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lesley59

What are MOOCs doing to the Open Education? - 1 views

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    George Siemens, President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research, takes a more jaundiced view of MOOCS. While acknowledging the benefits he points out some of the more negative impacts, particularly focusing on the concept of 'opennesss'
Fernando Carraro

Datos abiertos en México - 0 views

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    Sitio que promueve la transparencia de información en México Grupo en facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/231440023586135/
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    Muy bueno y útil. Muchas gracias
rebeccakah

Meet Kent Anderson, anti-#openaccess campaigner, publisher of Science - 1 views

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    Michael Eisen is a researcher at UC Berkley and a co-founder of Public Library of Science. He discusses the news that the American Association for the Advancement of Science named Kent Anderson as its new Publisher, who is a critic of the open access movement. The most interesting thing for me was the mention in his blog post as well as in the comments section by another, that it is perhaps a trend for scholarly publications to produce open access journals. A peculiar motive, to perhaps "own" the open movement? It would be interesting to learn more about this trend, motivations behind it, and the implications on how that affects the OA movement.
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    And then a quick Google search found an announcement that Nature will be fully open access as of 20 October 2014... but still costs $5,200 USD to cover the article processing charges - perhaps Universities should (will) start to pay these costs instead of the high costs of subscriptions to scholarly journals as they continue to open up their access. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access/index.html
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    Wow--these article publishing charges are ridiculous. I don't know if the scholars whose work gets published in these esteemed journals have budgets that would allow them to cover such fees, but I am sure that I wouldn't be able to get multiple articles covered by grants for my own work in the social sciences. And I'm 99% sure that the public universities I've worked for would not be ponying up that kind of money to cover my publication fees. This seems like yet another way to penalize scholars working in fields that don't get big grants or living in countries that don't have this kind of money to throw around. I prefer the UK's policy of requiring all nationally funded research to be published open access without any publication fees. That's the only way to even the playing field.
Francisco Reveles

Open Access Archivangelism - 0 views

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    An important voice in the open access debate
lubajung

Research Counsels UK Policy on Open Access - 0 views

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    A great source with Q&A's if you are interested in how OA works or how to use it in the UK.
arantzaprez

Open Access to Indigenous Knowledge? - 2 views

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140313094651-173195569-open-access-to-indigenous-knowledge

openaccess openknowledge

started by arantzaprez on 11 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

We & Open access - 1 views

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/

open access knowledge mooc #module8

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
mbittman

The Size of the Open Access Market | The Scholarly Kitchen - 1 views

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    A report from Simba Information tallies the total value of the open access marketplace, putting OA at 2.3% of the total market for STM journals. It documents as well, without comment, that more an...
Sam M

OERu - 0 views

This site launched one year ago this month. It is an open way to study and learn while receiving qualifitcations. http://oeru.org

OpenAccess Knowledge OER

started by Sam M on 05 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Kevin Stranack

Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or Supplement? - Open Access Archivangelism - 4 views

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    "If, as rumoured, google builds a platform for depositing unrefereed research papers for "peer-reviewing" via crowd-sourcing, can this create a substitute for classical peer-review or will it merely supplement classical peer review with crowd-sourcing?"
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    Two facts that makes me think, peer-reviewing via crowd-sourcing, at best would supplement the traditional peer-review process. Fact one, there are already open access repositories that allow "deposit first; review later", but those repositories have not taken over other journals. Fact two, Wikipedia is an example in that, though theoretically anyone can contribute and edit the articles, there is definite number of people who would do it. Therefore, I don't see crowd sourcing peer review would really substitute the traditional route.
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    I appreciated that this source was framed outside of dichotomous thinking by not pitting more traditional and open access peer review models directly against one another, carrying the assumption that a particular publishing process must choose one or another. Although, I think I would challenge Harnad to take this thought process further. Rather than supplementing or complementing one another, traditional and open peer review models are distinct enough to also be applicable in different types of contexts, without necessarily needing to rely on one another. That is not to disagree with Harnad that the two do not "substitute" one another, but precisely because they cannot substitute one another indicates that they serve different purposes and could thus be useful in different contexts…. Or, as Harnad suggest, supplement each other in the same context. I think this very well parallels the context of taxonomies and folksonomies.
Jen Eidelman

EIFL-OA: open access | EIFL - 1 views

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    "EIFL enables access to knowledge through libraries in developing and transition countries to contribute to sustainable economic and social development."
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    EIFL-OA - free unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research literature
Kevin Stranack

Taylor & Francis Online :: 2014 open access survey - 0 views

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    "Taylor & Francis carried out a worldwide survey, with the aim of exploring journal authors' views on open access. Having previously conducted a survey on open access in 2013, we have been able to see how authors' opinions have developed, and whether the discussion and debate on open access has helped to inform and shape views. With responses to both the 2013 and 2014 survey given side-by-side, you can easily see how attitudes have changed. Alongside this, the 2014 survey explores many new areas and gives a fascinating insight into authors' current perceptions of open access."
Sam M

5 Open Access Journals - 6 views

5 Open Access Journals to check out! http://opensource.com/education/14/10/5-open-access-journals-open-source-enthusiasts

Module6 OpenAccess Open Journals Science

started by Sam M on 23 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Pris Laurente

Is the Internet Making Us Smarter or Dumber? Yes. - Tech News and Analysis - 2 views

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    How the internet change the way we research and the way we live. Is it making us smarter or dumber?
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    Very interesting topic as we are moving deeper and deeper into the internet of things. May answer to that question is its depend how you use it and how you balance it with real life like nature, human relations etc.
Jamie F

Open Access Scholarly Journal Directory - 4 views

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    This list is a helpful tool for authors who are publishing their work in Open Access Journals. It is also helpful for librarians who are acting as advisors for Open Access publishing. Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. It is recommended recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards.
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    The long list of predatory publishers and journals by Beall is quite daunting. Is this another indication of how cynical a person has to be in every aspect of life - even scholary pursuit? Thankfully there's a record to alert stakeholders of potentially unscrupulous publishers and unvalidated journals.
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    As I was working on my final project I found myself only able to name 1 OA Journal: PLOS. I wanted to know if there were any other big players in the game, much like the top commercial journals. As a result, google came up with the above site, which works like an index or directory for OA Journals. It's good to see in light of the difficulties that closed access journals have been causing in countries that are digitally divided from affluent ones. Hopefully with the growth of open access titles we will see the digital divide and information gap close. Happy browsing! And please post any other open access titles you have come across! Lets popularize them in our network! One more: http://doaj.org/
mbittman

BBC News - Google responds to News Corp 'platform for piracy' blog - 2 views

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    Google responds to an attack by the chief executive of News Corp, arguing it is tough on piracy and faces stiff competition.
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