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Category Archives: Open Access
Tweeting out loud: ethics, knowledge and social media in academe | Impact of Social Sciences
Melonie Fullick offers a nice run-down of the recent discussion of the issue of live tweeting at academic conferences: Tweeting out loud: ethics, knowledge and social media in academe | Impact of Social Sciences. One of the more interesting points … Continue reading
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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.
Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
When I became a professor, 20 years ago, I received a request from a woman who lived close to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I taught: Could she come and talk to me about a set of interests she … Continue reading
Can E-Tutoring Bridge Economic Divides?
In a 1984 paper that is regarded as a classic of educational psychology, Benjamin Bloom, a professor at the University of Chicago, showed that being tutored is the most effective way to learn, vastly superior to being taught in a classroom. … Continue reading
Toward A More Inclusive Backchannel: An Unusual Call To Action » Cyborgology
As the 2012 meeting of the American Sociological Association (#ASA2012) kicks into gear, I want to use this post to start a conversation about a somewhat-contentious topic: academics’ use of Twitter, particularly at conferences. via Toward A More Inclusive Backchannel: … Continue reading
The science of the future is… art?
Philosopher Santiago Zabala has a piece out today in Al Jazeera about the saving power of art. Globalization, he claims, has wrought an era where the aesthetic calling is not l’art pour l’art – art for art’s sake, or what … Continue reading
Whither Science Publishing? | The Scientist
Well worth reading. Whither Science Publishing? | The Scientist.
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Is there a conflict between altmetrics and peer review?
Some Thoughts on Peer Review and Altmetrics | Partially Attended An interesting take on my abstract for the upcoming altmetrics12 workshop from Ian Mulvaney – Head of Technology for a neat new publishing endeavor in the UK called eLifeSciences. …after … Continue reading
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Scholars are quickly moving toward a universe of web-native communication | Impact of Social Sciences
Jason Priem’s new post on the LSEImpact blog is quite interesting. For example: We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84 per cent of scholars had homepages, 70 per cent were on LinkedIn, 23 per cent had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16 … Continue reading
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Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access
Neil Stewart of City University provides more insight into recent developments regarding Open Access: RSP event: Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access « City Open Access.
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
Rule Britannia! On David Willetts and open access to research.
Commentary on the recent speech by Willetts suggesting UK will begin to mandate open access publication for funded research. Rule Britannia! On David Willetts and open access to research..
Open access as a matter of academic ethics — and more.
Yes, Open Access is an ethical question, in part. Open access as a matter of academic ethics: The right thing to do « Omega Alpha | Open Access. But there are other issues, some ethical and some political and institutional. … Continue reading
Stanford’s President: Distance Learning is a “Tsunami”
Hennessy, [Stanford's President], believes that online learning can be as revolutionary to education as digital downloads were to the music business. Distance learningA threatens one day to disrupt higher education by reducing the cost of college and by offering the … Continue reading
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The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity – The Digital Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
We tend to overstate the dangers of open approaches and overlook the benefits, while the converse holds true for the closed system. via The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity – The Digital Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. … Continue reading
The Future of Peer Review | TechCrunch
Richard Price, founder of Academia.edu, on two possible futures for peer review of immediately released papers (that is, papers that do not receive prepublication peer review). The Future of Peer Review | TechCrunch.
New Open Access Working Group Formed: Formulating Response to Elsevier’s Policy Change
Interesting in that it distinguishes Elsevier from other publishers in terms of their response to Open Access policies: New Open Access Working Group Formed: Formulating Response to Elsevier’s Policy Change.
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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
Times Higher Education – Wider open spaces
Alice Bell points out that Open Access is not sufficient to connect science and society. Times Higher Education – Wider open spaces. I wonder if she’d also agree that altmetrics need to include ways to measure societal impact — not … Continue reading
Open access will be crucial to maintain public confidence in science | Professor Peter Coles | Science | guardian.co.uk
The juciest nugget, perhaps, is what Peter Coles says about the UK’s REF (Research Excellence Framework): We also need to recognise the extent to which the Research Excellence Framework (REF) feeds the academic journal racket. The REF is a … Continue reading
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Unlocking Student Data Could Lead to ‘App Economy’ for Colleges – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
“…a “MyData button” for students is on the horizon. A government campaign is urging colleges and companies that hold student data to make information like grades and test scores more portable and user-friendly.” via Unlocking Student Data Could Lead to … Continue reading
Libraries, change, and altmetrics
How can libraries effect change in scholarly communication? UKSG eNews.
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