Dave Gray has a nice Flickr slideshow up about research and open access.
Archive: 'Related'
I just got my hands on Benjamin Rand’s 1905 Bibliography of Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognate Subjects. Rand lists roughly 60,000 books, articles, and reviews that were available in his time, and provides nearly exhaustive coverage of the nineteenth-century literature.
Rand’s Bibliography will be crucial for us as we expand our dataset backwards. How we’ll parse the vagaries [...]
ISI Web of Science
02Apr08David and I both attended presentations on ISI Web of Science today. WoS is taking an interesting and, in many ways, different approach as a search tool. Here are a few of the things that stood out:
Keywords are de-emphasized. There is no taxonomy associated with WoS (since it is so interdisciplinary in scope), so users [...]
Semantics & Pragmatics Blog
12Oct07David Beaver and Kai von Fintel are launching an open access journal called Semantics & Pragmatics this fall. They’ve created an editor’s blog at http://semantics-online.org/sp/ to make the development of S&P to be as transparent as possible—and it really has been. You’ll find a frank discussion of software formats, editorial policies, preservation and distribution issues, [...]
