Looks interesting and reminds me a bunch of Andy Abbott's book on Methods of Discovery. I should go back and read that one again...
Math and biostats are the shortest. History is the longest. Nobody is suprised.
Nice orgtheory argument about what makes for a good theory about how to tell/test.
This is pretty opaque, but I think it is really pretty great.
Wait, is SAGE, the major academic publisher, encouraging authors to increase citations to their articles by adding them to as many Wikipedia articles as possible?
ACM is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the open access world.
Oliver is in my cohort at MIT! Congrats on the profile!
Awesome. Not open access but, at least in the medium term, a positive way to address issues of access to the academic resources necessary to write a great encyclopedia.
"For several years Georgia State was involved in litigation over the fair use doctrine. Specifically a consortium of publishers backed by Oxford, Cambridge and Sage sued Georgia State over copyright violations by many of the faculty. A decision has now been rendered. The Court backed Georgia State in almost every instance, finding no copyright violation. However, the Court did lay down some rules - in particular you can use no more than 10% or one chapter, whichever is shorter, of any book."
"Scientists: If you get handed the keys to the Library of Wisdom, then choose to lock the place up and hand over the keys to Elsevier et. al., don't complain about the occult bookstore across the street."
Wikimedia Foundation research newsletter.
Interesting project, but it's built on top of Mendeley. :-(
Turns out nobody pays attention to the ASA page limit guidelines. Wish I knew this a month ago.
I'm pretty sure nearly all incentives are perverse.
