Stochasticity — and You Can Dance to It!
A video tribute to randomness, with a beat you can dance to. What better for a Friday?!
A video tribute to randomness, with a beat you can dance to. What better for a Friday?!
A study of social citation reveals diversion, invention, and distortion, and provides a cautionary tale about how socialization of knowledge in medicine can have downsides.
When it comes to downloads and citations, position in the arXiv matters, a new study finds.
How much work is it to run a blog? After 18 months, I think I finally have enough experience to share some insights.
Free scientific journal access programs claims to boost article output in developing countries. A deeper analysis of the data shows otherwise.
The more arguments I hear about service vs. content, the clearer it seems that this is a false choice.
Librarians must choose between fiscal irresponsibility and a conflict with academic freedom when establishing open access publication funds.
Elsevier’s “Article of the Future” prototypes appear, and only spotlight the underlying conceptual problems for a traditional, article-centric publisher.
Amateurs with similar machines as professionals have emerged before. Instead of travel, this time, it’s information.
Amazon demonstrates its ability to remotely remove content from the devices, creating an Orwellian stir with its customers.
Sci Foo Camp 2009 — Day 3. Journals of the future, video games, rocketships to Mars. It’s all in a day’s work.
European countries could save millions of Euros if they switched to open access publishing and self-archiving, a report suggests. But is this report based on valid assumptions?
If publishers of all types don’t invest in the next thing, they’re the only ones who will suffer. But the barriers are high, and new competitors may be better positioned to fulfill the future.
When a teenager is allowed to publish a report under the name of Morgan Stanley, the results show that an important gate-keeping function failed.
Freely-accessible articles are cited more frequently, but open access is not the cause, a new study reports.