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?
Joseph Reagle's orgcom syllabus. I'll probably teach this some day.
With loss leaders, we all lose. Summary: "We show that large retailers, competing with smaller stores that carry a narrower range, can exercise market power by pricing below cost some of the products also offered by the smaller rivals, in order to discriminate multistop shoppers from one-stop shoppers. Loss leading thus appears as an exploitative device rather than as an exclusionary instrument, although it hurts the smaller rivals as well; banning below-cost pricing increases consumer surplus, rivals' profits, and social welfare. Our insights extend to industries where established firms compete with entrants offering fewer products. They also apply to complementary products such as platforms and applications."
Oliver is in my cohort at MIT! Congrats on the profile!
"Project Bamboo is currently piloting a directory of tools, services, and collections that can facilitate digital research. This evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki includes new ways of browsing and commenting on the entries. Please send us feedback on how to improve the site!"
Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect. These are some of their objections:
They charge exorbitantly high prices for subscriptions to individual journals.
In the light of these high prices, the only realistic option for many libraries is to agree to buy very large "bundles", which will include many journals that those libraries do not actually want. Elsevier thus makes huge profits by exploiting the fact that some of their journals are essential.
They support measures such as SOPA, PIPA and the Research Works Act, that aim to restrict the free exchange of information.
The key to all these issues is the right of authors to achieve easily-accessible distribution of their work. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details on this page.
Higher proportion of faculty are women. Higher proportion of PhDs are women. A lower proportion of BS degrees are women. And there are many fewer BS degrees in general.
"The Data Privacy Lab is dedicated to creating technologies and related policies with provable guarantees of privacy protection while allowing society to collect and share private (or sensitive) information for many worthy purposes. We do this by partnering with institutions, agencies, and corporations facing real-world privacy concerns."
"Two recent articles call for an openness revolution in science: one on GigaOM and the other in the Wall Street Journal. But they’ve got it all wrong. These folks are missing that the process of scientific discovery is not, at its core, an open process. It only becomes an open process at the point of publication."
Famous motivation talk about research by Richard Hamming. I read this many years ago but recently saw it cited by my friend Asheesh. It's always nice to return to this sort of thing. For one thing, my relationship to research is very different now than it was the last time I read this.
Another social network for academics. I haven't signed up for this one. And I guess it's probably evil.
Extraordinarily over-detailed description of how to get cited a lot.
A bloggy lit review on the economics of FOSS.
"The fact is, nobody wants to hear about your dissertation."
I don't really see how this a new paradigm, but maybe that's just didn't because I didn't read the book yet.
