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 [...]
Tags: CC-BY, CC0, database, FigShare, open access, open data, open knowledge, repository, science 2.0, scientific data, scientific research
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 [...]
Tweet An excellent article published last month in the Chronicle celebrates Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary by observing that today the project doesn’t represent “the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal vetting” and, as such, it can serve as “an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web”. [...]
Tweet J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Alt-metrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26 October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new [...]
Tags: alt-metrics, citations, impact, JIF, metrics, soft peer review
Tweet I just found this presentation, and thought it’s worth bringing it to the attention of ap.com readers: The Future of the Journal Anita de Waard is the director of Disruptive Technologies at Elsevier. A company that has a position with such a name has my sympathy. Looks like publishers are slowly realizing that they [...]