- Another World is Possible: Particle Physics Goes Open Access
- Open-access deal for particle physics
- 20/09/2012, SCOAP3 Article Processing Charges announced
- SCOAP3 Open Access Initiative launched at CERN
- The Cost of Not Reading "The Price of Inequality"
- Our Obsession with Scale Is Failing Us
- The Virginia Effect (UVa controversy from the summer has broad impact across higher ed...)
- ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2012
- Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No
- The Cost of Not Reading "The Price of Inequality" (economic inequality is important for higher ed)
- Library as Platform
- The Business Rusch: Watching The Numbers (ebooks are potentially an international market with impacts on an author's career)
- Can Amazon Turn Out-of-Print Books Into Gold?
- Fifty Shades of Instructions (fighting plagiarism with clarity)
- AHA Statement on Scholarly Journal Publishing
- Treading Water on Open Access (Dan Cohen's response to the above)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, er, Open Access
- Dear American Historical Association
- An open letter to America’s publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan
- AAP Statement in Response to American Library Association President’s Letter
More like this
Like the old saying goes, information wants to be free. In particular, the consumers of information would prefer for the most part not to have to directly pay for the information they are consuming.
Twitter is a great place to rant and rave sometimes. You can feel free to let loose and say what you're thinking without necessarily feeling that you need to have completely well-formed ideas.
I've altered the tagline on this blog slightly, to reflect where it seems to be going. (I am not in control here; I am merely the author-function! Sorry, sorry, lit-crit joke.)
While it has not generally been my practice to do year end review posts, artificially trying to tie the various and disparate strands of my blogging habits together into some sort of coherent story, I think for this year it's worth doing.