mrstew

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by mrstew 6y ago
Do you feel that there's only one woman in the field who does deserve to be there?
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by mrstew 6y ago
Only 1 woman speaker out of 15 isn't an amazing look for a conference in 2020
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by mrstew 8y ago
When I worked at an academic publisher I was surprised by this, often it's researchers at small or private institutions that don't have a library or one that pays lots of subs. Also - used to be you'd set this to have a price
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by mrstew 9y ago
Really hope this becomes part of the mainstream scholarly communications infrastructure - it's slick enough to get people to actually use which is probably half the battle.
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by mrstew 11y ago
I guess the attention to it has been spread out over a bunch of different papers.
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by mrstew 13y ago
> It occurs to me many universities have copies of the old journals and could setup their own sites to host it as soon as copyright isn't an issue Yep, this is what CLOCKSS ( http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home )
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by mrstew 13y ago
Yeah, that was my first thought too. It's a shock because people are used to uploading their papers in final published form but I don't think it's a crazy thing for Elsevier to do. We should take the opportunity to tell autho
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by mrstew 13y ago
Hmmm, this is pretty different to my experience (as both employee and employer), perhaps it depends on the skillset and exact location. I have a (non-finance related) start-up in central London and it's pretty difficult to find skilled deve
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The most shared, saved & cited academic papers in 2012(blogs.nature.com)
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by mrstew 14y ago
It's the Altmetric score I think. https://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/83337... Based on number of tweets, blog posts, news stories etc.
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by mrstew 14y ago
Don't get me wrong - I don't think that the existing system works particularly well or is value for money, I just wanted to point out that there's much more going on than hosting a crappy website. ;) > only familiar with math publishi
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by mrstew 14y ago
I'm not a publisher but have worked at publishers in the past. > All the journal does is provide a crappy web app > to organize the process. I'm guessing you're being facetious ;) but that's not true. It depends on the publisher bu
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by mrstew 14y ago
I think you've gotten the wrong end of the stick with Mendeley. It's a reference manager with social features, some of which could be used (with work on the part of the user) for discovery / post-publication review. PubUp, in contrast, look
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by mrstew 15y ago
TL;DR it hasn't, Danny Sullivan is a bit confused. They're shutting down the (cool but forgotten & neglected) Social Graph API that Brad Fitzpatrick created when he moved over to Google. It has the word "social" in its name, I guess. Th
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by mrstew 15y ago
I used to manage mobile products for a large STM publisher. This app is nice - well done getting it off the ground! FWIW I'd stay focused on the core concept (scanning many papers quickly), this is genuinely useful. Nail that first before m