November 6, 2019
Sicco de Knecht, writing in Science Guide on Elsevier's offer to exchange OA for Dutch researchers’ data: Friday’s revelations about the ongoing negotiations between Dutch Universities and Elsevier have led to a stream of dismayed reactions. As a negotiating offer the...
November 5, 2019
A European working group just released its initial scheme for a digital portal for data sharing and discovery for non-scientists: The Social Sciences & Humanities communities are in an urgent need of a place to gather and exchange information about their tools,...
November 4, 2019
Klint Finley, in Wired: Now, thanks to a new initiative by the Internet Archive, you can click the name of the book and see a two-page preview of the cited work, so long as the citation specifies a page number. You can also borrow a digital copy of the book, so long...
November 4, 2019
I've added a new Shortcut, CitationBook, to my search-based collection of formatting Shortcuts Citation Tools. The RoutineHub listing is here. Note: This is now deprecated.
October 31, 2019
The new report reads—predictably, I suppose—as a parody: Bold visionaries are shedding the constraints of what higher education has traditionally looked like; they are creating radical new models increasing access for a more diverse set of students, enabling them to...
October 31, 2019
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, writing on DARIAH Open: Still, as we see, the need for a cultural shift in research evaluation is currently stuck in a vicious cycle. As long as scholarly communication practices are trapped by research evaluation criteria that are dominated by...
October 30, 2019
Robert Shireman, in an Inside Higher Ed commentary: [M]any colleges pay a share of every tuition dollar to online program management companies that recruit students, among other responsibilities. It would seem to present a pretty clear violation of the ban that...
October 30, 2019
Nice to see two acronymic forces in the European open humanities scene pledge to cooperate, but why not merge? The two entities cover the same territory, or at least aim to.
October 28, 2019
Patricia McGuire, in a Chronicle commentary [paywall, alas] on the tyranny of metrics: In recent years, pushed by the critics who push Congress and the U.S. Department of Education, accreditation has inexorably moved toward even more data-driven assessment processes...
October 27, 2019
From the press release announcing the first 100 books unlocked in the Mellon + NEH-funded effort to rescue out-of-print books: The Encore Editions include works in American and European history, literary studies, and philosophy, and represent some of the most...
October 27, 2019
Sam Moore, in an intervierw on DARIAH Open: At first, Plan S looked like it might have some teeth to intervene in the publishing market through APC caps and outright bans on hybrid open access. Yet these conditions have been watered down significantly and we have been...
October 27, 2019
Emily Farrell of MIT Press has an interesting essay tucked in to Figshare's State of Open Data Report 2019 report: As an institutionally-based mission-driven publisher, the MIT Press (MITP) stands in a unique position to promote open data. The Press is seeking and...
October 25, 2019
Richard Sever, writing for the Times Higher Education Supplement, with the argument that the tyranny of journal impact factors—with all their career-determining arbitrariness—is a symptom of a bigger problem: The small number of academic jobs for PhDs in the life...
October 22, 2019
Neil Grindley, head of resource discovery at Jisc, on challenges surfacing open content in large library collections, on: Yet another (perhaps surprising) issue is that there has not historically been a standard way of flagging whether something is open access in a...
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...
October 15, 2019
The Washington Post, in a story on prospective student tracking at U.S. colleges and universities: The admissions officer also received a link to a private profile of the student, listing all 27 pages she had viewed on the school’s website and how long she spent on...
