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On the future of expertise and public conversations.
spoiler: nope.
The following is the text of a talk I gave last week at the University of North Texas’s Academic Leadership Workshop. I’m hoping to develop this further, and so would love any thoughts …
Explains the whole preprint/postprint/final version copyright thing.
Good overview.
Recently, the American Historical Association (AHA) posted a policy statement that caused some controversy among academics, because of its recommendation that universities should allow junior scholars the option of a 6-year embargo on electronic publication of their dissertations. The argument goes that younger or early career researchers (ECRs) need the option of an embargo because […]
Good piece for Scholarly Reputation Week.
Good illo for how scholarly-journal publishing works.
From Reuters: Buyout firm BC Partners agreed to buy German publisher SpringerScience+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion) on Wednesday, the largest private-equity acquisition in Germany for seven years.
Reading about the "Mellen Mess" -- the case of the publisher that is suing a librarian who criticized the quality of the houses's output -- ...
Fairly evenhanded look at scholarly publishing costs.
How common classroom and research activities incur copyright-infringement risk.
Presented below are remarks prepared for a meeting of Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) Department Chairs and Academic Associate Deans hosted by the IUB Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty an…