Education for All Revisited: on Concepts of Sharing in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement
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March 13, 2019 AMS Primer on Open Access
Robert M. Harington Associate Executive Director, Publishing Publishing Division [email protected] 401.455.4165 401.331.3842 www.ams.org AMS Primer on Open Access Introduction Open access (OA) refers to published scholarly content (such as journal research articles, and books) made openly available in online digital form. This content is free of charge at point of use, free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, and free of technical or other barriers to access (such as digital rights management or requirements to register to access). Communicating and sharing discoveries is an essential part of the research process. Any author of a research paper wants it to be read, and the fewer restrictions placed on access to those papers means that more people may benefit from the research. In many ways, the OA movement is very much in line with the shared mission of researchers, scholarly societies, and publishers. Journal publishing programs perform many services for researchers including peer review, communication, and career advancement. In society publishing programs, revenue from journal publishing directly supports the important work societies do on behalf of their scholarly communities. How do we maximize the dissemination of knowledge while at the same time maintaining both a high level of quality and a sustainable financial future for our professional society, the AMS? The OA movement can be traced to a letter from the year 2000, signed by around 34,000 researchers, demanding publishers make all content free after 6 months. The signatories of the letter said they would boycott any journals refusing to comply. In 2002, the accepted definition of OA was encapsulated in the Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration. -
Digital Science Recommendations for Food & Agriculture
DIGITAL SCIENCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOOD & AGRICULTURE Edited by February 2020 Table of Contents FOREWORD 3 TOWARDS A DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM FOR SCIENCE 6 POSITION STATEMENTS FROM AGINFRAplus PARTNERS 9 POSITION STATEMENTS FROM EU STAKEHOLDERS 17 POSITION STATEMENTS FROM INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS 28 2 FOREWORD I joined FAO1 (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN) in 1998 and got the responsibility for the AGRIS system2. AGRIS was one of the huge bibliograph- ical databases of the time which collected information about scientific and tech- nical publications in agriculture and made them available especially to partners in developing countries. AGRIS already had the two elements about which most of the contributions to this publication are speaking. Community and Technol- ogy. AGRIS centers were holding annual meetings at FAO to coordinate their efforts to cover all publications in their area. The AGRIS secretariat initiated the development of specific software which should help them to accomplish this task. CDS-ISIS3 was developed already in the early 90s. In a way, FAO had a pioneering role in creating collaboration between scientific institutions. WUR and INRA, two contributors to this volume were very important centers of the AGRIS network. Nearly all of the contributions in this volume emphasize the human factor and the necessity of community building before the technological aspects. This is understandable. Technological questions are straightforward (normally) and resolvable (theoretically). For com- munity building there exists something similar as the 2nd law of thermodynamics. DeltaS>=0. Entropy (non collaboration) in a closed system can only grow. Collaboration is not a given. Every unit has its own business model and even every single person pursues specific goals. -
Open Educational Resources: CLIPP
CLIPP 45 College Library Information on Policy and Practice from the College Libraries Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Open Educational Resources COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY MARY FRANCIS Association of College and Research Libraries A division of the American Library Association Chicago, Illinois 2021 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Stan- dard for Information Sciences–Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- 1992. ∞ Library of Congress Control Number: 2021931261 Copyright ©2021 by the Association of College and Research Libraries. All rights reserved except those which may be granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. Printed in the United States of America. 25 24 23 22 21 5 4 3 2 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS VII CLS CLIPP COMMITTEE 1 INTRODUCTION 3 LITERATURE REVIEW AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 13 ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF SURVEY RESULTS 18 Appendix A: Survey With Results 50 Appendix B: Resources From Survey Respondents 51 Appendix C: Sample Documents 53 OER RESOURCES LISTS: 53 Elon University Belk Library Elon, NC 53 Open Educational Resources (OER) 54 Furman University James B. Duke Library Greenville, SC 54 Open Educational Resources (OERs): OERs by Subject 55 FACULTY STIPEND PROGRAMS: 55 Connecticut College Charles E. Shain Library New London, CT 55 Open Educational Resources Grant Program 55 Rationale 56 Program Design 56 Application Categories 59 Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library Hays, KS 59 Open Textbook Grant -
Will Sci-Hub Kill the Open Access Citation Advantage and (At Least for Now) Save Toll Access Journals?
Will Sci-Hub Kill the Open Access Citation Advantage and (at least for now) Save Toll Access Journals? David W. Lewis October 2016 © 2016 David W. Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Introduction It is a generally accepted fact that open access journal articles enjoy a citation advantage.1 This citation advantage results from the fact that open access journal articles are available to everyone in the word with an Internet collection. Thus, anyone with an interest in the work can find it and use it easily with no out-of-pocket cost. This use leads to citations. Articles in toll access journals on the other hand, are locked behind paywalls and are only available to those associated with institutions who can afford the subscription costs, or who are willing and able to purchase individual articles for $30 or more. There has always been some slippage in the toll access journal system because of informal sharing of articles. Authors will usually send copies of their work to those who ask and sometime post them on their websites even when this is not allowable under publisher’s agreements. Stevan Harnad and his colleagues proposed making this type of author sharing a standard semi-automated feature for closed articles in institutional repositories.2 The hashtag #ICanHazPDF can be used to broadcast a request for an article that an individual does not have access to.3 Increasingly, toll access articles are required by funder mandates to be made publically available, though usually after an embargo period. -
Piracy of Scientific Papers in Latin America: an Analysis of Sci-Hub Usage Data
Developing Latin America Piracy of scientific papers in Latin America: An analysis of Sci-Hub usage data Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo Alejandro Uribe-Tirado Maria E. Romero-Ortiz This article was originally published as: Machin-Mastromatteo, J.D., Uribe-Tirado, A., and Romero-Ortiz, M. E. (2016). Piracy of scientific papers in Latin America: An analysis of Sci-Hub usage data. Information Development, 32(5), 1806–1814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666916671080 Abstract Sci-Hub hosts pirated copies of 51 million scientific papers from commercial publishers. This article presents the site’s characteristics, it criticizes that it might be perceived as a de-facto component of the Open Access movement, it replicates an analysis published in Science using its available usage data, but limiting it to Latin America, and presents implications caused by this site for information professionals, universities and libraries. Keywords: Sci-Hub, piracy, open access, scientific articles, academic databases, serials crisis Scientific articles are vital for students, professors and researchers in universities, research centers and other knowledge institutions worldwide. When academic publishing started, academies, institutions and professional associations gathered articles, assessed their quality, collected them in journals, printed and distributed its copies; with the added difficulty of not having digital technologies. Producing journals became unsustainable for some professional societies, so commercial scientific publishers started appearing and assumed printing, sales and distribution on their behalf, while academics retained the intellectual tasks. Elsevier, among the first publishers, emerged to cover operations costs and profit from sales, now it is part of an industry that grew from the process of scientific communication; a 10 billion US dollar business (Murphy, 2016). -
Practical Anonymous Networking?
gap – practical anonymous networking? Krista Bennett Christian Grothoff S3 lab and CERIAS, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University [email protected], [email protected] http://www.gnu.org/software/GNUnet/ Abstract. This paper describes how anonymity is achieved in gnunet, a framework for anonymous distributed and secure networking. The main focus of this work is gap, a simple protocol for anonymous transfer of data which can achieve better anonymity guarantees than many traditional indirection schemes and is additionally more efficient. gap is based on a new perspective on how to achieve anonymity. Based on this new perspective it is possible to relax the requirements stated in traditional indirection schemes, allowing individual nodes to balance anonymity with efficiency according to their specific needs. 1 Introduction In this paper, we present the anonymity aspect of gnunet, a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. The gnunet framework provides peer discovery, link encryption and message-batching. At present, gnunet’s primary application is anonymous file-sharing. The anonymous file-sharing application uses a content encoding scheme that breaks files into 1k blocks as described in [1]. The 1k blocks are transmitted using gnunet’s anonymity protocol, gap. This paper describes gap and how it attempts to achieve privacy and scalability in an environment with malicious peers and actively participating adversaries. The gnunet core API offers node discovery, authentication and encryption services. All communication between nodes in the network is confidential; no host outside the network can observe the actual contents of the data that flows through the network. Even the type of the data cannot be observed, as all packets are padded to have identical size. -
Stuff That Matters: the Rise and Rise of Open News
This may be the author’s version of a work that was submitted/accepted for publication in the following source: Bruns, Axel (2004) Stuff that matters: The rise and rise of open news. In International Symposium on Electronic Arts (12th), 2004-08-14 - 2004-08- 22. This file was downloaded from: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/21204/ c Copyright 2004 [please consult the author] This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the docu- ment is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recog- nise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to [email protected] License: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Notice: Please note that this document may not be the Version of Record (i.e. published version) of the work. Author manuscript versions (as Sub- mitted for peer review or as Accepted for publication after peer review) can be identified by an absence of publisher branding and/or typeset appear- ance. If there is any doubt, please refer to the published source. http:// www.isea-webarchive.org/ portal/ QUT Digital Repository: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/ Bruns, Axel (2004) Stuff that matters : the rise and rise of open news. -
Concept Paper on Open Licensing for Ministries of Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Concept Paper on Open Licensing for Ministries of Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries November 2018 This publication was prepared for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by RTI International. Concept Paper on Open Licensing for Ministries of Education in Low- and Middle- Income Countries Contract No. AID-367-TO-15-00002 Prepared by RTI International P.O. Box 12194 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194 Telephone: 919-541-6000 http://www.rti.org/ The authors’ views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. Table of Contents Page List if Figures ..................................................................................................................iv List if Tables ...................................................................................................................iv Acronyms and Abbreviations ......................................................................................... v Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Background .................................................................................................................... 2 The global book shortage ................................................................................... 2 The Global Book Alliance .................................................................................. -
Sönke Bartling & Sascha Friesike
Sönke Bartling & Sascha Friesike The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing Opening Science Sönke Bartling • Sascha Friesike Editors Opening Science The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing 123 Editors Sönke Bartling Sascha Friesike German Cancer Research Center Alexander von Humboldt Institute Heidelberg for Internet and Society Germany Berlin Germany and Institute for Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Mannheim University Medical Center Heidelberg University Mannheim Germany ISBN 978-3-319-00025-1 ISBN 978-3-319-00026-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013953226 Ó The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2014 The book is published with open access at SpringerLink.com. Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for commercial use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for commercial use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. -
Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll?
Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll? David W. Lewis Dean Emeritus, IUPUI University Library [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9711-5565 August 2019 © 2019 David W. Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Abstract This article uses Alan B. Krueger’s analysis of the music industry in his book Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life as a lens to consider the structure of scholarly publishing and what could happen to scholarly publishing going forward. Both the music industry and scholarly publishing are facing disruption as their products become digital. Digital content provides opportunities to a create a better product at lower prices and in the music industry this has happened. Scholarly publishing has not yet done so. Similarities and differences between the music industry and scholarly publishing will be considered. Like music, scholarly publishing appears to be a superstar industry. Both music and scholarly publishing are subject to piracy, which threatens revenue, though Napster was a greater disrupter than Sci-Hub seems to be. It also appears that for a variety of reasons market forces are not effective in driving changes in business models and practices in scholarly publishing, at least not at the rate we would expect given the changes in technology. After reviewing similarities and differences, the prospects for the future of scholarly publishing will be considered. David W. Lewis — Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll? 1 Introduction In his 2019 book, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life, Alan B. -
Distance Education Certification Standards
Distance Education Certification Standards Association of Real Estate License Law Officials 11650 Olio Road, Suite 1000 #360, Fishers, IN 46037 Copyright 2020 Table of Contents PREFACE ................................................................................................................................... 1 Background to the Standards .................................................................................................... 1 The Standards Task Force Founding Members.................................................................................................................. 2 2013 -‐ 2014 Revision Taskforce Members .......................................................................................................................... 2 IDECC and New Industries ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 WHY STANDARDS? ................................................................................................................. 4 What is Distance Learning Education? ............................................................................................................................. 4 Standards, Amid Change .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Curricula, Courses, and Distance Delivery ...................................................................................................................... -
Resource-Sharing Computer Communications Networks
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