Recently I’ve been feeling uninspired about Open Access. We have the same discussions, preach to the converted, and there was a sense that perhaps things had plateaued. And then came…
Category: library mumbles
Researchers give their work to toll access journals for free, then scholars review that work for free, and then the journals make nearly 40% profits selling that work. This is…
When I first started the job I’m in, my first librarian job, and it has a large component of encouraging Open Access for my community, I went around online asking…
I had no idea why I was being encouraged to get into librarianship. I was an IT guy working at the University of Otago in Dunedin, with a 10 years…
I wrote last about the problem of getting false positive plagiarism results when submitting articles – where students have articles rejected because they match their theses. That all worked out…
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…
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…
An increasingly fun part of my job is assessing journals for their reputability. Here’s a quick report I did for a cow-orker recently, asking about the rather interesting “International Journal…
Data belongs to those it’s about. Data must be clear. Data should be open, unless that would cause harm. Data belongs to those it’s about. The data anyone collects about…