Scholastica Webinar - The Open Journal of Astrophysics ProjectPeter Coles
The document summarizes a webinar about The Open Journal of Astrophysics Project. It discusses the history of the project, including previous attempts to develop their own publishing platform. It then explains how the project is now being relaunched using the Scholastica publishing platform. The webinar argues that open access to taxpayer-funded research is important for public trust. It questions whether traditional academic journals are still needed given resources like the arXiv that make papers publicly available. The Open Journal of Astrophysics aims to provide a free, community-reviewed open access alternative to traditional journals.
1. The document discusses recent and developing services provided by open access repositories, including multi-venue publication, semantic and legal enrichment, text mining services, overlay journals, ranked research output services, aggregated ETD services, and federated search.
2. Open access repositories are providing new services like overlay journals, which allow authors to publish in multiple venues, and ranked research output services, which assess the impact of research.
3. The document also discusses issues like ensuring the "purity" of open access institutional repositories, linking and aggregating ETD data across repositories, and using federated search to search across multiple repositories.
The document describes the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) and its pilot project to utilize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to increase accessibility of earth science data. The ASDC archives over 2 petabytes of data from 42 science projects, distributing 590 terabytes in 2012 to over 142,000 customers. Its goals for the Esri pilot include overcoming challenges of using HDF and NetCDF files in GIS, strengthening partnerships, and facilitating easier discovery and greater use of ASDC data holdings through various portals. The pilot aims to allow ASDC to reach new user communities and enhance capabilities for current customers.
FAIR discovery - Open Knowledge Maps - Kraker Peter OpenAIRE
FAIR discovery with Open Knowledge Maps -presented by Peter Kraker during the OpenAIRE workshop Services to support FAIR data, Vienna: https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-workshop-making-services-fair-vienna-april-24th-2019 .
The document discusses open access in academic publishing and introduces The Open Journal of Astrophysics. It notes that most astrophysics research is publicly funded yet access is restricted behind publisher paywalls. The Open Journal of Astrophysics is a free, open access overlay journal that reviews papers already posted to the arXiv to make them openly available. It has very low annual costs compared to traditional journals and helps achieve the goal of openly accessible research.
This document discusses ÆKOS, a new paradigm for discovering and accessing complex ecological data. ÆKOS aims to integrate diverse ecological data sources that are currently fragmented and stored in many locations and formats. It does this through data transformation tools, indexing tools, and an ontology model to provide a common framework for the data. This allows users to discover ecological data and extract relevant datasets for their research through a centralized portal. ÆKOS has indexed over 100,000 sites and its online tools are now available for users to search, discover, and access integrated ecological data.
Florian Bauer: Using open data thesauri to connect climate platformsSemantic Web Company
This document discusses connecting climate knowledge platforms through standardized tagging. It notes that the amount of climate change information has exploded in recent decades but finding the right information remains difficult. Standardizing terminology through an open data thesaurus in multiple languages could increase consistency and connections between climate websites. The document demonstrates a climate tagger tool that scans text and tags it based on terms in an expansive climate thesaurus to automatically add related information and link documents. It invites participants to join the climate knowledge brokers community and use such tools and thesaurus to better connect climate data and information.
Eco-informatics: Data services for bringing together and publishing the full ...TERN Australia
The presentation provides an overview of Advanced Ecological Knowledge and Observation System and SHaRED services by the TERN Eco-informatics to publish plot-based ecological data. The presentation was part of the Workshop on Approaches to Terrestrial Ecosystem Data Management : from collection to synthesis and beyond which was held on 9th of March 2016 in University of Queensland.
Scholastica Webinar - The Open Journal of Astrophysics ProjectPeter Coles
The document summarizes a webinar about The Open Journal of Astrophysics Project. It discusses the history of the project, including previous attempts to develop their own publishing platform. It then explains how the project is now being relaunched using the Scholastica publishing platform. The webinar argues that open access to taxpayer-funded research is important for public trust. It questions whether traditional academic journals are still needed given resources like the arXiv that make papers publicly available. The Open Journal of Astrophysics aims to provide a free, community-reviewed open access alternative to traditional journals.
1. The document discusses recent and developing services provided by open access repositories, including multi-venue publication, semantic and legal enrichment, text mining services, overlay journals, ranked research output services, aggregated ETD services, and federated search.
2. Open access repositories are providing new services like overlay journals, which allow authors to publish in multiple venues, and ranked research output services, which assess the impact of research.
3. The document also discusses issues like ensuring the "purity" of open access institutional repositories, linking and aggregating ETD data across repositories, and using federated search to search across multiple repositories.
The document describes the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) and its pilot project to utilize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to increase accessibility of earth science data. The ASDC archives over 2 petabytes of data from 42 science projects, distributing 590 terabytes in 2012 to over 142,000 customers. Its goals for the Esri pilot include overcoming challenges of using HDF and NetCDF files in GIS, strengthening partnerships, and facilitating easier discovery and greater use of ASDC data holdings through various portals. The pilot aims to allow ASDC to reach new user communities and enhance capabilities for current customers.
FAIR discovery - Open Knowledge Maps - Kraker Peter OpenAIRE
FAIR discovery with Open Knowledge Maps -presented by Peter Kraker during the OpenAIRE workshop Services to support FAIR data, Vienna: https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-workshop-making-services-fair-vienna-april-24th-2019 .
The document discusses open access in academic publishing and introduces The Open Journal of Astrophysics. It notes that most astrophysics research is publicly funded yet access is restricted behind publisher paywalls. The Open Journal of Astrophysics is a free, open access overlay journal that reviews papers already posted to the arXiv to make them openly available. It has very low annual costs compared to traditional journals and helps achieve the goal of openly accessible research.
This document discusses ÆKOS, a new paradigm for discovering and accessing complex ecological data. ÆKOS aims to integrate diverse ecological data sources that are currently fragmented and stored in many locations and formats. It does this through data transformation tools, indexing tools, and an ontology model to provide a common framework for the data. This allows users to discover ecological data and extract relevant datasets for their research through a centralized portal. ÆKOS has indexed over 100,000 sites and its online tools are now available for users to search, discover, and access integrated ecological data.
Florian Bauer: Using open data thesauri to connect climate platformsSemantic Web Company
This document discusses connecting climate knowledge platforms through standardized tagging. It notes that the amount of climate change information has exploded in recent decades but finding the right information remains difficult. Standardizing terminology through an open data thesaurus in multiple languages could increase consistency and connections between climate websites. The document demonstrates a climate tagger tool that scans text and tags it based on terms in an expansive climate thesaurus to automatically add related information and link documents. It invites participants to join the climate knowledge brokers community and use such tools and thesaurus to better connect climate data and information.
Eco-informatics: Data services for bringing together and publishing the full ...TERN Australia
The presentation provides an overview of Advanced Ecological Knowledge and Observation System and SHaRED services by the TERN Eco-informatics to publish plot-based ecological data. The presentation was part of the Workshop on Approaches to Terrestrial Ecosystem Data Management : from collection to synthesis and beyond which was held on 9th of March 2016 in University of Queensland.
Despite the massive amount of biomedical literature, only a small amount is available in a form that is readily computable. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is hosting the first hackathon to develop a comprehensive Network of BioThings (proteins, genes, pathways, mutations, drugs, diseases) extracted from scientific research articles and integrated with public biomedical data (see blog post http://goo.gl/i91ngK). During this hackathon, we will (1) identify motivating use cases, (2) define a shared, sustainable, multi-component infrastructure to build the NoB, and (3) implement common data representations, ontology-based programmatic interfaces, and develop cool applications. We will do this in an open, scalable, responsive manner so that it becomes a major asset for hackers and biomedical researchers worldwide.
What's new? Serving Readers With Library Building Projects @ the Ottawa Pub...Alexandra Yarrow
The document discusses upcoming building projects at the Ottawa Public Library including the renovation of the Rideau Branch and construction of a new Greely Branch. It also mentions the renovation of the Alta Vista Branch. The document provides information on design elements, shelving solutions from different vendors, and quotes about considering a variety of people and spaces in library design.
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) is virtual collaborative that brings scientists and researchers together in a knowledge-based social network and provides the necessary tools, computing power, and data to accelerate research, innovation and provide transparency.
Mr. Haank addresses Springer's position on Open Access. What has changed over the last years, what has stayed the same? Is hybrid developing into fully open, or will the models co-exist? He also touches upon the issue of (open) data. Making data available in a structured, useful way is much more complex than the current practice of article publishing.
Institutional respositories - Ken Scott (Georgetown University Qatar) - #OAWe...QScience
Presentation by Ken Scott (Associate Library Director - Access and Media Services) at Georgetown University - Qatar on Open Access Institutional Repositories -
Part of QScience.com's Open Access Week Event: Discover Open Access with QScience.com - held at Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Center, Education City, Doha on 22nd October 2014
http://www.qscience.com/page/OAweek2014
Advanced Energy: An International Journal (AEIJ) is a quarterly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Energy Engineering and allied fields. This multi disciplinary journal is devoted to the publication of high quality papers on theoretical and practical aspects of Energy Engineering. Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in all areas of Energy Engineering.
CoESRA: Platform for collaborative researchTERN Australia
Collaborative Environment for Ecosystem Science Analysis and Synthesis (CoESRA) is a cloud-based platform that aims to promote reproducible science. It provides a virtual desktop environment accessible through a web browser that contains tools like Kepler for building scientific workflows. CoESRA allows users to create reusable computational experiments and ensure their reproducibility over time on the same infrastructure. As a demonstration, a workflow is shown for assessing the risk level of Mountain Ash forests in Australia according to IUCN Red List of Ecosystem criteria.
WP3: overzicht van de voortgang van WP# op de CLARIAH-dagCLARIAH
This document outlines plans for Work Package 3 (WP3) of the Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (CLARIAH) project. WP3 focuses on providing linguistic research support and infrastructure. It will support researchers through all stages of projects using textual data. WP3 will develop resources like text corpora and databases, and provide tools for enriching resources with metadata, annotations and search functionality. Multiple organizations will collaborate in WP3, focusing on areas like metadata, interoperability, and text analysis. The work aims to incorporate resources and tools into the overarching CLARIAH infrastructure.
arXiv is an open access digital archive created in 1991 by Paul Ginsparg for sharing preprints in physics. It is now hosted by Cornell University Library and covers multiple fields including physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and economics. arXiv provides free access to over 1.3 million scholarly articles and uses volunteer moderators to verify submissions are scholarly contributions. It aims to make science more open and democratic through rapid dissemination of research. arXiv is funded through membership fees from over 210 supporting institutions worldwide and grants.
Talk given at the Irish National Astronomy Meeting: a discussion of recent developments in Open Access Publishing, with particular reference to Astrophysics and the Open Journal of Astrophysics
The academic publishing industry generates about €28 billion annually in global revenues, exceeding that of the recorded music industry. Profit margins for academic publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis are much larger than companies like Apple, Google, and BMW. Open access publishing aims to make taxpayer-funded research publicly available, but different models like gold, green, and diamond open access have different costs and restrictions. The Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) is an example of a diamond open access overlay journal that publishes on the arXiv for free with low annual costs. It has published over 100 papers with an average of 16 citations per paper and a 50% acceptance rate. OJAp plans to apply for inclusion
This document provides an overview of open access at Utrecht University and for NIOZ researchers. It discusses the basics of open access, including the two main routes of gold (open access journals) and green (self-archiving in repositories). It outlines funder policies supporting open access, growth in open access journals and repositories, debates around green vs gold routes, and options available to NIOZ researchers to make their work openly accessible in compliance with funder policies.
Open Access and new forms of publishing in Economics, Social Sciences and the...ETH-Bibliothek
This document summarizes an information event on open access and new forms of publishing. It discusses the traditional publication cycle compared to open access models, concerns about rising journal prices and publisher profits, and different open access routes like green open access self-archiving and gold open access publication in open access journals. It also provides an overview of open access policies at ETH Zurich, the European Union, and the Swiss National Science Foundation that mandate or encourage open access dissemination of publicly funded research.
Selecting open access Knowledge Base collections for Discovery Jeff Siemon
Open Access KB (Knowledge Base) collections can add diversity and breadth to your library’s Discovery experience of e-journals and eBooks. What kinds of OA (open access) collections are available in the OCLC KB? What levels of quality are represented? Which OA collections should my library select? How do you search for and select OA collections? How can you elevate, in Discovery results lists, results from purchased collections before results from OA collections, if you want to? This will be a presentation, with flexibility for questions and sharing experiences.
The document discusses the academic publishing industry and open access publishing. It notes that the largest academic publishers have profit margins of up to 45%, much higher than companies like Apple and BMW. It advocates for open access publishing as taxpayer-funded research should be publicly accessible. It then describes different models of open access publishing like gold, green, and diamond (immediate free access for authors and readers) and notes funding agencies are increasingly mandating some form of open access. The document promotes the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) as an example of a diamond open access, community-reviewed overlay journal based on the arXiv preprint server that publishes papers for free without article processing charges.
Fifty shades of green and gold: open access to scholarly informationhierohiero
Presentation for Urban Research Utrecht, a research school at Utrecht University, on Open Access to scholarly information in geography and planning, focussing of advantages, disadvantges, various forms, costs and actions of stakeholders
Openness in Teaching, Research, and PublishingHillary Corbett
This document discusses openness in teaching, research, and publishing. It defines open access as research outputs that are immediately available online for free without severe restrictions. Regarding teaching, it suggests using open resources like OERs instead of expensive textbooks and using Wikipedia in the classroom. For research, it notes open access helps level the playing field and accelerate discovery. Researchers can participate through open access repositories and making their own work openly available. For publishing, it dispels myths that open access is not peer-reviewed or expensive and notes different models like gold and green open access as well as retaining rights to works.
Catherine Parker (University of Huddersfield) – “The Game of Open Access: mak...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
Open Access Publishing and the Open Journal of AstrophysicsPeter Coles
A short talk given at the 'Astronomy Tea' at the University of Sydney, Australia, on February 19th 2024.
Abstract:
Over the past decade, the landscape of academic publishing has changed dramatically, with publishers moving from subscription-based models to "open access" in which papers are available to read free of charge. Many journals have made the decision to maintain revenue by charging authors for this, via so-called "Article Processing Charges" (APCs) which can run to $1000s thereby closing the door on those without funds to pay. More recently, there have been moves to encourage researchers to publish using "Diamond" Open Access wherein papers are published without charge to the authors and without cost to the reader. In this talk I shall discuss the ennvironment for Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics with reference to the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp), which offers a not-for-profit service of this kind using an arXiv-overlay model. I will also offer a possible vision of the future of truly "Open Access" publishing based on a global network of institutional and/or subject-based repositories.
OpenAIRE webinars during OA week 2017: Humanities and Open ScienceOpenAIRE
The document discusses open access as it relates to the humanities. It provides an overview of key topics, including digital sovereignty and publishing in the digital world. The document outlines some benefits of open access for humanities researchers, such as increased impact, visibility, discoverability, and citability of their work. It also provides DARIAH's recommendations for humanities researchers to promote open access, including depositing work in open archives under open licenses. The document concludes by discussing the spirit of open science at Jussieu and calls for supporting innovative open publishing models.
The document discusses open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. It notes the current publishing crisis where publishers get free content from publicly funded research while restricting access. OA aims to make research freely and permanently available online. There are two main routes to OA - green OA using institutional repositories, and gold OA through OA journals. ECU supports green OA through its Research Online repository. New requirements from the NHMRC will mandate depositing publications in OA repositories within 12 months. The document provides an overview of key issues around OA including copyright and benefits for authors, libraries and scholars.
Despite the massive amount of biomedical literature, only a small amount is available in a form that is readily computable. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is hosting the first hackathon to develop a comprehensive Network of BioThings (proteins, genes, pathways, mutations, drugs, diseases) extracted from scientific research articles and integrated with public biomedical data (see blog post http://goo.gl/i91ngK). During this hackathon, we will (1) identify motivating use cases, (2) define a shared, sustainable, multi-component infrastructure to build the NoB, and (3) implement common data representations, ontology-based programmatic interfaces, and develop cool applications. We will do this in an open, scalable, responsive manner so that it becomes a major asset for hackers and biomedical researchers worldwide.
What's new? Serving Readers With Library Building Projects @ the Ottawa Pub...Alexandra Yarrow
The document discusses upcoming building projects at the Ottawa Public Library including the renovation of the Rideau Branch and construction of a new Greely Branch. It also mentions the renovation of the Alta Vista Branch. The document provides information on design elements, shelving solutions from different vendors, and quotes about considering a variety of people and spaces in library design.
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) is virtual collaborative that brings scientists and researchers together in a knowledge-based social network and provides the necessary tools, computing power, and data to accelerate research, innovation and provide transparency.
Mr. Haank addresses Springer's position on Open Access. What has changed over the last years, what has stayed the same? Is hybrid developing into fully open, or will the models co-exist? He also touches upon the issue of (open) data. Making data available in a structured, useful way is much more complex than the current practice of article publishing.
Institutional respositories - Ken Scott (Georgetown University Qatar) - #OAWe...QScience
Presentation by Ken Scott (Associate Library Director - Access and Media Services) at Georgetown University - Qatar on Open Access Institutional Repositories -
Part of QScience.com's Open Access Week Event: Discover Open Access with QScience.com - held at Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Center, Education City, Doha on 22nd October 2014
http://www.qscience.com/page/OAweek2014
Advanced Energy: An International Journal (AEIJ) is a quarterly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Energy Engineering and allied fields. This multi disciplinary journal is devoted to the publication of high quality papers on theoretical and practical aspects of Energy Engineering. Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in all areas of Energy Engineering.
CoESRA: Platform for collaborative researchTERN Australia
Collaborative Environment for Ecosystem Science Analysis and Synthesis (CoESRA) is a cloud-based platform that aims to promote reproducible science. It provides a virtual desktop environment accessible through a web browser that contains tools like Kepler for building scientific workflows. CoESRA allows users to create reusable computational experiments and ensure their reproducibility over time on the same infrastructure. As a demonstration, a workflow is shown for assessing the risk level of Mountain Ash forests in Australia according to IUCN Red List of Ecosystem criteria.
WP3: overzicht van de voortgang van WP# op de CLARIAH-dagCLARIAH
This document outlines plans for Work Package 3 (WP3) of the Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (CLARIAH) project. WP3 focuses on providing linguistic research support and infrastructure. It will support researchers through all stages of projects using textual data. WP3 will develop resources like text corpora and databases, and provide tools for enriching resources with metadata, annotations and search functionality. Multiple organizations will collaborate in WP3, focusing on areas like metadata, interoperability, and text analysis. The work aims to incorporate resources and tools into the overarching CLARIAH infrastructure.
arXiv is an open access digital archive created in 1991 by Paul Ginsparg for sharing preprints in physics. It is now hosted by Cornell University Library and covers multiple fields including physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and economics. arXiv provides free access to over 1.3 million scholarly articles and uses volunteer moderators to verify submissions are scholarly contributions. It aims to make science more open and democratic through rapid dissemination of research. arXiv is funded through membership fees from over 210 supporting institutions worldwide and grants.
Talk given at the Irish National Astronomy Meeting: a discussion of recent developments in Open Access Publishing, with particular reference to Astrophysics and the Open Journal of Astrophysics
The academic publishing industry generates about €28 billion annually in global revenues, exceeding that of the recorded music industry. Profit margins for academic publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis are much larger than companies like Apple, Google, and BMW. Open access publishing aims to make taxpayer-funded research publicly available, but different models like gold, green, and diamond open access have different costs and restrictions. The Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) is an example of a diamond open access overlay journal that publishes on the arXiv for free with low annual costs. It has published over 100 papers with an average of 16 citations per paper and a 50% acceptance rate. OJAp plans to apply for inclusion
This document provides an overview of open access at Utrecht University and for NIOZ researchers. It discusses the basics of open access, including the two main routes of gold (open access journals) and green (self-archiving in repositories). It outlines funder policies supporting open access, growth in open access journals and repositories, debates around green vs gold routes, and options available to NIOZ researchers to make their work openly accessible in compliance with funder policies.
Open Access and new forms of publishing in Economics, Social Sciences and the...ETH-Bibliothek
This document summarizes an information event on open access and new forms of publishing. It discusses the traditional publication cycle compared to open access models, concerns about rising journal prices and publisher profits, and different open access routes like green open access self-archiving and gold open access publication in open access journals. It also provides an overview of open access policies at ETH Zurich, the European Union, and the Swiss National Science Foundation that mandate or encourage open access dissemination of publicly funded research.
Selecting open access Knowledge Base collections for Discovery Jeff Siemon
Open Access KB (Knowledge Base) collections can add diversity and breadth to your library’s Discovery experience of e-journals and eBooks. What kinds of OA (open access) collections are available in the OCLC KB? What levels of quality are represented? Which OA collections should my library select? How do you search for and select OA collections? How can you elevate, in Discovery results lists, results from purchased collections before results from OA collections, if you want to? This will be a presentation, with flexibility for questions and sharing experiences.
The document discusses the academic publishing industry and open access publishing. It notes that the largest academic publishers have profit margins of up to 45%, much higher than companies like Apple and BMW. It advocates for open access publishing as taxpayer-funded research should be publicly accessible. It then describes different models of open access publishing like gold, green, and diamond (immediate free access for authors and readers) and notes funding agencies are increasingly mandating some form of open access. The document promotes the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) as an example of a diamond open access, community-reviewed overlay journal based on the arXiv preprint server that publishes papers for free without article processing charges.
Fifty shades of green and gold: open access to scholarly informationhierohiero
Presentation for Urban Research Utrecht, a research school at Utrecht University, on Open Access to scholarly information in geography and planning, focussing of advantages, disadvantges, various forms, costs and actions of stakeholders
Openness in Teaching, Research, and PublishingHillary Corbett
This document discusses openness in teaching, research, and publishing. It defines open access as research outputs that are immediately available online for free without severe restrictions. Regarding teaching, it suggests using open resources like OERs instead of expensive textbooks and using Wikipedia in the classroom. For research, it notes open access helps level the playing field and accelerate discovery. Researchers can participate through open access repositories and making their own work openly available. For publishing, it dispels myths that open access is not peer-reviewed or expensive and notes different models like gold and green open access as well as retaining rights to works.
Catherine Parker (University of Huddersfield) – “The Game of Open Access: mak...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
Open Access Publishing and the Open Journal of AstrophysicsPeter Coles
A short talk given at the 'Astronomy Tea' at the University of Sydney, Australia, on February 19th 2024.
Abstract:
Over the past decade, the landscape of academic publishing has changed dramatically, with publishers moving from subscription-based models to "open access" in which papers are available to read free of charge. Many journals have made the decision to maintain revenue by charging authors for this, via so-called "Article Processing Charges" (APCs) which can run to $1000s thereby closing the door on those without funds to pay. More recently, there have been moves to encourage researchers to publish using "Diamond" Open Access wherein papers are published without charge to the authors and without cost to the reader. In this talk I shall discuss the ennvironment for Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics with reference to the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp), which offers a not-for-profit service of this kind using an arXiv-overlay model. I will also offer a possible vision of the future of truly "Open Access" publishing based on a global network of institutional and/or subject-based repositories.
OpenAIRE webinars during OA week 2017: Humanities and Open ScienceOpenAIRE
The document discusses open access as it relates to the humanities. It provides an overview of key topics, including digital sovereignty and publishing in the digital world. The document outlines some benefits of open access for humanities researchers, such as increased impact, visibility, discoverability, and citability of their work. It also provides DARIAH's recommendations for humanities researchers to promote open access, including depositing work in open archives under open licenses. The document concludes by discussing the spirit of open science at Jussieu and calls for supporting innovative open publishing models.
The document discusses open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. It notes the current publishing crisis where publishers get free content from publicly funded research while restricting access. OA aims to make research freely and permanently available online. There are two main routes to OA - green OA using institutional repositories, and gold OA through OA journals. ECU supports green OA through its Research Online repository. New requirements from the NHMRC will mandate depositing publications in OA repositories within 12 months. The document provides an overview of key issues around OA including copyright and benefits for authors, libraries and scholars.
This document discusses and compares green open access (self-archiving published works in repositories) and gold open access (publishing in open access journals that are freely available online). It provides definitions of these terms from various organizations. It also outlines recent open access policies from funding bodies and governments in the UK, Europe, US, and Australia that generally support both green and gold open access. Empirical evidence is presented that open access articles tend to receive more downloads and citations than articles hidden behind paywalls. Instructions are given for authors to self-archive works in La Trobe University's research repository to provide green open access.
Symplectic training event for National Heart and Lung Institute – how to deposit your research manuscript and make it open access.
Symplectic Elements and Spiral are systems that work together to support individual academics and research staff in recording, reporting and showcasing their academic activities and outputs.
This training session will be an introduction and refresher to postdocs, fellows and PAs on how to deposit newly accepted publications into Symplectic in order to meet the open access requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Final year PhD students are welcome to sign-up but given training capacity limitation, priority will be given to postdocs, fellows and PAs.
In addition we will show you how to link you publications to research grants and your ORCiD.
Open Educational Resources and Open Access: Promise or Peril for Higher Educa...Terry Anderson
The document summarizes Terry Anderson's presentation on open educational resources and open access. Some key points:
- Open scholarship involves making intellectual work openly accessible online through practices like open educational resources, open textbooks, open data, and open publishing.
- Definitions of "open" include free availability and reuse of content without financial or legal barriers.
- Barriers to adopting open educational resources include a lack of instructor incentives and concerns about quality.
- Open access publishing is emerging as an alternative to traditional for-profit journal publishing through open access journals and institutional repositories.
- Open scholars can license their work with Creative Commons to maximize its impact and reuse.
O Futuro da Biblioteconomia no Brasil: Workshop Interativo
Quando: 07 de outubro de 2015 – 10h – 15h
Onde: Auditório do INRAD
Instituto de Radiologia do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP
Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, s/nº – Rua 1 – Cerqueira César – São Paulo, SP.
This document provides an introduction to open access, which aims to remove barriers to scholarly research. It discusses gold and green open access models and reasons for the movement's growth, including rising journal costs. Benefits of open access for institutions include easy research access, increased visibility and prestige, and cost savings. Challenges include ensuring public understanding and maintaining repositories. Government funders increasingly require open access publication. The bibliography cites numerous additional sources on open access topics.
This document provides an overview of methodology and tools for research in the digital age. It discusses how science has evolved from the written age to the print age to now operating in a digital, networked environment. Key aspects covered include open access to publications, with a discussion of the green and gold open access models. Emerging areas like digital humanities, citizen science, and Science 2.0 utilizing new digital tools are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of open access, including definitions, models (green vs gold), policies and mandates, and the situation at the University of Queensland. It defines open access as digital scholarly work that is free of copyright restrictions. The two main models of open access are green, which involves self-archiving work in an institutional repository, and gold, which are open access journals. Major funders like the ARC and NHMRC now mandate open access policies. UQ is piloting an open access program to help comply with mandates and encourage self-archiving in its institutional repository, eSpace.
Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics and the Open Journal of AstrophysicsPeter Coles
Over the past decade, the landscape of academic publishing has changed dramatically, with publishers moving from subscription-based models to "open access" in which papers are available to read free of charge. Many journals have made the decision to maintain revenue by charging authors for this, via so-called "Article Processing Charges" (APCs) which can run to $1000s thereby closing the door on those without funds to pay. More recently, there have been moves to encourage researchers to publish using "Diamond" Open Access wherein papers are published without charge to the authors and without cost to the reader. In this talk I shall discuss the ennvironment for Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics with reference to the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp), which offers a not-for-profit service of this kind using an arXiv-overlay model. I will also offer a possible vision of the future of truly "Open Access" publishing based on a global network of institutional and/or subject-based repositories.
Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics and the Open Journal of AstrophysicsPeter Coles
Over the past decade, the landscape of academic publishing has changed dramatically, with publishers moving from subscription-based models to "open access" in which papers are available to read free of charge. Many journals have made the decision to maintain revenue by charging authors for this, via so-called "Article Processing Charges" (APCs) which can run to $1000s thereby closing the door on those without funds to pay. More recently, there have been moves to encourage researchers to publish using "Diamond" Open Access wherein papers are published without charge to the authors and without cost to the reader. In this talk I shall discuss the ennvironment for Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics with reference to the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp), which offers a not-for-profit service of this kind using an arXiv-overlay model. I will also offer a possible vision of the future of truly "Open Access" publishing based on a global network of institutional and/or subject-based repositories.
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Making meditation a part of a daily routine, even if just 10-15 minutes per day, can have mental and physical health benefits over time by helping people feel more relaxed and focused.
A short talk for Space Week given at Maynooth University on October 6th 2022 about cosmology, the large-scale structure of the Universe and the European Space Agency's Euclid Mission.
Talk given at ITP 2022 at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study on May 26th 2022. In this talk I discuss some applications of the Schrodinger-Poisson wave-mechanical approach to
cosmological structure formation. The most obvious use of this formalism is to "fuzzy" dark matter,
i.e. dark matter consisting of extremely light particles whose eective de Broglie wavelength is
suciently large to be astrophysically relevant, but it can be used to model more general scenarios
and has a number of advantages over standard methods based on Eulerian perturbation theory. I
illustrate the formalism with some calculations for cosmic voids and discuss its application to the
cosmological reconstruction problem(s).
Astrophysics & Cosmology Masterclass November 2021Peter Coles
Slides used during a Science Week event at Maynooth University on 12th November 2021. These are the slides for the Cosmology part of the event which was run by Peter Coles and John Regan of the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University.
This document summarizes a lecture on observational cosmology and the current state of the standard cosmological model. It discusses key aspects of the standard model like the Robertson-Walker metric, ingredients like dark matter and dark energy, and questionable aspects. It also covers alternatives to cold dark matter models, the possibility that dark matter is quantum mechanical, and anomalies in the cosmic microwave background data. The document emphasizes that cosmology involves massive data compression and cautions against overinterpreting potential anomalies in the data.
This document discusses LGBTSTEMDay and issues related to LGBT inclusion in STEM fields. It highlights a report on LGBT inclusion that focuses on progress made, perceptions, visibility and inclusion of LGBT people in STEM, as well as omissions and how management can improve the process of inclusion.
The Open Journal of Astrophysics at INAMPeter Coles
The document discusses open access academic publishing and proposes an alternative model. It notes that the largest academic publishers make huge profits while overcharging the academic community. It then describes The Open Journal of Astrophysics, an open access, community-reviewed journal built on the arXiv preprint server. With annual costs of only $1000, it provides a much more affordable option than traditional journals. The document encourages the use of preprints and open access models like this one to communicate research ideas more freely and cost-effectively.
The O-level Latin examinations I took in 1979. There are three papers altogether, Paper 1 which was a language examination, and Paper 2 (in two Sections A and B) which were about set books: we did Book II of Virgil's Aeneid and Book V of Caesar's De Bello Gallico.
The Eddington Eclipse Expeditions: How Ireland made Einstein FamousPeter Coles
The Eddington Eclipse Expeditions in 1919 provided early evidence supporting Einstein's theory of general relativity by measuring the bending of starlight near the sun during a solar eclipse. Two expeditions were sent to Principe and Sobral to photograph the Hyades star cluster near the sun during totality. Their results found star positions consistent with Einstein's prediction of nearly 2 seconds of arc bending, providing the first strong evidence for general relativity and making Einstein famous worldwide. Some controversy existed over the measurement precision, but later studies supported Einstein's theory.
1) The document discusses key concepts in cosmology including the cosmic web, dark matter, dark energy, the Big Bang, and inflation.
2) It explains that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe and are not fully understood.
3) The Big Bang theory is supported by evidence like the cosmic microwave background radiation, but questions remain about what caused inflation in the early universe.
The document discusses key concepts in cosmology including the cosmic web, dark matter, dark energy, the Big Bang theory, and inflation. It summarizes Nobel Prize-winning discoveries like the cosmic microwave background and expanding universe. While observations support the standard model of cosmology, dark matter and dark energy remain largely unexplained. Future work aims to better understand the nature and distribution of matter and energy throughout the universe.
Brief Thoughts on Cosmological DistancesPeter Coles
The Robertson-Walker metric is used in cosmology to describe space-times that are compatible with the cosmological principle of spatial homogeneity and isotropy. It defines the proper distance and intervals between events in an expanding universe using comoving coordinates and the scale factor a(t) that describes the expansion over time. Key relationships defined include the luminosity distance and angular diameter distance, relating observed properties of distant objects to the scale factor at emission and observation times.
Revolution in the Skies: The Experiment that made Einstein famousPeter Coles
1) In 1919, expeditions led by Eddington to Principe and Crommelin to Sobral measured the bending of starlight by the Sun during a solar eclipse to test Einstein's theory of general relativity, which predicted light bending would be twice that of Newton's prediction.
2) The measurements found light bending of 1.61 ± 0.40 seconds of arc in Principe and 1.98 ± 0.16 seconds of arc in Sobral, consistent with Einstein's prediction of 1.74 seconds of arc.
3) This confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity and made him famous worldwide, revolutionizing our understanding of space, time, gravity and the universe.
Lights all askew In the Heavens - the 1919 Eclipse ExpeditionsPeter Coles
1) In 1919, two expeditions were sent to observe a solar eclipse in order to test Einstein's theory of general relativity, which predicted light would bend near massive objects like the sun.
2) The expeditions were led by Arthur Eddington and took place in Principe and Sobral, where they measured the positions of stars near the sun during the eclipse and found their results confirmed Einstein's prediction of light bending.
3) This made Einstein famous worldwide and was a landmark achievement that helped establish general relativity as the new theory of gravity, replacing Newton's theory.
Plan S is ALLEA's initial response to cOAlition S's Plan S, which aims to make scholarly publications resulting from publicly funded research freely available. ALLEA raises key questions about how to implement Plan S in a way that breaks the reliance on journal impact factors, enhances trust in scholarly communication, fairly allocates costs without perverse incentives, and protects minor disciplines and disadvantaged groups. ALLEA produced its response in late 2018 based on input from several working groups, with copies available at the Royal Irish Academy.
Plan S aims to accelerate the transition to open access scientific publications in Europe by requiring that, beginning in 2020, publications resulting from research funded by public grants must be published either in open access journals or platforms. While Plan S principles compare well to draft national open access policies, it allows for greater flexibility in implementation. The benefits of Plan S include strengthening research integrity and transparency by moving away from journal impact factors and focusing more on article content and citations. Funders will take steps like revising policies to encourage compliance and incorporating broader quality indicators in evaluations.
SDSS1335+0728: The awakening of a ∼ 106M⊙ black hole⋆Sérgio Sacani
Context. The early-type galaxy SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 (hereafter SDSS1335+0728), which had exhibited no prior optical variations during the preceding two decades, began showing significant nuclear variability in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream from December 2019 (as ZTF19acnskyy). This variability behaviour, coupled with the host-galaxy properties, suggests that SDSS1335+0728 hosts a ∼ 106M⊙ black hole (BH) that is currently in the process of ‘turning on’. Aims. We present a multi-wavelength photometric analysis and spectroscopic follow-up performed with the aim of better understanding the origin of the nuclear variations detected in SDSS1335+0728. Methods. We used archival photometry (from WISE, 2MASS, SDSS, GALEX, eROSITA) and spectroscopic data (from SDSS and LAMOST) to study the state of SDSS1335+0728 prior to December 2019, and new observations from Swift, SOAR/Goodman, VLT/X-shooter, and Keck/LRIS taken after its turn-on to characterise its current state. We analysed the variability of SDSS1335+0728 in the X-ray/UV/optical/mid-infrared range, modelled its spectral energy distribution prior to and after December 2019, and studied the evolution of its UV/optical spectra. Results. From our multi-wavelength photometric analysis, we find that: (a) since 2021, the UV flux (from Swift/UVOT observations) is four times brighter than the flux reported by GALEX in 2004; (b) since June 2022, the mid-infrared flux has risen more than two times, and the W1−W2 WISE colour has become redder; and (c) since February 2024, the source has begun showing X-ray emission. From our spectroscopic follow-up, we see that (i) the narrow emission line ratios are now consistent with a more energetic ionising continuum; (ii) broad emission lines are not detected; and (iii) the [OIII] line increased its flux ∼ 3.6 years after the first ZTF alert, which implies a relatively compact narrow-line-emitting region. Conclusions. We conclude that the variations observed in SDSS1335+0728 could be either explained by a ∼ 106M⊙ AGN that is just turning on or by an exotic tidal disruption event (TDE). If the former is true, SDSS1335+0728 is one of the strongest cases of an AGNobserved in the process of activating. If the latter were found to be the case, it would correspond to the longest and faintest TDE ever observed (or another class of still unknown nuclear transient). Future observations of SDSS1335+0728 are crucial to further understand its behaviour. Key words. galaxies: active– accretion, accretion discs– galaxies: individual: SDSS J133519.91+072807.4
Rodents, Birds and locust_Pests of crops.pdfPirithiRaju
Mole rat or Lesser bandicoot rat, Bandicotabengalensis
•Head -round and broad muzzle
•Tail -shorter than head, body
•Prefers damp areas
•Burrows with scooped soil before entrance
•Potential rat, one pair can produce more than 800 offspringsin one year
This presentation offers a general idea of the structure of seed, seed production, management of seeds and its allied technologies. It also offers the concept of gene erosion and the practices used to control it. Nursery and gardening have been widely explored along with their importance in the related domain.
BIRDS DIVERSITY OF SOOTEA BISWANATH ASSAM.ppt.pptxgoluk9330
Ahota Beel, nestled in Sootea Biswanath Assam , is celebrated for its extraordinary diversity of bird species. This wetland sanctuary supports a myriad of avian residents and migrants alike. Visitors can admire the elegant flights of migratory species such as the Northern Pintail and Eurasian Wigeon, alongside resident birds including the Asian Openbill and Pheasant-tailed Jacana. With its tranquil scenery and varied habitats, Ahota Beel offers a perfect haven for birdwatchers to appreciate and study the vibrant birdlife that thrives in this natural refuge.
Embracing Deep Variability For Reproducibility and Replicability
Abstract: Reproducibility (aka determinism in some cases) constitutes a fundamental aspect in various fields of computer science, such as floating-point computations in numerical analysis and simulation, concurrency models in parallelism, reproducible builds for third parties integration and packaging, and containerization for execution environments. These concepts, while pervasive across diverse concerns, often exhibit intricate inter-dependencies, making it challenging to achieve a comprehensive understanding. In this short and vision paper we delve into the application of software engineering techniques, specifically variability management, to systematically identify and explicit points of variability that may give rise to reproducibility issues (eg language, libraries, compiler, virtual machine, OS, environment variables, etc). The primary objectives are: i) gaining insights into the variability layers and their possible interactions, ii) capturing and documenting configurations for the sake of reproducibility, and iii) exploring diverse configurations to replicate, and hence validate and ensure the robustness of results. By adopting these methodologies, we aim to address the complexities associated with reproducibility and replicability in modern software systems and environments, facilitating a more comprehensive and nuanced perspective on these critical aspects.
https://hal.science/hal-04582287
Presentation of our paper, "Towards Quantitative Evaluation of Explainable AI Methods for Deepfake Detection", by K. Tsigos, E. Apostolidis, S. Baxevanakis, S. Papadopoulos, V. Mezaris. Presented at the ACM Int. Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24) of the ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR’24), Thailand, June 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643491.3660292 https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18649
Software available at https://github.com/IDT-ITI/XAI-Deepfakes
Mechanics:- Simple and Compound PendulumPravinHudge1
a compound pendulum is a physical system with a more complex structure than a simple pendulum, incorporating its mass distribution and dimensions into its oscillatory motion around a fixed axis. Understanding its dynamics involves principles of rotational mechanics and the interplay between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Compound pendulums are used in various scientific and engineering applications, such as seismology for measuring earthquakes, in clocks to maintain accurate timekeeping, and in mechanical systems to study oscillatory motion dynamics.
The Limited Role of the Streaming Instability during Moon and Exomoon FormationSérgio Sacani
It is generally accepted that the Moon accreted from the disk formed by an impact between the proto-Earth and
impactor, but its details are highly debated. Some models suggest that a Mars-sized impactor formed a silicate
melt-rich (vapor-poor) disk around Earth, whereas other models suggest that a highly energetic impact produced a
silicate vapor-rich disk. Such a vapor-rich disk, however, may not be suitable for the Moon formation, because
moonlets, building blocks of the Moon, of 100 m–100 km in radius may experience strong gas drag and fall onto
Earth on a short timescale, failing to grow further. This problem may be avoided if large moonlets (?100 km)
form very quickly by streaming instability, which is a process to concentrate particles enough to cause gravitational
collapse and rapid formation of planetesimals or moonlets. Here, we investigate the effect of the streaming
instability in the Moon-forming disk for the first time and find that this instability can quickly form ∼100 km-sized
moonlets. However, these moonlets are not large enough to avoid strong drag, and they still fall onto Earth quickly.
This suggests that the vapor-rich disks may not form the large Moon, and therefore the models that produce vaporpoor disks are supported. This result is applicable to general impact-induced moon-forming disks, supporting the
previous suggestion that small planets (<1.6 R⊕) are good candidates to host large moons because their impactinduced disks would likely be vapor-poor. We find a limited role of streaming instability in satellite formation in an
impact-induced disk, whereas it plays a key role during planet formation.
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus concepts: Earth-moon system (436)
Hariyalikart Case Study of helping farmers in Biharrajsaurav589
Helping farmers all across India through our latest technologies of modern farming like drones for irrigation and best pest control For more visit : https://www.hariyalikart.com/case-study
2. Open Access:
Green and Gold
•Roughly Speaking:
•“Green”= “free” to authors and readers (e.g.
arXiv, institutional repositories, etc)
•“Gold”= free to readers, paid for by authors
(via “Author Processing Charge”)
•Open Access of some form is mandatory for
some funding agencies..
9 October 2018
3. •Most research in my field (and other “blue skies”
subjects) is funded by the tax payer, so the tax payer
should have access to it.
•Public trust (climate change, fracking..)
•Open science is better science
•Does Open Access go far enough?
•Everything needed to reproduce the results should be
made public: data, analysis tools, the lot…
Why Open Access?
5. •Most new astrophysics research has been available via
“Green” Open Access via the arXiv for > 25 years.
•Running costs are <$1M, met by donations
•Despite decreasing publication costs, subscriptions to
traditional academic publications have increased
•Huge profits for private companies and Learned
Societies
•NASA/ADS has historical papers back to 19th
century
•Do we need these journals at all?
Why Academic Journals?
6. • Does Peer Review really “add value”?
• Peer Review is not done by the journals, but
academics (i.e. you and me), usually for free.
• With a more radical publication model, peer review
could be much more effective..
• Astrophysics already leads in “citizen science”, e.g.
“Galaxy Zoo”.
• Is BICEP2 (http://bicepkeck.org/) a taste of the future?
Peer Review
10. •The arXiv and NASA/ADS systems have already made
traditional journals virtually redundant
•Most papers are submitted to arXiv before peer review
•Gold Open Access is simply a rip-off
•The Open Journal for Astrophysics ia a free, open
access, community-reviewed “journal” based on the
arXiv
•Published by Maynooth Academic Publishing!
The Open Journal of
Astrophysics