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Paolo Bonato - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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jner a forum to discuss how neuroscience and biomedical engineering are reshaping physical medicine rehabilitation
Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, 2004Co-Authors: Paolo BonatoAbstract:Advances in neuroscience and biomedical engineering deeply affect the clinical practice of physical medicine & rehabilitation. New research findings and engineering tools are continuously made available that have the potential of dramatically enhancing the ability of clinicians to design effective rehabilitation interventions. This quickly evolving research field is difficult to track because related literature appears in a wide range of scientific journals. There is a need for a scientific journal that offers to its readership a forum at the intersection of neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and physical medicine & rehabilitation. The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER) is intended to fill this gap and foster cross-fertilizations among these disciplines. By making readily available to clinicians selected studies with potential impact on physical medicine & rehabilitation, JNER is anticipated to foster the development of novel and more effective rehabilitation strategies. Conversely, by presenting clinical problems to a readership of neuroscientists and engineers, JNER is expected to generate innovative work in neuroscience and biomedical engineering with future applications to physical medicine & rehabilitation. JNER will leverage on Open Access as a means to guarantee that its content is readily available to scientists, clinicians, and the general public thus promoting scientific and technological advances that are relevant to rehabilitation. JNER is an Open Access Initiative. Open Access assures dissemination to the widest possible audience and is seen by many as essential for publicly funded research. BioMed Central offers an outstanding platform to make JNER possible and allow neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, and clinicians to see their work published in a timely manner and thus make an immediate impact in the field of rehabilitation. JNER will focus on innovative work with higher likelihood of a dramatic impact on rehabilitation. Thus, priority will be given to outstanding and visionary scientific reports, i.e. those proposing exceptionally innovative concepts with great potential in the field.
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JNER: a forum to discuss how neuroscience and biomedical engineering are reshaping physical medicine & rehabilitation
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2004Co-Authors: Paolo BonatoAbstract:Advances in neuroscience and biomedical engineering deeply affect the clinical practice of physical medicine & rehabilitation. New research findings and engineering tools are continuously made available that have the potential of dramatically enhancing the ability of clinicians to design effective rehabilitation interventions. This quickly evolving research field is difficult to track because related literature appears in a wide range of scientific journals. There is a need for a scientific journal that offers to its readership a forum at the intersection of neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and physical medicine & rehabilitation. The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation ( JNER) is intended to fill this gap and foster cross-fertilizations among these disciplines. By making readily available to clinicians selected studies with potential impact on physical medicine & rehabilitation, JNER is anticipated to foster the development of novel and more effective rehabilitation strategies. Conversely, by presenting clinical problems to a readership of neuroscientists and engineers, JNER is expected to generate innovative work in neuroscience and biomedical engineering with future applications to physical medicine & rehabilitation. JNER will leverage on Open Access as a means to guarantee that its content is readily available to scientists, clinicians, and the general public thus promoting scientific and technological advances that are relevant to rehabilitation. JNER is an Open Access Initiative. Open Access assures dissemination to the widest possible audience and is seen by many as essential for publicly funded research. BioMed Central offers an outstanding platform to make JNER possible and allow neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, and clinicians to see their work published in a timely manner and thus make an immediate impact in the field of rehabilitation. JNER will focus on innovative work with higher likelihood of a dramatic impact on rehabilitation. Thus, priority will be given to outstanding and visionary scientific reports, i.e. those proposing exceptionally innovative concepts with great potential in the field.
Heather Joseph - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Open Access movement grows up: taking stock of a revolution.
PLOS Biology, 2013Co-Authors: Heather JosephAbstract:It's been just over a decade since the concept of Open Access (OA) first captured the attention of the scientific and scholarly research community, bringing with it the promise and potential of a shining new digital landscape, in which knowledge is freely shared and freely used, and the pace of scientific discovery is accelerated for the benefit of all. Early meetings, convened by diverse groups of thought leaders around the world, resulted in a handful of key Declarations that provided a strong intellectual and philosophical foundation for the movement, and also reflected the convergence of opportunities that allowed scientists to consider a completely new way of sharing information. As the participants in one such key meeting, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), noted in 2002: An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good… [1] The tradition referred to by the BOAI is the longstanding practice of scholars to publish papers in journals without expectation of payment; the new technology is, of course, the Internet. The idea that these two elements could be seamlessly combined to ensure that anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world could have the ability to immediately and freely Access the results of scholarly research online ignited a firestorm of excitement in many quarters across the academy. Early supporters of the concept quickly recognized its potential to transform the research process. Not only would it allow them to Access tens of thousands of articles that were previously unavailable for them to read, but it would also allow them to use these digital articles in previously unimaginable ways. Rather than being constrained to reading one article at a time, hopping from siloed website to siloed website, scholars could now envision a world where articles could be used in bulk and treated as digital data. They would now have the opportunity to download a significant corpus of the literature, run computational or data mining technologies, and facilitate entirely new ways of using scholarly articles. Scholars also recognized the extraordinary potential that OA held for authors to Open up their work to vast new audiences across disciplinary and geographic boundaries, offering the chance to gain new readers and allowing significant and measurable increases in the visibility and impact of their work. This increased Access also had significant implications outside of research labs, democratizing the ability of educational institutions to Access high-quality information and providing a new channel for businesses, entrepreneurs, and interested members of the public—in many cases, for the first time. In the view of many, OA provided a compelling vision of the future of research communication, and one that was ripe with promise. This spurred some early community declarations of support, including a notable petition sponsored by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) that was signed by more than 30,000 individuals who collectively declared their intent to act in support of OA practices [2]. With such a compelling vision and with such clear, tangible benefits serving as drivers, a wholesale move to an OA system should have been easy, no? Not quite—as with any significant movement for change where there are significant societal, ethical, and financial outcomes at stake, there is no such thing as an overnight success. Implementing such wholesale changes in the context of traditional scholarly journal publishing proved to be an extraordinarily challenging venture. A complex set of interwoven factors—from copyright transfer routines that indiscriminately transferred limitations from a paper-based world to the digital environment, to evaluation practices that have intimately tied funding, tenure, and promotion decisions to publication in established flagship “high-end” journals, and not to mention the fact that scholarly publishing is a multibillion dollar revenue-generating industry [3] with absolutely no interest in ceding their claim on this layer of content—came at times to resemble a Gordian knot that at times seemed impossible to unravel. Yet, despite these substantial obstacles, over the past decade, we have seen the acceptance and adoption of OA grow, steadily and inexorably, year in and year out. How has this been possible? It's tempting, when writing a retrospective, to simply point to a person or an event (or set of them) and say: these were the catalysts; this was the precipitating event that made it all happen. And while OA, of course, does have its notable leaders and benchmark events, the collective movement has always been greater than the sum of its parts. This was driven home to me at a recent meeting in Mexico City. Public Knowledge Project founder John Willinsky recounted the experiences he'd had a decade ago, traveling throughout Latin America and working to promote the idea of the academic community taking back control of their research output by using OA. “Sometimes there'd be 15 people in the room, and sometimes a few hundred,” he noted. “But I was so sure that at the end of each discussion, all of them would rush up to me and say, ‘Sign me up! I'm in.’” He recalled his disappointment when, time and time again, that simply didn't happen, and he found himself, as he continued his work over the subsequent years, regularly wondering if anyone was listening at all. Returning to Mexico this year, almost exactly 10 years later, he had his answer: a thriving culture of OA has emerged, with academic and research institutions supporting the creation and publication of several thousand OA journals via platforms like SCIELO and Redalyc, and a thriving network of Open digital repositories. As I listened to him speak, it occurred to me that his experience mirrored not only my own but also those of countless others during the last decade. Whether on a campus or in a research lab, in the office of a co-author or a faculty advisor, in a conversation with a policy maker or a research funder, or even just in our own organization with our own colleagues, this simple process of making the case for OA, of planting the seed through education and advocacy, has played out again and again, thousands of times around the world. For me, the story of the last 10 years has truly been the story of these myriad individual actions building one upon another, resulting in a full-fledged global movement making OA the norm in how we share research and scholarship. Over the past decade, the OA movement has both expanded and matured. Although there's certainly no official “Open Access advocate's checklist” that we've been working from to help us measure and mark our progress, a few areas stand out as places where can we truly measure how far we've progressed.
Joseph Chukwusa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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availability of necessary electronic infrastructure to support Open Access Initiative to literature in academic libraries in delta state nigeria
International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 2014Co-Authors: Joseph ChukwusaAbstract:Rationale for the study is to ascertain the state of necessary electronic infrastructure that are available in academic libraries in Delta State, Nigeria which would be used to support Open Access to Literature Initiative. The research method adopted for the study was the descriptive survey design. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The population consisted of 66 Librarians those working in dedicated IT units in the libraries. No sample was used because the population was small. The study revealed that a majority of the respondents are aware of the essential electronic infrastructure which will enable them benefit maximally from Open Access to Literature InitiativeOALI; and e-infrastructure facilities are available but in a poor state among others. The scheme is laudable considering the fact that libraries would be assisted in their collection development activities. This implies that funding bodies of libraries have much to do in term of making provision for the sustenance of OAI through adequate funding.
Hélène Bosc - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Le libre accès en France en 2012: Entre immobilisme et innovation
Liinc em revista, 2012Co-Authors: Hélène Bosc, Hans DillaertsAbstract:Ten years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative, we have examined the current situation of Open Access in France via the two Open Access (OA) roads: the Green (self-archiving) and the Gold (OA publishing). HAL, a central multidisciplinary French archive launched in 2002, is recognized for its technical quality, but 10 years after its creation it only includes 10 to 15% of the annual French scientific output. This figure is similar to other repositories worldwide for which there is no mandatory policy (no mandate). On the other hand, archives such as that of Liège University which has a mandate, achieved an 80% deposit rate within two years. Other than HAL, a number of institutional archives are being developed in France, with Archimer and OATAO being two successful examples, thanks to dedicated library staff. In order to support the editorial offer in Open Access the Centre pour l'Édition électronique Ouverte (CLEO) recently launched the Open Edition Freemium. This Initiative should favor the development of OA periodicals. However, the study based on the list of qualifying periodicals in Human and Social Sciences, shows that researchers are not encouraged to publish in these periodicals by national assessment bodies; very few French Open Access periodicals are on the different qualifying lists of the agence d'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur (AERES - French research and higher education assessment agency). In addition, a wide disparity can be observed between disciplines. Different examples of strong policies in favor of OA are given: at the university level, as at Liège university, at the level of foundations, as at FRS-FNRS in Belgium, at the level of the Europe or at the legislative level, as attempted in the USA or Brazil or Argentina. In France the two roads are supported by interesting Initiatives and these should be accompanied by strong French government policy to enable the benefits of Open Access to be rapidly reaped.
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Le droit des chercheurs à mettre leurs résultats de recherche en libre accès : appropriation des archives ouvertes par différentes communautés dans le monde
Terminal. Technologie de l’information culture & société, 2009Co-Authors: Hélène BoscAbstract:Le développement d'Internet a permis à la communauté scientifique de prendre conscience de son droit : celui de mettre en libre accès ses propres résultats de recherche. En 2002, un groupe de chercheurs et éditeurs a lancé la Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Il a formulé le concept du libre accès (LA) et les deux stratégies pour y parvenir : déposer dans une archive ouverte le double d'un article publié dans un périodique payé par souscription (« LA Vert »), et/ou publier dans une revue en libre accès (« LA Doré »). Le concept du libre accès s'est rapidement étendu mais il a d'abord été presque complètement assimilé au seul « LA Doré ». L'auto-archivage a été négligé en dépit du fait que cette voie verte représente la possibilité de croissance du LA la plus immédiate et la plus rapide. Les efforts déployés alors (analyses stratégiques, études, développement d'outils techniques pour créer des archives institutionnelles et mesurer leur impact) ont permis de démontrer l'importance et les avantages de l'auto-archivage. De ce fait le nombre d'archives a augmenté, tout comme l'obligation d'auto-archiver dans les universités, les institutions et les fondations de recherche. Dans quelques pays, une politique d'auto-archivage a été proposée au niveau gouvernemental. Cet engagement des hommes politiques commence à inquiéter certains éditeurs scientifiques, qui s'organisent en lobby anti-LA et réussissent dans certains cas à ralentir ou arrêter la législation. C'est pour cette raison que la communauté scientifique, moins vulnérable au lobby des éditeurs - que peuvent l'être les politiciens - prend l'Initiative d'organiser une politique de LA avec l'obligation d'auto-archivage au niveau de l'université.
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La Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) pour un libre accès aux résultats de la recherche
Terminal. Technologie de l’information culture & société, 2003Co-Authors: Hélène BoscAbstract:La communication dans la recherche s'est progressivement transformée ces dernières années sous l'impact grandissant d'Internet et nous présenterons les chemins parcourus par les principaux acteurs de la publication scientifique .Des plaques tectoniques se sont heurtées et leur collision pourrait s'appeler Budapest Open Initiative BOAI . La BOAI est une déclaration de principe pour le libre accès à la littérature scientifique. Nous verrons la stratégie proposée pour atteindre ce but et quelles transformations socio-économiques en découlent.
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la budapest Open Access Initiative boai pour un libre acces aux resultats de la recherche
Terminal. Technologie de l’information culture & société, 2003Co-Authors: Hélène BoscAbstract:La communication dans la recherche s'est progressivement transformee ces dernieres annees sous l'impact grandissant d'Internet et nous presenterons les chemins parcourus par les principaux acteurs de la publication scientifique .Des plaques tectoniques se sont heurtees et leur collision pourrait s'appeler Budapest Open Initiative BOAI . La BOAI est une declaration de principe pour le libre acces a la litterature scientifique. Nous verrons la strategie proposee pour atteindre ce but et quelles transformations socio-economiques en decoulent.
Zsolt Banhegyi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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nyilt hozzaferes kezdemenyezes Open Access Initiative
Tudományos és Műszaki Tájékoztatás, 2003Co-Authors: Zsolt BanhegyiAbstract:Spearheaded by the Open Society Institute (OSI), the Open Archives Initiative was given a boost at a conference held in Budapest in January 2003. The goal was to encourage the academies of Central and Eastern Europe, the key institutes of the region, for triggering a course of activities that will be able to claim the substantial rights of scholarship back from the commercial publishers and big data-base-providers. The rationale for this is that R&D is paid for by the public, so the results should be freely available to the public - as well as to peergroups for stimulating advancement of science. The almost paradigmatic pursuit in the form of two paramount forms of Open Access is now subject to experimentation the digital world over: 1) the institutional repositories (storing documents of self-archiving), and 2) the release of alternative e-journals. Here we give an overview of the issue of Open archives and Open Access and make a survey of the major Initiatives of the field.
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nyilt hozzaferes kezdemenyezes Open Access Initiative kitekintes es korkep
Tudományos és műszaki tájékoztatás, 2003Co-Authors: Zsolt BanhegyiAbstract:Spearheaded by the Open Society Institute (OSI), the Open Archives Initiative was given a boost at a conference held in Budapest in January 2003. The goal was to encourage the academies of Central and Eastern Europe, the key institutes of the region, for triggering a course of activities that will be able to claim the substantial rights of scholarship back from the commercial publishers and big database-providers. The rationale for this is that Research & Development is paid for by the public, so the results should be freely available to the public - as well as to peer-groups for stimulating advancement of science. The almost paradigmatic pursuit in the form of two paramount forms of Open Access is now subject to experimentation the digital world over: 1) the institutional repositories (storing documents of self-archiving), and 2) the release of alternative e-journals. Here we give an overview of the issue of Open archives and Open Access and make a survey of the major Initiatives of the field.
