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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…
Around the Web: The machine apocalypse vs The New York Times on libraries
Posted by John Dupuis on January 8, 2013 The Machine Apocalypse Is Growth Over? “The data are”: How fetishism makes us stupid Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines An innovation agenda to help people win the race against the machines Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition The Consequences of Machine Intelligence Will a Robot Take Your Job? Artificial…
Around the Web: Open Access in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Top ed-tech trends of 2012, eBooks in libraries
Posted by John Dupuis on December 31, 2012 OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences: Wrong risks and missed opportunities One Size Fits All?: Social Science and Open Access Statement on position in relation to open access(Institute of Historical Research) The open access journal as a disruptive innovation Openness, value, and scholarly societies: The Modern Language Association model Public Library of Humanities:…
Around the Web: Amazon Needs Some Catalogers, Is the scientific literature self-correcting? and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 20, 2012 Amazon Needs Some Catalogers Is the scientific literature self-correcting? Publishing: It’s a Cabal What is Open Notebook Science? Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature Academics and Post-Academics Need to Talk More The Simple Power of Finding Stuff Out (what should first year papers really try and do) Crowdsourcing a database of “predatory OA…
Around the Web: Writing for free, The Web we lost, Librarian entrepreneurs and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 19, 2012 A Note to You, Should You Be Thinking of Asking Me to Write For You For Free A Little More Re: Writing For Free The Web We Lost Librarian Entrepreneurs The flipped academic: turning higher education on its head The Wrong War Over eBooks: Publishers Vs. Libraries Altmetrics and Librarians: How Changes in Scholarly Communication…
Around the Web, Apocalypse Edition: The End of the Universtiy as we know it, Librarians as baristas and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 18, 2012 The End of the University as We Know It The future of online vs. residential education by futurist Ray Kurzweil Librarians or Baristas? Prioritizing Academic Programs Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College Assessing Campus Libraries (space, yes, services…) Where is Library Technology going? MLA President Offers a Sobering Critique of Graduate Education…
Around the Web: Apps = CD ROMS, Open Access saves lives, Questioning Clay Shirky and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 14, 2012 Apps are too much like 1990′s CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives The OA Interviews: Harvard’s Stuart Shieber (Pay special note to the comment by Sandy Thatcher and the devastating fisking of it by Stuart Shieber. And by devastating, I mean dev. a. sta. ting.) Questioning…
Around the Web: MOOCed out, The future of academic libraries, The impact of open access on librarians and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 5, 2012 Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: MOOCs The future of libraries is… The impact of open access on librarians A People’s History of MOOCs The Greatest Course You’ll Ever Teach Why Are Cable Companies Forcing People to Turn to Piracy? (or not.) How Historians Earn Tenure and The 5-Year Humanities Ph.D. Failing to Make the Sale…
Around the Web: The dismal state of Canadian science journalism, What matters and what doesn’t in academia and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 2, 2012 Out of sight, out of existence: How lack of public awareness hurts Canadian science Outcry Grows Over Canadian Govt’s Undermining of Climate Science What matters and what doesn’t: open thoughts on academia Stop the silence, and some suggested reading (more about the state of academia) Changing Culture in Higher Education Personal Editorial: Managing High Potential…
Around the Web: Publisher push-back, Mobile vs. Social, Killing the term paper and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 1, 2012 50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science and the response Dr. Fields at the Huffington Post is wrong on open access and another Great Expectations For Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Helping Science Open access: why academic publishers still add value and the response Academic publishers need better…
