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Interview with Mark Patterson, Executive Director of eLife
Posted by John Dupuis on April 15, 2013 Welcome to the most recent installment in my very occasional series of interviews with people in the publishing/science blogging/computing communities. This latest installment is with Mark Patterson, Executive Director of new OA publisher eLife. I attended an ARL Directors briefing conference call on eLife with Mark a little while back, highlighting for me just how…
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…
From the Archives: Interview with Eugene Wallingford of Knowing and Doing
Posted by John Dupuis on July 5, 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…
Interview with Peter Binfield and Jason Hoyt of PeerJ
Posted by John Dupuis on June 12, 2012 Welcome to the most recent installment in my very occasional series of interviews with people in the publishing/science blogging/computing communities. The latest is with Peter Binfield and Jason Hoyt of PeerJ. PeerJ is a new startup in the scientific publishing industry, using a rather unique business model whereby authors will be able to pay one…
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…
Interview with the gang at EngineerBlogs.org
Posted by John Dupuis on February 14, 2011 Welcome to the long-awaited latest instalment in my occasional series of interviews with people in the library, publishing and scitech worlds. This time around the subjects of my first group interview are the gang at EngineerBlogs.org. From my welcome-to-the-blogosphere post, here’s a condensed bit about them: Cherish The Scientist (EB) I am an electrical engineer…
From the Archives: Interview with Bora Zivkovic, Crazy Uncle of the Science Blogging Community
Posted by John Dupuis on July 20, 2010 What with the recent blogospheric developments, I thought it would be a great idea to reprint a post from a couple of years ago where I turned the tables on Bora and interviewed him about science blogging, science and ScienceOnline. The original post is from March 13, 2008. I’d also like to point you to…
The American Astronomical Society responds to “Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?”
Posted by John Dupuis on April 15, 2010 A month or so ago I posted on Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?, basically on the challenges that scholarly societies face in the digital age. I got a few good comments, getting a nice discussion going. I also posed a few questions directly to scholarly societies but unfortunately didn’t get any comments from any of the…
Q&A with NRC-CISTI about their new public-private partnership with Infotrieve
Posted by John Dupuis on October 19, 2009 As I mentioned in my previous post, I did a little Q&A about the new outsourcing arrangement that CISTI has negotiated with Infotrieve. Q1. What’s the effect on jobs at CISTI from this move? As you may know, NRC-CISTI is transforming itself to be well positioned to serve the needs of Canadian knowledge workers now…
From the Archives: Interview with Timo Hannay, Head of Web Publishing, Nature Publishing Group
Posted by John Dupuis on August 5, 2009 During my summer blogging break, I thought I’d repost of few of my “greatest hits” from my old blog, just so you all wouldn’t miss me so much. This one is from July 3, 2007. It’s one of the most popular posts I’ve done, and it was linked quite widely in the science blogosphere. The…
