October 2011
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July 2011
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Position paper - Google Docs →
From Cameron Neylon
May 2011
4 posts
Quelle surprise: academics gaming the system sank... →
In a new study of crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which individual...
– Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds | Wired Science | Wired.com
Social networks tend to disproportionally favor connections between individuals...
– [1103.0784] Happiness is assortative in online social networks
April 2011
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Digital Scholarship | postgraduate studies team... →
March 2011
3 posts
reater numbers of instructors are turning to social networking sites to...
– The effect of Twitter posts on students’ perceptions of instructor credibility - Learning, Media and Technology
This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of...
– SSRN-The Role of Reciprocation in Social Network Formation, with an Application to Blogging by Alexia Gaudeul, Caterina Giannetti
The impact of social networks on lives of the majority of young adults has been...
– Science of the Invisible: Observing Emerging Student Networks on a Microblogging Service
January 2011
3 posts
Our main purpose is to develop precise methods for measuring and evaluating the...
– About | Impact of Social Sciences
Social Networking podcast →
Rory Cellan-Jones on the beginning of social networking
News: 'Academically Adrift' - Inside Higher Ed →
Students don’t do much learning at college.
December 2010
4 posts
Digital drive | Harvard Gazette →
Harvard’s use of technology
News: New Measures of Scholarly Impact - Inside... →
It is perfectly reasonable to suggest that a ‘community’ the size of UK Higher...
– In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche? | Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data
One of the world’s largest publishers, Pearson, looks set to be given...
– BBC News - Publishing giant Pearson looks set to offer degrees
November 2010
4 posts
Open access cost models - Clarke FirstMonday →
the top ten STM publishers pulled in 53 percent of the revenue in the $16.1...
– Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness
The Social Assisted Search Conversion – Hard to... →
These are generic criticisms of a system that largely decides who is to get...
– Australian Research Funding | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
October 2010
52 posts
OAPEN — Open Access Book Experiment in Humanities,... →
An editor at a traditional scholarly journal knows what to do with a print...
– Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Criteria for evaluation:
These are the types of criteria for evaluation that...
– CDRH Articles and Resources | Creating the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
the recent decision by the prestigious 60-year-old Shakespeare Quarterly to...
– For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review - NYTimes.com
Today a publisher-run Open Access online library filled with freely available...
– Open Access Publishing takes off in European Research Community « TELL Fleur
Recognizing the importance of peer review in digital scholarship, the Center for...
– With Help, Digital Scholarship Is Likely to Dominate in Coming Years - Letters to the Editor - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of...
– eScholarship: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
Tenured, one has the freedom for research whose merits will be measured solely...
– Open Access, Open Secrets: Peer Review and Alternative Scholarly Production « Victoria Telecom