[Open-education] openscienceASAP monthly Sum-Up

Mon Mar 31 13:46:10 UTC 2014

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Hello, everyone,

the German chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation published a sum-up by
openscienceASAP (German as well), which I translated into English.
It's released under CC-BY 3.0 Unported
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.de) on Open Science ASAP.

I mailed it to Marieke at first in order to republish it on the Open
Education blog as well, but she replied, it wouldn't fit that good and
suggested to send it to the mailing list instead. So here we go:

The monthly Open Science Sum-Up
(http://openscienceasap.org/stream/2014/03/14/open-science-sum-up-februar/)
is an abstract of the last month and offers a small prospect:
Worldwide, in Austria, in Germany.

# The last month in retrospective

## First some congratulations

One year ago Landsat 8 started and delivers as of then more than 500
satellite images back to earth daily. Volcanic eruptions, glacial
recessions, floods, urbanisation and forest fires becomes visible to
everyone this way and the data is publicly available.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-usgs-landsat-8-satellite-celebrates-first-year-of-success/index.html#.UxszS9vUKY6

Happy birthday and continue having a good trip!

## How is openness and integrity linked up?

Andrew C. Rawnsley discusses
(http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/02/25/cultivating-openness-through-research-integrity/)
the ethic aspects of openness and focus especially on the integrity in
the research field.

Ijad Madisch picks
(http://euroscientist.com/2014/02/open-science-more-than-sharing/) the
comprehensive discourse as well and emphasizes, that Open Science is
essentially more than only sharing of data. Eric Kansa analyses
(http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=931) the ideological aspects
of Open Science carry them out against neoliberal ideas. Roger Harris
discusses
(http://www.researchtoaction.org/2014/02/open-science-and-open-knowledge/)
the relationship between Open Science and Open Knowledge.
To become public knowledge scientific results have to be adaptable on
the context of concrete problems.

## While Der Spiegel is writing
(http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/jobundberuf/umgang-mit-daten-der-glaeserne-forscher-a-954958.html)
pro data sharing PLOS is creating precedents
(http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2014/02/24/plos-new-data-policy-public-access-data/)
– as of march all data of a study, which is published in this journal,
has to be open. The
Data-Driven-Discovery Initiative
(http://www.moore.org/programs/science/data-driven-discovery/data-science-environments)
shall be observed therefore, since ideas and stimulation for
inter-university collaboration in the time of Big Data can be drawn
from there.

## Submitting faked papers is becoming
(http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/feb/26/how-computer-generated-fake-papers-flooding-academia)
trending.

This time Spring and IEEE were affected
(http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763#/correction1):
There were submitted more than 100 papers out of a random generator
(http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2014-02/wissenschaftsverlage-zufallsgenerierte-fachartikel)
– and released.

## Time and financial support to realise one's ideas is a wish of most
people.

Peter Murray-Rust now gained
(http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/02/28/i-have-been-awarded-a-shuttleworth-fellowship-to-change-the-world-my-first-reactions/)
both due to the award of the Shuttleworth Fellowship now.
He wants to take the chance and create publicly available precedents
through Content Mining.

## Open Access takes some big steps forwards in Austria:

The Open Access Network Austria started working – in five working
groups (http://www.oana.at/arbeitsgruppen/) is thought about how Open
Access can be spread in Austria. The Institute of Science and
Technology Austria (ISTA) has an own Open Access Policy
(http://ist.ac.at/open-access) just recently and Nora Schmidt
inspected (https://uscholar.univie.ac.at/view/o:337723) the Golden Way
concreter and looked for options for the University of Vienna.

## Developing Open Access Publishing models together with publishers
without additional costs for the public?

FWF reached an agreement
(http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/aktuelles_detail.asp?N_ID=587) together with
Institute of Physics and Global Players in this aspect. Costs, which
are raised on publishing, are subtracted from subscription prices. An
exciting road which is walked here.

## Microbial Cell (http://microbialcell.com/) is a new Open Access
Journal in Austria

dealing with unicellular organism and multicellular micro-organism.
Great to see Creative Commons BY as the license of choice here.

## A great offence against the freedom of research:

With these words, the FAZ names
(http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/forschung-und-lehre/open-access-als-pflicht-ein-gravierender-angriff-auf-die-freiheit-der-forschung-12818489.html)
the commitment to Open Access in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

## The Openness of Open Access Journals

is the task Ulrich Herb has chosen
(http://www.scinoptica.com/pages/topics/creative-commons-lizenzen-und-open-access-journals.php)
for his blog. He inspected therefore the 9,804 journals from DOAJ and
their Creative Commons licenses in detail.

# A prospect into the future

## Open Science goes German.

Just recently an open group comes together aiming at pushing Open
Science in Germany, Austria and other German speaking countries
together. For all those who are interested in there's a Mailing list
(https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science-de).

## The Technical Information Library presents
(http://www.tib-hannover.de/de/die-tib/aktuelles/aktuelles/id/496/)
the Open Science Lab.

During the CeBIT the manual called “Co-Science – Gemeinsam forschen
und publizieren mit dem Netz” [Ed: Co-Science – Researching and
publishing together with the web] shall be drafted collaboratively.
Afterwards the community shall expand and update it.

## The German Free and Open Source Geoinformationsystem Community

meets on 19th to 21st March in Berlin at FOSSGIS Konferenz 2014
(http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/). As always there's a large
group of OpenStreetMap activists there.

## Wikimedia meets University
(https://www.wikimedia.at/content/15-m%C3%A4rz-2014-wikipedia-meets-university)

this is the name of a convention by Wikimedia Foundation Austria about
the role of open knowledge – especially the wikipedia – on
universities. On 15th March you can discuss and exchange ideas in
Vienna about it.

## The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, http://open.fda.gov/) open
themselves and their data.

Over the year data concerning product recalls and adverse events shall
be opened for public, but also software and a communication platform.

# Our projects

## In terms of multimedia it was about picture and sound on us.

First, the record about panel discussion Science in change
(http://openscienceasap.org/stream/2014/02/12/video-zu-podiumsdiskussion-wissenschaft-im-wandel-ist-open-science-die-zukunft/)
and the podcasts
(http://www.openscienceradio.de/2014/02/osr014-open-access-101/)
concerning Open Access, FuturICT
(http://openscienceasap.org/stream/2014/02/10/osia2-futurict/) and
Open Science in the research field
(http://openscienceasap.org/stream/2014/02/24/osia3-open-science-in-der-forschung/).

Please, provide some feedback so I know, whether to take the time and
effort to translate the next monthly sum-up. I suggest to do so
off-list (that is directly and not via mailing list). I'm happy, if
you can spot the light on the topics you're interested in, too!

Hopefully I find time to dig more into the "Wikimedia meets
university" subject, because this is a field, which suits best to this
working group here, says Marieke.

Best regards

André Jaenisch
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