Is it time for a paradigm shift in the ways we generate and share science? Perhaps it is time to embrace a new golden era of citizen science, “an era in which amateur investigators have ever more powerful tools with which to investigate themselves (via personal genomics), and their environments”.
The Open Science Summit will address this “Organizational Revolution”
Taking place between July 29-31 in Berkeley, California, the event can be Live streamed at ForaTV
Go to the OSS website
See my June post about this event.
Around a fifth of global science papers are now freely available online, a study finds, with Latin America and India leading the pack.
Read the PLos ONE study here.
The full text of this report from UNESCO and the International Social Science Council presents a review of the state of social sciences teaching and research worldwide. This includes coverage of regional trends and disparities. Annex 1 page 386 has some good statistics on the social sciences, number of students, expenditure on research in comparison to GDP annex 2 has some basic discussion and summaries of open access initiatives.
Read the full report here.
Between May 10 and July 13, more than 2000 Canadian individuals and organizations registered to share their ideas and submissions. Canadian Open Access advocates Heather Morrison, and others, participated in public consultation period about Canada’s digital l economy by posting a letter on the government website. The executive summary reads:
“We recommend that Canada develop a policy requiring open access to federally funded Canadian scholarship,
i.e. research funded by the research granting councils CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, and NRC. This policy would ensure taxpayer access to taxpayer-funded research, maximum impact of taxpayer-funded research, bring Canadian policy into line with international policy developments, and appropriately secure a place for Canada as a leader in this area. Please note that this is an update of an earlier submission, reflecting additional signatures. ”
Go to the page and read the letter here.
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