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THe report (UK) everyone in the OA community is talking about - proposes OA to all research outputs from publicly funded research

Abstract: "By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of resources shared in social media in the period from June 2009 to March 2012, we found about 11% lost and 20% archived after just a year and an average of 27% lost and 41% archived after two and a half years. Furthermore, we found a nearly linear relationship between time of sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day." Wonder how this compares with some of the "linkrot" or disappearing web resource links studies in the '00s?

A draft pamphlet (for review prior to October 8, 2012,) created by SPARC, PLoS and OASPA to help differentiate permissions among different journals and publishing platforms which claim to be open access to some degree.

"Conclusion. After accounting for other factors affecting citation rate, we find a robust citation benefit from open data, although a smaller one than previously reported. We conclude there is a direct effect of third-party data reuse that persists for years beyond the time when researchers have published most of the papers reusing their own data. Other factors that may also contribute to the citation benefit are considered. We further conclude that, at least for gene expression microarray data, a substantial fraction of archived datasets are reused, and that the intensity of dataset reuse has been steadily increasing since 2003."

Open Science Summit, which took place in July at Berkeley, is a good example of how "digital scholarship", "e-science" and "open science" and "scholarly communications" are terms from the same vocabulary we are creating to talk about the changes in academia, knowledge transfer, innovation, etc.

"a novel PDF reader that semantically integrates visualization and data-analysis tools with published research articles." A pilot project with Biochemical Journal is described.

The portability of a complete course on a mobile device enables students to learn in the classroom, on the bus, or at home-anytime, anywhere. With the new HMH Fuse: Algebra 1, students will have access to all the resources they need on one device

A project proposed by Cameron Neylon to convene (funders, publishers and individuals) and developers to develop useful research metrics that encourage more open usage and re-usage of research data.

uses coments, ratings, and recommendations metrics

"Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II"

Kobo wants readers of ebooks to be able to read on any platfom

search engine evaluating social sharing content (via Joe Esposito)

" A survey was carried out to explore the field, both why journals did not employ advertising, and how advertising was employed. The findings show little uptake of advertising among OA journals, and indicate that there is a lack of understanding of how advertising could best be employed."

This faculty survey (with a return rate of 8.6%) indicates library disintermediation, increasing comfort (of fac members) with e formats, and persistence in conservative attitudes towards publishing in scholarly journals