[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-04 Thread Arthur Sale
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[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-04 Thread Arthur Sale
Thank you Andrew.  Exactly true, but that simply says that the task is harder; it does not make it undesirable. I simply am not interested in counting articles except as this helps in establishing the question I asked. Counting articles has been done many times by people with more money than I

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-04 Thread Jan Velterop
Lee, Disambiguating author names is indeed a difficult problem. It may have been mentioned on this list before, but are you familiar with ORCID? (Open Researcher Contributor ID – http://orcid.org). The number and nature of the participants make for a good chance of success for this initiative.

[GOAL] Re: Les Carr's analyses of Mendeley on Repositoryman

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Hitchcock
Possibly of some tangential relevance, and just out but no green OA version yet, AFAIK: Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement Xuemei Li, Mike Thelwall, and Dean Giustini Scientometrics, (21 Dec 2011) http://www.springerlink.com/content/35146th23t1j1284/ Abstract:

[GOAL] Re: Les Carr's analyses of Mendeley on Repositoryman

2012-01-04 Thread Les A Carr
On 3 Jan 2012, at 18:49, Stevan Harnad wrote: That's UNMANDATED repositories, of course. MANDATED repositories are far more successful than either Mendeley or unmandated repositories: http://openaccess.eprints.org/uploads/greenmand60.png I've just realised that I made THREE posts, and

[GOAL] Two weeks left to submit to SPARC meeting Innovation Fair

2012-01-04 Thread Jennifer McLennan
Reminder -- Call for proposals: SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair Washington, DC – Proposals are now being invited for the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies will be showcased in engaging, informative, rapid-fire presentations. The