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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
Category: publishing
It seems like there was nothing new from the established publishers for a while - nothing with their core business. Some experimented with ways to communicate and most updated content management systems, but it seemed like most weren't touching their...
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Category: Conferences
It's always strange to go to a conference outside of your own primary research area. This conference had a lot of historians and philosophers as well as social scientists in every other category including media studies and information science. I...
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Category: Information Science
(I'm posting things from my old blog while I'm on a much-needed vacation) This originally appeared December 21, 2007 Implications of newer models of popularization of science for science library collection development* When we look at science communication - communication...
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Category: scholarly communication
(I'm posting some classics from my old blog while I'm on a much needed vacation) This originally appeared February 26, 2006 The reference interview in a scientific research setting: question pairs establish intellectual identity (This is thinking out loud stuff...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:43 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: open science
This was in an earlier EOS (pdf, not available online for institutional subscribers so I found this by flipping through the print!) - number 32 of this year from 11 August. They're trying what Nature tried and dropped and what...
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Category: publishing
It just hit me this morning that new communications journals are sort of less expected right now. In this post I'll briefly discuss the traditional place of letters or communications publications in scholarly communications (in science) and then weave in...
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Category: libraries
Sometimes so many things come up at the same time it becomes difficult if impossible to ignore. Here's just a brief list: An oceanographer came to me and asked to see a print copy of an AGU journal article. If...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
On one side, there are some who say the future of scholarly communication in science is databases - or, rather, more or less shared and curated data sets. Some of the folks in this crowd go farther to say that...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: scholarly communication
John Wilbanks is brilliant - let's just get that down first. He makes some great points in his most recent posts (1,2), but I also disagree with a few of the things he has said. In my abstract for the...
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Category: online communities
I've been fascinated by these projects, but I felt that I didn't have sufficient time to really do them justice here. Michael Nielsen has discussed them in several venues so it wasn't clear what I could add. Then I thought...
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