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  Open data and open government invariably make people ask questions. How much money does it save? Where is it located? What is it doing?
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open access”

 

• The SV-POW! open-access decision tree

  
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  As part of the progressive erosion of RCUK’s initially excellent open-access policy, barrier-based publishers somehow got them to accept their “ open-access decision tree “, which you can now find on page 7 of the toothless current version of the policy . The purpose of this manoeuvre by the Publishers ...
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• Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice

  
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  NOW AVAILABLE: Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice Rory McGreal, Wanjira Kinuthia and Stewart Marshall, Eds. May 2013 Published jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, Canada (UNESCO/COL Chair in OER) as CC-BY-SA ...
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• Learning theory: an A3 poster

  
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  Source: Richard Millwood - A new learning landscape As the poster demonstrates and Millwoods notes explain  learning theories are very varied and yet a constant in terms of teacher education. What is less permanent is the significance of learning styles, which are included above. I wonder if there is an A3 ...
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• Useful Source of Open Books

  
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  The good folks at O’Reilly Media offer a roster of Open Books for your inner programmer. O’Reilly has not only navigated the open license landscape to offer these publications, but also got them digitized into e-books so they can be available to anyone with an Internet connection. Though the publisher has ...
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• Of course the serials crisis is not over, what the heck are you talking about?

  
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  Jeffrey Beall’s fatuous pronouncement that  The Serials Crisis is Over has been nagging away at me since it was posted yesterday. I admit my first reaction was that it was some kind of parody or satire, but Beall’s subsequent comments seem to rule out that charitable interpretation. I’m pleased to see that ...
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• Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3)

  
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  Colleagues: We are very pleased to announce the creation of the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3), a new Digital Classics R&D unit embedded in the Duke University Libraries, whose start-up has been generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Duke University’s Dean of Arts & ...
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• "Remarkable Growth of Open Access in the Biomedical Field: Analysis of PubMed Articles from 2006 to 2010"

  
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  Keiko Kurata, Tomoko Morioka, Keiko Yokoi, and Mamiko Matsubayash have published the "Remarkable Growth of Open Access in the Biomedical Field: Analysis of PubMed Articles from 2006 to 2010" in PLOS One. Heres an excerpt: This study clarifies the trends observed in open access (OA) in the biomedical field between 2006 ...
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• Sustainability at Any Price is not Sustainable: Open Access in Archaeology

  
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  This blog post looks at the open access debate, and notes how sustainability is as much of an ideological and political question as it is a financial issue. It is intended to follow up on previous blog posts ( first , second , third ) that discussed how the Aaron Swartz prosecution and death ...
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• Simulmedia Opens Free Access on Its Website to Part of World’s Most Robust TV Audience Database and Advertising Platform

  
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  Launches Open Access Project with Data on +100 National TV Ad Campaigns NEW YORK – Simulmedia, a pioneer in audience-based television ad targeting, today at the ANA Financial Management annual conference in Phoenix, announced it has launched Open Access Project an initiative that will allow free access on its ...
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• "Types of Open Access Publishers in Scopus"

  
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  David Solomon has published "Types of Open Access Publishers in Scopus" in Publications. Heres an excerpt: This study assessed characteristics of publishers who published 2010 open access (OA) journals indexed in Scopus. Publishers were categorized into six types; professional, society, university, scholar/researcher, ...
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• University of Michigan Press Launches Maize Books, a Nontraditional Press with an Open Access Option

  
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  The University of Michigan Press has launched Maize Books, which will offer an open access publishing option. Heres an excerpt from the announcement: The University of Michigan Press, a unit of Michigan Publishing, is committed to producing and disseminating high-quality scholarship. As part of that commitment, were ...
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• It’s Not 1995 Again — Why the Threats from the New Big Players May Be Much More Significant This Time

  
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  Eighteen years ago, Mosaic ushered in the potential for a sea-change in publishing based on technological prowess and scale. Today, the "open" label covers a set of disparate incentives under a single blanket, one that funders, government, and technology companies are all under, each for its own reason. Continue ...
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• Academic publishing: Free-for-all

  
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  The post Academic publishing: Free-for-all appeared first on Innovation Toronto. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Monthly Introduction to e-Patients.net--e-Patient Dave

  
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  This is our monthly introduction to  e-Patients.net , blog of the  Society for Participatory Medicine . Follow the Society on Twitter ( @S4PM ),  Facebook , and  LinkedIn .  Here’s how to  become a Society member , individual or corporate. Our publications: This blog  is  e-patients.net .  Subscribe ...
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• Some Obstacles in Using OERs

  
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  There’s a lot of hype and plenty of expectations in higher education surrounding open educational resources (OER). Those expectations are one of the hurdles that OERs must overcome. “OER should be a source of inspiration for innovation and creativity in the world of college course materials,” Brian Jacobs, ...
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• OSTP Public Access Memo Deadlines Loom Over Us

  
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  The OSTP access memorandum has led to hearings this month. Be sure to contribute and observe. Continue reading »
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• The opportunity cost of paywalled research

  
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  My eye was caught by this tweet: Id like to read papers from #chi2013 . But I wont $15 each to do so. So theres a bunch of conversations that will never happen…— Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) May 04, 2013 And I found myself wondering how often this scenario plays out around the world every day. How many ...
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• “Judges and Their Papers” by Kathryn A. Watts, Univ. of Washington School of Law — Who should own a federal judge’s papers?

  
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  University of Washington (UW) School of Law Associate Professor Kathryn A. Watt’s subject, thought-provoking paper is here . Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog . Cross-posted at Law Library Blog .
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• Do you know an example of open access research helping the public good? Nominate the team for a $30k ASAP award!

  
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  The Public Library of Science, the Wellcome Trust, and Google recently announced the Accelerating Science Award Program . If you know someone who has applied or reused scientific research in an innovative way to advance science, medicine, or technology, you can nominate them for an ASAP award. The goal of ASAP is ...
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• Study: British Celebrity Chefs Add to Britain’s Obesity Epidemic

  
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  An analysis of British based celebrity chefs published in Scientific & Academic Publishing (SAP), an Open-Access publisher of journals, revealed that most British celebrity chefs’ recipes contained excessive amounts of fat, saturated fatty acids, sugars and salt. “The majority of recipes analysed had ...
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