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| A unified scholarly database is not a monopoly |
| It has been the main argument against unifying scholarly literature and data in a single database that monoplies are always bad. I won't go into any political arguments here. Markets have their place, but they also have ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 22:10:44 |
| What could we afford if corporate publishers wouldn't make any profit? |
| Richard Grant at Naturally Selected recently posted his take on some recent discussions around scholarly publishing. In a comment, he mentioned that non-profit organizations may not be suited for scholarly publishing. I ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 March 2011 - 13:48:09 |
| My LSE guest post on scholarly publishing |
| The London School of Economics and Political Science runs a blog called "The Impact of Social Sciences". They have invited me to write a guest post, to which I agreed and the post went live today. I'm reposting it here, ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 November 2011 - 13:04:13 |
| STM publishers answer OSTP open access roundtable principles |
| On January 12, 2010, an expert panel of librarians, library scientists, publishers, and university academic leaders from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable issued a press release, calling on on federal agencies that fun...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 19 January 2010 - 17:36:12 |
| On 'adequate' peer-review |
| I'm starting to dig a little deeper into the recent 42 page tome of Richard Poynder on scholarly publishing today. Not sure how much more time I can spend on this, though. This post will be mainly about the first half ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 March 2011 - 21:47:31 |
| Who should be in charge of how scientists organize their workflow? |
| This post is distilled from several comments on "PLoS’ Squandered Opportunity" over at Scholarly Kitchen (the blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing). It builds on my previous post where I retell the story of how ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 29 April 2010 - 16:41:03 |
| Finally, some movement on the ORCID front! |
| WTF is ORCID, you ask? It's something scientific publishing should have had 20 years ago. It's meant to become a system that disambiguates authorship and attributions. For instance, go to PubMed and search for author '...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 08 September 2010 - 01:34:41 |
| Academic publishing = economic parasitism |
| You just have to read the latest piece on scholarly publishing in The Guardian! The title is: "Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist". Here some of the best tidbits:...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 30 August 2011 - 14:05:03 |
| Let's join UC and boycott publishers who profit from public research and public funds |
| As I just learned (and now many others chime in), the University of California, cash-strapped due to the budget crisis of the once golden state, is considering a boycott of Nature Publishing Group: |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 June 2010 - 22:42:27 |
| Microsoft, Google not interested in developing alert service for scientists |
| I've described before the awful situation most scientists face when they try to follow the scientific literature. For me, it involves more than 10h of searching per week with at most 1-3h left to actually read what I fou...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 08 November 2011 - 11:15:47 |