Robert Hoffman’s article, “A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters“, published online in Nature Genetics, 40, 1047 – 1051 (2008), describes a new type of wiki where every word is explicity linked to its author. WikiGenes is the first effort using this system. It will be interesting to see if other scientific disciplines [...]
The Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, has published for electronic download as a PDF file or viewing online using the Issuu Inc. social publishing service and viewer Science Dissemination using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access, edited by E. [...]
The European Commission’s Science in Society Programme and the German Commission for UNESCO have jointly published Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges: a Handbook in print and electronic editions. The English version is a translation of the German one originally published by the German Commission for UNESCO in 2007. You can download the 2008 English edition [...]
From the announcement I received on 02008 06 20 about the first public release of the Lemon8-XML source code from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP): The Public Knowledge Project is very pleased to announce the public beta release of Lemon8-XML (http://pkp.sfu.ca/lemon8) available to download and install. Lemon8-XML is a web-based application designed to make it [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 7(1), 02008, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_1.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 04 10
Pronetos, which appears to stand for Professor’s Network, calls itself “a social network for scholars and an Open Access publisher. It provides an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content.” The FAQ indicates that “Only [...]
The Indiana University Libraries and and the Indiana University Digital Library Program are conducting a pilot project with open access publishing with the Open Journal Systems software from Canada’s Public Knowledge Project. Indiana University calls their service IUScholarWorks Journals. It’s kind of cool and probably just a coincidence that I published an article on PKP in the January [...]
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 02 26) about the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) proposal: The European Commission announced that the proposal from Amsterdam University Press together with five European University Presses within the eContentplus Programme, has been selected for negotiations on funding. The opening of negotiations starts in March 2008. Completion [...]
According to an announcement on DIGLIB (02008 02 14) quoting a news release from Harvard University, its Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted on February 12, 02008 to go Open Access on a qualified basis.
The Publishing Research Consortium “is a group of associations and publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to enable evidence-based discussion. Our objective is to support work that is scientific and pro-scholarship. Overall, we aim to promote an understanding of the role of publishing and its impact on research and teaching.” (quoted [...]
First there was Open Source software, then Open Access as promulgated through the Budapest Open Access Initiative, followed by the was Open Data movement, which I’m not sure has a city or a declaration behind its ideas, and now there’s the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. On the Web site be sure to review the [...]
My article on the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference held July 11-13, 02007 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, was published in the January 02008 issue of Searcher magazine. The article is not online for free through the magazine, but the hyperlinks in the article are. For additional posts on the PKP conference see http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2139 and [...]
From the announcement to WEB4LIB (02007 12 17): Code4Lib Journal covers the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. Read Volume 1 issue 1 of this OPENACCESS journal ONLINE now at http://journal.code4lib.org/. ISSN: 1940-5758
Edited by David L. Green and dedicated to the memory of the remarkable digital and radical historian Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), the December 02007 issue of Academic Commons brings together a series of papers on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts. Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02007 12 17
The Open Repositories 2008 conference organizers are looking for papers and panel submissions. Here’s part of the conference CFP blurb from the diglib@infoserv.inist.fr announcement (02007 10 04): “Repositories are being deployed in a variety of settings (research, scholarship, learning, science, cultural heritage) and across a range of scales (subject, national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). The [...]
For anyone interested in Open Access, the keynote address by Professor John Willinsky, founder of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) at UBC in 1998, will be of great interest. I obtained permission while attending the first International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference to record his talk on July 11, 02007 at the Morris J. Wosk Centre [...]
Update for 02008 04 26: I neglected to take note of the article I published in the February 02008 issue of Searcher magazine on Freebase. Original post, 02008 08 22: A posting on Peter Van Garderen’s Archivemat.ca alerted me to Freebase, described on the Freebase site (it appears to have gone live on the evening [...]
According to a media release dated 02007 08 13 on various mailing lists and elsewhere on the Internet, “Fedora Commons today announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, [...]
Since I was new to blogging in June 02002, I missed the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and National Archives of Canada Final Report: National Data Archive Consultation: Building Infrastructure for Access to and Preservation of Research Data. The report’s data June 02002, but I don’t think any of its recommendations have [...]
According to the Open Repositories Conference 02008 Web site: “The Third International Conference on Open Repositories, April 1st – 4th, 2008 in Southampton, UK. The conference will be hosted by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, which has a 20 year history of research into hypertext, multimedia, digital libraries [...]
The SELF (Science, Education and Learning in Freedom) project is a European-led, international project to make free educational and training materials available on free software and open standards.
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02007 08 01): “DPE [DigitalPreservationEurope], PLANETS [Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services], and CASPAR [Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval] are delighted to announce their second annual joint conference to introduce participants to a range of tools and resources and to explain how these fit [...]
Worth quoting in full is this media release about a hybrid Open Access option trial, based on author payment, launched by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), publisher of Learned Publishing: “The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP, http://www.alpsp.org), publisher of Learned Publishing – the leading journal on scholarly and [...]
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