". As a result of the cases of master's degrees and theses carried out by political leaders that have been questioned, either because of doubts about the way in which they were obtained, or because of alleged plagiarism, the universities have been able to be discredited.</p>
<p>In addition, there is the tireless struggle to work for an honest university system, far from the economic objectives and that values more fairly the scientific production of university faculty. To this end, university professors from all over Spain have formed a collective called "Uni-Digna" to "demand another possible university model", to which the public university of Castelló has joined.</p>
<p>As they explain in the manifesto, the association aims to be a benchmark in the defence of good practices "against the conversion of universities into master's degree vending companies at scandalous prices in order to make cash, and thus be able to face the cuts in public funding that they suffer; against the pressure for teachers to privatise, commercialise and make business of the findings of their research through spin-offs and patents, in order to increase the income of universities; In the face of the demand that it publish heavily in magazines and that makes its universities climb in the demand rankings of potential clients; in the face of the devaluation of teaching and university teaching, which is increasingly less valued in the face of research; in the face of the precariousness of a good part of the teaching staff who receive miserable salaries and are dismissed in the summer in order not to pay for their vacations". [...]</p>
<p>New evaluation system</p>
<p>For this reason, "Uni-Digna" has launched a manifesto in which they propose "the creation of a new system of teacher evaluation that takes into account teaching and that values research production with criteria of social utility at the service of the common good". "A system based on open science and knowledge models or Open Science, in which priority is given to the evaluation of open-access electronic publications, in line with the European mandate Horizon 2020".</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24639682018-10-04T11:19:41-04:002018-10-04T11:19:41-04:00Enseña tu tesis: por qué todos los trabajos universitarios deberían ser públicos | Futuro<p>[google transl.] Teach your thesis: why all university papers should be public</p>
<p>The revolt surrounding the thesis of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has centred part of the political debate on the publication and transparency of doctoral work, a practice about which there are differences between the defenders of copyright and the promoters of open science, especially when it comes to work that has received public funding. Logic would be something like giving back to society what the university has given them.</p>
<p>The number of theses read in Spain has increased considerably in recent years, from nearly 8,000 in 2008 by the Ministry of Education to more than 11,000 in the last figure for 2014. Since the entry into force of Royal Decree 99/2011 of Doctorate, new doctors must submit to the Ministry of Education an electronic copy of their work, which is housed in the database of Teseo and, at least, leaves open a summary with the date of reading, the court and the rating.</p>
<p>The text establishes exceptions to this obligation, always at the request of the researcher and if an academic commission authorizes it. Normally, when there are economic interests in between, such as that researcher wants to publish in journals, a book or when the work is done in collaboration with companies and can lead to patents.</p>
<p>The aim of this regulation was "to achieve maximum accessibility to these scientific documents that come from public funds", recalls Professor and former Secretary General of Universities Marius Rubiralta, who points out that "the decree has ensured that the different university libraries function as an online repository of doctoral theses from practically all over Spain".</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24639632018-10-04T11:14:05-04:002018-10-04T11:14:05-04:00Científicos instan a políticos a impulsar una ciencia más abierta y accesible - Tecnología - COPE<p>[google transl.] Scientists urge politicians to promote more open and accessible science</p>
<p>Scientists from all over the world will meet tomorrow and the day after tomorrow in Barcelona to call on politicians to promote and facilitate open science, a movement that promotes research that is "more accessible, effective, reproducible and transparent".</p>
<p>Convened by B-Debate, an initiative of Biocat and the Obra Social de La Caixa, these experts will debate an Action Plan on open science, coinciding with the fact that the EC plans to ask researchers funded with European funds to publish the results of their research in open and immediate access for the entire scientific community from 2020.</p>
<p>The meeting is co-organised by the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the University of Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the IrsiCaixa Institute for AIDS Research and the Global Health Institute of Barcelona (ISGlobal).</p>
<p>As the organizers have advanced, the scientists want to share and propose a roadmap with recommendations, initiatives and innovative practices that will serve politicians and researchers to implement open science in Spain.</p>
<p>The meeting, which will be held in CosmoCaixa, wants to highlight that "openness and collaboration are fundamental values for science, the problem is that some processes such as the system of evaluation and publication of results, have led to close," said Michela Bertero, co-leader of this B-Debate and responsible for Scientific and International Affairs of the CRG.</p>
<p>Open science will also impact the publication of results because now, the journals with the greatest impact on a researcher's career, such as 'Nature' and 'Science', are paid for by the reader.</p>
<p>"This barrier goes against the actions promoted by open science to share the latest research results in open access journals and repositories," said the organizers of the meeting.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities already announced in July that it will work on the design of the National Strategy for Open Science, while the Catalan government has also proposed to establish a Catalan strategy on open science.</p>
<p>"This B-Debate aims to provide concrete ideas and recommendations that administrations can use now that they intend to design open science strategies", said Pastora Martínez, Vice President of Globalisation and Cooperation at the UOC.</p>
<p>Specifically, tomorrow and the day after, scientists will deal with four key aspects of open science: open access; ethics, integrity and reproducibility; evaluation; and the involvement of multidisciplinary teams, different social actors and citizens in research.</p>
<p>Among the scientists taking part in the meeting are René Von Schomberg, an agricultural researcher and philosopher who has been working for the European Commission on research and innovation policies since 1998; biochemist Frank Miedema from the University Medical Center in Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Colleen Campbell, leader of the Open Access 2020.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24624692018-09-14T08:58:22-04:002018-09-14T08:58:22-04:00Gambino: "La riforma copyright danneggerà tutti, editori compresi" | Agenda Digitale<p>[google transl.] Gambino: "Copyright reform will harm everyone, including publishers."</p>
<p>The reform of European copyright which has just been approved by the EU Parliament introduces the so-called ancillary copyright. This is fair compensation for publishers, but it risks penalising them, as well as competition and innovation in the market. That is why</p>
<p>The reform of European copyright which has just been approved by the EU Parliament introduces the so-called ancillary copyright. This is the possibility for publishers to charge a fee for the publication of snippets (short extracts) of their articles, allowing them to obtain a fee.</p>
<p>Indeed, with the rapid and substantial change in the way cultural content is accessed online, as well as its increasingly critical distribution of remuneration, there has been a considerable increase in the supply of content, with the multiplication of the ways in which it is accessed and the emergence of new major digital players in the market.</p>