“The content in many repositories in Latin America fail to come up in systematic searches largely due to the inadequate use of domain names and metadata schema, find Enrique Orduña-Malea and Emilio Delgado-López-Cózar. Institutional repositories are ultimately websites and concepts such as usability, information architecture, search engine optimization, among others, should be considered in their primary design. In a context like Latin America, in which scholarly production requires extra visibility because it lies outside the academic mainstream, repositories are essential vehicles, and their low visibility could significantly affect their real use by end users….”
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Impact of Social Sciences – Low visibility of Latin American repositories in Google Scholar: technical incompatibility or lack of web strategy?
“The content in many repositories in Latin America fail to come up in systematic searches largely due to the inadequate use of domain names and metadata schema, find Enrique Orduña-Malea and Emilio Delgado-López-Cózar. Institutional repositories are ultimately websites and concepts such as usability, information architecture, search engine optimization, among others, should be considered in their primary design. In a context like Latin America, in which scholarly production requires extra visibility because it lies outside the academic mainstream, repositories are essential vehicles, and their low visibility could significantly affect their real use by end users….”
European university presses and the transition to open access – Stockholm University Press Blog
“Amsterdam University Press is an example of a University Press that has found a business model for open access publishing, by requesting high author fees, or Book processing charges (BPC’s), for open access publishing with CC-licenses. This is very common and also what most commercial publishers do. Here I find that Stockholm University Press (SUP) and other Ubiquity Press Partners, have a priceworthy business model for our authors.”
How Do You Know Which Medical Information on Wikipedia to Trust? | KQED Future of You | KQED Science
“Reworking Wikipedia health entries is not a trivial task. A 2014 study found about 25,000 pages of English-language health-related articles. That number is now up to 32,000, Heilman says. The health pages worldwide attracted almost 4.9 billion pageviews in 2013. A 2012 survey of several hundred medical students found 94 percent use the site for health information.
But despite its popularity, the reliability of Wikipedia’s medical content has often been questioned.”
Does open science matter at proposal evaluation
“‘Winning Horizon2020 with Open Science’ (doi 10.5281/zenodo.12247) brief was integrated in Marie Curie ETNs and Societal Challenge 2 & 5 proposals in order to test whether Open Science can give applicants a competitive edge. These slides offer preliminary extracts from 2015-2016 Evaluation Summary Reports (ESR).”
The MOOC Identity: Designing Learning Environments
“In this presentation I place the development of the MOOC in the context of innovative and transformational change. I then describe what will need to take place in MOOCs to support tranformational change – connectivist design, personal learning, and a distributed ecosystem.”
Another kind of #openaccess mandate.
“Not because the funder or employer requires it, but because a court requires it to serve the public interest: ‘The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that trade secrets are not an excuse for refusing to divulge information on biocides released into the air, water, soil and plants.’ …”
Open data and the importance of the geographic data | gvSIG blog
“It’s worth to review MELODA (MEtric for reLeasing Open DAta), a metrics to calculate how much the data are reusable (and now there’s an alfa of an API), where the importance of the geographic component is totally demonstrated when we speak about Open Data.
In fact, MELODA analyzes six dimensions, one of which is the “geolocation” of the information. For each dimension there are 5 levels of reusability that have been considered.”
L’Inra se lance dans l’Open science et l’open-data
“INRA strengthens its policy of open access to scientific results”
“L’Inra publie sa charte pour le libre accès à ses publications et données scientifiques. Les orientations de la Commission Européenne en faveur de « l’open science » et les récentes lois françaises encouragent les chercheurs à aller plus loin, notamment en matière de diffusion des données.”
From Google Translate: “INRA published its charter for the free access to its publications and scientific data.The guidelines of the European Commission in favor of “open science” and the recent French laws encourage researchers to go further, especially with regard to dissemination.”
Exploring Possibilities for Transforming Established Subscription-based Scientific Journals into Open Access Journals
Abstract: Background: Based on today‘s information and communication technologies the open access paradigm has become an important approach for adequately communicating new scientific knowledge. Objectives: Summarizing the present situation for journal transformation. Presenting criteria for adequate transformation as well as a specific approach for it. Describing our exemplary implementation of such a journal transformation. Methods: Studying the respective literature as well as discussing this topic in various discussion groups and meetings (primarily of editors and publishers, but also of authors and readers), with long term experience as editors and?/or publishers of scientific publications as prerequisite. Results: There is a clear will, particularly of political and funding organizations, towards open access publishing. In spite of this, there is still a large amount of scientific knowledge, being communicated through subscription-based journals. For successfully transforming such journals into open access, sixteen criteria for a goal-oriented, stepwise, sustainable, and fair transformation are suggested. The Tandem Model as transformation approach is introduced. Our exemplary implementation is done in the Trans-O-MIM project. It is exploring strategies, models and evaluation metrics for journal transformation. As instance the journal Methods of Information in Medicine will apply the Tandem Model from 2017 onwards. Conclusions: Within Trans-O-MIM we will reach at least nine of the sixteen criteria for adequate transformation. It was positive to implement Trans-O-MIM as international research project. After first steps for transforming Methods have successfully been made, challenges will remain, among others, in identifying appropriate incentives for open access publishing in order to support its transformation.
Quantum GIS
A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
Find Quantum GIS at: http://qgis.org/
OpenPIV – open source particle image velocimetry
Open source particle image velocimetry software package that provides the all-in-one solution for analysis of PIV images, post-processing of PIV data and insightful analysis using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, pressure from PIV and background oriented Schlieren toolboxes.
Find OpenPIV – open source particle image velocimetry at: http://www.openpiv.net
Source code of Parallel and Serial Red-Black SOR in Chapel, D and Go Languages
Successive over-relaxation (SOR) is a computationally intensive, yet extremely important iterative solver for linear systems. Due to recent growth in amount of data generated and increasing problem sizes, serial platforms have proved to be insufficient in providing the required computational power. This code provides parallel implementations of red-black SOR method using three modern programming languages: Chapel, D and Go.
Find Source code of Parallel and Serial Red-Black SOR in Chapel, D and Go Languages at: http://www.academia.edu/9709444/Source_code_of_Parallel_and_Serial_Red-Black_SOR_Implementation_in_Chapel_D_and_Go_Languages
ELN – Electronic Lab Notebook
ELN is an Electronic Lab Notebook for scientists of all stripes ELN is great for: taking notes during experiments since it automatically saves your input every 10 seconds so that your notes will never be lost; keeping track of data analysis results since screen shots and other graphics can be added to a notebook page by drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste; recording your lit searches, since it will automatically download papers from PubMed and archive them with your notebook; recording your thought processes, since it will never get in the way of your typing with arbitrary constraints of input formatting.
Find ELN – Electronic Lab Notebook at: https://github.com/wagenadl/eln
CellMissy: Cell Migration Invasion Storage System
CellMissy is a cross-platform data management system for cell migration/invasion data that simplifies and fully automates data management, storage and analysis, from experimental set-up to data visualization and exploration. CellMissy is a client-server application with a graphical user interface on the client, and a relational database in the back-end to store the data. The client application is composed of three modules that cover the different functions of CellMissy: the Experiment Manager, the Data Loader and the Data Analyzer. On top of these modules, CellMissy provides tools for import/export of full experiments and templates. CellMissy is described in CellMissy: a tool for management, storage and analysis of cell migration data produced in wound healing-like assays. (P. Masuzzo, N. Hulstaert, L. Huyck, C. Ampe, M. Van Troys and L. Martens, PMID: 23918247)
Find CellMissy: Cell Migration Invasion Storage System at: https://github.com/compomics/cellmissy