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jdupuis | September 10, 2014
A Creative Commons Guide to Sharing Your Science
Why do some academic publishers think they should charge extra for more liberal licenses (CC BY)?
The opportunity cost of my open access was 35 hours + $690 (UPDATED)
The future of open access and library publishing
Sick of Impact Factors
Making a spectacle of scientific research
Open for Business – Why In the Library with the Lead Pipe is Moving to CC-BY Licensing
The tone goes up on the open front
No Need To Only Send Your Best Work To Science Magazine
Why I am a product manager at PLOS: Linking up value across the research process
Are…
jdupuis | September 4, 2014Yes, it has become a trilogy. The two Twitter rants I recapped here sparked more angst and anguish in me, prompting me to write a third rant.
As it became ready for Twitter publication and approached 800 words, it also became clear that this particular rant was fast outgrowing what I could reasonably expect people to follow on Twitter, easily over 40 tweets worth of text. As many epic fantasy series can attest, these things can get out the control of the author quite easily. At least I'm not pulling a GRRM and taking 6 or more years in between installments!
I did sent out a tweet last…
jdupuis | August 29, 2014Twitter is a great place to rant and rave sometimes. You can feel free to let loose and say what you're thinking without necessarily feeling that you need to have completely well-formed ideas. The enforced brevity can sometimes also be a plus, as it forces you to distill what you want to say to the bare minimum. It it possible to string together longer thoughts across multiple tweets but it becomes a bit awkward to read.
I let loose a couple of Open Access related rants over the last few days and I thought I'd share them here, slightly cleaned up to make them more readable. Both are fairly…
jdupuis | August 26, 2014
7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing
Library without books debuts at Florida’s newest college
How Streaming Media Could Threaten the Mission of Libraries
Books: Important Symbol or Annoying Physical Reality?
Ice Ice Baby: Are Librarian Stereotypes Freezing Us out of Instruction?
UNBSJ students protest for study space: Say the new library is too noisy
How Libraries Can Survive In The Digital Age
What does an unsuccessful academic library look like?
Editorial: Evolving libraries still need people
The future of libraries is in good hands
Schism in the Stacks: Is the University Library As We…
jdupuis | August 6, 2014It seems that the American Association for the Advancement of Science has just announced the new publisher of it's flagship family of Science journals:
AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner today announced the appointment of Kent Anderson, a past president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SPP), to serve as Publisher of the Science family of journals.
Anderson, who in 2011 received the SPP's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, will assume the role of Science Publisher as of 3 November.
Currently, he is the CEO and Publisher of STRIATUS/The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery in Needham…
jdupuis | August 1, 2014In a recent post on his Whatever blog, science fiction writer John Scalzi makes some very fine points related to the ongoing controversy surrounding the way Amazon treats various publishers and how this affects authors.
He makes great points throughout the post and with a little tweaking we can very easily apply his remarks to libraries and publishers.
Here's my tweaked version:
I really really really wish publishers would stop pretending that anything they do is for the benefit of libraries. They do not. They do it for their own benefit, and then find a way to spin it to libraries, with the…
jdupuis | June 30, 2014
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
Facebook's massive psychology experiment likely illegal
Facebook and Engineering the Public
College graduates earn more, but that doesn't prove college is worth it
Mirrortocracy: The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture
Google’s latest empire-building tactic: cheap phones
How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine
Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media
Education’s war on millennials: Why everyone is failing the “digital…
jdupuis | June 26, 2014I'm always interested in the present and future of libraries. There's a steady stream of reports from various organizations that are broadly relevant to the (mostly academic) library biz but they can be tough to keep track of. I thought I'd aggregate some of those here. Of course I've very likely missed a few, so suggestions are welcome in the comments.
I've done similar compilations recently here and here.
MOOCs: Expectations and Reality: Full Report
Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers
Sustaining the Digital Humanities
Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Art Historians
A Guide…
jdupuis | June 17, 2014There's been a lot around the intertubes the last few months about journal pricing and who pays what and why and reactions all around. I thought I'd gather a bit of that here for posterity, starting with the Timothy Gowers post on the UK Elsevier Big Deal numbers up to the most recent item in PNAS about US numbers. In both cases, they authors dug up the numbers using Freedom of Information requests to the various institutions.
Needless to say, I'd love to see these kinds of numbers for Canada and if anyone out there is interested in working on such a project I'd love to hear from you.
The…
jdupuis | May 26, 2014Faithful readers of this blog may recall that back in March I posted a set of slides I had prepared for a presentation to a class of undergraduate computer science majors, basically outlining what open science is and challenging them to use their talents to make science work better.
Usually I don't post the presentation slides I use for my everyday work as a librarian, when I appear in classrooms to talk about how to find and evaluate sources in science or when I talk about science communication. But in this case I spent a fair amount of time preparing and revising this particular iteration…
jdupuis | May 2, 2014
Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?
In One Stunning Graphic, NASA Shows Us What Climate Change Will Do to Earth by 2099
Exxon Mobil's response to climate change is consummate arrogance
We Should Be in a Rage
Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why
Paul Krugman: Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
Surviving the post-employment economy
The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street
Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees
Tech Workers,…
jdupuis | April 25, 2014I'm always interested in the present and future of libraries. There's a steady stream of reports from various organizations that are broadly relevant to the (mostly academic) library biz but they can be tough to keep track of. I thought I'd aggregate some of those here. Of course I've very likely missed a few, so suggestions are welcome in the comments.
I did a similar compendium about a month ago here.
NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition
Technology to the Rescue: Can Technology-Enhanced Education Help Public Flagship Universities Meet Their Challenges?
Policy…
jdupuis | April 21, 2014
Publishing may be a button, but publishing isn’t all we need
The Vacuum Shouts Back: Postpublication Peer Review on Social Media
bioRxiv: The preprint server for biology
Debt, Pensions and Capitalisation: Funding schol comms innovation
How to maximise usage of digital collections
Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis of LIS Journals
How to energize scholarship for the digital age
Why universities should care about Altmetrics
Some Things Last A Long Time (How long does it take to publish a paper)
Do blog citations correlate with a higher number of future citations?…
jdupuis | April 17, 2014
Up to Here With Trolls?
This Is What It’s Like To Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meet-up
An Open Letter to Brogrammers
So You’ve Got Yourself a Policy. Now What?
Technology’s Man Problem
Why the ‘Open’ Internet Is So Closed to Women
The Brutal Ageism of Tech Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete
Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
New Study: Internet Trolls Are Often Machiavellian Sadists
Twitter I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
Something’s Wrong When Sarah’s Quiet
The Brogrammer Effect: Women Are a Small (and Shrinking) Share of Computer Workers
Hey Silicon Valley! Not…
jdupuis | April 14, 2014As part of the celebrations for Canada's upcomming 150th birthday, the Canadian federal government has released its Digital Canada 150 strategy paper, and while it`s not all bad, at the same time there is not an awful lot to recommend it. Especially considering it was four years in the making.
My sense is that its main purpose is for the Harper Conservative government to be able to say it has a digital strategy during the next election campaign in 2015. The most telling thing about the strategy, of course, is which department it originated in: Industry Canada. Not Culture, not Heritage, not…
jdupuis | April 11, 2014Oh, Cracked, you are so funny. So funny it just really hurts sometimes. And these so definitely apply to the pickle that libraries and other cultural/content institutions and industries find themselves in as we try and find our place in a future that is very different from the past.
5 Reasons The Future Will Be Ruled By B.S.
A Star Trek-Style Utopia is Already Here ... Sort Of
To Stay Afloat, Businesses Have to Pretend Unlimited Goods are Limited
To keep all that stuff up and running, the publisher is resorting to what experts call FARTS--Forced ARTificial Scarcity. Or they would call it…
jdupuis | March 27, 2014I'm always interested in the present and future of libraries. There's a steady stream of reports from various organizations that are broadly relevant to the (mostly academic) library biz but they can be tough to keep track of. I thought I'd aggregate some of those here. Of course I've very likely missed a few, so suggestions are welcome in the comments.
Shaping the Future of Monograph Publishing in the Liberal Arts: Results of a survey to Oberlin Group Faculty
2014 Planning Guide for Data Management
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2013
Higher Education's Top-…
jdupuis | March 15, 2014
Trope or fact? Technology creates more jobs than it destroys
Will robots steal our jobs? The humble loom suggests not.
The technology and jobs debate raises complex questions
Chasing Entertainment
Thinking the unthinkable: a library without a catalogue
You're not going to read this
The OPAC is Dead
Concordia rethinking its downtown library
Libraries are community assets
Think We No Longer Need Libraries? Think Again.
Students, faculty decry Penn plan to cut math and science libraries
Saving the Library
Reference Library Unveils 3D Printers, Is Cooler Than Indigo
jdupuis | March 14, 2014Earlier this week I was invited (er, invited myself, really) to give a talk to a class of first year computer science students about open access and open science. Sadly, there was a partial snow day that day and I was unable to actually give the talk. Which is too bad, because I've done similar talks before for undergrads and really enjoy the opportunity. In particular, the challenge I wanted to set forth for those budding computing professions was to be a part of developing software solutions for science on the web be they open access journals systems or web data hosting or whatver.
In any…
jdupuis | February 5, 2014
Taking a Longer View
Why librarianship is difficult and contentious
Schism in the Stacks: Is the University Library As We Know It Destined for Extinction?
The Future of Libraries: Harvard Students Are Thinking Outside the Box
Why piles of bad applications may not portend disaster
Silencing, librarianship, and gender: sticking up for stories
Making Space for the Silenced
A New Year’s Vision of the Future of Libraries as Ebookstores
How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box
5 Futures for Libraries
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
Who needs facts? We appear to be in the…