jdupuis | 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: Envisioning a New Open Access Platform
Open Access: HEFCE, REF2020 and the Threat to Academic Freedom
More Issues in Open Access(#OA)
Open Access Publishing: Potential Unintended Consequences of the Finch Proposals…
jdupuis | December 30, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Natural Capital Best Nature Books of 2012.
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy Thomas and illustrated by Laura Jacques
Spring Wildflowers of…
jdupuis | December 29, 2012Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Heather Mallick
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitudeby Andrew Nikiforuk
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe
iFanboy
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic…
jdupuis | December 29, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Brain Pickings The Best Music Books of 2012, Psychology & Philosophy, Design, History.
Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learningby Gary Marcus
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your…
jdupuis | December 28, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: San Francisco Chronicle Best books of 2012: 100 recommended books.
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
The Great…
jdupuis | December 27, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Skeptically Speaking #193 Science Books for Your Gift List.
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
Gravity’s Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos by Caleb A.…
jdupuis | December 26, 2012(Yeah, yeah, I know. This list isn't strictly part of my regular list of science books lists, but hey, it's Boxing Day and we should all be a little extra self-indulgent and buy ourselves something nice. Being a fan of the full range of science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, I have been paying attention to those "best of 2012" lists as I see them online -- as well as crime fiction and cookbooks, natch -- so I thought I'd share one of the nicest ones I've seen with all my readers. Enjoy!)
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the…
jdupuis | December 25, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Teaching Biology: Top Books of 2012: Historical Geology.
The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams
What is Life?: How Chemistry becomes Biology by Addy Pross
Secret Chambers…
jdupuis | December 24, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Discovery News A Little Cosmic Reading: Favorite Space Books.
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean M. Carroll
Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos by Caleb Scharf
Edge…
jdupuis | December 23, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Cocktail Party Physics Baker’s Dozen: Sampling the Best Science Books of 2012.
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean M. Carroll
A Man of Misonceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie
The Idea…
jdupuis | December 22, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Technology and Learning The 11 Best Nonfiction Books of 2012.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't by Nate Silver
Tubes: A…
jdupuis | December 21, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Top Books of 2012: Environmentalism and Climate Change, Evolution.
Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity by David W. Pfennig, Karin S. Pfennig
The Evolution of Parental Care by Nick J. Royle, Per T. Smiseth,…
jdupuis | December 21, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: .
Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are by, Sebastian Seung
Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos by Caleb Scharf
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Immortality: The…
Around the Web: Amazon Needs Some Catalogers, Is the scientific literature self-correcting? and more
jdupuis | 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 journals”
staying current without being overwhelmed: my approach to reading the library literature
Science publishing: Open access must enable open use
A study of open access journals using article processing charges
Open access…
jdupuis | December 20, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Kobo Best of 2012.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg…
jdupuis | December 19, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Books of the Year 2012: Natural history, .
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation by Mark Avery
My Garden & Other Animals by Mike Dilger
Field Guide to the Micro-…
jdupuis | 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 will affect our Profession
PLoS ONE: from the Public Library of Sloppiness? (are additional paper charges for copy-editing, etc, worth it?)
Synthesizing Science and the Liberal Arts and From Classroom to Career
The Library as a Free Enterprise
Size Isn't Everything:…
jdupuis | December 18, 2012Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
The Scholarly Kitchen: Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2012
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don'tby Nate Silver
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using data to Change the Worldby…
jdupuis | December 18, 2012Yes, the science blogging community has certainly seen some gyrations in the last few years with a bunch of new networks sprouting up, sometimes from the ashes of other networks, sometimes completely on their own.
The latest is Phenomena: A science salon hosted by National Geographic magazine.
Phenomena is a gathering of spirited science writers who take delight in the new, the strange, the beautiful and awe-inspiring details of our world. Phenomena is hosted by Jamie Shreeve, Executive Editor for Science at National Geographic magazine, who invites you to join the conversation.
So far at…
jdupuis | 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 in the Humanities
Confessions of a (former) gatekeeper
Full Text Of The Grim Meathook Future Thing
Massive Open Online Courses -- A Threat Or Opportunity To Universities?