Saturday, October 26, 2013

News for Library Nerds, October 26, 2013

This week was Open Access Week! Did you miss it? I almost did.

Why aren’t librarians making their own work open access?

More on the citation gender gap. Not only do men self-cite more than women, academics appear to prefer to cite members of their own gender.

How scientific research can often get things wrong, and then fail to correct them. For a short video showing how statistical results can fail.

And when it does fail, it’s too hard to publish criticism.

Dog gets MBA

Machine-generated citations just don’t cut it. 

Amazon scaling back their publishing arm

In 2019 we may start seeing items fall out of copyright protection - unless they extend it again. Here’s an overview of what’s happened to get copyright law where it is, and why this time it might be different.