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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…
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…
I 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…
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…
I 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…
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…
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…
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…
I 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…
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 the…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Some 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,…
I'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…
The 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 ‘Digital…
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…
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…