The Decline Effect Postulate Fails to Find Its Theory
The truth isn’t disintegrating, but perhaps weaker or ad hoc theoretical frameworks are dissolving more quickly these days.
Michael's Pick for 2010: The Disruption (or Not) of Scientific Publishing
Why hasn’t scientific publishing been disrupted? The question created one of the year’s most-read posts.
Open Access Repositories Lack Trust — But Is Trust Really Necessary?
Should institutional open access repositories be run like journals?
Alix's Pick for 2010: Higher Education — Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business
Image via Wikipedia Rather than choosing a “best” of my own posts, I’ve taken a step back to examine what I’ve written this year, in search of an article or theme upon which to expand. Surveying my 2010 contributions, main […]
Trouble Recruiting Peer-Reviewers? Blame Spam!
A problem in recruiting competent peer-reviewers may be the fault of email spam blockers, not the unwillingness of academics to review.
Kent's Picks for 2010: The Wikification of Research Reports
The movement to publish more and more demands that we find ways to preserve the trust we’ve built while taking advantage of the sunlight public availability can provide.
Some Lessons From Our Reactions to Wikileaks
Wikileaks teaches us a number of lessons, the most important being that the world will change, whether we like it or not.
Data-mining Google Books: Does the Reader Have To Be Human?
The data-mining of the Google books database has great promise, but who owns the data-mining rights?
For Open Access Journals, Size Does Matter
Is the growth of open access journals a sign of market success or dysfunction? Two new studies analyze the data and come to opposite conclusions.
The Nature Network Implosion — Hmmm, This All Seems Awfully Familiar . . .
Another science blogging network implodes, a sign that the age of exuberance is giving way to the business realities.
The Ambient Authorship and Subtle Potential of Sensor Publishing
Sensors are being applied to mobile phones, which will launch a new suite of publishing opportunities. By aggregating and interpreting the data uploaded from these mobile sensors, publishers can create new services and open up new markets.
Is the Cloud Too Weak to Support What Paper Can?
The Wikileaks scandal shows that commercial cloud providers aren’t ready for the realities of publishing and information hosting.
Privacy, Google, and the Reading Public
Privacy is something we trade in all the time. The questions are about the best trades to make.
Science Cheerleaders Break Down Stereotypes
When watching football on Thanksgiving, remember that those cheerleaders might have more to offer than pulchritude.
Anxiety and Clichés About the Digital Generation? It's Still the Economy, Stupid
A recent New York Times Magazine feature plays off fears that the next generation is prone to distraction and underachievement. The facts, and an apparently superior media outlet, argue otherwise.