 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
RT @openscience: .@p_phronesis estimates #FRPAA prospects are slim http://pascophronesis.wordpress.com/2012... perhaps underestimates public support for #openaccess cc @darrellissa
RT @Stephen_Curry: Open letter from Elsevier: http://www.elsevier.com/wps... They want more transparency but RLUK subs deal has confidentiality clause…
RT @USRepMikeDoyle: Introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act to let people read federally funded research online for free. http://doyle.house.gov/press-r... #FRPAA
Are publishers basically saying that they are opposed to the core values that libraries represent?
Katy S and Joe The Sausage liked this
They are losing money every time a book circs... the horror.
- The Ghost of Library Past
Yep.
- RepoRat
if there's any justice, soon they'll be losing even more money.
- Joe The Sausage
'Too Big to Know' by David Weinberger | Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs... (review by Barbara Fister)
The Ghost of Library Past liked this
Penguin withdrawing ebooks frm libraries & Res Works Act are the same things. Publishers want to monetize all reading/sharing transactions.
Katy S, RepoRat, Joe The Sausage and The Ghost of Library Past liked this
At a certain level, the challenge is not just how to stop them but also to build a fairer system that can include diverse players.
Today's odd search engine key word referrer: mining john dupuis. Huh?
Friday Fun: 4 Realizations That Will Ruin Science Fiction for You - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Tell me something I didn't know, and no, not actually ruined.
- DJF
Cracked is surprisingly funny sometimes, though.
- John Dupuis
RT @oodja: Notice to publishers: curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal: http://librarianinblack.net/librari...
RT @KiyomiD: For the Friday crowd: #scio12 Pt2: Elephant in the Room: Infrastructure & the Digital Divide http://libraryadventures.com/2012... #tech #science #librarians
RT @mocost: How does science fiction affect public perception of science? http://blog.sciencefictionbiology.com/2012...
RT @David_Dobbs: A researcher explains his/her unease: "Explaining resistance to the Elsevier boycott: Practicalities." | DrugMonkey http://scientopia.org/blogs...
RT @openarchives: Call to action: Tell Congress you support the Bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) http://www.arl.org/sparc...
Heather Piwowar liked this
RT @OpenAccessHulk: OA HULK CELEBRATING BY WAVING LITTLE PURPLE SHORTS IN AIR! ... OOPS. RT @hjoseph: FRPAA's back! http://doyle.house.gov/press-r...
RT @figshare: Looks like @cameronneylon has had a busy day, popping up everywhere: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012... http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story...
Devil Knows by @RossNeilsen -- what a great way to start off today's #ipodcommute
Image of the Day: Woman tattoos Spock and Mirror Spock on her chest http://blastr.com/2012... cc #scio12 @carlzimmer
RT @David_Dobbs: Say #openscience #OA folks: If u could recommend just 3 websites & 3 twitter accts w which to track OA revolt, what wd they be? tx.
The Ghost of Library Past liked this
RT @mitchjoel: The death of the unconference movement: http://www.twistimage.com/blog...
xxZyffie and Heather Piwowar liked this
Interesting. I've always wondered about "unconferences" with preannounced keynote speakers and fairly hefty fees. Sidenote: How can anybody go to 70 conferences or unconferences a year and still get any work done? Unless, of course, this guy's work is entirely conferencing...
- Walt Crawford
I think "death" is overstating things, as it often is. I do also think one thing that's going on (and the link hints at this without actually saying it) is that some unconferences are discovering that a wide variation in attendee ability/existing-knowledge levels is not entirely tenable. I hear through the grapevine that THATCamp is having some trouble with this; they're getting DH...
more...
- RepoRat
Joel is a marketing guy, so he says stupidish things all the time just to attract attention to himself. I think this is an interesting example to contrast with Science Online, which has managed to balance the unconference spirit with growth to 450 attendees. Not always perfectly, of course, but not too bad. And they've had keynotes for a few years. There's no reason why an unconference...
more...
- John Dupuis
Now there's a great sentence: "Joel is a marketing guy, so he says stupidish things all the time just to attract attention to himself. " For "Joel," substitute SO MANY marketing folks, consultants, self-proclaimed futurists...
- Walt Crawford
RT @qui_oui: RT @cap_and_gown: shameless advert for my talk next week 14 Feb 5pm Senate House on the British Academic World http://www.history.ac.uk/events...
Job Posting: Science Librarian, York University Libraries - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Come work instead of me!
- John Dupuis
Wait...you cover people when they are out for a year? :-p
- Hedgehog
In the smaller units, mostly yes. Of course, this is a case where someone will be out for three years in a row, just not always the same person.
- John Dupuis
Ooh - moment of excitement, before I realised there is more than one 'York' (and lets face it even David despairs of my science [un]knowledge)
- Helensleydale
A colleague here tells the story of a bunch of York University people at a conference in the UK who's conference badges were incorrectly set as University of York.
- John Dupuis
Here's the press release about the proposed new Federal Research Public Access Act: http://doyle.house.gov/press-r... #rwa #hr3699 #elsevier
Heather Piwowar liked this
Other ways to read this feed:
