Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-23 Thread Karol M. Langner
On Jan 22 2012, Egon Willighagen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Karol M. Langner > >> They sure are independent, if that's what you mean by orthogonal, > >> but many people would claim they are correlated (at least statistic

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-22 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Karol M. Langner >> They sure are independent, if that's what you mean by orthogonal, >> but many people would claim they are correlated (at least statistically). >> > Yes - they are independent variables

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-22 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Karol M. Langner wrote: > On Jan 22 2012, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > Right. Prestige is orthogonal to quality, but serves it role. (OA is > > orthogonal to quality too). > > > > Egon > > They sure are independent, if that's what you mean by orthogonal, > but many

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-22 Thread Karol M. Langner
On Jan 22 2012, Egon Willighagen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Karol M. Langner > wrote: > > Thanks for that info. I suppose small volume is good thing for a > > high profile journal. And a high rejection rate means publication > > in that journal will be a privelege, right? > > Right

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-22 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Karol M. Langner wrote: > Thanks for that info. I suppose small volume is good thing for a > high profile journal. And a high rejection rate means publication > in that journal will be a privelege, right? Right. Prestige is orthogonal to quality, but serves it rol

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-19 Thread Karol M. Langner
On Jan 19 2012, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Karol M. Langner > wrote: > > > > > One thing that occurred to me while reading this article was that OA would > > probably benefit a lot from an elite, high profile journal. One that could > > seriously compete with the l

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-19 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Karol M. Langner wrote: > > One thing that occurred to me while reading this article was that OA would > probably benefit a lot from an elite, high profile journal. One that could > seriously compete with the likes of Nature or Science. Sounds a little > far-fetche

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-19 Thread Karol M. Langner
On Jan 18 2012, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Jérôme Pansanel > wrote: > > > Dears, > > > > Did some one read this article: > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science > > > > Yes - Mike Taylor asked by to review it befo

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
rganised they haven't responded on where to post petitions > ** > > Cheers, > > Bob > > *From:* Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:pm...@cam.ac.uk] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:49 AM > *To:* Jérôme Pansanel > *Cc:* blueobelisk

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-18 Thread Robert E. Belford
/?cid=FB_TAF Cheers, Bob From: Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:pm...@cam.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:49 AM To: Jérôme Pansanel Cc: blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Jérôme

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Jérôme Pansanel wrote: > Dears, > > Did some one read this article: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science > Yes - Mike Taylor asked by to review it before publication. I think it's very powerful. I hope that this pu

[BlueObelisk-discuss] Article in The Guardian

2012-01-17 Thread Jérôme Pansanel
Dears, Did some one read this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science Any comment about it? Cheers, Jerome -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The