Open Access and Research Conference 2008STAMFORD PLAZA HOTEL, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND 24-25 SEPTEMBERThe way we create and disseminate knowledge has undergone profound change over the last ten years. The capacity of ICT and the rise of a rich text, highly interactive, user generated and socially active Internet (Web 2.0) has seen linear models of knowledge production giving way to more diffuse open e
Un pobrecito hablador nos cuenta: «La Comunidad de Madrid acaba de definir la primera política explícita y formal de acceso abierto en España, muy en línea con las directrices establecidas por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación. Esta política exige a los grupos de investigación del CSIC que publiquen el resultado de sus investigaciones en el repositorio abierto Digital.CSIC.»
Google App Engine is a developer tool, that enables developers to build / run web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google’s infrastructure. It provides free access to persistent storage of up to 500 MB and enough bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month.
At the time, Google said that they were going to [...]
It asks FCC to step in to ensure complianceWASHINGTON -- Google Inc. has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to obtain a pledge from Verizon Wireless that it will honor the open-access conditions on a band of 700-MHz spectrum before selling the spectrum to the carrier.Google, in a filing with the FCC on Friday, raised concerns that Verizon Wireless wasn't committed to the open-access rules the FCC put on the nationwide C block of the 700-MHz spectrum the agency sold in an auction that ended in mid-March. The FCC's open-access rules require the winner of the C block to allow customers to connect wireless devices of their choosing and run any applications on the network using the C block.Google's filing doesn't explicitly spell out what the company wants the FCC to do if Verizon
Want faster Internet? Want cheaper Internet? Want both cheaper and faster Internet - the kind people in Europe or Asia currently enjoy? Don't hold your breath.
The same two telecommunications companies that control vast swaths of America's wires have just won another auction, this time for the much-hyped "700 band" wireless spectrum:
When Congress authorized this auction, their stated intention was to pry open our cell phone and broadband markets to consumer choice and new competition. But having Verizon and AT&T control the most significant chunks of the spectrum — including the so-called national C Block — means more of the same for Internet users.
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Verizon and AT&T are already among the most dominant providers of "wired" broadband access in the U.S. Their vict
Among this year's main themes, I believe, is sharing. So far we had a few announcements, spanning a wide range of network assets:
Mobile in Spain: Orange and Yoigo (TeliaSonera) in transmission infrastructure.Mobile TV in Hungary: T-Mobile and Vodafone.Fiber-to-the-business in the Carolinas: Charter and TWC.Duct sharing in Spain: Telefonica has to open up, according to new CMT plans (see also
The ASPNET worker process doesn't have the correct permissions to connect to or write to the Access database. Either enable impersonation for users or configure the ASP.NET worker process to run under the SYSTEM account. You can also grant read and write permissions for the "Everyone" group on the database and the database folder.
FAN FAVORITE: The Tennis Channel(.com) recently conducted a survey wherein fans voted for their favorite Tennis Players. On the women's side, there were 10 nominees:Lindsay Davenport, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Justine Henin, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles, Maria Sharpova, Serena Williams and Venus Williams (of these 10, the group was reduced to five). Serena was voted as the #2 Fan Favorite but she will always be # 1 in this fan's opinion. Like her or not, there's no denying the HUGE impact that she has on tennis.Open Access Top Five Fan Favorites (Female):1. Monica Seles2. Serena Williams3. Venus Williams4. Steffi Graff5. Chris Evert The show aired earlier this evening (7:00pm EST) on The Tennis Channel. I will let you know when it re-airs. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) defines the issue of Open Access Publication as:
An Open Access Publication[1] is one that meets the following two conditions:
1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship,[2] as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unr
Verizon Wireless has withdrawn its appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 700 MHz open-access rule. Verizon Wireless isn't happy with the FCC 700 MHz recent open-access rules and had filed a lawsuit which created uncertainty with the upcoming auction of the more than a thousand wireless airwaves licenses. However, CTIA (The International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry) has immediately entered to challenge the same regulation in a law suit filed at the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.“In challenging the 700 MHz order, petitioner does not seek to delay or overturn the results of any auction,” CTIA told the court. “Petitioner does, however, seek to overturn certain aspects of the order that are at odds with prior commission rulings and with the realities of the competitive marketplace for wireless services.”
First with Net neutrality and now with so-called “open access” rules for forthcoming wireless networks, there seems to be no end to the discord between Google and Verizon.
The latest evidence of tensions surfaced when Verizon Wireless this week quietly filed a petition asking a federal appeals court in Washington to “review” rules set to apply [...]
Forwarding this email I received from the editor of JMMT. There is a lot of great content available on their site, so go check it out. It is great that they are opening their information to the entire physical therapy community. I truly appreciate their efforts to share knowledge. Thanks!Just wanted to let you and the readers of your excellent blog know that we have a new issue available online of JMMT at http://jmmtonline.com/current/. This issue again has some open access content including a rather lengthy (for which my apologies) editorial I wrote discussing chiropractic challenges to the PT scope of practice (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n2/EditorialV15N2.pdf). FYI, I am open to receiving and perhaps publishing letters to the editor on this topic.Open access content also includes an historical review paper by Dr. Thomas Terlouw on the early history of physical therapy in Europe and specifically in the Netherlands(http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n2/TerlouwV15N2E.pdf). T
UPDATE Monday, 11th December 2006: Access to the online edition is no longer available (apparently the pages shouldn't have been accessible)Open access online edition (with illustrations) of Professor Stephen William Hawking's "A Brief History Of Time" (Amazon Astore UK | US):Book Contents:Chapter 1 - Our Picture of the UniverseChapter 2 - Space and TimeChapter 3 - The Expanding UniverseChapter 4 - The Uncertainty PrincipleChapter 5 - Elementary Particles and the Forces of NatureChapter 6 - Black HolesChapter 7 - Black Holes Ain't So BlackChapter 8 - The Origin and Fate of the UniverseChapter 9 - The Arrow of TimeChapter 10 - Wormholes and Time TravelChapter 11 - The Unification of PhysicsChapter 12 - ConclusionGlossaryAcknowledgments and About The AuthorRead "A Brief History Of Time" hereStephen Hawking (homepage) "A Brief History Of Time": Amazon Astore UK | USAnd "The Universe in a Nutshell" (UK | US)[Science, Hole, Review]Technorati: open access, stephen, william, hawking, brief
From Astrobiology.com October 2006, Vol. 6, No. 5 : 735 -813:The Astrobiology Primer (Version 1) has been created as a reference tool for those who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology. The field incorporates many diverse research endeavors, but it is our hope that this slim volume will present the reader with all he or she needs to know to become involved and to understand, at least at a fundamental level, the state of the art.Each section includes a brief overview of a topic and a short list of readable and important literature for those interested in deeper knowledge. Because of the great diversity of material, each section was written by a different author with a different expertise. Contributors, authors, and editors are listed at the beginning, along with a list of those chapters and sections for which they were responsible. We are deeply indebted to the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), in particular to Estelle Dodson, David Morrison, Ed Goolish, Krisst
RNA Inteference: The journal Nature is allowing open access to Nobel Prize Winners Andrew Fire's and Craig Mello's original paper:Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. Elegans)ANDREW FIRE (1), SIQUN XU (1), MARY K. MONTGOMERY (1), STEVEN A. KOSTAS (1)(2), SAMUEL E. DRIVER (3) and CRAIG C. MELLO (3)(1) Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland 21210, USA(2) Biology Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA(3) Program in Molecular Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Cancer Center, Two Biotech Suite 213, 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USAExperimental introduction of RNA into cells can be used in certain biological systems to interfere with the function of an endogenous gene 1,2. Such effects have been proposed to result from a simple anti-sense mechani
