Tweet This excellent post covers why academic publishing is obsolete. TL;DR: 1. The time lag is huge; it’s measured in months, or even years. 2. Most academic publications are inaccessible outside universities. 3. Virtually no one reads most academic publications. 4. It’s very unusual to make successful philosophical arguments in paper form. 5. Papers don’t have prestige [...]
Archive for the ‘e-Science’ Category
June 21, 2012
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Academic papers today are not meant to be discussion forums
By jose in Blog, e-Science, Opinion, Writing
January 29, 2012
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When your users tell you ‘you are not adding value’: Boycott against Elsevier
By jose in e-Science, WritingTweet Scott Aaronson uses an analogy to the game industry to describe the predicament academics are in: I have an ingenious idea for a company. My company will be in the business of selling computer games. But, unlike other computer game companies, mine will never have to hire a single programmer, game designer, or graphic [...]
August 19, 2010
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Mendeley goes open
By dario in e-Science, Reference management, Resources, Web 2.0Tweet After a few months of private testing, Mendeley announced the public release of their open API. This will allow developers and researchers to build applications and data analysis on top of a massive database of human-annotated scientific references. We are excited to see our friends at Mendeley push forward on the open science front [...]
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