- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:38:09 -0400
- To: ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com>
- CC: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>, "leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk" <leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk>, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>
IMO the web makes the traditional publishing bottleneck obsolete -- including the need for peer review, which is mostly just a crude method of indicating endorsement. Perhaps researchers should now publish their work on Facebook, Google+ or other votable media, and their institutions should grant tenure based on the number of "Like" votes they get. ;) David On 04/23/2013 02:02 PM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote: > Maybe I should rephrase "rating and grading" and the term mental narrow > focus reflects the fact that scientists and researchers when > concentrating on their academic work focus on a small area of all > scientific endeavors. There is a subtle difference between mental narrow > focus and narrow mindedness. > > There needs to be a way to gauge the operations of journal publishers > whether they be open access or traditional peer-reviewed academic to > know if they are bona fide in the first place. Librarians in general are > the best people to keep track of what is out there available in journals. > > But it is the scientists and researchers that can spot the good and weed > out the bad journals. > > Because these are dire times in terms of financial resources available > for librarians and scientists alike and mala fide companies and > individuals will seize the opportunities to hawk their "new and less > expensive open access or hybrid business model" journals and scientific > conferences and events. > > It is just the newest category of scams to hit the Internet and markets > and it will not go away. > > Caveat emptor, mundus vult decipi. > Milton Ponson > GSM: +297 747 8280 > PO Box 1154, Oranjestad > Aruba, Dutch Caribbean > Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for > sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide by creating ICT > tools for NGOs worldwide and: providing online access to web sites and > repositories of data and information for sustainable development > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the > system manager. This message contains confidential information and is > intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named > addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> > *To:* "leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk" <leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk>; Phillip Lord > <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> > *Cc:* ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com>; > "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>; semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:35 AM > *Subject:* Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times > > +1 > The Nominations in the Semantic Asset Utilization Category: > Best catch: Milton > Best Intelligent Life in Journalism Discovery: NOAA "New York Times" > Best Village Idiot Impersonation, don't believe it for a minute: Phil > "I'm just a ..." > Best Monte Carlo Simulation Marksmanship: Leon "... Mission Creep" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Leon Derczynski <leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk> > *To:* Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> > *Cc:* ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com>; > "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>; semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:05 AM > *Subject:* Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times > > IIRC, impact factor was only ever intended as an heuristic for > librarians when making marginal decisions over which journals to > subscribe to on behalf of their institution. Everything else is but > mission creep. > > All the best, > > > Leon > > > On 23 April 2013 12:38, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk > <mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>> wrote: > > > It's high time universities stopped judging academics by *where* they > have published rather than *what*. > > We already have a form of rating for journals. It's called impact > factor. It doesn't work, because judging papers by their place of > publication is nonsensical. > > Linked data and semantic web technologies provide opportunities, I > think, to handle the metadata associated with scientific publication, to > represent the knowledge in academic publications, and to do so without > the necessity for a centralised authority. > > But, then I am a researcher with a metanl narrow focus, so what do I > know? > > Phil > > ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com > <mailto:metadataportals@yahoo.com>> writes: > > This is a problem which manifests itself in every discipline and > it preys on > > basic human needs for recognition. The current publishing world > of academia > > itself is to blame partially. > > > > Because in each field of science scientists and researchers > usually have a > > short list of peer-reviewed journals and conferences in their > mental narrow > > focus, only librarians typically have a (often not much) better > overview of > > available reputable journals and conferences in respective fields. > > > > It is high time for a global registry of scientific publishers > and their > > respective journals and a form of rating and grading them. > > > > Linked data and semantic web technologies provide opportunities > to create such > > rating and grading systems, and maybe an item for a separate W3C > Community > > Group? > > > > > > Milton Ponson > > GSM: +297 747 8280 > > PO Box 1154, Oranjestad > > Aruba, Dutch Caribbean > > Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for > sustainable > > development to all stakeholders worldwide by creating ICT tools > for NGOs > > worldwide and: providing online access to web sites and > repositories of data > > and information for sustainable development > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended > > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If > > you have received this email in error please notify the system > manager. This > > message contains confidential information and is intended only > for the > > individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. > > -- > Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 > Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: > phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk <mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> > School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord > Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples > Newcastle University, twitter: phillord > NE1 7RU > > > > > -- > Leon R A Derczynski > Research Associate, NLP Group > > Department of Computer Science > University of Sheffield > Regent Court, 211 Portobello > Sheffield S1 4DP, UK > > +45 5157 4948 > http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/ <http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eleon/> > > > >
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