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February 3, 2010
I attended this one day pre-conference session on February 3, 2010.
I got here after the first group of speakers, unfortunately, due in part to #snOMG and part to parking confusion.
Barbara Kline Pope on Free at the National Academies Press
Mission is to disseminate books from National Academies…
January 31, 2010
There's a lot of discussion about women in STEM and business and the barriers they face (justifiably so!), but what about men in the "female professions"? Do they face the same glass ceiling?
It turns out that there's a classic paper on this that coined the term, "glass escalator." It is somewhat…
January 28, 2010
I've only been a college student and grad student at one institution and I have to confess, the library treats students as second class citizens. Particularly technical services. When I mentioned in a sociology class that I am a librarian, a whole bunch of grad students piled on with complaints…
January 26, 2010
Dorothea Salo reports that the scientists she spoke with at Science Online 2010 did not get why she was there or even why librarians would be interested in science communication. For some reason, I didn't get that so much, if at all, this year at this venue. Not that I haven't gotten that in the…
January 17, 2010
Dr Free-ride, Sheril Kirshenbaum, and Isis the Scientist
SK â definition of civility at your site â if you want children to feel welcome, for example. You have to set the tone. Some topics seem more important to be civil about.
F-r - politeness or is it being a decent human â in philosophical…
January 17, 2010
Led by Maria Droujkova and Blake Stacey.
We started with a pretty basic discussion of how to show math on the web. I use the math sandbox on mediawiki and use a png. B recommends replacemath.js http://mathcache.appspot.com/static/docs.html â it also provides an alt tag that has the LaTeX in it.…
January 17, 2010
Jacqueline Floyd and Chris Rowan
JF studied spreading centers off of Galapagos. When she did her PhD hard to get data â but she did ask for and get some, wrote a paper that ended up on the front page of Science. Now, data is widely available, but thereâs almost too much, so more effort is needed to…
January 16, 2010
Anil Dash (first employee at SixApart (movabletype), long time blogger).
Milestone â thereâs a blog on the White House website. Made statement that federal govât interest and use of new media â most interesting startup 2009. So then he set out to make it true.
Govât picks experts, brings them in,…
January 16, 2010
This is a session by Stephanie Willen Brown and Dorothea Salo .
They started with a bunch of questions. About half the room was librarians, of the others split between affiliated with an institution and not. Where do you go for full text? Google, Google Scholar. Does that work? Sometimes - if not…
January 16, 2010
John Hogenesch, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology - Penn School of Med
gene-at-a-time is giving way to genome wide - larger datasets, collaborative research
last year more added to genebank than all previous years combined (wow!) - exceeds Moore's law.
Academia responds by buying storage and…
January 16, 2010
part deux (actually this is the regular conference session)
This is the session on Saturday morning at 9. Moderated by Deepak Singh (coast to coast bio) and Kiki Sanford.
What is podcasting? audio or video plus subscription plus portability.
Some of the podcasters have gone away from calling things…
January 15, 2010
PalMD taught this workshop Friday, January 15. These are my quick notes.
use an external mic â doesnât have to be that expensive, if you have multiple people in the room, you might want a 2 channel mic
use audacity and plan to do a lot of editing
find a place to host these things, he found that…
January 9, 2010
In most of the discussions of using usage as a metric of scholarly impact, the example of the clinician is given. The example goes that medical articles might be heavily used and indeed have a huge impact on practice (saving lives), but be uncited. There are other fields that have practitioners…
January 8, 2010
We're just about set for a fabulous session on citation/bibliographic/reference managers at the upcoming Science Online conference. The session wiki page is here, so you can hop over there an add questions or suggestions if you'd like.
John Dupuis and I are moderating and we'll have the following…
December 31, 2009
In the past few years a number of large electronic resources have gone through rather dramatic interface changes - mostly for the better, mostly desperately needed. Some typical things added are faceted presentation of search results, more personalization options, better ways to save and share…
December 23, 2009
The other day when I had to be at a stupid training session off site very early in the morning, I stepped on my iphone in the dark. It apparently slid out of my purse.
Sigh. It turned on, but the glass was shattered on the front. So I looked around and you could get the screen and the digitizer…
December 17, 2009
One thing that kind of bugs me is that people answer the question "what impact has your funding had" with things like "I hired 3 postdocs and 2 support staff." Dr Lane talked about this at the workshop, but to some extent, I don't think her solution actually got at the bigger problem: societal…
December 17, 2009
One of the open problems in article level metrics is how to automate, quantify, and describe the exposure an article has had in popular science pieces in newspapers and general science magazines. Peter Binfield (PLoS) and Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research Council) both brought this up…
December 17, 2009
stream of consciousness notes from this meeting I attended in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009
Final panel
Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris Group), Todd Carpenter (NISO),Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC),Tony Hey (Microsoft Research),Clifford Lynch (CNI),Don Waters (Andrew W. Mellon foundation)
introduction from…
December 17, 2009
Continuing stream of consciousness notes from this workshop held in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009
Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research Council) - intertwined research funding structures at national and European level.
At the national level two main funding modes - institutional (block…
December 17, 2009
this continues my stream of consciousness notes from the workshop held in DC, December 16, 2009.
Peter Binfield (PLOS) - article level metrics. Not talking about OA, not talking about journal level. Journal is just packaging, and shouldn't necessarily judge articles by the packaging. PLoS ONE has…
December 17, 2009
Continuing my stream of consciousness notes from this meeting in DC, Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
Jevin D West (U Washington, Eigenfactor) - biology and bibliometrics. biology has a lot of problems that are studied looking at networks. From ecosystems to genomes. They want to take these huge…
December 17, 2009
I attended this one-day workshop in DC on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. These are stream of consciousness notes.
Herbert Van de Sompel (LANL) - intro - Lots of metrics: some accepted in some areas and not others, some widely available on platforms in the information industry and others not. How are…
December 10, 2009
I've weighed in a few times on how to build online communities or support scientists online, but it's really worth paying attention to when you get an actual scientist who is also very involved in and interested in social software tell you what he thinks. Cameron Neylon did just that in a recent…
December 9, 2009
SUMMARY: With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by Federal science and technology agencies. This…
December 6, 2009
In "common parlance" we throw around chemistry, biology, physics, and all, sort of throwing off the diversity within these disciplines. Gosh, in my comps I answered (or attempted to answer) a question about how useful it was to talk about "scientists" and non-scientists. Going the other way, I'll…
December 5, 2009
Getting this from Drugmonkey - the first line from the first post of each month this year. Looks like I should pay attention to having snappy first lines!
The first half of the year is all about preparing for my comprehensive exams and the second half of the year is all about recovering from taking…
December 4, 2009
In a recent post on openness and sharing in chemistry, I briefly touched on proximity to industry. This is actually somewhat nuanced and a few research studies have looked into it.
As I mentioned Birnholtz, in his dissertation [1] and subsequent JASIST article [2] describes proximity to industry as…
December 3, 2009
ASME- the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - has a series of journals that are heavily used by mechanical, aerospace, and even civil engineers. Most engineering schools have these all the way back. So in the past couple of weeks libraries all over the country have realized that, all of a…
November 28, 2009
With well known and respected open science projects coming out of chemistry as well as cool tools like pubchem and emolecules... it seems a bit unfair of me to ask if chemists are grinches. But there has been and there continues to be a lot of study of data/information/knowledge sharing in…