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Day in the life of CrossRef's Product Manager

Kirsty Meddings CrossRef's Product Manager wrote an insightful "Day in the life" profile for the journal Serials. Please note that access to the profile is limited to subscribers of UKSG publications.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska on March 16, 2009 2:10 PM |

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Geoffrey - I would argue that the 'crazy' statement above is on a kind of 'slippery slope' towards banning (or not enabling, in this case) all sorts of things because they *could* be used to Do Evil. Sort of like banning pipe wrenches coz they *can* be used to kill people?

Isn't it fair to say that potential benefits of accurate identification of authors (i.e. where anonymity is not desired at any rate) would far outweigh potential risks from scenarios as you describe?

My $0.2 worth..

Mummi, Leicester

http://www.gen2phen.org/researcher-identification/

Posted by: Gudmundur Thorisson | March 17, 2009 10:13 AM

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