RichardPrice

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by RichardPrice 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. It's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
From talking to the White House, I know that they are taking a great interest in this particular petition. They are looking to see how much public support there is for free public access to taxpayer-funded research. It is only with a public
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
My understanding is that the White House really cares about petitions with backing from tens of thousands of people. I have talked to many policy makers in D.C., and science funding agencies, and they need to know that the public wants acce
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White House petition to bring down paywalls on taxpayer-funded research(wwws.whitehouse.gov)
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
I totally agree about the importance of scientists to publish their code. That is critical. It's one of the many parts of the scientific process where the community would benefit from greater sharing.
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
mukaiji - I would love to chat to you. Drop me a line at richard [at] academia.edu.
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You're right, there are some trends in the right direction, which is terrific. But these are early. By and large scientists only get credit for publishing papers, which means they aren't taking advantage of the full interactive power of the
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I think that is a great sentiment. To find systems that work a lot better than the current one, which is incredibly slow, we are going to need to try a lot of different ideas. When you are venturing into the unknown, innovation is tough and
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
I don't think informal channels, and conferences, which are infrequent, and really expensive to travel to, are enough. Before the 1600s, science was largely done by wealthy people who had large enough houses to have a laboratory in. Scienti
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I totally agree with you about data-sharing. I wanted to spend more time on that in the article, but didn't because I didn't want to make the article longer. I think the ability to share and ask questions about data really has enormous pote
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
That's a cool point about parallelization. There was a fascinating experiment done a few years ago by the mathemetician Tim Gowers, called the 'Polymath project', where he took a problem in math, and asked for the mathematicians who read hi
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The Future of Science(techcrunch.com)
60 points by RichardPrice 14y ago|39 comments
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. It's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
I am amazed that Yahoo is resorting to patent trolling tactics. Almost everyone in the Valley hates software patents, and only builds patent portfolios defensively, but they don't expect to have to defend themselves against each other. It s
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
Great job Quartzy. It's wonderful to see more startups join the movement to accelerate science!
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Rahul, Martin, Conrad, and others, Many Congrats! Rapportive is a really great product.
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The reason is that academics need the validation of being published in a prestigious journal. See the comment below http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597125
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You're absolutely right that academics are torn between two things that they want: 1. open access for their research (both for altruistic reasons, because they want to spread knowledge as widely as possible, and for selfish reasons, because
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
Yes, that's right. Some journals charge on both ends: they charge academics to submit papers, and they charge academics to read papers.
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You're right, there are cases of boycotts like this. Another interesting case was when the whole editorial body of the journal "Topology" resigned in 2006 because they thought that its owner, Elsevier, was charging too high a price for subs
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
good point - that part of the post was written yesterday, and since then the boycott numbers have gone over 6,000!
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It isn't true that the US government could easily bypass the publishers. They want the research to be distributed, and peer reviewed, and have historically relied on the publishers to do that. The NIH (the federal agency that dispenses the
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The Dangerous "Research Works Act"(techcrunch.com)
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It's true that the papers in the indexes of Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Citeseer are peer reviewed, but what that shows me is that what is really driving the discovery process is the ranking system in those search engines: i.e. the order in
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
I think you are getting the horse and the cart in the wrong order (to continue the horse analogies :) ). I started Academia.edu, after finishing my PhD at Oxford, because I believe that science, is too closed, and too slow, and that I think
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
Hi Tyler - nice comment. Also, wonderful work on www.thecostofknowledge.com! I agree that discovery and credit/prestige are the two key things to get right. I'm sure that the kinds of systems you're talking about, voting systems, will be pa
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
Academics have always based reading decisions on recommendations from colleagues. This trend has accelerated since email and the web were invented, as your colleagues can communicate with you through more channels, and more recommendations
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by RichardPrice 15y ago
Wybo - thanks for these links. I totally agree that breaking the feedback loop you mentioned, that binds academics to the current journal system, is key. I think the central things that needs to happen are: building an alternative discovery

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