Tag: publishing
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In Beta newsletter – Open Scholarship
Open scholarship should be about reshaping higher education, from open educational resources to open access journals. But in reality it is almost always positioned as a way to advance someone’s career. For example, publish in open-access journals to increase ‘reach’ and citations. We need another way to think about scholarship that looks beyond academia.
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Paywall: The business of scholarship
“Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher, Elsevier, and looks at how that profit margin…
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Link: The Strain on Scientific Publishing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth, if any, in the number of practising scientists. Thus, publication workload…
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Thinking in Public: Self-publishing a book with Tom Jesson
After my last conversation with Tom, I wanted to speak with him again, about the process he went through to self-publish his book on cauda equina syndrome. Tom is what I would call an independent researcher, and I’m fascinated with how he’s carving out a scholarly niche for himself. Our conversation goes from Tom’s experimentation…
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More than my h-index – African Doctoral Academy
The presentation was given to a group of early career researchers and PhD students as part of the African Doctoral Academy. Download the slides. The main premise of my presentation was that academics are often driven to measure the quality of our work by quantitative metrics and journal impact factors because those are relatively easy…
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Why shouldn’t journals publish translations of articles alongside the English version?
Update (14 April 2022): If you’re interested in the notion that something is lost when we default to English as the language of scientific communication, you may be interested in this reflective podcast by Shaun Cleaver that was prepared as part of the 2020 In beta unconference. A few days ago I received a submission…
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Comment: A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review
We found that the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020. For China-based reviewers, the estimate is over 600 million USD, and…
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Weekly digest (17-21 May 2021)
Checco, A., Bracciale, L., Loreti, P., Pinfield, S., & Bianchi, G. (2021, May 17). Can AI be used ethically to assist peer review? Impact of Social Sciences. …an AI tool which screens papers prior to peer review could be used to advise authors to rework their paper before it is sent on for peer review.…
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Weekly digest (03-07 May 2021)
This is an experiment that I’m going to try for a while. Sometimes I come across articles that I think are interesting and would like to share – with a short comment – but which don’t warrant a full post. I’m going to try and aggregate these into a weekly digest that I’ll publish on…
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Launch of the Journal of Controversial Ideas
It sounds like the title of an Onion article but it’s real. The Journal of Controversial Ideas offers a forum for careful, rigorous, unpolemical discussion of issues that are widely considered controversial, in the sense that certain views about them might be regarded by many people as morally, socially, or ideologically objectionable or offensive. I…
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Resource: The Scholarly Kitchen podcast.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a “nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.” I’m mainly familiar with SSP because I follow their Scholarly Kitchen blog series and only recently came across the…
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Resource: Advice for successful academics.
30 tips for successful academic research and publishing. 15 top tips for revising journal articles. Ten tips for increasing your academic visibility. Tips for qualitative researchers seeking funding – What not to leave out of your grant applications. Opening up your research – Self-archiving for sociologists. Why I blog. Lupton, D. (2019). Resource: Advice for…
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I enjoyed reading (December)
This post is really delayed, mainly because I took a break from blogging over December and January. I was starting to feel an “obligation to blog”, which is when I know that I need to step back a bit and take some time off. There’s nothing worse than writing because you feel you have to,…
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Alternative ways of sharing my PhD output
“Online journals are paper journals delivered by faster horses” – Beyond the PDF 2 I’ve started a process of creating a case study of my PhD project, using my blog as an alternative means of presenting and sharing my results. Most of the chapters have already either been published or are under review with peer-reviewed journals, so…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-09
The Human Anatomy, Animated With 3-D Technology http://t.co/6CBDJBW8 via @zite # Augmented reality lens from Microsoft and the University of Washington in the final stages of development http://t.co/kntfqjOx via @zite # Recently discovered #Pinterest and even though it’s not fully open to everyone yet, check it out for some inspiring pics… # Simple thoughts about…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-02
in DigestProposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational http://t.co/K5rrjCda via @zite # http://t.co/RZ6Ttqqo (So when does academic publishing get disrupted?) # Top 100 Articles of 2011 http://t.co/docbOLjz via @zite #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22
To err is human: building a safer health system. Free book for download http://tinyurl.com/yzedbwk # RT @amcunningham: A Culture of Fear and Intimidation: Reforming Medical Education http://bit.ly/cngjbU #meded #professionalism # @Czernie Thanks Laura, there’s some good stuff there, will definitely use some of it # @cristinacost responded to your comment and removed 1 of your…