ICT research: EU invests €500 million in Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) to improve people’s lives

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Developing intelligent artificial hands for hand amputees, neural devices to help people suffering from vertigo, dizziness and other vestibular disorders and the possibility to see how your brain responds while learning are a few examples of European research carried out in the area of future and emerging information and communication technologies (FET) that are being presented in the European Parliament in Strasbourg today.

Twelve outstanding science projects funded under the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies programme will be showcased at the exhibition on “Science beyond Fiction: an Excursion into Future and Emerging Technologies”. Europe is taking the lead in FET by proposing to invest around €500 million in exploratory research into high risk future Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

URL : http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-10-140_en.htm?locale=nl

Research Assessment and a Diverse Role f…

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Research Assessment and a Diverse Role for Repositories :
In the decade since the development of the Open Archiving Initiative’s OAI-PMH protocol, repositories have been used to support a growing number of agendas: open access, preservation, open data, open educational resources. As well as these, research assessment has become a major academic preoccupation in a number of countries, leading to enhanced roles for institutional repositories. This presentation focuses on the work of two JISC projects that support different aspects of research assessment, but concludes that the enhanced repository facilities needed for this specific agenda are important for general repositories.
URL : http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/20842/

Pour un livre numérique créateur de vale…

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Pour un livre numérique créateur de valeurs :
Dans le prolongement des rapports remis au cours des deux dernières années, Christine Albanel a été chargée par le Premier ministre d’une mission sur le développement du livre numérique. Le présent rapport réfléchit aux enjeux de ce secteur en devenir, ainsi qu’à l’avenir du livre “papier” face au numérique. Il aborde la question de la protection de la propriété intellectuelle et de la diversité culturelle, et évalue le risque lié au piratage qui a touché le cinéma et la musique. Il propose cinq grands axes prioritaires : définir un cadre légal et fiscal le plus approprié au développement du livre numérique (il se prononce notamment en faveur d’un prix unique, à l’image du livre papier) ; préserver la place des différents intervenants (petits éditeurs, libraires, etc.) dans l’économie numérique ; créer une porte d’entrée commune, le “nouveau Gallica”, outil partagé des acteurs publics et privés, qui soit la vitrine de l’offre numérique française ; faire avancer au sein de l’Union européenne une démarche partagée dans le secteur du livre ; enfin encourager l’offre numérique privée à s’unifier et à se donner les moyens de son développement.
URL : http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/104000189/

Call to action: Tell Congress you suppor…

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Call to action: Tell Congress you support the Federal Research Public Access Act
Yesterday (April 15), Representatives Doyle (D-PA), Waxman (D-CA), Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), Harper (R-MS), Boucher (D-VA) and Rohrabacher (R-CA) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (HR 5037), a bill that would ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by eleven U.S. federal agencies.
All supporters of public access – universities and colleges, researchers, libraries, campus administrators, patient advocates, publishers, consumers, individuals, and others – are asked to ACT NOW to support this bill
URL : http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_frpaa/10-0416.shtml

The Institutional Repository in 2010 ……

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The Institutional Repository in 2010 … and beyond :
This paper aims to provide insights and predictions with respect to the short and long
term future of Institutional Repositories, based on the current appraisal and criticism on
today’s results of more than six years of Institutional Repository reality.
While acknowledging that important challenges still lie ahead, this paper states that the
trend towards organizational commitment to the stewardship of digital materials,
essentially at the core of institutional repositories, is still very actual today and will be in
the future.
URL : http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/18/Repositories-in-2010.pdf?sequence=1

Open Access to scientific communication …

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Open Access to scientific communication :
The purpose of this website is to present, select and organize current information about Open Access.
Open Access is an international movement whose importance is increasing year by year. It is difficult to follow its rapid evolution without getting lost in the vast amount of information available on the subject.
Our goal is to summarize the main current lines of information (in France and abroad) and to report what seems us to be particularly noteworthy .
Hans DILLAERTS and Hélène BOSC
URL : http://open-access.infodocs.eu/en/home