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Birgit SCHMIDT, Karin ILG-HARTBECKE: Open Access am Standort D – erweiterte Perspektiven für die Wissenschaft

Zusammenfassung: Mit der zunehmenden Umsetzung der Open-Access-Idee entstehen in der deutschen wie der internationalen Forschungslandschaft neue Modelle der wissenschaftlichen Informationsversorgung und der Wissenschaftskommunikation. So betreiben inzwischen über die Hälfte der forschungsorientierten deutschen Universitäten ein institutionelles Repositorium. Open-Access-Repositorien bieten damit perspektivisch eine ideale Basisinfrastruktur für den Umgang mit wissenschaftlichen Publikationen: weltweite Zugänglichkeit, verbesserte Sichtbarkeit, zudem Mehrwertdienste wie fachliche und fachübergreifende Recherche-Optionen, Nutzungsstatistiken und Zitationsanalysen. Der Beitrag gibt einen aktuellen Überblick und zeigt die derzeitigen Rahmenbedingungen und Entwicklungen, aber auch Entwicklungshindernisse der deutschen Repositorienlandschaft auf. Zugleich werden Initiativen einbezogen, die Verlage, Autoren und allgemein Informationsanbieter an Praktiken des Open Access heranführen.

Schlüsselwörter: Open Access, Repositorien, Wissenschaftskommunikation, Publikationsmodelle, Netzwerke, Policies, Mandate, Verlage, Bibliotheken

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Freibier schlägt alles - oder etwa doch nicht? Ich kaufe bei Amazon auch immer 2 Bücher… [via Peter Suber]

Kostenvorteile nun auch in zwei weiteren Ländern: UK und Dänemark. [via Peter Suber]

Non-disclosures clauses in Lizenzverträgen unwirksam? [via Peter Suber]

Jonathan Eisen, Another reason to publish as Open Access - libraries hurting big time financially and they will be cancelling many subscriptions, The Tree of Life, June 27, 2009. [via Peter Suber]

Foto: Michael Nielsen

Eine der meistgelesenen Blog Posts dieser Tage über die Zukunft des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens ist Michael Nielsen’s Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?. Im wesentlichen vergleicht er den gegenwärtigen Zustand der Publishign Industry mit dem der Zeitungsindustrie vor 5-10 Jahren und prophezeit damit ein Versagen der Verlags-Dinosaurier und die Übernahme durch flinke Start-ups. Hier folgen ein paar lose verknüpfte Zitate, um ihnen Apetitt auf den (langen) Rest zu machen (Fettdruck durch mich):

In conversations with editors I repeatedly encounter the same pattern: “But idea X won’t work / shouldn’t be allowed / is bad because of Y.” Well, okay. So what? If you’re right, you’ll be intellectually vindicated, and can take a bow. If you’re wrong, your company may not exist in ten years. Whether you’re right or not is not the point. When new technologies are being developed, the organizations that win are those that aggressively take risks, put visionary technologists in key decision-making positions, attain a deep organizational mastery of the relevant technologies, and, in most cases, make a lot of mistakes. Being wrong is a feature, not a bug, if it helps you evolve a model that works: you start out with an idea that’s just plain wrong, but that contains the seed of a better idea. You improve it, and you’re only somewhat wrong. You improve it again, and you end up the only game in town. Unfortunately, few scientific publishers are attempting to become technology-driven in this way. The only major examples I know of are Nature Publishing Group (with Nature.com) and the Public Library of Science.

Er vermisst folgende Features bzw. sieht dort großes Potenzial:

- Personalized paper recommendations
- A great search engine for science
- High-quality tools for real-time collaboration by scientists
- Scientific blogging and wiki platforms
- The data web

What I will do instead is draw your attention to a striking difference between today’s scientific publishing landscape, and the landscape of ten years ago. What’s new today is the flourishing of an ecosystem of startups that are experimenting with new ways of communicating research, some radically different to conventional journals. Consider Chemspider, consider startups like SciVee (YouTube for scientists), the Public Library of Science, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, vibrant community sites like OpenWetWare and the Alzheimer Research Forum, and dozens more. And then there are companies like Wordpress, Friendfeed, and Wikimedia, that weren’t started with science in mind, but which are increasingly helping scientists communicate their research. [...] Let’s look up close at one element of this flourishing ecosystem: the gradual rise of science blogs as a serious medium for research. [...] This flourishing ecosystem of startups is just one sign that scientific publishing is moving from being a production industry to a technology industry. A second sign of this move is that the nature of information is changing. Until the late 20th century, information was a static entity. The natural way for publishers in all media to add value was through production and distribution, and so they employed people skilled in those tasks, and in supporting tasks like sales and marketing. But the cost of distributing information has now dropped almost to zero, and production and content costs have also dropped radically. At the same time, the world’s information is now rapidly being put into a single, active network, where it can wake up and come alive. The result is that the people who add the most value to information are no longer the people who do production and distribution. Instead, it’s the technology people, the programmers.

Andrew Spong macht sich in Societies deliver the value. Publishers value the delivery. Gedanken zu einer Studie von Wiley-Blackwell über “global economic downturn affecting scientific societies”.

Today, Wiley-Blackwell has published the results of a survey undertaken earlier this year of ‘47 officers from scholarly and professional societies ranging in size from less than 500 members to more than 25,000, and from a variety of subject disciplines,’ the majority of whom are ‘based in Europe and the United States’.

Remember: you are the expert scientists. Publishers are just expert publishers. Scientific societies can be publishers; publishers cannot be scientists. It is the societies that deliver the value; publishers merely value the delivery, and their organizational immune system may prevent them from ever adequately supporting the local optimum that your scientific reputation possesses, and could be holding back the local optimum you may go on to achieve as publishers in your own right.

The 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th - 18th June 2010

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

The International Programme Committee invites you to submit papers and
posters for the 12th European Conference of Medical and Health
Libraries “DISCOVERING NEW SEAS OF KNOWLEDGE: technologies,
environments and users in the future of health libraries” to be held
in Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th - 18th June 2010.
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The Pediatric PDA Blog weist darauf hin, dass Skyscape 4 med. Anwendungen im Wert von 80$ für 1,99$ weg gibt - wenn man sie nur im Apple-Shop kauft. Also noch ein Argument, einen iPhone/iPod zu kaufen…

FierceHealthcare rezensiert in 15 Free Healthcare Apps for the iPhone die folgenden 15 Anwendungen:

• WebMD Mobile for checking symptoms of a lingering illness to get a better understanding of drugs
• Epocrates Rx, designed with healthcare professionals in mind and a continuously updated drug database
• EmergenKey
• Notfallkoffer

• Diabetes Log keeps track of all vital information–glucose readings, food intake and medical records
• Health Cloud lets Google Health users access their personal health records
• General Medical History aids medical students in taking a patient’s history
• Headache Diary helps patients to keep logs of all their headaches on a day-to-day basis
• ReachMD CME is for the physician who want to earn Continuing Medical Education credits by listing to the programs and take the corresponding CME test from their iPhones
• iTriage allows patients to enter their symptoms into a database, where probable diseases, treatments and directions are automatically pointed out
• ICD9 Consult allows for easy access to medical diagnosis coding by disease classification
• Swine Flu Tracker allows users to keep track of all outbreaks of swine flue throughout the world with Google Maps
• iSleep Tracker allows users to keep track of their sleeping habits by charts and logs over time
• Skyscape Medical Resources is a four-part app that helps users do everything from staying updated on the lastest medical information to remembering medical algorithms and calculations
• Natural Cures helps users to learn how to combine natural and prescription therapies to maximize their health
• MedCalc is a free medical calculator use primarily by physicians to get easy access to complicated medical formulas

Unter der Überschrift Deutschen droht höhere Mehrwertsteuer berichtet der Spiegel Online über Informationen der “Bild”-Zeitung, nach denen die Union nach der Wahl eine Mehrwertsteuererhöhung erwägt. Der ermäßigte Satz, der vor allem für Lebensmittel, Wildpferde, Schnittblumen und eben auch Bücher gilt, könnte demnach von sieben auf 19 Prozent steigen. Bibliotheken würden dadurch erhebliche Kaufkraftverluste entstehen. Mir fehlt der Überblick, ob dem Regelungen der EU entgegen stehen (Herr Kämper, wissen Sie mehr?).

In Your Mobile and Your Genomic Data? A ScienceRoll diskutiert Bertalan Meska die Eignung des Google Smartphones für die so genannte Genome Based Economy, d.h. “genombewußtes Einkaufen”. Ich scanne den Schokoriegel im Supermarkt und das G-Phone sagt mir, ob ich mir das erlauben kann mit meiner Adipositas-Disposition auf Chromosome 22:

Using the Google Phone’s built-in bar code reader, Dr. Pellionisz demonstrated how personal genome computing can detect genome-friendly and genome-supportive products from foods to cosmetics to building materials and beyond. In a demonstration, the PDA user was assumed to have a genomic proclivity to Parkinson’s Disease. The demonstration leveraged the Google Phone’s bar code reader to capture product information and a product rating scale to identify the prevention efficacy of any product under consideration. The consumer is equipped to make immediate product comparisons based on both personal health-preferences and genomic information with special consideration of the disease or syndrome of concern.

Open Access ist für Bibliotheken preiswerter: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/06/realistic-futures-in-which-universities.html
Jetzt wird sich die FAZ entschuldigen müssen…

Zu den Kosten für toll access journals kommen noch ca. 700$ an
Autorengebühren pro Artikel für pages charges, oa charges ua. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/06/comparing-author-side-fees-at-oa-and-ta.html

Gute Ideen von Anne [via netbib], wie man Leute (findet) dazu bringt, seinen Bibliothekstweets zu folgen:

• Dann musst du halt so ein paar Alpha-Twitterer aus der Fachdisziplin auf dich aufmerksam machen.
• Vielleicht mal gucken, wer da in der Fachdisziplin auf dem Science 2.0-Zug unterwegs ist und bloggt - unter den Wissenschafts-Bloggern finden sich bestimmt auch viele Twitterer.
• Klar, du solltest deinen Twitter-Account auf jeden Fall auf eurer Website anzukündigen, darüber kommen dann auch schon mal Follower dazu.
• [Zurückfolgen] kann sinnvoll sein, wenn du die Leute persönlich kennst oder die tatsächlich über deine Bibliothek twittern oder aber du denen mal auf einen Tweet geantwortet hast.
• Naja, du kannst dich ja auch einfach in Gespräche einschalten, also, wenn du jetzt mal guckst, wer da in so twittert und der äußert da vielleicht eine Frage, auf die du als Bibliothek eine Antwort hast, dann antworte ihm doch einfach.
• Es gibt aber auch so was wie Twitter-Gruppen für Unis und Städte… Also hier in Hamburg gibt es so eine, die heisst Twitter Groups ~ uni-hamburg

Impact Factor Boxing 2009 von Duncan Hull in O’Really

Fight Night Punch Test by djclear904The latest results from the impact factor boxing world championship are out. This years rankings include the first-ever update to the newly introduced Five Year Impact Factor and Eigenfactor Metrics [1,2] in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on the Web (see www.isiknowledge.com/JCR), presumably in response to widespread criticism of impact factors.

10th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) 2009 Incorporating the 6th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS) and the 4th International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC) Brisbane * Queensland. Monday 31 August - Friday 4 September 2009, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

Continuing Education Courses - Registration now open

Dear ICML delegates, ICML Continuing Education places are filling up, though there are places still remaining for the courses detailed below. Attached are flyers on two sessions being presented by Dr Lenny Rhine: on authorship skills for health information professions and the other on HINARI internet resources for health information professionals. Full details about sessions are available from: http://www.icml2009.com/ce/subject.html

Tuesday 1 September 2009
Consenting adults: making the most of small group interactions - Andrew Booth
9am-12.30pm

Putting EBP into practice: EBP Journal Clubs - Chris del Mar
9am-12.30pm

Map of Medicine - Garry Hall
9am-12.30pm

Writing Evidence Summaries: Incremental Steps Towards a Research Base for the Profession - Suzanne Lewis
9am-12.30pm

Track it down on the Web! Tools to do it for the Biomedical Librarian - Friedhelm Rump
9am-12.30pm

Veterinary Information from CABI - Robert Taylor
9am-12.30pm

‘Authorship Skills’ for Health Information Professionals - Lenny Rhine
9am - 4pm

Geeks bearing gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends (CAVAL) – Max Anderson
9am-12.30pm

Quality Filtering: Critical Appraisal and Synthesis of the Literature - Sandra Martin
9am - 4pm

EBLIP Service: how to make your services evidence based - Andrew Booth
9am - 4pm

How do we measure research impact? - Nicola Foxlee and Sue Curlewis
1.30pm - 5pm

HINARI/Internet Resources for Health Information Pofessionals: Training the Trainers - Lenny Rhine
9am - 4pm

Consenting adults: making the most of small group interactions - Andrew Booth
9am-12.30pm

Future Trends and Needs in Clinical Librarianship - Ann Ritchie and Terrence Harrison
1.30pm - 5pm

Chasing the Sun - Mary Peterson
1.30pm - 5pm

Advanced Pubmed - Cheryl Hamill
1.30pm - 5pm

Finding Australian health statistics - Australian Bureau of Statistics
1.30pm - 5pm

Train the Trainer - tips & techniques that work- Noela Yates
1.30pm - 5 pm

Don’t miss out! Sign up soon via our registration form: https://www.icms.com.au/icml2009/register/. Contact Kathy Hibberd via k.hibberd@library.uq.edu.au with any CE queries. Best regards, Heather Todd and Lisa Kruesi, ICML Convenors

Jean-Claude Bradley erklärt uns in Useful Chemistry an einem Beispiel, warum es für Wissenschaftler manchmal wichtig ist, etwas schnell zu bloggen, bevor ein anderer seine Hand drauflegt:

The point is that mainstream scholarship (Nature Chemistry is certainly an example of that) is able and willing to use Web2.0 references when these are the most appropriate.

There are very few examples of mindblowingly original ideas. People working in related areas tend to come up with similar ideas. In a world where any of your competitors can blog their ideas as soon as they think of them, hoarding ideas might be the more dangerous choice.

It doesn’t matter what you think about the professional status of blogs. It doesn’t matter most scientists don’t blog. The only thing that matters is that at least one of your competitors is willing to blog their research and that the traditional journals in your field are willing to accept blog posts (and other Web2.0 publication formats) as valid references.

via @mavergames via @Berci

Peter Suber verweist in Elsevier lobbying UK universities to derail OA archiving auf einen Artikel von Zoë Corbyn, Publisher ‘threat’ to open access, Times Higher Education, June 18, 2009.

An internet posting earlier this month alerted repository managers to Elsevier’s move. “Rumours are spreading that Elsevier staff are approaching UK vice-chancellors and persuading them to point to PDF copies of articles on Elsevier’s web-site rather than have the articles deposited in institutional repositories,” the memo, on a mailing list operated by the Joint Information Systems Committee, said.