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RT @GaviaLib: Why librarians will answer "cancel Elsevier journals" with "no; are you mad?" http://gavialib.com/2012...
I can attest to this. Unfortunately.
- The Ghost of Library Past
This coming week will be the 10th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and declaration: http://www.soros.org/openacc...
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The Budapest Declaration is for me THE statement on what OA is and recognised key characteristics of networked information long before most
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The parable of the garage: Why the business model shift is so hard - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
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Mike Taylor has a parable on the Guardian Blog about research communication and I thought it might be useful to share one that I have been using in talks recently. For me it illustrates just how silly the situation is, and how hard it is to break out of the mindset of renting access ...
- Cameron Neylon
okay, "BMC Motors" cracked me up. Well done.
- RepoRat
There seems to be a lot of it about. Another one by Kent Anderson overly on scholarly kitchen which to me kind of misses the point but I'm tempted to add a comment about how as a restaurant apologist he is continuing with the suppression of the development of "Food mining" which means that I am subjected to eating brussel sprouts rather than having them converted into objet d'art which would be a much better, and more easily consumed, use.
- Cameron Neylon
Kent Anderson misses the point, film at 11. I'll be more impressed when he actually GETS a point. Like, EVER.
- RepoRat
The brussel sprout is a tragically misunderstood vegetable. If prepared properly it can actually be quite tasty. In other words, they have very valid uses in both their mined and natural states.
- John Dupuis
I take my vegetables very seriously and the guys at Scholarly Kitchen with a LARGE pinch of salt.
- Graham Steel
Alright John, what about parsnips then? Surely much better as carved novelties?
- Cameron Neylon
Excellent in croquettes. Fine roasted.
- RepoRat
Or mashed:- http://talestestkitchen.blogspot.com/2010...
- Graham Steel
Parsnips? I love parsnips in a nice hearty beef stew. What ca I say, I'm a root vegetable kind of guy. Cauliflower, on the other hand...
- John Dupuis
GRATIN THAT PUPPEH. Or mash it. :)
- RepoRat
Cauliflower roasted with curry powder? delish.
- Heather Piwowar
You're all sick people....they're EVIL I tell you...!
- Cameron Neylon
Cauliflower is like broccoli without a taste. Just put tons of dip on it.
- The Ghost of Library Past
hoooo-leeeeeee crap, did you see FakePLoS's latest? wow. and it's food-related!
- RepoRat
Forking repos and accepting papers for publication in #OpenResComp We are getting there bit by bit. Forward to better research code!
Re: The parable of the garage: Why the business model shift is so hard - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
"I take the point its an imperfect analogy but I'm not really trying to make an argument here but focus on the mindset that I think is trapping a certain kind of publisher into thinking about every new form of re-use as a potential income stream and not recognising that the whole approach is starting to cause problems - and really irritate certain portions of the research community. Possibly I should have said that at the top - when I use this in a talk it is to try and quickly illustrate what I see as a mental trap - not to make a broader rhetorical point. I am actually looking for a better analogy that doesn't devolve into reports or something similar. Its hard to get to the heart of the issues without provoking all sorts of Pavlovian responses from all sides - so a good analogy would actually be really useful if it enabled a clear discussion of issues with a little less heat. I don't think the various food analogies are too good either. I tried to come up with something to do with..."
- Cameron Neylon
RT @melbaek: Protest and boycott against #Elsevier gets support from Danish Mathematical Society Chairman http://ing.dk/artikel... #openaccess
RT @SauropodMike: @SpringerOpen "Tell Congress you support the Federal Research Public Access Act #FRPAA" <-- Good to read this from a division of Springer
yeah, just don't let the rest of Springer know you said that, SpringerOpen.
- RepoRat
RT @SpringerOpen: Attend #Springer Author Academy: http://www.springer.com/authors... Because your #research is not complete until it is published #howtopublish
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Hmm. Given the work I am currently doing, most of this site would not answer the questions people have. Manuscript prep, for instance, does not explain how to write an article; it does advertise for an English-language editing service. I don't see where most of the links add much of anything that cannot be found in the author guidelines. It does create a nifty platform for self-advertisement, though. Sort of like cigarette companies who sponsor quit-smoking programs.
- Mickey Schafer
Oh I wasn't at all intersted in the site, which as you say is basically promotional but in the message, which is at odds with some publisher rhetoric about publication being divorced from the research process.
- Cameron Neylon
RT @Stephen_Curry: What do Impact Factors mean? Not even as little as you'd think. Nice analysis by @brembs - http://bjoern.brembs.net/comment... Time to break free?
RT @USRepMikeDoyle: Introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act to let people read federally funded research online for free. http://doyle.house.gov/press-r... #FRPAA
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RT @openscience: Where to track #frpaa & #openaccess across all social media http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki... #OA #RWA #openscience
RT @openscience: For more on #FRPAA, see also @petersuber's reference page at the Harvard #OpenAccess Project http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap... #openscience #OA #RWA
RT @mbeisen: Support new bill that will EXPAND federal public access policies!!! http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog... #FRPAA @usrepmikedoyle @johncornyn @ronwyden
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RT @franknorman: RT @Jackstilgoe: I am at a big university, looking for big papers by big publishers and I can't access them, and it's stupid.
Thanks @gera_p @SURFannemiek And as @egonwillighagen says wld love papers from SURF projects at http://www.openresearchcomputation.com/ #ozdag
RT @irenehames: Journal of Universal Rejection @JUnivRejection worries about effect of #openaccess on its subscribers http://reprobatiocerta.blogspot.com/2012...
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hee hee hee hee hee!
- RepoRat
Isn't the JoUR's price-per-article ratio undefined? That pesky divide-by-zero thing.
- RepoRat
It is undefined but also possible to prove that is larger I think....at least in the limit
- Cameron Neylon
RT @hvdsomp: @augustmuench @CameronNeylon You gentlemen should have a look at #memento See also http://river-valley.tv/time-tr...
Now that's what we like to see! MT @kaythaney: Wicked. @the_Zooniverse post data [...] on @figshare. (Smart choice, gang.) bit.ly/yBL6Ou
Image via Wikipedia Prior to all the nonsense with the Research Works Act, I had been having a discussion with Heather Morrison about licenses and Open Access and... - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
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Prior to all the nonsense with the Research Works Act, I had been having a discussion with Heather Morrison about licenses and Open Access and peripherally the principle of requiring specific licenses of authors. I realized then that I needed to lay out the background thinking that leads me to where I am. There ...
- Cameron Neylon
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