[iDC] iCollege

Tue Jul 6 13:12:14 UTC 2010

Yes, my mistake. I should have said P2P publication sharing platform. It's
target is the domain currently dominated by Thomson but with an open source
ethic. However, it does have a premium mode. Experience suggests this is
where the intended business model lies. That is not open source but involves
a pay-wall. The question is whether Mendeley offers something new which
connects with an open source ethic or not?

Best

Simon

Simon Biggs
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> From: Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:48:03 +0200
> To: Simon Biggs <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [iDC] iCollege
> 
> As far as I understand, Mendeley is not a publishing platform, but a social
> citation sharing/management platform. Still useful, but you have to get your
> stuff published somewhere.
> 
> IF all you wanted was to get your stuff out there, of course, it's very very
> easy, whether through your blog, or through one of the institutional
> repositories. The problem becomes peer-review and credit for promotions,
> tenure etc.
> 
> Stian
> 
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Simon Biggs <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> In relation to open academic publishing and social media, are people aware
>> of the P2P academic publishing platform Mendeley? Does anyone use it? Does
>> it do what it says on the tin? I am signed up but haven't yet had the time
>> to dig into it. My main concern is for how long it will remain free. It is
>> still in Beta and already has a premium version.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>> Simon Biggs
>> s.biggs at eca.ac.uk  simon at littlepig.org.uk
>> Skype: simonbiggsuk
>> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
>> 
>> Research Professor  edinburgh college of art
>> http://www.eca.ac.uk/
>> Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
>> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
>> Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
>> http://www.elmcip.net/
>> Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
>> http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Jon Ippolito <jippolito at maine.edu>
>>> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:07:26 -0400
>>> To: <lizlosh at uci.edu>, <idc at mailman.thing.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [iDC] iCollege
>>> 
>>> Thanks for passing on these links, George and Liz, to Neil Selwyn's "The
>>> Educational Significance of Social Media" and to the UC Berkeley study
>>> "Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication." They sure
>> helped
>>> fuel my anger at academic reactionaries.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33693537/the-educational-significance-of-social-med>>
i
>>> a-a-critical-perspective
>>> 
>>> http://dmlcentral.net/blog/liz-losh/dml-field-listening-critical-voices
>>> 
>>> Yes, I'm impatient with professors who justify their obsession with
>> inbred
>>> subdisciplinary journals while Fox and Facebook steamroll over public
>>> discourse. Of the two reports, I guess I appreciate Selwyn's more,
>> because he
>>> expressed caution more than outright dismissal. Caution about new
>> technologies
>>> is fine, though sometimes it's hard to distinguish from inaction prompted
>> by
>>> fear of upsetting the status quo.
>>> 
>>> I'm more disturbed by the Berkeley crew, who assembled interviews that
>> confirm
>>> (surprise!) that junior faculty are still being advised not to publish in
>>> blogs, multimedia monographs, or "new, untested open-access journals." I
>> can't
>>> tell why they saw fit to blow a Mellon grant on this foregone conclusion,
>> but
>>> I can tell you the effect of publishing such a study. It will only
>> reinforce
>>> the most conservative voices on today's university committees, which in
>> turn
>>> will result in tenure candidates who, to echo the advice parroted in the
>>> study, "avoid spending too much time on public engagement."
>>> 
>>> Perhaps most telling of all was the study's conclusion that Web 2.0
>> platforms,
>>> despite their unsavory status as venues for "high stature" erudition,
>> provide
>>> a wealth of publicly accessible primary data on which to base that study
>>> you'll publish in the Journal of Obscure Sociology. If poo-pooing
>>> peer-reviewed open access journals doesn't already smack of academic
>> elitism,
>>> then how about data-mining participatory media while archiving your
>> findings
>>> far from the public's prying eyes?
>>> 
>>> It's time we remembered that tenure was invented to encourage
>> risk-taking. So
>>> I really wish academics who are skeptical of existing social
>> networks--count
>>> me in, I despise Facebook--would get out of their armchairs and do
>> something
>>> about it. Assemble a team of like-minded folks and roll your own academic
>>> network, or suggest improvements to one of the up-and-coming scholarly
>>> platforms that already exist (ThoughtMesh, CommentPress, Sophie, Scalar).
>> Or
>>> devise and publish promotion and tenure criteria that are more suitable
>> for
>>> the digital age, as in:
>>> 
>>> "New Criteria for New Media"
>>> http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/275.php
>>> 
>>> This white paper, and its attendant sample guidelines, also happen to be
>> the
>>> most downloaded article ever from Leonardo magazine:
>>> 
>>> 
>> http://www.mitpressjournals.org/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=leon
>>> 
>>> So somebody's listening, even if it's not the authors of the reports
>> listed
>>> above.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> jon
>>> ______________________________
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