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An open-access science network plans to catalyse the foundation of research repositories and boost transnational science collaborations. Via Florence Piron
Bernard Rentier's insight:
An opportunity for Latin America: jump directly into science as it will be performed and disseminated in the 21st century. Free, fast and fluid communication of scientific results will be more and more at the core of scientific research itself in the near future. Persisting in the old fashion will keep scientists between walls and make them miss the next generation step. 
Florence Piron's curator insight,
December 29, 2012 10:45 AM
The project, entitled LA Referencia, is designed as an online federated network of institutional repositories of scientific publications. Its goal is to offer open access to scientific papers and doctoral and master's theses in partner countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, México, Perú and Venezuela.
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Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing
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A new study from Stanford molecular and cellular physiologist Axel Brunger and colleagues clears up a controversy in the neuroscience community by pinpointing a critical feature of the mechanism by which our nerve cells manage to talk to one another in something approaching real time. While the study is noteworthy in itself, the fact that its findings appear in the first issue of eLife, a newly launched open-access journal, rather than Science or Nature is also significant.
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CIHR policy on access to research outputs: summary, context of its development and adherence to the policy on open access publications. Provides links to additional information and resources.
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The problem Its often been noted that under the author-pays model of publication (Gold open access), journals have a financial incentive to publish as many articles as possible so as to collect as ...
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The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money
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Towards a Belgian-wide open access mandate. Waiting for a European one...
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Excerpted from article by great curator Maria Popova:
"Tim O'Reilly recently admonished that unless we embrace open access over copyright, we'll never get science policy right. The sentiment, which I believe applies to more than science, reminded me of an eloquent 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush, titled "As We May Think". Much of what Bush discusses presages present conversations about information overload, filtering, and our restless fear of missing out. Bush worries about the impossibility of ever completely catching up and the unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio, makes an enormously important and timely point about the difference between merely compressing information to store it efficiently and actually making use of it in the way of gleaning knowledge. To that end, I often think about the architecture of knowledge as a pyramid of sorts; at the base of it, there is all the information available to us; from it, we can generate some form of insight, which we then consolidate into knowledge; at our most optimal, at the top of the pyramid, we are then able to glean from that knowledge some sort of wisdom about the world. He stresses, as many of us believe today, that mechanization or algorithms in the contemporary equivalent will never be a proper substitute for human judgment and creative thought in the filtration process. He presages hypertext, the internet, and even Wikipedia and, perhaps more importantly, laying out a model for what excellence at the intersection of the editorial and curatorial looks." Via Marc Rougier, Giuseppe Mauriello, JoseAlvarezCornett, Anthony Burke, Mithuhassan
teoportal's curator insight,
December 19, 2012 11:49 AM
Tu vivienda esta aquí (pisos, apartamentos, chalets, villas, casas, adosados, locales, estudios, etc .....o promoción de obra nueva) nunca fue tan fácil en comprar tu vivienda, nosotros les ofrecemos una gestión personalizada en compra de tu vivienda, pide mas información sin compromiso. 
Lisa Labon's curator insight,
January 28, 2013 9:52 AM
Mind boggling to think what that the overload of content he speaks of is now created in a single day, every day. 
garassini's curator insight,
March 11, 2013 6:51 AM
Applicare il metodo delle associazioni mentali all'archiviazione e alla ricerca delle informazioni. La visione profetica di Vannevar Bush.
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PLoS Blogs - PLOS Computational Biology launched a collection of seven existing software articles which present novel biological insights
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La SMF crée cette page pour indiquer quelques documents en rapport ainsi que pour accueillir des contributions spontanées au débat sur les modes d'accès aux publications scientifiques. Nous souhaitons afficher des textes argumentés, qui permettent à chacun de se forger une opinion et à la communauté mathématique de faire entendre ses choix par l'intermédiaire des sociétés savantes.
Via Florence Piron
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Alexander Brown stands up for publishers, justifying their costs and explaining how they help move science forward. If we were to listen to this propaganda, we would have to believe that publishers are the one who are responsible for the quality of scholarly literature and for integrity of the research process. Every scholar should feel deeply offended by these statements. If we can agree on some added value, what is at stake is not quality (only scholars can judge that, it is why publishers subcontract reviewing to scholars, for free!) or integrity (idem), it is just some comfort.
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Josie McLellan writes on Open Access, and the potentially dramatic consequences, not only for the dissemination of research results, but for how they are produced and published
Bernard Rentier's insight:
Nowadays, the reviewing load has become so huge that the process itself is no longer trustable in many cases. And clearly, in a near future, it will become unmanageable. Everybody can foresee the dangers of crowdsourcing. As an alternative, is there an educated-crowdsourcing perpective...? However, Open Access is not the culprit, but rather the current assessment philosophy and the "publish or perish" rule.
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Advertising; Collaborative underwriting; Commissioning; Cross subsidies; Crowdfunding; Dual-edition publishing; Endowments; Institutional subsidies; Liberation; Street performer protocol; Temporary OA; Tiered quality ...
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Open Access readership advantage. After all, this is what we hope for our papers...
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Do the current ethical and legal policies applicable to research with genomic databases sufficiently account for the new reality of open biotechnology? How could the current policy framework be improved to facilitate the transition to a more transparent, collaborative research context? Our research will investigate the impact of open biotechnology on research ethics and legal policies with a particular focus placed on informed consent (scope of consent, privacy, data ownership) to large open database projects. We will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative research strategies that will offer complementary applied legal and ethical data on the impact of open biotechnology on the governance of genomic research. The use of a common research methodology in all streams of the project will facilitate comparisons and integration of our results. Our methods will include comparative legal and ethical research (policy review, legal research), questionnaire analysis and focus group interviews. To validate our findings, we will engage stakeholders at the annual meetings of two major organizations involved in research with open databases: The Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) and the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC). Via Florence Piron
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Jack Weinbender works half-time in our library as my assistant. He’s a whiz around an Excel spreadsheet, so I regularly put him to work gathering and representing our user and resource statis...
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Peter Suber: More on how scam journals are giving OA a bad name
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Stuart Shieber is the Welch Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Director of Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), and chief architect of the Harvard Open Access (OA) Policy — a 2008 initiative that has seen Harvard become a major force in the OA movement.
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Marcus Hanwell discusses becoming what Peter Murray-Rust termed "scholarly poor," a highly qualified scientist essentially shut out of the scientific process due to the academic paywalls in place.
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A new report from the UK Open Access Implementation Group examines the potential part that intermediaries could play in helping universities, funders and publishers to manage the impact of increasing volumes of open access article processing charges.
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2012 has been a fast growing year for Open Access