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  A FORB (Wikipedia) One of the arguments scholarly publishing is that it is for “academics to publish to academics”. Even Open Access advocates such as Stevan Harnad have stated this publicly. I find this arrogant and unacceptable – I … Continue reading →

Oreina gloriosa from Wikipedia (you’ll see why) I’ve read 25+ academic papers about extraction of information from PDFs and only 1 of those makes any mention of availability of code. These papers are published to announce a new (usually incremental … Continue reading →

I have my head down and am trying to write code – to liberate knowledge (and I haven’t forgotten #scholrev!) but occasionally have to break off and blog. Simply: the standard of debate (if it can be called such) in … Continue reading →

Cameron Neylon has written a compelling article http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/lets-get-this-straight/2002789.article and why we should get rid of “Green” “Gold” “Open Access” as meaningful labels. Because they no longer mean anything. They are as useful as “healthy” in a burger advertisement. I’m not … Continue reading →

Wiley has an “Open Access” offering. I couldn’t find papers any so I tweeted and got: “gold padlocks” and “purple padlocks”. “free” and “open”. Words and images that can mean anything. No idea whether it’s usable for teaching. Another tweet: … Continue reading →

I have already suggested our #scholrev should be decentralized ( /pmr/2013/03/21/scholrev-why-are-we-doing-this-and-immediate-thoughts-on-how-to-proceed/, /pmr/2013/03/22/scholrev-revolutionising-scholarship-shape-of-the-community-and-practice/, /pmr/2013/03/24/scholrev-decentralized-open-infrastructure-an-example-from-the-blue-obelisk/ ) – now I’ll say why and suggest how we proceed. Those of us in #scholrev are disillusioned enough that we want to do something different. Perhaps … Continue reading →

What’s this? It’s topical. It’s 20% of a page. It is possible to answer this from the information given. Why is 20% important? And why am I angry? Answer tomorrow.

I’m blogging some of my ideas about the Scholarly Revolution (#scholrev) and how it should proceed. I’ve already said I think it should be decentralised and I’ll explain what that means and why. I’m going to concentrate on the underlying … Continue reading →

I have suggested that the Scholarly Revolution should be decentralized and communicating and this post gives an example of why and how. “Decentralized” means that no one person or subgroup is critical to its operation and more importantly its continued … Continue reading →