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Around the Web: Ignoring gurus, sherpas, ninjas, mavens and more
Posted by John Dupuis on March 13, 2013 Why I Ignore Gurus, Sherpas, Ninjas, Mavens, and Other Sages Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars Tenure-Track Science Faculty and the ‘Open Access Citation Effect’ Academic Libraries as Data Quality Hubs Writing for Exposure: What Publishers Should Promise When They Aren’t Paying Why…
Around the Web: Cool stuff for undergrad science students
Posted by John Dupuis on March 11, 2013 I have a son who’s currently a first year physics student. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links…
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…
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…
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…
Around the Web: Access Copyright Smackdown, Big data snail mail, Postdocalypse now and more
Posted by John Dupuis on February 7, 2013 Like lunch, writing isn’t free when librarians lend their politics – or, information wants to be doctrinaire OLITA Resolution on Opposition to Access Copyright License Agreements Calling out nonsense – Access Copyright On (Access) Copyright What is the government’s interest in copyright? Not that of the public. The Fastest Way to Send Big Chunks of…
Ontario Library Association Super Conference presentation: If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Some librarian job search advice
Posted by John Dupuis on January 31, 2013 Some colleagues and I are presenting tomorrow at the latest Ontario Library Association Super Conference. Here’s the info: Session: #1307: Friday 3:45 PM 5:00 PM IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW Career development Speaker(s) John Dupuis, Acting Associate University Librarian, Information Services, York University; Tanis Fink, Director, Seneca Libraries, Seneca College; Amanda French,…
Around the Web: A presentation on Open Data at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference
Posted by John Dupuis on January 30, 2013 I’m doing a session at the Ontario Library Conference tomorrow with a few colleagues. The topic is Creative Commons licensing and I’m doing the section on Open Data. It’s a kind of a replay of what we did for library staff about a year ago. Here’s the info this time: Session: #308 Thursday 9:05 AM…
