von Johanna Mauermann & Oliver Bendel Abstract: Der Artikel »Angriff von unten« von Johanna Mauermann und Oliver Bendel befasst sich mit den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen auf dem Literaturmarkt durch die voranschreitende Verbreitung von elektronischer Literatur. Er zeigt auf, dass die Impulse vor allem »von unten« kommen, vorbei am traditionellen Literaturbetrieb.
Image via Wikipedia A few weeks ago I attended a workshop run by the ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh which brought together humanists, social scientists, and science focused folks with an interest in how open approaches can and should be applied to genomic science. This was interesting on a number of levels but I was especially interested in the comments of Marina Levina on citizenship.
Understanding how a process looks from outside our own echo chamber can be useful. It helps to calibrate and sanity check our own responses. It adds an external perspective and at its best can save us from our own overly fixed ideas. In the case of the ongoing Elsevier Boycott we even have a perspective that comes from two opposed directions.
Ten years ago today, the Budapest Declaration was published. The declaration was the output of a meeting held some months earlier, largely through the efforts of Melissa Hagemann, that brought together key players from the, then nascent, Open Access movement. BioMedCentral had been publishing for a year or so, PLoS existed as an open letter, Creative Commons was still focussed on building a commons and hadn’t yet released its first licences.
Mike Taylor has a parable on the Guardian Blog about research communication and I thought it might be useful to share one that I have been using in talks recently. For me it illustrates just how silly the situation is, and how hard it is to break out of the mindset of renting access to content for the incumbent publishers. It also, perhaps, has a happier ending.
Rezension zu: Treude, Linda / Das Konzept Informationskompetenz : Ein Beitrag zur theoretischen und praxisbezogenen Begriffsklärung.
Prior to all the nonsense with the Research Works Act, I had been having a discussion with Heather Morrison about licenses and Open Access and peripherally the principle of requiring specific licenses of authors. I realized then that I needed to lay out the background thinking that leads me to where I am. There is little new here in any sense but it remains a perspective that very few people really get.
Image via Wikipedia When the history of the Research Works Act, and the reaction against it, is written that history will point at the factors that allowed smart people with significant marketing experience to walk with their eyes wide open into the teeth of a storm that thousands of people would have predicted with complete confidence. That story will detail two utterly incompatible world views of scholarly communication.
Rezension zu: Michael Seadle (2011) Archiving in the networked world – open access journals. Library Hi Tech 29 (2): 394-404. DOI: 10.1108/07378831111138251 , Grundlage des Referats – URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100197292 Najko Jahn Das Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) stellt wohl die bedeutendste Quelle für den Nachweis von Open-Access Journalen dar.
Von Karsten Schuldt Rezension zu: Wiley (2011) / 100% Publishing . – [Vinly, MP3]. – London : Big Dada, Ninja Tunes. Die jeweils aktuellen Informationsmittel sind immer Teil des Lebensgefühls der Teile der Bevölkerung, welche populäre Musik nutzen. Diese Aussage ist wohlfeil, leitet sie doch beispielsweise die Forschung zu Subkulturen.