12 Thursday Jun 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
Trooclick, a new attempt at an auto-fisker for news facts, as a browser plug-in. Silly name, and still in invitation-only alpha. But it’s an interesting indication that it might be possible to make it work, with a little human curation along the way.
12 Thursday Jun 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
The July 2014 issue of Cites & Insights swings the bell-ropes at the Beall list and the DOAJ, and listens for interesting overlaps and more — with an aim of making…
“the clear case that publishers on Beall’s list are not typical of OA [open access] as a whole or of DOAJ”
09 Monday Jun 2014
Why we need both discoverability and long Plain English summaries (as well as short abstracts) for open academic work… “The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that nobody reads”. Admittedly, we are talking about World Bank reports, but in the ‘send a Congressman to sleep’ stakes I guess those can go head-to-head with many other academic papers.
05 Thursday Jun 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
Fluff up your resume with an internship at Nesta in London…
05 Thursday Jun 2014
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared today that UK and European Internet users are not acting illegally when simply browsing copyrighted material online.
The equivalent of the USA’s Supreme Court established that users engaged in “Temporary acts of reproduction … which are transient or incidental” (Article 5.1 of the EU Copyright Directive) — such as files automatically copied to a Web browser’s temporary cache and displayed on screen — must not be considered to be making illegal copies. This ruling now applies throughout the UK and Europe.
Earlier this year the EU ruled that hyperlinking to public content is not illegal, and this new ruling seems like the other side of that coin.
05 Thursday Jun 2014
Posted in Ooops!
If your shiny new journal is to be published by a commercial megapublisher, it may not be prudent to lead off the first issue with a paper detailing…
“the large profits made by commercial publishers on the back of academics’ labours”
04 Wednesday Jun 2014
Posted in Ecology additions
I used Linkbot to check all the Web links in JURN’s link list of ecology related titles in English, and made repairs. Please refresh any local copies that you may be keeping.
04 Wednesday Jun 2014
GeoDeepDive is software that helps…
geo-scientists extract data that is buried in the text, tables, and figures of journal articles and web sites […] As of today, GeoDeepDive has processed over 36K research papers and 134K web pages
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in My general observations
Working in a group that needs to find, curate and re-publish Web content? The mature Trello is an excellent collaborative tool for that, and there’s Zapier for publishing it to WordPress. Both free. There’s also a handy Trello Bookmark Creator and a Trello phone app.
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03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
FoRESEE: Future Search Engines 2014, a one day workshop in Germany, 22nd September 2014.