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mbittman

A Beginner's Guide to the World of Self-Publishing - YouTube - 5 views

www.youtube.com/watch

Publishing; Copyright; module4

shared by mbittman on 25 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • mbittman on 25 Sep 14
     
    YouTube, Full Sail University, Published on Mar 12, 2014 "Technology has made it easier than ever to publish your own work. This Full Sail University panel discusses how to successfully self-publish your own work, and how to do it without getting lost in the sea of all of the other content that's out there." A panel of successful self-published authors talk about the flexibility of new technology within the publishing realm to sell books/music: formatting your work, business models, copyright , print on demand options, music aggregators,, marketing, worldwide distribution, etc.
  • eglemarija on 25 Sep 14
     
    The video length of one+ hour might seem a bit daunting at first, but I ended up watching most of it in one go - this is really an excellent and easy-to-follow overview of all the important aspects of self-publishing. (I was especially pleased that this video listens to well in the background, as opposed to most other videos that I find require more "involvement" and that do not fit well with a busy day schedule.) What is best about this is that it is all based on actual people experiences - successful self-published authors participating in the panel, and sharing their knowledge & tips in real-time. I was especially curious to find out about the marketing side of of self-publishing a book, and was pleased to discover quite a few helpful ideas and tips. As someone who is thinking about self-publishing soon, this has answered a lot of questions and definitely sparked confidence in the process as a whole. Thank you very much for sharing! Hopefully, this will help and encourage many more self-publishers to be.
siyuwang

Evaluation on the Resource I Shared: The Creators' Copyright Coalition - 1 views

According to this article "The CCC Position on Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act", the CCC, which is an alliance of 16 professional associations of work creators, and represents the positi...

started by siyuwang on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
lenjomaydresden

open access and compensation for content creators - 5 views

Isn't it a privilege to do the work? those who freely share their work will finaly succed over those who want to Combine their work with personal power. Remember Popper saying about scientists they...

open access module5 john willinsky okmooc mooc open knowledge publishing

started by c maggard on 02 Oct 14 1 follow-up, last by lenjomaydresden on 20 Nov 14
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rebeccakah

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

www.michaeleisen.org/blog

module6 open access scholarly publication publishing

shared by rebeccakah on 08 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • rebeccakah on 08 Oct 14
     
    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.
  • rebeccakah on 08 Oct 14
     
    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
  • beetsyg on 09 Oct 14
     
    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.
Ignoramus OKMOOC

Open science, data, access - 3 views

The second resource references the openscience working groups oft the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), which is a not for profit that manages and operates cloud computing infrastructure for medium to l...

science data access open access Knowledge Open module6 Module 6 publishing accesss

started by alibabas on 31 Oct 14 1 follow-up, last by Ignoramus OKMOOC on 01 Nov 14
Kevin Stranack

Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa - 3 views

open.uct.ac.za/2310

module11 africa scholarly communication

shared by Kevin Stranack on 06 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 06 Nov 14
     
    "The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was a three-year research and implementation initiative that took place between March 2010 and August 2013. Hosted by the University of Cape Town, the programme engaged the Universities of Botswana, Namibia and Mauritius in a process aimed at better understanding the dynamics around scholarly communication in the Southern African higher education environment and advancing the open access agenda for the purpose of increasing the visibility of African research. This work was made possible by a grant from the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC). This report synthesizes research and findings from the four institutional case studies conducted at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia. It provides an overview the scholarly communication activity systems at work in these four Southern African universities."
  • victorialam on 13 Nov 14
     
    Thanks for this article. I think it gives a great overview of the current landscape of scholarly publishing in Africa, and concisely states the problems of visibilities (or the lack thereof).
Fernando Carraro

When a monkey takes a selfie . . . - 6 views

Fue algo bastante curioso y hasta gracioso, en donde se determinó que el mono era el dueño de los derechos de esa foto. ... It was pretty interesting and even funny, where it was determined that th...

open access module4 copyright

started by anonymous on 03 Oct 14 2 follow-ups, last by Fernando Carraro on 04 Oct 14
rebeccakah

The Stationers' Company and Copyright: a brief introduction - 1 views

copyright-debate.co.uk/?p=184

module4 copyright history

shared by rebeccakah on 22 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • rebeccakah on 22 Sep 14
     
    After reading a brief history of copyright law after the advent of the printing press, it is easy to see that copyright has always been an evolving concept. With the internet we again find ourselves needing to redefine what copyright means and who its serving. The Stationers' Company era of copyright offered no protections to the author of the work, and now we offer a lot of protections to the author of the work - and the technologies we use to access works of knowledge and art are unable to do so with the current laws. I appreciate the videos in the current module that detailed the advances some countries are making in evolving copyright law to be more flexible and keep the user in mind.
robert morris

You see it, you report it. Citizen-based journalism | Masters of Media - 0 views

mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/...rt-it-citizen-based-journalism

journalism module3

shared by robert morris on 15 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • robert morris on 15 Sep 14
     
    You see it, you report it.
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 06 Oct 14
     
    This paragraph is in the article: "professional journalists have a specific mindset and a rigorous work ethic well established, unlike citizen journalists". I've been working as a professional journalist for 4 years, and at least in Spain, this would make a great laugh at many journalists over here... "specific mindset and a rigorous work ethic", very funny!
larssl

Light Stalking | Beautiful Photography - 0 views

www.lightstalking.com

teaching learning online photography blog Tips tutorials reference inspiration

shared by larssl on 14 Sep 14 - Cached
  • larssl on 14 Sep 14
     
    A good place to find useful help when working with photo editing.
  • larssl on 14 Sep 14
     
    A good place to find useful help when working with photo editing.
Guaraciara Silva

LEARN ANY LANGUAGE WITH ZELLO APP - 4 views

Resource: ZELLO APP Website: www.zello.com It is a free tool and anyone can do until five profiles freely. It is available in 10 different languages as English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Ital...

knowledge zello app resources access global network

started by Guaraciara Silva on 18 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
nivinsharawi

7 Excellent Tools to Publish Students Work ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 4 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...tools-to-publish-students.html

education

shared by nivinsharawi on 31 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • noveltynotion on 31 Oct 14
     
    There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder.
  • Ibraghimova Irina on 01 Nov 14
     
    Looks like a useful compilation of tools. have to check if all of them are still available. as it is from 2012 and things are cganging rapidely online
  • nivinsharawi on 16 Nov 14
     
    I like idea to involve undergrastuden to be experience inall publishing process
chirospasm22

Support Guides | Copyright @ UBC - 2 views

copyright.ubc.ca/...support-guides

copyright public domain Module4 creative commons

shared by chirospasm22 on 14 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • chirospasm22 on 22 Nov 14
     
    If you're taking this course out of Canada, the Copyright @ UBC website has a lot of really good information available to you. Guides specifically relevant to this course include the Creative Commons Guide (where you can find information about using CC licensed work, applying CC licenses to your own work, and several lists of websites where you can find CC licensed work) and the Public Domain Guide (where you can find information about how to determine if something is in the public domain in Canada). The entire site is CC BY-SA (except where otherwise indicated) though, so the entire thing is a resource for copyright questions in Canada.
Michael Kimmig

Everything is broken - 2 views

medium.com/...rything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

Module1 Data security Technology Secure Web

shared by Michael Kimmig on 07 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • Michael Kimmig on 07 Sep 14
     
    "It's hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works, how much the infrastructure of our lives is held together by the IT equivalent of baling wire. Computers, and computing, are broken." Love this one, because it explains in easy words the technological background why things (not) work as they work...
Jamie F

Open Access Scholarly Journal Directory - 4 views

scholarlyoa.com/publishers

#openaccess #module9 #knowledge #dissemination #scholarlyjournals #journal @academic

shared by Jamie F on 11 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • bor_14 on 11 Sep 14
     
    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.
  • ilanab on 31 Oct 14
     
    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.
  • Jamie F on 21 Nov 14
     
    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/
ilanab

Open science: resources for sharing and publishing citizen science research - CitizenSci - 3 views

blogs.plos.org/...shing-citizen-science-research

module3 Citizen Scientists

shared by ilanab on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • ilanab on 16 Sep 14
     
    Useful resources for Citizen Scientists who wish to publish, so sharing valuable data which otherwise may have been lost. Of course, caution should be taken to ensure that all data recorded is done scientifically and is reliable.
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  • daniellew31 on 18 Sep 14
     
    I've been hoping to come across a description of journals who publish the work of "non-professional scientists." Think of all the young and old who, while not academics, pursue science and make valuable finds. Perhaps this can help their work get closer to the surface of our attention. Obviously, peer review is crucial here. Which brings up another question. Can scientists in academia objectively review the work of non-professional scientists?
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 18 Sep 14
     
    Very useful; thank you very much. You can find useful the list made by Prof. Andy Miah on academia and social networks: http://www.andymiah.net/2012/12/30/the-a-to-z-of-social-media-for-academics/
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 19 Oct 14
     
    Thanks for sharing both lists of resources. Very useful!
siyuwang

Evaluation on the Resource I Shared: Clearing Up the Copyright Confusion: Fair Dealing ... - 1 views

In this article, the author provides an great explanation of the fair dealing and copyright issue in Canada, and clear up some confusions on this issue, especially the Bill C-32 Act. According to t...

started by siyuwang on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
ukanjilal

The Power of Open - 4 views

thepowerofopen.org

Creative Commons

shared by ukanjilal on 29 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • ukanjilal on 29 Nov 14
     
    Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. More than 400 million CC-licensed works are now available on the Internet, varying from music, photos, research findings to entire courseware. Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. Millions of creators world over are taking advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity. The book The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators, some such famous creators are like ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news organization or the nomadic filmmaker Vincent Moon. The breadth of uses is as great as the creativity of the individuals and organizations choosing to open their content to the rest of the world.
Kevin Stranack

Why We Need Open Knowledge Societies - 2 views

ec.europa.eu/...wledge-societies-rufus-pollock

module6 open data

shared by Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14
     
    "Every day we face challenges - from the personal, such as the quickest way to get to work, or what we should eat, to global ones like climate change and how to sustainably feed and educate seven billion people on this planet. At Open Knowledge we believe that opening up data - and turning that data into insight - can be crucial to addressing these challenges, and building a society in which is everyone - not just the few - are empowered with the knowledge they need to understand and effect change."
  • chacunin on 01 Oct 14
     
    really good! I think this is a very good summary about what we are learning in this course: "We need to create a culture of "open data makers", people able and ready to make apps and insights with open data. We need to connect open data with those who have the best questions and the biggest needs - a healthcare worker in Zambia, the London commuter travelling home - and go beyond the data geeks and the tech savvy to make data be useful to all."
Francisco Reveles

One big problem with open access and why the best way to fix it isn't going to work - C... - 2 views

curt-rice.com/...s-best-way-fix-isnt-going-work

open access policy

shared by Francisco Reveles on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • If research councils or universities would give extra weight to open access articles in tenure or grant-awarding processes, changes would happen overnight — at no necessary cost to quality!
  • Francisco Reveles on 30 Sep 14
     
    Open access success or failure as a policy problem. It is!
  • cuptlib on 02 Oct 14
     
    Very interesting! No-one said it would be easy! One could always suggest a few other complications as well...but we are here for the solutions.
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