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John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca
Category: acad lib future
I was really angry riding home on the bus last Friday night. Not angry because the transit system here in Toronto is royally fudged in general or that transit to York University is fudged in particular. No, it wasn't that...
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Category: scio13
Well, I survived. Science Online 2012 took place this past weekend and it was a blast. There's already been quite a bit of discussion in blogs and on Twitter about how it went. A very small selection of the them...
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Category: scio12
Sometimes good things happen to good people and this is certainly the case. Michael Nielsen has been named a SPARC Innovator for 2012. I don't usually do awards announcements here but I've made exceptions in the past for friends and...
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Category: acad lib future
Following on my post from yesterday on Scholarly Societies: It's time to abandon the AAP over The Research Works Act, I thought I'd gather together some of the recent posts on the issue. The Wikipedia article is here, full text...
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Category: academia
So, The Research Works Act, H.R. 3699 is a new piece of legislation that is being introduced in the US. Not surprisingly it's supported by the American Association of Publishers and its Professional and Scholarly Publishing (AAP/PSP). The legislation is...
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Category: acad lib future
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...
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Category: acad lib future
As reported here and elsewhere, Amazon is actually dipping its toes into the world of publishing. Which of course is an interesting challenge and threat for traditional trade publishers. And who knows, maybe academic publishers too, if Amazon decides it...
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Category: acad lib future
Ah, #OccupyScholComm. The perfect Open Access Week topic! And just like the broader Occupy protests movement, the aims and policy pronouncements of the "movement" are perhaps not as vague as they might seem to the casual observer. Basically, #OccupyScholComm is...
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Category: academia
For your reading and collection development pleasure! Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets...
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Category: acad lib future
I've long been a believer in the power of blogs to drive and aggregate conversations at every level. Frivolous, for sure. But also serious and scholarly. The rise of science blogs over the last few years has certainly demonstrated that....
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