This week:
Harvard Business School enters the
online education arena with a totally new offering: the
Pre-MBA.
World’s largest book publishers.
How much time do people spend in front of screens? Here are numbers from around the world.
What happens when you read an entire shelf of library books? And how do you read them?
Sick of Hachette vs. Amazon yet? Here are some more takes on the conflict:
World’s largest book publishers.
How much time do people spend in front of screens? Here are numbers from around the world.
What happens when you read an entire shelf of library books? And how do you read them?
Sick of Hachette vs. Amazon yet? Here are some more takes on the conflict:
- What isn’t being talked about, and why one commentator thinks the ultimate resolution rests with government.
- Walmart is trying to capitalize on the conflict.
- The differing views of big publishers, small publishers, and regular folks.
- Some library commentators don’t like either party.
Age-old publishing issues of traffic
and monetization: a
perspective from the digital age.
Are there too many Humanities PhDs?
John Oliver’s humorous take on Net Neutrality. Which apparently has inspired many to follow his call to comment on the FCC’s website.
Are there too many Humanities PhDs?
John Oliver’s humorous take on Net Neutrality. Which apparently has inspired many to follow his call to comment on the FCC’s website.
Older
stuff:
Building a library . . . on
the moon?
Wikiality, changed birthdays, and the “Brazilian aardvark.” How untruths in Wikipedia flow through to other sources, which then are cited in Wikipedia as evidence.
Wikiality, changed birthdays, and the “Brazilian aardvark.” How untruths in Wikipedia flow through to other sources, which then are cited in Wikipedia as evidence.
And Wikipedia may not be the best
resource for medical
information.
Amazon
vs. Hachette is still going on. Here are some interesting reads:
- At least one blogger laments the inevitable and ponders options.
- Another points to Amazon's goal in this fight.
- Where this fits in the publisher/distributor hierarchy.
When the police
want your archive (Irish police and Boston College’s IRA interviews).
A librarian laments about what is wrong
with Google.
What changes to net
neutrality could
mean for libraries.
A brief explanation of slow
and fast lanes on the Internet.
Warning: this novel may
disturb you! Colleges look at putting content
warnings on course readings.
The difficulties and
politics of weeding collections. (Book excerpt.)
Who’s the
largest filer of copyright lawsuits? A small, online porn production
company.
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art releases copyrighted images for scholarly use.
Why did that video go
viral? Research
is trying to find out. (Tip #1: don’t tell people the kitten died.)
Short documentary
about the NY Public libraries and the work they do every day. This one
really tugs at the heartstrings.
Confused by the Net Neutrality proposed rule
change?
Get some answers.
NIH pushing researchers to include females in their studies.
On The Media talks to Jeffrey Beall, the creator of the predatory journals list, about Gold Open Access.
What if you write it and no one reads it? A third of World Bank reports are never downloaded.
Amazon is creating extra delays for purchasers of books from Hachette. Why you shouldn’t expect it to end any time soon.
Africa is more than an acacia tree, but you wouldn’t know it from book covers.
How Scratch & Sniff works.
NY Public Library decides to keep the stacks in its flagship library, but they are now empty.
Three truths about library website design.
Can reading make you smarter? (A little old, but awfully good news.)
NIH pushing researchers to include females in their studies.
On The Media talks to Jeffrey Beall, the creator of the predatory journals list, about Gold Open Access.
What if you write it and no one reads it? A third of World Bank reports are never downloaded.
Amazon is creating extra delays for purchasers of books from Hachette. Why you shouldn’t expect it to end any time soon.
Africa is more than an acacia tree, but you wouldn’t know it from book covers.
How Scratch & Sniff works.
NY Public Library decides to keep the stacks in its flagship library, but they are now empty.
Three truths about library website design.
Can reading make you smarter? (A little old, but awfully good news.)
Research
in the social sciences is suffering from an emphasis on the single study,
to little replication, data fabrication, and poor peer review (and other fields
are starting to see the same issues).
Trying to police those
issues are research organizations . . . and maybe
the federal government?
Textbook publisher tries
to enforce a “return the print book” requirement, and
law professors push back.
Oregon public library
launches “My Librarian,” which connects
online users with a “personal” librarian.
Has the Internet dulled
your critical thinking skills? Well, what do you think about this amazing stairwell? (Also note the plan to create fake scholarship about it!)
Deep
reading and paper vs. screen. (Why paper may stick around.)
The library
as a therapeutic place.
Want to opt out of big
data? Well, you may just look like a
criminal.
Some tricks
for using PubMed (from a Scientific American editor)
BookTraces attempts to catalog the
ephemera and notes 19th century readers left inside their books. Thanks to book
digitization, these physical remnants of past readers may soon be gone.
Slightly NSFW: optical
book scanners are changing the word “arms” to another four-letter word (for
a body part) with hilarious and disturbing results! (File this under: we still
need editors!)
Ending
link rot in legal citations, so future generations know what the Supreme
Court was talking about.
Is it really true that 90%
of papers are never cited? (Spoiler Alert . . . not really.)
Well, we do know that
female authors are cited less often.
And an oldie on the same
topic: Are
scholars publishing too much research that goes unread and uncited? And
what does this do to the peer-review process?
All that skimming online
can make it difficult
to read deeply.
And sometimes the old
way of note taking is better.
Library instruction and
graduation rates.
Digital Information
Literacy and sponsored content: The
Onion style.
Online Marxists cry foul
when socialist
publisher asserts copyright.
Crowdsourcing plus
politics can distort what’s being measured (in this case, the
quality of a movie).
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