March 2015
Announcement: DPLA — Sharing Data for Better Discovery and Access http://zpr.io/p6yg
Beyond public and private: A model for co-operative higher education http://zpr.io/p6y6
CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference http://zpr.io/p6TE
Editors’ Choice: Not Enough Perspectives http://zpr.io/p6ZW
Conservative gov must be kicking themselves over the appointment of an intellectual property figure called the UK-IP Chief.
Fast move on student loan sale possible http://zpr.io/p67V
"My solution was to dress in a suit and lean mournfully against the wall" #uksg15
. @benosteen gives a shout out to @scott_bot on sentiment analysis #uksg15
Apps. Or, proprietary silos as I like to call them. #uksg15
So, I know I know lots of people here at #UKSG15... Come say hello! Sitting in the area next to the coffee/in front of the exhibits.
CFP: After Biopolitics conference (2015) http://zpr.io/pPng
Briefest stop at San Francisco before onwards back to the UK. Enjoying the tweets from #UKSG15 #uksg
What MPs think about universities http://zpr.io/pUYZ
Really sorry to have to leave #lpforum early. What a great conference! Thanks for having me. Jetting to Glasgow to speak at #uksg now though
. @catherinemitch makes public the CDL/UCP project advisory board. She warns me that I can't back out now! #lpforum
.@catherinemitch stressing importance and neglect of infrastructure. Suspect @gbilder would like this. #lpforum
Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison http://zpr.io/zQUU
What will micro-publishing look like in higher education? http://zpr.io/zWJn
Research and resistance http://zpr.io/zWaw
A Short History of Hacking: Values and principles for co-operative higher education http://zpr.io/zWY7
British Social Attitudes Survey: 3 in 4 people support tuition fees http://zpr.io/zWYq
Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists (2012) http://zpr.io/zWYG
Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Adopts Open Access Policy to Support Free Knowledge http://zpr.io/zBXh
Editors’ Choice: Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles http://zpr.io/zBXm
on educational technology and divestment http://zpr.io/zVXr
Oh, wow. New Leftfield album after 15 years is "Alternative Light Source". First single is "Universal Everything". http://www.leftfieldmusic.com/
Looks like a new Leftfield single (or album) is forthcoming shortly...
against educational technology in the neoliberal University http://zpr.io/zvSK
The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology, July 8th in London http://zpr.io/zvSy
RMS Talks Net Neutrality, Patents, and More http://zpr.io/zvSA
Off to give a talk at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina now - beautiful place in an NC forest.
A radical publishing collective: the Journal of Radical Librarianship - http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/a-radical-publishing-collective-the-journal-of-radical-librarianship/
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Semantic Publishing? http://zpr.io/z4NG
Editors’ Choice: Libraries Meet the Second Machine Age http://zpr.io/z4Nf
In any case, I'm speaking at UNC and then Duke today on (what else) open access and the humanities. Do join us if you're in the area.
Bound together by adversity, suddenly passengers are all chatty and friendly.
A little worse for wear today; flight was cancelled & I spent half the night going to a different airport. I did meet new friends, though.
CFP: Resistance and Power beyond Foucault (2015) http://zpr.io/ze7D
UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System http://zpr.io/zJdR
Who is this describing? http://zpr.io/zJi3
LightEater Malware Attack Places Millions of Unpatched BIOSes At Risk http://zpr.io/zJEV
Whither Labour, whither education? http://zpr.io/zJtB
Metadata in Microsoft Word documents http://zpr.io/z55g
Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Security, Territory, Population’ at the College de France (1977-78) http://zpr.io/z556
Wikipedia great in many ways but sceptical of some discourse: no interpretation of sources etc. Even possible? #odhs15
Great talk from @pfyfe at #odhs15 on difficulties he faced when confronted by closed data. "I can had data?" "No"
Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids http://zpr.io/zLTQ
Gender and interruptions http://zpr.io/zkFi
Budget 2015: loans for PhD and masters students http://zpr.io/zk8K
‘Think Tank’ http://zpr.io/zk8y
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty http://zpr.io/zk8A
Sale of Student loans – ‘progress continues’ (Budget 2015) - http://andrewmcgettigan.org/2015/03/18/sale-of-student-loans-progress-continues-budget-2015/
CFP: The Politics of Big Data http://zpr.io/z2kS
The University and the Secular Crisis http://zpr.io/z2pa
Richard Hall – Against Educational Technology in the Neoliberal University http://zpr.io/zrVb
Open education and the emancipation of academic labour http://zpr.io/zrLS
$56,000 Speeding Ticket Issued Under Finland's System of Fines Based On Income - http://m.slashdot.org/story/214867
Grant Shapps admits he had second job as 'millionaire web marketer' while MP - http://gu.com/p/46tgd
Copyright, Open Access, and Human Rights http://zpr.io/z3ax
Satin Island http://zpr.io/z3aX
Cruel optimism in #highered http://zpr.io/z3aN
Yay. More Google products shuttered. I remember this whenever it's suggested that Google should replace libraries.
Editors’ Choice: State of an item in a digital repository http://zpr.io/zwMK
On the David Foster Wallace Biopic, The End of the Tour http://zpr.io/zwq8
For a political economy of Massive Open Online Courses http://zpr.io/zwtF
Foucault and Neoliberalism Today (2015) http://zpr.io/zwt3
You can’t take it with you: impact 2020 http://zpr.io/zDa9
Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory http://zpr.io/zDab
Overbeck on Editing Samuel Beckett's Letters http://zpr.io/zDau
£6,000 fees: ten unanswered questions http://zpr.io/z8SS
Literary Form, History and Culture of Aesthetic Modeling http://zpr.io/z9az
An ethnography of academic selves as presented via university homepages by @ThomsonPat http://meve.io/1MpiGAt
So they re-sold it, to another publisher, who then re-enclosed it commercially.
It looks, in this case, as though the author signed separate license to allow publisher to re-license, even though it's NC.
In surveys, scholars/scientists choose NC because they don't want others to repackage work and sell it.
Re. RELX/Wiley resale of CC BY-NC stuff @rmounce showed: the thing that scholars wanted to avoid with NC license is being done by publishers
Sorry it's not open access (book and this), but there's a great review of Pynchon and Philosophy in Textual Practice http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1019685
Rheumatoid arthritis costs the UK economy £4.75bn but care still "disgracefully low" - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/290513.php
An Iconoclastic Researcher Makes a Badly Needed Antibiotic Breakthrough http://zpr.io/zy9a
Blue skies thinking http://zpr.io/zyYk
Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty livre et séminaire (2015) http://zpr.io/zyY2
On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part III) http://zpr.io/zALZ
Will historians of the future be able to study Twitter? http://zpr.io/zmiL
On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part II) http://zpr.io/zmkL
Co-operating for gold open access without APCs http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/uksg.166
Foucault and the History of Our Present (2015) http://zpr.io/zMUV
Electronic Journals, Prestige, and the Economics of Academic Journal Publishing http://meve.io/1CDbvD1
Editors’ Choice: What is Digital Scholarship? A Typology http://zpr.io/zEv2
Resource: DPLA Metadata Analysis: Part 1 – Basic stats on subjects http://zpr.io/zEvr
On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part I) http://zpr.io/zEuL
Time to crack down on the payday lenders exploiting students http://zpr.io/zxJN
Demand For Linux Skills Rising This Year http://zpr.io/zxGt
Education Question Time – 11 March, Cambridge http://zpr.io/zxGg
Also, delighted to be in such good company on the SPARC OA Week 2015 advisory committee http://meve.io/1zJvqZV
Theme for International Open Access Week 2015 announced: "Open for Collaboration" http://meve.io/1zJvaKj
Linux 4.0 Getting No-Reboot Patching http://zpr.io/zXbc
Today could look better. Woke up at 5am and went straight into full-blown migraine. This afternoon: hospital for monthly drip.
CfP: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life, 2nd-4th December 2015, Prague http://zpr.io/zXn4
FREAK Attack Threatens SSL Clients http://zpr.io/zNeW
Query: Where to self-archive? http://zpr.io/zNgS
This browser extension wants to stop you tweeting something you'll regret: "you're one tweet away from being fired" http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwteK99SA
Gendered Identities in Contemporary Literary and Visual Cultures http://zpr.io/zThb
Object Thinking, Systems Description Languages and the Future of the Book http://meve.io/1zzHXz9
Some further consideration of Labour’s tuition fee announcement http://zpr.io/zY4c
Academia and Identity – When Research meets Activism http://zpr.io/zY4e
In the GSU case, the wheels keep turning http://zpr.io/zYcq
On disliking conclusions http://zpr.io/zYwm
Anglia Ruskin seminar: Critical Knowledge and Praxis http://zpr.io/zY8p
Great title, even better opening line http://zpr.io/zYxZ
The £6,000 question http://zpr.io/zYfu
Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links http://zpr.io/zYfK
Owning manuscripts is one thing: owning the contents is quite another http://gu.com/p/2tt7j
"I come back to the critical distinction between intellectual work and academic work" -- Stuart Hall [cc. @HallyMk1 @josswinn]
Chapter Four: A̶c̶a̶d̶e̶m̶i̶c̶ Fiction http://meve.io/1Ccw4G6
5 Reasons to give two cheers to Ed Miliband by John Holmwood http://meve.io/1K32cjV
Reading Pynchon #9 http://zpr.io/zsgn