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This week I spotted two trends in two different countries that will have great impact on our lives.
The first one is about American immigration law. For a few years I have been observing an increase in the number of returnees to Turkey among Turkish people who immigrated to the U.S. An article by Michael Moritz, Chairman of Sequia Capital at LinkedIn, entitled “Immigration Reform: Stop Ejecting the Brightest Minds from America” proved to me that my observations were shared.
He writes, “Let’s hope Congress does not flinch as it begins the debate about immigration reform because the future is passing through security – in the wrong direction. It leaves the United States on every departing airplane carrying a foreign born student who has graduated from an American university with an advanced degree in the sciences, technology, engineering and math. The majority of these people want to stay in the United States but because of existing immigration laws, they have no choice but to leave.” Moritz says that it is impossible to satisfy Silicon Valley’s appetite for engineers and scientists with people born in America. In the massive global IQ competition, the United States is shooting itself in the foot.
Linked Universities is an alliance of european universities engaged into exposing their public data as linked data. Linked data is a set of principles to put raw data on the Web, making them Web addressable and linkable, so that they can be easily accessed, discovered, connected and reused. The idea is that data from different institutions and organisations can contribute to a common data space on the Web: the Web of Data.
Following the death of Aaron Swartz, an open data activist, the issues around open access and data ownership have been reignited around the world. But for Japan, the seeds of open data just started being planted in the beginning of 2013.
Among other things, EWB Canada is well-known here in DC for having published a failure report every year since 2008. The EWB Canada conference is the largest annual international development conference in Canada, and attracts prominent speakers from all over the world. By far the highlight of the conference was the full day Policy Forum, already blogged about here by Linda Raftree. The forum brought together participants from Canadian government, African governments, and non-governmental organizations to talk about open data and open government.
Нечестные ученые в Соединенных Штатах могли получить в общей сложности около 70 миллионов долларов в виде так называемых "двойных" грантов, подавая несколько отличающиеся заявки на одни и те же исследования в разные государственные фонды, выяснили математики, изучившие статистику по выдаче грантов в США.
Via Ivan Begtin
Velichka Dimitrova of OKF recently gave a recap of the organization’s first Open Economics International Workshop. Dimitrova writes, “The first Open Economics International Workshop gathered 40 academic economists, data publishers and funders of economics research, researchers and practitioners to a two-day event at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, UK. The aim of the workshop was to build an understanding around the value of open data and open tools for the Economics profession and the obstacles to opening up information, as well as the role of greater openness of the academy. This event was organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Audio and slides are available at the event’s webpage.”
Open access research – work that is made freely available online – is regarded by the academic community as a good thing in principle, helping to make their work easier to access by a wider community. But the government's new open access proposals to make universities, rather than readers, pay the publication costs for all research that is publicly-funded by 2014 have caused quite a stir, with many academicsand public figures strongly claiming the plans are an "attack on academic freedoms".
The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis. We seek the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, ethnographers, archaeologists, economists and geographers.
When I asked whether the push to free up government data was resulting in economic activity and startup creation, I started to receive emails from people around the United States and Europe. I’ll be publishing more of what I learned in our ongoing series of open data interviews and profiles over the next month, but two responses are worth sharing now.
This new report investigates the drivers, costs and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals. It identifies five different routes for achieving that end over the next five years, and compares and evaluates the benefits as well as the costs and risks for the UK.
The report suggests that policymakers who are seeking to promote increases in access should encourage the use of existing subject and institutional repositories, but avoid pushing for reductions in embargo periods, which might put at risk the sustainability of the underlying scholarly publishing system. They should also promote and facilitate a transition to open access publishing (Gold open access) while seeking to ensure that the average level of charges for publication does not exceed c.£2000; that the rate in the UK of open access publication is broadly in step with the rate in the rest of the world; and that total payments to journal publishers from UK universities and their funders do not rise as a consequence.
Introduction to Communication Science
Starts: Feb 20, 2013
Since antiquity, scholars have appreciated the importance of communication: as social beings, we cannot exist without communication. We need to interact with people around us, to make sense of the world and to position ourselves in a wider social and cultural reality. This course explores some of the basic theories, models and concepts from the fields of mass, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication.
The first Open Economics International Workshop gathered 40 academic economists, data publishers and funders of economics research, researchers and practitioners to a two-day event at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, UK. The aim of the workshop was to build an understanding around the value of open data and open tools for the Economics profession and the obstacles to opening up information, as well as the role of greater openness of the academy. This event was organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
This project looked at what motivates researchers to work in an open manner with regard to their data, results and protocols, and whether advantages are delivered by working in this way.
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Plattform zur Veröffentlichung offener Daten mit Web-Oberfläche und Programmierschnittstelle.
I noticed a press-release article announcing a new Elsevier open access journal, Molecular Metabolism, that will feature one of my Yale faculty colleagues, Tamas Horvath, as an editor. Because of the competition with new top tier journals like eLife that have waived article processing charge (APC) for their first three years, Molecular Metabolism has waived the APC for all 2012 and 2013 submissions. The charge for publication will eventually be $2,000 (USD).
This is my third State of the City Address and as with the first two we are presenting in different areas of Hamilton to reflect on and reinforce the strength, heritage and importance of every part of our City. It is appropriate that Stoney Creek is our venue today because of its importance to the economic well-being of our community. I want to thank today’s program sponsor, Kubes, whose success has derived from the very things I want to talk to you about today. Kubes Steel offers a range of custom roll form services for structural steel sections, metal sheet, tube, angle, pipe and beams. Their expertise has made them a leader in architectural exposed structural steel projects throughout North America. Kubes Steel is the result of over 3 decades of investment in founder Joe Kubes’ vision which is a vision that we at the City of Hamilton would do well to emulate…. to be the best at what we do by investment in plant, equipment, training, technology and most importantly, people. So thank you again for helping make today possible and (for) inspiring a vision for Hamilton.
From Wikipedia to shareware, the Internet has made information and software more widely available than ever. At the heart of this explosion is the simple idea that information should be open and free for anyone. Yet with publishers charging exorbitant fees for subscriptions to academic journals, university libraries are struggling to keep up. Writing in the Journal of Academic Librarianship, Concordia collections librarian Geoffrey Little says that a key way to meet that challenge is through the use of open source technology. "In order to make information freely available through open access policies, it's important to look beyond traditional and expensive methods of dissemination and turn instead to open source software," he says.
Submission for papers in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2013 is now open at http://2013.foss4g.org/ojs/
The FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track is bringing together researchers, developers, users and practitioners carrying out research and development in the geospatial and the free and open source fields.
With the Academic Track motto “Science for Open Source, Open Source for Science”, we aim to attract academic papers describing:
The use of open source geospatial software and data, in and for scientific research
Academic endeavours to conceptualize, create, assess, and teach open source geospatial software and data.
It’s our pleasure to invite you to join the Citizen Science Open Technical Workshop to be held Wednesday 30th January 16:00 CET virtually using Google Hangout. You can attend the meeting and send all your comments in thisYoutube channel or this twitter account.
The deadline for nominations in the annual BioMed Central Open Data Awards is on January 31st. Get your votes in now! It’s been a big year for open science in general, and for BioMed Central in particular. We’ve been hard at work promoting the value of data-sharing, developing standards to make it more attractive to researchers, and offering tools to make open publishing even easier. Recognising the importance of citation and reuse tracking in motivating researchers to publish openly, we’ve been promoting standards for data-citation including data DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) as link-able URLs. Through ourtechnology partnership with LabArchives, all our authors can now get 100Mb of free storage and the ability to assign DOIs to their datasets, and thereby create permanent data citations.
The MAIRS programme (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study) formally started in 2006 during the 2nd ESSP (Earth System Science Partnership) open science conference in Beijing. The aim of MAIRS is to advance understanding of the interactions between the human and natural components of the overall environment in the monsoon Asia region, as well as the implications for the global earth system, in order to support strategies for sustainable development. From the beginning of MAIRS, there has been a focus on promoting multidisciplinary studies among natural, social scientists and stakeholders through effective collaboration and the establishment of new projects and networks in the region.
The Ukrainian OGP Action Plan, just like most other country OGP Action Plans, takes advantage of the power of the internet. It contains the creation of new online resources that will improve public access to government information; it foresees new ways of government-citizen online interaction; and it places an increasing number of government services online, making the government’s work more transparent and efficient.
The State Department on Monday launched the Open Book Project, an initiative designed to promote and create open-access Arabic language educational resources.
State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is working with the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization to create open access educational resources with a specific focus on science and technology oriented materials, according to a fact sheet released Friday.
On February 15-16, the Open Research Data Handbook Sprint will happen at the Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE.
The Open Research Data Handbook aims to provide an introduction to the processes, tools and other areas that researchers need to consider to make their research data openly available.
Join us for a book sprint to develop the current draft, and explore ways to remix it for different disciplines and contexts.
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