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Around the Web: SUNY Potsdam vs. American Chemical Society in chronological order
Posted by John Dupuis on October 1, 2012 The most recent controversy to whip up the library and science blogospheres revolves around SUNY Potsdam cancelling their American Chemical Society journal package because the subscription packages on offer sucked up too high a percentage of their total budget. SUNY Potsdam Library Director Jenica Rogers wrote about the decision on her blog, garnering quite a…
The American Chemical Society: Paving paradise to put up a parking lot
Posted by John Dupuis on September 27, 2012 Why do people go into science? Why do people go to work at scholarly societies? Why do people choose scholarly publishing as a career? Why do people choose a career at the intersection of those three vocations? There are cynical answers to those questions, for sure, and even the non-cynical need to put food on…
Reading Diary: Open Access by Peter Suber
Posted by John Dupuis on September 26, 2012 Scholars who grew up with the internet are steadily replacing those that grew up without it. Scholars who expect to put everything they write online, who expect to find everything they need online, and who expect unlocked content that they may read, search, link, copy, cut/paste, crawl, print, and redistribute, are replacing those who never…
Whither Science Publishing?
Posted by John Dupuis on September 5, 2012 About a month ago The Scientist published an interesting set of interviews with a set of scientists, publishers and LIS faculty on the future of scholarly publishing. They called it Whither Science Publishing? with the subtitle “As we stand on the brink of a new scientific age, how researchers should best communicate their findings and…
An Open Access thought experiment
Posted by John Dupuis on August 28, 2012 Imagine a scenario where suddenly over night all toll access publishing suddenly converts to Open Access. You go to bed and your average academic library spends millions of dollars on serials. You wake up, and the subscription bill is zero. Now, that doesn’t mean that suddenly scholarly publishing doesn’t cost anything to support. It just…
Around the Web: More on open data, textmining the literature and The Panton Principles
Posted by John Dupuis on August 20, 2012 My colleagues and I are taking our Creative Commons/Panton Principles presentation on the road to another library conference this winter. As a result, I’m still compiling more references on the topic so I thought I share what I’ve found recently with all of you. Of course, suggestions for more resources are always welcome in the…
Around the Web: Yet more about the University of Virginia controversy
Posted by John Dupuis on August 10, 2012 This is the third and hopefully final summary post on the controversy at the University of Virginia surrounding the forced resignation of President Teresa Sullivan. The previous two are here and here. Trouble With Transparency A Much Higher Education: UVA has its president back. But the fight to save our universities has only just begun.…
Friday Fun: 10 Best Books on the Future of Higher Ed
Posted by John Dupuis on August 3, 2012 This one is a little less on the strictly amusing side and a little more on the useful and thoughtful side for a Friday Fun post, but sometimes it’s worth mixing things up a bit. I’ve mostly not read these books myself but I am in the middle of the Christensen/Eyring book right now. And…
From the Archives: Interview with Michael Morgan of Morgan & Claypool
Posted by John Dupuis on July 18, 2012 I’m on my annual summer hiatus for the month of July so I’ll be only publishing my weekly Friday Fun posts as well as re-posting some of the interviews I did a few years ago on the old blog with people from the publishing, library and science worlds. Not that my posting of late has…
Is it ok to get paid to promote Open Access?
Posted by John Dupuis on June 22, 2012 The title of this post might be a bit misleading. I don’t really think it’s much of a question. Of course it’s ok to get paid to promote open access. My university pays me to be a librarian. I have faculty status. I can decide what I think are the most important issues in my…
