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My exciting new job at Elsevier: Inaugural editor-in-chief of The Journal of Applied Publishing Experiments
Posted by John Dupuis on April 1, 2012 Hi everybody, It is with great pride and excitement that I’m finally able to announce something that’s been in the works for a few months now. I will be accepting the role of inaugural editor-in-chief of an exciting new journal to be published by Elsevier: The Journal of Applied Publishing Experiments. This amazing opportunity arose…
Elsevier boycott: Time for librarians to rise up!
Posted by John Dupuis on February 21, 2012 A little while back the Cost of Knowledge site started up a boycott pledge list in response to mathematician Timothy Gowers’ pledge to stop contributing to Elsevier’s operations by ceasing writing, reviewing and editing for them. Here is the call to action: Academics have protested against Elsevier’s business practices for years with little effect. These…
Around the Web: Research Works Act & Elsevier boycott
Posted by John Dupuis on February 6, 2012 Note: this post is superseded by: Around the Web: Research Works Act, Elsevier boycott & FRPAA. This post has superseded my previous post which focused solely on the Research Works Act. I have added some coverage of the Elsevier boycott which at least partially grew out of opposition to the RWA. I’m not attempting to…
Science Online 2012: Library and librarian sessions
Posted by John Dupuis on January 13, 2012 With the final countdown underway and the conference less than a week away, this post follows my post on library people in attendance at Science Online 2012 from a few weeks ago. And I’d like to start off with another best-tweet-ever, this time Marieclaire Shanahan retweeting Colin Schutze: + they’ll be fascinating! RT @_ColinS_: #Scio12…
Around the Web: Resources on academic blogging and social media use
Posted by John Dupuis on December 6, 2011 I’m doing a short presentation tomorrow on blogging for researchers as part of a day-long communications workshop for faculty here at York. And since a few months back I created a reading list for a social media presentation for grad students, I thought I’d expand that list in this post and add some more specifically…
Best. Tweet. Ever. Or, library people at Science Online 2012
Posted by John Dupuis on November 16, 2011 It all started with this innocent little tweet from @seelix: In going through the twitter list, I believe that half the #scio12 people are either a librarian, a marine scientist or named Emily. To which I responded: @seelix is there a marine science librarian named Emily? #scio12 @BoraZ had to chime in as well: The…
Interview with Michael Nielsen, author of Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Posted by John Dupuis on November 10, 2011 Welcome to the latest installment in my very occasional series of interviews with people in the scitech world. This time around the subject is Michael Nielsen, author of the recently published Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science and prolific speaker on the Open Science lecture circuit. A recent example of his public speaking…
Charleston Conference Presentation: Keeping Up with the Things That Matter
Posted by John Dupuis on November 9, 2011 I was at The Charleston Conference last week, thanks to Mike Diaz of Proquest who invited me to be on a panel that he moderated, along with Karen Downing and Clifford Lynch. The topic of the panel was Keeping Up with the Things That Matter: Current Awareness Tools and Strategies for Academic Libraries. Karen, Cliff…
The York University Lassonde School of Engineering: Announcement followup & Storify
Posted by John Dupuis on November 8, 2011 Before heading off to the Charleston Conference last week, I blogged about the big announcement of Pierre Lassonde’s big $25 million donation to York to found the Lassonde School of Engineering. I attended the announcement and livetweeted it quite extensively: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,…
SONYC Presentation: Enhanced eBooks & BookApps: the Promise and Perils
Posted by John Dupuis on October 12, 2011 Waaaaay back on September 20, I flew down to New York City to take part in one of the Science Online New York City panel discussions, this one on Enhanced eBooks & BookApps: the Promise and Perils (and here). Ably organized and moderated by David Dobbs, the other panelists were Evan Ratliff, Amanda Moon, Carl…
