The Scholarly Kitchen
Archive for February 2011
Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways
For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help. Continue reading
J.C. Penney’s Black Hat SEO and Google — Why the Network Doesn’t Justify Impact Proxies
The outer ring of citation remains a point of vulnerability for quality proxies, as does reducing complex things to simple lists or numbers. When will we learn? Continue reading
Editors for Hire — Providing Assistance or Exploiting Hopes?
Should publishers endorse commercial editing services? Continue reading
What We Talk About When We Talk About Business Models: A Bestiary of Revenue Streams
Business models for publishers fall into four broad categories, defined by how revenue is generated. Some classes of content lend themselves to one model over another. Continue reading
Scientific Papers Named After Movies and Songs — Variations Abound in Google Scholar
Authors use movies and songs to inspire the titles of their papers, often to unintentionally silly effect. Continue reading
Gladwell Tackles College Rankings: The Perils of Comprehensive Heterogeneous Systems
Why do smart people continue to seek simple rank-order listings of inherently complex phenomena? Continue reading
Crowdsourcing, Reference Works, and Peer-Review: Some Surprising Connections
A new study suggests that reference works can be created cheaply and effectively through only mildly organized collaborations. Have we been missing a critical contribution of peer-review? Does it suggest that post-publication won’t review won’t be very effective? Continue reading
Online Access and Citations — A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say
A study by two respected economists suggests it may be time to admit that we made a mistake attributing a citation advantage to open access articles. Continue reading
The Bigger Deal: One Scenario for How the Library Funding Crisis Will Play Out
Maligned though it often is, the Big Deal for journals is likely to get bigger, marginalizing the offerings of smaller publishers. Continue reading
“It Sounded Stupid When I Said It” — The Today Show Encounters the Internet ala 1994
How do you pronounce “@”? How do you read out an email address? These were tough questions in 1994, as this video reveals. Continue reading
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