Post-Beall’s List
No doubt you have heard that Professor Jeffrey Beall’s blog, http://scholarlyoa.com, with the associated lists of suspected publishers, journals and metrics, has been removed from public view at his request. Here … Continue reading
New ways of viewing data
There has been a series of articles in Nature and The Scholarly Kitchen regarding (yet) another way of comparing the impact of journals via citations. Among the problems with the more traditional journal … Continue reading
Notes from the OA Symposium, 2016
As I mentioned previously (actually, about 30 minutes ago in real time), it’s been a busy week in Denton. The University of North Texas hosted two separate meetings on overlapping … Continue reading
Notes from the Library Publishing Forum
It’s been a busy week at UNT – host of two meetings: The Library Publishing Forum and the 7th annual Open Access Symposium. The dates, and themes, are overlapping – … Continue reading
Data, data everywhere in the news
Struggling to consider my blog topic this week, the problem being too many stories to choose from, I was struck by how many stories were about data. Aha…a topic! First, … Continue reading
Open Data for LIS Research
This blog is a venue devoted to improving the utility and effectiveness of libraries, librarianship, and librarians through careful study. This inevitably involves data, a word that has recently become hot, … Continue reading
The Cost of “Doing More With Less” | Library Babel Fish
We have less funding for the things that really matter while paying much more to compensate for austerity policies. Source: The Cost of “Doing More With Less” | Library Babel … Continue reading
UK University Journal Costs
RT @McDawg: So how much do publishers charge the likes of @ucl & @imperialcollege ? http://t.co/TUdUid0iC7 http://t.co/5jOAXbNqun Sourced through Scoop.it from: shiny.retr0.me Wow…this is interesting. They provide a graphic showing … Continue reading
Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.nature.com Very interesting…thoughts? See on Scoop.it – Library & Information Science … Continue reading
