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The bravery of librarians - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
Two things caught my attentions over the past few days. The first was the text of a Graduation Address from Dorothea Salo to the graduating students of the Library and Information Sciences Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The second was a keynote from Chris Bourg, whose blog is entitled “Feral Librarian”, gave at The Acquisitions Institute. Both focus on how the value of libraries and the value of those who defend the needs of all to access information are impossible to completely measure. Both offer a prescription of action and ... - Cameron Neylon
My small effort at pissing people off for the day: http://scienceblogs.com/confess... - John Dupuis
404 error for Dorothea's link - maʀtha
I know but that's a problem at her end I'm afraid. Looks like slis.wisc.edu is also down... - Cameron Neylon
@John That list is...ummm....extensive... - Cameron Neylon
Tell me about it. When I started compiling it a week or so ago I figured I'd end up with 10 or 20 items max. But the number of small programs and departments that have been cut really surprised me. - John Dupuis
Up around 2000 page views for the post. - John Dupuis
The siren call of declaring email bankruptcy...so tempting...
double dawg dare - jambina
control-a, control-d - Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I was just in a presentation on time management where she suggested giving up on anything older than a couple months and moving 2 months-current into a separate inbox and see what comes back around. - Hedgehog
wow. radical (truly) - maʀtha
I've already deleted everything more than two months old and tossed out anything that isn't critical-should-have-been-responded-to-yesterday. This leaves 350 items growing at approximately 40 per day (after similar weeding...) #wibble - Cameron Neylon
good god, man - Meg V. Meg
What’s the right model for shared scholarly communications infrastructure? - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
There have been a lot of electrons spilled over the Elsevier Acquisition of Mendeley. I don’t intend to add too much to that discussion but it has provoked for me an interesting train of thought which seems worth thinking through. For what its worth my views of the acquisition are not too dissimilar to those of Jason Hoyt and John Wilbanks, and I recommend their posts. I have no doubt that the Mendeley team remain focussed on their vision and I hope they do well with it. And even with ... - Cameron Neylon
I do believe I just got mansplained...though not about gender issues
RT @punkish: Why Open Science Training matters - Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/weblog... #OSTI #openscience
A little late to the party but *really* excited that @dancohen will be leading The Digital Public Library of America http://www.dancohen.org/2013...
RT @stevenhill: RCUK News: RCUK publishes revised guidance on Open Access http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media... #scipolicy
RT @brembs: Why Google isn't good enough for academic search http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2013... via @researchremix
RT @epistemographer: Rather than focus on information gatekeeping, I wonder how we might accelerate the propagation of correction and retraction.
RT @petersuber: I just mailed the March SOAN, which takes a close look at #FASTR and the Obama admin's #OA directive http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters...
RT @onetruecathal: Please RT if you agree with me about something, I'm trying to prove a point about something to someone or something.
Times I love living when I do. Need some guidance on filleting a Dover Sole. Quick search leads to four different instruction videos...
RT @gbilder: Yay. ORCID code open sourced under MIT license http://orcid.org/blog...
.@PabloK Definitely believe we need a new social contract (contracts?) for 21C research. And that is definitely political in its core sense.
.@KamilaMarkram Great to hear, but also hope @frontiersin can have same transforming impact within #NPG that BMC has inside Springer
Key q is how this will be integrated with SciRep. Obvious set of experiments to be done here but how fast will they go? #openaccess #npg
It seems that @FrontiersIn may have shown NPG how they can make Nature an #openaccess journal http://www.frontiersin.org/news... This is big news.
Ithaka release report on Chemists' use of best practice for data management & communication. Verdict? We don't much: http://www.sr.ithaka.org/researc...
RT @irenehames: Preparing researcher workshop on power of social media&taken screenshot of #OAintheUK trending top,above #Oscars2013, to use as example!
#oaintheuk Both the EU and US policies do provide funds for publication. The differences are smaller than people make out...
#oaintheuk Of course all of this also applies to existing copyright transfer. Many copyright transfers probably not well founded
Been pointed that the Danish have misplaced the copy of the Swan/Houghton report online http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272603... #oaintheuk #repositoriesFTW
To David Sweeney's point. PLOS growing 40% year on year, BMC similar growth. PLOS published 11% of Wellcome Trust work in 2012 #oaintheuk
Worth noting in terms of international focus that the #FASTR bill also has a focus on re-use and checking it is happening #oaintheuk
Also good data that there are access problems on issues with economic impacts such as this report http://pewinternet.org/Reports... #oaintheuk
Here is one piece of evidence on economic impact. Lack of access costs Danish SMEs significant quantities http://knowledge-exchange.info/Default... #oaintheuk
RT @rmounce: This is a more representative plot of APC prices http://rossmounce.co.uk/2012... #OAintheUK $3000 is very HIGH. not average. Mode is £0
Selective in two ways, volume, and many jrnls don't charge RT @rmounce: Russell (OUP) is showing a rather selective graph of APCs #OAintheUK
Of course thats 550 articles at £1650 per article on average...he's absolutely right we need mechanisms to keep prices down #oaintheuk
David Price says there is a desperate need for improved #openaccess metadata for hybrid journals #oaintheuk #niso #oametadata
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