[…] of the paper, taking about 10 seconds to do so. For this to work, the paper being requested must be open access. Everything works within the web browser and you don’t have to install anything. We also allow users to upload […]
[…] humanities and social sciences — which seem to have value only insofar as they support STEM fields.” Even undergraduates are open about this tension, which is evident across campus. The final determination of SUP’s fate is unclear. For now, the […]
[…] provision of service or in ways that are not secure. We see proposed terms that allow for broad capture and open-ended use of patron data and patron activity. This is unacceptable because it is at odds with our long-standing practice […]
[…] is simply mind-boggling to think that a half-dozen commercial firms did not beat PLoS to the punch with an author-pays open access service; they even had the model of BioMed Central to learn from. When publishers go to the tenure committee […]
[…] all of which are important to the shift toward more diverse environments. What I can begin to do, however, is open up a dialogue and begin the informal exchange of ideas via the written word. I can begin to empathically […]
[…] demands for transparency and reproducibility in research have resulted in a widening of what are considered publishable research outputs. The open data movement has seen the data behind research being shared in repositories and increasingly recognized as a publishable output. […]
[…] ALA provides an explainer that defines the two terms: “In a library, the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one’s interest examined or scrutinized by others. Confidentiality exists when a library is […]
[…] processes that protect authors from unfair treatment (going totally dark with double-blind review or shedding light on all participants with open review).” Also worth a read is this interview with Jory Lerback and Brooks Hanson on AGU’s study of bias […]
[…] stop there, dig through the rest of the sessions and you’ll find really interesting panels on the growing potential for open source tools for scholarly infrastructure, driving increased data sharing from researchers (and how to implement a data review program). […]
[…] to become a full workflow solution for research and publication, particularly as subscription revenues for publications increasingly appear threatened by open access policies, coordinated national contract negotiations/cancellations, and piracy. Focusing on the immediate product offerings – or the customer base – […]
[…] Intel-based computers, an anti-competitive tactic that resulted in a settlement in 2001 (finalized in 2004) in which Microsoft agreed to open its application programming interfaces (APIs) to third parties, while providing an oversight panel access to its code to ensure […]
[…] of the SSP annual meeting. One of them commented that he was surprised that there was only one session on Open Access on the program when “that’s all that publishers are interested in.” Another replied: “But over 600 people are here […]
[…] had a near 0% chance of making it to the executive leadership team of any organization in the US as openly gay. At the outset of the AIDS epidemic, it appeared as if people like me barely mattered as people. […]
[…] discussed by SSP President-elect Adrian Stanley here – or invite them to co-author blog posts. Survey readers – create an open survey where TSK readers communicate which topics they’d like to learn more about or hear the Chefs’ opinions on. […]
[…] to voice-driven services to seek out useful content in the form of monographs, journal articles, or even content from the open web? Last year, Scholarly Kitchen Chef, David Smith of the IET referenced one developer’s foray into creating such a […]