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November 30, 2012

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4:52 PM | Interview with Mr. Rob Walsh, Scholastica
This interview is with Mr. Rob Walsh, co-founder of  Scholastica and its lead interaction designer. Mr. Walsh holds a BA in International Studies from the Texas A&M and an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago (but like most entrepreneurs, now does something completely different…).  Scholastica is a young start-up (just celebrated its second [...]
Information Culture
Library Science | Publishing
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1:00 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Boing Boing Gift Guide
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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3:03 AM | Making implicit knowledge and skills more explicit in science education
One of the reasons I love being a librarian is that I have an opportunity to do many different things as a part of my job. At the recent Geological Society of America conference I had a chance to wear many hats: advisor to an undergraduate giving a talk, librarian looking at possible books to [...]
Information Culture
Library Science | Publishing

November 29, 2012

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1:00 PM | Building a new scholarly communications ecosystem from first principles
Like 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…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 28, 2012

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1:44 PM | The Libertarian University
Or, more precisely, a university designed by libertarians. Over the last number of months, I’ve featured a fair bit of apocalyptic MOOC Disruptionism in my regular Around the Web posts. Recently, the libertarian think tank, The Cato Institute (Wikipedia) via their Cato Unbound site, has put online a series of essays discussing just how the…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 27, 2012

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8:05 PM | Best Science Books 2012: New York Times 100 Notable Books
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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5:10 PM | Reading Diary: Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein is a short book. I wish I could say it was also a sharp shock of a book, but not quite. This is a classic case of a book that cries out to be shorter — in this case from a decent slim hardcover reduced down to…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 26, 2012

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9:27 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The Globe 100
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 23, 2012

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5:53 PM | Interview with Dr. Victor Henning, Mendeley
This time (no, I haven’t gone interview-only. One more after this one and we’re back to regular posting) I’m interviewing Dr. Victor Henning. Dr Henning has a PhD in Psychology from the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, Germany, and is co-founder and CEO of Mendeley, a program which allows managing and sharing of research articles. Founded in late 2007, [...]
Information Culture
Library Science | Publishing
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5:47 PM | Around the Web: College Reinvented, Shirky on MOOCs, Newspapers & citizenship and more apocalypse
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…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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1:37 PM | Friday Fun: Bookish Conversations We Never Want to Have Again
Anybody who’s followed this blog for any length of time knows that I love books, I love reading them, I love reading and writing about them too. However, sometime it’s possible to get a little too enamored of our own little petty obsessions. Of course, my obsessions are fine but yours are a bit suspect.…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 22, 2012

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5:39 PM | Around the Web: Defending universities, Battle of the Bodelian, Sexy in STEM? and more
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…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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9:00 AM | Horizon 2020: Open Access light?
Aktueller Entwurf des Open Access Mandates unter Beschuss
scinoptica blog: open science, open access and scientific communication
Library Science | Science Communication

November 21, 2012

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1:17 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Brain Pickings
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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10:15 AM | Sciencestarter geht online
Launch der ersten deutschsprachigen Crowdfunding-Plattform für wissenschaftliche Projekte
scinoptica blog: open science, open access and scientific communication
Library Science | Science Communication

November 20, 2012

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1:34 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Barnes & Noble
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 19, 2012

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6:33 PM | Around the Web: What makes academic library patrons tick, The ascendance of expertise and more
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…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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1:42 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Amazon
It is time. The season of lists begins again! Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that I can find around the web in various media outlets. From the beginning it’s been a pretty popular service so I’m happy to…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 17, 2012

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10:52 AM | Tamiflu und der Zugang zu Daten
 Roche Pharma verweigt Zugriff auf klinische Daten
scinoptica blog: open science, open access and scientific communication
Library Science | Science Communication
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8:45 AM | Open Movement?
Stefan Baack und die Kohärenz der Initiativen für Offenheit und Transparenz
scinoptica blog: open science, open access and scientific communication
Library Science | Science Communication

November 14, 2012

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9:17 PM | Something clever about pictures, thousands of words and 140 characters
So it is probably not shocking that sometimes I can’t express myself in one tweet. (It is probably more shocking …Continue reading »
info-fetishist
Education | Library Science
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5:33 PM | Ludwig Guttmann
This is mainly a plug for my first foray onto Occam’s Corner, plus a place to list some of the sources of information that I used, and to tell the story of the chase for a missing document. I feel quite … Continue reading →
Trading knowledge
Library Science
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1:32 PM | Around the Web: The Fallacy of Digital Natives, Beats vs obsessions, Data-gathering apps and more
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…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 13, 2012

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7:32 PM | Solo Hackday
Once upon a time I might have described myself as a techie. My career was founded on my willingness to install hgopher and Trumpet Winsock and fiddle with autoexec.bat and config.sys. This gave people access to the wonders of the … Continue reading →
Trading knowledge
Library Science
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1:45 PM | Current/Future State of Higher Education: Week 6: Distributed Research & new models of inquiry !
Yes, I’ve fallen behind a bit on my MOOC due to conferences and other general insanity, but after doing the last week this week I vow to catch up a bit retroactively and do weeks 3, 4 & 5. My weeks 1 and 2 posts are here and here. Distributed Research: new models of inquiry…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science

November 09, 2012

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1:19 PM | Recent Presentations: Getting Your Science Online and Evaluating Information
As I mentioned way back on October 22nd, I was kindly invited to give a talk at the Brock University Physics Department as part of their seminar series. The talk was on Getting Your Science Online, a topic that I’m somewhat familiar with! Since it was coincidentally Open Access Week, I did kind of an…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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9:45 AM | Nature Publishing Group verlangt höhere Autorengebühren für CC-By-Lizenzierung
CC-By kommt Autoren teurer als restriktivere CC-Lizenzen
scinoptica blog: open science, open access and scientific communication
Library Science | Science Communication

November 08, 2012

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9:39 PM | this is the science of information, yes?
Impact factor.  No, not that impact factor – impact factor for news.  What would that look like?  In particular, what …Continue reading »
info-fetishist
Education | Library Science
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6:03 PM | Customer relations
Journal publishers are more interested in librarians than they ever used to be. The move to e-journals and big deals has changed the balance between individual and institutional  subscriptions, making libraries more important to publishers than, say, fifteen years ago. … Continue reading →
Trading knowledge
Library Science

November 07, 2012

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1:31 PM | Around the Web: Profs with tattoos, Supporting an open definition of Digital Humanities and more
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…
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library Science
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