Working Groups/access/website

Pasted in from email discussion. Please hack. Nick Barnes 14:42, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Open @ccess for All
"Sharing the results of scientific research"

Most of the 2.5 million articles published each year in the world’s 24,000 peer-reviewed journals are denied to many of their potential users because they cannot afford access. The solution to this problem is open access: free and unrestricted access to scientific information for everyone: free to read, reuse, and redistribute. This site is dedicated to the promotion of Open Access, as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative. It will:
 * publish an Open Access Index: a novel way to measure access to information;
 * provide a portal to Open Access related information;
 * be a one-stop resource for access to all published scientific information organized around themes: for instance malaria, cancer; * include tools for easy access;
 * offer novel ways of sharing information made possible by Open Access;
 * build and link to communities of scientists and other citizens sharing information;
 * link to other Open Access groups.

SPECIFIC CONTENT

''“By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”''
 * Give a prominent place to the open access definition according to BOAI:


 * publish examples on the website of the problems experienced with access to information as stated by users (PMR)


 * Provide an overview of ways that specific journals define their openness and their policy for things like datamining as a guide for authors who seek the most suited place to publish their research results (Jenny Molloy)

SHARING INFORMATION
 * be a one-stop resource for access to all published scientific information organized around themes: for instance malaria, cancer; * include tools for easy access;
 * offer novel ways of sharing information made possible by Open Access;

Users of the Malaria network will be asked to deposit their papers in a Open Access repository. Authors will be encouraged to use supplementary materials like video, interactive graphics and others. Publications will be indexed and stored as ORR's, with links to articles in the repository and external links to Open Access journals for access to full content. For general information we could set up a WIKI. A WIKI on Malaria for instance would facilitate the access to and digest of information provided by the malaria Bibsoup database. Sharing can take place via online discussion in theme oriented groups, and in the form of online collaboration between scientists and scientific groups. The structure of the site for this could be modeled on ResearchGate.net. We can work toward a structure that reflects Cameron Neylon's ideas on [http://%5B%5Bnetworked%20enabled%20research|http://cameronneylon.net/blog/network-enabled-research/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScienceInTheOpen+%28Science+in+the+open%29%5D%5D. networked enabled research]

LINKS

I) OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page Open Access Directory http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project Open Access tracking project  OATP  on twitter http://okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation http://opensciencefederation.com/ Open Science Federation http://www.arl.org/sparc SPARC https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum/topics?pli=1 SPARC open access forum http://www.openaccessweek.org/ Social network for open access minded scientists http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal GOAL  global open access list http://www.sparceurope.org/ SPARC Europe http://www.righttoresearch.org/ Right to Research Coalition The Right to Research Coalition is an international alliance of student organizations that promote open access to research through advocacy and education. http://www.openaire.eu/ European open access infrastructure http://project-soap.eu    Study of Open Access Publishing (completed) http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php Open access  infopage EU  registered users can blog, share information http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/ Global Open Access Portal UNESCO http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page#Research_assistants Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/j_6/home EOS enabling open scholarship http://www.soros.org/ Open Society Foundations (formerly open society institute) http://www.eifl.net/ enabling access to knowledge through libraries in developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia and Europe http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica Open Access Africa http://www.researchtoaction.org/ Research to Action how to bring development research into focus and into use http://www.scidev.net/ Science and development network JISC UK based organization promoting the use of digital technology for research, teaching and learning. Sherpa Sherpa services Open Access information http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/projects/rcs/index.php Research and communication strategy project (completed) Creative Commons making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others repositories-support-project The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a 5.5 year JISC-funded initiative contributing to building repository capacity, knowledge and skills within UK higher education institutions. OpenDOAR-the-directory-of-open-access-repositories OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Confederation of Open Access Repositories The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is a not-for-profit association of repository initiatives launched in October 2009 ROARMAP Registry of open access repositories mandatory archiving policies OASIS OASIS gives more information about open access, aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. Driver Driver is a collaboration, co-funded by the European Union, to build a network of fully accessible digital repositories with content across academic disciplines. http://www.digitale-gesellschaft.de/ Digitale gesellschaft  for a free and open society http://www.sspnet.org/ SSP innovative people advancing scholarly communication Open Access Net German platform for promotion of open access ISN Institute for Science Networking Institute for Science Networking OAPEN Library OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. http://www.openaccess.nl/ Dutch national website providing information for academics about the advantages of open access to publicly financed research

II)   Open Access Publishers http://www.biomedcentral.com BiomedCentral  publisher of 223 peer-reviewed open access journals http://www.plos.org/ PLoS http://www.intechweb.org/ Intech open access publisher http://www.frontiersin.org Frontiers  will be publishing eLife http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/ Wiley Open http://www.springeropen.com/ Springer Open  open access for STM (Springer owns Biomedcentral) @eLifeJournal (twitter) eLife a new open access journal from Max Planck Society, Wellcome Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

REGARDING THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: * be a one-stop resource for access to all published scientific information organized around themes: for instance malaria, cancer;
 * build and host communities of scientists and other citizens sharing information

In the case of Malaria we already have a network community called MalariaWorld and hosted at www.malariaworld.org. My suggestion would be to link to this malaria community on the @ccess site, and to provide access to Bibsoup (#) and the user repository (papers uploaded by malariaworld members)on the Malariaworld site. People who want to visit or join the malaria community on the @ccess site will be forwarded to MalariaWorld where they get access to the malaria Bibsoup database. MalariaWorld users should also be able to access the @ccess site directly from the Malariaworld site via a link or button on this site. Other communities under @ccess could also remain hosted on their existing sites. With reagards to the publication of the malaria index we (at Dutch Malaria Foundation) think that this could be mirrored on both the @ccess.org site and on MalariaWorld.org. I am not sure how easy these things will be to implement, but as far as I can see it is doable. (#) Bibsoup could contain links to full text of publications and posssible also notebook science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_notebook_science)