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U.S. systemic savings from a full shift to OA: $3.4 billion
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| King argues for an open access system via article processing fees,
| fully paid by the federal government. It is noteworthy that King's
| estimate is that this would cost, in a worst-case scenario, an
| increase of less than 1% of what the U.S. federal government
| spends on research grants right now. King acknowledges the
| unlikelihood of this scenario. Average cost-per-article of
| $1,500 and $2,500 U.S. scenarios are employed; the additional
| cost for 100% funding of articles would be $427 million (at
| $1,500 per article) or $712 million (at $2,500 per article).
| King estimates that academic and special libraries could,
| together, save an estimate $4.1 billion per year.
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http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/us-systemic-savings-from-full-shift-to.html
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment
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| There have been hundreds of articles in
| recent years exhorting the strengths and
| warning of the weaknesses of Open Access
| through author payment. This article
| discusses a few of the favorable and
| unfavorable issues and proposes an approach
| that takes advantage of the favorable aspects
| and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones.
| It requires extensive government support,
| which may or may not be feasible, but the
| approach is presented here nevertheless. Some
| evidence is given for the potential savings
| that would be achieved by scientists,
| publishers and libraries in the US.
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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/king/03king.html
On Open Data, Open Source, UK Libel Law and Evidence-based Sustainability
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| As is often the case, someone asks for a
| written answer to a question, but then fails
| to use the material. The great thing about
| blogs is that they make it very easy to make
| sure such content isnât wasted. So here are
| some thoughts on the GreenMonk mission and
| sustainability more broadly.
|
| We set up Greenmonk with the explicit
| intention of lobbying for open data and open
| source for better environmental outcomes.
|
| [...]
|
| In the UK, libel law is regularly abused to
| shut down dissenting voices. Its not just
| randy footballers that try and abuse the law.
| Pushing back against the status quo are
| organisations such as Sense About Science,
| which is backing the National Petition for
| Libel Law Reform.
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http://greenmonk.net/on-open-data-open-source-uk-libel-law-and-evidence-based-sustainability/
No Panaceas! A Q&A with Elinor Ostrom
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| Ostromâs seminal book, Governing the Commons:
| The Evolution of Institutions for Collective
| Action, was published in 1990. But her
| research on common property goes back to the
| early 1960s, when she wrote her dissertation
| on groundwater in California. In 1973 she and
| her husband, Vincent Ostrom, founded the
| Workshop in Political Theory and Policy
| Analysis at Indiana University. In the
| intervening years, the Workshop has produced
| hundreds of studies of the conditions in
| which communities self-organize to solve
| common problems. Ostrom currently serves as
| professor of political science at Indiana
| University and senior research director of
| the Workshop.
|
| Fran Korten: When you first learned that you
| had won the Nobel Prize in Economics, were
| you surprised?
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| Elinor Ostrom: Yes. It was quite surprising.
| I was both happy and relieved.
|
| Fran: Why relieved?
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| Elinor: Well, relieved in that I was doing a
| bunch of research through the years that many
| people thought was very radical and people
| didnât like. As a person who does
| interdisciplinary work, I didnât fit
| anywhere. I was relieved that, after all
| these years of struggle, someone really
| thought it did add up. Thatâs very nice.
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http://shareable.net/blog/no-panaceas-a-qa-with-elinor-ostrom
ONS Solubility Book: Edition 3 with Notebook Archive
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| We've been trying for some time to find a way
| to conveniently take a snapshot of our Open
| Notebooks and all associated raw data files.
| This could serve as a way to back up all of
| our work as well as provide a means of
| finding out the state of knowledge for a
| project at a given moment in time. There is
| also a tremendous benefit to confidently
| using the best of free hosted Web2.0 services
| out there (e.g. GoogleDocs and Wikispaces)
| without being concerned with changes in
| policies or access down the road.
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http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2010/02/ons-solubility-book-edition-3-with.html
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