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10 steps to open access success

10 steps to open access success #OAweek #MyOAstory

It’s Open Access Week! For a lot of people, ‘open access’ (OA) is a synonym for ‘more work’. Advocates often don’t appreciate that this is a genuine concern. There’s also a lack of appreciation for the perceived risks of sticking your neck out with an OOIDH (open or it didn’t happen) position.

So here is some advice – based on my own experience – on what you as an individual should do to become…

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#academic publishing #arXiv #figshare #ImpactStory #journals #OAweek #open access #open access week #peer review #PhilPaper #postprint #preprint #RePEc #SSRN #Zenodo

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Harnessing anger: my thoughts on the election

Harnessing anger: my thoughts on the election #GE2015

I’d have written this sooner, but instead spent my weekend having fun; witnessing and celebrating the wedding of two friends. It was difficult to avoid talking politics, and although my reading at the ceremony was taken from Les Misérables I was not trying to start a revolution. I’m probably not going to do that here either, but let’s see…

Few people wanted a Tory majority. Lots of people are…

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#activism #conservative party #democracy #election #electoral reform #first past the post #labour party #politics of anger #politics of fear #proportional representation #UKIP #voting

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#100wordreview – The Cost Disease (William J Baumol) [Book]

The rising cost of healthcare is a global phenomenon. Why? Because the relative productivity of labour intensive industries inevitably – and inexorably – declines. Computers get cheaper; healthcare doesn’t. It’s a simple idea, now proven by historic data and in need of appreciation. The cost disease allows – encourages, even – affordable increases in spending on health. Though incisive, Baumol’s…

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#100wordreview #Baumol #book review #cost disease #costs #economics #health economics #healthcare #productivity #public spending

Paperpile: a reference manager that works

Paperpile - a reference manager that works

If you’re anything like me, you spend a fair chunk of your time finding and organising journal articles. And perhaps even reading a few. It’s often seen as a way to feel like you’re being productive when you’re not. Actually, I think it helps maintain a good awareness of the literature and developments in your field. But anyway, whether or not you think it’s a good way to spend time you probably…

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#academia #bibliography #citation manager #citations #Google #Google Docs #journal articles #LaTeX #Paperpile #reference manager

Peer-reviewing peer-review: Publons edition On this blog and elsewhere I have discussed some of the problems with academic publishing; whether it be determining…

#academia #academic publishing #impact #metrics #peer review #Publons #research #science

On migrants dying in the Med

I recently listened to an episode of The Inquiry concerning the recent reports of migrants dying in their attempts to cross the Mediterranean. More than 3000 people are estimated to have died last year. The show asks the question of whether Europe could stop this happening – the answer, essentially, being ‘yes’.

The experts present an interesting array of conflicting views on the crisis.…

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#aid #EU #Europe #humanitarian #immigration #Italy #Mediterranean #migrants #UK

Fear of offending has not trumped freedom of speech among today's young people

A recent article on The Conversation UK got me a bit riled. Here’s the opening gambit:

One of the many debates generated by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris has been centred on the different ways that older and younger generations understand and support the concept of free speech.

In a recent articleheadlined: “We may be Charlie but our children are not”, Times journalist Alice Thomson…

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#Charlie Hebdo #free speech #intolerance #media #tolerance #UKIP #universities #youth

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Hello. My name is Christopher James Sampson. I’m a health economist at the University of Nottingham. Through this site I will perilously make my work available to all.

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