A #HASTAC2014 Conference Tweets Archive

28/04/201428/04/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Like last year, I attempted to archive the tweets tagged with the HASTAC annual conference's official hashtag (this year #HASTAC2014). I have shared the resulting dataset on figshare.

The impacts of “Impact” [video, slides, charts, dataset] #uksglive

17/04/201402/06/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 2 Comments

Where a share video and slides from my plenary talk at the UKSG conference in Harrogate, UK, as well as some data from the #uksglive conference backhannel.

#LibPub Session 10: Libraries, Publishing: The Future?

11/04/201411/04/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

For the past ten weeks we've been unveiling pieces of the complex, large jigsaw puzzle of the libraries and publishing landscape. Our guest today: Alastair Horne.

#LibPub Session 9: Researcher-led Open Access Publishing & Reference Management

04/04/201404/04/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

In our 9th session for #LibPub at #citylis we will discuss researcher-led open access publishing, and tools for online reference management. Featuring a guest lecture by Brian Hole from Ubiquity Press.

#LibPub Session 8: Developing Digitally: Researchers, Social Media & Libraries as Publishers

28/03/201404/04/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Today at my City University London #citylis module we will again offer two professional points of view on the relationships between libraries and publishers. Guest talks from Diane Bell (City Library) and Nick Canty (UCL).

Today: #LibPub Session 7: Learned Societies and Libraries as Publishers

21/03/201428/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Today in our #LibPub module at City University London we'll have the opportunity to zoom in at two key issues in contemporary scholarly publishing. Guest talks by Suzanne Kavanagh and Neil Stewart.

Wellcome Trust APCs: Towards a New [Open Access] Serials Crisis?

20/03/201420/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

With the APC rates charged by major publishers, who is being excluded from Open Access publishing as currently implemented by the major publishers in scientific/academic publishing?

Quick Insights from the Wellcome Trust Paid APCs 2012/13 Dataset

19/03/201419/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

I share some auick insights from the Wellcome Trust Paid APCs 2012/13 Dataset, as well as my refined dataset which I uploaded to figshare.

#LibPub Session 6: Libraries and Archives Disrupting Publishing?

14/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

On our Libraries and Publishing (#LibPub) course at City University London, guest talks by James Baker and Geoff Browell.

#scholarAfrica Workshop: How to Catch Up

13/03/201413/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

I offer some links to resources to catch up with what happened in the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online workshop that took place 10-11 March 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya, and was organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

#scholarAfrica Day 1

11/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Yesterday we had the first day of the Promoting Discoverability of African Scholarship workshop in Nariboi, Keyna. The #scholarAfrica hashtag went "boom!"

#scholarAfrica: Hello, Nairobi

10/03/201411/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

I am in Nairobi for the Promoting Discoverability of African Scholarship workshop organised by the OpenUCT Initiative in collaboration with the Carnegie Corporation of New York.