Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators :: Barbara Aronson

Originally posted on Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators on August 30, 2007.

In this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon dell speaks with Barbara Aronson, program manager for the World Health Organization's Health InterNetwork Access Initiative (HINARI). Thanks to this program, qualifying hospitals, universities, and other organizations in 70 of the poorest countries receive free access to many of the best biomedical journals. Another 43 somewhat less poor countries pay token fees to access the journals, an arrangement that has drawn criticism from some open access advocates. Barbara Aronson argues that the developed world's notion of open access is too narrow, that HINARI is an important form of open access, and that it has also become a laboratory in which publishers can explore a tiered pricing model that may ultimately apply to developed countries too.

The economics of scientific publishing notwithstanding, HINARI represents a revolution in poor countries' access to current medical research. And researchers in those countries aren't just consuming the information. They're also processing it to produce new research that reflects their own very different circumstances.

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Talking With Talis :: Peter Murray-Rust on Open Access, Open Data, Science, and the Semantic Web

Originally posted on Talking With Talis on May 31, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Professor Peter Murray-Rust of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics at the University of Cambridge.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we look at the changing nature of academic publishing, the importance of primary data to the process, and the remarkable potential of the Semantic Web in both streamlining and enriching the endeavour.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

• Artistic License
• Bioinformatics
• Biomed Central
• Cancer Research UK
• Chemistry Central
• Creative Commons' Attribution License
• dbpedia
• GNU GPL License
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• JUMBO
• UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Peter Murray-Rust's blog
• Nature
• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Open Access on Wikipedia
• Open Data panel at WWW2007
• Open Data on Wikipedia
• OpenID
• OpenLink's Virtuoso
• PLoS ONE
• Science
• Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?, plus documented responses in 2004 and 2005.
• Science Commons
• SPECTRa-T
• vCard
• The Wellcome Trust
• Wikipedia

MediaBerkman :: Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” (part 2)

Originally posted by MediaBerkman, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast, on March 17, 2007.

Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?”

Download part two of the audio podcast (time: 23:10).

What can academics do to ensure that their research results are included in the growing “knowledge commons?” Gavin Yamey MD, Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shares his experiences in the open access movement and explores possible avenues for its expansion to other fields, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities.

MediaBerkman :: Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” (part 1)

Originally posted by MediaBerkman, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast, on March 17, 2007.

Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?”

Download part one of the audio podcast (time: 1:17:38).

What can academics do to ensure that their research results are included in the growing “knowledge commons?” Gavin Yamey MD, Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shares his experiences in the open access movement and explores possible avenues for its expansion to other fields, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Diane Harley

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from Diane Harley, a Senior Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Listen in as she covers a range of topics, including her research of faculty use of digital materials, open access, scholarly communication and more..

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

Talking With Talis :: The Library 2.0 Gang on Open Access and Web 3.0

Originally posted by Talking With Talis on November 15, 2006.

In this Library 2.0 Gang discussion, Gang members discuss a number of Open Access-related topics from recent conferences around the world, including South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The discussion concludes with some thoughts on the recent arrival of 'Web 3.0' as a term.

Programme participants were drawn, as usual, from the full list of Gang members, and a forum is available for discussion of issues raised during the recording.

Participants in this edition of the Library 2.0 Gang were;

• Janie Hermann, Technology Training Librarian for Princeton Public Library in New Jersey. Janie blogs at LibraryGarden.
• Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist at Talis. Paul contributes to the panlibus blog, and hosts the Talking with Talis podcast series.
• T. Scott Plutchak, Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Alabama, USA. Scott blogs at T. Scott.
• Sandra Stewart, Branch Manager at San Jose Public Library's Tully Branch. Sandra blogs at Library Tourguide to Technology.
• Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist at Talis. Richard contributes to the panlibus blog.

During the conversation, the following sites and resources were cited;

• The 2006 Charleston conference, and Scott's session there [free registration required]
• Internet Librarian 2006
• Richard Wallis' reports from the Stellenbosch Symposium [1, 2]
• Learning 2.0 at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
• Nick Carr's “Welcome Web 3.0”, and the original New York Times piece by John Markoff

Jon Udell :: A conversation with Peter Suber about open access

Originally posted by Jon Udell on August 18, 2006.

Peter Suber, the leading chronicler of the open access movement, joins me for this week's podcast. Since the dawn of the blog era, it's been obvious to me that the modes of knowledge exchange we bloggers take for granted are also a natural fit for scientific and academic publishing. That idea has matured more slowly than some of us had hoped. But as you know if you follow Peter's blog, Open Access News, it has now taken root and is growing at a healthy rate.

In this conversation Peter defines open access repositories and open access journals, and he discusses the history, economics, and cultural practices driving the open access movement. We also discuss the ways in which scholarly open access is both like and unlike blogging, in terms of technologies and methods.