Είχα μιλήσει παλιότερα για τα “Health, Neuro, Science, Creative Commons projects“. Ομολογώ πώς είναι project των οποίων το εύρος, το μέγεθος και την έκταση ακόμα δεν έχω πολυκαταλάβει. Είναι πραγματικά πολύ μεγάλη η γκάμα και το εύρος των project τέτοιου “ανοιχτού τύπου”- open access.
Open access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. OA means that any individual user, anywhere, who has access to the Internet, may link, read, download, store, print-off, use, and data-mine the digital content of that article. An OA article usually has limited copyright and licensing restrictions.
Είναι πάρα πολλά τα project, μερικά από τα οποία έχω αναφέρει. Open Access movement, Open Content, Open Textbook(για το οποίο θέλω να μιλήσω περισσότερο σε κάποιο άλλο post), Open Educational Resources, Open Access Self-archiving, Open Access Publishing, Open Archives Initiative, OpenCourseWare, Open Research, Open Notebook Science.
Έχω ξαναφερθεί πάνω στο OpenCourseWare αλλά καλό θα ήταν όποιον τον ενδιαφέρει το θέμα να κοιτάξει και τα παρακάτω link:
- Open educational resources(wikiversity)
- OER Portals and Gateways(wikiversity)
- OER Repositories(wikiversity)
- OER Tools(wikiversity)
- OER Handbook(WikiEducator). Κατεβάστε και κάνετε import στο Zotero μια συλλογή πηγών που χρησιμοποιούνται στο βιβλίο.
Σήμερα, λοιπόν, μια καλή νεραϊδα(sic) μου “σύστησε” τo Scientific Commons. Πρόκειται για μια μηχανή αναζήτησης free ακαδημαϊκών εγγράφων(άρθρα, διπλωματικές, διατριβές κτλ). Για τη λειτουργία του το Scientific Commons στηρίζεται στο Open Archive Initiate.
The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public.
ScientificCommons includes a search engine for publications and author profiles. It also allows the user to turn searches into customized RSS feeds of new publications. ScientificCommons also provides a fulltext caching service for researchers.
ScientificCommons has no registration wall for searchers, but repositories that are not indexed can register by name and the OAI interface URL. It uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to extract data. Currently, only OAI-compliant repositories and personal websites that are enhanced through Dublin Core in their HTML headers can be included in the index.
ScientificCommons strongly supports self-archiving, a legal way for authors to make publications from over 90% of scientific journals available, often called the “green road to open access”. The maintainers suggest that scientists should refuse to publish with any journal which will not allow them to self-archive.
Apart from the metadata scraped from repositories, lexical and statistical methods are used to index keywords. Citations are also extracted from the bulk text. This data is used in the search engine and RSS feeds.
ScientificCommons has been designed to work with Zotero.
Αν δεν καταλάβατε, λίγες ακόμα λεπτομέρειες για το τι είναι Open Archive, OA Self-archiving, Open Access Publishing, Open Access Journal.
An open archive is an institutional repository or some other web-accessible digital database that is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
Self-archiving involves depositing a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author’s own institutional repository or open archive for the purpose of maximizing its accessibility, usage and citation impact.
Self-archiving is one of two general methods for providing open access. The other is open access publishing in an open access journal. The former is sometimes called the “green” and the latter the “golden” road to open access.
Για το τέλος αφήνω ένα μικρό video του “Scholar’s Copyright Project”, από το Science Commons. Ρίξτε μια ματιά και στο Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine (SCAE), επίσης από το Science Commons. Η φράση Making research and data “re-useful” νομίζω τα λέει όλα…
