OpenAccess

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “OpenAccess”

• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
  15 hours ago

• Towards a DFID Research policy on open access

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 130
  The UKs Department for International Development (DFID) is a major funder of agricultural and development research. A recent news item in R4D reposrts that DFID "supports Open Access as a core component of its research commitment to ensure that research knowledge can be accessed, built upon and used in support of ...
  15 hours ago

• Google plays the openness card

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 598
  While Apple has blocked the Someecards app because some of the cards have made fun of public figures, Google has asked the app to port on over to Android phones. (BTW, I got a Droid today.)
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• Open Access Law with Malamud and Others.

  
  Slaw — Authority: 607
  Following on our comments this week on law and access, a show on BlogTalkRadio called The Law Librarian has a podcast available of today’s discussion on OA legal resources with Carl Malamud and others. They talk about his Law.gov initiative, the Obama admin., and others. A good listen.
  2 days ago

• Bob Berring and Tom Bruce – Twin sons of different mothers

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 423
  A couple of weeks ago our friend and hero Tim Stanley from Justia gave his terrific free-resources presentation at our Advanced Legal Research class.  As an in-class exercise the next class session, we asked the students to briefly share some aspect of what they learned from Tim’s talk.  One student wrote:I ...
  2 days ago

• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
  2 days ago

• Tomorrow’s Giants 1 – Big Data

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 103
  I recently spent an afternoon at a meeting entitled “Tomorrow’s Giants”, which was jointly organized by the Royal Society and Nature and took place here in Cambridge. The meeting was in preparation for a larger meeting, also entitled “ Tomorrow’s Giants ” which is to be held on the 1st July 2010 as ...
  3 days ago

• Academic Journal Publisher Brill Launches Brill Open

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 481
  Brill , an international academic publisher located in Leiden and Boston, has launched Brill Open . Heres an excerpt from the press release : This new author service offers the option of making articles freely available upon publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding bodies and ...
  3 days ago

• Utah State University Press Merges with Library, Goes Open Access

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 481
  The Utah State University Press will merge with the Merrill-Cazier Library, and it will "adopt a new publication model, with open access as a central component." Heres an excerpt from the press release Joining a growing national trend, Utah State University Press will merge with the administrative structure of ...
  3 days ago

• Open Access Conference in Ghana

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  The Ghana News Agency is reporting on an open access conference in Ghana. The conference focused on using emerging infrastructure to share knowledge. From the article: “We must see research education networks as a vital component in Africa’s ICT engine of growth.”
  3 days ago

• Webinar Replay: Whats New in Q3 2009

  
  Telerik Watch — Authority: 419
  Miss the first of the Q3 09 Release Week Webinars today? Catch-up now by watching the recorded on-demand version now available on Telerik TV (and above). Todays webinar provided an overview of the Q3 2009 release and took a closer look at the new features in OpenAccess ORM and WebUI Test Studio. This is the first of ...
  3 days ago

• 6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free!)

  
  iLibrarian — Authority: 472
  This week I have assigned students in my Open Movements course the task of self-archiving their final papers in either E-LIS or DList, both disciplinary repositories for the LIS field. So in the spirit of that assignment, I archived a recent article which I wrote for The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research ...
  4 days ago

• CEOs in Fortune 500 companies raking in 129 times their ‘ideal salaries’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): CEOs in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their “ideal salaries” in 2008, according to a researcher at Purdue University.Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a professor of chemical engineering, wanted to know if Chief executives in top-notch multinational ...
  4 days ago

• Free Law Kerfuffle

  
  Slaw — Authority: 607
  I am amazed that the three minutes extracted from an interview that I gave in the summer of 2009 with the thought that parts of it would be used in a tribute video to be shown at the 2009 AALL Convention has caused such a kerfuffle. [Ed. note: see Berring’s Scepticism on the Future of Free Legal Information , ...
  5 days ago

• Two months free access to AAA journals!

  
  antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog — Authority: 536
  From now on until the end of December, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is offering free access to a large section of its journals . Why not free all the time? asks Kerim Friedman . Good question. The AAA has been often criticized for its restrictive publishing policies . But maybe things are ...
  5 days ago

• The MPEG Open Access Application Format

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 550
  According to the editors introduction, "The lack of a unified format for digital-content metadata and associated license information is impeding the open access to and dissemination of digital content. The MPEG Open Access Application Format is a new standard from MPEG that standardizes the packaging of digital ...
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• White Paper on Engineering Leadership Education

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 419
  Engineering leadership education is emerging as a topic in engineering institutions worldwide. But the review of international “best practices” in engineering leadership education says a lack of resources, expertise, and formal networks in the nascent field is causing concern in a profession threatened by a ...
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• Book on Access to Knowledge

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting on a new book about access to knowledge. The book is 95 pages long and is available for free as a PDF .
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• Perspectives on the Future of Open Access

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Jill Till has a short post comparing different perspectives on the future of open access. From the post: I agree with Stevan Harnad that the most important short-term goal of the OA movement is to “provide Open Access to refereed research articles.“
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• The European Library

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 120
  The European Library portal can help you search the online catalogs to all the major libraries in the European Union. The project originates from the TEL-project which was set up as a cooperative framework that would facilitate access to all the major national and deposit collection from Europe’s national ...
  6 days ago

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