SAH Commons | Arthur Boston | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/aboston/activity/ Activity feed for Arthur Boston. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 91e9489fb45b4cddf5747e27ca94f474 Arthur Boston wrote a new post, Read & Let Read, on the site Arthur J. Boston https://aboston.hcommons.org/?p=251 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:40:42 -0500 An ongoing collection of links to discussion of this collection development strategy.

May 13, 2021 – LPC Fellows Forum 2021 at the Library Publishing Forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVf4qtqCjGU (begins […]

]]> 36733755fc6627f28b030c936d5dee40 Arthur Boston deposited Adding equity to transformative agreements and journal subscriptions –The Read & Let Read model in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1826707/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:23:40 -0500 The transition towards open access to research articles has become a
question of how, rather than why and the rise of transformative agreements
has enabled publishers to strike agreements with large institutions and
national research organisations to provide open access and authorship to
their members. In this post, Arthur J. Boston puts…[Read more]

]]> 0 2193996cef26a4ecdb56ca68f41c7b92 Arthur Boston deposited Adding equity to transformative agreements and journal subscriptions –The Read & Let Read model https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1826584/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:57:38 -0500 The transition towards open access to research articles has become a
question of how, rather than why and the rise of transformative agreements
has enabled publishers to strike agreements with large institutions and
national research organisations to provide open access and authorship to
their members. In this post, Arthur J. Boston puts…[Read more]

]]> 0 728f4e53880e3bed813ec3091913c436 Arthur Boston deposited Hire Research Data Management Librarians ASAP https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819837/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:01:39 -0400 If you have any budgetary power at your university, you need to contact whoever is in charge of overseeing the compliance of federally-funded research. If you are that person in the office of sponsored programs, you need to contact your libraries to identify who is involved in research data management (RDM). And finally, if you are a head…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f6385ffd01f638632ff795783caf500 Arthur Boston's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819829/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:27:04 -0400 0 02c9c6af76cf7ec3d8e4b0d92475a0b0 Arthur Boston wrote a new post, Pitch: Hire Research Data Management Librarians ASAP, on the site Arthur J. Boston https://aboston.hcommons.org/?p=246 Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:23:22 -0400 If you have any budgetary power at your university, you need to contact whoever is in charge of overseeing the compliance of federally-funded research. If you are that person in the office of sponsored programs, […]

]]> 1e862ac7be674eb6f0e9c62612b96be4 Arthur Boston deposited Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1787167/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:24:49 -0400 Scholarly Communication Librarian for Murray State University A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access in this blog post from the Scholarly Kitchen.

]]> 0 130fb151bb98c2467f0984ce9cdf676e Arthur Boston deposited Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1787144/ Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:29:47 -0400 Scholarly Communication Librarian for Murray State University A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access in this blog post from the Scholarly Kitchen.

]]> 0 aac7e91be7d7d3a0e48f2d45193cdbcd Arthur Boston deposited Need to Know: The Information-Seeking Behavior of Doja Cat in the group Digital Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783823/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:28:04 -0400 In this essay, we will explore information-seeking behavior as exhibited by Doja Cat on her 2021 record, Need to Know, using Kuhlthau’s (1993) six-stage Information Search Process.

]]> 0 9d75c086856ab47d57de6ea01248e523 Arthur Boston deposited Need to Know: The Information-Seeking Behavior of Doja Cat https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783787/ Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:49:06 -0400 In this essay, we will explore information-seeking behavior as exhibited by Doja Cat on her 2021 record, Need to Know, using Kuhlthau’s (1993) six-stage Information Search Process.

]]> 0 dd4598d3ac4012b67dd444425f16b93c Arthur Boston deposited A Recommendation of Nine Research Funder Policies & Principles in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766316/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:24:39 -0500 Outlined below is a bundle of nine policies and principles that are recommended for research funders and grantees. A wide-enactment of this bundle could lead to a quiet improvement in scientific communication. While well-intentioned, funding mandates that focus on making published articles (or their preprints) available as open access objects…[Read more]

]]> 0 69bd09c07f80f0a711a2bcba27572961 Arthur Boston deposited A Recommendation of Nine Research Funder Policies & Principles https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766282/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:08:02 -0500 Outlined below is a bundle of nine policies and principles that are recommended for research funders and grantees. A wide-enactment of this bundle could lead to a quiet improvement in scientific communication. While well-intentioned, funding mandates that focus on making published articles (or their preprints) available as open access objects…[Read more]

]]> 0 30317a0188ed9905fb4b5a64a3dd1e8c Arthur Boston deposited Yeezy taught me in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759122/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 02:24:16 -0500 In a talk given during London Open Research Week 2021, Arthur J. Boston, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Murray State University, described parallels between the music industry and academic publishing, especially as it relates to open science and early career researchers. Below, you can find both…[Read more]

]]> 0 60a0975f2e5e3282ff49c029d7b7f7ef Arthur Boston deposited Yeezy taught me https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759063/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:41:06 -0500 In a talk given during London Open Research Week 2021, Arthur J. Boston, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Murray State University, described parallels between the music industry and academic publishing, especially as it relates to open science and early career researchers. Below, you can find both…[Read more]

]]> 0 e12533238b7c3249cb75b733d8bf4edd Arthur Boston deposited Read & Let Read: An Alternative to the Transformative Agreement in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758415/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 02:24:30 -0500 In March 2021, the University of California (UC) and Elsevier announced a new so-called “transformative agreement” that included slightly discounted article processing charges as UC’s route to open access in Elsevier journals. Librarians and researchers expressed immediate concern that this deal upheld inequities in the research system. The UC/El…[Read more]

]]> 0 53d137b178463fa46cc83591e1f8b88a Arthur Boston deposited Read & Let Read: An Alternative to the Transformative Agreement https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758399/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:16:04 -0500 In March 2021, the University of California (UC) and Elsevier announced a new so-called “transformative agreement” that included slightly discounted article processing charges as UC’s route to open access in Elsevier journals. Librarians and researchers expressed immediate concern that this deal upheld inequities in the research system. The UC/El…[Read more]

]]> 0 473056b26530957e15d1e4cc9e7f45c0 Arthur Boston deposited Kanye West Explains Scholarly Communication in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757508/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:26:00 -0400 Talk presented at London Open Research Week 2021 which describes Kanye West’s way of being a creator of helps explain scholarly communication.

]]> 0 9e4a7612b7f18f6ec81464dfb130ba17 Arthur Boston deposited Kanye West Explains Scholarly Communication in the group Digital Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757507/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:25:50 -0400 Talk presented at London Open Research Week 2021 which describes Kanye West’s way of being a creator of helps explain scholarly communication.

]]> 0 61dd3854387cb2552e7b9d4d35341043 Arthur Boston deposited Kanye West Explains Scholarly Communication https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757462/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:55:02 -0400 Talk presented at London Open Research Week 2021 which describes Kanye West’s way of being a creator of helps explain scholarly communication.

]]> 0 f952da3c920dd889a0be2ce40f2d5f04 Arthur Boston deposited Open Citations and Open Peer Review: Toward a Better Thresher in Scientific Literature (V.2.) in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750481/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:24:28 -0400 Open citation data, open peer-review, and open access produce essential materials to transition toward meaningful reform in scientific research assessment. Current research assessment tools notably include, but are not limited to, citation-based measures (Journal Impact Factor, h-index) and article level metrics (download counts, social media);…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ac6206329f9d320c2f4725be304a63b Arthur Boston deposited Open Citations and Open Peer Review: Toward a Better Thresher in Scientific Literature (V.2.) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750434/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:51:58 -0400 Open citation data, open peer-review, and open access produce essential materials to transition toward meaningful reform in scientific research assessment. Current research assessment tools notably include, but are not limited to, citation-based measures (Journal Impact Factor, h-index) and article level metrics (download counts, social media);…[Read more]

]]> 0 56399d6893b07d8b07db744587aaeb1b Arthur Boston deposited Thinking politically about scholarly infrastructure: Commit the publishers to 2.5% in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740592/ Sat, 05 Jun 2021 02:24:06 -0400 Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. I originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before the 2020 election and revised it for C&RL News during the weirdly long interregnum period before the actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee w…[Read more]

]]> 0 589e1b20999267ce0ba8121fe599699c Arthur Boston deposited Thinking politically about scholarly infrastructure: Commit the publishers to 2.5% https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740554/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:33:21 -0400 Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. I originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before the 2020 election and revised it for C&RL News during the weirdly long interregnum period before the actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee w…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8e0f4d0442b526c2d707d6fab1a339d Arthur Boston deposited The Values of Library Publishing and Open Infrastructure: Recapping #LPForum21 in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740381/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:52 -0400 Who leads, participates in, and is served by global knowledge infrastructure? Check out these takeaways from the recent Library Publishing Forum Conference from the perspective of a member of the planning committee.

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]]> 0 adf6a0c773028b0fac3aec0d3abc4bcd Arthur Boston wrote a new post, Land-use Metaphor in Scholarly Communication – METHOD / APPROACH, PT. 3 (DRAFT), on the site Arthur J. Boston https://aboston.hcommons.org/?p=124 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:19:51 -0400 Author’s note: This post is the third part of a rough draft of an methods/approach section to an article that I am publicly writing on this blog. I’ve previously written and posted an Introduction section. As you […]

]]> 38c43291c96d4d4290c86634d6f725e0 Arthur Boston wrote a new post, Land-use Metaphor in Scholarly Communication – METHOD / APPROACH, PT. 2 (DRAFT), on the site Arthur J. Boston https://aboston.hcommons.org/?p=97 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:59:21 -0500 Author’s note: This post is the second half of a rough draft of an methods/approach section to an article that I am publicly writing on this blog. I’ve previously written and posted an Introduction section. The […]

]]> bc33077f6cab804d6fdfd91c46bae939 Arthur Boston wrote a new post, Land-use Metaphor in Scholarly Communication – METHOD / APPROACH, PT. 1(DRAFT), on the site Arthur J. Boston https://aboston.hcommons.org/?p=88 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:54:59 -0500 Author’s note: This post is a rough draft of an methods/approach section to an article that I am publicly writing on this blog. I’ve previously written and posted an Introduction section. The first ten posts on t […]

]]> 5cedb1542cf3673f0b665400c6fbe286 Arthur Boston wrote a new post, Land-use Metaphor in Scholarly Communication - INTRODUCTION (DRAFT), on the site Arthur J. Boston https://aboston.hcommons.org/?p=80 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:55:14 -0500 Author’s note: This post is a rough draft of an introduction to an article that I am publicly writing on this blog. The first ten posts on this blog are a series of ~15-minute daily writing exercises I conducted, […]

]]> 7df360ccad4aea34c90181aebac037df Arthur Boston's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724874/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:53:42 -0500 0 119efdc37da6120b2f66acd1a536b2f4 Arthur Boston deposited PiePlate: Proposing a visual peer-review overlay service in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723363/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:24:17 -0500 This is a proposal for a concept called PiePlate, a digital icon to displays the current state of peer-review facets that have been assessed on a research paper. The “peer-reviewed” stamp often serves as a crude quality filter, offering only the binary option of peer-reviewed and not peer-reviewed. PiePlate would give readers more peer rev…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6d6768e3753b6e7ded643509f4b2442 Arthur Boston deposited PiePlate: Proposing a visual peer-review overlay service https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723275/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:03:49 -0500 This is a proposal for a concept called PiePlate, a digital icon to displays the current state of peer-review facets that have been assessed on a research paper. The “peer-reviewed” stamp often serves as a crude quality filter, offering only the binary option of peer-reviewed and not peer-reviewed. PiePlate would give readers more peer rev…[Read more]

]]> 0 de30d63928f8b345a55cee68c415825c Arthur Boston created the site Arthur J. Boston https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676567/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:08:04 -0500 0 6cb3e39d797ba9cef127a07609f26ebd Arthur Boston deposited Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise for Studio Art Students in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676029/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:25:21 -0500 This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usage, fair use, and copyright infringement.…[Read more]

]]> 0 03e00371421625fe41995fda2ebb6def Arthur Boston deposited Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise for Studio Art Students https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675938/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:34:40 -0500 This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usage, fair use, and copyright infringement.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d61468f1c45617c6d066bda33f5889b6 Arthur Boston deposited What do you mean? Research in the Age of Machines in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669440/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:31:15 -0500 What Do You Mean?” was an undeniable bop of its era in which Justin Bieber explores the ambiguities of romantic communication. (I pinky promise this will soon make sense for scholarly communication librarians interested in artificial intelligence [AI].) When the single hit airwaves in 2015, there was a meta-debate over what Bieber meant to add t…[Read more]

]]> 0 b667874de036a2ca6f996926c8427515 Arthur Boston deposited What do you mean? Research in the Age of Machines https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669386/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 20:23:10 -0500 What Do You Mean?” was an undeniable bop of its era in which Justin Bieber explores the ambiguities of romantic communication. (I pinky promise this will soon make sense for scholarly communication librarians interested in artificial intelligence [AI].) When the single hit airwaves in 2015, there was a meta-debate over what Bieber meant to add t…[Read more]

]]> 0 25c61bdbb99e69f1261f8339d9f45ae9 Arthur Boston deposited Popcast: A music podcast with unexpected scholarly angles: A review and highlighted episode selection. in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666191/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:25:44 -0400 Short review with episode highlights of the New York Times Music Popcast podcast. Written specifically for librarians with an interest in the similarities/disparities between popular digital media content models and scholarly digital media. This includes a short overview of the podcast, its general relation to scholarly communication, a highlight…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1a46ea06fff757428650b39a7ff340c Arthur Boston deposited Popcast: A music podcast with unexpected scholarly angles: A review and highlighted episode selection. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666147/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:49:00 -0400 Short review with episode highlights of the New York Times Music Popcast podcast. Written specifically for librarians with an interest in the similarities/disparities between popular digital media content models and scholarly digital media. This includes a short overview of the podcast, its general relation to scholarly communication, a highlight…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c96b7b5a6c6de5dd5195ced961cd2d0 Arthur Boston deposited Presentation: "Hip-Hop librarianship for scholarly communication" in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657297/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:25:29 -0400 This session compares major topics from scholarly communication and trends in Hip-Hop, with the objective of providing lessons and examples for effective teaching. By discussing Hip-Hop artists as impact-minded authors of copyrighted works navigating a marketplace newly-disrupted by Internet technology, it may be possible for students to bring…[Read more]

]]> 0 7794dc67a1e7b758de42078f9cae4315 Arthur Boston deposited Presentation: "Hip-Hop librarianship for scholarly communication" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657171/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:20:54 -0400 This session compares major topics from scholarly communication and trends in Hip-Hop, with the objective of providing lessons and examples for effective teaching. By discussing Hip-Hop artists as impact-minded authors of copyrighted works navigating a marketplace newly-disrupted by Internet technology, it may be possible for students to bring…[Read more]

]]> 0 592d9295f6f4de12106f273e0c7b4f62 Arthur Boston deposited Open Citations and Open Peer Review: Toward a Better Thresher in Scientific Literature (Preprint) in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641729/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:33:13 -0400 Open Peer Review and Open Citations need advocates. Open Access recently received significant boosts in organized support (Redalyc announcing AmerliCA; cOAlition-S announcing Plan S). Within a similar timeframe, two other events occurred that need coordinated consideration: the ASAPbio group issued a letter in favor of Open Peer Review (OPR), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 765b538c8fd691a18b8a153ac6174c59 Arthur Boston deposited Hip-Hop librarianship for scholarly communication: An approach to introducing topics in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641632/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:26:48 -0400 Hip-Hop music, business, distribution, and culture exhibit highly-comparable trends in the scholarly communication and publication industry. This article discusses Hip-Hop artists and research authors as content creators, each operating within marketplaces still adjusting to digital, online connectivity. These discussions are intended for…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b3c33ec71d92295ae84b46209faf856 Arthur Boston deposited Open Citations and Open Peer Review: Toward a Better Thresher in Scientific Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640323/ Thu, 16 May 2019 18:42:37 -0400 Open Peer Review and Open Citations need advocates. Open Access recently received significant boosts in organized support (Redalyc announcing AmerliCA; cOAlition-S announcing Plan S). Within a similar timeframe, two other events occurred that need coordinated consideration: the ASAPbio group issued a letter in favor of Open Peer Review (OPR), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab6d28fe3c162b1b96f891314237d10f Arthur Boston deposited Hip-Hop librarianship for scholarly communication: An approach to introducing topics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639986/ Fri, 10 May 2019 15:01:31 -0400 Hip-Hop music, business, distribution, and culture exhibit highly-comparable trends in the scholarly communication and publication industry. This article discusses Hip-Hop artists and research authors as content creators, each operating within marketplaces still adjusting to digital, online connectivity. These discussions are intended for…[Read more]

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