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Comment by Suzi Dominy on June 17, 2010 at 12:15pm

Benny Ron pointed out that the link to my earlier notification doesn't work - so here it is again, reposted with an additional link:

A message from Suzi Dominy to all members of Open Access on AquacultureHub!

I recently had a bit of a rant to the administrator of the ARS about why I should have to pay to access papers that resulted from federal funding - i.e. my tax dollars - and why the scientists often had to pay to attend meetings (with my tax dollar again) in order to get the paper published - so that private publishing companies - mostly not even from the country that has funded the research - can make money.

I received a very cordial reply and learned about the "Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009" (Senate Bill S.1373/House bill H.R. 5037). It will, if passed, provide a legal framework for the public to access publications resulting from research conducted by employees of Federal agencies or funded by Federal agencies. Thus, your request may become a reality in the near future. Read about it here http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.01373: and support it!
See also: Call to action: Tell Congress you support the Federal Research Public Access Act from Alliance for Taxpayer Access: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/frpaa_action/10-0416.shtml

Comment by Yoko Yamamoto on June 17, 2010 at 11:09am

Informational Update on a Possible UC Systemwide Boycott of the Nature Publishing Group - June 4, 2010
Nature_Faculty_Letter-June_2010.pdf

Comment by Yoko Yamamoto on June 17, 2010 at 11:08am

Response from the University of California to the Public statement from Nature Publishing Group regarding subscription renewals at the California Digital Library June 10, 2010
UC_Response_to_Nature_Publishing_Group.pdf

Comment by Yoko Yamamoto on June 16, 2010 at 12:28pm

Check out my blog, "Will Cost Battles between Librarians and Publishing Houses help the cause of Open Access?"

Comment by Dave Takaki on February 10, 2010 at 5:46am

This is extracted from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

Creative Commons is an initiative I became aware of when doing research in the web environment on SSL, secure socket layers (Transport Layer Security). The Creative Commons Initiative is a reflection of a broader ‘Open Source’ movement.


Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy to understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons License. This simplicity distinguishes Creative Commons from an all rights reserved copyright. Creative Commons was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with "some rights reserved." Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.

The organization was founded in 2001 by Larry Lessig, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred[2] with support of the Center for the Public Domain. The first set of copyright licenses were released in December 2002.[3] In 2008 there were an estimated 130 million works licensed under Creative Commons.[4] Creative Commons is governed by a board of directors and a technical advisory board. Esther Wojcicki, journalism teacher from Palo Alto, CA, is currently the chair of the board. Creative Commons has been embraced by many as a way for content creators to take control of how they choose to share their intellectual property. There has also been criticism that it doesn't go far enough.

Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the copyleft movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic "all rights reserved" copyright, dubbed "some rights reserved."[5] David Berry and Giles Moss have credited Creative Commons with generating interest in the issue of intellectual property and contributing to the re-thinking of the role of the "commons" in the "information age". Beyond that, Creative Commons has provided "institutional, practical and legal support for individuals and groups wishing to experiment and communicate with culture more freely."[6]

Creative Commons works to counter what the organization considers to be a dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture. According to Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, it is "a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past".[7] Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.[8][9]

Types of Creative Commons licenses

There are six major licenses of the Creative Commons:[12]

* Attribution (CC-BY)
* Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)
* Attribution No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND)
* Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
* Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
* Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)

There are four major conditions of the Creative Commons: Attribution (BY), requiring attribution to the original author; Share Alike (SA), allowing derivative works under the same or a similar license (later or jurisdiction version); Non-Commercial (NC), requiring the work is not used for commercial purposes; and No Derivative Works (ND), allowing only the original work, without derivatives.[12]

As of the current versions, all Creative Commons licenses allow the "core right" to redistribute a work for non-commercial purposes without modification. The NC and ND options will make a work non-free.

Additional options include the CC0 option, or "No Right Reserved."[13] For software, Creative Commons has three available licenses: the BSD License, the CC GNU LGPL license, and the CC GNU GPL.[14][15]

Comment by Benny Ron on December 16, 2009 at 5:42pm

Free Book of Abstracts from Aquaculture America 2009
AA2009abstracts.pdf

Comment by Benny Ron on November 24, 2009 at 8:41am

UH Voyager Library System Outage starting 4 p.m. tomorrow

from UH Library Services Office
to announce@hawaii.edu
date Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:00 AM
subject UH Voyager Library System Outage starting 4 p.m. tomorrow
mailed-by lst01.its.hawaii.edu

hide details 6:00 AM (2 hours ago)

Due to a fumigation project affecting Sinclair Library on the UH Manoa campus, we will be shutting down the UH Voyager library servers after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25 (Thanksgiving Eve). When this occurs, all connections to the UH Library online catalog will be down.

After getting the all clear from the fumigation company, we may be able to bring the library servers back up by the evening of November 27, at the earliest.

We will try to keep the proxy server that handles electronic resources for libraries outside of the UH Manoa campus up and running during the outage.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Comment by Benny Ron on October 8, 2009 at 6:48pm

I recently received the following message:
"Re: Open Access of "The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture – Bamidgeh
Dear Dan Mires, Editor of the Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh
Let me introduce myself. I am Dr. R. K. Upadhyay, working in Central Institute of Fisheries Education (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) Deemed University, located at Mumbai India. Our main job is research, imparting training in freshwater aquaculture and Extension. I would like to thank you for your message concerning your Open Access project, congratulate your team members and wish you success.

Dr Upadhyay and other scientists from India."

I authorize you to publish this comment in Facebook and other Internet sites.

Dr. Upadhyay

Comment by Dave Takaki on October 6, 2009 at 9:53pm

Directory of Open Access Journals.html

Comment by Benny Ron on October 5, 2009 at 9:23am

Comment by Dave Takaki:

Delete Comment I think peer review journals will continue much as they have, and that the "open community" and the worries of "scientific wild assed guessing" creeping in under the door will provide venues for the intuition part of serious research. A recent essay in Seed was also somewhat sanguine on this topic.

As to the business end of publishing, things are certainly in a transitional phase. Traditional links in publishing's trophic system are unraveling. I work in publishing, and things are definitely changing...

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Comment by Michael Haring:

I think the writing is on the wall (this one!) if you are looking at a long term solution. Here in Hawaii educators are being faced with reduced salaries, furloughs, budget restraints, etc. We are faced with the inevitability of open access to materials for effective use and availability in an online format. Now, how will the scientific communities approach this, and how will "respected" journals respond to this need? Probably not without much foresight for those applying the knowledge in the trenches! $$$ and status are big stones, but stones can be moved and paradigms do shift.

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