---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arul George Scaria <arul.scaria@nludelhi.ac.in> Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:17 PM Subject: Open Science Newsletter: Issue 1 (July- August, 2016) To: openscienceteam2016@googlegroups.com Cc: Rishika Rangarajan <rishika.rangarajan@nludelhi.ac.in>, Kuhuk Jain < kuhuk.jain13@nludelhi.ac.in>, Anushka Sachdev < anushka.sachdev13@nludelhi.ac.in>, openscience.in@gmail.com Dear all, I am really happy to share with you a new *email newsletter, *focusing on open movements within and outside India. Many of you have been kindly sharing many interesting news links/ articles with me and I thought that we could evolve a common platform for broader sharing of interesting/ contemporary news in the areas of open science, open access, open data, open educational resources and related IP issues. This monthly newsletter is a small attempt to create a space for sharing and we will be using the crowd sourcing approach for collecting information for this newsletter. The crowd sourcing approach may also ensure openness and sustainability of this newsletter in the long run. So whenever you see any interesting developments relating to the open movements, please do send those links to openscience.in@gmail.com also. Needless to say, proper acknowledgments will be given to all the contributors. Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone who is interested. Subscription for this newsletter is open to all and anyone can subscribe to this newsletter by sending an email to openscience.in@gmail.com with just the subject line "Subscribe". Future issues of this newsletter will be coming from that email ID and if you do not wish to receive this newsletter, just reply to this email with "No". I take this opportunity to also thank all the open science project team members at CIIPC <http://www.ciipc.org>, particularly Anushka, Kuhuk and Rishika, for making this newsletter a reality! This may not be the most perfect newsletter. But with your critical comments and suggestions, I do hope that we will be able to collectively improve the quality of this newsletter. best regards, arul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Open Science India <openscience.in@gmail.com> Date: 7 September 2016 at 19:34 Subject: Open Science Newsletter: Issue 1 (July- August, 2016) To: arul.scaria@nludelhi.ac.in Newsletter: Issue 1 (July- August, 2016) Open Science NASA makes its scientific research and data available for public access https://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess/pubspace All the NASA funded research articles and research data will be made available for public access through its online archive PubSpace within one year of publication. However, the policy exempts patents and any material governed by personal privacy, proprietary, or security laws from inclusion in the database. More information can be found here <http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-made-all-the-scientific-research-it-funds-available-for-free>. The detailed Policy can be found here <http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2014/12/05/NASA_Plan_for_increasing_access_to_results_of_federally_funded_research.pdf-> . “Reclaim Invention” project launched against patent trolls https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/18/reclaim-invention-benefit-everyone/ Reclaim invention is a project aimed to promote sharing of knowledge within state universities. This project involves preventing universities from selling inventions to patent trolls through a legislation. This legislation requires university technology transfer offices to adopt a policy committing them to manage patent assets in the public interest and voids any agreement to license or transfer a patent to a patent assertion entity. Details of the project can be found here <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/reclaim-invention>. The draft legislation can be found here <https://www.eff.org/files/2016/08/12/reclaiminventionact-09.txt>. Excel errors discovered in research papers due to open access https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-al arming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors An analysis published in the Genome Biology journal shows that 1 out of 5 scientific papers in the field of genetics contain errors in their gene lists that were attributable to automatic conversions of gene names to things like calendar dates or random numbers by Excel. The papers analysed for this purpose include publications in journals like Nature, Science and PLoS One. Such problems were identified only because these papers were in open access and it is suggested to use R and Python to curb these errors. Open Access Tamil Nadu adopts Creative Commons license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2 016-08-18/News_and_notes The Tamil Nadu government has issued an order <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_order_on_creative_commons_cc_by_sa.pdf> mandating release through creative commons license, certain works published or collected by different government departments and Tamil University. The order includes within its ambit books published by various departments and information from palm leaves, stone carvings and films which are collected by members of various government departments. A rough translation of the order can be accessed here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F9--s5Eh7auCbH__zUfmXR9ZlrVjtDvo2UlDztfxSVM/edit?usp=sharing> . Open Data The US government releases the federal source code policy https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/16/u-s-moves-ahead-limit ed-code-sharing-policy/ The US government has released a federal source code policy <https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2016/m_16_21.pdf> to improve access to software codes developed by or for the federal government. The policy mandates release of 20% of custom developed code as Open Source Software (OSS). A critique of the policy can be found here. <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/white-house-source-code-policy-should-go-further> Concordant on Open Research http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/160728/ Four of the UK’s leading research organisations have proposed certain common principles for working with research data. This is intended to ensure that research data gathered and generated by members of the UK research community is made openly available for use by others wherever possible. New text and data mining copyright exception for researchers to be introduced in EU http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2016/august/eu-planning-t o-introduce-new-text-and-data-mining-copyright-exception- for-research-bodies/ According to the proposals under consideration by EU policy makers, a mandatory text and data mining exception to copyright law might be included in the new EU legislation. Through this process, the Commission is aiming to reduce the transaction costs and legal uncertainties that many researchers face for carrying out text and data mining on content they have lawful access to. In 2014, the UK had introduced a similar exception and the UK legislation can be found here <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1372/contents/made>. Oil and gas industry ready to join the open source world http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/08/25/oil-companies-joining-ope n-source-world-by-sharing-data Landmark, a technology unit of the energy services company Halliburton, has decided to unveil a cloud-computing platform that will allow companies to collaborate on developing software to process massive volumes of data they collect on the oil and gas industry. The aim is to provide open access to the code on which the platform is based, which would further allow faster analysis of the data. Analysis of such data has been helping gas companies identify plant problems, avoid shut-downs and also to come up with new ways to extract more oil and gas at lower costs. A document explaining the DecisionSpace data server software can be found here <https://www.landmark.solutions/Portals/0/LMSDocs/Datasheets/Decisionspace-data-server-data-sheet.pdf> Chicago’s first step towards building a smarter, better city with Array of Things https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/08/29/chicago-becomes -first-city-launch-array-things The Array of Things <http://arrayofthings.github.io/> is an urban sensing project that will entail installation of modular sensor boxes around Chicago to serve as a “fitness tracker” by collecting real-time data on the city’s environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use. This data will be published openly and free of cost through the Chicago Data Portal <https://data.cityofchicago.org/> so that people can use it to understand their communities and neighborhoods better. U.S. Police department releases policing data http://www.ksla.com/story/32851150/nopd-releases-use-of-force-data Anyone can now have access to New Orleans Police Department’s new policing data on its website <https://public.tableau.com/profile/nola#%21/vizhome/NOPD_UseOfForceIncidents/UseofForceIncidents-dashboard>, 24 hours after the incident, for things like, calls for service, stop and search, and use of force. This is a new initiative for improving transparency. Japan moving towards a ‘smarter city’ with the ‘open data’ project http://readwrite.com/2016/08/29/europe-japan-team-boost-smar t-cities-open-data-project/ Japan has collaborated with EU to take smart cities to the next level with a cloud-based open data platform that will be used as a key foundation that smart cities can be built on. This platform will link big data, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing with Linked Open Data and open government data thereby allowing cities and private firms to develop new applications and services for the public and businesses. More information can be found here <http://readwrite.com/2016/08/29/europe-japan-team-boost-smart-cities-open-data-project/>. Open Educational Resources Prison education through open educational resources https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/01/non-profit- pilots-delivery-of-offline-oer-for-prisoner-education.aspx "The incarcerated populations in the United States are not being given adequate 21st century skills they need to re-enter society. By leveraging current open-source collections of content and unique offline technologies, we're bringing educational opportunities into a place that was off limits just a few short years ago." World Possible <http://worldpossible.org/vision.html>, a non-profit organisation, plans to use offline digital content for education of prisoners. This prison education technology pilot program will expand the use of RACHEL-Plus, a technology that combines a collection of websites such as Khan Academy <https://www.khanacademy.org/>, Wikipedia <https://www.wikipedia.org/>, CK-12 <http://www.ck12.org/>, GCF learnFree.org <http://www.gcflearnfree.org/>, etc to provide education to the prisoners for free. Student Editors: Anushka Sachdev and Kuhuk Jain Editors: Arul George Scaria and Rishika Rangarajan Our special thanks to Karishma Shrivastava and all other members of the Open Science Project Team at the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition <http://www.ciipc.org> (CIIPC) for their excellent inputs for this issue. To ensure openness and sustainability in the long run, we would like this newsletter to be a crowd sourced platform of interesting news on diverse open movements. So if you find any interesting news in the area of open science, open data, open access, open educational resources, open source software or open labs, please send those links to openscience.in@gmail.com. Proper acknowledgments will be given to all the contributors. We also welcome your suggestions and comments on this issue. You may send them to openscience.in@gmail.com -- Arul George Scaria, Ph.D. [International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Munich] Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director - Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC) National Law University, Delhi, Sector 14 Dwarka, New Delhi 110078, India. Email: arul.scaria@nludelhi.ac.in; arulgs@gmail.com Tel:+91 85 2726 2232 http://www.nludelhi.ac.in/pep-fac-new-pro.aspx?Id=46 http://copyx.org/affiliate-faculty/arul-george-scaria/ SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1173057 -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009