Papers and Videos
The history of BitViews - so far.
BitViews is a joint idea by Camillo Lamanna and Manfredi La Manna.
BitViews timeline
| Event | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Senate House meeting | invitation-only meeting at Senate House (University of London). Chaired by John MacColl (University Librarian - University of St Andrews), hosted by David Prosser (CEO, Research Libraries UK), and with participants from JISC, IRUS-UK, and librarians from leading British Universities (British Library, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, etc.). | 7th Nov. 2018 |
| ICADL2018 conference, Hamilton, New Zealand | Presented paper "BitView: Using Blockchain Technology to Validate and Diffuse Global Usage Data for Academic Publications" (article (paywalled!!); AM (full text open access)). | 19-22 Nov. 2018 |
| Research Libraries UK Conference, London | Presented paper "For views to count, we must count the views" (watch video). | 20-22 March 2019 |
| Open Repositories 2019 conference, Hamburg, Germany. | Presented paper "The BitViews project: a new method for aggregating online usage data, a new route to universal Open Access" ( download slides.) | 10-13 June 2019 |
| Article published in Insights | Article "The fundamental problem blocking Open Access and how to overcome it: the BitViews project" forthcoming in Insights (available full text open access.) | Nov. 2019 |
| Charleston Library conference, Charleston, SC | Presenting paper "The BitViews project:can a blockchain application unchain Open Access? New solutions for an old problem" | 4-8 Nov. 2019 |
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