E-Lert # 360 / Cyberavis no. 360
Wednesday January 22, 2010 / le mercredi 22 janvier
2010
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NEWS / NOUVELLES
ARL Supports Mandatory Public Access; AAP Offers Cautions, Warns
of Piracy
Norman Oder
Library Journal, January 21, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has filed comments in a similar
vein to those
filed by the American Library Association and the Association of College
and Research Libraries. However, the Professional and Scholarly Publishing
(PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) offered forceful
opposition to the plan.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6715908.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=17475791
Cornell Library Proposes New Model to Keep arXiv Going
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 21, 2010
Cornell University Library announced it wants the top institutional users
of arXiv.org to help pay
for the online scientific repository. "Keeping an open-access resource
like arXiv sustainable means not only covering its costs, but also continuing
to enhance its value, and that kind of financial commitment is beyond a
single institution's resources," Oya Rieger, Cornell's associate university
librarian for information technologies, said in a statement
describing the new strategy. The experiment is shaping up to be a test of
how well multiple institutions can band together to support critical scholarly
resources.
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Cornell-Library-Proposes-New-/20673/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
New rules ‘a big, big hit' to Canadian magazines
James Adams
Globe and Mail, January 20, 2010
As a result of new funding rules announced by the Harper government Canadian
literary, arts and scholarly magazines are likely going to die and large-circulation
periodicals like Chatelaine and Maclean's will have to make significant
adjustments to operations. Small publications with a total annual paid circulation
of 5,000 copies or less will be ineligible for assistance, with exemptions
for aboriginal, ethno-cultural and official language publications.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/new-rules-a-big-big-hit-to-canadian-magazines/article1438110/
Les éditeurs québécois disent non à
Google
Daniel Lemay
La Presse, 19 Janvier 2010
« Amendement ou pas, l'Association nationale des éditeurs
de livres (ANEL) continue d'inciter ses membres à se retirer du règlement
«Google Recherche de livres», une entente à l'amiable
survenue dans l'État de New York qui règlerait la poursuite
de l'Association américaine des éditeurs et la Guilde américaine
des auteurs contre Google. «Cette entente hors cour permet toujours
à Google d'éviter le débat sur la légalité
de ses pratiques», explique Aline Côté des éditions
Berger, présidente du comité du droit d'auteur de l'ANEL. »
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/201001/19/01-940563-les-editeurs-quebecois-disent-non-a-google.php
Google Books opponents propose public alternative
James Temple
San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2010
Opponents of the controversial legal settlement that would permit
Google Inc. to go ahead with plans to digitize millions of books online
have stepped forward with a counter proposal: a digital public library operated
by a non-profit public guardian. The Open Book Alliance petitioned legislators,
in a letter to members of Congress, to set up a neutral system to provide
greater access to books, while respecting the rights of authors and publishers,
and not granting undue power to any single company. The coalition,
whose members include Google rivals Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com and Yahoo
Inc., called on the Mountain View Internet giant to halt its plan.*
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?&entry_id=55547
[See also: Open Book Alliance Calls for Scrapping Google Settlement, with
Public Guardian - Library organizations, by contrast, have called for reforms,
Norman Oder, Library Journal , January 19, 2010: HTML]
NIH Will Give Less and Demand More in 2010, New Leader Says
Paul Basken
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2010
Six months into his job as NIH director, Francis S. Collins is poised to
announce new ethics rules for universities and their scientists, to ensure
medical research isn't corrupted by corporate funding. That may not be the
only shake-up; in an interview with The Chronicle, Dr. Collins also said
he wants universities to steer more money to younger researchers, to avoid
letting their researchers rely solely on federal grants, and to share their
scientific findings more widely. Also, the NIH, the nation's largest funder
for academic research, warns universities that federal support will likely
decline after last year's infusion of money from the stimulus measure.*
http://chronicle.com/article/NIH-Will-Give-LessDemand/63537/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Rector Proposes Green OA Deposit Mandate for Erasmus University,
Rotterdam
Stevan Harnad
Open Access Archivangelism, January 17, 2010
Rector of Erasmus University,
Rotterdam, Professor Henk Schmidt announced in an interview
about Open Access that he proposes to adopt a Green
Open Access self-archiving mandate for Erasmus University's Institutional
Repository, RePub:
"I intend [on] obliging our researchers to circulate their articles
publicly, for example no more than six months after publication... if possible
in collaboration with publishers via the 'Golden Road' and otherwise
without the publishers via the 'Green Road'... [We] can’t just oblige
researchers to publish in Open Access journals. It has not yet been established
that there are enough prestigious Open Access journals, but – until
there are – prescribing the 'Green Road' seems to me an
excellent idea.”*
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/688-guid.html
Un nouveau directeur général nommé à
la Fédération
14 janvier 2010
« La présidente du conseil d'administration, Mme Noreen
Golfman, a le plaisir d'annoncer la nomination de Jean-Marc Mangin au poste
de directeur général de la Fédération, à
compter du 8 mars 2010. «M. Mangin est un administrateur accompli
qui a occupé des positions de leadership dans la société
civile, au sein du gouvernement du Canada et aux Nations-Unies, a déclaré
Mme Golfman. La Fédération bénéficiera de sa
vaste expérience de l'établissement de partenariats à
l'échelle canadienne et internationale et de son action antérieure
pour rapprocher la recherche interdisciplinaire et la politique publique
afin de mieux comprendre et relever les grands défis de notre époque.
Nous sommes heureux de lui souhaiter la bienvenue au sein de notre équipe.
»
http://www.fedcan.ca/index.php?action=artikel&lang=fr&id=542
[English press release: http://www.fedcan.ca/content/en/542/new-executive-director-appointed-to-the-federation.html]
Justice Dept. settles blind students v. Kindle controversy
Michael Coonev
Network World, January 13, 2010
Four universities have agreed to not purchase, recommend or promote use
of the Kindle
DX, or any other dedicated electronic book reader, unless the devices
are fully accessible to blind students, according to the US
Department of Justice. The agreements came after the National Federation
of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind, along with a blind student
at Arizona State University complained to the DOJ that the Kindle devices
do not accommodate visually-handicapped students. The Americans with Disabilities
Act prohibits disability discrimination. The Kindle does have a feature
that lets the device read e-books out loud, but has no similar spoken controls
that would help a blind person navigate the buttons on the device.*
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/011310-layer8-kindle-justice-settlement.html
ARTICLES
January 19, 2010
SPARC congratulated the [U.S.] Office of Science and Technology Policy
for convening a robust, open discussion on the importance of ensuring broad
public access to the results of federally funded research. SPARC shares
the Administration’s view that enhancing access to research information
will promote advances in science and technology, encourage innovation and
discovery, and enhance the diffusion of knowledge throughout society. Expansion
of the current National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy
to all other federal agencies that conduct scientific research will help
create a freely accessible, permanent digital archive of the results of
federal investment in scientific research.*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/rfi-sparc-response-final-10-0119.pdf
Comments of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Concerning
“Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies
Across the Federal Government”
January 15, 2010
ARL supports enhanced access to federally funded research. Such policies
are integrally tied to and support the mission of higher education and scholarship.
Broad distribution of information and research enables scientists, including
citizen scientists and university researchers, to build upon it and approach
pressing problems with new perspectives. It also permits educators and students
to access previously unavailable research material, without regard for geographic
location or financial limitations. Members of the public would benefit from
access to research findings that they have paid for and may require
in their daily lives or in support of educational interests.*
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/ostp-15jan2010.pdf
Universities must embrace diversity and digitalization
Donald H. Oliver
The Chronicle Herald, January 16, 2010
Every year, Maclean’s evaluates Canadian universities’ performance
on a number of factors. The magazine focuses "on the undergraduate
experience" with the intent "to offer an overview of the quality
of instruction and services available to students at public universities
across the country." While services and the quality of instruction
are important in evaluating the quality of a university education, two other
emerging factors deserve equal, if not more, consideration: digitalization
and diversity. If Canadian universities don’t do a better job of educating
students about these two global shifts, the next generation of Canadian
leaders is in deep trouble. *
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1162473.html
Call for a bigger vision - Science in Canada cannot realize its full potential
without clear direction from government
Nature, Volume 463, Issue 7278, January 14, 2010
Canada is in many ways a powerhouse of academic science: its university
researchers are prolific publishers and strong contributors to the national
research and development enterprise. Canadian government policy, however,
does far too little to support and utilize this strength. Canada is failing
to make the most of a key national resource; everyone involved needs to
take responsibility. The government should designate a single person to
be held accountable for science — either a chief adviser or a fully
fledged minister with the power and the initiative to set a strong national
research agenda. Researchers must find more effective ways of working together
and making their voices heard, including participating in the political
system themselves.*
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7278/full/463135a.html
Preliminary data about CIHR-supported publications cited in PubMed
Be openly accessible or be obscure, January 8, 2010
Via PubMed, it’s now feasible to obtain data that will provide
indicators of compliance with the CIHR Policy
on Access to Research Outputs that “applies to all grants
awarded January 1, 2008 and onward, which have received funding in whole
or in part from CIHR.” As the policy
is implemented, one can expect to see an increase in the percentage of CIHR-supported
publications cited in PubMed, and for which links to ‘free full text’
will be available. As noted in NLM
Technical Bulletin No. 372: “A PubMed
Central Canada manuscript submission system will be implemented in early
2010. This will be another source for grant information from the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research.”*
http://tillje.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/preliminary-data-about-cihr-supported-publications-cited-in-pubmed/
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
The changing role of Jorum: sharing using JorumOpen and JorumUK
January 19, 2010
As open educational resources (OERs) increasingly become part of the learning
and teaching resources landscape, Jorum has opened up for the sharing of
resources, created under Creative
Commons (CC) licences, through its new JorumOpen
collection. JorumOpen provides free access to a growing collection
of open educational resources, for all to benefit worldwide. *
http://jorumnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/changing-role-of-jorum-sharing-using.html
Cyberinfrastructure - 184 Resources
EDUCAUSE
This EDUCAUSE micro site has 184 ressources all about cyberinfrastructure,
aggregated by different types of freely available materials: publications
(reports and articles), presentations, podcasts, and blogs. The content
is also organized by such themes as cyberinfrastructure in research, in
teaching and learning, and campus cyberinfrastructure. *
http://www.educause.edu/node/645/tid/17972?order=field_full_name_value&sort=asc&page=3&time=1243968893
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts
to Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and other
Cyber Resources
Primary Research Group, January 2010
The survey presents data on how higher education faculty in the United
States and Canada view the usefulness and quality of academic library efforts
to further scholarship based on internet sources such as websites, blogs,
listervs, social networking sites, online ads and other internet resources.
The report presents highly detailed data on faculty use of blogs,
websites, social networking sites, email archives, listservs, webcasts and
podcasts, ezines, online ads and other cyber resources in scholarship.
It also highlights how faculty rate academic libraries’ efforts to
index, preserve and catalog these resources. *
http://www.primaryresearch.com/
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, June 7 – 11, 2010
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment to discuss,
learn about, and advance skills in new computing technologies influencing
work in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes
place during a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and
lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists,
experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas
of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to
share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies
to teaching, research, dissemination and preservation.
http://www.dhsi.org/
Fifth International Conference on Digital Information Management
(ICDIM)
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, July 5 – 8, 2010
Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon
(2007), London (2008), and Michigan (2009), the fifth annual ICDIM is being
organized at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 2010. It is a
multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science
and technology. The principal aim is to bring together people in academia,
research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to
address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science
and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas
of digital information management, science and technology, and will address
a large number of themes and issues. Delegates will have the opportunity
to present original research and industrial papers on the theory, design
and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations,
tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations.*
http://www.icdim.org/
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
