The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. I made a quick mix with some of my favourite tunes.
New Article: Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?
New peer reviewed, open access article, published on 13 August 2017: Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? at TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
“Access/Accès”: #DH2017, Montreal, 8-11 August 2017 Tweetage Volume Charts
#DH2017 starts today in Montreal. I share a snapshot of tweetage so far, and share a previous post related to access to publications in DH.
On the Journals UNAM Gave Away to Elsevier, @Red_HD
My post at the Red de Humanidades Digitales blog: http://humanidadesdigitales.net/blog/2017/08/07/revistas-academicas-elsevier-sciencedirect/#RedHD I also shared a revised dataset on figshare.
#rfringe17: Top 230 Terms in Tweetage
Repository Fringe is a gathering for repository managers and others interested in research data repositories and publication repositories. I collected an archive of #rfringe17, containing 1118 Tweet IDs. I then analysed the text of the tweets with Voyant Tools to identify most frequent terms and refined the results to 230 terms.
Questions of Access in the Digital Humanities: Data from JDSH
I used The Altmetric Explorer to locate any articles from the Journal of Digital Scholarlship in the Humanities that had had any 'mentions' online anytime. With the Open Access Button API we tried to locate open surrogates. Some insights are shared from the data.
Scholarly Communications On Fire: What Can We Do?
So what can we do?
Scholarly Communications On Fire
A quick note on Elsevier announcing its acquisition of bepress.
Territorios Digitales Workshop: New Forms of Digital Research Assessment #CSHDsur
I am at the University of Granada as a member of the Knowmetrics project to participate in workshops and meetings around the project and the I Congreso Internacional “Territorios Digitales” under the umbrella Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales del Sur (#CSHDsur).
On UK Labour and Conservatives Tweet Sources
Where I share insights into the sources used to tweet from the UK Labour and Conservatives Twitter accounts from an analysis of a sample of 500 recent tweets from each account.
Untangling Academic Publishing: Key Recommendations for Universities and Academics
The report 'Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research' (Fyfe et al 2017) has been published today. I share some of the key recommendations.
Don’t Walk Away: The Aporetics of Information in the Age of Twitter Overload
Like you, I've read the news today. Like so many others out there, I also wanted to write something. This is a personal reflection.
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