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Category Archives: Libraries
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
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that | Impact of Social Sciences
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that | Impact of Social Sciences.
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, CSID Publications, Field Philosophy, institutionalizing interdisciplinarity, Libraries, Metrics, Peer Review, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged altmetrics, LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog
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Nature Special on The future of publishing: “A new page”.
Nature Special on The future of publishing: “A new page”..
Posted in Basic News, Future of the University, Libraries, Metrics, Open Access
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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
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.
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
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.
A new paradigm of scholarly communications is emerging: A report from the Future of Impact conference | Impact of Social Sciences
Policymakers and academics agree that the economic or public impact of research can’t be demonstrated through just citations and bibliometrics yet open access publishing, altmetrics and online methods must be further developed before we can rely on them to prove … Continue reading
Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
Scroll down to the comments below the article for discussion. Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional.
5 New Technologies That Have Changed The Digital Classroom | Edudemic
In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps … Continue reading
How Does “Big Data” Change the Research Landscape for the Humanities and Social Sciences? — Council on Library and Information Resources
Report out on Digging into Data: How Does “Big Data” Change the Research Landscape for the Humanities and Social Sciences? — Council on Library and Information Resources.
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Your Peers, Your Science. Academic Publishing is Evolving. – PeerJ Blog
A new journal has just opened its doors for business, and it’s making quite a splash. The reason is its proposed new publishing model. Authors will pay a one-time fee ($259) for lifetime privileges to submit to the journal, have … Continue reading
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Science in the Open » Blog Archive » 25,000 signatures and still rolling: Implications of the White House petition
The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. –Nietzsche Cameron Neylon awakens to a nice surprise, takes stock, and wonders: what’s next for Open Access? The really hard work of implementation is … Continue reading
What data can and cannot do | News | guardian.co.uk
Jonathan Gray argues that aspiring data journalists and civic data hackers should strive to cut back on data-driven hype and to cultivate a more critical literacy towards their subject matter. What data can and cannot do | News | guardian.co.uk. … Continue reading
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Open Access Petition — Opening Access to Research or Courting Disaster? UPDATED
Here is the text of the petition: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and … Continue reading
The question of who ought to count as a peer is THE question surrounding open access | The Sociological Imagination
I respond to Steve Fuller’s claim that Open Access is no more than academic consumerism here: The question of who ought to count as a peer is THE question surrounding open access | The Sociological Imagination. There is a sense … Continue reading
Academic journals: an open and shut case | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
Research assessment “impact” criteria should be overhauled so they look at not just citations, but readership. Well, that’s a start, anyway! via Academic journals: an open and shut case | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian.
Frontiers | Decoupling the scholarly journal | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Potentially interesting read: Frontiers | Decoupling the scholarly journal | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. A tease quote: The Balkanization of the scholarly literature was not planned; indeed, the journal was supposed to be a cure for just this problem. Will … Continue reading
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A call for the philosopher librarian
Librarian Dave Puplett on the role of the librarian. Academics must be applauded for making a stand by boycotting Elsevier. It’s time for librarians to join the conversation on the future of dissemination, but not join the boycott. | Impact … Continue reading
Open Science Federation – Google+ – Now it’s official — The Research Works Act is dead. …
Open Science Federation – Google+ – Now it’s official — The Research Works Act is dead. ….
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Elsevier withdraws support for Research Works Act
Here is the announcement. Of course, the Research Works Act is probably a loser at this point, so it’s not really a big thing for Elsevier to withdraw its support. Moreover, Elsevier still says in their announcement that they continue … Continue reading
As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
“It’s like we have a fresh snowfall across this docu-plain, and we have fresh footprints everywhere,” he says. “That has the potential to really revolutionize how we measure impact.” I agree with this. But combine it with Open Access policies, … Continue reading
The Cost of Knowledge
An academic strike — scholars who refuse to publish, edit, or peer review for Elsevier. One wonders about the effectiveness of this, and whether it would be that much more effective to get libraries involved (for instance, by adding a … Continue reading
Research Works Act is an anti-entrepreneurial bill
A bill has been introduced by Representative Darrell Issa — H.R. 3699 — in order “To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector.” The Research Works Act would outlaw open access policies, such … Continue reading
Cutting Edge Mapping Science Exhibit
CSID is a proud co-sponsor of the Spaces & Places: Mapping Science exhibit. The University of North Texas is pleased to be the first Texas host of this important exhibit as well as the world premier site for the 7th set of … Continue reading