Open access and open source in the context of scholarly publishing

Source: LXer

The landscape of scholarly publishing, like the world of software development, is driven by two opposing economic and philosophical approaches: commercial and closed versus free and open. These two approaches are part of a wider d ...
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Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice – reviews

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Modern American TV features an awful lot of heroes who are socially manipulative and transgress ethical norms. That is enough, in Kotsko's provocative critical pamphlet, for them to be "fantasy sociopaths" (he is not using the term in its ...
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The Paper Form

Source: Slaw

Mark Lewis is the Reference/IT Librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Mark became a Slaw core contributor in 2005 and has a healthy appreciation for the legally absurd. [click on th ...
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Let’s Hope Jennifer Egan’s Twitter Story Heralds the Return of Serial Fiction

Source: Wired

Writer Jennifer Egan will dispense her short story "Black Box" through Twitter, one tweet a minute. Photo: David Shankbone/Flickr When fiction writer Jennifer Egan takes to Twitter this evening, she won’t be tweeting about the latest h ...
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Voice of Experience: Minerva Tantoco, Executive Director, Client Facing Technology, UBS

Source: The Glass Hammer

“My path could not have been predicted early in my career,” said Minerva Tantoco, Executive Director of Client Facing Technology at UBS. “If I’d known it was just following your interests and passions and just doing them well, I think I’d ha ...
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Warren Adler: Fiction in Flux

Source: The Huffington Post

For fiction writers in search of a publishing outlet, these are the best of times. For fiction writers in search of readers, this is the worst of times. For fiction writers in search of monetary rewards it is, for most, a disa ...
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Wolfram Announces SystemModeler -- Launching a New Era of Integrated Design Optimization

Source: MarketWire

CHAMPAIGN, IL--(Marketwire - May 23, 2012) - Today the Wolfram Group announced the release of Wolfram SystemModeler -- the high-fidelity modeling environment that uses versatile symbolic components and computation to dri ...
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New Library Mission and Goals

Source: Lied Public Library-Clarinda

The Lied Public Library in Clarinda, Iowa is proud to announce their new mission statement, goals and objectives. Changes in information technology, electronic publishing, and our community have had a profound impact on the library. The ways ...
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BOOK BOUND: Torday publishes Dostoyevsky-infused novella

Source: Montgomery Media

Set in a Baltimore suburb, a region where Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College Daniel Torday spent a few years, new fiction work “The Sensualist” (Nouvella) tackles adolescence through the eyes of teenager Samuel Gerson ...
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