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Open but Not Free — Publishing in the 21St Century Martin Frank, Ph.D
PERSPECTIVE For the Sake of Inquiry and Knowledge Research culture is far from knowledge. The new technology Disclosure forms provided by the author are available with the full text of this arti- monolithic. Systems that underpin is the internet. The public good cle at NEJM.org. scholarly communication will mi- they make possible is the world- grate to open access by fits and wide electronic distribution of From MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Insti- starts as discipline-appropriate op- the peer-reviewed journal litera- tute of Technology, Cambridge. tions emerge. Meanwhile, experi- ture and completely free and un- 1. Budapest Open Access Initiative (http:// ments will be run, start-ups will restricted access to it by all scien- www.opensocietyfoundations.org/ flourish or perish, and new com- tists, scholars, teachers, students, openaccess/read). munication tools will emerge, and other curious minds.” 2. Bethesda Statement on Open Access Pub- lishing (http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/ because, as the Bethesda Open There is no doubt that the pub- handle/1/4725199/suber_bethesda Access Statement puts it, “an old lic interests vested in funding .htm?sequence=1). tradition and a new technology agencies, universities, libraries, 3. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities have converged to make possible and authors, together with the (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/ an unprecedented public good. power and reach of the Internet, berlin_declaration.pdf). The old tradition is the willingness have created a compelling and nec- 4. Suber P. Open access. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. of scientists and scholars to pub- essary momentum for open ac- 5. -
Who Pays for Music?
Who Pays For Music? The Honors Program Senior Capstone Project Meg Aman Professor Michael Roberto May 2015 Who Pays For Music Senior Capstone Project for Meg Aman TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................... 3 LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 4 MUSIC INDUSTRY BACKGROUND ...................................................................................... 6 THE PROBLEM .................................................................................................................. 8 THE MUSIC INDUSTRY ..................................................................................................... 9 THE CHANGING MUSIC MARKET .................................................................................... 10 HOW CAN MUSIC BE FREE? ........................................................................................... 11 MORE OR LESS MUSIC? .................................................................................................. 12 THE IMPORTANCE OF SAMPLING ..................................................................................... 14 THE NETWORK EFFECTS ................................................................................................. 16 WHY STREAMING AND DIGITAL MUSIC STORES ............................................................ -
The Effective Health Care Research Consortium (EHCRC) Publication
Consortium Publication Policy, 20 February 2013 The Effective Health Care Research Consortium (EHCRC) Publication policy The Effective Health Care Research Consortium (the Consortium) has extensive experience in medical publishing, research ethics, and principles of research integrity. Using this experience, and helped by a specialist in the field, we have drawn up this policy document to help promote capacity development in research integrity. 1 This policy applies to all supported Consortium activities. In addition, we encourage partners to use this to prompt their own departments and institutions to develop similar explicit policies. 1. Scope This policy relates to academic publications in peer-reviewed journals including systematic reviews published on The Cochrane Library. This includes authors working with the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG), all Consortium supported Cochrane authors, and all Consortium supported research publications. The policy applies to all outputs from the programme and associated grants (for example, self-published material, reports, newsletters, and blogs). 2. General principles Work supported by the Consortium will be published in a timely and responsible manner. All reports and publications will endeavour to present findings in a responsible, objective and accurate manner and without undue delays. Those who have made a significant contribution to the research will be recognised appropriately by authorship or acknowledgement. 3. Registration of systematic reviews and clinical trials All systematic reviews initiated by the consortium that are not registered as Cochrane Reviews will be prospectively registered on a suitable register (such as PROSPERO). We expect anyone receiving Consortium funds as support to their work (as money, or in kind, such as payment of travel) will, should they be involved in a clinical trial, ensure this trial is registered prospectively (i.e. -
Cochrane Collaboration Conversation with Givewell
Meeting between Cochrane Collaboration representatives and GiveWell at the U.S. Cochrane Center, May 8, 2012. From the Cochrane Collaboration: Kay Dickersin Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite Lorne Becker Director of the Cochrane Collaboration Trading Company and Cochrane Innovations Jeremy Grimshaw Co-Chair, Cochrane Steering Group, Director of the Canadian Cochrane Center, and Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Roger Soll Coordinating Editor of the Neonatal Review Group and Member of the Executive Board of the Review Group Coordinating Editors Lisa Bero Director, U.S. Cochrane Center (San Francisco Branch) and Cochrane World Health Organization delegate George Rutherford Coordinating Editor, HIV/AIDS Review Group From GiveWell: Holden Karnofsky and Stephanie Wykstra These notes reflect answers that Cochrane representatives gave during our conversation. Cochrane Collaboration’s aims: • Cochrane Collaboration’s primary aim is to produce high quality systematic reviews of existing health-related research. The organization also trains researchers to do systematic reviews, develops better methods for analyzing and comparing studies in its systematic reviews and educates researchers in the use of these methods, and advocates for evidence-based decision- making within the World Health Organization (WHO), governments, professional associations, consumers and other groups. Structure of the organization: • The Cochrane Collaboration uses a multilevel level organizational and governance structure, comprising a group of “entities” that are organized around functions related to conducting and disseminating systematic reviews of the evidence. Each Cochrane organization (or “entity”) provides its own governance structure and is responsible for raising its own funding. -
The Envisioning a World Beyond Apcs/Bpcs International Symposium Was Held at the University of Kansas on November 17 & 18, 2016
The Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs international symposium was held at the University of Kansas on November 17 & 18, 2016. More information, including recordings of the opening session and participant biographies is available at https://openaccess.ku.edu/symposium. Apollo 13 Assignment: As a culminating component of the Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs international symposium, on the morning of Friday, Nov. 18, participants were asked to form teams and then develop a proposal for a publishing regime that will: ● present a solution that is free for readers and for authors; ● work in the local context and create partnerships that incorporate a variety of global situations, including those individuals and groups marginalized by historical, political, and economic power structures; ● address barriers to or opportunities for authors (i.e., the focus should be on the creators of the work, rather thans on the producers or user); ● present an agenda for action; ● envision a 5- to 10-year transition that includes universities as the major stakeholder in a knowledge production and sharing environment that will benefit all readers and authors. The following are three proposals that came out of the Friday morning session (which were further developed in the weeks immediately following the symposium). Proposal 1: Title Global Knowledge Commons 2025 Team Members Kathleen Shearer, Ivy Anderson, Jean Claude Guédon, Heather Joseph, Rebecca Kennison, David Shulenburger Vision Academic institutions and research organizations are the foundation of a global knowledge commons in which institutions collect the content created by their 1 communities, make it openly available, and connect globally through the adoption of common standards. -
FOSS Licensing
FOSS Licensing Wikibooks.org March 13, 2013 On the 28th of April 2012 the contents of the English as well as German Wikibooks and Wikipedia projects were licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. An URI to this license is given in the list of figures on page 61. If this document is a derived work from the contents of one of these projects and the content was still licensed by the project under this license at the time of derivation this document has to be licensed under the same, a similar or a compatible license, as stated in section 4b of the license. The list of contributors is included in chapter Contributors on page 59. The licenses GPL, LGPL and GFDL are included in chapter Licenses on page 65, since this book and/or parts of it may or may not be licensed under one or more of these licenses, and thus require inclusion of these licenses. The licenses of the figures are given in the list of figures on page 61. This PDF was generated by the LATEX typesetting software. The LATEX source code is included as an attachment (source.7z.txt) in this PDF file. To extract the source from the PDF file, we recommend the use of http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ utility or clicking the paper clip attachment symbol on the lower left of your PDF Viewer, selecting Save Attachment. After extracting it from the PDF file you have to rename it to source.7z. To uncompress the resulting archive we recommend the use of http://www.7-zip.org/. -
Remix My Lit M T: Creative Commons & Text
remix my lit M T: Creative Commons & Text In defining ‘web 2.0,’ Tim O’Reilly espouses the remixing of multiple sources of information, text case studies including the personal, to create rich user experiences (http://radar.oreilly.com/ archives/2005/10/web-20-compact-definition. Aduki Press: Stick This In Your html). Memory Hole 141 Nowhere is user participation in the creation of The Age Blogs 144 meaning more lauded than in the blogosphere. Bloggers are recognised to be among the ANAT Filter 145 first groups truly to embrace the CC scheme, On Line Opinion 148 and remain some of its strongest proponents. As exemplars in this field, Human Resources A New Leaf Media: The Pundit 150 consultant Michael Specht and Malaysian free John Quiggin 152 culture advocate Aizat Faiz build their writings around the desire to foster open source and free Michael Specht 155 content. This advocacy is driven by the desire to cultivate new voices and alternative viewpoints, Mike Seyfang 156 challenging the enduring corporate dominance of Remix My Lit 159 mainstream media, as aided by CC. As blogger Robin Good puts it: Strange Symphonies blog 161 ‘Web 2.0 is turbo-charging our capacity to re-establish this vibrant, participatory, people- Nevertheless, as shown in these case studies, driven, creative culture. But we the use of CC licensing on blogs is not always nevertheless face greater threats uncontroversial. Prominent Australian economist than ever to our cultural liberties, John Quiggin sparked a debate on the value of as corporations in league with CC licences to blogging, when he introduced the legislators dream up new ways licensing on his eponymous blog johnquiggin. -
Evaluation of NIHR Investment in Cochrane Report
Evaluation of NIHR investment in Cochrane infrastructure and systematic reviews Committee members: Professor Jos Kleijnen (Chair), Dr Phil Alderson, Dr Jane Aubin, Professor John Cairns, Ms Sally Crowe, and Professor Paul Garner Report writer: Kate Misso 10 February 2017 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................................ 5 LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................... 6 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................................... 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................... 10 1. The global landscape of systematic reviews ............................................................................. 10 2. The performance of NIHR funded Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs) ....................................... 11 3. Cochrane’s impact on key clinical and policy issues in the NHS ............................................... 13 4. The economic impact of systematic reviews ............................................................................ 14 5. Current and planned developments in Cochrane and stakeholders’ views ............................. 14 Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................... -
Facilitating Access to Free Online Resources: Challenges and Opportunities for the Library Community
Facilitating access to free online resources: challenges and opportunities for the library community A white paper from Taylor & Francis May 2013 Introduction The volume of freely available online resources continues to grow exponentially. Potentially, many of these resources could be of enormous value for teaching, learning and research purposes. However, finding, evaluating and facilitating access to this content brings with it many challenges, for both librarians and their user communities. Taylor & Francis have conducted a research programme to help explore the issues relating to free content discoverability from the perspective of librarians. We wanted to understand what role librarians see free content having within their institutions; its relative importance compared to paid-for resources; and the challenges associated with making better use of this material. This paper presents the results of this research programme. We hope that by exposing some of the challenges we can stimulate discussion on this important topic and help make it easier for institutions to enrich their paid-for collections with high-quality free content. “This survey is a good starting conversation.” - Subject Librarian, (USA) commenting on the T&F Survey: Facilitating Access to Free Online Resources, distributed April 2013 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Research methodology Our librarian research programme comprised two focus groups, one held in London (UK) in late 2012 and one in Seattle, Washington (USA) -
How to Develop a Search Strategy for an Intervention Review
How to develop a search strategy for an intervention review Based on the Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS) criteria* PRESS Guide Examples 1 Translation If possible, structure the search strategy into 1. Index term(s) for Patient/Population/Problem Is the search question search concepts (groups of words) according to 2. Text word(s) for Patient/Population/Problem translated well into search relevant elements from PICOS: 3. 1 OR 2 (P) concepts? 4. Index term(s) for Intervention(s) Patient/Population/Problem 5. Text word(s) for Intervention(s) Intervention Comparator 6. 4 OR 5 (I) Outcome 7. Publication type(s) Study design (methods filter) 8. Index term(s) for Study design(s) 9. Text word(s) for Study design(s) 10. 7 OR 8 OR 9 (S) 11. 3 AND 6 AND 10 (P AND I AND S) You might want to omit the Comparator and the Outcome elements as they are not often described adequately in the title, abstract or indexing. 2 Operators See the database’s help file to find available Are there any mistakes in operators used to combine individual terms and the use of Boolean or search concepts proximity operators? AND, OR , NOT, NEXT, NEAR/n, adj/n are common operators AND between terms or concepts narrows the search OR between terms or concepts broaden the 1 2019 03 13 search Use the NOT operator with caution – you might A search for: ‘NOT-out’ terms you want to keep private health NOT public health will exclude papers that are about private health and also about public health 3 Subject headings/index Subject headings or index terms (like MeSH used Vaccination terms in MEDLINE for example) are terms that describe Guidelines as Topic Are any important subject the content of an article – what it is about Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic headings missing or have Publication type terms describe what kind of Guideline any irrelevant ones been publication the article is Randomized Controlled Trial included? Check all relevant index terms for each of the databases you will search Some index terms cover the P and also the I in 1. -
The Cybrarian's Web 2
The Cybrarian’s web 2 The Cybrarian’s web 2 An A–Z Guide to Free Social Media Tools, Apps, and Other Resources Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis Foreword by David Lee King Medford, New Jersey First printing The Cybrarian’s Web 2: An A–Z Guide to Free Social Media Tools, Apps, and Other Resources Copyright © 2015 by Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, New Jersey 08055. Publisher’s Note: The author and publisher have taken care in the preparation of this book but make no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of the use of the information contained herein. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book and Information Today, Inc. was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed with initial capital letters. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peltier-Davis, Cheryl Ann. The cybrarian’s web 2 : an A–Z guide to free social media tools, apps, and other resources / Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis ; foreword by David Lee King. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. -
The Mission of the Dutch Public Library
The mission of the Dutch public library And how to realize it in an increasingly digital society Eva de Jonge, s1211781 Master Thesis First reader: P. A. F. Verhaar Second reader: Miriam Wagenaar 1-05-2018 Word count: 16.621 1 Abstract The mission of the Dutch public library was, and remains to be “the elevation of the people” through the access to information and the culture of reading. Unfortunately, the Dutch public library sector today deals with declining numbers in the number of library members, library visits, library branches, loans, and the scope of the collection. These facts are often assigned to budget cuts, but likewise to societal changes. Dutch citizens are increasingly making use of the Internet and digital media, and are making less and less use of traditional print media. Therefore, the Dutch reading culture is turning more and more into a digital reading culture. That is why Dutch public libraries – to remain relevant in the increasingly digital society – need to think about a new or adjusted realization of their mission. Public libraries in Scandinavia show that success can be found in a combination of the modern and the traditional. Most library visitors like to have a public space where they can physically meet and talk – surrounded by filled bookcases – but, simultaneously, to have access to new digital technology. Therefore, Dutch public libraries should attempt to find a middle way between the modern and the traditional. They should continue to offer a public place for the local community, with the traditional library services, but likewise offer access to digital technology.