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Higher Education

• Why Research Universities Must Change

Information Policy

• Experts Debate Public Access to Scholarly Research at House Hearing
• An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 52 Nobel Prize Winners

Openness

• Case Studies on Institutional Open Approaches: The Open University
• Open Educational Resources and Open Assets
• Wellcome Trust gets tough on open access

Peer Review

• Open peer review by a selected-papers network

Research and Scholarship

• Five New Paradigms for Science and an Introduction to DataONE

Research/Publication Impact

• altmetrics: Tools
• Publishing for Impact

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• The Academics' View: Opening up academic work to policymakers [podcast]
• The Article -- Not Quite Dead Yet
• Bird-Flu Papers, Recently Deemed Too Dangerous, Are Freed for Publication
• Catching the Good
• The influence of free encyclopedias on science
• Responsible Authorship and Publication [video]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Columbia Panelists Urge Vigorous Exercise of Fair Use
• Creativity isn't one size fits all, so why is copyright?
• DRAFT RESOLUTION on Access Copyright and Academic Libraries in Canada

Openness

• Open access - looking ten years back and a few years ahead
• Open Access Meeting Reflections--SPARC 2012
• Visibility is currency in academia but it is scarcity in publishing. The push for open access shows that academic publishers can't serve two masters

Research/Academic Library

• Are You a Press or Are You a Library? An Interview with NYU's Monica McCormick
• DRAFT RESOLUTION on Access Copyright and Academic Libraries in Canada

Research/Publication Impact

• A New Approach to Measuring Impact for Digitised Resources: do they change people's lives?
• Who are Canada's research stars?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Are You a Press or Are You a Library? An Interview with NYU's Monica McCormick
• Visibility is currency in academia but it is scarcity in publishing. The push for open access shows that academic publishers can't serve two masters

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• A Fresh Look at the Fair Use Checklist
• Further Setback for AUCC in Access Copyright Post-Secondary Copyright Board Case
• Should There Be A Right To Copyright Exceptions?

Openness

• British Publishers vs. Open Access
• Democratizing Access to Knowledge: Find Out What Open Educational Resources (OER) Have to Offer [video]

Peer Review

• Peer Review As Boundary Work

Research and Scholarship

• The Digital Humanities as a Slideshow

Research/Academic Library

• Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries
• Professional development advice for academic librarians

Research/Publication Impact

• Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact
• The Impact Factor in non-English-speaking countries

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• British Publishers vs. Open Access
• Data Publication: An Introduction
• The Importance of Data Citation
• RunMyCode [a service that allows people to run computer codes associated with a scientific publication]
• Sustainability and the Scholarly Enterprise
• U. of California Agrees to Formally Promote 'Global Access' to Its Inventions
• Who gives a tweet? Evaluating microblog content gives us an insight into what makes a valuable academic tweet

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Bill C-11 [amended version]
• Canadian Copyright Kerfuffle - How NOT to Fix Copyright Law?
• Let's Talk about the "Effect on the Market". Seriously
• The numbers behind the Copyright Math
• Wait for it ... Commons, Copyright and the Private (Re)Ordering of Scientific Publishing

Higher Education

• Thanks to Creative Commons, OER university will provide free learning with formal academic credit

Information Policy

• FRPAA in the Spotlight: Public Access Bill featured in Congressional Briefing, Two Dozen Bipartisan Co-sponsors add their Support

Openness

• Evolution of Science: Open Science and the Future of Publishing [video]
• Galaxy Zoo and the new dawn of citizen science
• Open access central funds in UK universities
• Open Resources: Transforming the Way Knowledge Is Spread
• Pricing principles used by scholarly open access publishers
• Thanks to Creative Commons, OER university will provide free learning with formal academic credit
• What Can 21st Century Open Government Learn From Open Source, Open Data, Open Innovation, & Open Journalism?

Peer Review

• The Review Process For Authors [video]
• The Review Process For Reviewers [video]

Research and Scholarship

• The Prison-House of Data [and Digital Humanities]

Research/Publication Impact

• Academic publishers' time-loop: another mechanism to manipulate impact factors?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic Publishing Is Broken
• Annotum: launching a peer-reviewed journal online for free
• Evolution of Science: Open Science and the Future of Publishing [video]
• Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc
• Pricing principles used by scholarly open access publishers
• Wait for it ... Commons, Copyright and the Private (Re)Ordering of Scientific Publishing

Digital Repository

• Advancing the fourth paradigm of research: Assimilating repositories into active research phases

Higher Education

• Exploding the Myth of the Aging, Unproductive Professor
• Top Universities by Reputation 2012

Openness

• Incentivizing Open Access: the Library as Publisher
• The Increasing Impact of Open Access Publishing
• Institutional Open Access Funds: Implementation Issues
• Lessons from Open Access Policy Implementers: The Current State of the Art
• Open Science [podcast]

Research/Academic Library

• Incentivizing Open Access: the Library as Publisher
• Institutional Open Access Funds: Implementation Issues
• Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report (March 2012)
• Should Libraries Fret Over Mischievous Users?
• Value of Academic Libraries - David James and Patricia Iannuzzi

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Enhancing Scholarly Publications: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• The Increasing Impact of Open Access Publishing
• Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report (March 2012)
• Plug-ins enhance publications
• Social Awareness Tools For Science Research

Author Rights

• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Author Rights

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Bill C-11 and the Big Access Copyright Grab
• Bill C-11 Committee Review Concludes: What Happened and What Comes Next
• Efforts Escalate to Reverse CCH v. LSUC and Mislead Canada's Parliament in Bill C-11 on the Three-Step Test
• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Author Rights

Digital Repository

• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Digital Repositories

Higher Education

• The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak

Information Policy

• Congress Has a Role to Play in Making Research Public

Openness

• The Evolution of Science: Open publishing [video]
• An Interview with Creative Commons' Cable Green [about open education] [podcast]
• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on OA policies
• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Open Access Publishing
• Why open science failed after the gulf oil spill

Peer Review

• What Is Peer Review For?

Research/Academic Library

• The Informatics Transform: Re-Engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Digital Repositories

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• The Evolution of Science: Open publishing [video]
• SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Open Access Publishing
• Value and benefits of text mining

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• [Canadian Association of Research Libraries]' Brief on the Copyright Modernization Act
• Online content on the line as federal copyright amendments to be tabled
• Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces
• SOPA, ACTA and the TPP: Lessons for a 21st Century Trade Agenda
• Wealth Destroyers and End Game for the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11)

Higher Education

• Influence U: The uneasy ties between Canada's universities and wealthy business magnates

Openness

• An efficient journal

Research and Scholarship

• Salman Rushdie Discusses Creativity and Digital Scholarship with Erika Farr [video]

Research/Academic Library

• Value of Academic Libraries - Nancy Marlin [podcast]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Anarchy and Commercialism
• Clickstream Map of Science
• Colorado throws lifeline to Utah State University Press
• An efficient journal
• Gold in the text?
• "Turn it into things people can understand, let go of the academese, and people will engage"

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Bill C-11 Extremism Continues: The Attack on Fair Dealing
• Copyright bill creates a legal rift

Higher Education

• Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?
• Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls

Information Policy

• 81 Scholarly Journal Publishers Oppose Federal Research Public Access Act
• Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012 [video]
• Xenophobic scientific publishers: open access aids foreign enemies

Openness

• Measuring the economic impact of the Sharing Economy

Peer Review

• Opening up peer review
• Peer-reviewed open research data: results of a pilot

Research/Publication Impact

• Metrics: The New Black? [How will the proliferation of altmetrics (ALMs) change our understanding of user behavior in scholarly publishing?]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Free Canada's scientists to communicate with the public
• Improving The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship
• A Look Inside the Boycott of Elsevier
• Only with innovative publishing practices and an open approach from business can greater collaboration with academics occur
• Plagiarized reports from Iranian researchers printed by Canadian publisher
• Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012 [video]
• Tweet, Loc. Cit. [MLA citation style for tweets]
• Unglue.it seeks to set ebooks free

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Guild Motion Asks for Quick Ruling on HathiTrust's Fair Use Defense
• Michael Geist at the European Parliament INTA Workshop on ACTA [video]
• On copyright silliness, U of T and Western beat Vic Toews
• [Panel discussion of] PROTECT IP/SOPA [video]
• [Western] University offers copyright deal clarity

Information Policy

• A tale of two bills: the Research Works Act and Federal Research Public Access Act

Openness

• The case for open computer programs
• If this is "Gold OA" I don't want it
• The Last Days of Rome: The Rise of Open Access and the Fall of For-profit Publishers
• 'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish
• We are the One Percent: Open Access in the Era of Occupy Wall Street

Research/Academic Library

• Value of Academic Libraries - Troy Swanson [podcast]

Research/Publication Impact

• Jason Priem presents Altmetrics at Purdue University [video]
• Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Business models to monetize publishing in the digital era
• Customized self-publishing is the future of textbooks
• Frozen out: Canada's government should free its scientists to speak to the press, as its US counterpart has
• Intro to Digital Preservation #1: Identifying & Selecting Content [video]
• Intro to Digital Preservation #2: Considerations for Storage & Protection of Content [video]
• Intro to Digital Preservation #3: Make Plans to Manage Content & Provide Access Over Time [video]
• The Last Days of Rome: The Rise of Open Access and the Fall of For-profit Publishers
• 'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish
• The real cost of overpaying for journals is that we put highly skilled research scientists in an office looking at science rather than doing it
• Scholarly Publishing: Where is Plan B?

Higher Education

• [New Media Consortium] Horizon Report 2012 Higher Education Edition

Information Policy

• Elsevier Withdraws Support for the Research Works Act
• Legislation to Bar Public-Access Requirement on Federal Research Is Dead

Openness

• Academics discuss ways to give public more access to research
• Toward Global Open Scholarship - Access to Research in Development and Globalization

Research and Scholarship

• Culturomics and the Google Book Project

Research/Publication Impact

• Tracking Scholarly Influence Beyond the Impact Factor

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academics discuss ways to give public more access to research
• A report detailing the development of a university-based knowledge mobilization unit that enhances research outreach and engagement

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Canadian Library Association Releases Proposed Technical Amendments to Bill C-11
• Critics say universities paying to hyperlink is ludicrous
• University profs up in arms over copyright deal

Higher Education

• Treating Higher Ed's 'Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses

Information Policy

• Ninety Institutions and Organizations Oppose Research Works Act
• SPARC FAQ for University Administrators and Faculty FRPAA 2012
• Values and Scholarship [by 11 Research University Provosts]

Openness

• Into the Open: Transitions in Journal Publishing (moderated discussion at Duke University)
• One Researcher's Solution to the Data Deluge: Enlist 'Citizen Scientists'
• Peter Suber on open access [video]
• Self-selection and the citation advantage of open access articles
• Stevan Harnad on open access [video]
• Tom Cochrane on Open Access at [Queensland University of Technology, Australia] [video]

Research and Scholarship

• Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan
• Values and Scholarship [by 11 Research University Provosts]

Research/Academic Library

• eScience and the Evolution of Library Services [video]
• Libraries as Read/Write Services [video]
• A New Day for Website Archiving 2.0
• Value of Academic Libraries - Andrew Lootens-White [podcast]

Research/Publication Impact

• Self-selection and the citation advantage of open access articles
• What do the scientists think about the impact factor?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• An Academic Hopes to Take the MLA Into the Social Web
• A Digital Humanist Puts New Tools in the Hands of Scholars
• How to write an article: Preparing a publishable manuscript!
• Into the Open: Transitions in Journal Publishing (moderated discussion at Duke University)
• Is the pot calling the kettle black?
• Self-selection and the citation advantage of open access articles
• What's the Real Value of a Scholarly Publication? Part I

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• ACTA is part of a multi-decade, worldwide copyright campaign

Openness

• Data for the public good
• Open access to electronic theses soon to be commonplace
• The Open Data Handbook

Research/Academic Library

• Introducing the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, Part 1 [video]
• Introducing the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, Part 2 [video]

Research/Publication Impact

• Alternatives to the journal impact factor: I3 and the top-10% (or top-25%?) of the most-highly cited papers

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic publishing must go digital to survive
• Elsevier have a right to price their journals as they see fit, but they must be honest in their reasoning and not attack boycotters with untruths
• Enhanced Publications now possible with Open Journal Systems
• Networking, Scholarship and Service: The Place of Science Blogging in Academia
• Open access to electronic theses soon to be commonplace
• Prof wants colleagues to Tweet research

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Academics Object to Class Certification in Google Books Case
• Announcing the Open Definition Licenses Service
• "Copy Cultures" [video]
• Moore defends Canada's 'different path' on copyright bill
• UofT Students and Faculty Demand Suspending the Access Copyright Agreement

Higher Education

• Deconstructing Academe: The birth of critical university studies

Openness

• A Decade of Open Access (And the Challenges Ahead)
• Enabling the Transition of Existing Journals to Open Access [video]
• The World Of Open Textbooks Just Became A Little More Crowded -- And A Little More Open

Peer Review

• Global Pressure on Peer Review

Research/Academic Library

• The Big Deal: International Perspectives and Possibilities
• Value of Academic Libraries - Richard Ray [podcast]

Research/Publication Impact

• Toward a Second Revolution: altmetrics, total-impact, and the Decoupled Journal

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Canadian government is 'muzzling its scientists'
• A Decade of Open Access (And the Challenges Ahead)
• Email tomorrow ... and next year ... and forever: Preserving Email report published
• Enabling the Transition of Existing Journals to Open Access [video]
• A Guide to Scholarly Communication
• Support, engagement, visibility and personalised news: Twitter has a lot to offer academics if we look past its image problem
• Trouble for Elsevier, the Leading Academic Publisher [podcast]
• U.N. Panel Pushes for Publication of Lethal Flu Studies--Eventually

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Canada's C-11 Bill and the Hazards of Digital Locks Provisions
• Dutch Pave the Way for Looser Copyright Laws
• Governance Issues: The UofT-Access Copyright Agreement

Information Policy

• Could Backlash to Research Works Act Boost FRPAA's Odds of Passage?
• Don't Pay Twice
• Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2012
• How you can help the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) become law

Openness

• One Publisher's Journey through the Open Access Debate [video]
• A Study of Open Access Journals Using Article Processing Charges

Research/Academic Library

• Developing a Library Copyright Policy: An EIFL guide
• The Future of University Libraries: 2012 Midwinter Report

Research/Publication Impact

• Can You Measure Your Scholarship by Counting Citations? [podcast]
• How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic journal urges scientist to lose the jargon, use plainspeak instead
• Annotum [online publishing platform based on WordPress]
• Calculating scholarly journal value through objective metrics
• CLIR and NITLE to Launch Digital Academic Publishing Program
• DataCite re-visited - Citing Data in the XXIst Century, at long last [video]
• Going public the next frontier for scientists
• How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations
• One Publisher's Journey through the Open Access Debate [video]
• A Study of Open Access Journals Using Article Processing Charges
• Transforming the Way we publish Research [video]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Bill C-11 has disgruntled Canadians taking action
• How will the country's copyright laws affect Canadians?
• Students oppose new copyright regime at UWO and U of T

Higher Education

• Electronic theses and dissertations: Ethical and publishing issues [video]
• The limits of college rankings 'racket'

Information Policy

• Federal Research Public Access Act [U.S.]
• The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?

Openness

• @ccess for everyone. A new initiative in open Scholarship
• The difficulties in opening science: Q&A with Michael Nielsen
• Interview with Peter Suber
• OA by the numbers

Research and Scholarship

• Research and Innovation. From Web 2.0 to Science 2.0? The Potential of ICT to change the Modus of Science and Research [video]

Research/Publication Impact

• Do more tweets mean higher citations? If so, Twitter can lead us to the 'personalised journal'; pinpointing more research that is relevant to your interests
• The effect of several versions of one and the same manuscript published by a journal on its journal impact factor
• Users, narcissism and control - tracking the impact of scholarly publications in the 21st century

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Downstream ethics: A publisher's perspective on publishing ethics in the digital age [video]
• An editor's perspective on contentious issues arising during peer review [video]
• Electronic theses and dissertations: Ethical and publishing issues [video]
• Enhancing Publications with Research Data [video]
• Ethical Considerations for Authors [video]
• Ethical Considerations for Reviewers [video]
• How do Researchers in the Humanities Use Information Resources?
• Interview with Peter Suber
• The parable of the garage: Why the business model shift is so hard
• The Past, the Present and the Future of STM Publishing [video]
• Plagiarism of words and data [video]
• Professor Facebook: More connective tissue may make academia more efficient
• Report on decision factors and their influence on planning [for digital preservation]
• The Role of Metadata Standards in Scientific Data Publishing: Part One
• The Shape of Things to Come: how technology trends and market forces will change the structure of the STM publishing industry [video]
• Why scientists are boycotting a publisher

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• "Bill C-11 Is No SOPA": [Michael Geist's] Response
• Fair Dealing [archived Webinar]
• Innovation? What Innovation? [video]
• Why an International Trade Agreement Could Be as Bad as SOPA

Information Policy

• The Influence of the National Institutes of Health Public-Access Policy on the Publishing Habits of Principal Investigators
• Joint AAU and APLU statement against the Research Works Act

Openness

• MIT's New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program's Leader Says
• The Rise Of Open Access Scientific Publishing
• Studies on Subject-Specific Requirements for Open Access Infrastructure
• Why Pay for Intro Textbooks?

Peer Review

• The Future of Peer Review

Research and Scholarship

• Digital Research Data Sharing and Management

Research/Publication Impact

• Commodifying the Academic Self
• Updating the journal impact factor or total overhaul?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition
• Access to Scholarly Content: Gaps and Barriers
• How Journals Put Us Behind the Times
• Network Enabled Research: Maximise scale and connectivity, minimise friction
• Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation [video]
• The Rise Of Open Access Scientific Publishing
• Spread the word: scientists are tearing down publishers' walls
• A Techonomic Revolution is Brewing in Scientific Publishing

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Beyond SOPA: ACTA, WIPO, and the Global Copyfight [video]
• [Canadian] Copyright - The Public Policy Battleground [archived Webinar]
• Copyright agreement with Western and Toronto a bad and unwarranted deal
• University of Western Ontario and University of Toronto Agreements with Access Copyright [backgrounder]

Information Policy

• The Research Works Act and the breakdown of mutual incomprehension

Openness

• Freemium as a sustainable economic model for Open Access publications in the humanities and social sciences
• The impact of open access on research and scholarship: Reflections on the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference
• Interventions in the Confluence of Open Access and Social Engagement [video]
• Open Access for Books [video]
• Sloan Summit II: Open Access -- Mission and Mandate [video]

Research/Academic Library

• Knowledge for All: A Collaborative, International, and Open Citation Database and Research Tool
• Reconfiguring Library Boundaries [video]
• UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources

Research/Publication Impact

• Aiming to create impacts on societies in 14 countries, the collaborative MYPLACE project partners traditional journal publishing with a continuous online presence
• Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing
• Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication
• Freemium as a sustainable economic model for Open Access publications in the humanities and social sciences
• Open Access for Books [video]
• The price of information: Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals
• Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices
• Why Blog?
• Why it's time for the rebirth of the university press
• The widely held notion that high-impact publications determine who gets academic jobs, grants and tenure is wrong. Stop using it as an excuse

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• How ACTA would affect you: FAQ
• Michael Geist on Bill C-11 [video]
• Ten Key Questions and Answers About Bill C-11, SOPA, ACTA, and the TPP
• U. of T. and Western Capitulate to Access Copyright
• Universities and Copyright: Contrast and Compare

Higher Education

• A case for undergraduate research

Information Policy

• Public Access to Digital Data: Public Comment
• Public Access to Scholarly Publications: Public Comment
• The Research Works Act: a damaging threat to science

Openness

• Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect
• The Effect of Free Access on the Diffusion of Scholarly Ideas
• Will Academics' Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access -- Or Another Embarrassing Flop?

Peer Review

• Comfort is the death knell of academia: why I'm standing down as a journal referee
• The Famous Grouse -- Do Prominent Scientists Have Biased Perceptions of Peer Review?

Research and Scholarship

• How Digital Humanists Can Lead Us to National Digital Literacy
• Oxford, Harvard scientists lead data-sharing effort
• VRE Starters Kit

Research/Academic Library

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Rollout Webcast [video]
• Re-skilling for Research
• SOPA and PIPA: What Libraries Need to Know [video]

Research/Publication Impact

• Positive and negative aspects of citation indices and journal impact factors
• Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• The advent of online dissemination techniques allow academics to focus just on developing great ideas, without needlessly trying to play the system
• E-presses punch above their weight
• Elsevier's Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke
• Find and Follow Public Author Profiles
• Public Access to Digital Data: Public Comment
• Public Access to Scholarly Publications: Public Comment
• Researchers boycott publisher; will they embrace instant publishing?
• Results of the EC public consultation on scientific information in the digital age
• What have the Publishers ever done for us? And do we need them?
• Will Academics' Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access -- Or Another Embarrassing Flop?

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• A Good and Bad Week for Free Speech
• Law Soup [discussion of SOPA, PIPA, Research Works Act, and U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Golan v. Holder] [podcast]
• Who do you work for, faculty author?

Higher Education

• A Disrupted Higher-Ed System
• MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency

Information Policy

• A small bill in the US, a giant impact for research worldwide
• Some Associations, Scholars Protest Bill That Would Curb Public Access to Research
• Supporting the advancement of science: Open access publishing and the role of mandates

Openness

• MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency
• Open Access: Impact for Researchers, Universities and Society

Research and Scholarship

• Data-Intensive Research: The Implications of "the Fourth Paradigm" for Universities Today [video]

Research/Academic Library

• Fair Use FAQ for Librarians [video]
• Fair Use for Academic and Research Librarians: An Introduction [video]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• The Perils of 'Bite Size' Science
• Why the fuss about iBooks Author?

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
• Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online
• The Orphan Wars
• PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won
• Would a SOPA Version of the Canadian Copyright Bill Target Youtube?

Higher Education

• eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?
• A Free College Education For All
• Opening Up the Academy: The "Open" Agenda, Technology, and Universities

Openness

• 5 ★ Open Data
• Opening Up the Academy: The "Open" Agenda, Technology, and Universities
• A Professor's Personal Open Access Policy

Peer Review

• Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing

Research and Scholarship

• The Challenges of Digital Scholarship
• DHCommons Launches for All Users

Research/Academic Library

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
• Further Info on Fair Use & Libraries

Research/Publication Impact

• By leveraging social media for impact, academics can create broader support for our intellectual work and profession

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• BibSoup! A new OPEN approach to managing personal and group bibliographies
• By leveraging social media for impact, academics can create broader support for our intellectual work and profession
• Challenging Medical Ghostwriting in US Courts
• Collaborative yet independent: Information practices in the physical sciences
• The Cost of Knowledge
• Why Education Publishing Is Big Business

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• After Historic Protest, Members of Congress Abandon PIPA and SOPA in Droves
• [Canadian] Intellectual Property - The Basics [Webinar]
• Cory Doctorow on the War on General Computing [podcast]
• SOPA Debate: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in Discussion with Copyright Alliance's Sandra Aistars [video]
• SOPA tabled by Rep. Lamar Smith, for now

Information Policy

• Who Gets to See Published Research?

Openness

• Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides [video]
• Open Access: Impact for Researchers, Universities and Society
• PEER [Publishing and the Ecology of European Research] Economics Report
• Science Data Sharing Site figshare Relaunches, Adds Features

Research and Scholarship

• Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia and an Introduction to DataONE [video]
• Infographic: Quanitifying Digital Humanities

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Five minutes with Bora Zivkovic: "The blog is a way for me to promote young and new voices, that's why they call me The Blogfather!"
• Getting the content out there isn't enough anymore
• Giving it away: Sharing and the future of scholarly communication
• PEER [Publishing and the Ecology of European Research] Economics Report

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea) [video]
• SOPA on hold, PIPA may be weakened as Congress revisits the bills
• [U.S.] Supreme Court Upholds Law That Pulled Foreign Works Back Under Copyright
• Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest

Higher Education

• DIY U: Edupunks and the Future of Higher Education [video]

Information Policy

• Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
• University Presses Disagree With Publishers Group on Bill to Curb Public Access

Openness

• The academic ethics of open access to research and scholarship
• Cracking Open the Scientific Process
• Diffusionism and open access
• DIY U: Edupunks and the Future of Higher Education [video]

Research and Scholarship

• Data-driven science, and lessons from the research world [video]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
• The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• [Canadian Library Association] Copyright Grassroots Advocacy Kit

Openness

• [New York Times' Interview with Michael Nielsen about open science] [podcast]
• Research Archive JStor Moves Toward Open Access
• A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies

Research/Academic Library

• Evaluating Open Source Software for Use in Library Initiatives: A Case Study Involving Electronic Publishing

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Evaluating Open Source Software for Use in Library Initiatives: A Case Study Involving Electronic Publishing

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• [Creative Commons] Releases New Data FAQs
• PIPA, SOPA and the OPEN Act Quick Reference Guide
• Supreme Court of Canada on the Importance of the Public Domain
• TPP Copyright Extension Would Keep Some of Canada's Top Authors Out of Public Domain For Decades
• TPP's Other Copyright Term Extension: Protection of Sound Recordings Would Nearly Double in Duration
• What your students need to know about intellectual property

Higher Education

• 'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas
• What your students need to know about intellectual property

Information Policy

• Public Access to Federally Funded Research [podcast]

Openness

• Open Access (OA) - Some experiences and conclusions

Peer Review

• The role of peer review journals cannot be replaced by Twitter, blogs, or anything else

Research and Scholarship

• Documenting Digital History
• Geospatial data gathering bears fruit
• William Michener on Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia [podcast]

Research/Publication Impact

• The idea of 'impact' has been hijacked

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• 20 things you need to know before you self-publish
• Combined STM Markets Grew 3.4% in 2011
• Mobilizing knowledge
• ORCID's Geoff Bilder on the Name Ambiguity Problem [podcast]
• Ten Bold Predictions for Book Publishing in 2012

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Help Preserve the Canadian Public Domain

Information Policy

• New bill to block open access to publicly-funded research
• Why Is Open-Internet Champion Darrell Issa Supporting an Attack on Open Science?

Openness

• Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Opportunities [audio recording]
• Dispelling Myths about OER/Open Textbooks [audio recording]
• Moving to Digital Course Content: The Importance of Access and Open Textbooks [audio recording]
• Open Access, Public Intellectualism, and Academic Reform

Peer Review

• Kill Peer Review or Reform It?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Digital Monograph Technical Landscape: Exemplars and Recommendations
• Do Books have a Future? An Interview with Robert Darnton
• Neither our current publishing models nor reliance on the tooth fairy will support academia in the digital world: we must consider logical solutions to fund digital scholarship
• One Scientist's Wish List for Scientific Publishers
• Traditional vs self-publishing: Neither is the perfect solution [podcast]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• [Creative Commons] and the 3D Printing Community
• The stupidity of SOPA in Scholarly Publishing

Higher Education

• Tenure's Dirty Little Secret

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Can't tweet or won't tweet? What are the reasons behind low adoption of web 2.0 tools by researchers?
• Digital scholarship will not be funded by the toothfairy: it is now time for academics online to tackle the economics of the digital field
• The stupidity of SOPA in Scholarly Publishing

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Doctors Discover Copyright Law: Cognitive Screening Test Killed Over Infringement Claims
• Public Domain Day

Openness

• Open Data Kit
• Remix in Science - Data Exchange Revolutionizes Scientific Publishing [video]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Computation meets Knowledge [video]
• Journal Article Mining and Scholarly Publishers [video]
• Publishing Your Own E-Book
• Remix in Science - Data Exchange Revolutionizes Scientific Publishing [video]
• Social Networking Tools for Scientists or How to Brand Yourself Online as a Digital Citizen
• Text Mining meets Crowd Sourcing: author disambiguation in High-Energy Physics [video]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copyright Implications of Mass Book Digitization [video]

Openness

• Beyond mandate and repository, toward sustainable faculty self-archiving
• An Experiment in Open-Access Textbook Publishing: Changing the World One Textbook at a Time
• The morality of scientific openness

Peer Review

• Learning to be confident and capable journal reviewers: an Australian perspective
• Peer Review: Fetishes, Fallacies, and Perceptions

Research/Publication Impact

• Is Google Scholar useful for bibliometrics? A webometric analysis
• To cite or not to cite: author self-citations and the impact factor
• Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Article Evolution [video]
• Beyond mandate and repository, toward sustainable faculty self-archiving
• An Experiment in Open-Access Textbook Publishing: Changing the World One Textbook at a Time
• Journal article mining: the scholarly publishers' perspective
• Scholarly communication and possible changes in the context of social media: A Finnish case study
• Science and Censorship: A Duel Lasting Centuries
• Time Travel for the Scholarly Web [video]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Fair Dealing's 100 Years of Solitude
• Michael Carroll on Copyright and Open Access [video]
• Orphan Works: Definitional Issues

Openness

• Michael Carroll on Copyright and Open Access [video]
• MIT launches online learning initiative
• The Open Access Movement is disorganized; this must not continue

Research/Academic Library

• Rebalancing the Investment in Collections

Research/Publication Impact

• Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
• High impact factors are meant to represent strong citation rates, but these journal impact factors are more effective at predicting a paper's retraction rate
• What do the social sciences have in common with baseball? The story of Moneyball, academic impact, and quantitative methods

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Creating and Hosting Student-Run Research Journals: A Case Study
• Quid pro quo will define the author-publisher relationship
• Seeing Terror Risk, U.S. Asks Journals to Cut Flu Study Facts

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Opening Up Orphan Works [audio recording]
• Protecting the Public Interest in the Digital World Revisited for Bill C‐11
• What does Creative Commons mean for science?

Higher Education

• Imagining the Future of Higher Education

Openness

• A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals

Research and Scholarship

• Scholarship and Scholarly Resources in the 21st Century [audio recording]

Research/Academic Library

• Scholarship and Scholarly Resources in the 21st Century [audio recording]

Research/Publication Impact

• The success-index: an alternative approach to the h-index for evaluating an individual's research output

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Access, review and changing brains
• Breaking down monograph borders
• Evolution, revolution or something else?
• International standards for editors and authors
• A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals
• Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries

Digital Repository

• Embedding Repositories: A Guide and Self-Assessment Tool

Higher Education

• Accreditation in an Era of Open Resources
• At Forum on the Future, Leaders Dissect What Ails Higher Education Today
• The case in favour of more PhDs
• How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries

Openness

• Open Access and Scholarly Societies [video]
• Open Access for the other 85%
• Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles

Peer Review

• Refereeing in Crisis?

Research and Scholarship

• Fast-Food Scholarship
• Humanities Scholars and the Web: Past, Present, Future [podcast]
• When a Paper Can Be a Weapon: Scientists Debate Ways to Police Research on Dangerous Germs

Research/Academic Library

• Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services

Research/Publication Impact

• Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Fast-Food Scholarship
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What Retractions Tell Us About Scientific Transparency [video]
• How scientists use social media to communicate their research
• International Standard Name Identifier
• Multi-Publisher, Multi-Purpose Platforms: Current Trends and Suggestions for the Future
• ORCID Update [video]
• Refereeing in Crisis?

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Clash of the entertainment titans [video]
• [Creative Commons license suite] Version 4.0 - Public Discussion Launches
• The Elephantine Google Books Settlement
• What's Wrong With SOPA? [video]

Higher Education

• Canadian universities failing to protect free speech: report
• University challenge

Openness

• 1 Percent versus the 99 Percent-A Case for Open Access
• New Initiatives in Open Research [video]
• Open Access journal publishing in the arts and humanities: workshop report

Peer Review

• Closed versus open reviewing of journal manuscripts: how far do comments differ in language use?

Research and Scholarship

• Data-Mining Shakespeare [video]
• The effect of the internet on researcher motivations, behaviour and attitudes
• Engaging Digital Scholarship: Thoughts on Evaluating Multimedia Scholarship
• On the Evaluation of Digital Media as Scholarship
• Where Credit Is Due: Preconditions for the Evaluation of Collaborative Digital Scholarship

Research/Academic Library

• CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge Network) Focus Group Report with Researchers
• The Semantic Web for Publishers and Libraries [video]
• The Status Quo Has Got to Go [video]

Research/Publication Impact

• The impact agenda in Canada: how researchers and research councils have found an impact measurement that nearly everyone is happy with

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Achieving rigor and relevance in online multimedia scholarly publishing
• Closed versus open reviewing of journal manuscripts: how far do comments differ in language use?
• The Semantic Web for Publishers and Libraries [video]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copyright in the Balance This Week at the Supreme Court of Canada

Higher Education

• The problem with PhD training, take 2
• Queen's student dances her PhD - and wins
• The recession and the menacing higher education bubble

Openness

• Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access
• The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science
• Restricting online access: what evidence do publishers have to support their claims that open access negatively affects sales?

Research and Scholarship

• Cyberinfrastructure [video]
• Data, Code, and Research at Scale [video]
• Digital Humanities [executive summary of a report by Association of Research Libraries]
• Harnessing the Semantic Web for Scholarship [video]
• The Latest from Digital Humanities Questions and Answers
• Will new rules prevent academic fraud?

Research/Academic Library

• Library Collections in the 21st Century [video]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products
• Beyond the Journal Article [video]
• Evaluation of cheating detection methods in academic writings
• The Future of Digital Publishing [video]
• Improving Future Research Communication and e-Scholarship
• Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access
• Reading with the Stars: Teaching with the HIGHBROW Annotation Browser
• Restricting online access: what evidence do publishers have to support their claims that open access negatively affects sales?
• A sensible look at HTML5 and publishing

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• John Palfrey on Intellectual Property Strategy [video]

Openness

• Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers 2012 Edition
• Death Knell for the Paywall [for access to scholarship] [podcast]
• Open access journals from society publishers
• Open data - more than just transparency and scrutiny
• Survey of academic attitudes to open access and institutional repositories
• Tales of Drivers and Barriers to Data Sharing [video]

Research and Scholarship

• Citizen Scientists
• Cyberinfrastructure: Technical + Social = Transformative if you help
• Data, Code, and Research at Scale
• eScience and the Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery and Digital Preservation [video]
• "Mosaic Report" Outlines Strategies and Priorities for Future Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
• Reflections on open knowledge infrastructures [video]
• What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

Research/Academic Library

• Custodians of data - a libraries and data centres perspective [video]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers 2012 Edition
• Collective Action for the Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID)
• The Currency of Data: A researcher perspective of integrating data and publication [video]
• eScience and the Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery and Digital Preservation [video]
• A Framework for Persistent Identifiers [video]
• Integrating Data & Publications [video]
• Open access journals from society publishers
• "Our Head of Department sees academic podcasting as a key component in our impact and communication strategy."

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Scientists should NEVER use CC-NC. This explains why

Higher Education

• Global University Rankings and Their Impact
• Is Canada producing too many PhDs? Yes, no and maybe
• The problem with PhD training in Canada

Openness

• Free and unrestricted Public Sector Information: Study finds benefits outweigh costs
• FSU College of Medicine Open Educational Resources Task Force Final Report
• PLoS Open Access Collection - Resources to Educate and Advocate
• A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies
• Why Full Open Access Matters
• Why We Chose 'Open Science'

Research and Scholarship

• Report on the Data Curation Research Summit
• The Value of Useless Research

Research/Academic Library

• Redefining the Academic Library

Research/Publication Impact

• Impact has a bad name among many researchers, but thinking of impact as re-use could be key to uniting both funders and researchers
• Quantifying the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Research

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• What Is Publishing? A Report from THATCamp Publishing
• Why Full Open Access Matters

Openness

• Harvard Open Access Policy [video]
• Open Access and Scholarly Societies
• Open Access Policy at the University of Kansas, USA [video]
• Statistics Canada to make all online data free
• Yeah, but who pays [for open scholarship]?

Research and Scholarship

• The Future of Research

Research/Publication Impact

• Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Many publication professionals aware of selective data availability
• Yeah, but who pays [for open scholarship]?

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain
• SOPA on the Ropes(?) [podcast]

Higher Education

• AUCC sets out five commitments to Canadians

Openness

• Public Access and Use of Health Research: An Exploratory Study of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy Using Interviews and Surveys of Health Personnel

Research and Scholarship

• The humanities in the culture of research
• Kevin Ashley on research data management [video]

Research/Publication Impact

• As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter and other online activity

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• EPUB 3: Building a standard on unstable ground
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What Retractions Tell Us About Scientific Transparency
• Journal Editors' Reactions to Word of Plagiarism? Largely Silence
• ORCID Update & Other Researcher Identifiers
• Researchers can disrupt publishing

Openness

• Access to Scientific Publications: The Scientist's Perspective
• Heading for the Open Road: Costs and Benefits of Transitions in Scholarly Communications
• Recommendations [for] how to support journals in transition to open access
• Ten Tales of Drivers & Barriers in Data Sharing

Research/Academic Library

• DAITSS Digital Preservation Repository Software
• Measuring Value and ROI of Academic Libraries

Research/Publication Impact

• Shapley values for assessing research production and impact of schools and scholars

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Access to Scientific Publications: The Scientist's Perspective
• Heading for the Open Road: Costs and Benefits of Transitions in Scholarly Communications
• Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case studies
• ODE Report on Integration of Data and Publications
• Recommendations [for] how to support journals in transition to open access
• Trends in Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Dissemination in the Age of Online Social Media
• Why we needed EPUB 3

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• The Digital Public Domain: Relevance and Regulation
• SOPA: All Your Internets Belong to US
• SOPA: The Internet Blacklist Bill
• Work in progress: Public Domain Calculators

Higher Education

• Helping educators find the right stuff
• How to support the high-cost, higher ed model in Canada

Openness

• How should funding agencies pay open-access fees?

Research and Scholarship

• BERG presents Tomorrow's World: The near future of citizen science

Research/Publication Impact

• Evidence from the latest BIS report indicates that international collaboration on articles boosts impact through citations and adds to the UK's position as a 'world-class' research nation
• Google Scholar Citations Open To All

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• OAI7 -- CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
• Publishers need broader and broader shoulders

Openness

• At Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge
• How would you fund research? - An Open Science perspective
• Openness as infrastructure

Research and Scholarship

• Network model of knowledge diffusion

Research/Academic Library

• Coming of Age: Strategic Directions for Digital Repositories
• Standards for Libraries in Higher Education Webcast Archive

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• John Wilbanks on new directions in scholarly communication part 1 and part 2 [podcasts, presentation slides also available]
• "Only 0.04% of published papers in health are reported on by the media, so blogs and other social media can help."

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copyright to the university: Tips on informing, educating, and enabling
• Metaphors and Norms - Understanding Copyright Law in a Digital Society
• Why Copyright Reform Is Not the Cure for What Ails the Music Industry: Sources & Background Material

Higher Education

• The Evolution of Higher Education
• Rankings don't tell the whole truth

Openness

• 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs [massively open online course]
• Global Open Access Portal
• Goldilocks and the 13 Open Repositories (Finding the "Just Right" One)
• Leading North American institutions endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge
• Open Resources: The Need for Integration [podcast]

Research and Scholarship

• Boundaries of research disciplines are paper constructs: Digital Web-based information as a challenge to disciplinary research
• Exploring Digital Scholarship: Assessment and Archiving
• When professors plagiarize

Research/Publication Impact

• Future publication success in science is better predicted by traditional measures than by the h index

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
• Scholarly Publishing in Canada: Adapting to a Changing Landscape
• Siri? How Do I Fix Academic Publishing? [podcast]
• There is a pathetic lack of functionality in scholarly publishing
• When professors plagiarize

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copyright Experts Discuss CC License Version 4.0 at the Global Summit
• Creative Commons: Transforming Education Through More Accessible Resources

Higher Education

• Academic Freedom, Revised
• Maclean's 2011 University Rankings

Openness

• Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field
• Creative Commons: Transforming Education Through More Accessible Resources
• Michael Nielsen on Doing Science in the Open [video]
• Open Content for Open Minds
• Open Course Library Launches 1st 42 Courses
• Open-access science journal leaves editing to the experts

Peer Review

• The Hawthorne effect in journal peer review

Research and Scholarship

• Introducing the Digital Humanities
• Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities

Research/Academic Library

• Major Medical Library Closing Its Doors to Patrons and Moving to Digital Model

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic blogging and collaboration make demonstrating pathways to impact an easier matter
• Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field
• Open-access science journal leaves editing to the experts

Higher Education

• The Force of Technology in the Transformation of Education Advertisement

Openness

• Academics do not have deep understanding of OA
• Scaling the Open Data Ecosystem
• UNESCO and COL release open education policy document for higher education
• We have won the argument about Open Access -now we have to bring things together and make it work!

Research and Scholarship

• Data Management and Federal Funding: What Researchers Need to Know [video]
• Humanities Researchers and Digital Technologies: Building Infrastructures for a New Age

Research/Academic Library

• Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report

Research/Publication Impact

• Follow the electronic footprints: how to track impact without asking scientists to lift a pen

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Creating a Successful Online Graduate Journal: Mentoring Was the Key
• Dangerous Citizens: An Online Book [video about a library-press collaborative project]
• Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: a cross sectional survey
• How ownership affects the growth strategies of scientific journals: A study of economics journals 1950 to 2000
• The Mega-journals are coming!
• Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Conservative MP on C-11's Digital Lock Rules: No Risk of Liability for Breaking Locks
• Jesse Kline on copyright reform and the case of the illicit t-shirts
• What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit? [archived Webinar]

Higher Education

• An Interview with Joan DelFattore on Academic Freedom

Openness

• By championing open access publishing, the academic community can bring us closer to making research available to all
• Cable Green: The Obviousness of Open Policy [video]
• Heading for the Open Road: Costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications [video]
• Mandates and Metrics: How Open Repositories Enable Universities to Manage, Measure and Maximise their Research Assets
• The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share
• OER in the field: institutions solving problems openly
• Open Access Success Stories
• R2RC Launches New Open Publishing Guide for Students
• What PEER is teaching us about Green OA [video]

Peer Review

• Evolution or Revolution: Changes in Peer Review [video]
• Peer review is f***ed up - let's fix it
• PLoS Innovations in Peer Review [video]

Research and Scholarship

• Open-source cancer research: Jay Bradner on TED.com [video]

Research/Academic Library

• Do libraries still matter?
• What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit? [archived Webinar]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• By championing open access publishing, the academic community can bring us closer to making research available to all
• Heading for the Open Road: Costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications [video]
• R2RC Launches New Open Publishing Guide for Students
• We're in the midst of a restructuring of the publishing universe (don't panic)

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copying fees are too much for universities to bear
• Digital Lockdown [podcast of interview with Michael Geist]

Higher Education

• AUCC lays out five commitments to Canadians
• The Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research
• Canadian University Report 2012
• Copying fees are too much for universities to bear
• Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy [video]

Openness

• The Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research
• Federal Funding Agencies: Data Management and Sharing Policies
• Graduate Students Support Open Access to Academic Research
• On Designing Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates for Universities and Research Funders [video]
• Open access and scholarly publishing: is it time to tear down the paywalls?
• Open Access Fees Project: Final Report
• Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy [video]
• Opening access with peer reviewing pledges

Peer Review

• Opening access with peer reviewing pledges

Research and Scholarship

• Social Knowledge in the Making

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• The Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research
• Continual publishing across journals, blogs and social media maximises impact by increasing the size of the 'academic footprint'
• Lay summaries could help public understand health research
• Open access and scholarly publishing: is it time to tear down the paywalls?

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Adapting Copyright to Digital Age Essential for Creativity, Concludes WIPO Conference
• Copyright Debate Hits the House of Commons: Opposition Won't Support C-11 Due to Digital Locks

Openness

• Addressing legal barriers in sharing of research data
• Relevance of Open Access by Marleen Temmerman [video]
• Research Without Walls
• The Role of Open Access in Biomedical Research [podcast]
• SPARC 2011 OA Week guest: Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive [video]
• The State of Open Data 2011

Research and Scholarship

• The blockbuster hypothesis: influencing the boundaries of knowledge
• Technology and the Historian [video]

Research/Academic Library

• Future of the Academic Library Symposium [video archives]

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Academic Blogging and the advent of Multi Author Blogging [podcast]
• Enhanced Publications: from experiment to practice [video]
• Relevance of Open Access by Marleen Temmerman [video]
• Research Without Walls

Digital Repository

• PubMed Central 10th Anniversary [video]

Higher Education

• Academic freedom for its own sake
• First, Catch Your Faculty-A Recipe for Excellence
• Open Courses for All: How OpenCourseWare is Democratizing the College Classroom
• The search for sustainability in higher ed

Openness

• Citizen Science as a Cure for Scientific Isolation
• The cost of closed data & the economics of open data
• Drivers and barriers in data sharing
• Open Access Policy Template [from Columbia University Libraries]
• Open Courses for All: How OpenCourseWare is Democratizing the College Classroom
• Open research [video]
• PubMed Central 10th Anniversary [video]

Research/Academic Library

• E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography
• HathiTrust's Past, Present, and Future
• Libraries as Journal Publishers
• Robert Darnton on books, ebooks, Google Books, and the DPLA [video]

Research/Publication Impact

• The Journal's Integrated Impact Index: a new indicator for journal evaluation

Research and Scholarship

• Citizen Science as a Cure for Scientific Isolation
• Getting Started in the Digital Humanities
• Open research [video]
• Research Data MANTRA course

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Drivers and barriers in data sharing
• The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles
• How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
• The Less-Obvious Elements of an Effective Book Proposal
• Libraries as Journal Publishers
• PubMed Central 10th Anniversary [video]

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom

Openness

• International Open Government Data Camp looks to build community
• Research data and scholarly publications: Going from casual acquaintances to something more [video of Todd Vision's presentation on Dryad]

Research/Academic Library

• Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration

Research/Publication Impact

• Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Research data and scholarly publications: Going from casual acquaintances to something more [video of Todd Vision's presentation on Dryad]
• Universities are increasingly moving towards recognising digital scholarship despite conflicting messages that favour traditional publishing in journals

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Current Issues in Higher Ed Copyright
• Fair Use & Remix Culture: Transforming Consumers Into Makers of Culture [video]
• How to Reform Copyright
• Intellectual Property -- Not Just For Lawyers Anymore [podcast]

Higher Education

• Canadian universities must reform or perish
• Current Issues in Higher Ed Copyright
• Do faculty prefer research over teaching?
• New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks for Under $20
• Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education [Webinar of David Wiley's presentation]

Openness

• Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education [Webinar of David Wiley's presentation]
• PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories
• Peter Binfield at the Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0 [video of Binfield's presentation]

Research and Scholarship

• Do faculty prefer research over teaching?

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Before You Submit: Some Tips for Self-Editing
• New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks for Under $20
• PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories
• Peter Binfield at the Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0 [video of Binfield's presentation]
• Prevalence and use of Twitter among scholars
• Should you enter the academic blogosphere?
• Society Journal Publishing Transfer: Guidelines to Help Achieve a Successful Transition
• Taking Better Notes in Zotero

Higher Education

• Scholarship That Contributes to the Public Good Enriches Universities, Too, Speakers Say
• Why Universities Should Experiment With 'Massive Open Courses' [podcast]

Openness

• Comprehensive Brief on Open Access to Publications and Research Data for the Federal Granting Agencies
• Why Universities Should Experiment With 'Massive Open Courses' [podcast]

Peer Review

• Citation and Peer Review of Data: Moving Towards Formal Data Publication

Research and Scholarship

• TextGrid - Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

• Citation and Peer Review of Data: Moving Towards Formal Data Publication
• Comprehensive Brief on Open Access to Publications and Research Data for the Federal Granting Agencies
• EPUB 3.0 Overview [video of Graham Bell's presentation]
• The problem with measuring Twitter
• Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability
• Sustainable funding for online resources [podcast]