Open Access: 3 koans
1. The teacher was sitting one day beneath a cherry tree, regarding the birds as they ate its fruit. A student approached the teacher and spoke: “Master, I am afraid that if I make my research notes...
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Twitter and the new scholarly ecosystem
This is a copy of a guest post I wrote for the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog: In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the Web as a tool for scholarly communication at CERN. In the two decades since, his...
View Articletotal-impact awarded $125k sloan grant
[Reposted from our total-impact blog. Heather Piwowar and I are co-PIs.] We just heard: total-impact has been awarded $125,000 by the Sloan Foundation! What does this mean for users? By April 1,...
View ArticleToward a second revolution: Altmetrics, total-impact, and the decoupled...
Here’s video of my talk for Purdue University libraries (with thanks to them for filming and uploading it). I discuss how social media is transforming scholarly communication, how we can measure it...
View ArticleAn open response to Taylor and Francis
Update: they said no. Sad, but…not shocked. Thanks for inviting me to contribute an “altmetrics” entry to the upcoming Fourth Edition of your Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. I’d be...
View ArticleIt’s time to start standing behind our work.
I was recently looking at PubPeer (a post-publication peer review site), and it’s pretty cool. Many people have tried to solve the same problem, but that’s ok; it’s an important problem and someone’s...
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