Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki. An #or2014 Archive

The 9th International Conference on Open Repositories was held from 9 to 13 June, 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. I have uploaded to figshare an XLS file contains an archive of Tweets tagged with #or2014.

At the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog: Publicly available data from Twitter does not constitute an “ethical dilemma”.

The Impact Blog of the London School of Economics and Political Science has published today my post from yesterday ("Twitter as Public Evidence and the Ethics of Twitter Research") under the title Publicly available data from Twitter is public evidence and does not constitute an “ethical dilemma”.

Twitter as Public Evidence and the Ethics of Twitter Research

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.

BBC Politics Election Tweets: A Quick Text Analysis

Where I share the results of a quick text analysis of a small corpora of recent tweets from @BBCPolitics and @bbcnickrobinson. I also shared the corpora on fighsare.

New Publication: Comics Unmasked: A Conversation with Adrian Edwards, The British Library

I have published a new article: Comics Unmasked: A Conversation with Adrian Edwards, lead curator of Printed Historical Sources, The British Library.

A #HASTAC2014 Conference Tweets Archive

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.

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

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

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.

#scholarAfrica: Hello, Nairobi

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.