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OpenStreetMap adds new translations
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| The OpenStreentMap Project has announced that it now has translations in
| German and partially in French on its main OpenStreetMap site. The project,
| run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, is an open source project that is
| building free online maps, not based on any copyright or licensed map data.
| The project was started in August of 2004 and has become increasingly
| popular.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/OpenStreetMap-adds-new-translations--/news/113423
Open data in local education: broader lessons for government, citizens and NGOs
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| Last months I remember reading a couple of news stories about a provincial
| government ministry in Canada that was forced to become less transparent.
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| Forced?
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| Yes, this was not a voluntary move. A specific group of people pressured the
| government, wanting it to remove data it had made public as well as make it
| harder for the public to repurpose and make use of the data. So what
| happened? And what lessons should governments, NGOs and citizens take away |
| from this incident.
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http://eaves.ca/2009/06/01/open-data-in-local-education-broader-lessons-for-government-citizens-and-ngos/
Welcome to Speaking of Medicine!
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| Welcome to Speaking of Medicine, the community blog run by the open access
| journal PLoS Medicine.
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| Speaking of Medicine is designed to be an inclusive and informal site for
| anyone interested in a truly global perspective on the challenges to human
| health, and the ethical issues and debates arising from the conduct,
| reporting and publishing of medical research. PLoS Medicine sees open access
| publishing and its creative potential as crucial to addressing these
| challenges; like all of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals
| everything we publish is not only freely available for anyone to read, but
| for anyone to distribute and re-use, to comment on and rate.
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http://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/
Recent:
Another Reason We Need Open Access
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| One of the more laughable reasons that traditional science publishers cite in
| their attempts to rubbish open access is that it's somehow not so rigorous
| as "their" kind of publishing. There's usually a hint that standards might be
| dropped, and that open access journals aren't, well, you know, quite proper.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/another-reason-we-need-open-access.html
Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
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| It is this attitude within companies like Merck and among doctors that allows
| scandals precisely like this to happen. While the scandals with Merck and
| Vioxx are particularly egregious, we know they are not isolated incidents.
| This one is just particularly so. If physicians would not lend their names or
| pens to these efforts, and publishers would not offer their presses, these
| publications could not exist. What doctors would have as available data would
| be peer-reviewed research and what pharmaceutical companies produce from
| their marketing departments--actual advertisements.
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http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/
Merck And Elsevier Exposed For Creating Fake Peer Review Journal
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| Of course, this is exactly the sort of thing that you can do when everything
| is locked up and proprietary, rather than open. There's almost no way to
| confirm or check the data or information to make sure it's legit, so people
| tend to assume it is. In that regard, perhaps it's no surprise that the two
| companies eventually went down this road, but it does highlight one of the
| problems with the way the system works today. As Shirky later points out this
| is hardly unique for a firm like Elsevier, which has faced some serious
| ethical questions regarding its publications in the past as well.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090503/1255574725.shtml
Related:
The serials crisis has a name, and it's Reed Elsevier.
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| Mind you, I don't mean to imply that we should launch another boycott;
| reigning in Elsevier's profit margins and/or market share would do little to
| offset the serials crisis. The only answer to that, in the long term, is Open
| Access, because it scales where Toll access doesn't. No, this entry is not
| really about OA at all, it's just a little kick in the shins for my favorite
| Greedy Bastard Publishers.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2008/12/the_serials_crisis_has_a_name.php
Elsevier steals, then copyrights other people's free stuff
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| Reed Elsevier caught copying my content without my permission:
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| I was not asked for, and did not give, permission for my work to appear
| on that page, much less in that format. Needless to say, I felt a little
| slighted.
|
| The website in question appears to be a custom version of the LexisNexis
| search engine. This particular version appears to be Elsevier's own
| custom version, intended for internal use. I don't have conclusive proof
| of that, but the title bar at the top of the page reads, "Elsevier
| Corporate", and the person who accessed my blog from that page had an IP
| address that's registered to MD Consult, which is an Elsevier subsidiary.
| My guess is that Elsevier's keeping track of news articles and blog posts
| that mention them, along with the context in which they're mentioned.
|
| [...]
|
| Reed Elsevier Is Stealing My Words:
|
| I received an email from ScienceBlogling Mike Dunford that Reed Elsevier
| had excerpted one of my posts. No problem there--I like it when people
| read my stuff....except for one thing:
|
| The fuckers copyrighted my words.
|
| Copyright violation?:
|
| Apparently, publishing companies don't always get permission for the
| materials they use, either. Mike Dunford caught Reed Elsevier copying his
| content without permission (from Stephen Downes).
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http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/08/elsevier_steals_then_copyright.php
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