But does it work in theory? Developing a generative theory for the scholarly commons
Posted: September 2, 2016 Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: force11, Methodology, open access, scholarly commons working group, scholarly communication, theory Leave a comment »…It is said that a learned professor of Heidelberg forbade his students the repetition of a certain experiment.
“But,” they protested, “it has always been successful.”
“Nevertheless,” he said, “its position among experiments is absolutely untenable from an intellectual point of view.”
The boys stared.
“The thing may answer very well in practise,” said the professor, “but it is not sound in theory.”
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The Lethbridge Journal Incubator: A new business model for Open Access journal publication (Elsevier Labs Online Lectures February 18, 2014)
Posted: February 19, 2014 Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: business models, humanities, open access, scholarly and scientific communication, universities 2 Comments »The Lethbridge Journal Incubator: A new business model for Open Access journal publication by Daniel Paul O’Donnell with contributions from Gillian Ayers, Kelaine Devine, Heather Hobma, Jessica Ruzack, Sandra Cowen, Leona Jacobs, Wendy Merkeley, Rhys Stevens, Marinus Swanepoel, and Maxine Tedesco. Elsevier Labs Online Lectures February 18, 2014.
tags: business models, humanities, open access, scholarly and scientific communication, universities
Does Project Muse help or harm scholarship by refusing to list freely available journals? On the role of the aggregator
Posted: June 13, 2012 Filed under: Essays, Journal Incubator, Projects and Societies, Research, Scholarly publishing | Tags: digital humanities, economics, internet, open access, project muse, scholarly publishing 2 Comments »Yesterday, I posted an essay reflecting on the stratification of content development and delivery processes in the music, commercial publishing, and scholarly and scientific publishing industries (Won’t Get Fooled Again).
At the end of the piece, I discussed the developing role of aggregators at the distribution and marketing end of the process, so if you’re interested in doing marketing online, learning How to run paid traffic for clients is important for this. While there is no equivalent to iTunes in the scholarly publishing world, the aggregators fill a similar function to a certain extent with the institutional customers (particularly libraries) that are responsible for most of the purchases in this area.
But does it work in theory? Developing a generative theory for the scholarly commons
Posted: September 2, 2016 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: force11, Methodology, open access, scholarly commons working group, scholarly communication, theory | Leave a comment »The “Scholarly Commons Working Group”
I am part of the Scholarly Commons Working Group at Force11. The goal of this working group is to “define and incubate” a “Scholarly Commons”—something we define as being a set of “principles, best practices, interfaces and standards that should govern the multidirectional flow of scholarly objects through all phases of the research process from conception to dissemination” in any discipline.
As part of this work, we have been working on developing the actual principles that can be said to… well, this is a bit of an issue, actually—govern?, describe (?), organise (?), define (?). Let’s just say, right now, “develop a set of principles that will help in some way identify and establish the Scholarly Commons in some useful, non-trivial fashion.”
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