Posted on July 16, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So back in April, gg at Skulls in the Stars challenged science bloggers across the disciplines to read and research some classic article in their discipline, and then write a blog post about it. The results are in, and they’re awesome. Not just fascinating - this is a potential time suck (with none of the [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Last week, Female Science Professor wrote a lovely pair of posts about scholars and scholarship, what it feels like when your work has an impact on someone and what it feels like to meet the people who have influenced you in that particular undefinable way where it’s hard to even express what they’ve meant to [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Kate and I are still buzzing from the great conversation we had with the people who came to our session at LOEX of the West. It’s always an amazing and kind of surreal experience when you find out that other people are excited by the same ideas you are.
And it seems that other people [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Peer Review 2.0: Tomorrow’s Scholarship for Today’s Students
LOEX of the West, Las Vegas
Anne-Marie Deitering & Kate Gronemyer
WEB 2.0 BACKGROUND
Five Web 2.0 themes — from the ACRL Instruction Section’s Current Issues Discussion Forum, Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World (Annual, 2006).
DANAH BOYD EXAMPLES
{Edit: These didn’t make it into the presentation, but they are examples of [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by Anne-Marie
all the time. That’s because Kate and I are deep in preparation for our Loex of the West talk and it’s hard to think about anything else. A few things that have come out of my work in the last few days.
This video at Kairos - This is Scholarship –
This video cuts across a lot [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2008 by Anne-Marie
and because it’s in Nature Precedings, I can link to it here. John Wilbanks, VP of Science Commons, argues that open access means more than keeping journal costs down, but that access to information is an essential condition for innovation and the creation of new knowledge.
He’s talking about access broadly too - talking about [...]
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