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Giving Open Access a Bad Name2 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 days ago: Last Thursday, Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, Open Access advocate, and the first Academ … more →

Tags: Business models, controversial topics, Peer Review, Bentham Science, Business Model, Jonathan A. Eisen, journals, open access, PLoS Biology

How Meaningful Are User Ratings? (This Article = 4.5 Stars!)22 comments

David Crotty wrote 1 week ago: Image via Wikipedia The impact factor has long been recognized as a problematic method for interpret … more →

Tags: controversial topics, experimentation, Metrics and Analytics, Research, Social Media, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, Amazon

Breaking the Chain of Inquiry -- When Journals and Journalists Fall Short5 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 2 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia Last week, news of an analysis of file-sharing around journal articles lit up fe … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, Peer Review, Research, social role, Chronicle of Higher Education, health, journals, publications

Publishing, Peer Review and Quality Certification in the Digital Age1 comment

jannekeadema1979 wrote 2 weeks ago: Every month the Special Collections department of the University of Amsterdam hosts a book salon, ea … more →

Tags: eBooks, Information and knowledge, Lectures and Conferences, open access, arxiv, AUP, Book Salon, Branding, Cees Andriesse

Napster, but for journal articles

kreschen wrote 2 weeks ago: K. Masters : Opening the non-open access medical journals: Internet-based sharing of journal article … more →

Tags: Scholarly information

Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles6 comments

David Crotty wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia In this age of declining viewership, television ratings for sporting events are … more →

Tags: Social Media, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, Blogging, blogs, Discussion Forums, Mark Cuban, online participation

DeepDyve -- iTunes comes to Science Publishing30 comments

Philip Davis wrote 4 weeks ago: Image via CrunchBase Yesterday, the online article intermediary DeepDyve announced a rental model fo … more →

Tags: Business models, Commerce, Marketing, World of Tomorrow, deepdyve, iTunes, Netflix, open access, Publishing

News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, Academic Publishing: This is Open Access Week

creaky wrote 1 month ago: October 19 through 23 is… Photo credit – Courtesy of http://www.openaccessweek.org/ … more →

Tags: Educational sites, Libraries or Librarians, Library 2.0, News & Medical News, Scholarly Publications, Scholarly Publishing & Open Access, Metadata, OCLC, Open Access Journals

Historical Materialism Volume 17 Issue 3 (2009)

rikowski wrote 1 month ago: Historical Materialism HISTORICAL MATERIALISM VOLUME 17 ISSUE 3 (2009)   http://www.brill.nl/hima To … more →

Tags: Marxism, journals, Marxism and Education, Marxist analysis, Karl Marx, David Harvie, historical materialism, Marxist Theory, Cognitive Capitalism

Been gone long...but now back!!!

scholarlybalance wrote 1 month ago: So much has happened since I wrote my last post on here: 1) I successfully wrote and defended my com … more →

Tags: academic productivity, Balance, Time Manangement

What happened to the save button?

kreschen wrote 1 month ago: Is it just me? Or did it suddenly get harder to save a PDF from HW Wilson and some other databases?  … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Is "Good Enough" Good Enough for You?15 comments

David Crotty wrote 1 month ago: Image via CrunchBase The principle of entropy states that systems tend toward their most stable stat … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, Tools, technology, experimentation, Books, Business models, Commerce, Publishing, journals

Procrastinating...

lifeofaphdstudent wrote 2 months ago: Well, I’ve been away for a while and it feels like ages since I’ve posted anything here. … more →

Tags: thesis, PhD, Sailing, yacht, Conference, Motorbike, BMW, biking, Dunblane Hydro

academic journals consider digital only option1 comment

Jim McCluskey wrote 3 months ago: Magazine publishing is extremely volatile with magazines springing up and disappearing constantly.  … more →

Tags: Periodicals, Publishers, Digital publishing

The Future of Educational Texts

juliushandford wrote 3 months ago: The New York Times published an interesting article on where things are going with digital texts for … more →

Tags: kindle, Books, Publishing, textbooks, Education, academic publishers

The Future Of Philosophy Publishing1 comment

Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: Fascinating speculations from Graham Harman: Until very recently, the mere act of getting a book pub … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Education, technology, Internet, Academia, Publishing, Blogging, Vanity Publishing, Graham Harman

Foucault and writing

Clare wrote 4 months ago: Posted on my site michel-foucault.com No-one is forced to write books, or to spend years elaborating … more →

Tags: Foucault, Writing Technique, Jacques Attali, plagiarism

Lish/Carver/Hannah Essay5 comments

mhemmingson wrote 4 months ago: My 13,000 word essay on Gordon Lish editing both Raymond Carver and Barry Hannah has been accepted f … more →

Tags: American short fiction, Literary criticism, American Literature, Michael Hemmingson, American Fiction, gordon lish, Raymond Carver, Critique, Barry Hannah

Academic Publishing must face the Inconvenient Truth

jannekeadema1979 wrote 4 months ago: Another thing I would like to draw your attention to is an excellent speech given by Michael Jensen … more →

Tags: open access, eBooks, OAPEN, Open Business Models, aaup, national academies press, Michael Jensen, University Presses, Environmental Publishing


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