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Folklorist and Technology Writer Audrey Watters @audreywatters Now Blogging...
Folklorist (M.A. in folklore from the University of Oregon, 2000) and technology writer Audrey Watters has a new column/blog at Inside Higher Education, the free daily newspaper for the higher...
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Open Access Proposals Made at an IU Faculty Forum on the Future of Libraries
What follows are the remarks and proposals that I offered during the libraries-focused event held today at Indiana University. Hosted by IU Provost Karen Hansen and Dean of the Libraries Brenda...
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Curiously Weak DRM (in University Press-Hosted Companion Websites)
I was just scouting out a new academic book of interest to me using Google Books. I was able to browse chapters, study the table of contents etc. The book is published by one of the largest of the...
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Open Access Interview Part Two @savageminds
Thanks again to Ryan Anderson for working with me on an interview exploring the basic issues relating to open access in anthropology and folklore. The second part of three has now been published on...
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Three Cheers for the Librarians–Lets Help Them Help Us
Three cheers for the librarians who look after us, whether we know it or not. As a student, teacher, researcher, and citizen I work with a wide range of information resources everyday. Whether I step...
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Joining the SOPA Blackout
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA H.R. 3261), the Protect IP Act (PIPA S. 968) and the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) are terrible proposed laws that, if enacted, will greatly harm the public interest....
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Something I Would Really Like You to Read: Codacorolla on Public Libraries Today
I believe that William Gibson is usually correct when he says that “the future is already here, it is just not very evenly distributed yet.” In the spirit of that sentiment, there is something...
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Two Reasons to Love the University of Nebraska Press @UnivNebPress
Visitors to this site will know that I am involved in a range of projects relating to reform in the scholarly communication system. University presses are a key part of that system. They bring to the...
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The MMWC Newsletter and Other Infrastructure: Building our Bazaar
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures (MMWC) has a new newsletter. The cover for MMWC #1 is shown above. Clicking on it should take you to the whole issue as it appears on the online publishing...
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An Inaugural Voyage for the IQ-Wall at MMWC with @lichtensmbw and the...
Detailed accounts of the MMWC’s partnership with University Information Technology Services and its Advanced Visualization Lab will come in time, but I cannot resist quickly sharing here this tweet...
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Check Out the New Anthropod Podcast on Open Access
I really enjoyed listening to the new Anthropod podcast on open access in anthropology. Focusing on the move of Cultural Anthropology to an open access model, hosts Bascom Guffin and Jonah S Rubin have...
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Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural...
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made freely available online, which means anyone with internet access can read it. (Hurray.) In...
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On the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group: An...
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION New members are invited to join the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group (DPHE-IG) in the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international initiative to...
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Tomorrow! Workshop on Social Media and Academic Freedom
Filed under: Academic LIfe, Editorial and Opinion, In the Media, IT (Information Technology), Neoliberal Patterns, Scholarly Communication, social media, Speaking
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