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What Are the Costs of an Open Access Monograph? › Hybrid Publishing Lab Notepad - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 31 Jul 14
     
    "Although the official press release highlights that "Open Access publishing has no negative effect on book sales, and increases online usage and discovery considerably" (which is, in my opinion, only a snapshot which will sooner or later lose validity in the course of the ongoing digitalization of the academic book market), the most interesting and valuable outcomes of the pilot arise from the attempt to quantify and itemize the costs of an OA monograph."
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Knowledge Unlatched: A new business model for Open Access monographs? › Hybri... - 2 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 31 Jul 14
     
    "In a nutshell, Knowledge Unlatched would act as an intermediary between a global library consortium and individual academic publishers. The latter would approach Knowledge Unlatched with titles they would like to see published in Open Access. Knowledge Unlatched would then regularly send out a list of titles to libraries which would opt in to fund the unlatching, that is, the publication in Open Access, of certain titles. The titles so funded would be released with a Creative Commons licence by the publishers which retain the right to sell special editions and extra services around the titles. "
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Inequitable power dynamics of global knowledge production and exchange must be confront... - 1 views

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  • bmierzejewska on 02 Aug 14
     
    "Showing "The World of Science", the map below portrays global research production as expressed through science journals' publishing in the early 2000s. It makes a dramatic point about the complexities of global inequalities in knowledge production and exchange. What would it take to redraw the knowledge production map to realise a vision of a more equitable and accurate world of knowledge?"
  • mark Christopher on 11 Sep 14
     
    The research environment in the global South faces many pressing challenges given resource inequality. Technical and financial issues aside, Laura Czerniewicz asserts it is the values and practices shaped by the Northern research agenda which contribute just as much to the imbalance.
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ABC del derecho de autor para bibliotecarios de América Latina - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    "Este es un material educativo autoguiado en línea y abierto sobre conceptos básicos de derechos de autor para bibliotecarios de América Latina, presentado a través de School of Open en P2PU, una comunidad global de voluntarios centrada en proporcionar oportunidades de educación gratuita sobre el significado, la aplicación y el impacto de la "apertura" en la era digital y su beneficio para los esfuerzos creativos, la educación, la investigación, entre otros. School of Open en P2PU es coordinado por Creative Commons y P2PU, una comunidad de aprendizaje entre pares y la plataforma para el desarrollo y realización de cursos en línea gratuitos."
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"Process as Product: Scholarly Communication Experiments in the Digital" by Zach Coble,... - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    "Scholarly communication outreach and education activities are proliferating in academic libraries. Simultaneously, digital humanists-a group that includes librarians and non-librarians based in libraries, as well as scholars and practitioners without library affiliation-have developed forms of scholarship that demand and introduce complementary innovations focused on infrastructure, modes of dissemination and evaluation, openness, and other areas with implications for scholarly communication. Digital humanities experiments in post-publication filtering, open peer review, middle-state publishing, decentering authority, and multimodal and nonlinear publication platforms are discussed in the context of broader library scholarly communication efforts."
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School of Open Africa to launch in September - Creative Commons - 2 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    "School of Open is a global community of volunteers providing free online courses, face-to-face workshops, and innovative training programs on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age. Through School of Open, you can learn how to add a Creative Commons license to your work, find free resources for classroom use, open up your research, remix a music video, and more!"
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unglue.it - Support Free eBooks - 1 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    "unglue (v. t.) 5. To make your favorite books free to everyone on earth."
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Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    "Intended to serve as a "citizen's guide," Controlling Knowledge is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand how freedom of information and privacy protection are legally defined and how this legislation is shaping our individual rights as citizens of the information age."
  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    module1 privacy knowledge "public policy" "digital citizenship" ebook
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Open-access website gets tough : Nature News & Comment - 1 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 06 Aug 14
     
    "Now, following criticism of its quality-control checks, the website is asking all of the journals in its directory to reapply on the basis of stricter criteria. It hopes the move will weed out 'predatory journals': those that profess to publish research openly, often charging fees, but that are either outright scams or do not provide the services a scientist would expect, such as a minimal standard of peer review or permanent archiving. "
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Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering 'Modules' Instead - Wired Campus - Blogs -... - 3 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 06 Aug 14
     
    "People now buy songs, not albums. They read articles, not newspapers. So why not mix and match learning "modules" rather than lock into 12-week university courses?"
  • Paul Prinsloo on 03 Sep 14
     
    @Kevin - thanks for sharing. I really share many of the sentiments of this article - but the modularisation of the curriculum also raise some interesting and possibly disturbing points. For example, our current diploma/degree structures are based on the premise that the final outcomes of a diploma or a degree is the result, inter alia, of the unique combination of a number of different courses/modules which, together, allow students to provide evidence of competency in all of the outcomes. While I sincerely think there is a place for just-in-time learning and short courses, and secondly, that the notion of a four-year degree may be outdated - I am wondering about the notion of the curriculum as journey.
  • kristykim on 17 Oct 14
     
    Thank you sharing this! I think this is new and innovative idea. I wouldn't mind trying this kind of system at my school.
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The Landing: What is connectivism? - 1 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 06 Aug 14
     
    "'Connectivism' is a label for a family of related theories and models about learning in a networked age that recognize the implications of the network itself in supporting and playing a central role in such learning. These theories and models consolidate various ideas, facts and theories that relate to networked learning then make predictions and prescriptions as well as imply patterns that are a consequence of them. "
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"Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success" by Gordon McIntyre, Janice C... - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 12 Aug 14
     
    "Librarians have traditionally helped faculty researchers at the beginning of the research cycle, with the discovery and delivery of information sources. However, they are now playing a role at the end of the research cycle, providing services that support scholarly publishing. "
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Gold OA - Financial modelling tools - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 12 Aug 14
     
    "For most societies, the potential financial consequences of a move to Gold OA are the key concern. Income from subscriptions often provides a basis for financing other activities; as such, a loss in income can have far-reaching consequences. Naturally those who are charged with protecting a society´s interests are fearful of making changes that could have a negative impact on their organisation´s ability to fulfil its aims."
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Stardust@home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 14 Aug 14
     
    "Stardust@home is a citizen science project that encourages volunteers to search images for tiny interstellar dust impacts. The project began providing data for analysis on August 1, 2006."
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The Lyon Declaration - 3 views

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  • lauren_maggio on 20 Aug 14
     
    "Increased access to information and knowledge, underpinned by universal literacy, is an essential pillar of sustainable development. Greater availability of quality information and data and the involvement of communities in its creation will provide a fuller, more transparent allocation of resources."
  • Kevin Stranack on 03 Sep 14
     
    "In this context, a right to information would be transformational. Access to information supports development by empowering people, especially marginalised people and those living in poverty, to: - Exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. - Be economically active, productive and innovative. - Learn and apply new skills. - Enrich cultural identity and expression. - Take part in decision-making and participate in an active and engaged civil society. - Create community-based solutions to development challenges. - Ensure accountability, transparency, good governance, participation and empowerment. - Measure progress on public and private commitments on sustainable development. "
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What is Open Science and what role does it play in Development? - 4 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 20 Aug 14
     
    Slides from Leslie Chan's talk on What is Open Science and What Role Does it Play in Development?
  • dianablue on 03 Sep 14
     
    Is true that open access benefits the academic development of students and agree with it, but it would also be important to know whether college students and teachers and researchers know how to use information resources open access or if known. It is important to give more publicity to information resources in order to open the knowledge society makes use of them to create new knowledge for society.
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Publishing Is Not Dying - Greg Satell - Harvard Business Review - 6 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 21 Aug 14
     
    "In truth, publishing is flourishing, creating massive new fortunes for entrepreneurs and more choices for consumers. It's also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists. Though not everyone prospers, there has never been a better time for publishers."
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  • Pris Laurente on 03 Sep 14
     
    Good source, this actually has been practice for several years, almost all the publishers are engaging into digitized open publishing type, wherein the resource materials they are selling is actually publish electronically, so that buyers or interested clients may view it online; no need to go to their shop to ask what they are looking for.
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 03 Sep 14
     
    Coincido con la reflexión de este artículo acerca de la necesidad de las casas editoras (publishers) de repensar sus modelos de negocios y de olvidarse (aferrase sería una palabra más precisa) del exclusivo modelo gutenberiano de producción editorial. Sin embargo, me parece que su enfoque adolece de varios problemas. El más notorio es que trata al mundo de las publicaciones como uno solo, cuando no hay forma de comparar las dinámicas, capitales (humanos, financieros y simbólicos) puestos en juego en la publicación académica (scholarly publishing) o en los libros de interés general (trade), guías turísticas, enciclopedias, libros religiosos, textos para niños, etc., para no mencionar la abismal distancia entre las revistas académicas (scholarly journals) y los libros o inclusivo las revistas generalistas (magazines). Concluir que las cosas van maravillosamente bien porque un montón de empresas, vinculadas a los medios masivos (un punto relevante en la argumentación, que se menciona como si fuera lo más normal del mundo) tienen emprendimientos exitosos es confundir peras con manzanas. También creo que usar el mantra de la época de la disruption (age of disruption) para todo aporta poco a la discusión (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine?currentPage=all)
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 03 Sep 14
     
    I agree with the reflection of this article about the need for publishers to rethink their business models and forget the exclusive Gutenberian publishing model. However, I think his approach suffers from several limitations. The most notorious is treating the publishing world as one, when there is no way to compare the dynamics, capital (human, financial and symbolic) at stake in academic or scholarly publishing with books of general interest (trade), tour guides, encyclopedias, religious books, textbooks for children, etc., not to mention the abysmal gap between scholarly journals and books or inclusive commercial magazines. Conclude that things are going wonderfully well because a lot of companies, linked to the mass media (an important point in the argument, mentioned as if it were the most normal thing in the world) have successful ventures is to confuse the things. I also believe that using the mantra of the age of disruption for all contributes little to a seroius discussion (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine?currentPage = all)
  • rafopen on 12 Nov 14
     
    Good overview with fundamental advice for publishers: innovate
  • selviwati on 13 Nov 14
     
    Good read, Kevin! :) I agree with this article that said "As long as people want to be informed, entertained, and inspired, there will be profitable opportunities in publishing." The main key to keep the business running is everyone must adapt. Traditional publishers need to moves to digital media in order to survive and meet the modern readers' needs.
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OER or Traditional Textbooks? Look at Learning Outcomes Per Dollar | EdSurge News - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 21 Aug 14
     
    "But it's been over 15 years since the first openly licensed educational materials were published, and major publishers have yet to publish a single textbook based on pre-existing OER. Why?"
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Peter Binfield - Open Access Megajournals -- Have They Changed Everything? - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 22 Aug 14
     
    "Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. The Open Access 'Megajournal' (a class of journal defined by the success of PLOS ONE) is a reasonably recent phenomenon, but one that some observers believe is poised to change the publishing world very rapidly."
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