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  Open Data/Open Government Tools
  Open data and open government invariably make people ask questions. How much money does it save? Where is it located? What is it doing?
  by csedev / on Jul 4, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open access”

 

• The great debate: digital versus flexo

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  With the rapid rise of digital printing in the labels sector, what impact will there be on conventional printing technologies? Barry Hunt reports Has digital printing reached a major turning point? Many people think it has, with the lower end of the flexo market being the prime target. certainly its short-run ...
  10 hours ago

• Nature’s shiny sounding copout on open access

  
  it is NOT junk — Authority: 621
  Nature has an editorial  in this week’s issue on broader issues surround access to the scientific literature. Several people have sent it to me with some variation on “Wow, Nature is saying good things about open access”. I was skeptical, given that Nature  has a long history of occasionally saying the ...
  2 days ago

• Performing Scholarly Communication

  
  The Late Age of Print — Authority: 85
  A short piece I wrote for the journal Text and Performance Quarterly ( TPQ ) has just been published.  It’s called “Performing Scholarly Communication,” and it’s included in a special section on “The Performative Possibilities of New Media” edited by the wonderful Desireé Rowe and Benjamin Myers.  The ...
  5 days ago

• Observations on ‘Open Access’, Health Industry Reports, & 2012 Predictions

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 132
  Source: Peter Groen, groenpjs blog Content: “I always look forward to the summary of findings in the latest research reports about Health IT systems from Gartner, Forrester, Chilmark, and others. They do great work, but I have to be satisfied with the summaries because I just can’t afford to buy the complete ...
  6 days ago

• "Is Apple revolutionising Academic Publishing?" by Henning Meyer

  
  Social Europe Journal — Authority: 118
  I confess to being an Apple enthusiast and I was thus keenly waiting for the company’s announcement on educational publishing yesterday. I immediately installed IBook author and played around a...
  1 week ago

• Nature and Science both oppose the RWA

  
  Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week — Authority: 449
  Although I’m on record of being no fan of the tabloids, there’s no doubt that they are hugely influential.  So it has to be good news to find that in the last few hours, both Nature and Science have publicly come out against the Research Works Act . The Nature Publishing Group (with publishes Nature ), ...
  1 week ago

• Michael Nielsen Named as SPARC Innovator

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 114
  Michael Nielsen has been named as a SPARC Innovator. Heres an excerpt from the announcement : While Nielsen is not alone in promoting the open sharing of data and research to advance science, he has been in the spotlight this fall as an advocate for the cause. The Open Society Foundations supported sending him on ...
  1 week ago

• So Long, SOPA?

  
  Civil Rights Blog — Authority: 122
  The web-wide movement against two anti-piracy bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), has indeed "rattled" Congress.
  1 week ago

• Wide Screen opposes SOPA.

  
  Edit Room — Authority: 92
  As a group working actively towards a promotion of freely available knowledge on the Internet, Wide Screen opposes the attempt to control the Internet by laws like SOPA.
  1 week ago

• Resources for open access advocates

  
  [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og — Authority: 104
  In the course of going through the literature on open access (OA), I’ve come across a ton of resources for folks who want to learn about open access. Most of them are okay. A few of them are gems. Here are the gems. Anyone who writes and publishes (researchers, authors, students, and those who want to work with ...
  1 week ago

• Springer permits commercial use for its hybrid open access progr...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 132
  (Springer) Springer is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access option, into line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. As a result, all open access content at Springer will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
  1 week ago

• Mass. Municipal Network Project Seeks Last Mile FTTH Funding

  
  Telecompetitor — Authority: 467
  WiredWest, a group formed by several municipalities in western Massachusetts, has applied for a state grant to help finance the connection of an open access fiber-to-the-home network to another statewide middle-mile open access network that is already under construction, reports the Berkshire Eagle, a local media ...
  1 week ago

• Google To Join Anti-SOPA Protest

  
  Civil Rights Blog — Authority: 122
  Google will be joining the online protest against the the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by posting a link on its search page that will direct readers to a statement explaining its opposition to the antipiracy bills currently under review in both houses of Congress.
  1 week ago

• Mobile Device Security Checklist

  
  Bosmol - Social Media and SEO Indusrty News — Authority: 105
  Mobile device security should be a major concern for those who own and use smartphones. When you obtain a new phone, a few preliminary security steps should be taken to ensure that your data is secure and your phone is safe. The folks at Veracode have put together an infographic called “ So You Got A Smartphone for ...
  1 week ago

• The question is not ‘does’ but ‘can’

  
  Savage Minds — Authority: 455
  Over at his blog, Jason Jackson wonder whether that AAA supports HR 3699  or not. It’s a good question, but I think there is an even better one to ask: can the AAA support (or oppose) HR 3699? In other words, is there some sort of institutional structure and decision making system at work within the AAA that is ...
  1 week ago

• Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

  
  The Stoa Consortium — Authority: 92
  This just in from Joel Kalvesmaki: I am pleased to announce the appearance of the Guide to Evagrius Ponticus , a digital-only, peer-reviewed reference work about the fourth-century monastic theologian. Updated quarterly, it provides definitive, integrated lists of Evagrius’s works, of editions and translations ...
  1 week ago

• Open Access event at the British Academy

  
  The Librarian Identity — Authority: 79
  Open access is a hot topic in universities at present. Only last week, SCONUL published an impact briefing on this. At Westminster, I have been considering this issue with some colleagues. We are looking to raise awareness of the benefits of open access publishing to academics, partly to increase access to articles ...
  1 week ago

• An interesting experiment

  
  Scholarly Communications @ Duke — Authority: 94
  The announcement from JSTOR of their new “Register & Read” program, reported here in Inside Higher Ed and here in The Chronicle of Higher Education , seems like a promising experiment.  It deserves both praise and a couple of caveats, I think. The first caveat is that it may be a rather small experiment; ...
  1 week ago

• My Story of O(pen)

  
  Information Environment Team — Authority: 392
  Here at JISC we think a lot about openness: what it means, how to support it, where it takes us. This is my contribution to that thinking. It is very much my individual views, but informed by the work we do at JISC, and by the Open Knowledge Foundation , amongst others. My open narrative Open makes things visible. ...
  1 week ago

• ARL, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, and SPARC Reply to White House RFI on Public Access to Digital Data

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 114
  The Association of Research Libraries, the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, and SPARC have replied to the White Houses Request for Information: Public Access to Digital Data Resulting from Federally Funded Scientific Research . Heres an excerpt: Question 1 What specific Federal policies would encourage ...
  1 week ago

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