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Archives de Catégorie: Open access
[Special bookmark] Open Access and Open Data only
There were lot of very interesting things on the Web these last days on Open Access and Open Data. I would like to remind you that the very first Science 3.0 Blogging Contest starting on October 18 is dedicated to Open Access and will run parallel to the Open Access Week! I greatly invite you to take part, as a blogger, as a reader, as both! You will find below several links to make you feel even more eager than now October 18 comes.
Bookmark: Links to read, from here and there
I am currently spending my time reading papers. And user guides. The cliché of the lab rat is not applicable anymore. The cliché of the computer geek neither: I am hardly launching sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade on my Debian and this is it. The number of tabs in my browser is dangerously approaching 200 and this makes me nervous 🙂 So, here is a nice bunch of links:
Bookmark: Interesting opinion about Open Access journals
A nice publication by Jocelyn Kaiser in Science titled « Free Journals Grow Amid Ongoing Debate » discusses the success of Open Access journals such as PLoS and BioMed Central ones and brings by some presumably controversial points.
Get involved: Making metrics that measure what matters
Cameron Neylon is inviting today everybody to join and take actively part in a poject to redefine bibliographic metrics. Creating this kind of system is essential for sharing knowledge and « there is an opportunity to connect technical expertise and data with the needs of funders, researchers, and perhaps even the mainstream media and government. ». The current proposal stands for a Barcamp day in UK followed by two-day hackfest. The proposal is available to view and edit as a GoogleDoc.
Bookmark: BMJ Open, accessible medical research
This is an open access journal launched very recently and focused on medical research. It aims at publishing not only full-text reports, but also pilot studies and pre-protocols. Moreover, all data will be published online and reviewers’ comments will figure alongside the main text. This initiative emphasizes the importance of transparency and data sharing in science. Support BMJ Open, submit your results there!
Bookmark: Videos from the Conference on Open Access Publishing are available
Just a quick link to the videos of the COASP (Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing) held from August 22 to August 24, 2010 in Prague (Czech Republic). Enjoy!
Bookmark: Conference on Open Access in Africa
BioMed Central announced last week they will be hosting a 2-day conference on Open Access publishing at Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenia). It will take place from November 10 to November 11, 2010.
Bookmark: BioMed Central launches a new initiative to promote data sharing
BMC Researcher Notes’ latest editorial titles A call for BMC Research Notes contributions promoting best practice in data standardization, sharing and publication. It announces a new initiative aiming at promoting best practice in sharing and publishing data, with a focus on standardized, re-useable formats. Thus, data from original research project described by precised Data Notes will be made publicly accessible and, along with, an example dataset will be included.
This great initiative is a new step towards open data and research reproducibility!
Read the original announcement from BMC.
Brevia: Welcome to PLoS Blogs!
Liz Allen announced the official PLoS Blogs today:
The launch of this network is a natural extension of the support that PLoS has always offered to bloggers in recognition of the excellent work that they do in bridging the gap between scientific and medical articles and mainstream media headlines.
Les premiers résultats de l’étude de publication à accès ouvert sont en ligne
La deuxième conférence internationale sur l’édition scientifique en libre accès a eu lieu à Prague entre le 22 et le 24 août 2010. Elle est organisée par OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association). Les premiers résultats du projet Open Access y ont été présentés.
Bookmark: Une base de données collaborative du filtrage dans le monde
Vous voulez participer à la censure du net mondiale ? Paul, le créateur d’IPFuck, a besoin d’aide pour créer une base de données collaborative du filtrage dans le monde. C’est par ici !
Bookmark: Bethesda statement on Open Access publishing
It can be read here. A translation in French is also available.
Bookmark: The third reviewer
Il s’agit d’un forum pour scientifiques où ils peuvent commenter des papiers récemment publiés. Un peu comme un Journal club. Pour l’instant, le thème ayant le plus d’articles est Neurosciences, mais la Microbiologie commence à arriver aussi.
Le (très) mauvais point : les articles non open access ne présentent que les abstracts (résumés). Donc, si on n’a pas accès au journal, c’est loupé pour lire le tout.
Into Oblivion 