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an open letter to the Edwin Mellen Press | lis.dom - http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom...
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Wonderful. Just wonderful.
- barbara fister
Thank you for this.
- RepoRat
You're welcome. I am only sorry that repeated bouts of illness meant it took me so long to write.
- laura x
Why Google isn’t good enough for academic search - http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2013...
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Unbelievable that scholar *still* does not have an api
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
they can't push ads through an API. duh.
- DJF
Google scholar doesn't have an API because of agreements they made with publishers. That info is direct from google scholar's team lead. They've said they don't plan to have an API for years, if ever.
- Heather Piwowar
True, but i still dream of different projects that i would love to work on
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Strange, I was just reading about Google Scholar and value on the way in this morning. Scholarish: Google Scholar and its Value to the Sciences http://www.istl.org/12-summ... I wasn't aware of some of the publishers we weren't seeing (e.g. ACS)
- Hedgehog
*sigh* Yet again toll-access publishing hobbles progress. We pay them to do this why?
- RepoRat
That info is out of date, there is definitely ACS content in Scholar.
- Meg V. Meg
Ahh, I see they were quoting a 2009 article on the ACS material, would expect some changes in 4 years :)
- Hedgehog
otoh I've learned that when I "expect some changes in 4 years" in schol comm, I am often disappointed. :) glad it isn't true in this case!
- Heather Piwowar
Edwin Mellen Press To Drop Suit Against Librarian - http://lisnews.org/node/41975
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RT @openscience: #OpenScience! MT @stephenfry Oh my absolute wow. And praise be to open science: code available to all, world changing http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013...
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new blog post: Journals, check your instructions: do you ask your Reviewers if data+software are Available? http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2013...
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Twitter convo this morning w Kent Anderson about why I pulled my upcoming guest post from Schol Kitchen. Happy w myself because I think I managed to articulate it well by last tweet: I'm up for being part of the solution, but not in system that doesn't admit it has a problem.
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*hugs you*
- RepoRat
well done!
- Björn Brembs
Salutes !!
- Graham Steel
Wow, what a, well, never mind he might sue me.
- John Dupuis
Also I had a similar though not anywhere near as unpleasant twitterr conversation with Rick Anderson yesterday.
- John Dupuis
"Prick"
- Graham Steel
It's so important for these people to hear that people they respect don't respect the stances they're taking. Thank you, Heather and John.
- RepoRat
Happy, happy day! OSTP issues directive to expand open access to the products of federally funded research. - http://scientopia.org/blogs...
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Big day for open access - http://walt.lishost.org/2013...
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Why should we continue to pay typesetters/publishers lots of money to process (and even destroy) science? And a puzzle for you. - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr...
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My Response to the UK parliament and BIS on Open Access; keep the CC-BY policy - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr...
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The artist and the machine - http://michaelnielsen.org/blog... (via http://friendfeed.com/michael...)
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The connection to open science comes at the end, where I discuss open scientific data as an enabler for certain kinds of artistic work!
- Michael Nielsen
11Digging Digitally6f » Open Access: Yes the status quo really is that bad - http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog...
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Eric Kansa NAILS #OA's commercial issue: "#OpenData and #OpenAccess are not anti-commercial; they are anti-monopoly." http://t.co/ls2xj82e Tags: OA OpenData OpenAccess
- Cameron Neylon
RT @criener: Nice, Kareem RT @sarahbarmak: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to criticism of his ‘Girls’ review, and it's delicious. http://t.co/cY1PHHQr”
Björn Brembs, Christina Pikas, Sir Shuping is just sir and 6 other people liked this
http://t.co/cY1PHHQr without the stupid "
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Okay, now I gotta read more of this man's stuff. That was RIGHTEOUS.
- RepoRat
My head doesn't know how to love him, yet it knows it must. MUST!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
For the lazy, the review: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kareem-... and the response to the critics, in full http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kareem-...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
'Aaron's Law' Proposes Reining in Federal Anti-Hacking Statute | Threat Level | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/threatl...
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RT @wired: Recent Top Stories: ‘Aaron’s Law’ Proposes Reining in Federal Anti-Hacking Statute http://t.co/GQXdkDWV
- mathew ingram
figshare will host data for PLOS: http://www.researchinformation.info/news...
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Why open access is better for scholarly societies The Occasional Pamphlet http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphle...
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This is awesome.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
my PhD thesis is now available in full on the @SussexUni website :) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/43335/
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Blog post: Library vendors, politics, Aaron Swartz, #pdftribute http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
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Analyzing changes to journal prices over time http://beingandlibrarianship.b...
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Just did a quick/crude comparison of 2008 and 2010 serials expenditures for academic libraries (all of 'em, not just ARL), using NCES data. Too crude to even post as a comment, but revealing: Overall, regular serials subscriptions expenditures went up 4.7% from 2008 to 2010...and electronic serials subscriptions expenditures went up 24%. TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT in two years. (And that doesn't include one-time backfile expenditures.)
- Walt Crawford
To put it another way: electronic serials sucked an extra $245 million out of academic library budgets in 2010 compared to 2008.
- Walt Crawford
that's worth a blog post!
- RepoRat
The problem is that it's a truly crude note: I just loaded the two databases and did autosums of the appropriate columns. But maybe you're right...although, y'know, anybody with a copy of Excel could do that (yes, they're Access databases, but...) I'd say "anybody with a copy of LibreOffice," but I've never tried it with this kind of massive database (4,000 rows by something like 150 columns).
- Walt Crawford
Hmm. RR, maybe you're right: I can put together a quick-n-dirty post linking to Karen's post...or maybe I will comment there.
- Walt Crawford
Done (with hat-tip to Stephen F.) In the process, I found that Wolfram Alpha--which I'm finding useful for a number of things--is remarkably useless to check inflation rates: It brings up a chart that's essentially impossible to read. (Inflation between 2008 and 2010 was remarkably low: 1.28% according to one online calculator.)
- Walt Crawford
Oh, and here's the link (since it takes a while to show up here): http://walt.lishost.org/2013...
- Walt Crawford
Walt, you get the hat tip for doing the followup on the questions raised.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Yeah, except that I'm a little nervous about the quick-and-dirtyness of that post. Still: I don't see how it's likely to be wrong as such; NCES makes sure there are numeric values in every row in the columns, so Autosum should work properly
- Walt Crawford
I doubt it's wrong; if anyone wants to cavil they'll probably poke at what it means, eg how publishers often say "But you get more content for your increased subs!" even when we didn't want that damned bundled content.
- Deborah Fitchett
Roger Schonfeld on Twitter was all "but format changes!" I'm like, whut? I don't care why; we still can't afford this!
- RepoRat
The oddity in those figures, and I think it has a lot to do with the 3,000+ smaller academic institutions: more money was spent on print subscriptions than on electronic serials subscriptions, by about half a $billion in FY2010.
- Walt Crawford
New from Houghton/Swan: "The most affordable & cost-effective means of moving towards OA .. is through Green OA." - http://www.dlib.org/dlib...
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Conclusion: "The evidence, both ours and that of others, clearly suggests that disseminating research results via OA would be more cost-effective than subscription or toll access publishing. In an all-OA world, it seems likely that the net benefits of Gold OA would exceed those of Green OA, although Green OA would have a higher benefit/cost ratio. However, we are not in an all-OA world yet, nor anywhere near it. The most affordable and cost-effective means of moving towards OA in the meantime is through Green OA, which can be adopted unilaterally at the funder, institutional, sectoral and national levels at little cost. Moreover, Green OA may well be the most immediate and cost-effective way to support knowledge transfer and enable innovation across the economy."
- Seb Schmoller
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Goodbye Aaron Swartz – and Long Live Your Legacy - http://wir.okfn.org/2013...
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The following entry is reposted from the OKFN’s main blog. It was written by Jonathan Gray and is licensed CC BY 3.0. The photo is by Daniel J. Sieradski (on Flickr), licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. January 14, 2013 in Access to Information, Bibliographic, Campaigning, Featured, News, Open Access, Open Data, Open … Continue reading →
- Daniel Mietchen
"Welcome to the initial ideas hub for a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences". https://www.martineve.com/2013...
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Aaron Swartz was not a hacker. He was a builder. - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger...
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Altmetrics: Value all research products - http://www.citeulike.org/user...
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Why Every Researcher Should Sign Up For Their ORCID ID by @briankelly in UK Web Focus - http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013...
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Self-referential comment: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/4920... is a report that JISC commissioned that "validated" JISC's earlier in principal decision to plug ORCID.
- Seb Schmoller
This Week in Science (TWIS) - Episode 400ish - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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A year in Open Access advocacy: 2012 - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
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Yeah, it has been quite the year.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
:)
- RepoRat
Probably one of the best years to date, imo.
- Graham Steel
2012 was certainly one of those "may you live in interesting times" kind of years. More of the same will probably mean progress on a number of OA-related fronts.
- John Dupuis
2012 struck me as being a year of considerable OA potential. I wouldn't have resumed writing about OA otherwise. (Also a year in which the lines between OA Inquisitors and snipers became fuzzy--but that's a post or essay I need to write.)
- Walt Crawford
MrGunn on Open Access Research is More Valuable, More Cited and Better Applied than Non-Open Access Research. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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"Many universities will now pay the OA fee on your behalf. The entire UK is going to be doing this, but in the US it's still institution-by-institution. Anyways, you should check and see. Or just send it to PLOS (cheap, has fee waivers), eLife (free), or PeerJ ($99)."
- Mr. Gunn
Bit Torrent is not purely piracy - http://www.sciencetext.com/bit-tor...
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Publishers Still Hate You, But They Want to Look Nice - http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom...
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Yep. We need to nail asses to the wall.
- Andy
Yeah, ass nailing. That's what librarians do best.
- Steele Lawman
^ o_O
- Running Slow
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