MrGunn

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by MrGunn 5y ago
Thanks for the heads up, we're looking into this at Quora.
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by MrGunn 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree publishers could do more to change & I especially think we should do more to make all the changes that are happening under the hood more visible. I mean, that's literally my job. You gave me
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by MrGunn 6y ago
To solve your immediate problem, just grab the DOI here: https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery They also have an API from which you can fetch DOIs in various ways. DOIs are a solution to the issue of having persistent,
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by MrGunn 6y ago
Journals do transfer among publishers, go out of business, etc so you shouldn't expect a direct link like that to be stable. The recommended practice is to use the DOI. Would using a DOI meet your needs?
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by MrGunn 6y ago
The majority (70% or so) of submissions are desk-rejected without even being sent for review, and the ability to do that well is something that's learned over time with extensive detailed knowledge of the particular field served by the
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by MrGunn 6y ago
Hey Gwern, big fan of your GPT2 work. I notice I'm surprised to hear you say you struggle daily to fix broken links to the Elsevier catalog at ScienceDirect, because the links are used by libraries all over the world & they don&#x2
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by MrGunn 6y ago
As a researcher, I understand the frustrations with the publishing process. I spent years complaining about it, then I decided to do something. A few years later, my company was acquired by Elsevier & everyone was calling me a sellout.
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by MrGunn 8y ago
Preprints are great & everyone should post a preprint as soon as they're ready to share what they've been working on. That said, there's a big difference between journals and preprints, not just in the production quality
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by MrGunn 8y ago
Not only does Elsevier have a very permissive preprint policy, but they own a network of preprint servers - SSRN. Just this morning, I've replied to several factually incorrect statements you've made. What can I do to help you get
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by MrGunn 8y ago
This isn't true: https://twitter.com/TomReller/status/1075817382726250496?s=1...
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by MrGunn 8y ago
Again, Dmitri, there's plenty of reasons to criticize Elsevier without making things up. RELX doesn't break out profit by division, but the operating margin for Elsevier is around 22%, which anyone can read for themselves in their
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by MrGunn 8y ago
This is something I hear all the time about publishers, and it used to resonate with me, too, until I started to work for a publisher and realized how much goes into the system we have beyond just putting manuscripts online. The real eye-op
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by MrGunn 8y ago
Dmitri, I feel like you're being deceptive here. RELX, the parent company of Elsevier, hasn't been involved in this for over a decade, and in fact Lancet led the movement to divest! https://www.theguardian.com/busi
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by MrGunn 8y ago
I wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight, there would still be the other 84% of the market. Efforts like the above just le
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by MrGunn 9y ago
This will be a big deal. People are a bit conflicted in their use of Sci-hub, so there's definitely an appetite for something that works without requiring you to support copyright infringement.
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by MrGunn 11y ago
That's kinda sweet, given what they must have trained the network on. Lots of people say I love you!
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by MrGunn 12y ago
It's not a user's fault they have to root to regain some control over a piece of hardware they own. Your app shouldn't crash under xposed - test for it.
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by MrGunn 12y ago
I'll checkout stirplate.io, but just wanted to point out that there has been a mandate on the books for years now that if you get funding from a federal agency (that does a significant amount of research funding), you have to deposit t
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by MrGunn 12y ago
I personally have always found DeepDyve to be kinda pointless, as when you need to go back and refresh your memory before citing the article later, your access has expired.
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by MrGunn 12y ago
There's a filter in Mendeley's research catalog: http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/?query=%22cat... for showing only open access papers. (disclaimer: my employer)
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by MrGunn 12y ago
I don't work for them (in fact, they could be considered a competitor), but check out PeerJ. $99 per author for an article. PLOS ONE also has fee waivers if you really can't afford it.
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by MrGunn 13y ago
So there is a theory that if something doesn't reproduce it's because the other guy was just incompetent, and that may be the case, but just like everyone wants to believe they're above average, everyone will want to go to the theory that t
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by MrGunn 13y ago
It's really critical that we don't confuse research that's nor reproducible with fraud. Very few scientific theories survive unmodified over time, so lack of reproducibility isn't a criticism and we really need to move the debate past this.
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by MrGunn 13y ago
Your assumption is that now Mendeley is going to suddenly shed it's sheep's clothing and reveal itself to be a wolf. As a Mendeley employee (and a scientist, not a PR person), you may not believe me or you may think I'm just naive but I thi
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by MrGunn 13y ago
There will be no favoritism for Elsevier content: http://elsevierconnect.com/elsevier-welcomes-mendeley/
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by MrGunn 13y ago
Lots of people have had bad experiences, especially this year. I was one of the people leading the charge against them, in fact. However, they were able to convince me that they really do want us for our openness and they want us to bring t
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by MrGunn 13y ago
How about giving it a month or two to see if things really are that bad? I understand you have no reason to trust Elsevier, but Mendeley has been a staunch advocate of open access from the very beginning, so I really do think we'll bring mo
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by MrGunn 13y ago
I know exactly how bad Elsevier has been and I've spent most of my career with Mendeley campaigning against them. If anyone has the right to be mad about this, it would be me, but I've actually had the chance to speak with folks there, from
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by MrGunn 13y ago
The API will remain open: http://blog.mendeley.com/press-release/qa-team-mendeley-join...
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by MrGunn 13y ago
See, that's the thing. It's hard for open source projects to attract top caliber developers and build a critical mass of users. Firefox has done really well, AOSP has done well, but Mendeley and Zotero are really the only competitors in thi

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