Tag Archives: scholarly research

Who’s Who? ORCID and the Author Disambiguation Issue

I’m speaking at the ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) Meeting at Harvard on May 18th. ORCID is a global initiative tackling the author name ambiguity issue, with over 200 participating organizations including academic institutions, publishers, societies, corporate, non-profit and government organizations. Author names create a lot problems for repositories like SSRN. We often find errors [...]
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Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know

A few months ago, Peter Shepherd, Project Director at Project COUNTER, asked me to contribute an article to Against The Grain (librarians, publishers and vendors) for their Special Issue on Metrics – The Importance of Being Measured. I wrote about article level metrics at SSRN and how we view the changing world of information overabundance.  [...]
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Open Access

It’s  Open Access Week. OAW is an international gathering of the minds focused on creating awareness of free, immediate and online access of scholarly research. I will finish celebrating the week at the University at Buffalo tomorrow (Friday, 10/22) with a presentation – Critical Mass is Critical: A View Into the Changing World of Scholarly [...]
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A Wandering Mind is a Busy Mind

A couple of weeks ago we blogged about taking contemplative time to find innovative solutions. Along the same theme, I wanted to visit another interesting behavior: the wandering mind. A friend shared a Wall Street Journal article that explores how a wandering mind can lead to creative insights. Today, more than ever, innovators are eager [...]
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APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics.  APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience.  The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
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