The impacts of “Impact” [video, slides, charts, dataset] #uksglive

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.

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?

#scholarAfrica Workshop: How to Catch Up

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.

#LibPub Sessions 4 & 5: Scholarly Publishing and Reference Books -and comics!

Where I catch up on #LibPub session 4, write about our research trip to comics shops and advertise session 5 on reference books, with guest lecture by Dr Katharine Schopflin.

Africa, Access, Altmetrics: New Alluvial Diagram, PI Affiliation Country and Area Covered in the 25 Most-Mentioned Articles

I have deposited on figshare a third alluvial diagram, this time focusing on the country of affiliation of the Principal Investigator/Author of the articles and the geographical area mentioned in the article title.

The Triple A: Africa, Access, Altmetrics

I shared two first drafts of a couple of alluvial charts I made visualising a dataset of the 25 highest scoring peer-reviewed articles with the term "Africa" in the title.

Public Knowledge Project Conference Tweets Archive #pkpconf

The Fourth International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference was held August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico. I have shared an archive of the tweets tagged with #pkpconf on figshare.