First thing we do, let’s kill all the authors. On subverting an outmoded tradition (Force2015 talk)
Posted: March 1, 2015 | Author: dpod | Filed under: journal-incubator, research-communication | Tags: authorship, digital humanities, language, scholarly and scientific communication, scholarly publishing, vocabulary | Leave a comment »This is a rough approximation (with some esprit d’escalier_ ) of my speaking script from my talk at the “Credit where Credit is Due”: session at Force2015, January 13, 2015. We were asked to be controversial, so I tried to oblige._
Could we design comparative metrics that would favour the humanities?
Posted: March 29, 2015 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: alt-metrics, metrics, publication patterns, Research, universities, university of lethbridge | Leave a comment »A quick, and still partially undigested, posting on metrics that might favour the humanities over the sciences in “open” competitions. I’m working this out in response to a discussion I had recently with a senior administrator who argued that the University’s tendency to channel resources disproportionately to the Natural Sciences was simply the result of their comparative excellence as measured in “open” competitions.
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