#OpenAccess: Check out scientific search engines like Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and Semantic Scholar—web tools increasingly able to see around restrictive paywalls. https://www.teachthought.com/learning/100-search-engines-for-academic-research/

New #OpenAccess book:

#Streaming #Video - #Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution

Ramon Lobato

(New York University Press)

"Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media players of all kinds. In this unfamiliar environment, new global giants of television distribution are emerging—including Netflix, the world’s largest subscription video-on-demand service. Combining media industry analysis with cultural theory, Ramon Lobato explores the political and policy tensions at the heart of the digital distribution revolution, tracing their longer history through our evolving understanding of media globalization. Netflix Nations considers the ways that subscription video-on-demand services, but most of all Netflix, have irrevocably changed the circulation of media content. It tells the story of how a global video portal interacts with national audiences, markets, and institutions, and what this means for how we understand global media in the internet age. Netflix Nations addresses a fundamental tension in the digital media landscape – the clash between the internet’s capacity for global distribution and the territorial nature of media trade, taste, and regulation. The book also explores the failures and frictions of video-on-demand as experienced by audiences. The actual experience of using video platforms is full of subtle reminders of market boundaries and exclusions: platforms are geo-blocked for out-of-region users (“this video is not available in your region”); catalogs shrink and expand from country to country; prices appear in different currencies; and subtitles and captions are not available in local languages. These conditions offer rich insight for understanding the actual geographies of digital media distribution. Contrary to popular belief, the story of Netflix is not just an American one. From Argentina to Australia, Netflix’s ascension from a Silicon Valley start-up to an international television service has transformed media consumption on a global scale. Netflix Nations will help readers make sense of a complex, ever-shifting streaming media environment."

http://openaccessbooks.nyupress.org/details/9781479804948/

#OpenAccess #BigData #DigitalActivism - Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on #Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data

David Chandler , Christian Fuchs [eds.]

(University of Westminster Press, 2019)

"This volume explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims – in theory and via dialogue – and of the digital’s impact on society and the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society."

https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29/

#openaccess #research #journals
International Journal of #Veterinary and #Animal #Medicine | Comparative #Chromosomal Localization of #SmallHeat #ShockProteinGenes (Hspb) Involved in Prion #Diseases Development of Domestic Bovids
#HSPB #Doctors #DigitalPublishing
https://www.boffinaccess.com/open-access-journals/international-journal-of-veterinary-and-animal-medicine/ijvam-1-112

#openaccess #journals
International Journal of #Veterinary and #AnimalMedicine - #Seroprevalence of #Antibodies against Bovine Herpesvirus-1(Bohv-1) in Zebu Cattle in the Vina Division, Cameroon
#Serosurveillance #Researchers #DigitalPublishing
https://www.boffinaccess.com/open-access-journals/international-journal-of-veterinary-and-animal-medicine/ijvam-1-111

#openaccess #journals
Journal of #Cancer #Research and #Oncobiology - Impact of #Sarcopenia in the Prognostic of Ressectable #EsophagealCancer
#researchers #Morbimortality #Doctors
https://www.boffinaccess.com/open-access-journals/cancer-research-and-oncobiology/jcro-1-115

#USA #Law #OpenGovernment #OpenAccess #PACER: "The case hinges on a single phrase in the E-Government Act of 2002. The statute authorizes the judiciary to levy fees “only to the extent necessary” to provide “access to information available through automatic data processing equipment.” Though data storage costs have plummeted over the past two decades, PACER’s fees rose from seven cents a page at its establishment to ten cents a page by 2011, which remains the cost today. That may not sound like much, but it adds up fast. The PACER system itself brought in more than $146 million in fees during the 2016 fiscal year, even though it cost just over $3 million to operate.

“Anyone who wants to be able to access the documents that are essential to understanding the way our court system works has to pay these fees,” Brianne Gorod, the chief counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, told me. The organization filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of former Senator Joe Lieberman, the 2002 law’s original sponsor. “What that means is that one’s ability to access these documents—to read the briefs that the courts use when making decisions, to understand why courts are doing what they do—is going to turn on one’s financial situation.”"

#openaccess #journals
Advances in Computer Sciences - New Analogues of the Pascal Triangle and Electronic Clouds in Atom
#ComputerScience #articles #DigitalPublishing #PascalTriange #Trajectories #Polygon #Fullerence

#openaccess #journals
Advances in Computer Sciences - Computer-Intensive #Statistics: A Promising Interplay between Statistics and #ComputerScience
#digitalpublishing #researchers

#OpenAccess #FullArticle The results of a new clinical trial have shown the safety and efficacy of the interoperable Artificial Pancreas System smartphone app (iAPS), which can interface wirelessly with leading continuous glucose monitors (CGM), insulin pump devices, and decision-making algorithms. The clinical trial and the app, which runs on an unlocked smartphone, are described in an article published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT), a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc․, publishers.

Diabetes Technology & TherapeuticsVol. 21, No. 1Original ArticlesFree AccessSunil Deshpande,…