{"id":3482,"date":"2009-03-11T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/11\/links-for-2009-03-11\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T05:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T05:00:38","slug":"links-for-2009-03-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/11\/links-for-2009-03-11\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-03-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2009\/03\/08\/why-good-intentions-are-not-enough-to-get-negative-results-published\/\">Science in the open \u00c2\u00bb Why good intentions are not enough to get negative results published<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The fundamental problem is that the \u00e2\u0080\u009cwe need a journal\u00e2\u0080\u009d approach is stuck in the printed page paradigm. To get negative results published we need to reduce the barriers to publication much lower than they currently are, while at the same time applying either a pre- or post-publication filter.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/open-access\">open-access<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journals\">journals<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sennoma.net\/main\/archives\/2009\/03\/fooling_around_with_numbers.php\">Open Reading Frame<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;If the primary measure of a journal&#8217;s value is its impact &#8212; pretty layouts and a good Employment section and so on being presumably secondary &#8212; and if the Impact Factor is a measure of impact, and if publishers are making a good faith effort to offer value for money &#8212; then why is there no apparent relationship between IF and journal prices? After all, publishers tout the Impact Factors of their offerings whenever they&#8217;re asked to justify their prices or the latest round of increases in same.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journals\">journals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=747\">Mindful of Money \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;This problem is really exaggerated by an inclination in a lot of colleges and universities to take all disciplines and departments as entitled to the same dispensation of resources but also as subject to the same kinds of cost-cutting imperatives, a kind of faux-egalitarian rhetoric. So, for example, when administrations direct libraries to cut journals budgets, libraries often have to turn to departments and ask each of them to volunteer a few titles that they can get rid of, so that the cost-cutting seems to fall evenly on all, to be a collective responsibility. But if you did a relatively dispassionate cost\/benefit analysis, you might note that you could cut three hugely expensive journals (usually but not always in the sciences) at the cost of thirty or forty journals in the humanities and social sciences.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/stumbling-into-history-in-south-troy-ny\/\">\u00e2\u0080\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u0080\u0099s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb Stumbling into history in South Troy, NY<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Looking back through some old photos this evening, I realize that March is my best month for photography. I seem to react to cabin fever by engaging in my favorite hobby: milling.<\/p>\n<p>Milling is a variant on a phenomenon some call \u00e2\u0080\u009curban exploration\u00e2\u0080\u009c. We don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have too many urbs around here, but we have a wealth of beautiful abandoned mills. Milling involves finding ways into these mills and photographing them. This, in turn, involves driving around looking for promising looking mills, scouting them out and returning with milling gear (steel-toed boots, good flashlights, reflectors to bounce light, cameras, tripods\u00e2\u0080\u00a6)&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/38116\">Lasers take a measure of halo nucleus &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The team determined this tiny shift by using a device called a frequency comb, which is capable of making a very accurate measurement of the laser\u00e2\u0080\u0099s wavelength. By comparing the resonant wavelengths of beryllium\u00e2\u0080\u009311 with the other beryllium isotopes \u00e2\u0080\u0094 and then correcting for the mass shift \u00e2\u0080\u0094 the team worked out the volume shift. This allowed them to conclude that the halo neutron is about 7 fm from the nuclear core. The core itself has a radius of about 2.5 fm. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/precision-measurement\">precision-measurement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science in the open \u00c2\u00bb Why good intentions are not enough to get negative results published &quot;The fundamental problem is that the \u00e2\u0080\u009cwe need a journal\u00e2\u0080\u009d approach is stuck in the printed page paradigm. To get negative results published we need to reduce the barriers to publication much lower than they currently are, while at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/11\/links-for-2009-03-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-03-11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}