Category Archives: Open Access

Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years : Nature News & Comment

A survey of the reading habits of US university researchers saw a drop in the traditional, paper-based consumption of information. A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted. In 2012, US scientists and social … Continue reading

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A Wizard of Oz Moment for the Web: Pull back the Curtains

Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency. Everyone who browses the Internet leaves a digital trail used by advertisers … Continue reading

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CFP: HASTAC 2014 – Hemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks | HASTAC

The challenges facing the Western hemisphere are multidimensional  and complex.  Urban agglomeration, economic development, ecological crisis, military conflict, digital privacy, impediments to advanced learning, negotiations of multiple cultural and historical perspectives—these are problems with scientific and human factors that must … Continue reading

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BYOI: ORCID and Impact Story | Amber at Warwick: academic technology

Interesting post and slides from Amber at Warwick — a philosopher-information-technologist. BYOI: ORCID and Impact Story | Amber at Warwick: academic technology. I think there’s something right about the notion that this is “cool social scholarship.” But is it too … Continue reading

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56 Indicators of Impact

In 2011, several core members of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at the University of North Texas held a meeting during which we imagined different ways to indicate the impact of our activities. We scribbled them on … Continue reading

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Academics: bring your own identity | Amber at Warwick: academic technology

Academics: bring your own identity | Amber at Warwick: academic technology. Good post here on academic identity that ties in with much of our own thinking on altmetrics and owning accountability.

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Knowing and acting: The precautionary and proactionary principles in relation to policy making, J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

The Social Epistemology Review and Reply collective is now hosting preprints: Knowing and acting: The precautionary and proactionary principles in relation to policy making, J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Yes! Adam and … Continue reading

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Nature Special on The future of publishing: “A new page”.

Nature Special on The future of publishing: “A new page”..

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Everything you ever wanted to know about altmetrics? Bulletin April/May 2013

Well, probably not. But it’s a start! Very informative special issue on altmetrics here, guest edited by Heather Piwowar: Bulletin April/May 2013.

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Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

A very interesting piece written on preprints here: Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network. Preprints are essentially working papers that are ‘published’ in order to solicit feedback prior to … Continue reading

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The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov | The Baffler

Memes are for losers; the real money is in epistemes. via The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov | The Baffler.

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Open Access: Getting Things Right | Ernesto Priego

Open Access: Getting Things Right | Ernesto Priego.

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The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences

The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences.

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Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences

Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised … Continue reading

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Conservatives declare war on college – Salon.com

Good insight from Andrew Leonard: For many conservatives, the humanities departments of public universities are bastions of the “tenured left” busily brainwashing the young people of America into godless socialist postmodernism. They’d much rather for-profit corporations were in charge of … Continue reading

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OSTP Open Access Memo — even faster than FASTR

John P. Holdren: Scientific research supported by the Federal Government catalyzes innovative breakthroughs that drive our economy. The results of that research become the grist for new insights and are assets for progress in areas such as health, energy, the … Continue reading

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Open Access Creative Commons licences for Cambridge Journals « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog

Cambridge University Press has announced today that articles in its Open Access journals can be published with a Creative Commons Attribution licence (‘CC-BY‘). This licence allows users and readers to download, read, re-use and re-distribute freely, as long as they … Continue reading

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Open Access: What is it?

A video from PhD Comics. What is PhD Comics? Piled Higher and Deeper – Life (or the lack thereof) in Academia (also known as PhD Comics), is a newspaper and web comic strip written and drawn by Jorge Cham that follows the lives of several grad … Continue reading

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“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” webinar: Notes from the not-so-underground philosopher

My initial reaction is that the single-day webinar in which I presented on Tuesday (and in which I was the only humanist – !) was a success. Excepting some minor and very intermittent technical difficulties with sound and visual, the presenters … Continue reading

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“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” — Research Trends Webinar

Just finished listening to this webinar, in which CSID’s own Kelli Barr participated as a presenter. One of the most interesting aspects of the webinar was the discussion of the use of new ways for the individual researcher to extend … Continue reading

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Value all Research Products « Research Remix

Heather Piwowar (aka @ResearchRemix) has just published a pre-print version of her recently published Nature article on NSF’s new bio-sketch requirements. First draft of just-published Value all Research Products « Research Remix. This version is as interesting from the meta-standpoint … Continue reading

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Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship | eLife

The paper is well worth reading for those interested in scholarly communications. The journal, eLife, is also worth checking out. Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship | eLife.

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My library is already an open access publisher! Is yours? – bjoern.brembs.blog

News / Comments / My library is already an open access publisher! Is yours? – bjoern.brembs.blog.

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From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop

Open Access, for some at least, goes hand in hand with a move towards Open Evaluation. From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop.

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The End of the University as We Know It – Nathan Harden – The American Interest Magazine

In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. … Continue reading

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