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A Compact for Open-Access Publication
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| September 14, 2009âFive of the nation's premier institutions of
| higher learningâCornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology, and the University of California,
| Berkeleyâtoday announced their joint commitment to a compact for
| open-access publication.
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http://hul.harvard.edu/news/2009_0914_compact.html
Open Humanities Press to publish OA books
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| The Open Humanities Press (OHP) announced recently that it is
| entering the Open Access (OA) book publishing market, launching
| five new OA book series. The books will all be made freely
| available online as full-text electronic files, as well as being
| offered as print on demand (POD) paperbacks. To get a better idea
| of the significance of the news I contacted a few OA advocates,
| and emailed some questions to OHP co-founder Sigi Jottkandt. The
| latter questions were answered collectively by the OHP Steering
| Group.
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/09/open-humanities-press-to-publish-oa.html
Mobile app sees science go global
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| The approach is outlined in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
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| The software has been developed for so-called smartphones that run
| Google's Android open-source operating system.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8258501.stm
Recent:
'Cyberlaw Cases' blog monitors top Internet-related cases
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| Two University of California, Berkeley, professors are teaming up with two
| colleagues to launch "Cyberlaw Cases," a blog covering what they consider the
| top 10 most important pending U.S. legal cases involving issues that impact
| the Internet, databases and software programs.
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http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/03_cyberlawblog.shtml
Peter Murray-Rust on the (Scientific) Value of Sharing
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| There has been a history of controlling data through commercial means, and
| there are a lot of organizations which up until now have made an income by
| collecting data from the community and then packaging it and selling it back.
| That was a reasonable thing to do in the 20th century. But in the 21st
| century, so much information is now born digital that it makes sense to think
| of an economy where as we create the data, we release it to the community
| rather than locking it up.
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http://www.good.is/post/peter-murray-rust-on-the-scientific-value-of-sharing/
Open Source DNA: Mathematical Formula Protects Genetic Privacy
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| In the chilling science fiction movie Gattaca, Ethan Hawke stars as a man
| with "inferior genes" who assumes another's genetic identity to escape a
| dead-end future. The 1997 film illustrates the very real fear swirling around
| today's genome research â fear that private genetic information could be used
| negatively against us.
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http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DA-Open-Source-DNA-Mathematical-Formula-Protects-Genetic-Privacy-092009.aspx
Europe Seeks to Ease Rules for Putting Books Online
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| The European Commission on Friday will propose drafting rules that would make
| it easier to put many books and manuscripts online. The move is a part of the
| commissionâs effort to bolster access to information and to encourage online
| businesses.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/technology/internet/28books.html?_r=3
Steve Schultze to Join CITP as Associate Director
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| I'm thrilled to announce that Steve Schultze will be joining the Center for
| Information Technology Policy at Princeton, as our new Associate Director,
| starting September 15. We know Steve well, having followed his work as a
| fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard, not to mention his collaboration
| with us on RECAP.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/steve-schultze-join-citp-associate-director
Online tool sheds sunlight on court records
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| "User fees are not on their face an absurd proposition," said RECAP
| co-developer Stephen Schultze, who is also a fellow at Harvard University's
| Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "On the other hand, there may be
| enough benefits to open access . . . and justice that it would be worth
| funding it out of general taxpayer dollars."
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http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090819_1886.php?oref=topnews
Another Reason for Open Access
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| Why not, indeed? For as Neylon points out:
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| If an author feels strongly enough that a paper will get to a wider
| audience in a new journal, if they feel strongly enough that it will
| benefit from that journalâs peer review process, and they are prepared to
| pay a fee for that publication, why should they be prevented from doing
| so? If that publication does bring that science to a wider audience, is
| not a public service publisher discharging their mission through that
| publication?
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| Which is only possible, of course, in open access journals adopting a funder
| pays approach, since traditional publishers need to be able to point to the
| uniqueness of their content if they are trying to sell it - after all, why
| would you want to buy it twice? Open access journals have no such imperative,
| since they are giving it away, so readers have no expectations that the stuff
| is unique and never seen before.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-reason-for-open-access.html
Draft Open Access and Licensing Framework released
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| Today the State Services Commission is releasing the draft New Zealand
| Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) (HTML with comments
| [*]). This document provides guidance for State Services agencies on:
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| * open access to non-copyright information; and
| * open licensing of copyright works,
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| in both cases with a view to allowing their re-use by others. (It does not
| apply to information or works containing personal or other sensitive
| information).
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http://blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/2009/08/27/draft-open-access-and-licensing-framework-released/
Defending the Digitised Public Domain
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| This is a crucially important issue. At the moment, some publishers are
| trying to create a new copyright in public domain materials just because they
| have been digitised. This is not only absurd, but threatens to nullify much
| of the huge potential of turning analogue knowledge into digital form.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/defending-digitised-public-domain.html
Manifesto
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| We already have a substantial free legal web, but it is not joined up. We
| have the resources and the technologies to join it up â now â for the benefit
| of lawyers and the community at large. Those of us who have an interest in
| access to the law and justice and the efficient provision of legal services
| have a duty to make this happen.
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| There has in the past 18 months been a sea change in Governmentâs attitude to
| the provision of Public Sector Information (PSI) and the encouragement of
| user-generated services supporting government. In particular, the independent
| Power of Information Review recommended changes that have been substantially
| accepted by Government, who, through the Power of Information Task Force are
| now committed to making this happen.
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| The time has come to build the Free Legal Web.
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http://legalweb.wordpress.com/manifesto/
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