20 فبراير 2009

الموسوعة الطبية ميدبيديا MEDPEDIA


الموسوعة الطبية (ميدبيديا)

أطلقت النسخة التجريبية من الموسوعة الطبية (ميدبيديا) في نسختها التجريبية. هذه الموسوعة على الطريقة الويكية كما يمكن ذكره، وذلك بمعنى إتاحة الفرصة للجمهور(حالياً مقتصرة على فئات معينة) بالإضافة والتعديل على المحتوى. هذه الموسوعة إطلقت بجهد تعاوني بين كل من Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School وهيئات طبية وصحية على المستوى العالمي. من المؤمل من الموسوعة أن تكون بوابة معرفية لكل ما يتعلق بالعلوم الطبية وما يتعلق بها من المجالات المساندة.

The Medpedia

...[I]s a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public...
Users of the platform include physicians, consumers, medical and scientific journals, medical schools, research institutes, medical associations, hospitals, for-profit and non-profit organizations, expert patients, policy makers, students, non-professionals taking care of loved ones, individual medical professionals, scientists, etc.

In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations, Medpedia will be a commons for the gathering of the information and people critical to health care. Many organizations have united to support The Medpedia Project.

The Medpedia wiki is the collaborative encyclopedia and resource for information about health, medicine and the body.

Intended Uses and Benefits:
  • Reference source for both medical professionals and the lay-public covering information about health, medicine and the body
  • Forum for individuals and groups to be recognized for their areas of expertise
  • Clearinghouse of bio-medical journal articles, data, research, and educational materials
  • Forum for debating emerging issues
  • Platform for advancing medical knowledge

Licensing

The Medpedia Project and Medpedia.com is maintained by Medpedia Inc., a brainchild of Ooga Labs, a technology greenhouse in San Francisco. The wiki portion of Medpedia runs on Mediawiki, open source software which runs many wikis including Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, the Articles created on Medpedia.com are freely licensable under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) unless otherwise noted.

19 فبراير 2009

Wikipedia Survey: Use Among the Scholarly Community



إستبانة لإستخدام الويكيبيديا من قِبل المجتمع العلمي:





Welcome to the first survey about professional usage and opinions of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, within the scholarly community. The goal of this survey is to increase understanding of the use and opinions about Wikipedia among this group. Completing this survey will only take 3 minutes of your valuable time. The results will be used to inform possible future decisions about new ways to enhance Wikipedia to make it more valuable to scholarship.

This survey will be open until February 26 midnight PST.

Press on the following word: WIKIPEDIA Survey

16 فبراير 2009

العدد الحادي من نشرة أخبار العموميات الابداعية




Creative Commons Newsletter for Feb. 2009.
The Creative Commons Newsletter (ccNewsletter) Issue no. 11 is now released. Among set of interested topics there is news about the Al Jazeera's initiative:
"On January 13, 2009, Al Jazeera Network
announced the world’s first repository of
broadcast-quality video footage released
under the Creative Commons 3.0
Attribution (CC-BY 3.0) license. Select Al
Jazeera video footage will be available for
free to download, share, remix, subtitle
and eventually rebroadcast by users and TV stations across the world with
acknowledgment to Al Jazeera, marking
the first time that video footage produced
by a news broadcaster is released under
the CC-BY 3.0 license, which allows for
both commercial and non-commercial
use. You can access the repository online
at http://cc.aljazeera.net."

صدر العدد الحادي من نشرة العموميات الابداعية لشهر فبراير من عام 2009. وقد حوى مجموعة كبيرة من الاخبار، ومن بينها ما يتعلق بإعلان قناة الجزيرة، لإتاحة مجموعة من إنتاجتها تحت ترخيص العموميات الابداعية. وقد إبتدءت هذا العمل بمستودع للحرب على غزة، متاح على الرابط التالي: http://cc.aljazeera.net

تعليق:
مبادرة متميزة لقناة الجزيرة تشكر عليها وتثبت ريادتها على المستوى العالمي. كما أن القناة بالفعل تسجل أسلوباً ممنهج في نشر رسالتها.

نشرة أخبار الوصول الحر لشهر فبراير

SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber has released the
February 2009 Issue no 130, of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

صدرت نشرة أخبر سبارك للوصول الحر من قِبل بيتر سابر، وتأتي هذه النشرة في إصادرتها رقم 130. وتحوي النشرة قطاعات عدة في مجال الوصول الحر منها ما هو اقتصاديا و قانونيا وعلميا وغيرها.


تعليق:
تعتبر هذه النشرة الأخبارية الابرز في مجالها، ولا غنى للباحث أو القارئ من الاطلاع عليها.

13 فبراير 2009

محرك بحثي متخصص في مجال الاقتصاد


محرك بحثي متخصص في مجال الاقتصاد وما يتعلق به، لما هو منشور من أعمال بحثية متاحة على الشبكة العنكبوتية WWW . ويعتمد هذا المحرك في المقام الأول على البحث في منصات أو المستودعات الرقمية المطبقة لمبدأ الوصول الحر مثل RePEc، إضافة إلى أستخدام محرك بحث جوجل . بالطبع مازال المحرك في مرحلته التجريبية لكنه بحد ذاته يقلل من فرص التشتت ويرفع من معدلات التحقيق، لذا لا تدع الفرصة تفوتك في التعرف أحد تقنيات البحث التي ستساعدك على الوصول إلى ما ترغب..
ملحوظة:
استخدمت اللغة العربية في البحث في هذا المحرك، وقد أظهر لي نتائج إيجابية باللغة العربية واللغة الانجليزية. السبب معروف وهو ؟؟؟

12 فبراير 2009

The 4th annual international Open Repositories Conference 2009



The 4th annual international Open Repositories Conference 2009

The conference will be held May 18th - 21st, 2009 at the Georgia Institute of Technology Hotel and Conference Center and Global Learning Conference Center at Technology Square in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will be hosted by the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center.

Call for Papers, Posters and Workshops

Repositories are being deployed in a variety of environments (education, research, science, cultural heritage) and contexts (national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). Regardless of setting, context or scale, repositories are increasingly expected to operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities. It is the aim of the Open Repositories Conference to bring together individuals and organizations responsible for the conception, development, implementation and management of digital repositories, as well as stakeholders who interact with them, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues.

A program of papers, panel discussions, poster presentations, user groups, and workshops or tutorials will bring together all the key stakeholders in the field. Open source software community meetings for the major platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) will also provide opportunities to advance and coordinate the development of repository installations across the world.

Submission Instructions

Conference Proposals: We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that discuss theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories that focus on areas represented by the conference themes. Abstracts of accepted proposals will be made available through the conference's OCS site; all presentations and related materials used in the program sessions will be deposited in the upcoming Open Repositories 2009 community in Georgia Tech's institutional repository, SMARTech (http://SMARTech.gatech.edu).

User Group Presentations: Two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories.

Posters: We also invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters.

Workshops: Proposals for workshops for repository managers and developers can be accommodated on day four (May 21, 2009) of the conference. Please contact the local arrangements team for inquiries about workshop facilities at or09info@library.gatech.edu.

Important Dates and Contact Info

2009-02-20: Submission deadline for Conference proposals (presentations or panels)
2009-03-06: Notification of acceptance, Conference proposals

2009-02-20: Submission deadline for Workshops
2009-03-06: Notification of acceptance, Workshops

2009-03-06: Submission of User Group Proposals
2009-04-03: Notification of acceptance, User Group proposals

2009-03-19: Submission of Poster Proposals
2009-04-10: Notification of acceptance, Poster proposals

2009-05-18 Conference

Conference Themes

DATA, REPOSITORIES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Repositories and scientific workflows
  • Managing the lifecycle for scientific data
  • Repositories for qualitative data, the humanities, social sciences, virtual organizations, grid/cloud computing, etc.
  • Integrating with publishing and publishing platforms
  • Repositories and HPC applications (models and simulations; visualization)
  • Integrating with other infrastructure platforms (e.g., SRB, iRODS)
  • Scaling repositories to the demands of e-science

REPOSITORIES IN THE ORGANIZATION

  • Organizational and financial sustainability, business models
  • Organizational and strategic context of repositories (libraries, archives, institutes, etc.)
  • Challenges in staffing digital repository and cyberinfrastructure services: recruitment; professional education; professional development; defining the roles and expertise of data curators and data scientists; training the next generation of repository managers
  • Organizational synergies and collaboration
  • Sustaining content over time: preservation; audit; certification; assessment; demonstrating value
  • Repository policies and governance
  • Embedding repositories in business processes and workflows
  • Repository services and organizational culture
  • Strategies for engaging with science and social science communities
  • Making the case for organizational investment in repository services

INTEROPERABILITY AND DATA NETWORKS

  • Integration and interoperability issues among repository platforms
  • Collaboration among repository
  • Integration of repositories with software tools and workflows
  • Building federated repositories
  • Developing computational services and interfaces across distributed repositories
  • Achieving interoperability across administrative and disciplinary domains: technical and cultural challenges
  • Middleware topics (integration with access management frameworks, workflow management systems, etc.)
  • Content standards - discipline-specific vs general
  • Metadata standards and application profiles
  • Quality standards and quality control processes
SERVICES, INTERFACES, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
  • Virtual organizations
  • OAI services
  • Social networking, annotation / tagging, personalization
  • Searching / information discovery
  • Multi-stakeholder value: preservation, open access, research, management, administration
  • Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories
  • Usefulness and usability
  • Interfaces between repositories and scholarly publications or publishing platforms
  • Reference, reuse, reanalysis, re-interpretation, and repurposing of content
  • Citation of data / learning objects
  • Repository metrics
  • Bibliometrics: usage and impact

REPOSITORY USE CASES AND CASE STUDIES

  • E- research/E-science (e.g., data and publication; collaborative services)
  • E-scholarship
  • Discipline-oriented repositories
  • Scholarly Publishing
  • Digital Library
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Scientific repositories / data repositories
  • Repositories that operate across multiple disciplines, organizations, and sectors (private/public; higher education/government; etc.)

برنامج المنهج المفتوح يرفض تجارة الملكية الفكرية وينشر المعرفة عبر الانترنت

برنامج المنهج المفتوح يرفض تجارة الملكية الفكرية وينشر المعرفة عبر الانترنت
في صيف عام 2000، توصلت مجموعة صغيرة من البحّاثة في الشأن المعلوماتي إلى فكرة لامعة، وُصفت بأنها جذرية. تلخّصت تلك الفكرة في أن يختار «معهد ماساشوستس للتكنولوجيا» مواد من مناهجه الدراسية كلها (ومن دون استثناء) ويضعها بصورة مفتوحة ومجانية على الانترنت. وتعني كلمتا «مفتوحة ومجانية» أن كل شخص بإمكانه أن يقرأها ويحصل عليها، وكذلك أن يترجمها ويعيد توزيعها ويضعها ضمن أعماله ويتصرف بها، من دون قيود.
انتشرت تلك الفكرة بسرعة البرق، وتنامى عدد مؤيديها وحملت اسم «برنامج المنهج المفتوح» Open Course Ware. وراهناً، يضم قسم «برنامج المنهج المفتوح» في موقع «معهد ماساشوستس للتكنولوجيا» ما يفوق 1800 منهاج جامعي. ويزوره ملايين الأشخاص الذين يأتون من مشارب وخلفيات متنوّعة. وبديهي القول إن تلك المناهج يمكن تنزيلها على الحواسيب الشخصية، ولا يقتصر التعامل معها على زمن الوصول إلى الموقع عبر الانترنت. وأثبتت هذه الحرية أيضاً مدى الحاجة إلى تلك المناهج، إذ تــشير الأرقام إلى تنزيل أكثر من 250 ألف منهج جامعي متكامل شهرياً.
البقية على الرابطة التالية :
http://www.daralhayat.com/science_tech/02-2009/Item-20090209-5c224c98-c0a8-10ed-0095-ef17c232668e/story.html
هال إبلسون ، الحياة ، 10/2/2009

05 فبراير 2009

novo/seek New Search Tool for PubMed


نقلاً عن: مدونة أخبار الوصول الحر Open Access News



إن كنت من مستخدمي PubMed فإليك هذا المحرك البحثي الجديد novo seek، الذي يضيف خدمات جديدة على آلية استرجاع الوثائق من PubMed .
يضيف هذا المحرك مزايا عدة فهو يعرض لك الاربتاطات الموضوعية للموضوع المراد البحث عنه، وكذلك رؤوس الموضوعات المتصلة به، ناهيك عن كونه يقدم لك تحليل لغوي للمصطلحات المبحوثة والعلاقات الهرمية بين المصطلحات إذا أردت ذلك من خلال التعرف على المترادفات والمتضادات. كما أن المحرك يقدم لك آلية تضييق أو تحديد نطاق بحثك بناءً على حدود البحث التي ترغب الحصول عليها.
من الجميل أن توسع آليات بحثك عن المعلومات من خلال إستخدام التقنيات الحديثة في مجال استرجاع المعلومات، لذا لا تدع الفرصة تفوتك في أن تكتشف عالم المعلومات الافتراضي.

01 فبراير 2009

مجلات علمية محكمة في مجال الصيدلة والكيمياء، على طريق الوصول الحر


من مدونة أخبار الوصول الحر Open Access News

مجموعة من المجلات العلمية المحكمة في مجال الصيدلة والكيمياء والتي تقدم محتواها بالمجان للمستفيد. هذه الدوريات تعتبر من مجلات الطريق الذهبي للوصول الحر Open Access Gold Road، وهي كذلك تلتزم بمعايير النشر العلمي المنضبط والمحكم. أنصح الكل النشر في تلك الدوريات وبالذات أولئك الذين يتلمسون طريق النشر العلمي.


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