The Scholarly Kitchen
Rick Anderson
“Anger and Invective,” and Scholarly Communication
How different issues bear on facts vs. feelings has a lot to do with how vitriolic exchanges can get. Continue reading
Experiments in Free Education: The Audacity of Udacity
A new education initiative seeks to shift students away from academia. Is this the shape of things to come? Continue reading
Mysteries of the Elsevier Boycott
The Elsevier boycott puts a target on one company, but for no clear reason when you look harder at the facts, and the demands aren’t clear. Just what kind of boycott is this? Continue reading
Congress, the White House, and the Myth of Free Security
The very real trade-offs inherent in Internet security have to faced directly, but politicians are avoiding these trade-offs as they talk about SOPA and PIPA. Continue reading
No Such Thing As a Bad Book? Part 2 — Implications and Problems
Who can judge quality or utility? How are library acquisition practices optimized? Continuing an earlier post, the tensions are now exposed by budgetary limitations, and the repercussions of shifting away from traditional acquisition practices will be felt for years to come. Continue reading
No Such Thing As a Bad Book? Rethinking “Quality” in the Research Library
Two great examples of books that contain more error than fact raise some important questions of what belongs in a library, and the purpose of acquisitions practices. Continue reading
Some Tough Love for Authors
Readers and the law determine how works are used, not authors. And while this can feel like a shock in the age of e-books and other electronic resources, online information has only revealed a long-standing set of truisms about published works. Continue reading
Asked and Answered: Here’s What I Think the Aaron Swartz Case Means
In my last posting, I posed four questions brought to my mind by the Aaron Swartz case. Here, I propose what I think are reasonable answers to those questions. The result is kind of a long post, but hey, it’s the weekend. Tell your spouse that the yard work will have to wait; you’re busy helping to solve the fundamental structural problems of the scholarly information marketplace. Continue reading
The Aaron Swartz Case: What Does It Mean?
Let’s suppose, for the sake of argument, that the allegations against Swartz are proved and that he’s convicted. What would his case mean? It seems to me that it raises a number of questions that have received insufficient attention up until now. Continue reading
OA Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research”
Rhetoric can’t hide financial realities. Is trading research for access a good use of funds? Continue reading
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