Our friends at the Johns Hopkins University Press! They’ve started the new year with a bang, I mean, blog. We’re adding it to our blogroll so we can keep up […]
Why I Tweet
I tweet. Quite a lot, actually. Does that make me a twit? If you think so, tell it to the astronauts on the International Space Station (@ISS_Research), whose feed is […]
New Things, More Ways — Now a Series!
Hello, Futurists of Reading! Throughout 2011, I’ve followed the amazing evolution of the intersecting worlds of reading and of e-books. In New Things to Read and More Ways to Read […]
Revisiting The New Scientific Journal Article
Back in July of 2009, I wrote a blog post about The Article of the Future (ta-da!) that Cell Press and Elsevier were working on. I thought it was time […]
Where do all these books COME from?
One of the questions we’ve received from our various feedback options (Ask-a-Librarian, Twitter, Facebook, ye olde Suggestion Box on M Level) is – how do books get chosen for the […]
Open Access Quiz Winners!
Last week we ran a quiz about Open Access Week. We had blog posts about authors’ rights, philosophy resources, and Open Data. Here are the winners of our prizes! Chris […]
Open Access Week: Opening Doors with Open Data
The idea of sharing research data – both scientific and social science – has been around for quite some time (for replication studies and new science), but the Open Data […]
Open Access Week: Philosophy Resources
The Open Access (OA) movement is most typically associated with a specific disciplinary domain and a specific format of research literature: The scientific journal article. But OA is actually much broader […]
Open Access Week: Authors’ Rights and Copyrights
You have written a manuscript describing your research. This manuscript represents hundreds of hours spent reading, writing, and doing the actual research. To get this published in a reputable journal, […]
Copyright and Fair Use Workshop
With Web 2.0 platforms, Facebook, mash-ups and peer-to-peer file sharing, we have witnessed a proliferation in the creation and sharing of information in various formats e.g. audio, video, music, image and […]