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First Stop …

The first stop on my 2013 Scholarly Information Super Highway is next Tuesday at the Research Trends/Elsevier Labs Virtual Seminar (#scholnet). Mike Taylor (@herrison) was kind enough to invite me to share SSRN’s perspective on building #interdisciplinary networks, #altmetrics and some related issues like #quality and #gaming. I’m very excited to share the virtual podium [...]
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The Times, They are a-Changin’ …

My President’s Letter reflected on the milestones of 2012. I truly appreciate everyone’s feedback and am almost caught up in my replies. What I didn’t emphasize was the conversation we had about reaching the 60 million download milestone. When I received the alert that we crossed 60 million I was on a conference call with [...]
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reconnect12: Gaming Undermines the Occupation

I’m on my way to Montreal, Canada for @OccupyImpact, CASRAI’s 1st Annual International Conference. During my session, Gaming Undermines the Occupation, with Jennifer Lin from PLoS, we will discuss the issues related to working with large and growing amounts of content. There will be keynotes by Maryse Lassonde, Dr. Claire Donovan and Cameron Neylon, and [...]
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Who is Who?

I just got to Washington, DC for tomorrow’s Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Workshop (#SSP2012).  Euan Adie (Digital Science), Ellen Rotenberg (Thomson Reuters), Laurel Haak (ORCID) and I will be discussing Applying Unique Identifiers to Understand and Establish Influence. SSP’s theme this year is “Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are You Ready?” A very broad topic that [...]
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Alternative is the New Grey

Jason Priem asked me to give a keynote at the altmetrics12 workshop at Northwestern on 21 June. Unfortunately, the timing of #altmetrics12 isn’t very convenient. I was supposed to be on a plane on my way to #ALA12 in Anaheim. But, I think metrics are important and have written about what SSRN is doing in [...]
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