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Open Access explained in one very simplified image

A very simplified image explanation of the different types of Open Access by Esther Plomp.  The image is based on CC0 licensed images, as well as one image (hybrid) made created by Scriberia with The Turing Way community. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3332807">10.5281/zenodo.3332807</a>.  The upload contains three versions, of which Open-Access-3 is the latest and includes 'Black' Open Access. ALT text for Open-Access-3: An overview of open access options. The diamond one says 'published without charges' and is represented with a diamond in front of the open access logo. Green has a green open access logo and says 'self archiving using repositories without charges'. Gold open access is represented with a big bag of money that says profits on it, and says 'published with charges'. Hybrid is represented by two dragons that are asking you to pay them, text says: publish or read with charges. Bronze is represented by a pile of poop and the text says 'published without clear reuse permission'. Black is represented by the sci-hub logo and says 'published behind a paywall'.

The Use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Distance Learning Programmes in Cameroon

A cross sectional descriptive analysis was adopted for this study. The goal was to was find out the use OERs in teaching and learning in higher education distance learning by taking a snapshot from a cross-section of the population. The institution under study is the University of Buea. The research targeted all 25 students at the master level of the Distance Education Program in the Faculty of Education, University of Buea. All the students were purposively sampled due to the small nature of the target population. A carefully designed questionnaire was used for data collection. The questionnaire had both closed and opened-ended questions which required respondents to select from a variety of responses to cover the research questions. Data was calculated and presented using frequencies tables and bar charts.  After getting description of student’s responses, an analysis was done to show the situation of the use of OERs and in teaching and learning.

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Aisa 1st annual conference "Nostra res agitur: open science as a social question" [section 2]

Video degli interventi del pomeriggio del 22 ottobre 2015, secondo l'ordine seguente: saluti delle autorità (0:0:00-0:03:06); saluti del Presidente (0:03:07-0:12:52); J-C. Guédon (0:12.53-1:14:22); G. Destro Bisol (1:14:23-1:45:10); dibattito (1:45:11-1:56:04). La registrazione è stata curata dal Team Elearning ed Eventi del Centro Serra dell'università di Pisa.

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What is Open Science, and what are its benefits? Mundo Acadêmico interviews Prof. Dr. Wesley Mendes.

What is open science? What are its fundamental principles? What are the benefits of open science to the development of research and science? Who is involved in the development of open science in Brazil and globally? To answer these and other questions about Open Science, Mundo Acadêmico has the honor of interviewing professor Dr. Wesley Mendes, former editor-in-chief of the Revista de Administração Contemporânea (RAC), leading the pioneering Open Science initiative in business periodicals within Brazil. ------ Institutions highlighted in the defense of Open Science and the quality of the editorial process Brazil • National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq): https://www.gov.br/cnpq/pt-br • Foundation for the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes): https://www.gov.br/capes/pt-br • Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo): https://www.scielo.br/ • São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fapesp): https://fapesp.br/ • Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (Abec): https://www.abecbrasil.org.br/   World • Council of Science Editors (CSE): https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/ • Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/   ------   Editorials and articles published by Professor Dr. Wesley Mendes on Open Science   • What teachers and researchers in the field of business management need to know about open science? https://www.scielo.br/j/rae/a/nDQ9C86LffnMCdB5YM4MRcg/?lang=en • Open Peer Review and Open Science in the Business Research Community https://www.scielo.br/j/rac/a/K7B4yN88gqFPMCMdPcFKvHn/?lang=pt# • Have we seen a Transparent Enough? Challenges to the Replicability and Credibility of Research in the Business Area https://www.scielo.br/j/rac/a/tsZmSW669GQGJTyxNqsCB6D/?lang=pt • My Data, My Life: Individual Objectives and Role of the Community of Researchers in the Business Area https://www.scielo.br/j/rac/a/7HbcyyS3Sn6rpKqVH4vMtyG/?lang=pt   Prof. Dr. Wesley Mendes. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley-mendes-8846a771/

Figure 8. Comparison between the exact function v p in Reconstruction of a passive tracer boundary source in an open water area

Figure 8. Comparison between the exact function v p and the reconstructed vα h.

Figure 6 in Reconstruction of a passive tracer boundary source in an open water area

Figure 6. Solution of the optimal control problem.

Figure 7 in Reconstruction of a passive tracer boundary source in an open water area

Figure 7. Difference between φ p and φα h.

Figure 2. Velocity field U, t in Reconstruction of a passive tracer boundary source in an open water area

Figure 2. Velocity field U, t = 0.

Figure 4 in Reconstruction of a passive tracer boundary source in an open water area

Figure 4. Convergence on the boundary.

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Educational and Career Trajectories in Russia: Open Datasets

The datasets contain data retrieved from the “Jobs in Russia portal”. The datasets contain information about the education, work experience, desired salary and some demographic characteristics of candidates who posted their CVs on the portal between 2015 and 2023. The datasets cover 83 regions of Russia. Dataset 1 contains information on the education and career trajectories (N=6221439), while Dataset 2 contains the information about the general activity of unemployed and job seeking candidates (N=7662089). Each candidate has a unique ID and there are characteristics such as age, education type, region, working experience. The datasets are available as .csv files.  Dataset 1 is designed to study educational and career trajectories. It was obtained by aggregating all CVs for each candidate into a single record with a unique id_candidate, then normalizing text information about the candidates' work experience and education, and finally excluding records that do not contain required information.  Dataset 2 includes all records for the available period, but only covers general information and the activity metric. It might be useful to study the general portal dynamics and, therefore, the activity on the Russian labor market. For citation, please use the data paper: Valko, D., Vasilevskaia, M., Bunina, M., Kozlova, M., Filippova, A. M., & Rud, D. (2024). Educational and Career Trajectories in Russia: Introducing a New Source and Datasets with a High Granularity. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10046" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10046</a>

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[LS2N_IPI_YouTube_UGC] A DATASET FOR UNDERSTANDING OPEN UGC VIDEO DATASETS

User Generated Content (UGC) video streaming is a major application on the Internet. Even small bitrate savings can have large network impacts at this scale. In order to achieve improvements without sacrificing experience, the quality of UGC videos needs to be better understood. In recent years video quality evaluation models designed for the evaluation of UGC videos have received a lot of attention. However, considering that these models are learning-based models, they heavily depend on the training data that has been used.   In this paper, a new dataset is introduced that allows studying the differences in characteristics between existing UGC video datasets. It reveals the range of quality that was covered by existing UGC video datasets, and the implication of these quality ranges on training and validation performance of UGC video quality prediction models. Furthermore, this work demonstrates that dataset alignment enables existing UGC models to achieve higher performance.

Why is my community reacting like this? Understanding reactions in open-source communities

In 2016, GitHub introduced the Reactions feature to facilitate the expression of sentiments and reduce noise in communications on its platform. Recent studies indicated that developers has been adopting the feature and was observed a reduction of noise on conversations inside the platform. However, the patterns of usage and profiles of users expressing these reactions in inside their communities remain underexplored. Identifying these patterns may help maintainers to better understand members' behaviors in their communities, and researchers to build supporting tools focused on users' reactions. This paper presents an initial study to (i) understand these interactions on open-source software communities, (ii) identify types of resources that receive the most reactions, (iii) analyzing seasonal factors influencing usage, and (iv) correlating the provided reactions with the roles of developers within the community. Preliminary results indicate that users primarily react to comments in Issues, with notable periods of heightened activity. Additionally, significant differences were observed between the reactions of maintainers and other members of the community.

Open Access Author Contracts Public Dataset

This dataset includes the deidentified respondent demographic data of a survey distributed to open access journal editors from journals registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals  (DOAJ). In addition to respondent demographics, the dataset includes the qualitative analyses results conducted by the authors about author's contracts which were solicited as part of the survey. These include basic elements of the contracts provided by the respondents, other terms covered, sharing restriction, and contradictory terms. The contracts themselves or direct text from the contracts is not included in the dataset.

An Economical Open-Source Lagrangian Drifter Design to Measure Deep Currents in Lakes

An economical, open-source Lagrangian drifter designed to collect current data on lakes<200km2 was evaluated against existing designs. The new design was tested in deep inland lakes in the Finger Lakes region of New York, USA and is effective at tracking deep currents. The ease and low-cost of fabrication and launch/recovery should facilitate use of this design by less-advantaged communities & researchers. This project includes data and code for preparation of graphs and charts to illustrate Lagrangian drifter experiments in Seneca Lake and Keuka Lake, New York, USA.

Open Grid Emissions Dataset 2005-2022 (v0.5.0)

The Open Grid Emissions Initiative seeks to fill a critical need for high-quality, publicly-accessible, hourly grid emissions data that can be used for GHG accounting, policymaking, academic research, and energy attribute certificate markets. The initiative includes this repository of open-source grid emissions data processing tools that use peer-reviewed, well-documented, and validated methodologies to create the accompanying public dataset of hourly, monthly, and annual U.S. electric grid generation, GHG, and air pollution data. Data Structure <ul> <li><code>data/outputs</code> contains intermediate outputs from the data pipeline (any files created by our code that are not final results)</li> <li><code>data/results</code> contains all final output files that will be published</li> </ul> Release Notes The 2005-2022 data archived here was created by v0.5.0 of the Open Grid Emissions Initiative, archived on Zenodo <a href="../records/7258728">here</a>. For a summary of what's new in the 2005-2022 v.0.5.0 data, see the <a href="https://github.com/singularity-energy/open-grid-emissions/releases/tag/v0.5.0">v0.5.0 release notes</a>. Using the archived files The outputs and results files have been saved as separate zip folders for each year.

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Open Science Project SPP1516: Random Reasoning is fun

This is the unified data set for the paper "Random Reasoning is fun". Please refer to the Codebook and Readme-file for more information

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Open Educational Practice (OEP): collection of scenarios

This diagram visualizes an exemplary selection of applications of the paradigm of open educational practices. Beginning with the stage of preparing a teaching unit (seminar, school lesson, etc. ) with corresponding open material (e.g. OER) (light red), we then move to the stage of sharing this unit and its content with the seminar, class, etc. online (orange). The next stage comprises making active use of the introduced content/material in a collaborative learning context as part of this seminar or working group) (yellow). This then might include, or be followed up by, shared instances of revising and optimization of the materials used, based on the experiences made and feedback gained during the session (green). Further contemplating on the experiences made, the teacher and/or the learners involved share their thoughts on these practices and examples online (blue). The diagram lists the described stages' scenarios (text on the right) and corresponding open tools (ideally open source) (icons below the rainbow). What needs to be emphasized here is the possibility of an iterative process optimization. This points towards the possibility of not necessarily going through Stage 1 (light red) in a linear way up to the last stage (blue), but rather making use of continuous back- and cross-referencing of neighbouring stages (indicated in the graphic via fluid color transitions). *** The graphic is provided in various formats (ai, psd, png, jpg, eps, svg) and released as Creative Commons Zero (CC0), so as to be open for further remixing ;) *** To the extent possible under law, <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1183806"> Tobias Steiner</a> has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to 'Open Educational Practice (OEP): collection of scenarios'. This work is published from: Germany.

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OAPEN-CH – The impact of open access on scientific monographs in Switzerland. A project conducted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) launched the OAPEN-CH pilot project in summer 2014. At that time, it had introduced new funding policies that only covered books that were published online and openly accessible after an embargo period of no more than 24 months. The pilot study set out to learn more about the changes to academic publishing and pave the way for future adaptations to funding policies. The findings of the shared learning process are now available. They are encouraging in that they produce a clear verdict for the scientific monograph: a digital edition that is freely available on the Internet increases the trackability, visibility and use of monographs. Open access does not have a negative impact on printed book sales. Facilitating and promoting open access will benefit the academic community and society at large as well as publishers and funders. The results of the OAPEN-CH pilot study have already been integrated into the new open access policy of the SNSF, which entered into force on 1 April 2018.

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Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Open Access Compliance Monitoring 2017

I. Executive summary The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), which is Austria's main funding organisation for basic research, encourages and helps all project leaders and project staff members to make their peer-reviewed research results freely available on the Internet. Since 1 January 2016, open access has been mandatory for all peer-reviewed publications listed in final reports on FWF-funded projects. Any exceptions must be clearly indicated and justified. For projects that started after 1 January 2015, open access has been compulsory for all peer-reviewed publications. All principal investigators in FWF-funded projects are obliged to submit a final report within three months of completing their projects. In 2017 all in all 608 final reports were submitted to the FWF, 42 out of them couldn't report publications by now. The publications and other data mentioned in those reports are archived and analysed by the FWF. This report examines the state of compliance with open access requirements on the basis of final project reports submitted in the year 2017. Main findings: <ul> <li>A total of 8.398 publications were listed in the final project reports submitted in 2017.</li> <li>Of those publications, 6.439 were conclusively identified as peer-reviewed.</li> <li>Regarding compliance with the FWF's Open Access Policy, the report shows that 90% of the peer-reviewed publications that arose from submitted final reports of FWF projects in 2017 are openly accessible (2015: 83%, 2016: 92%).</li> <li>The most frequently chosen option is hybrid open access (41%). Since last year's report, the use of green open access has declined by 5% green open access and by 2 % gold open access. Other open access has increased by 4%, and hybrid open access by 1%.</li> <li>The majority of peer-reviewed publications submitted are journal articles, 91% of which are openly accessible.</li> <li>The lowest rate of compliance with the FWF's Open Access Policy can be found in editions, contributions to edited volumes and monographs (66%) an increase by 8% since last year's report.</li> <li>Although open access is not compulsory, 51% of non peer-reviewed publications are freely available through the internet.</li> <li>The absolute number of publications listed in final reports in 2017 includes 715 publications that are mentioned several times in different projects; however, those repetitions do not ultimately affect the relative share of open access publications (90%).</li> <li>56% of all peer-reviewed publications without open access originate from the "Special Research Programmes" (SFB). Since these reserach networks have a long duration, the open access policy of the FWF often does not yet apply to them.</li> </ul> II. Bias All publications were entered in the FWF’s database manually and with the utmost care when the final project reports were received. Nevertheless, it is not possible to rule out minor errors entirely. Moreover, some systematic problems need to be solved in the future; the FWF is currently preparing to implement a research information system in which FWF-funded researchers will be able to enter and update their research data on an ongoing basis. <ul> <li>Due to the amount of data involved, it was not possible to check the current open access status of all publications twice. The last check was performed in January 2018.</li> <li>In some cases, the embargo period may have expired after submission, and publications labelled "Other open access" in the FWF’s database may now be accessible through green open access.</li> </ul> Whenever the status "peer-reviewed" could not be clearly identified according to FWF guidelines, the publications were classified as non peer-reviewed.