Sven Fund, CEO of the German publishing house de Gruyter was recently interviewed by Richard Poynder in his widely read interview series on open access. In the interview, he first avoided answering the question if de Gruyter had ever lobbied […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Rejection is one of the unpleasant but inevitable components of life. There are positive components to rejection: they build character, they force you to deal with negativity and sometimes they force you to change your life to avoid future rejections. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is one of these rare events when I can post a video of one of my own talks. This one was in Berlin earlier this year, organized by The Lost Lectures in a very unusual venue, the Stattbad Wedding: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posted on September 5, 2013
at 12:21
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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
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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
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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…
In the process of migrating content from the old site to WordPress, I’m also moving some articles from there and re-publishing them here as posts. This one is such a case, originally published on December 7, 2006. Unfortunately, I never […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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
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Yesterday, Alex Kacelnik published yet another fascinating discovery – one of many over the years out of his lab. This time, they show how birds can pick even five consecutive locks to get to a food reward: According to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posted on July 5, 2013
at 13:23
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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…
