Authority https://www.scienceblogs.com/ en Rebooting Review, Distributing Data, Opening Science https://www.scienceblogs.com/seed/2010/08/31/rebooting-review-distributing <span>Rebooting Review, Distributing Data, Opening Science</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Though the "publish or perish" life of an academic never rests, it can't help but be infused with the rhythm of the school year. Perhaps that explains a recent surge in bloggerly analysis of the institutions and infrastructures that infuse this scientific lifestyle. From <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/scienceisculture/2010/08/scholars_test_web_alternative.php">peer review</a> to data collection, there isn't facet of this world that isn't being reconceputalized in terms of openess and transparency. <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/">Mike the Mad Biologist</a> has some thoughts on how this might impact the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2010/08/could_open_science_resolve_the.php">Researcher-Data Producer Conflict</a>, and you should check out this classic from <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/">Common Knowledge</a>'s John Wilbanks over at SeedMagzine, on why the existing publishing system <a href="http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_matthew_effect/">crowds out younger researchers</a>. And with a <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/nyt_hauser_may_have_fabricated.php">high profile case</a> of the system breaking down in the national press, there's no better time to go back to the drawing board.</p> <!--more--><blockquote> <h4> <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2010/08/could_open_science_resolve_the.php">Could Open Science Resolve the Researcher-Data Producer Conflict?</a></h4> <p class="blogTitle"><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/">Mike the mad biologist</a>August 26, 2010</p> <p class="excerpt">"Last week, I wrote about the problems facing genomics and the concept of ownership of data. While I am sympathetic to researchers' career needs under the current system, I don't think we can, in good conscience, let that get in the way of rapid data release, especially in applied areas."</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><h4> <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/scienceisculture/2010/08/scholars_test_web_alternative.php">Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review</a></h4> <p class="blogTitle"><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/scienceisculture/">science is culture</a>August 29, 2010</p> <p class="excerpt">"'Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe. They argue that in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work.'"</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><h4> <a href="http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_matthew_effect/">The Matthew Effect</a></h4> <p class="blogTitle"><a href="http://seedmagazine.com/">Seed Magazine</a>August 30, 2010</p> <p class="excerpt">"When it comes to scientific publishing and fame, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. How can we break this feedback loop?"</p> </blockquote> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="/author/elerner" lang="" about="/author/elerner" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">elerner</a></span> <span>Tue, 08/31/2010 - 06:00</span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/authority" hreflang="en">Authority</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"><a href="/user/login?destination=/seed/2010/08/31/rebooting-review-distributing%23comment-form">Log in</a> to post comments</li></ul> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:00:04 +0000 elerner 69036 at https://www.scienceblogs.com Authorial Issues https://www.scienceblogs.com/seed/2010/01/26/authorial-issues <span>Authorial Issues</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><form mt:asset-id="18328" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img src="http://scienceblogs.com/seed/wp-content/blogs.dir/373/files/2012/04/i-59d03f349b436f96b162b8cf03b41e27-authorbuzz.jpg" alt="i-59d03f349b436f96b162b8cf03b41e27-authorbuzz.jpg" /></form> <p>Self-expression is a human ideal, but just as you can be a virtuoso with a hammer, you can be a hack with a paintbrush. On Bioephemera, Jessica Palmer questions the value of painted canvas when the painters "neither recognize nor are particularly interested in" the scenes they produce. In the case of Chinese technicians who imitate western styles for the American market, Jessica asks, "isn't an artist's active creative input, his or her emotion and imagination, or at least some degree of <i>innovation</i>, essential to create 'art'?" Razib Khan considers literary issues on Gene Expression, saying it's okay that novelist James Patterson employs a team of co-writers to ink in his many projects. "The idea of the author as the lonely genius is very powerful," writes Razib, but "there's no reason that a workmanlike collaborative writing process necessarily entails lowest-common denominator fiction." On Confessions of a Science Librarian, John Dupuis compares what things an author can and cannot control in the publishing process. And On The Book of Trogool, Dorothea Salo shares the obstacles of authority control, when many authors may have the same name, and one author may have many.</p> <p>Links below the fold.</p> <!--more--><ul> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2010/01/outsourcing_art.php">Outsourcing "Art"</a> on Bioephemera</li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2010/01/james_patterson_the_business_o.php">James Patterson &amp; the business of writing </a> on Gene Expression</li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2010/01/authorial_control.php">Authorial control</a> on Confessions of a Science Librarian</li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/bookoftrogool/2009/12/authority_control_then_and_now.php">Authority control, then and now</a> on The Book of Trogool</li> </ul> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="/author/milhayser" lang="" about="/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">milhayser</a></span> <span>Tue, 01/26/2010 - 07:40</span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/art" hreflang="en">Art</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/authority" hreflang="en">Authority</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"><a href="/user/login?destination=/seed/2010/01/26/authorial-issues%23comment-form">Log in</a> to post comments</li></ul> Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:40:39 +0000 milhayser 68947 at https://www.scienceblogs.com