From PMR’s blog: Figshare appears to be one of the less transparent organizations I have encountered. I cannot find a corporate structure, and the companies’ address is: C/o Macmillan Publishers Limited, Brunel Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XSI can’t find a… Read more ›
One of the issues of services like Innocentive is that by design they provide suboptimal solutions to seekers. Why? There’s no tweaking allowed. It is almost imp0ssible to have the situation where the winning solution is also optimal. Optimization could… Read more ›
There are three interesting WordPress plugins for the embedding citations into blog posts. The first, Kcite is the work by Simon Cockell and Philip Lord. Allows to cite virtually everything. There’s no “but” other than the workflow isn’t that great (have… Read more ›
Input streams: Twitter accessed through Flipboard and desktop clients (all favorited tweets are bookmarked at Diigo) Feedly (~150 subscriptions, dynamically changed) and its “saved for later” option random browsing ends up at Diigo research stuff gets downloaded into Zotero and ends up in one of the predefined… Read more ›
There’s an article on Think Progress on the profits of corporations from publicly funded research. Obviously, Elsevier’s earnings had to be mentioned. Note to self: find a summary of overall profits for all major STM publishers, including OA ones. How… Read more ›