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my thesis had 1000+ readers in the first four months of online access
Until recently, academics said that a doctoral thesis had a readership of five – the candidate, their supervisor, their two examiners and their mother. (I had two supervisors, but my mum didn’t read...
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stats on the first anniversary of the electronic publication of my PhD thesis
It’s the first anniversary of the electronic publication of my PhD thesis! I explained the value of online access in a post four months after my thesis went online. I just thought I would give an...
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@samarkeolog Twitter archive: blogging and open access publishing
Partly to help me (publicly) archive material from before my @conflictantiq Twitter feed on looting and destruction of cultural and community property, partly to help me clarify (for myself) what I...
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Should I have embargoed my thesis until I got a job?
As the data is becoming less interesting (wow, open-access research is accessed more often and more widely than limited-access research), and as the anniversary is becoming less significant (“n years...
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I won’t publish work that I can’t read
Following on from last year’s refusal to advertise unread books for payment-in-kind, now I’m going to refuse to publish work that I can’t read. (Maybe this will become a disappointing annual series!)...
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Metrics, altmetrics and back-handed compliments
The readership statistics for my thesis, on the politics and ethics of cultural heritage work in conflict zones, have consistently (if unsurprisingly) shown that open access work is read more often and...
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OA, no way
Yesterday, at the very same time (4.33pm) that I was in a meeting discussing the virtues of open access publishing, I was informed that, due to funding pressures, my institution was no longer covering...
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