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June 2014

Speeding northwards to #sconul14! Should be good but remind me never again to do London -> Glasgow -> London in a day.

"Submit to SAGE Open ... before the price goes up" -- seems to confirm my suspicions (for which I was previously chastised when voicing!)

I wish, on the "yes I'll review for your journal" form, there was space to write "so long as the author does a green open access deposit"!

Interesting how "originality" in scholarship has economic knock-ons. There can be no substitute (competition) for work if all is original.

Ha, I'm with @petersuber: "Only around half of the societies surveyed are strongly positive about Open Access". Yeah, "only".

Gearing up for a long day tomorrow -- to Glasgow and back for the SCONUL conference & to launch OLH UK library approach!

while also eradicating the profiteers. Bloody hard work, though, & won't work for already semi-public institutions as large as universities.

(i.e. anti market-agency theories) seems to be a way to get back what we had (taxpayer funded services) through this hideous discourse

My thoughts: turninglanguage of "disruption" to non-profit, public benefit enterprises funded through cooperative/collaborative mechanisms..

That piece to which @qui_oui alerted me (last RT) is brilliant. "Disruption" as Foucaldian governmentality.

Are 'protest bots' susceptible to the same critiques made of postmodern irony given they deploy incongruous juxtaposition? @samplereality

Interesting. Apparently Coulson guilty of phone hacking but Brooks cleared. That's somewhat embarrassing for our dear Prime Minister...

From that article: "libraries must not only embrace the open access movement, but must support a non-profit model for scholarly publishing"

Began hacking in a new feature to meTypeset this evening: query a local Zotero database to populate element-citation @axfelix @juancommander

Does anyone have any information on the "Global Research Council [GRC] Action Plan on Open Access for Publications" discussed at 2014 meet?

If I needed to plan a set of international/inter-State flights in an interlinked route, what tech/website/app would best help me do that?

Before I could stop myself spouted Beckett's Not I to friend about to give birth "...out...into this world...this world...tiny little thing"

I note that Virgin has won a rail franchise based on a "pledge" to increase capacity. Bet there were a few winks to the gov. at that word.

The Lib Dems really need to do some rebranding. Given how well "New Labour" worked, how about the Neoliberal Democrats?

"Thank you for holding, your call is important to us. We are chronically understaffed, however, because, well, not /that/ important."

That last snippet one of many fascinating insight from Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger's new book on Gravity's Rainbow.

A review of the biopic titled "I Aim for the Stars", about the ex-Nazi first head of NASA, read thus: "but sometimes I hit London".

Had no idea that tramadol was to be re-classified as a Class C drug. Makes it a total hassle for people with severe chronic pain.

Work continues on @openlibhums contractual agreements. About to send around voting procedures to committees. And initial call is drafted!

Today work begun on the formal @openlibhums library agreement. Also had several really interesting library Skype meetings. Progress!

You will all be pleased to know that the cybersquatters on the .co.uk you want now have five years of privileged access to the .uk version.

Oh dear. On a rheumatoid arthritis forum there's some men's rights type going on b/c a woman posted that her husband was unsupportive.

Uber and Lyft claim to be ride sharing apps, except you pay them for it, then they pay the driver. They define "sharing" differently to me.

Neighbours' cat snuck in and traumatised our Guinea Pigs. Thankfully they're ok. "Wait a minute", I thought, "Guinea Pigs don't meow...."

Just seen an advert "have you been deregistered from a university module... Call our education lawyers now". My word. Great future ahead.

Even when we're doing well at them, university league tables disgust me. "Spend/student". "Value added". Why don't you just rank on capital?

Anyone who applies for that job at Lincoln will have a lot to live up to, filling @agneswoolley1's shoes.

Please RT. Any university budget managers/legal types: does your institution's constitute allow donations to other charities?

I had my laptop stolen in second year of Ph.D. Know the dread sinking feeling but backup saved me. For recommendation: try CrashPlan.

If it isn't automatic you won't do it. If it isn't constant you'll lose something. USB stick is not good enough. Multiple destinations.

Have just re-read grim tweets from academic whose laptop stolen w/ all work notes for 3 years. BACK UP YOUR WORK. CONSTANTLY. AUTOMATICALLY.