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March 30, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Tuesday seems a good day for tidbits. (I am head-down in my UKSG presentation and class stuff at the moment, so kindly forgive posting slowness.) One argument I rarely see made for open access that should perhaps be made more...
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March 24, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
This is my blog post for Ada Lovelace Day, on which we celebrate technical achievement by women. I'm writing it the day before, and setting it to post at midnight. I hope someone is writing a biography of Henriette Avram....
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March 23, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
I was reading the latest issue of the Journal of Digital Information today, and I found myself wishing I could turn the Readability bookmarklet loose on half its PDF-only articles. I'm sorry, authors. I know you tried, but those PDFs...
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March 22, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
OASPA is starting to get its act together, posting a concise summary of its membership procedures and making a new procedure for complaints relevant to the quality measures OASPA wishes to maintain among its members. I think OASPA is right...
Posted 5:02 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Jargon
First, a small warning: I am having an extremely crowded and busy week, so blogging here (even the catchup I need to do to the many excellent comments on the Battle of the Opens post) will suffer. Something for folks...
Posted 5:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
John Dupuis asks some provocative questions; I thought I'd take a stab at answering them, and I encourage fellow SciBlings to do likewise. I quite agree with John when he says that the ferment over publishing models disguises a larger...
Posted 4:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 15, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Jargon
I'm committed to a lot of different kinds of "open." This means that I can and do engage in tremendous acts of hair-splitting and pilpul with regard to them. "Gratis" versus "libre" open access? Free-speech versus free-beer software code? I'm...
Posted 4:57 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
We have a guestblogger today! At my request, Peggy Schaeffer kindly sent me the following introduction to Dryad, which I reproduce as I received it (save for minor formatting details). I will happily pass any questions in the comments on...
Posted 4:03 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
One of the truisms in data curation is "well, of course we don't let sensitive data out into the wild woolly world." We hold sensitive data internally. If we must let it out, we anonymize it; sometimes we anonymize it...
Posted 4:12 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
I interrupt your regularly-scheduled blog to ask for some help... comments closed on this post so that you'll comment where it'll do the most good. --- Apologies for duplication, and please forward/repost as appropriate... We are working on comparing four...
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