[Irtalk] Impact of Social Sciences – Academic citation practices need to be modernized so that all references are digital and lead to full texts.

[Hilton Gibson]

*Nobody can change citation systems on their own.* We are just at the start
of what will inevitably be a long process of driving out legacy citation
systems from scholarship and science and replacing them bit by bit with a
modernized approach that treats digital and open access sources as always
the primary sources, and commercially published versions behind paywalls as
radically inferior secondary sources. No doubt there are also things
missing from my lists above that should be there, but I am too dumb to
spot, or that matter to different disciplines in ways I can’t see yet. *So
this is just a starting proposal, something to get the process of
discussion started.*

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/05/21/academic-citation-practices-need-to-be-modernized/
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