If you are a researcher, you are very familiar with the concept of a journal’s Impact Factor (IF). Basically, it’s a way to grade journal…
Impact Factors: A Broken System
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If you are a researcher, you are very familiar with the concept of a journal’s Impact Factor (IF). Basically, it’s a way to grade journal…
One of the services we run at the California Digital Library is the DMPTool – this is an online tool that helps researchers create data…
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Last week I spent three days in the desert, south of Albuquerque, at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. What are these “large facilities”, you ask?…
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If you are a fan of data sharing, open data, open science, and generally openness in research, you’ve heard them all: excuses for keeping data…
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This week’s blog post is a bit more of a Sociology of science topic… Perhaps only marginally related to the usual content surrounding data, but still…
Last week I attended the Beyond the PDF 2 Meeting, sponsored by FORCE11. For those unaware of BTPDF2, it’s a spinoff event from the Beyond the PDF meeting, which…
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This week I’m lucky enough to be in Amsterdam for the Beyond the PDF 2 Meeting, sponsored by FORCE11. I’m sure I will be blogging…
The Digital Curation Centre, based in the UK, has a handy section of their website on Disciplinary Metadata Standards. I was pretty darn excited to see…
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Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responded to calls for broader access to federally funded research. I was curious as…
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Last week on Data Pub, I provided the impetus for my latest publication with co-author Stephanie Hampton in Ecosphere about data management education (available on the Ecosphere site). The…