October 21, 2019
Vanessa Proudman, in a post for ScholarLed: The scholarly communication community needs to call for an open, sustainable infrastructure that is community-owned — one that speaks to our open and academic values. It must be open; not closed off by vendors creating a...
October 16, 2019
Consultants Rob Johnson and Andrea Chiarelli, in a Scholarly Kitchen post: Journals with strong brands, or in fields that have yet to show much interest in preprints, may therefore find that a wait-and-see strategy serves them best. It remains unclear how many of the...
October 15, 2019
From a story in Nature on the SSRC's mostly stalled Facebook research program: But issues with the data quickly emerged: Facebook has been able to share some information with researchers, but providing them with more sensitive and detailed data without compromising...
October 15, 2019
Interesting Scholarly Kitchen post by Roger Schonfeld. The gist is a compare-and-contrast of "publications" and "community" visions for data sharing.
October 15, 2019
From Martin Eve's exciting announcement that he's won the Leverhulme Trust Prize in Literary Studies: I still need to work out the best way to use the prize fund to give me more time to do research work, but I have a number of research projects that I will bring to...