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Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks

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Vasquez, who co-authored a 2015 paper comparing services and tools offered by various academic social networks, says researchers must weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each. Mendeley started as an open-access research network, and some researchers balked when publishing giant Elsevier purchased the site in 2013.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. weeks in 2015.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With two executive orders, Gov. This is compared with averages of $11,063 and 10.8