Open Access Week 2016: Our Stories #OAWeek16
Open Access Week is coming to a close – what a week it’s been! We’ve all been busy celebrating so here are some of our key highlights: Kate Byrne, the Repository Platforms Product Manager at…
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Open Data and Open Science: A New Initiative
Science is changing fast. Advances in computing combined with new methods enable scientists to collect, analyse, compare and display vast amounts of data, allowing work in areas that previously were…
Who’s Afraid of Preprints? Looking at the Origin and Motivation Behind arXiv for Clues as to Why It’s so Successful
A couple of weeks ago, I explored a theme that emerged from the recent Researcher to Reader conference in London. Specifically, I asked the question as to whether we should…
Startups Sometimes Pretend That They Don’t Want to Make Money – Thoughts on #deleteacademiaedu
Last week, I wrote a post about insurgent startups in scholarly communication. I dispensed some unsolicited advice about stakeholders and value propositions. Essentially, I suggested it’s a mistake to create…
Confusion in the Ivory Tower: Do We All Agree on What ‘Excellence’ Means?
First of all, an apology for the lack of a perspectives post last week. I had intended to write something while on vacation in Austin, Texas visiting family but the call of…
Do Researchers Care About All This New Technology?
The Luddites didn’t much care for technology.Image is Public Domain Last week, I was invited to participate in the opening panel of the Research and Scholarly…
Open Sesame! The Risks and Rewards of Open Data for Researchers
Jon Tennant is a PhD student based at Imperial College London, investigating extinction and biodiversity patterns of Mesozoic tetrapods – anything with four legs or flippers. Prior to this, there…
Are We Heading for a Librarian vs Publisher Data Sharing Space Race?
The scholarly communication industry is currently undergoing enormous change. While there is a continuing trend towards open access, a somewhat quieter revolution is building momentum that threatens to have an…
What Will the Successful Scientific Social Network of the Future Look Like?
In my last blog post, I proposed one reason why young researchers don’t use social media as much as many people expected they might. In a nutshell, postdocs and other…
Open Science – Society Publishers Should Seize the Opportunity
Graham Steel has been actively involved in Patient Advocacy work since 2001. He is also involved in advocating for Open Access/Science/Data and acts in an advisory capacity for the Open…
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