John Dupuis
Around the Web: The myth of the successful college dropout, The future of research libraries and more
Posted by John Dupuis on March 7, 2013 The Myth of the Successful College Dropout: Why It Could Make Millions of Young Americans Poorer Faculty consider the future of research libraries In Defense of Librarians The Real Reason Journal Articles Should Be Free The Genius Of Raising Brilliant Kids: A Conversation With Jack Andraka’s Parents How Corporations Score Big Profits By Limiting Access…
Around the Web: Updated list of posts about the Aaron Swartz story, in chronological order
Posted by John Dupuis on March 3, 2013 (This post supersedes the previous post listing items related to the Aaron Swartz story. That post was from January 20, 2013.) A few comments. Aaron Swartz’s story has had a huge impact, it has reverberated far and wide not just through the interlinking worlds of technology and online activism but far into the mainstream. The…
Friday Fun: “We never visited because we hate The Carpenters” say aliens
Posted by John Dupuis on March 1, 2013 A fun sentiment if I’ve ever heard one. And I’m sure we all have a band/performer that we’d like to nominate as the “Performer most likely to keep aliens away from earth.” Being Canadian, I think I can safely nominate Celine Dion. “We never visited because we hate The Carpenters” say aliens Aliens have confirmed…
Around the Web: The market for new PhDs, Canadian science communication and more
Posted by John Dupuis on March 1, 2013 The Ph.D Bust: America’s Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 Charts The Ph.D. Bust, Pt. II: How Bad Is the Job Market For Young American-Born Scientists? Tenure Track as Alt-Ac Ph.D. Job Woes How Many Ph.D.’s Actually Get to Become College Professors? Government vs. the Public: Mind the science gap #CanComm, Conferences, and the Search…
Around the Web: Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research, What kind of researcher are you? and more
Posted by John Dupuis on February 23, 2013 Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research Second shoe drops: new White House Directive mandates OA AAP Supports OSTP Policy Urging Collaboration in Public Access White House Public Access Policy Is Out White House Delivers New Open-Access Policy That Has Activists Cheering SPARC…
Friday Fun: The 5 Most Badass Things Ever Done in the Name of Research
Posted by John Dupuis on February 22, 2013 Cracked is as Cracked does. Especially in this case, where some researchers do some especially cracked things. Or more precisely, things they only could have thought of after being cracked on the head. Librarian researchers, don’t try this at your library! The 5 Most Badass Things Ever Done in the Name of Research 5. Thor…
Around the Web: You Build A Library with Books, The Big Errors of “Big Data” and more
Posted by John Dupuis on February 20, 2013 You Build A Library with Books Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data’ Some Preliminary Theses on MOOCs Tear it down, build it up: the Research Output Team, or the library-as-publisher Publishers versus libraries Waking Up to New Approaches to Community Media and Librarianship Wikipedia vs Britannica Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the…
Scitech librarians take note: The Western Conference on Science Education
Posted by John Dupuis on February 13, 2013 The biennial Western Conference on Science Education will be taking place this coming July 9–July 11, 2013. I’m thinking very seriously of going and I think science/engineering librarians in general should consider doing so as well. Here’s how they describe it: The biennial Western Conference for Science Education creates an ongoing organizational infrastructure that invites…
Publisher hits new low: Suing librarian for criticizing their books
Posted by John Dupuis on February 9, 2013 So here’s the rather strange story. Way back in 2010, librarian Dale Askey, then of Kansas State University, wrote a blog post critical of the humanities monograph publisher Edwin Mellen. Basically, he stated that the publishers’ low quality did not justify their high prices. No big deal, really, librarians have lots of opinions about publishers…
Friday Fun: 20 heroic librarians who save the world
Posted by John Dupuis on February 8, 2013 Librarians seem to be under siege these days, both from within and without. But at our core, librarians no matter where they work just want to make the world a better place. io9 has a wonderful older post with a list of fictional librarians who’ve perhaps put that motto into action a little more directly…
