around the web
jdupuis | February 7, 2012
The End of Academic Library Circulation?
Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries
Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey
Teens slowly migrating to Twitter
Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition
Is Facebook Really a Good Business?
Who Does Google Think You Are? A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age
Social Media and Privacy
The (Not So) Inevitable Future of Digital Textbooks
Social Anxiety (ups and downs of post-pub online peer review)
5 Foundational Principles for Course Design
The nine golden rules of…
jdupuis | February 5, 2012
College students will stick to paper books
Open Access Collection (PLoS)
A Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing
How to Become A Social Media Influencer: Ten Small Steps
The Declining Value of Subscription-based Abstracting and Indexing Services in the New Knowledge Dissemination Era
Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online
Attempt to replicate "arsenic life" experiment fails
A Most Optimistic Unconference: Publishers, Libraries, and Independent Bookstores at Digital Book World 2012
Publishing's Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory
Saint Zuck
Is uncivil behaviour hijacking…
jdupuis | February 1, 2012Ever since I attended the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians last summer, I've been watching for interesting posts on academic library leadership, or just academic leadership in general. This is some of what I've found.
Let me know in the comments what else I should be reading.
Gordon Ramsay's Library Nightmares
On talking crazy, taking initiative, and having a comprehensive vision
The Faculty-Staff Divide
Two Years at Cupcake U: Reflections
What Were They Thinking?
Ask the Administrator: Professional Development for a New Dean
Wait for It... Wait for It...
Consensus…
jdupuis | January 31, 2012
What 'Ownership' Means for Digital Media (Hint: Not Much)
The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance
An Introvert's Guide to Networking
Giving introverts permission to be themselves
Consensus Decision-Making and its Possibilities in Libraries
Disruption and Implications
Support good science writing - pay for it
Online tools are 'distraction' for science
You Probably Don't Have a Social Media Expert
From Stacks to the Web: the Transformation of Academic Library Collecting
Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries
Our College Education System Serves Its…
jdupuis | January 9, 2012Note: this post is superseded by: Around the Web: Research Works Act, Elsevier boycott & FRPAA.
Following on my post from yesterday on Scholarly Societies: It's time to abandon the AAP over The Research Works Act, I thought I'd gather together some of the recent posts on the issue.
The Wikipedia article is here, full text of the bill here and status here.
2012.01.04. New US Publisher Anti-OA Legislation by Cable Green
2012.01.04. A Threat to Open Access: the Research Works Act by Lisa Federer
2012.01.05. Update on publishers and SOPA: Time for scholarly publishers to disavow the AAP by…
jdupuis | December 3, 2011
On Changing Reading Habits or Savoring the Experience
Who decides what a library should be? Those who use it or those who pay for it?
The rise of the new information gatekeepers
Exploding The "Influentials" Myth
"Ambitious, Unfunded, and Possible"
Grad Students and Digital Education
How to Get Past Your Customers' Lies
Regarding Snobbery
Copyright Policy and Practice in Electronic Reserves among ARL Libraries
Should you enter the academic blogosphere? A discussion on whether scholars should take the time to write a blog about their work
Cutting their own throats
The degree is the job: a…
jdupuis | November 12, 2011
Why Engineering Majors Change Their Minds
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard)
Why The Internet of Things Will Be Open
Access or ownership: Which will be the default?
Designing for the phase change: Local communities and shared infrastructure
There is a pathetic lack of functionality in scholarly publishing. We must end for-profit publishing and allow libraries to make available the works of their scholars for all
Retaining the STEM Dropouts
Finding Scholarship and Scholarship Finding Us
Thoughts on 2011 Open Access Week
"We Don't Read That Way"
The Walled Garden…
jdupuis | November 3, 2011
True scientists are irreverent
Bookshops, You Have Three Choices
The three biggest myths about women in tech
On thumb twiddling (how not to run your IR)
Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'
Tightening the Net: Intellectual property micro-regimes and peer-to-peer practice in higher education networks
The Creepy Librarian Stalker Hypothesis
Students Push Their Facebook Use Further Into Course Work
Hacking (Higher) Education: An Intro
(Some) garbage in, gold out
Building the perfect data repository…
jdupuis | October 20, 2011
Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It's Our Job
Social Media for Scientists Part 2: You Do Have Time
Social Media for Scientists Part 2.5: Breaking Stereotypes
Social Media For Scientists Part 3: Win-Win
The economics of science blogging
The three things I learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women: on being a radical scholar
Coming to blows over books
Where should our information literacy standards come from?
Asked and Answered: Here's What I Think the Aaron Swartz Case Means
Are Teaching and Research Distinct?
Doing Science in the Open
Joe Murphy as Apple Advertisement - We've…
jdupuis | October 6, 2011As I'm sure everyone who's spent anytime exposed to any media at all over the last day knows that Steve Jobs has died. The death of anyone so young and with so much left to give is a tragedy to their immediate circle of family, friends and co-workers and they certainly have my sincere sympathy for their loss.
But of course, Steve Jobs was a very public figure who's death has had a huge emotional impact on many people, including many he never met.
And that's because of the immense impact of the full range of Apple products have had on people's everyday lives. Steve Jobs seemed somehow…
jdupuis | October 1, 2011
10 Reasons Why Your (EDU) Boss Should Tweet
The digital scholar - which way to go?
Facebook is scaring me
#ArsenicLife Goes Longform, And History Gets Squished
Science Online: London 2011 - Keynote, Michael Nielsen - Video & Storify
Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation
Bibliographies (CS scholars should post copies of articles on their websites)
Reading, Risk, and Reality: College Students and Reading for Pleasure
Access to scientific publications should be a fundamental right
Honor Your Campus Library
Academic Publishing and Zombies
Who killed videogames?…
jdupuis | September 24, 2011
The Future of Libraries
The Guardian's 9/11 mistake shows we're still learning the boundaries of Twitter
Feeling pointy
A Quick Buck by Copy and Paste: A review of Gamification by Design
Stop the Internet, we want to get off!
Open Access Is Infrastructure, Not Religion
Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals
Think Different? Not in Higher Ed
Counting books is boring
Note to vendors:
Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities
Introverts and Customer Service in the Library: An Unexpected Fit
What does curation mean, anyway?
Why do we…
jdupuis | September 13, 2011
Academically on Course
Journal Submissions
Asking the right questions
Inger Mewburn - Is There a New Digital Divide Brewing?
The case for libraries' use of social media: a how-to
Social Media - Oversold and Undervalued
15 Case Studies to Get Your Library Director On Board With Social Media
(Moral) Hazards of Scanning for Plagiarists: Evidence from Shoplifting
Eleven Deadly Sins Of Online Promotion For Writers
Why IT pros should be more like librarians
Hacking the Academy
Some Thoughts on the Hacking the Academy Process and Model
How to Leverage your workforce: librarians and the art of the…
jdupuis | September 7, 2011
Seniors, Women Embracing Tablets, E-Readers
Open access to scientific knowledge and feudalism knowledge: Is there a connection?
I Got the Wrong Request from the Wrong Journal to Review the Wrong Piece. The Wrong kind of Open Access Apparently, Something Wrong with this Inherently...
Do More, Own Less: A Grand Theory of the Sharing Economy
Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed?
A way forward on reformatting conferences
Five Hard Truths About Blogging
Social Media - Oversold and Undervalued
Collections are library assets
The Internet of things will…
jdupuis | August 31, 2011
The Patent System Is The World's Biggest Threat To Innovation Today
How Google Dominates Us
The Status of Science: We Have No-one to Blame but Ourselves
Resilience vs. Sustainability: The Future of Libraries
Getting first sale wrong
College Students: The Gadget Generation
Our kids' glorious new age of distraction
Study this: E-Textbook readers compared
Academic E-books and their Role in the Emerging Scholarly Communications Landscape
"Librarians" -- An Endangered Species?
What Students Don't Know
The Library, it's academic
Why it matters how faculty view librarians
Three Reasons We Struggle…
jdupuis | August 16, 2011
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Copy
The Children They Never Had (regrets about not having kids among mostly female science faculty)
Why We Inflate Grades
Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong
Faculty inertia and change in scholarly publishing
Blogs: face the conversation
No Offence, But Insults Have Merit in Academia
Overexposed? Baby Photos in the Age of Facebook
What People Don't Get About Working in a Library
Building Canada's Digital Law Library
Subtle Things That Hold Women Back
Facebook and Branding
The importance of language and framing, part eleventy-thousand
Fall From Grace…
jdupuis | July 30, 2011
Let's talk about Plagiarism
Who Is Punished for Plagiarism?
NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again--and Faces a Backlash
If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault
What Tech Do You Bring to Conferences?
Overeducated, Underemployed: How to fix humanities grad school
Know Your Value
"I graduated from a top library school." Yeah, so what?
The role of Facebook and Twitter in scientific citations and impact factors
Tweeting Science
Google Plus and The Social Media Moonshot
Does the Murdoch Hacking Scandal Signify the End of Privacy?
You Stay Classy, Ivory Tower!
Google Plus,…
jdupuis | July 23, 2011
The Cornucopia of the Commons
Discouraging EDU Lessons from Netflix Streaming
A gentle introduction to Twitter for the apprehensive academic
Setting the Agenda: Key Issues for Scholarly Publishing
Of Hybrarians, Scholar-Librarians, Academic Refugees, & Feral Professionals
An ex-Googler's inside view on Google+ vs. Facebook
Six Reasons Tablet Devices Will be Owned by 20% of Incoming Freshmen in U.S. Higher Education by Fall 2012
Tips for being a great blogger (and good person)
Is It Cold in Here?
Rock Stars and Superheroes
If this is the future, count me out
Warning! Social Networks Are…
jdupuis | June 14, 2011
Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket
Is e-learning the food-bank of education?
My "must have" apps after 1 academic year on the iPad
Teaching Them How to Think
The (Revised) Case Study
Why I Decided to Start a Blog
When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression: Jillian C. York
Tinkering with technology education
Zuckerberg and Schmidt warn on over-regulation of web
The Value of a Humanities Degree: Six Students' Views
Entrepreneurship vs. Scholarship?
The Facebook Mirror
Roads Taken and Not Taken
Hard work and success and the difference between the two
with great…
jdupuis | June 9, 2011
The death of death?
Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries
Tinkering with the IEEE and ACM copyright policies
How can a university best use social media for internal communications?
Being a More Efficient, Productive Academic II: Thinking About References
Taiga by the Tail
When talking about the library remember N3P3: an advocacy talking points framework for academic libraries
PDA and the Research Library
A Pilot Survey of the Numbers of Full-Text Items in Institutional Repositories
where credit is due
Boycotting the Plaintiffs?
PDA and the Research Library…