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Aug26

A fistful of dollars: why corporate publishers have no place in scholarly communication

In: blogarchives • Tags: Elsevier, open access, publishing, RWA, SOPA

During my flyfishing vacation last year, pretty much nothing was happening on this blog. Now that I’ve migrated the blog to WordPress, I can actually schedule posts to appear when in fact I’m not even at the computer. I’m using […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on August 26, 2013 at 16:30 Comments Off

Aug16

Scientific discoveries are like orgasms: you can’t have any bad ones

In: blogarchives • Tags: dunning-kruger, incompetence, publishing

Posted on August 16, 2013 at 09:15 Comments Off

Aug13

Neither gold, nor green, nor hybrid are sustainable open access models

In: blogarchives • Tags: journal rank, open access, publishing

Posted on August 13, 2013 at 19:49 2 Comments

Aug08

12 year anniversary of angry letter to scientific journal editor

In: science politics • Tags: publishing

This year marks the 12th anniversary of the publication of this legendary letter to the editor in the Journal of systems and Software: A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper R. L. Glass Computing Trends, 1416 Sare […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on August 8, 2013 at 16:09 Comments Off

Aug02

In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science

In: blogarchives • Tags: impact factor, journal rank, open access, publishing

Posted on August 2, 2013 at 18:21 Comments Off

Jul31

Solutions to the looming crisis in science

In: science politics • Tags: journal rank, libraries, open access, publishing, SciELO

This post was originally published on the London School of Economics “Impact of Social Sciences” blog, on July 30, 2013: In various fields of scholarship, scholars accrue reputation via the proxy of the containers they publish their articles in. In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 31, 2013 at 10:48 Comments Off

Jul24

Publisher selects the best open access science – authors complain

In: science politics • Tags: impact factor, journal rank, libraries, open access, publishing

You’d be forgiven if after reading the title of this post, you thought scholars have started to revolt against journal rank. Unfortunately, while there is DORA and of course the evidence that journal rank is like homeopathy, most researchers are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 24, 2013 at 21:50 6 Comments

Jul09

The Conversation: The looming crisis in science

In: science politics • Tags: libraries, open access, publishing, retractions, SciELO, SHARE

This is a slightly edited (amended, essentially) version of my article published today at The Conversation. In cases where a problem within a community is detected and collective action is required to address the problem. one needs to strike a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 9, 2013 at 02:40 Comments Off

Jul04

The dysfunctionality of the scholarly literature: hyperlinks

In: science politics • Tags: hyperlinks, literature, publishing, scholarly communication

This morning I was reminded of the age of some of the technology we’re using. Hyperlinks were developed at Stanford University and first demonstrated by their inventor Douglas Engelbart (using the first mouse) in 1968: On Tuesday, Douglas Engelbart died, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 4, 2013 at 10:54 1 Comment

Jun27

#icanhazpdf more public than a publication?

In: science politics • Tags: Drosophila, open access, publishing, Twitter

This anecdote made my day today. On a Drosophila researcher mailinglist, someone asked if anybody on the list had access to the Landes Bioscience journal ‘Fly‘. I replied by wondering that if #icanhazpdf on Twitter didn’t work, the days of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…