Atlas links as follows:

Seagrasses http://www.archive.org/details/worldatlasofseag03gree

Coral reefs http://www.archive.org/details/worldatlasofcora01spal

Coral reefs (German) http://www.archive.org/details/weltatlasderkora04spal

Biodiversity http://www.archive.org/details/worldatlasofbiod02groo

Great apes http://www.archive.org/details/worldatlasofgrea05cald

Great apes (French) http://www.archive.org/details/worldatlasofgrea05jcal

The 2010 data has more than 200,000 areas in the dataset, 50 percent more than were reported in the 2008 data. Terrestrial protected areas is one of more than 40 map layers already available to view and download free of charge.

CEC latest newsletter highlights the new map layer and also shows the protection level of each of North America’s level I ecoregions. Read it online at:

English: http:/www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_August31_en.html

Français: http://www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_August31_fr.html

Español: http://www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_August31_sp.html

If you would like to receive the Atlas newsletter on a regular basis (normally once every other month), please submit your e-mail address under the “subscribe to updates” section of the Atlas website (www.cec.org/naatlas).

This concerned the potential relationships between and IPBES and existing institutions, and may be of interest to organizations involved with and interested in the Conservation Commons.

Potential relationships between the intergovernmental science policy platform and existing institutions UNEP/IPBES/3/INF/11

This site is a free online social platform for professional interaction in the scope of GBIF: collaborative projects, discussions, sharing of information and expertise, announcements, mentoring, etc.

ommunity.gbif.org

The site is open to GBIF delegations, Nodes, technicians, biodiversity data publishers and users, and everyone interested in Biodiversity Informatics.

Visit the site now, create your account and start networking! Invite your colleagues and contacts to also join the site and benefit from the collaboration tools available in the site: work groups, (micro)blogs, community news, online chat, file and image sharing and much more!

You can also check the GBIF website for a description of the site and to access a quick guide with an overview of its features.

NOTE: The site interface is available in English, Spanish and French.

The Berlin8 open access conference will first time come to the place outside Europe, in October 2010, Beijing, China. It will be co-host by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society, co-organized by National Science Library, CAS and Max Planck Digital Library.

Theme: Implementation Progress, Best Practices, and Future Challenges

Sub-themes:

• Trends in international open scholarly communications and open access
• Strategies and policies of planning and funding agencies
• OA strategies, policies, and implementation of R&D institutions
• Open data and open education
• Legal and economical issues in OA
• Administrative and operational issues in implementing OA
• Supporting infrastructure for sustainable OA
• OA in the world

Berlin 8 Open Access Conference Program update!

Call for Posters!

Call for Participation!

You are cordially invited to take part in the Berlin 8 Open Access Conference!

A vacancy announcement is on the web ( http://www.unccd.int/secretariat/vacancies/docs/ToR%20consultant%20for%20data%20and%20information%20analysis%20final.pdf

), deadline for submission being 31 July 2010.

Instructions on how to apply for this consultancy are provided on UNCCD Web site: http://www.unccd.int/

Save the Whales? Save the Rainforest? Save the Data!

Andrew S. Pullin* and Nick Salafsky†

*Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, School of the Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, United Kingdom, email a.s.pullin@bangor.ac.uk †Foundations of Success, 4109 Maryland Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20816, U.S.A.

Copyright ©2010, Society for Conservation Biology

link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123584566/abstract

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association is pleased to announce the 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which will be held from 22 to 24 August 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Schedule:

Saturday August 21st

• 7:00pm- Drinks meet-up at the Piano Bar in the Hotel President

Sunday August 22nd

• 11:00am- Conference registration begins
• 12:00-12:30- Paul Peters: Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair
• 12:30-1:30- Caroline Sutton: Keynote Address from the OASPA Chair
• 1:30-2:45- Session on Mixed Model Publishers (Chaired by David Ross)
  • Trish Groves- Executive Editor of the British Medical Journal
  • Wim van der Stelt- Executive Vice President for Business Development, Springer
• 2:45-3:30- Coffee Break
• 3:30-5:00- Session on Funding and Payment Models (Chaired by Matt Cockerill)
  • Chuck Eckman- Director of Collections for the UC Berkeley Library
  • Matt Cockerill- Managing Director of BioMed Central
  • Paul Peters- Head of Business Development for Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • Mark Patterson- Director of Publishing for the Public Library of Science

Monday August 23rd

• 9:00-10:00- Morning Keynote Address: Salvatore Mele- CERN/SOAP
• 10:00-11:00- Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:30- Session on Editorial Innovation in OA Publishing (Chaired by Mark Patterson)
  • Ulrich Pöschl- Chief Executive Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics
  • Rob van Glabbeek- Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • Daniel Mietchen- Structural Brain Mapping Group at Friedrich Schiller University
• 12:30-1:30- Lunch at the Hotel President
• 1:30-3:30- Parallel Breakout Sessions
  • Breakout Session on Publishing Ethics
  • Breakout Session on OA Book Publishing
  • Breakout Session on Centralized Payment Mechanisms for OA Publishing Costs
• 3:30-4:30- Coffee Break
• 4:30-5:15- Reports from the Afternoon Breakout Sessions
• 5:15-6:00 – Workshop discussing the results of the SOAP Survey (Optional)
• 7:30- Conference Dinner at Obcanska Plovarna

Tuesday August 24th

• 9:00-10:00- Session on OA in Different Communities: Part 1 (Chaired by Caroline Sutton)
  • Eelco Ferwerda- OAPEN Coordinator/ Amsterdam University Press
  • Susan Murray- Director of African Journals Online (AJOL)
  • Petr Sojka – Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30-11:00 Session on OA in Different Communities: Part 2 (Chaired by Caroline Sutton)
  • Donna Livingstone – The University of Calgary Press
  • Victoria Tsoukala – the National Documentation Centre, EKT
• 11:00-11:30 Paul Peters: Closing Remarks from the Conference Chair
• 1:00-5:00 Workshop on Creating and Managing Open Access Journals (requires separate registration)

Conference Organizing Committee

• Paul Peters, Conference Chair- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• Caroline Sutton- Co-Action Publishing
• David Ross- SAGE Publications
• Mark Patterson- Public Library of Science
• Matt Cockeril- BioMed Central

For more information, contact paul.peters@hindawi.com

Abstract:  Open access (OA) publishing, whereby authors, their institutions, or their granting bodies pay or provide a repository through which peer-reviewed work is available online for free, is championed as a model to increase the number of citations per paper and disseminate results widely, especially to researchers in developing countries. We compared the number of citations of OA and non-OA papers in six journals and four books published since 2000 to test whether OA increases number of citations overall and increases citations made by authors in developing countries. After controlling for type of paper (e.g., review or research paper), length of paper, authors’ citation profiles, number of authors per paper, and whether the author or the publisher released the paper in OA, OA had no statistically significant influence on the overall number of citations per journal paper. Journal papers were cited more frequently if the authors had published highly cited papers previously, were members of large teams of authors, or published relatively long papers, but papers were not cited more frequently if they were published in an OA source. Nevertheless, author-archived OA book chapters accrued up to eight times more citations than chapters in the same book that were not available through OA, perhaps because there is no online abstracting service for book chapters. There was also little evidence that journal papers or book chapters published in OA received more citations from authors in developing countries relative to those journal papers or book chapters not published in OA. For scholarly publications in conservation biology, only book chapters had an OA citation advantage, and OA did not increase the number of citations papers or chapters received from authors in developing countries.

Reference: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123369590/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Fundable Projects

Applicants may seek funding for activities that positively impact Creative Commons’ mission of fostering creativity (cultural, educational, scientific and other content) in the commons, to promote understanding and adoption of CC’s tools, licenses and technologies, and to support the building and work of communities that use or benefit from CC licenses, tools, and technologies.

Some funding may be ear-marked to address particular issues, programs or activities, geographies or other specified objectives or criteria, all as may be posted by Creative Commons.

Grants will range in amount from US$ 1,000 – US$ 10,000.

Example projects:

1. Convening a workshop on best/recommended practices for developing and publishing Open Educational Resources, or CC-licensed works in some other high-value field.
2. Publishing an academic article comparing multiple jurisdictions’ laws on copyright exceptions and limitations.
3. Establishing metrics for and measuring the impact of CC-licensed works within a particular field or discipline, such as education or science, or particular geography, such as Africa.
4. Documenting novel business models that are enabled by Creative Commons licenses and technologies, including commercial ventures.
5. Studying the benefits and challenges associated with incorporating CC licenses and technologies within governments, or libraries, museums and other cultural institutions.
6. Preparing a white paper on the negative effects of license proliferation, or documenting case studies involving license incompatibilities.
7. Supporting a local affiliate team implementing a CC-related technology challenge, such as adding license support to a specific CMS.
8. Examining the effects that the licensing of databases and data have on scientific research and discovery.
9. Creating a database of projects that have adopted the CC0 waiver, which places works in the public domain, for content and/or data they publish, and how such content and data is thereafter used by others and with what effects.
10. Capacity-building for CC affiliate projects such as development of proposals for and pursuit of local funding.
11. Outreach projects the demonstrate the value of CC, such as a clinic on using free software creation tools to remix CC-licensed content.

Funding may not be used for lobbying activities, license porting activities (launch events, legal review or translations of the licenses, etc.), Salons, exclusively for the creation of CC-licensed works, or for similar activities and events, all as determined by CC in its discretion. Events must be outcome-driven and integral to CC’s mission. Grants cannot be used to support "meetings for the sake of meetings" or regional meetings unless those meetings result in outputs such as those described above. Funding may not be provided for events that Creative Commons may be funding in whole or in part.

Funds will be distributed beginning in August and cannot be applied to previously incurred expenses. Applications for activities funded by other means will not be accepted.

Who May Apply

Any organization or institution may apply. Applications from or endorsed by official CC affiliate institutions* will receive preference. Joint applications from official CC affiliate institutions and other organizations are also welcomed, although each joint proposal will still be capped by the maximum grant amount. Applicants wishing to establish an official CC jurisdiction project in their country are encouraged to apply as well. Applications from non-OECD countries will be given special consideration.

There is no limit to the number of applications an organization or group of organizations may submit, although bear in mind that Creative Commons will try to distribute grants across organizations and regions.

• Affiliate institutions and related contact information can be found by visiting creativecommons.org/international. Institutions are listed by jurisdiction; simply click on a jurisdiction flag and scroll toward the bottom of the page where the information may be found.

Application Process

Creative Commons will publish one or more Calls for Grant Applications, which will detail application processes and deadlines, as well as any supplemental application criteria. All applications must be submitted in English and will be made public on the Creative Commons wiki. The application form must be accompanied by a proposed budget. See below for more details.

Successful applicants will be required to sign a Grant Agreement as a condition of receiving funds, which agreement will specify reporting, accounting and other terms and conditions governing receipt and use of the funds. Among other things, all Grant Agreements will provide that all original material produced within the scope of the grant program will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license or CC0 or if the material is software, afree/libre/open source software license.

Grant recipients must also agree to report on and document the project and use of funds as described by Creative Commons in the Grant Agreement. Recipients agree to participate in communication with the grant committee and coordinators, and also with fellow grantees, CC staff, and CC jurisdictions, all as may be reasonably requested.

Application and Grant Calendar

• Call for CC affiliate Catalyst Grants applications: opens April 23
• Call for public Catalyst Grants applications: opens May 14
• Catalyst Fundraising Campaign: June 1 – June 30
• Deadline for all Catalyst Grants applications: June 30
• Review Committee convenes: July 1 – July 30
• Catalyst Grants awarded: beginning August 1

Review Process

Following initial screening by CC for completeness and appropriateness of the project proposed, applications will be published online for a period of public review and comment. By submitting a grant application, Applicant agrees to such publication, and further agrees not to reveal any confidential or other information that the Applicant is restricted from disclosing publicly, to Creative Commons, or otherwise.

A Grant Review Committee established by Creative Commons will evaluate the grant applications and make recommendations to Creative Commons for final action. The committee will consist of CC staff as well as a single representative from each of the following regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East/Arab world, and North America. Official CC affiliate institutions within each jurisdiction are expected to establish a process for selecting a single regional representative to serve on the Grant Review Committee; however, if no regional representative is selected or if a process is not established for any reason prior to the commencement of the Grant Review Committee’s work, then Creative Commons may select a representative for the region. Regional representatives will serve for a period of one year, and are expected to make themselves available for conference calls and meetings to review and establish recommendations for review and action by Creative Commons.

Creative Commons reserves the right to amend or modify these terms at any time in its sole discretion, and to discontinue the Catalyst Grants program at any time.

Grant applications in progress or submitted

AudioImager
CC Asia Pacific Conference 2010
Development of a Photovoice Database Resource Center
ElectricalWhat
FooCorp — a music label focused on sharing of creative works, providing new opportunities for free culture musicians.
Local Map Search
Magazines Web 2.0 Search
One Retweet
OneFileEverywhere for Creative Commons
Open Educational Resources Content Repository for training educational researchers in Latin America
Open Robotics Platform
Middle-Eastern Musicians under CC
Rural Peace Project
Shared Film Festival
Soapnote
Study of the Cypriot Legal Framework for Copyright law from the scope of openness requirements in the academic environment of Cyprus leveraging on legal-tech means such as the Creative Commons licensing.
Worldwide Center of Mathematics Textbook Series

source: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Grants