Holy crap. A conservative Canadian newspaper. Now, I know some of you Canadian readers already believe that the Globe and Mail is a conservative rag, but they’ve got nothing on the National Post. Sure, I could write about my trip to Vancouver, but I really need to tell you about the newspaper that showed up …
Category Archives: Publish/Public
Alternatives to Proprietary Journal Publishing
In the comments to my last Sage post, Ted wrote I think there are ways to begin publishing scholarly work that would circumvent unnecessarily restrictive publishers altogether. That, of course, opens up the larger issue of credibility, i.e., whether one’s university would consider publications that don’t appear under the imprimatur of a university or commercial …
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Additional Update
Nick just noted in the comments to the previous post that at this moment, it appears that my article–which is copy protected only from me and any colleagues to whom I might send it–is available to the whole world for free download on the internet. Go ahead, try it. You don’t even have to read …
Sage Update
As you may know, I have been in an email exchange with various people at Sage since receiving a copy-protected version of my own article as my “author’s copy” for my New Media and Society essay on the mp3 format. (Click here for part 1 of the story.) This week, I heard back from Sage’s …
But wait, it gets better.
I opened up my email this morning to discover a letter from Sage, to which I link at the end of this post. The gist of it is that my author’s offprints now come as an executable file. I can print forever, off this computer. I can email the file to 25 people and they …
Google Book Search
So today was my first serious encounter with google book search. I hadn’t played around with it much, but came across an unattributed phrase in a so-so book on animal rights called An Unnatural Order. The book argues that the domination of nature through agriculture, men’s domination of women, people’s domination of animals and colonial …
A New Series: On Books, “The Book,” Writing, Etc.
So I’ve decided to start using my “category” function and start doing “series” on various things. The topic that’s been on my mind a lot lately is publishing — the state of the book, the way publishing works, debates about open access and the public status of scholarship, etc. I’ve also been collecting some odds …
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