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Cameron Neylon
Personal blog · cameronneylon.net/blogscienceeconomics
Cameron Neylon's personal blog at cameronneylon.net covers science and economics. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cameron Neylon's blog for its open access and scholarly publishing analysis, including the economics of publisher value and per-article costs. Comments cite it as a source on those debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Friendfeed. The community [1] a small group of bioinformatics folks started there was just amazing. We were never able to recreate it. 1. http://cameronneylon.net/blog/friendfeed-for-scientists-what...
Comment linking /blog/friendfeed-for-scientists-what-why-and-how/
on “Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?”Submitted Open Research Computation. An ordinary journal with extraordinary aims as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSo many of these discussions take it for granted that publishers don't do anything of value. This blog post, by an open access advocate, was for me very illuminating on what value they actually add ( http://cameronneylon.net/blog/polecon-of-oa-publishing-i-wha... ) Quoting from that link: "One of the big challenges is discussing the costs and value added in managing peer review is that researchers who engage in this…
Comment linking /blog/polecon-of-oa-publishing-i-what-is-it-publishers-do-anyway/
on “Sci-Hub, spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz, angering publishers all over again”Submitted PolEcon of OA Publishing I: What is it publishers do anyway? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would like to point to a very similar piece that was written about infrastructure for open science [0]. The basic argument is along similar lines, but adds another important wrinkle, which is that in federated systems centralization will eventually arise and often it will be controlled by people and organizations that the federated community do not trust and cannot control (Elsevier being the example in the schola…
Comment linking /blog/principles-for-open-scholarly-infrastructures/
on “Reflections: The ecosystem is moving”Submitted Publisher Failure: Centralized control does not scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a good article on why it's hard to calculate per-article costs: http://cameronneylon.net/blog/pushing-costs-upstream-and-ris... But yes, prices are not a reflection of cost, but of how much publishers can ask. Unfortunately, given that publishers sell subscriptions in bulk ("Big Deals"), there's no downwards price pressure: if they add another journal to the deal, they can ask more money, without that leading…
Comment linking /blog/pushing-costs-upstream-and-risks-downstream-making-a-journal-publisher-profitable/
on “An efficient journal (2012)”Submitted What is it [academic] publishers do anyway? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving on “Access to Research” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Github for science? Shouldn’t we perhaps build TCP/IP first? as a story · 1 points
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