Heather Joseph
Open Access advocate, food lover, insomniac, runner, Deadhead, baseball fanatic, mom. Also frequently jetlagged.
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Sage Bionetworks Executive Urges Adoption of Standards to Create 'Open Science'
At Bio-IT World, Sage Bionetworks' John Wilbanks called on the research community to adopt the OMOP and FHIR standards so data becomes more useful to other scientists.
Heather Joseph
I try to make it a point to do what @wilbanks tells me to do: Sage Bionetworks Executive Urges Adoption of Standards to Create 'Open Science' | GenomeWeb
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Expanding the Scope: Illustrating the Impact of OER
On May 1st at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT, SPARC will host “Expanding the Scope: Illustrating the Impact of OER”, a webcast focusing on some of the many ways open educational resources can improve the higher education experience for all students. While...
How the OPEN Government Data Act Empowers Data-Driven Government
The OPEN Government Data Act creates a presumption that all federal information should be standardized in machine-readable formats and freely-available for public access. This webinar hosts Robert Han and Hudson Hollister will highlight how this act...
Increase transparency by adding CRediT to workflow with PubSweet
In the PubSweet Community we are about contribution and reuse. Meanwhile, the CRediT taxonomy is all about transparently recognizing contributions to research. As such, we are pleased to announce that CRediT is implemented within CalTech's Wormbase...
California’s showdown with Elsevier inspires US campuses
Confidence stalls, however, over depth of faculty commitment to open access
Focus - The price of insulin is killing Americans
The price of insulin in the United States is so high that many diabetics are having to ration their doses of the life-saving hormone. This has led to the deaths of at least six diabetics over the past three years, according to civil rights groups....
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I am a researcher working primarily in experimental and theoretical neuroscience and cellular biophysics. I like excitable cells, especially ones that burst. Sometimes I poke small animals with ele…
Harnessing Evidence-Based Data to Drive Better Policy Decisions
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Universities should be working for the greater good
Friendly competition can push us all to do better. But when the competitiveness that fuels excellence and prestige becomes based in the logic of the market, universities lose sight of their true purpose, writes Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Hearing on “Priced Out of a Lifesaving Drug: Getting Answers on the Rising Cost of Insulin”
The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, April 10, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Priced Out of a Lifesaving Drug: Getting Answers on the Rising Cost of...
Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations
The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was originally designed to aid libraries in deciding which journals to index and purchase for their collections. Over the past few decades, however, it has become a relied upon metric used to evaluate research...
Scholars ARE Collectors: A Proposal for Re-thinking Research Support | Ithaka S+R
After fifteen years of digging into the research practices of scholars at Ithaka S+R, it is clear that scholars are collectors. We have found that they are creating and amassing increasingly complex personal collections of information over the...
Reflections on “Elsevier Acquires bepress”
We are today in the midst of a profound reconfiguration of all sorts of information industries, impacting everything from journalism to entertainment. Libraries and scholarly information providers are not alone. Last week’s news of the bepress...
As Elsevier Falters, Wiley Succeeds in Open-Access Deal Making
The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.
SPARC Landscape Analysis
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Heather Joseph
If you are interested in details of the @SPARC_NA Landscape Analysis, I’ll be talking about it Monday at #cni19s...come join the conversation!
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Affordable College Textbook Act Reintroduced in U.S. Congress
The Affordable College Textbook Act aims to make higher education more affordable by expanding the use and awareness of open educational resources.