For perhaps ten years now, the future of scientific publishing has been hotly debated. The traditional models are often thought to be badly broken, although convergence to a consensus of what a better model should be is not apparently close. But to my mind, much of this debate seems to miss one important point, how to publish data.
Posts Tagged ‘Open access’
Open Access journal publishing debates – the elephant in the room?
Sunday, November 4th, 2018Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, article processing charge, article processing charges, artificial intelligence, Chemical IT, Cognition, Company: RSC, Electronic publishing, G factor, Hybrid open access journal, Knowledge, Michael Dewar, Nature, online era, Open access, Predatory publishing, Publishing, researcher, Royal Society of Chemistry, Scholarly communication, Science, Technology/Internet
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Examples please of FAIR (data); good and bad.
Sunday, May 6th, 2018The site fairsharing.org is a repository of information about FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) objects such as research data.
Tags:above site, chemical components, Findability, Human behavior, Information, Information architecture, Information science, Institutional repository, Interesting chemistry, journal data editor, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, Open access, Open access in Australia, Oscar, PDF, recognition software, Technology/Internet, Web design
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First, Open Access, then Open (and FAIR) Data, now Open Citations.
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018The topic of open citations was presented at the PIDapalooza conference and represents a third component in the increasing corpus of open scientific information.
Tags:Academic publishing, Applied linguistics, article processing charge, British National Corpus, Chemical IT, chemical stories, cited author, Corpus linguistics, David Shotton, Entertainment/Culture, Linguistics, Open access, Quotation, RDF, social media, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders women's basketball
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Two stories about Open Peer Review (OPR), the next stage in Open Access (OA).
Thursday, October 5th, 2017We have heard a lot about OA or Open Access (of journal articles) in the last five years, often in association with the APC (Article Processing Charge) model of funding such OA availability. Rather less discussed is how the model of the peer review of these articles might also evolve into an Open environment. Here I muse about two experiences I had recently.
Tags:Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Chemical IT, Company: Facebook, Company: Publons, Company: Twitter, editor, Electronic publishing, Entertainment/Culture, General, Hybrid open access journal, Internet giants, OA, Open access, Organic Syntheses, Public sphere, Publishing, Scholarly communication, search engines, Social Media & Networking, Technology/Internet
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Chemistry preprint servers (revisited).
Tuesday, August 16th, 2016This week the ACS announced its intention to establish a “ChemRxiv preprint server to promote early research sharing“. This was first tried quite a few years ago, following the example of especially the physicists. As I recollect the experiment lasted about a year, attracted few submissions and even fewer of high quality. Will the concept succeed this time, in particular as promoted by a commercial publisher rather than a community of scientists (as was the original physicists model)?
Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Chemical IT, Data publishing, Data sharing, food, Grey literature, Open access, Open science, PDF, Peter Murray-Rust, pre-print server, Preprint, preprint server, Public sphere, Publishing, Scholarly communication, Technology/Internet
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Publishing embargoes.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016Publishing embargoes seem a relatively new phenomenon, probably starting in areas of science when the data produced for a scientific article was considered more valuable than the narrative of that article. However, the concept of the embargo seems to be spreading to cover other aspects of publishing, and I came across one recently which appears to take such embargoes into new and uncharted territory.
Tags:Academic publishing, Chemical IT, Embargo, Open access, Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, Technology/Internet, Uncharted, Uncharted Territory
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LEARN Workshop: Embedding Research Data as part of the research cycle
Monday, February 1st, 2016I attended the first (of a proposed five) workshops organised by LEARN (an EU-funded project that aims to ...Raise awareness in research data management (RDM) issues & research policy) on Friday. Here I give some quick bullet points relating to things that caught my attention and or interest. The program (and Twitter feed) can be found at https://learnrdm.wordpress.com where other's comments can also be seen.
Tags:Academic publishing, Chemical IT, European Union, first Open Scientist, first secretary, Free culture movement, Henry Oldenburg, Jean Claude Bradley, Open access, Open data, Open science, RDM, Research, researcher, Royal Society, Science, Scientific method, Scientific misconduct, scientist, Technology/Internet
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Personal web pages on digital repositories.
Saturday, June 20th, 2015The university sector in the UK has quality inspections of its research outputs conducted every seven years, going by the name of REF or Research Excellence Framework. The next one is due around 2020, and already preparations are under way! Here I describe how I have interpreted one of its strictures; that all UK funded research outputs (i.e. research publications in international journals) must be made available in open unrestricted form within three months of the article being accepted for publication, or they will not be eligible for consideration in 2020.
Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, Archival science, author, Chemical IT, Data management, Digital library, EPrints, Institutional repository, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, Library science, metadata, Open access, PDF, personal web page, Preprint, Publishing, Repository, researcher, ROMEO GREEN, Science, Technology/Internet, United Kingdom, web server
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