March 2015

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Conservative gov must be kicking themselves over the appointment of an intellectual property figure called the UK-IP Chief.

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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.

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Briefest stop at San Francisco before onwards back to the UK. Enjoying the tweets from #UKSG15 #uksg

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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

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. @catherinemitch makes public the CDL/UCP project advisory board. She warns me that I can't back out now! #lpforum

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.@catherinemitch stressing importance and neglect of infrastructure. Suspect @gbilder would like this. #lpforum

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Off to give a talk at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina now - beautiful place in an NC forest.

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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.

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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.

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Wikipedia great in many ways but sceptical of some discourse: no interpretation of sources etc. Even possible? #odhs15

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Great talk from @pfyfe at #odhs15 on difficulties he faced when confronted by closed data. "I can had data?" "No"

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Yay. More Google products shuttered. I remember this whenever it's suggested that Google should replace libraries.

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It looks, in this case, as though the author signed separate license to allow publisher to re-license, even though it's NC.

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In surveys, scholars/scientists choose NC because they don't want others to repackage work and sell it.

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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

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Publication: Co-operating for gold open access without APCs

The current transition to gold open access (OA) through the implementation of an author- or institution-facing charge (an article or book processing charge: APC or BPC) is based upon two key flawed assumptions that are particularly acute in the humanities disciplines.The first of these assumptions…

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Today could look better. Woke up at 5am and went straight into full-blown migraine. This afternoon: hospital for monthly drip.

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"I come back to the critical distinction between intellectual work and academic work" -- Stuart Hall [cc. @HallyMk1 @josswinn]