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Jen Eidelman

EIFL-OA: open access | EIFL - 1 views

www.eifl.net/openaccess

removing barriers to knowledge sharing

shared by Jen Eidelman on 29 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Jen Eidelman on 29 Sep 14
     
    "EIFL enables access to knowledge through libraries in developing and transition countries to contribute to sustainable economic and social development."
  • Jen Eidelman on 29 Sep 14
     
    EIFL-OA - free unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research literature
tlsohn

Facebook ready to spend billions to bring whole world online: Mark Zuckerberg - The Eco... - 0 views

m.economictimes.com/...41820623.cms

mooc

shared by tlsohn on 06 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • tlsohn on 06 Sep 14
     
    Short interesting article given this week's videos/readings on social economics as well as sharing information through technology. Mark Zuckerberg certainly has a vision for giving every single person on the planet the ability to communicate with each other and make commerce a more available item for anyone
koobredaer

"Freedom for scholarship in the internet age" - 1 views

theses.lib.sfu.ca/etd7530

open access publishing scholarly communication economics module9

shared by koobredaer on 29 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • koobredaer on 29 Oct 14
     
    This is a thesis from a professor who occasionally teaches a Scholarly Communication course at UBC iSchool. It deals with complicated questions of economics of scholarly publishing. If you are looking for sources for research, there is a lot in here for you. Worth skimming through and reading any chapters of interest. "Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. High profits for a select few scholarly journal publishers in the area of science, technology, and medicine contrast with other portions of the scholarly publishing system such as university presses that are struggling to survive."
alibabas

Economics and Outcomes of Open Learning : - 1 views

A newly discovered resource i found with reference to Economics and Outcomes of Open Learning : Link is : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1995.tb01761.x/abstract

open access Knowledge Open MOOC Module4

started by alibabas on 31 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Kevin Stranack

How Old School Publishers Can Win In The Digital Age - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...ers-can-win-in-the-digital-age

module4 publishing economics

shared by Kevin Stranack on 08 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 08 Oct 14
     
    "Like many millennials today, Yale classmates Henry Luce and Briton Hadden left their jobs to create a startup. They found newspapers dry, longwinded and boring and thought they could do better by presenting stories in a faster paced, more personality centered format. In 1923 they launched Time magazine and it became a runaway success."
  • Kevin Stranack on 08 Oct 14
     
    "The greatest challenge for publishers today is to create new business models. Unfortunately, most haven't even begun the process due to misplaced nostalgia for distribution revenue. In that sense, paywalls represent the greatest threat to old-line publishers."
  • jurado-navas on 03 Dec 14
     
    And also due to the inherent feature of every human being of being resistant to changes. And all of that without taking into account some economical interests.
Kevin Stranack

Martin Eve: Building the Open Library of the Humanities - 5 views

lj.libraryjournal.com/...open-library-of-the-humanities

module9 scholarly publishing altmetrics open access

shared by Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14
     
    "At the same time, a fair amount of resistance to OA practices still exists. Publishers object to OA on economic principles, as it undermines the revenue generated by journals. Some researchers feel that it devalues their work as well, lowering it to the level of "a database to be consulted," in Eve's words. He believes the academic community is over-reliant on scholarly publishing's status quo; as he told the crowd at Columbia, "the system reinforces itself through economies of prestige." Even as interest in altmetrics grows, the quality of research continues to be gauged by the number of citations an article gathers and the status of the journal it appears in."
  • rafopen on 12 Nov 14
     
    This is a good overview of a project that seeks to demystify and break down resistance to open educational resources.
Kevin Stranack

Arms race to liberate Africa's data - 1 views

www.elearning-africa.com/...data-africa

module6 open data africa

shared by Kevin Stranack on 13 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 13 Oct 14
     
    "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. "
  • s-k-smith on 17 Oct 14
     
    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
Ad Huikeshoven

Open Education and Open Educational Resources - links to Dutch resources - 1 views

ad.huikeshoven.org/...eek-sense-share-resources.html

module4 open education

shared by Ad Huikeshoven on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 26 Sep 14
     
    This weeks module 4 in the Stanford Online course OpenKnowledge: Changing the Global Course of Learning is not only about copyleft and economics of open, but also about Open Education. Just this week President Obama highlights Open Education in a speech to U.N. and updates the U.S. The course requires to seek, sense and share resources, and bookmark them at Diigo. I have found a range of resources about Open Education and Open Educational Resources from the Netherlands. Those are listed below, including a couple of other links. At least there is written a lot about OE&OER in the Netherlands.
Kevin Stranack

Monograph Publishing Pilot | Open Library of Humanities - 2 views

www.openlibhums.org/...monograph-publishing-pilot

scholarly communication monograph open access economics module9

shared by Kevin Stranack on 02 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 02 Jul 14
     
    "building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities."
Fabrizio Terzi

Bitcoin as Money? - 1 views

The spectacular rise late last year in the price of bitcoin, the dominant virtual currency, has attracted much public attention as well as scholarly interest. This policy brief discusses how some f...

money medium of exchange liquidity speculative bubble

started by Fabrizio Terzi on 18 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
martin678

The Value of our Digital Identity - 7 views

www.libertyglobal.com/...ue-of-Our-Digital-Identity.pdf

Boston consulting group ; digital identity value of digital identity future of digital identity

shared by martin678 on 08 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • martin678 on 08 Sep 14
     
    This article by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is made up of 5 parts: Part 1: digital identity: a driver of growth, a consumer hazard or both Part 2: a definition of digital identity and how consumers really see it Part 3: the value of digital identity - for organizations and consumers Part 4: the megatrends of digital identity Part 5: a practitioner's guide to the future of digital identity but most striking part for me was at the beginning: when the article mentioned: data explosion is possible because of four reasons: social media boom; the internet of things; online data transactions; and digital service and media and the direction towards the economic value of the digital identity
  • Atul Sabnis on 08 Sep 14
     
    Here's the correct link: http://www.libertyglobal.com/PDF/public-policy/The-Value-of-Our-Digital-Identity.pdf There's a "-" between public and policy :)
salma1504

The Organization of Scientific Research in Open Collaborative Projects - 0 views

For the last century, scientific activity has been firmly placed in universities or other academic organizations, government laboratories, or in the R&D department of firms. Scholars in the sociolo...

module 6

started by salma1504 on 13 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Kevin Stranack

A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 1 views

www.educause.edu/...stainable-approach-open-access

module4 module6 open access scholarly publishing economics

shared by Kevin Stranack on 23 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 23 Sep 14
     
    "Funded by tertiary institutions rather than individual researchers, this new model seeks to provide open access not just to traditional academic publications but to all forms of scholarly output."
Olga Huertas

Scientific Dissemination using Open Access - 0 views

www.saber.ula.ve/...difusion_cientifica.pdf

open access knowledge module6

shared by Olga Huertas on 10 Oct 14 - No Cached
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  • Olga Huertas on 10 Oct 14
     
    Open Access Resources aims to remove constraints in access to articles and knowledge for academic-intellectual world community, particularly in the developing countries. Scientists from these countries still have trouble posting their works due to limitations of network access, institutional economic difficulties and lack of information about solutions available Open Access. It is expected that the Open Access increase understanding of educational and research opportunities to unite the world.
  • cvpido on 11 Oct 14
     
    You could be interested in this too: http://sdu.ictp.it/index.html SDu is developing also a videocapture integrated system so that for a small investment lessons can be recorded and shared online http://www.openeya.org/ ...even infrastructures must be open....
kvdmerwe

True cost of science publishing - 2 views

www.nature.com/...-of-science-publishing-1.12676

open access MOOC module4

shared by kvdmerwe on 10 Dec 14 - No Cached
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  • kvdmerwe on 10 Dec 14
     
    This is an interesting article about the cost of formal publishing verses open access publishing. Although there seems to be a lot of secrecy around the issue, the research shows that the total cost for open access publishing is a lot less than formal publishing. That appears to bring the perception that the open access works are not as good as those published in formal journals. Despite this factor there is growing encouragement to authors to publish their work in open access sources, but traditional models remain very popular. A large percentage of these journals actually allow people to publish online, although some do ask for a time delay. Despite that, many authors do not proceed to publish online after they have gone through the formal process although some authors are obliged to do so by their institution. It could be a good test to see why these authors do not take the step to publish online. Reasons could range from apathy, to not enough knowledge of the process, to a need not to share the information with everyone. Economically, there is also a concern that open access sources will become more expensive as more authors begin publishing in this way.
salma1504

The Simple Economics of Open Source - 2 views

www.nber.org/w7600

module4

shared by salma1504 on 29 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • salma1504 on 29 Sep 14
     
    There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open source projects is initially startling.
melduncan

Scholarly publishing additional resources - 0 views

For any of you that are looking for information regarding scholarly publishing that is a little more germane, please read this article.Carl T. Bergstrom and Theodore C. Bergstrom, 2001. "The econom...

Module13

started by melduncan on 24 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
moonlove

http://www.amazon.com/History-Knowledge-Past-Present-Future/dp/0345373162 - 1 views

http://www.amazon.com/History-Knowledge-Past-Present-Future/dp/0345373162 History of Knowledge, a book written by Charles Doren 1991. I enjoyed reading some chapters of this book. It is a interest...

module13 past&future of knowledge mooc

started by moonlove on 17 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
Olivia Azar

$ of technological change - 0 views

tutor2u.net/...icro-technological-change.html

knowledge module2

shared by Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14
     
    Great insight on the costs in the long run of technological change.
cvpido

Fighting for a free and open internet European Commission - 05/09/2014 - 6 views

very interesting. Thank you. I'm always curious to see what is happening at the level of the EU about it..

#Peeragogy

started by Fabrizio Terzi on 05 Sep 14 1 follow-up, last by cvpido on 06 Sep 14
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