Coffeehouse – Page 2 – A collection of data blog posts from around the web

academic writing, digital methods, Discovery Tools, Featured, Journals, Knowledge Maps, Literature Reviews, open science, research communication, research methods

The death of the literature review and the rise of the dynamic knowledge map

by Taster • May 14, 2019

Almost every academic article starts with a literature review. However, although these short research summaries can be beneficial, as discussed in previous posts on the LSE Impact Blog, they also introduce opportunities for unverifiable misrepresentation and self-aggrandizement. In this post Gorgi Krlev proposes that short of abolishing them, or aiming for complete standardization of literature reviews, researchers in the social […]

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Customising DMPonline

by magdalena.drafiova • May 14, 2019

Customising DMPonline

We are currently offering two main subscription packages for DMPonline: basic and enhanced. With the basic package you can upload your logo and add some links to the header, whereas with the enhanced package you c…

Academic communication, Academic Publishing, Featured, Learned Societies, OA, open access, paywalls, Reverse Flips, Subscriptions

Open and closed – What do reverse flips tell us about the scholarly publishing landscape?

by Taster • May 13, 2019

The progress of Open Access (OA) is often measured by the proportion of journals that have transitioned to OA publication models. However, a number of journals have made the opposite choice and moved from open to closed access models. In this post Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn and Mikael Laakso report on findings from the first study of journals that have […]

Academic Precariat, Book Reviews, Early career researchers, ECR Careers, gender bias, mental health

Book Review: Gender and Precarious Research Careers: A Comparative Analysis edited by Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio

by Taster • May 12, 2019

In Gender and Precarious Research Careers: A Comparative Analysis – available to download here open access – editors Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio bring together contributors to offer an essential interrogation of the neoliberal restructuring of universities and the particular impact this has on women in the early stages of their research careers. This is a powerful account of the ways in which gender and precarity are intertwined in […]

Digital Content, open data, web archiving

In the Library’s Web Archives: US Government Audio on Shuffle

by Charles Hosale • May 9, 2019

The Digital Content Management section has been working on a project to extract and make available sets of files from the Library’s significant web archives holdings. This is another step to explore the web archives and make them more widely accessible and usable. Our aim in creating these sets is to identify reusable, “real world” content in the Library’s […]

#AcWri, Academic communication, Academic Publishing, academic writing, AI, AI Book, artificial intelligence, Featured

Death of the author? AI generated books and the production of scientific knowledge

by Taster • May 9, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been applied to an increasing number of creative tasks from the composition of music, to painting and more recently the creation of academic texts. Reflecting on this development Harry Collins, considers how we might understand AI in the context of academic writing and warns that we should not confuse the work of algorithms with tacit complex […]