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February 26, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
It's Friday! Snack on some tidbits. In the "didn't anyone teach you to show your work in grade school?" department, we have NIWA unable to justify official temperature record, as well as the radical notion of using actual data to...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
So the backstory of the truly horrific murders at the University of Alabama at Huntsville has taken an open-access turn: the perpetrator (not being a journalist, I don't think I need to say "alleged") got a rather dubious-looking article published...
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February 23, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I've been interviewed by Bora Zivkovic, apropos of many things. Click over if you've a mind....
Posted 9:10 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
The journal impact factor is a sham and a crock and a delusion, let's just take that as read. (If you don't care to take that as read, which is a healthy and sane attitude—take no one's word as gospel,...
Posted 4:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I've altered the tagline on this blog slightly, to reflect where it seems to be going. (I am not in control here; I am merely the author-function! Sorry, sorry, lit-crit joke.) At the same time, I've been thinking a lot...
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February 18, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
I'm home sick today, and not precisely looking forward to giving my class tonight because I really do feel wiped out. Fortunately, tidbits posts are easy… Denmark ponders the future of the research library. A thoughtful read for librarians; a...
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February 16, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I have a very lengthy post in pickle that is taking me some time to work through. Forgive me; sometimes that's what blogging is for, though it's tough on the posting rate. In the meantime, a small thought about improving...
Posted 4:22 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 9, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
Since early days indeed, it's been possible to bypass journal publishers and libraries in a quest for a particular article by going directly to the author. Some publishers have even facilitated this limited variety of samizdat by offering authors a...
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February 2, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Perhaps shockingly, I don't plan to so much as try to wade through all seven-hundred-odd pages of this report on scholarly-publishing practices. It's thorough, it's well-documented, it's decently-written… and based on the executive summary (itself weighing in at a hefty...
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February 1, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Happy Groundhog's Day Eve! Or something. Jennifer Rohn discusses how suboptimal data management makes downstream tasks such as submitting papers to journals a bit harder. The bit about proprietary image formats is particularly cringe-inducing. Why Cameron Neylon is disappointed with...
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