Tag Archives: Scholarly Communication

Open Affordances

By alex | Published: 12/9/2004
This is very last minute, but readers of this blog might be interested in attending a “webinar” (online seminar) entitled Open Affordances, tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 12:00. Some great people are part of the panel, including Stephen Downes, Ross Mayfield, Ziauddin Sardar, and Ulises Mejias. The topic is the the degree and nature of the […]
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Schoogle

By alex | Published: 11/18/2004
Every academic list I am on, and quite a few blogs, have been giddy all day over Google’s new scholarly-only site: http://scholar.google.com. I’m not the only one to notice that blogs seem strangely absent, but occasional and working papers, self-hosted, seem to appear. Actually, that’s not entirely true. For example, one of my blog postings […]
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Dead Libraries

By alex | Published: 11/26/2003
Academic libraries are the walking dead. I just got booted out of ours at six, and it won’t be open tomorrow. They close early on Saturdays, too. Our library seems closed, of course, whenever I seem to need it. They even seem to turn off their servers many nights, for reasons that are entirely beyond […]
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Scholcom conference

By alex | Published: 10/3/2003
The web site for next month’s one-day scholarly communication conference is up. Looks like it will be fun. Here’s the blurb: PUBLISHING THE FUTURE: Scholarly Communication in an Information Age November 11, 2003 Academic publishing and scholarly communication more generally are undergoing a period of rapid change. Positive change comprises a wealth of Web based […]
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