In this four-part blog series, we explore the many challenges we encountered in working with preprint metadata, including lack of documentation, missing values, and incompatible and erroneous data.
How do social annotation tools help students learn? We conducted research in three unique university classrooms to find out.
Do academics use emojis on Twitter? Stefanie Haustein analyzed more than 40 million tweets mentioning scientific journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, and other documents to find out.
Key takeaways from this year’s FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute—a jam-packed week of learning, discussion, and celebration of all aspects of scholarly communication.
What research outputs do faculty believe are valued in RPT decisions? How do these beliefs affect where and what they publish?
Which researchers preprint more than others in their network? In which research fields is preprinting growing in popularity, and in which fields is adoption disproportionately low?
By Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales and Erin McKiernan. First published on the LSE Impact Blog on July 17, 2019.
This week, the Vancouver ScholCommLab packed things in early and hit the bowling lanes. Team bonding, apparently, is best achieved by participating in competitive individual “sports.” Each of us had their own unique strategic, from granny-style bowling to a carefully orchestrated gutter-bounce approach.
A new study finds a surprising number of Open Access journals “reverse flip” back to closed access. Co-author Lisa Matthias tells us all about it.
Published April 8, 2019 by Kate Shuttleworth on the Radical Access Blog The University of California recently took a bold step in support of open access publishing by terminating subscriptions with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher. We asked SFU Faculty for their thoughts on the cancellation and what this means for open access. What happened?
“The good news is, we’re not too dumb for democracy,” David Moscrop told a packed room of media, activists, book lovers, academics, and more. “The bad news is, we’re encouraged to be.” On March 21, Moscrop celebrated the launch of his new book, Too Dumb for Democracy?
