There’s A Smell Of Revolution In The Air

For a long while now I have felt that the business model from the Academic Journal Publishers is wrong. It cheaply exploits the work of academics and then sells it back to them. With the growing Open Access movement I have been waiting to see when many Academics wake up and realise the power they [...]

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Is It Hyperbole To Say That The US Research Works Act Is the Greatest Threat To Academic Publishing and The Open Access Movement?

I certainly don’t think so and I am not the only one. Dr Mike Taylor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol wrote the following article in the Guardian: Academic publishers have become the enemies of science The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded [...]

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Your opinion? Using iPads to teach information literacy.

Nothing sinister about this – I’m curious.  We have some iPads for teaching this year and I want to make the best use of them.  The “hive mind” might think of more stuff than I. http://twtpoll.com/badge/if/?twt=2jls90&b=1&bt=1

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A Brand For A Centenary

I have been to a few meetings around what various organisations are planning on doing for the Centenary of Word War I, one of which included discussions around a brand for the New Zealand celebrations. The idea around this brand is to help organisations tie together their activities so that there is a common platform for people to refer [...]

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2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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