Tag Archives: Scholarly Communication

What do my colleagues know?

By alex | Published: 4/25/2009
This morning at MiT6 Kathleen Fitzpatrick presented a chapter from her upcoming book (linked here, that examines the role of peer review in new networked publishing, and argues that it may be getting in the way. While it may be getting in the way, I worry that the perception that online publishing, and particularly open […]
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Scholarly mavens and curators

By alex | Published: 2/17/2009
Talk to people for a while about what makes for good large-scale collaboration and they will eventually mention someone who is a connector: a kind of modern saloniste. Who led you to meet someone. I can think of several cases where this occurred. Where someone has said “Alex, you are working on X1. That’s a […]
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We are awesome, trust us

By alex | Published: 8/5/2008
I was curious what folks would make of a list of the “The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs.” KF writes about it here, and yes (phew!) I made the cut. But it seems to be the perfect mutual admiration society, and the only credence the list receives is in the quality of its in-links. […]
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Lecture notes & copyright

By alex | Published: 4/6/2008
I have an admission to make. When I was an undergraduate, I bought a lot of notes. And I did far better in the courses in which I did. The process was easy. Show up to class the first week to get the syllabus. See if the university library or any other local libraries had […]
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