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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, 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?
jdupuis | December 14, 2012
Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives
The OA Interviews: Harvard’s Stuart Shieber (Pay special note to the comment by Sandy Thatcher and the devastating fisking of it by Stuart Shieber. And by devastating, I mean dev. a. sta. ting.)
Questioning Clay Shirky
Shirky, Bady and For-Profit Higher Ed
Unlikely Pairing? (liberal arts schools get into moocs)
A New (Kind of) Scholarly Press (An open access university press)
Can researchers protect their open data?
Visualizing the Uniqueness, and Conformity, of Libraries (cool…
jdupuis | December 5, 2012
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: MOOCs
The future of libraries is...
The impact of open access on librarians
A People’s History of MOOCs
The Greatest Course You’ll Ever Teach
Why Are Cable Companies Forcing People to Turn to Piracy? (or not.)
How Historians Earn Tenure and The 5-Year Humanities Ph.D.
Failing to Make the Sale (researchers don't promote their own impact on society)
Cautionary Tales About Collective Rights Organizations
Let's (Not) Do the Numbers (why do students need to use the library?)
Where is Library Technology going?
Build Your Own Open Access Journal: An Interview with Rob…
jdupuis | December 2, 2012
Out of sight, out of existence: How lack of public awareness hurts Canadian science
Outcry Grows Over Canadian Govt's Undermining of Climate Science
What matters and what doesn't: open thoughts on academia
Stop the silence, and some suggested reading (more about the state of academia)
Changing Culture in Higher Education
Personal Editorial: Managing High Potential Employees in Libraries: The Rock Star Dillemma
The Internet of the Dead (The traces dead people leave on the Internet)
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
The entrepreneurial library
How can we build a future…
jdupuis | December 1, 2012
50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science and the response Dr. Fields at the Huffington Post is wrong on open access and another Great Expectations For Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Helping Science
Open access: why academic publishers still add value and the response Academic publishers need better defenders
Mobile vs. Social
Let’s Kill the Term Paper
I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem
Who Says Online Courseware Will Cause the Death of Universities?
Amazon’s Diminishing Discounts
Why scientists should care about…
jdupuis | November 29, 2012Like the old saying goes, information wants to be free. In particular, the consumers of information would prefer for the most part not to have to directly pay for the information they are consuming. The information itself, if I may anthropomorphize for a moment, also wants to circulate as freely as possible, to be as consumed as widely as possible, to be as highly regarded as possible. That way it gets to be the information that "wins" the best-used-most-used information sweepstakes.
This seems to me to be a first principle for scholarly communications. Both the users of the information and…
jdupuis | November 23, 2012
College, Reinvented: The Finalists
Napster, Udacity, and the Academy
Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship?
MOOCs and the Future of the University
Survival of the Fittest in the New Music Industry
The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever
How Dead Is the Book Business?
Beyond Literacy and Beyond ‘Beyond Literacy’
Conservatives and the Higher Ed 'Bubble'
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, or What's Really Up With Automated Essay Scoring
Our Napster is Udacity: Quality Doesn’t Beat Access
University of the future: A thousand year old industry on…
jdupuis | November 22, 2012
Defending universities: engaging the public
Oxford erupts in 'Battle of the Bod'
Sexy in STEM? (great essay on women in science)
The Free Ebook Farce
Penguin to Expand E-Book Lending
Supporting a new way to peer-review
Transformational Leadership?
CourseSmart Analytics Is a Bad idea (because it tracks the wrong things)
Reputation bankruptcy
War and Nookd (case of word Kindle being mass replaced with nook)
Minding the Store (negotiating lower textbook prices)
Content Discovery Demystified
Opener Than Thou: On MOOCs and Openness
[2b2k] MOOCs as networks
Maximizing Your Tweets, Facebook Posts…
jdupuis | November 19, 2012
New LJ Report Closely Examines What Makes Academic Library Patrons Tick
Nate Silver and the Ascendance of Expertise
Stables and Volatiles (balancing personalities in project groups)
Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, and the Value of Our Values
Facebook wants to organise our relationships. What's not to like?
PeerJ: An Open-Access Experiment
Engaging the Public, Citizen Science and Imperialism
Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy
Why Tablets?
Why Are Physics Classes…
jdupuis | November 14, 2012
The Fallacy of Digital Natives
Beats vs obsessions, columns vs. blogs, and other angels dancing on pins
Data-Gathering via Apps Presents a Gray Legal Area
Coup at Environmental Journal? (journal editorial board quits when journal changes too much under new admin)
Challenges in Digital Humanities
10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science
Fit for Purpose: Developing Business Cases for New Services in Research Libraries
Ten Things I Didn't Learn in Library School, Academic Edition ("You will spend more time in meetings than you can imagine.")
Measuring Engagement (With Books) (ebooks…
jdupuis | November 7, 2012
The Inked Academic Body
Why I Support an Open Definition of DH
Bring It On! Why the Crisis in Academic Librarianship is the Best Thing Ever and What We Should Do About It.
Administration as Academic Alternative
In praise of the big old mess
Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well
Head of major university group weighs in on U-Va. (yeah, more on UVa)
An Open Letter to E-Book Retailers: Let’s have a return to common sense
From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education
The Role of Trust in the Open Access Ecosystem
Open Access and its impact on…
jdupuis | October 27, 2012
The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research: Results of an Experiment
Would you include your blog in your T&P file?
The Benefits of Open Data – Evidence from Economic Research and Part II
Google Books Litigation Family Tree
Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure
Can You Spare a Little Change? Open Access on the Local Level
Hacking the Open Textbook
Going Meta on the Data (discussion of library eresource usage stats by non-librarian)
Open Access: What is it and what does “Open” mean
Education, Technology "Journalism,"…
jdupuis | October 24, 2012
On Naming Names and Calling Out Trolls
Gawker, Reddit, Free Speech and Such
Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All
Project Information Literacy: Inventing the Workplace and How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace
The Philosophy of Open Access
Impostors, Performers, Professionals - I and II (feeling like an academic imposter, pt II on the job hunt)
The Teaching Track? Really?
Teaching them to fish… (on higher ed "disruption")
Zeitgeist: On Ditching the Monograph and Digital Print Culture
The B-School Twitter-Free Zone
The future of higher…
jdupuis | October 17, 2012
Fair use: a pseudo-post
What Exactly Is Critical Thinking?
The NPR Model for Higher Ed
Why It's Time for a Canadian Digitization Strategy Based on Fair Dealing
Is Open Access Destroying Academic Publishers?
Survey reveals hidden high stress levels and long-hours culture at universities
The Time Has Come to Expand the Scope of Conflict for eBooks
Will econ blogging hurt your career?
HTML5 vs. Apps: Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win
How, exactly, did UVa expect the public to react? (about secrecy involved in UVa presidential shenanigans from last summer)
Casualty of the Math Wars (prof…
jdupuis | October 13, 2012
Everyone should program, or Programming is Hard? Both!
Oh No: LinkedIn Just Went Klout On Us
Can eTextbooks help save the planet?
Preventing the Second Big Deal (not getting locked into big etextbook deals)
Generation Y Leads in Book Buying, Says Industry’s Most Comprehensive Report
Apress unveils open access book publishing program for the tech community
Libraries reinvent themselves as labs of creativity
More Technology, Please (students want more edtech)
Lessons From Swiss Watch-Makers (traditional nonprofit higher ed needs to focus on high end value, niche branding)
The teaching-only…
jdupuis | October 10, 2012
The PC is Over
The Last PC Laptop
What if Libraries were the Problem?
Annealing the Library
Librarians Talk of Abandoning E-Books
Re-Inventing Public Libraries For The Digital Age
5 Ways That edX Could Change Education
The State of the Internet (ie. mobilemobilemobile)
Does Open Access Tackle, Perpetuate, or Exacerbate the Matthew Effect?
PeerJ: Could it Transform Open Access Publishing?
Best Practices for Scientific Computing
Publishers And Google Reach Agreement
Preventing the Second Big Deal (etextbooks rather than ejounals)
Failure, crisis, disruption: The (perpetual) end of higher ed…
jdupuis | October 4, 2012
Finding Fame, and Sometimes Fortune, in Social Media
Why Some Academics Publish More
Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism
On Becoming a Phoenix: Encounters With the Digital Revolution (trying an online course at UPhoenix)
A Pioneer in Online Education Tries a MOOC
FriendFeed Turns 5. The One-Time Pioneer Is Still Here.
The Financial Burdens of the CC-BY License for Scholarly Literature
Will Public Libraries Become Extinct?
It will be hard to find a public library 15 years from now
2012 Digital Music Sales on Pace to Break Record
MLA to Launch Scholarly Communications Platform…
jdupuis | October 2, 2012
Another World is Possible: Particle Physics Goes Open Access
Open-access deal for particle physics
20/09/2012, SCOAP3 Article Processing Charges announced
SCOAP3 Open Access Initiative launched at CERN
The Cost of Not Reading "The Price of Inequality"
Our Obsession with Scale Is Failing Us
The Virginia Effect (UVa controversy from the summer has broad impact across higher ed...)
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2012
Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No
The Cost of Not Reading "The Price of Inequality" (economic inequality is important for higher ed…
jdupuis | October 1, 2012The most recent controversy to whip up the library and science blogospheres revolves around SUNY Potsdam cancelling their American Chemical Society journal package because the subscription packages on offer sucked up too high a percentage of their total budget. SUNY Potsdam Library Director Jenica Rogers wrote about the decision on her blog, garnering quite a bit of attention, including a feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The feature included some rather rude and derailing comments from a representative of the ACS, who later threw some gasoline on the PR fire on a chemistry…