On commence avec José Cotta, responsable d'Open Science à la DG Connect.
Hashtag : Joa2015
Streaming : http://www.canal-u.tv/video/fmsh/les_6emes_journees_open_access_1ere_journee.18921?showAddFavoris=1
Open-Up Public Science!
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A huge, unreasonable, increase, far above any rise of living costs. Not unexpected but sad. A clear demonstration that our worst fears were justified : APC Gold OA is killing OA. Researchers of the World, unite ! Don't trust any generous initiative, sooner or later greed will catch up with it. Take back the control of your own work ! It is time to reconsider entirely our publication paradigm.
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It's a pretty common thread that textbook prices are too high. At a time when student debt is higher than ever, it's crazy that we're charging students so much for textbooks. In a traditional market, two factors exert control over prices :1) First, competition: if someone else enters the market, and offers the same product for less, it forces everyone's prices down.2) Second, consumers: if the price of a good is too high, consumers won't buy it, forcing prices down.In the textbook market, neither of those protections exist.Just 5 publishers control more than 80% of the market, meaning they can effectively lock out any competitors that try to undercut them.In the same vein, there's no consumer choice because the person who shells out the money (the student), isn't the one that actually chooses the product (the professor).
Bernard Rentier's insight:
The principle is exactly the same for scientific publications. Just replace two words : the person who shells out the money (the university), isn't the one that actually chooses the product (the scholar).
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Open data and Earth observations: the case of opening up access to and use of Earth observation data through the Global Earth Observation System of Systems - JRC Science Hub
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If you are reading a research paper, and scan the authors (in some disciplines, an increasingly long list), do you know who played a meaningful role in the work?
Bernard Rentier's insight:
In 2015, amazingly, researchers are still evaluated by the number of papers they author or co-author and/or by the "prestige" of the journal in which their papers are published.The perverse effect of this obsolete methodology is :1. An excess of redundant and/or useless papers;2. "Guest" co-authors who get undeserved credit;3. "Ghost" co-authors left aside in spite of their contribution.It is amazing that, in a community claiming its supremacy in scientific rigor, such a flawed assessment paradigm still prevails...
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20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
An inspiring talk by Tim Berners-Lee (Doctor honoris causa, University of Liège, 2009), inventor of the www (still not a Nobel laureate, surprisingly !).Think of how much influence this man has had on mankind's daily lives, how much influence he will have on each of us with the 'next' web and how fortunate we all are that, by allowing his invention to be used freely, he actually fathered everything bearing the name "OPEN" !!!
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The competitive nature of scholarship and the precariousness of academic employment is what currently hinders early-career researchers, not open access publishing. Rather than warning researchers o...
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Ce n'est pas lui faire injure que de rappeler que l'économiste et essayiste Jacques Attali n'est sans doute pas très doué pour les prévisions... En revanche, il reste un remarquable analyste de nos sociétés.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
Ce qu'Uber fait avec les taxis, Netflix avec les chaînes de télévision. Booking.com avec les hôtels, Amazon avec les libraires, Blablacar avec les sociétés de chemins de fer, quelqu'un va le faire tôt ou tard avec les publications scientifiques. Aucun business model n'a jamais résisté aux avancées technologiques...
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Big data changes the way we do science and replicate it Physicist Alessandro Vespignani is one of the main experts in networks and statistical and numerical simulations. An Italian scientist, he is currently working at the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In this EuroScientist podcast interview, he shares his views on the need to re-think the concepts of replicability and reproducibility. (...) - Euroscientist, by Luca Tancredi Barone, 29 April 2015 Via Tree of Science
Tree of Science's curator insight,
August 8, 2015 2:58 PM
While the #bigdata revolution is ongoing, there are new challenges in data reproducibility #openscience #openresearch #opendata 
Nicolas Pettiaux's curator insight,
August 12, 2015 5:12 AM
One of the key aspect of science is reproducibility. For me that is "if some affirmation said to be science cannot be claimed, based on an independent study, by another team/person, there is NO scientific process taking place. Hence reproducibility is impossible". In order to allows for reproducibility, there are some necessary conditions : the full process must be described, the data must be accessible too. Either by independent production if possible, or by giving full access to the data first analyzed. And the software used must be fully accessible too, because it contains the details of the process, if any software is used. And we all know that the devil hides in the details. Alessandro Vespignani, rightfully says "the (scientific) validation happens when you have different teams that work at the same time on the same set of data to recover results.” Hence, the data must often, at least if their production or storage is difficult or expensive, be open if not libre (in the sense of libre access)
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Washington, D.C. — Today, New America's Education Policy Program, along with a broad coalition of education, library, technology, public interest, ...
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
Never hope for a move that will reduce profit. It is unrealistic and it would be foolish for profit-based companies. Financial relief is to be sought neither through negotiation nor through moral pressure.The solution lies with a complete paradigm shift: open publishing, open reviewing, open reading, the only way to get back to the basics of fast and efficient communication, the cornerstone of scientific research.
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Pour l'élévation dans le domaine public du Journal d'Anne Frank.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
Olivier Ertzscheid : "Qui sont-ils, Anne, pour s'opposer ainsi à l'entrée de ton journal dans le domaine public ? Le fait que tu sois morte depuis 70 ans ne leur suffit donc pas à ces éditeurs et à ces gestionnaires de droits ? De quels "droits d'auteur" veulent-ils maintenir la rente après avoir déjà vendu plus de 30 millions d'exemplaires de ton journal ? A qui bénéficient ces droits ? Aux enfants que tu n'as pas eu ?"
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La Science ouverte s’inscrit dans la philosophie du partage et de l’échange des idées qui a guidé de tous temps l’avènement des découvertes scientifiques. Grâce aux technologies du numérique, la science ouverte peut catalyser les énergies pour des découvertes plus rapides, plus fiables et à moindre coût répondant ainsi à l’aspiration conjointe des chercheurs et des financeurs de la recherche. Comment un financeur et des présidents d’universités et d’organismes de recherche jugent-ils l’impact de l’open science sur leurs institutions ? Le point de vue d’un analyste financier nous éclairera sur les enjeux économiques et leur incidence sur la souveraineté scientifique. Via Florence Piron
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Ses objectifs sont les suivants : Via Marie-Laure Malingre
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L'ouverture de la Science, de la connaissance
Marie-Laure Malingre's curator insight,
September 11, 2015 8:52 AM
"La science ouverte comme outil collectif de développement du pouvoir d’agir et de la justice cognitive en Haïti et en Afrique francophone : vers une feuille de route", projet de recherche-action, né de rencontres au sein de l’Association science et bien commun, oeuvrera de janvier 2015 à décembre 2016 pour le développement de la science ouverte en Afrique francophone et Haïti.
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Bernard Rentier explains how the University of Liege persuaded nearly all its researchers to put their papers in its institutional repository.Research Europe, 10-09-2015
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PDF available here : http://hdl.handle.net/2268/185861 (ORBi ULg)
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Alex Holcombe agues that if academics learn how to code and post their code, replication can become routine instead of a heroic painstaking effort. The post is especially timely following the publi...
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A four-year study published in Science Magazine yesterday, August 27, 2015, found that fewer than half of 100 published findings of three prominent psychology journals were reproducible.
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Techdirt has written numerous articles about an important move in academic publishing towards open access. By shifting the funding of production costs from the readers to the researchers' institutions it is possible to provide free online...
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This article originally appeared on Insights, World Resources Institute.
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"Our hope is that a more open system will improve the integrity of the peer review process, but the reality is that any system will be subject to the biases of human nature—we just think that this is more likely to be surfaced through greater transparency."
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
Oxford U. is adapting its Green OA repository policy for a more efficient access, immediately (3 months max) after acceptance. See comments here : http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2015-August/003513.html
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“Peer review is supposed to be the quality assurance system for science, weeding out the scientifically unreliable and reassuring readers of journals that they can trust what they are reading. In reality, however, it is ineffective, largely a lottery, anti-innovatory, slow, expensive, wasteful of scientific time, inefficient, easily abused, prone to bias, unable to detect fraud" (former British Medical Journal editor Richard Smith) and irrelevant.”
Bernard Rentier's insight:
One of the greatest taboos in science : who will dare to say that the old anonymous pre-publication peer reviewing has simply failed to evolve in harmony with both the growth of research production and the emergence of ICT technologies ?
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By the Brazilian Forum of Public Health Journals Editors and the Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (Abrasco, Brazilian Public Health Association) Jeffrey Beall, an American librarian who gained notoriety publishing a list of open access...
Bernard Rentier's insight:
At first praised by the OA Community for providing his famous list of predatory OA publishers, Jeffrey Beall soon revealed that he was on the side of the big publishing finance and showed a virulent anti-OA posture. Actually, his recent diatribe on SciELO = favelas (and his contempt of the people living there) demonstrates that his conservatism is not confined to scientific publication but extends to a very prejudiced and narrow-minded Yankee vision of the World.I support warmly the Pro-SciELO motion.
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Pour ma part, présidence de deux sessions ("Les avancées de l'Open Access en Europe" aujourd'hui et "Construire un écosystème favorable à l'Open Access" demain) et une présentation ("Archive ouverte, retombées sur la visibilité de la recherche et des chercheurs, l'expérience d'ORBi") demain également.