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January 30, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I'm getting quite a few more comments here than when I started, which is lovely! To keep the conversation lively and civil, I've put together a comment policy, which you can find on the blog's About page. (I'll link to...
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January 29, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
(My apologies; this post inadvertently went up prematurely. If you were wondering where I was going with it, please read on!) I met Steve Koch at Science Online 2010, where he wowed me showing off his students' open-notebook-science work. I...
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January 26, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
Back in the day, Time Warner merged with AOL. It turned out to be one of the worst merger ideas in the history of merger ideas, and I believe the evidence suggests that most mergers actually turn out to be...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
It's odd to wake up in the morning to discover that I've earned a new Nerd Merit Badge. I for one welcome our new Boing Boing overlords readers, and I thank the marvelous Jessamyn West for the shout-out. Now. To...
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January 25, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
I don't hear as much curiosity from the research community as I'd like to about what a librarian knows and does, but I do hear some. For that some, I suggest poking through the fourth annual iteration of Librarian Day...
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January 22, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Because I scanted you on tidbits for quite some time, have a second tidbits post in a single week! A little library advocacy: Five library resources you should be using. Otherwise-closed data tend to open up in direct proportion to...
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January 21, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Again in no particular order, some thoughts and ideas that came to mind during Science Online 2010: I did quite a bit of library advocacy during the conference, and not just during the session dedicated to it! I noticed that...
Posted 5:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
Making headlines in libraryland is EBSCO's announcement of exclusive access to several popular periodicals in electronic form. (See also this reaction, which includes a partial list of the publications that will be exclusive to EBSCO.) Essentially, libraries who want their...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
I'm a bit late with these! Sorry about that. Bit busy around me just now. Data-sharing resolutions/requirements announced recently include: the American Naturalist and allied journals (possibly behind paywall, sorry), and the Linguistics Society of America. The calls for open...
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January 17, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
One way and another, I heard quite a lot of talk at Science Online 2010 relevant to the interests of institutional-repository managers and (both would-be and actual) data curators. Some of the lessons learned weren't exactly pleasant, but there's just...
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