Paul Jump is reporting on SAGE Open, which offer an open access publishing venue for articles in the social sciences and humanities.
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Introduction to Open Access
Michael Patrick Rutter has a new post introducing the Open Access movement. From the post:
One problem, explains Martha “Marce” Wooster, head of SEAS’s Gordon McKay Library, is the lack of any “algorithm a librarian can use to determine what journals to keep or cut,” whether based on price or need for access.
Thanks to the OA Tracking Project for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, openness, research
Why Do an Open PhD?
Leigh Blackall has a new post on why he is doing an open PhD. From the post:
For me, submitting to a PhD is not as straight forward as it may be for others. Aside from the extra workload, pressure and uncomfortable status that everyone in the process must face, I have published a lot of criticism generally at the mechanisms of Higher Education, not excluding the PhD.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open phd, openness, research
Brazilian Librarians Concerned About Access to Knowledge
Mike Masnick has a new post about a recent conference of Brazilian librarians. At the conference librarians expressed concern about access to knowledge.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, open content, Open Education, openness, research
Future of the Journal
Anita de Waard has posted a paper on the publishing scientific research without journals. From the paper:
Papers, in their current format, are disjunct from experimental artifacts; they contain images that have been loosely derived from the research data, but there is no way for a reader to click on an image and see the spreadsheets, the calculations, the image bank or processing steps that went into producing that image.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, open content, openness, research
WikiResearcher Project
Christine Geith tweets about the new WikiResearcher project.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, research, wikiresearcher
Cascading Peer Review
Phil Davis has a new post discussing cascading peer review. From the post:
According to Matt Cockerill, Managing Director of BioMed Central, the future of BMC involves a model of cascading peer-review, where manuscripts rejected by premium titles (like Genome Biology), are transferred to moderate rejection-rate journals (BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, and BMC Genomics), who, in turn, redirect rejected manuscripts down to BMC Research Notes
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, openness, research
Historians Looking for Publishing Outlets
Rachael Ensign is reporting on the results of a recent survey that found many historians looking for a way to publish research digitally. From the article:
A new survey of 4,000 historians found that most are willing to try digital scholarship—such as interactive maps or online databases—but that the number of journals interested in publishing such online scholarship is tiny.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, open content, openness, research
Finding New Research Through Apps
Erik Duval has a new post on a mobile application is he working on that will enable users to find research more easily. From the post:
If you participate in research events yourself, then you know that it can often be quite a hectic experience: you’re listening to the speaker, looking at the slides, reading the paper, googling some of the things being mentioned, taking notes, etc.
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Tagged commons, conference, open content, Open Education, openness, research
Cutting Out the Higher Ed “Middle Man”
John Hawks has a new post asking why publishers can’t be cut out of research dissemination. From the post:
The main problem is that authors must surrender their copyright to a cartel of publishers in order to see their scientific work reviewed by peers.
