A reflection on Open Access Outputs as Potential Educational Resources.
Tag: Open Access
Pre-print, Post-print, Publisher’s Version: Who Cares and What Does It Mean for Open Access?
As long as the real, pragmatic obstactles to accessing and reusing academic research are not experienced by more academics, it seems to me like Open Access has a long, long road ahead.
Insights from the Altmetric Top 100 2016
The Altmetric Top 100 2016 was published yesterday. I share some thoughts about what the data tells us.
Academic Publishing and the Word of the Year
So 'post-truth' is the OED's international word of the year....
The Open Library of Humanities One Year On: A Chat with Martin Paul Eve
Professor Martin Paul Eve will give a talk titled "A New Model for Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities One Year On" on Thursday 27 October 2016 at City, University of London, as part of Open Access Week.
Inequality, Paywalled: Update from a Literature Review
I used the Altmetric Explorer as a tool to discover articles about inequality. I cleaned the data to reflect the articles that interested me and then checked them for access and license type.
On Reading the Small Print When It’s Too Late- Access and Licensing Type in CFPs
Shouldn't calls for papers include licensing and access type information?
Visualise This: Getting Attention to Journal Subscription Expenditure
As part of ongoing research in collaboration with my colleague Domenico Fiormonte on academic publishing and 'monopolies of knowledge' we have been looking at the available data on the amount of money universities spend on journal subscriptions.
Recently Launched: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics
Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics is a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles co-edited by Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) and myself for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Interviewed by ScienceOpen
I talked to ScienceOpen's jon Tennant about open access publishing.
Notes on Sci-Hub
I published 'Signal, Not Solution: Notes on Why Sci-Hub Is Not Opening Access' on The Winnower. A conversation followed.
Assessing the Assessment Evaluation Reports: Are They Setting the Example?
A quick note on the (lack of open) licensing in two of the REF2014 reports announced today.













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