Here’s an interesting happening that is a good example to learn from.. A paper was retracted because the data it relied on was embargoed – that is to say the…
Category: library mumbles
There has been a lot of kerfuffle in the world of Open Access to Scholarship around Plan S. I’ve written about it myself, generally pretty positively. However, I’m always ready…
This blog is often me thinking by writing, and I’m having some thoughts on ethics, AI and discrimination. They are pretty bullet point type things now, and I hope I…
It can be harder to spot a journal that will provide questionable value for you as an author than you might think. This post provides a few things to think…
I’ve been in trouble with the Publisher’s Association before, so it may happen again with this. Trawling through Christmas time Facebook, where its mostly baby Yoda memes and pictures of…
I wrote about Plan S when it first came out. I was so pleased to see something with a real timeline, that addressed the right issues (moving to real OA,…
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…
They hybrid publishing model was adopted by the big scholarly publishers as an interim measure, a rearguard reaction, to the demand from researchers, funders and librarians for Open Access. It…
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…
This is a comment on the recent insightful piece on Research Gate in Inside Higher Education I try to look at these companies through the lens of what we know…