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Over the years, we've featured the many drawings that have adorned the pages of Dante's Divine Comedy, from medieval times to modern. Illustrations by Botticelli, Gustave Doré, William Blake and Mœbius, they've all gotten their due. Less has been said here, however, about the actual text itself. 
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La notion de commun semble recouvrir aujourd'hui un (trop) large éventail de significations, ce qui sans doute rend confus son usage. Cet article vous propose d'examiner à quelles conditions on peut considérer les logiciels libres comme des communs. Via Florence Piron
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The Shooter - Help improve science and train an algorithm to detect why a study cites another study.
Before having an algorithm annotate thousands of papers, you need to do it yourself first (aka. build a corpus). So far we scored about 12.000 citations ourselves. This is good, but not enough. The articles are all taken from PLOS (they made "All of Plos" available at last year's OpenCon, YAAY!)We need you to help us out here: We created a game called "The Shooter" that allows you to select a citation and decide for yourself what claim it makes. (Spoiler alert: Most citations are just mentioning the reference) Try it out for yourself and let us know how it works for you. We would love your feedback on the idea in general and the shooter in particular as we just started off with this!https://shooter.verumanalytics.io/ Warm regards,Peter Grabitz and Josh Nicholson--
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Self-archiving accelerates the dissemination of information. You can self-archive in subject or institutional repositories.
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
Let's support the German Universities. Don't underestimate the moment. Make it a momentum !
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From
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Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an open online service that determines OA status for 67 million articles. We use three samples, each of 100,000 articles, to investigate OA in three populations: 1) all journal articles assigned a Crossref DOI, 2) recent journal articles indexed in Web of Science, and 3) articles viewed by users of Unpaywall, an open-source browser extension that lets users find OA articles using oaDOI. We estimate that at least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA (19M in total) and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. The most recent year analyzed (2015) also has the highest percentage of OA (45%). Because of this growth, and the fact that readers disproportionately access newer articles, we find that Unpaywall users encounter OA quite frequently: 47% of articles they view are OA. Notably, the most common mechanism for OA is not Gold, Green, or Hybrid OA, but rather an under-discussed category we dub Bronze: articles made free-to-read on the publisher website, without an explicit Open license. We also examine the citation impact of OA articles, corroborating the so-called open-access citation advantage: accounting for age and discipline, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA. We encourage further research using the free oaDOI service, as a way to inform OA policy and practice. Via Florence Piron
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Elsevier acquires Bepress, a leading service provider used by academic institutions to showcase their research
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"When you pay £5,280 to make a single article open access with Elseiver, they paywall it & sell it for $35 to readers" !!!
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
Open Access is gaining weight. Universities are acquiring freedom on the reader's side, they should be careful not to let it be sequestered again by the big publishing industry, on the writer's side this time. As long as they are ready to pay unreasonable prices for their researchers' ability to publish and as long as they will keep rewarding their members based on the publishers' prestige, freedom of scholarly communication, hence full-fledged Open Science, will remain at stake.
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The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell
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OHI scientists — including several from Conservation International, the index’s co-developer — are using open science to do “better science in less time.”
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
ORBi, launched in Nov 2008, has reached 150,000 deposits in less than 9 years, with an amazing 64% of full texts. Congratulations to the ORBi team ! Green Open Access at its best ! Keep going !!
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Medical professionals, researchers, and advocates are increasingly discussing transparency, shared decision making between patients and care teams, and patien
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Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson
Bernard Rentier's insight:
This article does not provide an easily manageable protection from parasitic publishers' traps, it is also a bit severe on gullible scientists but it gives an interesting warning.
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There is an abundance of free online tools accessible to scientists and others that can be used for online networking, data sharing and measuring research impact. Despite this, few scientists know how these tools can be used or fail to take advantage of using them as an integrated pipeline to raise awareness of their research outputs.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
This is the 21st Century, dawn of a new way to do research.
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German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?
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Chances are you've downloaded a preprint of a law review article or some other scholarly article from SSRN, the Social Science Research Network. It has bec
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"EUA has been committed to open access for over ten years. Since 2014, we have developed a set of concerted initiatives in this increasingly important area. Our recent work on open science is designed to support universities and develop relevant higher education and research policy at national and European level".
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
This is what happens to plain piracy. Not to be mistaken for Green Open Access, please.
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See also: http://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/The-Future-of-the-University/118?cid=FEATUREDNAV - Richard Poynder
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