around the web
jdupuis | April 23, 2013
Dealing with Data: Science Librarians’ Participation in Data Management at Association of Research Libraries Institutions
Unbundling the University
Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS): Search Result : Librarians, Archivists, Conservators And Curators (511)
Open access: four ways it could enhance academic freedom
Social Justice Librarianship
Putting the “Expert” in Subject Expertise
Making Things Happen and Getting Things Done
Librarians as Partners: Moving from Research Supporters to Research Partners
Project Information Literacy: What Can Be Learned about the Information-Seeking…
jdupuis | April 13, 2013
Librarians as faculty? It's a red herring.
Why I think faculty status for librarians is (generally) a bad idea
Library employees protest changed title
As Role of Librarians Evolves, Some Colleges End Their Faculty Status
Stratification and losing faculty status
Gender, “thought leaders”, ego, and subversion
Unpacking “faculty status”
Postscript: faculty status and “administrative bloat”
What Is the Business of Literature?
Facebook Leans In
Digital Research, Not Teaching and Ithaka report here.
Free to Profit (Coursera makes some profit)
Systematic Errors of Judgement (bias against women in…
jdupuis | April 9, 2013I have a son who's currently a first year physics student. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for outreach and…
jdupuis | March 30, 2013
Considering the librarian tech skills gap
Ten Easy Pieces on the Profession of Librarianship
Nation's first bookless library on university campus is thriving at UTSA
Conference Report: Beyond PDF 2
Opinions, Morals and What Science Could but Shouldn’t Tell Us
Degrees of Certainty
The Ethics of MOOCs
The Brave New World of College Branding
Journal’s Editorial Board Resigns in Protest of Publisher’s Policy Toward Authors
On PyCon
I Have a Few Things to Say About Adria
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, why are scientists from Earth?
For Libraries, MOOCs Bring Uncertainty and…
jdupuis | March 26, 2013I have a son who's currently a first year physics student. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in computational approaches to science.
Meet Science: What is "peer review"?
Gödel's Proof of…
jdupuis | March 23, 2013
What makes one a librarian?
Goodbye, Faculty Status
Library employees protest changed title: New designation for incoming employee provokes heated debate
why should librarians learn python? (a better answer)
Why Not Grow Coders from the inside of Libraries?
Alt-Ac: Breathing Life into Libraries or Eroding the Profession?
Of Hybrarians, Scholar-Librarians, Academic Refugees, & Feral Professionals
Fending off university-attacking zombies
Defining the library ... reflexively
The Powerful Art Of Resilience
Pages of History (end of the scholarly journal article?)
Topic Pages: PLoS…
jdupuis | March 18, 2013
Hacking at Education: TED, Technology Entrepreneurship, Uncollege, and the Hole in the Wall
Why MOOCs May Drive Up Higher Ed Costs
California Bill Seeks Campus Credit for Online Study
The great librarian identity crisis of 2013
Q&A: Dan Cohen on His Role as the Founding Executive Director of DPLA
The Basic Skills of All Librarians
Poaching jobs
Is coding an essential library skill?
Beyond the Bullet Points: Rock Stars
Why I Ignore Gurus, Sherpas, Ninjas, Mavens, and Other Sages
Cracking the Code: Librarians Acquiring Essential Coding Skills
Research Librarians Discuss New Ways to Support…
jdupuis | March 13, 2013
Why I Ignore Gurus, Sherpas, Ninjas, Mavens, and Other Sages
Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars
Tenure-Track Science Faculty and the 'Open Access Citation Effect'
Academic Libraries as Data Quality Hubs
Writing for Exposure: What Publishers Should Promise When They Aren’t Paying
Why We Miss the First Sale Doctrine in Digital Libraries
Publishers are reshaping themselves
Teaching in a straitjacket (ie. a MOOC)
Book publishers blast Amazon's plan to control domain names
Unintended Consequences of Journal Ranking…
jdupuis | March 11, 2013I have a son who's currently a first year physics student. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in computational approaches to science.
There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs
The ten commandments of student science blogging…
jdupuis | March 7, 2013
The Myth of the Successful College Dropout: Why It Could Make Millions of Young Americans Poorer
Faculty consider the future of research libraries
In Defense of Librarians
The Real Reason Journal Articles Should Be Free
The Genius Of Raising Brilliant Kids: A Conversation With Jack Andraka's Parents
How Corporations Score Big Profits By Limiting Access To Publicly Funded Academic Research
Can repositories solve the access problem?
Take me as I am, and my paper as it is?
Declines in Print Revenue Outweigh Digital Growth, Driving Results Down at Harlequin
Inside TED: the smartest bubble in…
jdupuis | March 2, 2013(This post supersedes the previous post listing items related to the Aaron Swartz story. That post was from January 20, 2013.)
A few comments.
Aaron Swartz's story has had a huge impact, it has reverberated far and wide not just through the interlinking worlds of technology and online activism but far into the mainstream. The library world has been no exception, with quite a few of the items below being from our world.
How has the library world reacted? If anything, I would hope that we have been challenged to examine our core values very carefully, to reflect deeply about how we make…
jdupuis | March 1, 2013
The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 Charts
The Ph.D. Bust, Pt. II: How Bad Is the Job Market For Young American-Born Scientists?
Tenure Track as Alt-Ac
Ph.D. Job Woes
How Many Ph.D.'s Actually Get to Become College Professors?
Government vs. the Public: Mind the science gap
#CanComm, Conferences, and the Search for Allies
What I learned about Librarianship from the Signage on the Underground
The human in digital humanities
Why the Web will gut paid e-books and apps, and why free can pay for authors and publishers
The publishing industry has a problem, and EPUB is…
jdupuis | February 23, 2013
Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research
Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research
Second shoe drops: new White House Directive mandates OA
AAP Supports OSTP Policy Urging Collaboration in Public Access
White House Public Access Policy Is Out
White House Delivers New Open-Access Policy That Has Activists Cheering
SPARC applauds White House for landmark directive opening up access to scientific research
Big day for open access
All you loons
PLOS Commends White House Directive on Open Access
Happy, happy day! OSTP issues directive to expand open…
jdupuis | February 20, 2013
You Build A Library with Books
Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data’
Some Preliminary Theses on MOOCs
Tear it down, build it up: the Research Output Team, or the library-as-publisher
Publishers versus libraries
>Waking Up to New Approaches to Community Media and Librarianship
Wikipedia vs Britannica
Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce
Why Science Journal Paywalls Have to Go
A Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing
Scientists who engage with society perform better academically
MacArthur Foundation researchers find a new digital divide…
jdupuis | February 7, 2013
Like lunch, writing isn’t free
when librarians lend their politics - or, information wants to be doctrinaire
OLITA Resolution on Opposition to Access Copyright License Agreements
Calling out nonsense - Access Copyright
On (Access) Copyright
What is the government's interest in copyright? Not that of the public.
The Fastest Way to Send Big Chunks of Data Is Through the Mail, Not the Internet
Postdocalypse now
You Can't Start the Revolution from the Country Club
The end of the book as we know it, and I feel (mostly) fine.
Lending literacy
When Authorship Isn’t Enough: Lessons from CERN on the…
jdupuis | January 31, 2013Some colleagues and I are presenting tomorrow at the latest Ontario Library Association Super Conference. Here's the info:
Session: #1307:
Friday 3:45 PM 5:00 PM
IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW
Career development
Speaker(s)
John Dupuis, Acting Associate University Librarian, Information Services, York University; Tanis Fink, Director, Seneca Libraries, Seneca College; Amanda French, Manager, Sciences and Business Dept, Mississauga Library System; Klara Maidenberg, Virtual Reference Services & Assessment and Evaluation Librarian, Scholars Portal, OCUL; Zachary Osborne, Head Librarian,…
jdupuis | January 30, 2013I'm doing a session at the Ontario Library Conference tomorrow with a few colleagues. The topic is Creative Commons licensing and I'm doing the section on Open Data. It's a kind of a replay of what we did for library staff about a year ago.
Here's the info this time:
Session: #308
Thursday 9:05 AM 10:20 AM
Creative Commons and Beyond
Speaker(s)
Timothy Bristow, Digital Humanities Librarian; John Dupuis, Acting Associate University Librarian, Information Services; Andrea Kosavic, Digital Initiatives Librarian; Sharon Wang, Association Librarian; York University
Learn more about creative…
jdupuis | January 8, 2013The Machine Apocalypse
Is Growth Over?
"The data are": How fetishism makes us stupid
Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines
An innovation agenda to help people win the race against the machines
Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition
The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
Will a Robot Take Your Job?
Artificial intelligence – can we keep it in the box?
You Must Make the New Machines
Why Making Robots Is So Darn Hard
The New York Times on Libraries
Libraries See Opening as Bookstores Close
Handled With Care (what to do with deceased scholars books)
Failing to Close the ‘…
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…
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…