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Library people at Science Online 2010 (updated)

Category: culture of science

Following along in the tradition of Bora's introductions of the various attendees for the upcoming Science Online 2010 conference, I thought I'd list all the library people that are attended. I'm not going to try and introduce each of the...

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Register for Science Online 2010 before it's too late!

Category: SO'10

Registration for Science Online 2010 is open. The conference web site is here and program info is here. Time is running out. There are currently about 175 registered and the organizers are going to cap it at 250. I've attended...

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Bill & Daniel's Excellent Open Publishing Manifesto

Category: acad lib future

A few weeks ago Bill Gasarch published his Journal Manifesto 2.0 on the Computational Complexity blog. Basically, his idea was to start a scholarly publishing revolution from the inside: Keep in mind: I am NOT talking to the NSF or...

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Q&A with NRC-CISTI about their new public-private partnership with Infotrieve

Category: acad lib future

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...

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NRC-CISTI's announces new public-private partnership with Infotrieve

Category: culture of science

Such is the subject line of an email I got from the NRC-CISTI people last week. NRC-CISTI is Canada's National Research Council -- Canada Institute of Scientific and Technical Informamtion. In other words, Canada's national science library. Many of you...

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Library Access to Scholarship

Category: acad lib future

I rarely mention here when Walt Crawford publishes a new issue of his very fine ejournal Cites & Insights, mostly because I sort of assume you all read it already. Of course, that's probably not true so I'll remedy the...

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Open Access Policy for York University Librarians and Archivists

Category: yorku

On October 1, 2009 librarians and archivists at York University Libraries voted unanimously to adopt the following policy:York University Open Access Policy for Librarians and Archivists Librarians and archivists at York University recognize the importance of open access to content...

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IT Professional on Ontologies, OWL, and the Semantic Web

Category: computer science

The IEEE Computer Society's magazine IT Professional has a special issue on Ontologies, OWL, and the Semantic Web (v11i5). There's lots of very cool-looking stuff, mostly pretty basic. Guest Editor's Introduction: Ontologies, OWL, and the Semantic Web by Jepsen, Thomas...

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Thomson's Nobel predictions...Let the follies begin!

Category: academia

It's time for the annual Mocking of the Thomson session. Check out my previous iterations of this amusing pastime: 2002, 2006, 2007a, 2007b, 2008. Yes, I've been at this for a while, but to no avail. My main point in...

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Michael Nielsen & Clay Shirky: Futurologists 'R Us

Category: culture of science

Predicting the future is tricky business. Trust me, I know. But there's two ideas I always like to keep in mind when I put my futurologist's hat on: The future will be at least as diverse as the present, probably...

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