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.
So what can we do?
A quick note on Elsevier announcing its acquisition of bepress.
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.
A reflection on Open Access Outputs as Potential Educational Resources.
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.
The Altmetric Top 100 2016 was published yesterday. I share some thoughts about what the data tells us.
So 'post-truth' is the OED's international word of the year....
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.
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.
Shouldn't calls for papers include licensing and access type information?
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.
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