ORCID iDOpen access monographs and the REF-after-REF 2021
Since yesterday’s post on The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document my inbox has been swamped by journalists, librarians, and publishers asking what ...
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Key Points from The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document
These are my notes on The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document.
Writing a data management plan
I am often asked for advice on writing data management plans in the humanities, so thought I would share my advice on this more generally. The first thing yo...
A hypothesis: kernel function density estimation and graphing may predict literary critical attention
This is really speculative, but today I returned to David McClure’s excellent and fun TextPlot tool. A type of topic modelling (but not LDA), McClure explain...
The T&F buyout of F1000 neutralizes the Plan S threat infrastructures
I am tempted to think that Taylor & Francis’s acquisition of F1000 should be critiqued on grounds of yet more gross for-profit consolidation in the schol...
Accelerating Synology RAID 6 (SHR-2) reshapes
Urgh. I had a RAID 6 reshape on my NAS that was projected to take 28 days to complete, I kid you not. It was stuck at an abysmal 4MB/s transfer rate. Here’s ...
My 2019 in review
This was, in many ways, a pretty bad year for me. My health has, to be frank, been appalling once more. It has necessitated treatment with cyclophosphamide i...