Altmetrics researchers: Time to take another look at Facebook, you’ve been missing something
Photo credit: ViewApart / iStock “I hope that the kind of altmetrics research that has been going…
Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with SHARE metadata
By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin As can be seen from a series of recent…
Comment, reply, repeat: Engaging students with social annotation
By Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales, and Remi Kalir Picture the last time…
Emojis in Scholarly Communication: 🔥 or 💩?
“Should there be an emoji for everything?” asked journalist Sophie Haigney in a recent New Yorker…
FSCI2019 | A deep dive into scholarly communication
Each year in August, researchers, librarians, educators, students, and open access advocates…
Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the RPT process
By Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski, Erin McKiernan, and Juan Pablo Alperin – with Alice…
To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system
"Academic life" by uonottingham is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 “For researchers, there is…
Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community
By Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales and Erin McKiernan. First published on the LSE Impact…
ScholCommLab goes bowling!
This week, the Vancouver ScholCommLab packed things in early and hit the bowling lanes. Team…
Meet the reverse flip journal: Q&A with Lisa Matthias
Lisa Matthias, ScholCommLab Visiting Scholar and co-author of a new paper on reverse-flip…