Presentation on intellectual property and social networks for The Digital Researcher: Managing your networks and building your profile
15 March 2010
http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/56271-205821/Workshops/Digital-researcher-Managing-your-networks-and-building-your-profile.html
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http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/23.html Subscription prices to academic journals rose 227% between 1986 and 2002 - four times higher than the consumer prices inflation rate. A personal subscription to Nature costs £135 per year (£1590 per year for a university) and a personal subscription to Science costs US $255.00 per year. Almost all of the work published in these journals is funded by taxpayer's money or by charities such as the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK. Very few scientists in developing countries and very few patient support groups can afford subscription fees to scientific journals. Who owns this information? Who paid for it?
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Institutional Repositories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository An Institutional Repository is a site for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. Objectives: To create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research To collect content in a single location To provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it Oo store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ("grey") literature (e.g. theses, technical reports)
How to build a case for university policies and practices in support of Open Access. JISC, 25 February 2010. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/howtoopenaccess.aspx
Hannah Nicklin. Keeping my process open, keeping the university paying me. http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2010/01/keeping-my-process-open-keeping-the-university-paying-me/ Alek Skrotoski. To publish or not to publish online: redux. http://alekskrotoski.com/post/academic-to-publish-or-not-to-publish-online-redux
Whether to share? When to share? Where to share? The balance of advantages from sharing (feedback, reputation etc) with the potential disadvantages (being misrepresented, others stealing ideas etc).