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Do you feel that there's only one woman in the field who does deserve to be there?

Only 1 woman speaker out of 15 isn't an amazing look for a conference in 2020

When I worked at an academic publisher I was surprised by this, often it's researchers at small or private institutions that don't have a library or one that pays lots of subs. Als…

Really hope this becomes part of the mainstream scholarly communications infrastructure - it's slick enough to get people to actually use which is probably half the battle.

I guess the attention to it has been spread out over a bunch of different papers.

> It occurs to me many universities have copies of the old journals and could setup their own sites to host it as soon as copyright isn't an issue Yep, this is what CLOCKSS ( http:…

Yeah, that was my first thought too. It's a shock because people are used to uploading their papers in final published form but I don't think it's a crazy thing for Elsevier to do.…

Hmmm, this is pretty different to my experience (as both employee and employer), perhaps it depends on the skillset and exact location. I have a (non-finance related) start-up in c…

It's the Altmetric score I think. https://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/83337... Based on number of tweets, blog posts, news stories etc.

Don't get me wrong - I don't think that the existing system works particularly well or is value for money, I just wanted to point out that there's much more going on than hosting a…

I'm not a publisher but have worked at publishers in the past. > All the journal does is provide a crappy web app > to organize the process. I'm guessing you're being facetious ;) …

I think you've gotten the wrong end of the stick with Mendeley. It's a reference manager with social features, some of which could be used (with work on the part of the user) for d…

TL;DR it hasn't, Danny Sullivan is a bit confused. They're shutting down the (cool but forgotten & neglected) Social Graph API that Brad Fitzpatrick created when he moved over to G…

I used to manage mobile products for a large STM publisher. This app is nice - well done getting it off the ground! FWIW I'd stay focused on the core concept (scanning many papers …