At the LSE Impact Blog: Towards Fairer Access to Research

My piece “Open Access: Towards Fairer Access to Research” is up on the Impact of Social Sciences blog. It will also appear in the eCollection in for the Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference on Thursday 24 October 2013 in Senate House, University of London. Printed copies will be available as well as electronic versions then.

At the LSE Impact Blog: “Predatory journals and defective peer review are general academic problems, not just open access problems.”

The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog published my rebuttal of that Science magazine article on predatory journals.

At HASTAC: Towards Fairer Access and Citation of Versions of Record: On the the UK Parliament BIS Committee’s Open Access Recommendations

On my blog at HASTAC, I shared a post with some quick thoughts on the the UK Parliament BIS Committee's Open Access Recommendations.

Public Knowledge Project Conference Tweets Archive #pkpconf

The Fourth International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference was held August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico. I have shared an archive of the tweets tagged with #pkpconf on figshare.

At The Comics Grid’s Blog: Altmetrics of Articles on Comics

At The Comics Grid's blog, I posted the first of a series of posts where I will be looking at the altmetrics of academic journal articles on comics. In this post I shares a table with the 5 journals with articles on comics that have been most mentioned online according to a report obtained with The Altmetric Explorer on Friday 23 August 2013.

Using Scalar for an Open Look-in-Progress into Arts and Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships in the UK

I have started using Scalar for a new open work-in-progress. I am looking at some public data about Arts and Humanities postdoctoral fellowships in the United Kingdom.

At ORG Zine: The Right to Open Access to Humanities and Social Science Research

I wrote a piece on recent Open Access developments in the UK humanities and social sciences context for ORGZine is the Digital Rights magazine written for and by Open Rights Group supporters.