Oh, one more message about the #SSP2024 conference. I think I forgot to mention that the closing plenary session was an Oxford-style debate between me and @polka on the proposition "The open access movement has failed".
Modesty forbids that I say who "won" (i.e. shifted most votes between Before and After), but I DO think that between us Jessica and I laid out a pretty convincing record of past OA movements and a compelling vision for the future. To a room full of scholarly publishers.
Just overheard at #SSP2024: "So nice to meet you! You're real!"
A lovely moment.
Over all this #SSP2024 session is deeply disappointing. Its title suggests it's about building communities, but it turns out to be all about marketing magazines.
I made the wrong choice in this session: I should have gone to "The diminishing importance of the article: an overview of the emerging modular, multi-modal research landscape".
Now this person at #SSP2024 is telling us that she doesn't bother reading the whole of RFP responses. Well, great. Then why should we bother WRITING the whole response?
Someone who can't be bothered with the process shouldn't initiate it. Don't waste our time. We have work to do.
What are the implications of #research papers being used to influence policy? Sage has built a tool to track #citations in policy documents to discover exactly that. The price is right too, it's free. #AcademicChatter #Academia #SSP2024
Mike Taylor 🦕
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