Note: this is an opinion, and I’d be glad of research that proves me wrong. Or right. That would be nice too. In talking with researchers about OA for the…
Category: academic mumbles
About twice a week at the moment I’m asked to give advice on something in which I have an internal choice, “use our institutional repository (http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz) or figshare”. Both have…
I’m starting a new series, the NZ Journal Hall of Shame. This is to highlight NZ academic journals the a haven’t either thought of the option of Open Access, or…
Recently the worst thing happened. We heard of two articles, from the same author, rejected in two Elsevier journals because they were too similar to their thesis. We’ve strongly argued…
A journal has asked you to make your data publicly available as you submit your article. This is a guide to how you can meet that requirement, not get your…
NB – at the time of writing I didn’t realise that Chealsye worked for Ubiquity. They are cool though. aa As the inevitable occurs and Open Access becomes the norm,…
I promised that I would update this blog with a more accurate figure of Elsevier’s profit from scholarly communications. It seems that NZD$1,712,706,007.83[1] (1.7 Billion New Zealand dollars) is a…
The following tweet was sent in response to my previous post by Tom Reller, Elsevier, @TomReller Incorrect. That’s the number for the parent company – 4 total businesses, not just…
As I wrote earlier, I’ve been asked to do short reports on the reputability of various journals and publishers – and this has been picking up as the publishing season…