from The Conversation

University of California’s showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good

July 15, 2019 8.03am EDT
MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis

This month, academic publisher Elsevier shuttered the University of California’s online access to current journal articles. It’s the latest ( Read more... )

On July 9 I posted info and links for a project being run from my workplace to collect chat conversations for linguistic research. Today I got this announcement:

Greetings TextPenn Participants,

Thanks to you, we have reached our goals for collecting English text and chat messages and are approaching the end of the study.

The last day for live texting ( Read more... )

This study is going on where I work. This post is an update to Chat for science! English | العربية المصرية | 简体中文 ; please read that post first.

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This study is going on where I work. The starter page links to introduction pages and interfaces in all three languages: English, Egyptian Arabic, and Chinese. The description below is the first section of the English introduction page.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are recruiting participants for a study looking at the ( Read more... )

An interesting and forward-looking discussion of internet publishing of research work, in terms of freedom of access, cost, profit, capitalistic models such as web publishing via a publisher, and alternative truly free models and their viability.
[from Anthropology News, the journal of the American Anthropological Association]

Publishing in an ( Read more... )

Glow-in-the-Dark Kittens Lend a Paw to AIDS Fight

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The trouble with Google Books
How rampant errors threaten the scholarly mission of the vast digital library

Depending on who you ask, Google Books -- the pioneering tech company's ambitious plan to "digitally scan every book in the world" and make them searchable over the Web and in libraries -- is either a marvelous, utopian scheme or an ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of writing a scholarly article about the names of cons, especially filk cons. Does anyone know of anything done on this topic?