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April 2013

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Been reading Linda Peach on Toni Morrison today. Suddenly got excited about teaching Paradise next year!

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Bwahaha, @ernestopriego on formatting in submissions: "people send you textual vomit". #formsinn

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Ooh. @ComicsGrid partnership with @ubiquitypress coming soon. We're getting a sneak preview. #formsinn

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In response to q, @the_blochian points out other OA models experimenting with form and @wordpress: Flow & our own @AlluviumJournal #formsinn

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The @ComicsGrid which @ernestopriego runs uses @wordpress and cites using hyperlinks. #formsinn

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Now @ernestopriego is going to talk to #formsinn about authors and attribution. He's handed out post-it notes for analogue tweeting!

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Risk management approach of Wellcome could work. Not diligent search but reasonable endeavour. #formsinn

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On strict compliance: "It would be reckless of me, as the UK's only professor of copyright law, to advocate..." Deazley #formsinn

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EU Orphan Works Directive 2012 excludes artistic works & relies on being reasonable to assume author won't object. Can't do this #formsinn

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When clearing images, DACS might be the place to start. Design and Artists Copyright Service... #formsinn

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Damn Ronan Deazley! This seminar is brilliant and will be bloody hard to follow. #formsinn

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Ha ha! Deazley draws a square. That exact drawing is protected under copyright but it is thin. #formsinn

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Some unpublished materials of authors who died pre 1989 remain in copyright until 2039 because bits of UK copyright law are insane #formsinn

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Difference between aspects of incentives vs enablers in copyright important says Deazley #formsinn

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Yeah! Deazley doing a Richard Stallman on "intellectual property" - "a really bad term" #formsinn

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Deazley pleased with versioning but bemoans less than interactive feedback setup for CREATe docs. Needs @kfitz! #formsinn

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Digital Economy Act 2014 will be a tipping point for more active monitoring and enforcement of copyright #formsinn

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Introductions at #formsofinnovation revealing a broad spread of historical, literary, technological and legal scholars.

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Internationalisation of New Open Access Initiatives

A quick plug for a blog post by a member of OLH's internationalisation committee, Erika Corradini. In her piece, The Languages of Academic Publishing, Erika writes: My opinion is that while it is desirable and practical to work in a lingua franca (I use it myself every day) it is essential to…

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Tomorrow, after some more writing, I'm heading Durham-wards for the Forms of Innovation conference, but also to talk Pynchon!

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MT @collinsactually Just realized that I don't actually know how to book annual leave. Holiday space in calendar just reads WRITE #ecrchat

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Just finished a fairly gruelling two days straight of student interviews. Great assessment, though!

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Just for those worried, the person next to me is actually OK; it's only Foucault pain not anything more serious as she has now got up :)

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Woman next to me at the BL has copy of Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge open. She is slumped in a heap, head on desk, barely respiring.

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There's a guy sitting in the British Library piazza simply holding up a sign to all who pass that reads "You're perfect".

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Votes for the Conservatives (now in government) in 2010: 10,703,654. Registered voters: 45,597,461.

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"that a strike can be called by a majority of those that vote, rather than a majority of all those balloted, is farcical" - Boris Johnson

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Pynchon in Public Day 2013

Now in its third year, we invite you to submit, on Twitter via the #Pynchon2013 hashtag, the Facebook Event page or even just by emailing me, your photographs for Pynchon in Public Day 2013! The event was founded to mark the birth date of one of the most important living American writers, Thomas…

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Marking third-year dissertations in the sunshine isn't such a bad way to spend a Saturday.

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Off to Exeter for @BAASConf2013. Who else will be there? @collinsactually and @KatieMcGettigan I'm sure...

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Survived so far this week: house of commons select committee; paper @ Lincoln; meetings & admin. Now preparing for @BAASConf2013 tomorrow!

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More on new Thomas Pynchon novel, Bleeding Edge

Brought to my attention by Dave Monroe, from the Pynchon List and culled from the Penguin Press release: It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst,…

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Many thanks to all for kind tweets re #bisoa - very nerve wracking but enjoyable. Hope I was fair, even if committed.

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En route to the House of Commons. I'm on at around 12. Then straight off to Lincoln to host grad school debate on future of acad publishing!

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Talking about deep engagement w/ real objects via tech - teach how to classify for themselves via, say, architectural features #THATCampLdn

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Mmm. Newly published collection of Foucault's Lectures on the Will to Know just arrived. Shame I have no time to read for a while...

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Had an extremely fine afternoon at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary. Attached is their beautiful spectacled owl, Phyllis.