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May 28, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
This post is intended for Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt's crowdsourced Hacking the Academy book. Arguments about open access usually appeal to altruism, tradition, or economics. Even arguments supposedly aimed at researcher self-interest strike me as curiously abstract, devoid of...
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May 27, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
I'm on record predicting a toll-access journal bloodbath. Anecdotes are not data, one dead swallow doesn't mean the end of summer, and so on… but I just heard yesterday about a second small independent toll-access journal whose sponsors may be...
Posted 5:21 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I need to lift the iron curtain between this blog and my workplace. I beg your indulgence for one post. As those who read Bora's interview with me know, I discontinued my previous blog Caveat Lector because I was informed...
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May 13, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Did you miss the tidbits? I rather did. Data in climate science, and the problem of standardslessness: One database to rule them all, track global temperatures Congratulations to Duke, the latest open-access mandate success! Paolo Mangiafico, on Open Access at...
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May 12, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Saying that large-scale storage is all that's necessary for data curation is like saying that empty bookshelves are all that's necessary for a library....
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May 11, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
Word on the street is that the NSF is planning to ask all grant applicants to submit data-management plans, possibly (though not certainly) starting this fall. Fellow SciBlings the Reveres believe this heralds a new era of open data. I'm...
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May 4, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
Having made it back at last from Scotland despite the ash cloud, and overcome jetlag and (some) to-do list explosion, I finally have leisure to reflect a bit on UKSG 2010. My dominant takeaway is that nearly everyone in the...
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