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Evil Academic Overlords for Peer-Review Reform
As I’ve started copyediting the last batch of accepted manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) from my editorial tenure, I’ve been thinking of John Willinsky’s and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comments about academic publishing, open access, the peer review process, and academic credentialing in general. In his incrementalist “let’s push any move towards more open access” […]
A hexadecimalful for hacking the academy
I do not regret not applying for THATCamp Prime (The Humanities and Technology unconference) this year, as it fell on the weekend of my anniversary, but I do miss the conversation as I woke up this morning reading the tweets (#thatcamp if you’re curious), and I hope those participating in the game jam write up […]
Crabby comments from a higher-ed union activist
I’m in a slightly cranky mood from spending most of the last two days’ work hours on copyediting. This says little about the material I was copyediting and more about the nature of the task (and why I did not get a job to spend all of my time copyediting). So I’m ending the day […]
What the iPad will and will not be
Last time I wrote about electronic readers, it was before the announcement of the Messiah Tablet iPad. Well, it’s Pi Day, and whether or not the circle has been squared, for the first time in my life I’ve given money to a Steve Jobs company for hardware. As I noted in January, I hate reading PDFs […]
An immodest and hopefully obvious proposal for electronic citations
By Sherman Dorn on May 27, 2010
I had a thought today after reading of Barnes & Noble’s new iPad app, which allows customers to loan/borrow purchased books. I haven’t heard whether the annotations go along with the lending, but it strikes me that academics needing to cite locations in ebooks and those interested in annotation technology both need a way to […]
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