"Die Wissenschaft ist ein feudales System. Und das Peer-Review ist organisiert wie eine konspirative Organisation", sagt der Linzer Wissenschaftsforscher Gerhard Fröhlich. Er fordert mehr Transparenz - sowie eine "Wissenschaftskultur, in der Fehler nicht als größte Schande gelten".
When former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum started gearing up to launch his presidential campaign earlier this year, there was one question he could not avoid. It had to do with the matter of alt-weekly editor and advice columnist Dan Savage, who has for years positioned himself as Santorum’s most prominent critic. Many politicians have fierce opponents, but few did what Savage did in 2003, and that was hold a contest to give an alternate meaning to the word “santorum”. I hope you’ll forgive me for declining to quote the winning definition, but you can find it here, and suffice to say that it has stuck. So much so, in fact, that eight years later Savage’s term has come to dominate the web search results for Rick Santorum’s name.
Accepting reality doesn’t mean you don’t take action — it just means you let go of the frustration. Instead, you can act appropriately, and be more centered in your actions.
Adrian Pohl arbeitet seit 2008 im Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz). Seit Juni 2010 ist er Koordinator der Arbeitsgruppe der Open Knowledge Foundation zu Open Bibliographic Data. Im Interview berichtet Pohl über die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Aktiven aus Wissenschaft und Bibliothekswelt.
T. Adler, and L. de Alfaro. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 261--270. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)