[open-science] how open is it

Thu Oct 11 18:56:39 UTC 2012

Your point is well taken, Heather, but this is really about getting
together *anyone* who has an interest in thinking through new ways of
doing things. This is a long, long ways from anything approaching a
standard, and much more input from various communities will be
solicited, because the whole point, as I wrote earlier this month (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/06/mendeley-altmetrics-open-access-publishing
) is for us to get away from the "one metric to rule them all"
situation we have had.

So this process will be led by those who put in the time and effort to
develop an implementation, which means that it will have input from
scholars both in and out of academia. I am one such scholar who cares
enough to devote time to work on this, Jason, Heather and Jennifer are
also scholars who are devoting their time to this, and that's why
we're spreading the word.  Any assistance you can provide in
recruiting interested stakeholders is more than welcome.

William Gunn
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http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Heather Morrison <hgmorris at sfu.ca> wrote:
> This is interesting indeed, thanks for sharing William.
>
> Comment:
>
> Developing standards for assessing research and ranking for scholars is a process that should be led by scholars, not by publishers and a few of their friends. In other words, this is not a legitimate process for developing standards for measuring academics, so both the process and likely the results should be fought tooth and nail by scholars.
>
> The publisher tail should not be wagging the researcher dog. On this point, it doesn't really matter whether the publisher tail is open access or toll access.
>
> best,
>
> Heather Morrison
>
> On 2012-10-11, at 11:15 AM, William Gunn wrote:
>
>> I thought some of you might be interested in this thing PLOS and
>> Impact Story are coordinating: it's about hacking research assessment
>> and ranking: http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/2012/08/17/alm-workshop-information/
>>
>> William Gunn
>> +1 646 755 9862
>> http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/
>>
>> Support free access to scientific journal articles arising from
>> taxpayer-funded research: http://wh.gov/6TH
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Tom Olijhoek <tom.olijhoek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> A very important announcement I think
>>>
>>> judge for yourself
>>>
>>> http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/HowOpenIsIt.shtml
>>>
>>> TOM
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