[…] breadth of a scholars outputs. Just to be clear on this — altmetrics is about tilting at the windmills of peer review and impact factor, two things that act as a bulwark to the disruption of the business of scholarly publishing. […]
[…] OA advocates want the public to have access. OA, whether Green or Gold, is about giving people free access to peer–reviewed research journal articles. The processes of preparing research reports for publication and making resulting documents available to readers cost […]
[…] services that Amazon may yet get into. For example, the horsey technology now used by journals publishers for author submissions, peer review, and hosting would be child’s play for the engineers at Amazon to improve upon. How many times have I […]
[…] digital typesetting, then digital layout and design, and now we have full digital workflows, from authors submitting manuscripts electronically to peer–review systems that are entirely built on software to publishing systems that rely on software and are mostly realized through […]
[…] what they should spend their time reading. High-prestige signal = read. Low-prestige signal = ignore. The function of editorial and peer review can be thought of as no more than sending out similar signals to potential readers. Zemified by Zemanta Time […]
[…] access journal publishing, more submissions + more acceptance + less/different forms of payment + increased use + varying levels of peer review translate (one hopes) to high impact factor = success. Volume (of content and use) are key drivers of success, but money is […]
[…] throw stones at one another. The Born Again publisher accuses the Born Digital of having an insufficient regard, say, for peer review or notes the sometimes shaky finances of start-up companies; the Born Digital publisher accuses the Born Again of every […]
[…] ONE, as an example, provides a tremendously valuable outlet for knowledge that might not fit well into the traditional journal peer–review process. This doesn’t take away from anything the top journals do really well, but instead takes something they do […]
[…] mobile devices that allow students to collect and reference work. Bridging the scholar/practitioner divide — open access publishing and open peer review Stultifying of scholarship — the antithesis of #4 where the current status quo is maintained and strengthened. Everyone is […]
[…] in the business model was that marginal costs for electronic distribution approached zero (over above repaying the publisher for editing, peer–review administration, and composition), so a price that absorbed what would be less than a rounding error should prove sufficient. […]
[…] that going to be? As an experiment, this seems underpowered in major ways. It almost seems cynical, akin to Nature’s peer–review experiment. Too little time is being given for a true experiment, and there are deep, intrinsic problems not in […]
[…] redundant and effortfully incendiary rhetoric that draws bad-faith moral authority from the word “science” and from occasional invocations of “ peer–reviewed” thises and thats. Under cover of intellectual rigor, the science bloggers — or many of the most visible ones, […]
[…] scale of the effort and to reflect our long-standing involvement in the field by sharing the experimental results through accredited, peer–reviewed journals. Elsevier is proud to support these unique early collaborative efforts of the high energy physics community. I applaud […]
[…] process and outcome information, scenarios considered, implementation recommendations and provide routes for republication and sharing — with or without further peer review The LANL author team is not alone in exploring this terrain. Collexis is another highly visible proponent of semantic technologies […]
[…] PageRank, which is very reminiscent of citations and impact factors. Wikipedia works because it is like a living form of peer–review around a popular reference work. Reputations, track-records, and citations — sounds awfully familiar. To me, telling people they have […]