Archive for the ‘e-Science’ Category

June 21, 2012 1

Academic papers today are not meant to be discussion forums

By in Blog, e-Science, Opinion, Writing

Tweet This excellent post covers why academic publishing is obsolete.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 [...]

January 29, 2012 0

When your users tell you ‘you are not adding value’: Boycott against Elsevier

By in e-Science, Writing

Tweet 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 [...]

March 23, 2011 0

Bollocks to waiting 10 years for progress

By in e-Science, Early-adopter, Open data, Social Media, Software, Web 2.0, Wikis

Tweet Open Data warrior Mark Hahnel (@science3point0), the creator of FigShare, explains in this guest post the motivation behind the project and asks researchers why they aren’t publishing their research data. I read a good quote the other day: “Bollocks to waiting 10 years for progress. I want people to know about it now, and [...]

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February 24, 2011 Off

altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the Social Web

By in CFP, Conferences, e-Science, Social Media, Web 2.0

Tweet Koblenz (Germany), 14-15 June 2011 An ACM Web Science Conference 2011 Workshop Keynote: Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton: “Evaluating online evidence of research impact” Call for papers The increasing quantity and velocity of scientific output is presenting scholars with a deluge of data. There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional [...]

August 19, 2010 3

Mendeley goes open

By in e-Science, Reference management, Resources, Web 2.0

Tweet 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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