Join the Open Access Button Student Team!

Good opportunity for #Citylis students! Reblogged from the Open Access Button blog.

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The Open Access Button is a browser bookmarklet that tracks and maps the impacts of paywalls. Users can report when they are denied access to research and then search for alternative access to the article using the Button.  We launched the Open Access Button in November 2013 at the Berlin 11 Student and Early Stage Researcher Conference. To date the Button has mapped over 5000 paywalls. This is a small taste of what we are now building, but we need to expand the team in order to create the Button 2.0.

Working on the Button will require a reasonable time commitment, regular calls, regular internet access and may involve international travel. We welcome and encourage applications from across the world and from undergraduate/postgraduate students of all backgrounds. We strive to ensure that team members have access to training they need to do their roles. You’ll be joining a diverse, hardworking…

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Africa, Access, Altmetrics: New Alluvial Diagram, PI Affiliation Country and Area Covered in the 25 Most-Mentioned Articles

I have deposited on figshare a third alluvial diagram, this time focusing on the country of affiliation of the Principal Investigator/Author of the articles and the geographical area mentioned in the article title.

#LibPub Session 3: Comic Books, Libraries and Challenges in the Digital Age

For our third session of our Libraries and Publishing module at City University London, we will focus on comic books publishing and librarianship in the digital age.

Of Pete Townshend, altmetrics and libraries: #LibPub session 2

Of how the module I am teaching at City is covering rock and roll, disruptive innovations in publishing and the sharing economy. We will also welcome Jean Liu (@portablebrain) who will talk to us about article level metrics.

At The New Everyday: The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life

I am very happy to announce the publication of a new cluster at MediaCommons' The New Everyday: "The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life" edited and curated by David N. Wright and myself.