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Interesting article on Twitters use outside of social interactions Twitter has been increasingly share-y with its enormous data set. Given the recent $10 million grant to MIT to analyze and put social media data to use, how grand are Twitter's research aspirations? Twitter reports about 500 million tweets are sent every day, from 271 million users (the population of the United States is 317 million) in more than 35 different languages.

Eliza Laur CORAS and Adrian Tumitru TANTAU elaborate on the principles of open innovation. Students experienced in open learning might be better suited in a business world, where innovation has changed from being done in a closed shop, to being fostered by a free - albeit carefully managed - in- and outflow of information

"Open data could add up to $3 trillion worth of economic activity per year worldwide, according to a study by McKinsey Consultants. But in the race to liberate thousands of data-sets from the government and business sectors, the African continent is seen as lagging behind. "

If there is any continent that needs Open Data most, it is Africa. African needs transparency and accountability, which are the core foundation of Open Data, to create meaningful change on the continent. But making data available and Open is just the initial stage of accomplishing something. The challenge here is how to ensure that the people of Africa have knowledge of the information and are ABLE to ACCESS the information. What use is information when still limited Internet access, scarce electricity, and other ICT infrastructure, including language barriers continue to act as roadblocks to accessing Open data? Wow!! Just when I finished this short posting, the light went off. Couldn't access the Internet. Everything is dead. I have being waiting 30mins, 1hr, 2hrs, 2hrs 45mins … and now its 4hrs and my laptop battery power is running down. ALAS!! Finally power is restored after 4hrs 49mins for me to make my post. You feel me? This is not the exception, and this is not a coincidence but the norm

You can create accout and add your articles - one of the tools for Self-Archiving.

Great facility by Google.

I use Google as little as possible simply because they`re driven by profit,and are capitalistic and predatory by nature. Not a good match for education.

"OA journal publishing is disrupting the dominant subscription-based model of scientific publishing, having rapidly grown in relative annual share of published journal articles during the last decade. "

A poster that explores "the balance between benefits and concerns in relation to openness to knowledge and data. We will showcase the current impact potential of open science and open innovation, while considering intellectual property, the right for commercial exploitation of innovative concepts and the need for privacy legislation preventing misuse of personal data."

This provides blog post provides an interesting comparison of the post-publication review process of F1000 Research to the traditional peer review model. What I really found interesting is the author's hypothesis that the anonymity of traditional peer review might benefit science.

La ciencia ciudadana involucra al público general en actividades científicas y fomenta la contribución activa de los ciudadanos a la investigación a través de su esfuerzo intelectual, su conocimiento general, o sus herramientas y recursos. Los participantes aportan datos experimentales y facilidades para la investigación, plantean nuevas preguntas y crean, junto a los investigadores, una nueva cultura científica.

Muy buen aporte, gracias.

"Larger than the Open Access warz, I feel that I have a moral responsibility to increase the access to science careers for women and minorities. I can't hold the door open for those folks unless I am standing on the other side of it. That means getting tenure and if someone tells me that I can get closer to those goals by forgoing Open Access for a round or two, I'm going to do it."

Portal de Revistas de Ciencias Sociales a texto completo.

"You've seen it countless times on bags, coffee shop walls and on coffee company websites: The image of a farmer picking ripe coffee cherries, designed to connect consumers to the origin of their coffee and perhaps even provide a face for farmers themselves", RoastMagazine. My question: Do you think a coffee grower could sue any of these companies?

Es un recurso abierto que resulta entretenido y provechoso, tanto para el experto en paleografía como para el lego, Muy recomendable.

Medscape is a useful resource for keeping up to date with a range of developments across the medical and health related fields

What is also important, that information from it could be legally downloaded and used later for reference and training even without internet access. This is used for training health care professionals in some African countries. Users can also upload their own medical images to share with colleagues

Por mais de três anos a IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning e a IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group tem oferecido, com muito sucesso, diversos webinars abordando temas de interesse para bibliotecários, associações de bibliotecas, escolas de biblioteconomia, tomadores de decisões e profissionais atuando em bibliotecas.

4a. Jueves, 05 de noviembre 2014 - 14h * Ponente: Claudio Ruiz Tema: actualizada sobre la situación actual de los derechos de autor en América Latina y la información más reciente tendencias Idioma: ESPAÑOL Biografía: Claudio es el Director Ejecutivo de la ONG Derechos Digitales, Chile. Dirige proyectos relacionados con la defensa y promoción de los derechos fundamentales involucrados en el internet, en particular la libertad de expresión, derecho de autor y el acceso al conocimiento. Colabora con la IFLA en varias iniciativas internacionales. Él es un profesor de grado en Propiedad Intelectual

Sitio web de la Oficina Regional de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe. Información especializada sobre educación en las Américas. El sitio ofrece publicaciones, noticias, redes regionales y actividades de la UNESCO en el sector de la educación.También provee contenidos sobre las actividades de la UNESCO en Chile.