Yesterday I shared a spreadsheet containing references to 497 papers on Ebola including the access and license type of each paper. These were crowdsourced by a group of us over a period of a week.
I have shared a dataset of 497 bibliographic entries of scientific articles mentioning the keyword 'Ebola'. Can you help us crowdsource their type of access and licensing?
Today I participate in the Advisory Council on Latin American & Iberian Information Resources seminar on open access at the Cambridge University Library. I share some info.
Where I share some charts I created with my #dhsi2014 archive.
Some thoughts on why you would like to share Twitter datasets... and other data.
Looking forward to participating in the ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014 in Cambridge on Open Access: “The future of academic publication?” (17 June 2014).
Join us in Cambridge for the ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014, the topic of which is Open Access. We are pleased to welcome speakers from a variety of areas to give their perspectives on OA and its impact on the world of research, teaching and publishing.
Speakers: Ellen Collins (OAPEN UK); Daniel Pearce (CUP); Dr. Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers); Dr. Martin Eve (University of Lincoln); Dr. Ernesto Priego (City University, London); Dr. Jenny Bunn (University College, London)
Open Access is curently a hot topic across the globe due to its wide-ranging effects. Many policies and practices are in a state of rapid change, so we hope you will join us to keep up to date with this important subject and contribute to the debate.
The full programme including speaker profiles and registration form are available on our Events page. Please register by Monday 9 June to secure your place!
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Scientific American asks: "Is the use of Twitter as a research tool ethical, given that its users do not intend to contribute to research?" I say: yes.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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