Joseph Esposito
Management consultant for the publishing and software industries. Work primarily with strategy for digital media. For-profit and not-for-profit clients.
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Guest Post: Plan S Version 2 and the Cost of Quality
EMBO's Bernd Pulverer looks at the revised Plan S Implementation Guidelines.
Joseph Esposito
Guest Post: Plan S Version 2 and the Cost of Quality scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/07/22/gue… via @scholarlykitchn
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Alaska Regents Will Vote Monday on Declaration of a Financial Emergency
The university system's president said the regents accelerated their timeline for the vote in light of a recent downgrade of the university's credit rating.
How badly do authors want open access? What priorities do authors really have? Bringing data to the discussion
If you believe the press, scientists are desperate to publish open access. Is this really true? Turning our scientific method onto ourselves and our peers, let’s see what kind of actual data …
Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years
For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. We’ll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.
Joseph Esposito
Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years unlikekinds.com/article/google… via @unlikekinds
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Bruce Heterick named Senior VP of Open Collections & Infrastructure | ITHAKA
Bruce Heterick, ITHAKA Vice President of Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships, has been named
News Items.
1. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to reduce interest rates this month. That probably means its campaign to shrink its balance sheet is over, leaving the central bank hoarding trillions of dollars more than before the 2008 financial crisis....
How to write a publishable journal article (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Wendy Laura Belcher provides advice on how to make your article more acceptable to a journal.
The plan to mine the world’s research papers
A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis —but is it legal?
Book Reading Behavior
The National Endowment for the Arts’ Survey of Public Participation in the Arts pr
The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t
How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology.
A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory
The bone, found in a cave, is the oldest modern human fossil ever discovered in Europe. It hints that humans began leaving Africa far earlier than once thought.
Free Book Vending Machines Launched Across All NYC Boroughs
Across the boroughs, six vending machines filled with free books became available today.
AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed
Scientists used machine learning to reveal new scientific knowledge hidden in old research papers.
I hate open science
Now that I’ve got your attention: what I hate—and maybe dislike is a better term than hate—isn’t the open science community, or open science initiatives, or open science practices, or o…
A Parable of Innovation in Publishing — A Mostly True Story
This is a parable of the role in innovation in publishing and makes the case that we should not criticize companies that try and fail to do new things.
Joseph Esposito
A Parable of Innovation in Publishing -- A Mostly True Story scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/05/03/a-p… via @scholarlykitchn
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The devil you don’t know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing | Esposito | First Monday
The devil you don’t know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing
Joseph Esposito
Way back in 2004, I predicted that Open Access would increase publishers' revenue: The devil you don’t know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing
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Microsoft is beating Slack because it’s hard to argue with free
Microsoft Teams isn’t better than Slack, but it is freer.
Joseph Esposito
Microsoft is beating Slack because it’s hard to argue with free vox.com/2019/7/9/20686… via @voxdotcom
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Guest Post — Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange
Guest blogger Julie Zhu discusses publisher strategies and industry standards for tending to the “plumbing” of content discovery and access.
Joseph Esposito
Guest Post -- Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/07/11/bui… via @scholarlykitchn
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Amazon to Retrain a Third of Its U.S. Workforce
Amazon.com plans to spend $700 million to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce, as technology threatens to upend the way many of its employees do their jobs.
Joseph Esposito
As technology reshapes roles, Amazon plans to train 100,000 workers in new skills, from machine learning to nursing wsj.com/articles/amazo… via @WSJ
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A philosopher ranks the three best types of companionship
The French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne invented the personal essay. He opined on all kinds of things, including which relationships to cultivate. His favorite will surprise you.