tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75567909942034470772024-03-13T10:23:51.751-06:00Nuthing But.NetMy thoughts on librarianship, open access, computing, and other stuff.Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-17313994298986430072020-05-18T12:45:00.001-06:002020-05-18T12:51:55.710-06:00What the "future" brings us today, yesterdayI like this little video of the future imagined in 1967, especially the part where the son speeds up audio recording 102 since he had already heard it--while I watch the video at 1.25 speed on YouTube.<br />
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Since computers and other modern conveniences give us more time to learn, we can spend the time to understand other diverse perspectives as we get to know people from other parts of the world and other cultures. We will spend the time to be more empathetic as technology allows us all the ability to learn and grow and appreciate the wonderful world we live in.<br />
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It is also covered by <a href="https://paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/29/1999-ad-1967.html">Paleofuture in a 2007</a> post.<br />
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In this post, I will use a relative scale to show just how loooooooooong the death of the universe might take.<br />
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Here is the video.<br />
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Because the scale is absolutely massive, I first wanted to scale down what a trillion years is. For that, let's say that a meter stick is a trillion years. Since a trillion is the same as a thousand billion, then a tiny little millimeter is a billion years. Imagine our time has been flowing at a millimeter per billion years--pretty slow, right? Imagine that we have a very slow snail that crawls a millimeter every billion years. The universe is 13.79 billion years old, and our snail hasn't yet traversed this penny which is 19.05 millimeters in diameter. The Earth is only 4.54 billion years old, so it is about a quarter of the diameter of the penny. The universe hasn't even lived long enough for that snail to traverse that penny.<br />
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Note that in the video, the creator, melodysheep (John Boswell), speeds things up as the movie progresses. This shows the various stages of the universe nicely, but one will have a hard time feeling just how long it will take for the black holes to evaporate at the end.<br />
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In the video, we hit a billion years at 3:04, and the snail has gone a millimeter in our scale. At 3:54, we hit a trillion years. He notes that most stars are starting to die off. I had read that some <a href="https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/minute-physics-what-is-dark-matter/">stars can live up to 10 trillion years</a> or more.<br />
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Ok, imagine again our snail that goes a millimeter every billion years. That is very slow. Can you feel how long it will take this snail to go the length of a meter stick for a trillion years? Imagine that it goes on for about 11 yards or 10 meters. It would take our snail a VERY long time to go that distance, but at this scale, I can understand just how long that is compared to the current age of the Earth and the universe at the penny scale.<br />
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I can understand how long a billion years is, and I can get the gist of a trillion years (and 10 trillion years), but I had a hard time understanding what is meant by a trillion trillion years. We are still in the very early stages of the universe, and we hit that mark at 7:08 into the video.<br />
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How long is a trillion trillion (10^24) years?<br />
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I was able to guesstimate this in my head. How far is a trillion meter sticks? A km is 1,000 meters, so what is a billion km? Since a km is about 0.62 miles, how far is 620 million miles? Ahh, the Earth-Sun average distance is about 93 million miles (an Astronomical Unit), so a trillion meters is almost 7 AUs. Where does that put us? At first, I guessed around Jupiter, and when I looked it up, the average Jupiter distance from the Sun is actually about 780 million km, so a trillion meters (a billion km) is about 220 million km farther out past Jupiter. So, imagine our snail taking a billion years to go a millimeter. Can you feel how long that snail would take to crawl out past Jupiter at that rate?<br />
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This I can sort of feel this in my gut, but it is very difficult to internalize just how long a trillion trillion years is.<br />
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What about a trillion trillion trillion (10^36) years? We hit that mark at 10:28 in the video.<br />
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What is a trillion times further out beyond the distance of Jupiter? In this case, I had to look it up; I couldn't do a quick calculation in my head. So, 10^36 meters is about 105 million light years away. This is on a galactic scale. I was able to find some galaxies that exist around 100 million light years away. For example, astronomers estimate that <a href="https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1503a/">NGC7714</a> is about 100 million light years away. So, our snail going one millimeter in a billion years will take about a trillion trillion trillion (10^36) years to reach this galaxy. (Even if we found a space ship that can travel at 0.1 times the speed of light, it would take about a billion years to reach this.)<br />
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From this, I can sort of conceive just how long this would take, but it is very difficult to conceptualize.<br />
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At 12:30, it is explained that the universe has just emerged from the womb when compared to a human lifetime. At 12:47, it is shown that light as we know it only exists for an extremely short percentage of the life of the universe. Rewatch the segment between 10:28 and 13:48.<br />
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At 13:48, we hit a trillion trillion trillion trillion (10^48) years.<br />
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How far does our snail travel in this amount of time? What is a trillion times 105 million light years? This is 105 million trillion light years away. (Or a billion billion light years away.) Our current observable universe is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJTwYOZrGU">only about 92 billion light years</a>. So, our snail would have more than enough time to leave our current observable universe, if the universe stayed the same size, and it would go about a <b>billion times the distance of the current observable universe</b>. Even while travelling only a millimeter every billion years, it could leave the universe if given enough time, and do it a billion times again. This is just mind blowing to me. And, the universe is still young. Time has just started to tick. I simply cannot comprehend how long that will take. It is inconceivable to me.<br />
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How long is a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (10^96) years?<br />
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Is there a better way or a different way of grasping just how long it will take for the universe to last?<br />
<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-44419886011463545802018-03-14T11:58:00.000-06:002018-03-19T15:56:53.934-06:00Educational technology of the futureWhen I was a kid, my parents had this book, <i><a href="http://prospector.coalliance.org/record=b10844649~S0">1975: And the Changes to Come</a></i>. I was fascinated by some of the pictures, and what people in the early 1960s thought the 1970s would look like. Well, fast forward to 2018, and I thought that some of the educational technology predictions would be fun to see again, so I got the book through Prospector. Here are some of the images from the book.<br />
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The scientific method.<br />
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<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-30424744363880894562015-09-15T13:36:00.000-06:002015-11-20T09:45:38.180-07:00Venting some frustration with the slow pace of change in scholarly communicationI am putting together some thoughts concerning some posts that I read several months back. <br />
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<a href="http://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.230/">A quiet culture war in research libraries – and what it means for librarians</a>, researchers and publishers<span class="author-hover"> by Rick Anderson</span><br />
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<span class="author-hover">In this article, Mr. Anderson had stated: </span><br />
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"The culture war that I believe is currently brewing in research
libraries is between two general schools of thought: the first sees the
research library’s most fundamental and important mission as serving the
scholarly needs of its institution’s students, scholars and
researchers; <b>the second sees the research library’s most fundamental and
important mission as changing the world of scholarly communication for
the better</b>." [Note, I bolded this text.]<br />
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And later in the article, he notes:<br />
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"Again, we do not have to choose <i>entirely</i> between these two orientations; however, we do have to acknowledge that they are in tension with each other..."<br />
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Two other blog posts had also talked about certain tensions in library work. <br />
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<a href="https://laurenwallis.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/smash-all-the-gates-part-2-professional-silenc/">https://laurenwallis.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/smash-all-the-gates-part-2-professional-silenc/</a><br />
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<b>"Examples of our silences, as read by subject faculty and students:</b><br />
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<li><i>Always saying yes</i>: In my last post
[see the link below to part 1] I talked about saying no to requests for database demos–and what a
fraught, complex act that is. When we always say yes to faculty
requests, no matter how problematic they are, we are choosing silence.</li>
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<li>Meaning (from subject faculty perspective): <i>Positive emptiness</i>–librarians are cheerful, obedient helpers.<i> </i></li>
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<li><i><i>Skills-based / neutral IL instruction</i>: So, there is the
silence of saying yes to the faculty request, and then there is the
silence of performing instruction based on that request. Whether it
takes the form of a database demo or something else (CRAPP test,
anyone?), skills-based, apolitical IL instruction silences librarians.
We lecture and demonstrate, we present research as sterile and detached
from students’ real lives, we cover so much material that students
absorb nothing. We might be talking a lot, but we are silenced because
we are not able to truly teach, or to address the complexity of
information literacy"
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"<i>Coming out of silence means we will make some people angry.</i> After all, we’ve convinced everyone we’re just obedient, cheerful helpers." <br />
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And from:<br />
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<a href="https://laurenwallis.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/smashing-the-gates-of-academic-discourse-part-1/">https://laurenwallis.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/smashing-the-gates-of-academic-discourse-part-1/</a><br />
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<i>"Can you just show them the databases?</i> This is a phrase I’ve heard a lot as an instruction librarian.<br />
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I cannot “just” show them the databases because there are so many
layers of destruction inherent in my process of pointing, clicking, and
narrating. I am not demonstrating how students can find a scholarly
article, I am demonstrating how profoundly students are marginalized
from academic knowledge production. I am not identifying aspects of
peer review, I am silencing all non-academic voices–including the
students’. I am not modeling good search strategies, I am erasing
myself as a teacher."<br />
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What does this all have to do with me?<br />
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I am getting very frustrated with the slow pace of change in scholarly communication. Yes, I think librarians should be working to change the world of scholarly communication for
the better.<br />
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I also think that librarians need to say "no" to their patrons and to publishers more often. At my place of work (which is reasonably well funded), we try to make our patrons happy as much as possible by buying ALL THE THINGS that they ask for. The fact that the library is <a href="http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/us-faculty-survey-2012">viewed as the wallet</a> is not necessarily a good thing. Throwing more money at publishers and vendors is not going to solve the problems of scholarly communication.<br />
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As in Lauren's case, I had also been frustrated with some of our local gates of academic discourse. In my case, I <i>probably</i> opened up the gate incorrectly. I did <b>not</b> find the gate to be: very inviting; easy to open; nor easy to navigate once I got inside. Also, I was given a short amount of time to demonstrate the information maze once the gate was opened. Some departments were better than others, but some provided very narrow windows of opportunity for me to talk to their students about information issues.<br />
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I guess I am frustrated that I am not given more time to discuss scholarly communications issues and the inherent problems with faculty and students. The system is screwed up, and I am not sure what more I can do about it. The conversation trail from @daskey's <a href="https://twitter.com/daskey/status/643598232212389888">tweet</a> displays some of the same frustration that I have. Ian had responded with "<a href="https://twitter.com/IanGibson11/status/643603380452085760">change is too hard</a>, also the system works fine as it is...' - the average faculty member." Yup, that just about sums up my frustration. <br />
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<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-39884501018979691962015-02-25T10:18:00.001-07:002015-02-25T10:18:45.571-07:00Pretend that you are a librarian in the year 2025A lot of the essay below is wishful thinking, but some of it might come to pass. Just as there are a lot of physicists who ignore the journal literature, and they read only from the Cornell physics arXiv, more researchers and disciplines will take a path that takes advantage of open access resources. <br /><br />--------------------------------------- <br /><br />Five years ago, in the year 2020, a small unique software company led to an academic revolt in publishing. A small foundation-based nonprofit start up called the AcademiCenter (AC) created a scholarly social network that scientists, social scientists, and a fair number of humanities researchers use to find, read, share, and communicate their open access research. (Some say that foundation is funded by Bill Gates, but no one is sure.) This service is much more than just a blogging system, it is a truly easy-to-use publishing system with built in altmetric features. Scholars and researchers all over the world can keep track of reading patterns, download metrics, citation data, and other metrics. In short order, the AC integrated citation and linking data from a merger with CrossRef, and they also bought out the content and linking services from Google Scholar. (This was in 2022 when the Feds split up Google into five parts.) Over the next three years, the service integrated data and resources from mergers with ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley (sold off from Elsevier), MEDLINE, the Cornell ArXiv, and the SSRN, and many small society presses. This service has built up a huge following of academics, scholars, and other researchers because of huge breadth, depth, and the amount of semantic interlinking. This service uses advanced Artificial Intelligence tools to create metadata on the fly. This is THE PLACE for researchers to find information and knowledge. This is also THE PLACE for researchers to post articles, book chapters, whole books, conference papers, reports, dissertations, presentations, and anything. <br /><br />The cost for scholars to join this “club” is nominal, but it is well worth the small expense. The pricing for this service was modeled after PeerJ. Many researchers add value to the database by donating time to crowdsource fixes to bugs and other known issues. In return for their maintenance, they are able to add content to the database for free or a reduced cost. Other researchers provide peer-review services to enhance the content.<br /><br />Now that it is 2025, the cost of data and information storage is tiny. Services such as this can host petabytes of storage for just a couple of dollars a year. The AcademiCenter is the central hub for researchers to post their ideas, thoughts, and other content, so that they can get feedback from others in just about any subject area. Because of this new system, researchers have slowly learned that they don’t need to publish content with traditional publishers to get a high research reputation and status in a field of work. <br /><br />Just as the newspaper market was disrupted in the years 2010-2020, the scholarly publishing market has been greatly disrupted by this new easy to use self-publishing service. <br /><br />What does this all have to do with academic libraries today (in 2025)? Submissions to the large commercial publishers have dropped about 10-30% each year over the last 5 years. For example, Elsevier has lost 75% of their content (compared to the amount of content published in 2020) since most scholars are now using the AcademiCenter to publish their papers. The local consortia has been able to renegotiate a price reduction of 75% as well. (Elsevier figures that 25% is better than wholesale cancellations.) Book publishers are doing slightly better—they have only lost 50% of their market share in the last five years. <br /><br />Libraries are also seeing the usage of core databases such as ProQuest Central and EBSCO Academic Search Complete go down dramatically. Many libraries have cancelled mainstream databases, but they continue to subscribe to specialized databases. Databases such as the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and Scopus have licensed data from the AC to enhance their indexing services. Even still, many academic libraries are cancelling those two citation databases as well.<br /><br />
Many universities also pay nominal fees to the AC so that they can host Institutional Repositories. The price depends upon the percentage of scholars at the university who take part in the crowdsourced project. The AC is a much better system than the IR software systems that were available just 10 years ago back in 2015. Overall, libraries all over the world have saved Billions of dollars because scholars use and trust this system to publish their articles. While some scholars are afraid of putting everything into one basket, the library license for the IR software will automatically hold the intellectual output of the university should something happen to the AC. <br /><br />Academic libraries are putting this saved money back into other resources. They are hiring more data managers who help the researchers document and keep track of their work. Libraries are hiring more specialized reference librarians because it is still hard to find good high quality content in certain subject areas. While the AcademiCenter houses a wealth of recent articles, chapters, reports, dissertations, and data, they don’t have the full text of everything. Also, artificial intelligence applications in smart phones are starting to work better to anticipate the information needs of the students, but it still isn’t perfect. The library is able to hire more programmers so that customized software systems are implemented. The library is able to purchase more books, particularly the ones in the humanities, since 300+ page academic texts are not posted in the AC as often as shorter works. <br /><br />The library building is still a central location for student interaction and meeting space. Faculty still assign group projects, and students find face-to-face communication to be the most productive. While many students meet with others using the latest version of Skype, the on-campus students still find the library a great meeting place. <br /><br />Academic libraries have experienced a great deal of change over the last ten years. Some of the librarians tell stories about how people had to “type in” their search phrases into Google Scholar or that old Summon database (cancelled in 2021). Now, people can just whisper to their computer, “Hey AC, can you find me some information concerning the history of Maine politics in the early 1900s?” and the system comes back with a wide set of results including articles, videos, dissertations, and more. The system knows that you are looking for Maine (and not the word "main") based on new AI features that were implemented. <br /><br />The local university is feeling some financial pressure though. Since there are new colleges that are starting up using the wealth of open access content that is available, the U has had a hard time attracting some of the best students. Some of them have been going to attend online classes that use the AC as the source of learning materials, and they use a Khan Academy approach to instruction. In fact, the local U reduced the tuition for all students this year so that they can continue to attract the best and the brightest of students. Because of this pinch, the University has had to cut some of the budget. It was a tough decision, but the Law School was disbanded, since enrollment had been declining for years and years. The budget for the library had been reduced as well, but the renegotiation of the contracts with Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Thomson Reuters, etc., more than made up for small reduction. <br /><br />It is an exciting time to be in academic libraries. <br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-32839666250042831212014-05-15T11:00:00.000-06:002014-05-15T11:00:18.800-06:00Remembering Dr. Jean-Claude BradleyI first knew Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley through his writings on the <a href="http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/">Useful Chemistry Blog</a>; he wrote quite a bit about Open Notebook Science. In fact, he <a href="http://www.chemconnector.com/2014/05/14/in-memory-of-jean-claude-bradley/">coined the phrase</a>. I particularly remember reading a blog post concerning errors in the publishing of chemistry data. He wrote a post on "<a href="http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2010/01/dangerous-data-lessons-from-my-cheminfo.html">Dangerous Data: Lessons from my Cheminfo Retrieval Class</a>." I used that blog post to <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jokrausdu/april-132010">help teach LIS students </a>that a reference librarian needs to recommend that patrons use multiple sources to confirm reference data. One can't trust any single source of information.
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I was able to invite Jean-Claude to speak at a session of the 2011 SLA Conference in Philadelphia. He did a great job <a href="http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-talk-at-sla-on-trust-in-science-and.html">talking about errors in the chemical literature</a> and his efforts in correcting those errors.<br />
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Jean-Claude was a strong advocate for the open exchange of scientific information (particularly the data from research notebooks), and he really helped advance the cause for open access and open data. Text from the last slide of one of his 2011 SLA presentations is a good way to close.<br />
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<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/MediaObject">For science
to progress quickly there is great benefit in moving away from a
“trusted source” model to one based on transparency and data
provenance. Open Notebook Science offers an efficient way to make research
transparent and discoverable.
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Dr. Bradley, we will miss you. <br />
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<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-19571039067154334912013-12-19T11:12:00.000-07:002013-12-19T11:12:33.526-07:00The ACS and their prior publication policy for preprints #openaccessI recently had an email conversation with someone from the ACS over some of their policies. In particular, I noted their policy of not publishing articles that are online as preprints. They consider those to be prior publication. <br /><br />"A preprint will be considered as an electronic publication and, according to positions taken by most Editors of ACS journals, will not be considered for publication. If a submitted paper is later found to have been posted on a preprint server, it will be withdrawn from consideration by the journal."<br /><br />I let them know that I was not happy with this statement because it has an effect on the research sharing behavior of researchers. "This policy disallows chemists from using services like the arXiv, an institutional repository, or some other preprint server. If this policy was modified, then more researchers would be able to share preprints with the world, and then science would speed up. <br /><br />Will this archaic policy ever be reconsidered?"<br /><br />The ACS representative noted that "As stated in the policy they view a preprint as a) unreviewed material and b) prior published material. Hence it is not considered for publication: it is not an issue regarding open access etc. - more that we are not in the business of publishing secondhand news.”<br /><br />I responded with:<br /><br />"I agree that a preprint is unreviewed material, but I disagree that it is prior published material. The author(s) should have a right to circulate their ideas and drafts to servers such as the arXiv. The authors have the copyright to the early version of their manuscripts, and hopefully the ACS would change it up during peer review, during copy editing and in layout to make the article a different piece of work. Physicists have been fine with this system for decades. I would not call what the AIP, the APS, IOP Publishing, and Nature Physics are publishing as “secondhand news.” Librarians and researchers know that the final published versions are different from the preprint versions. That is why we keep on subscribing to AIP, APS, IOP, NPG, and Elsevier journals. <br /><br />It is this conservative policy of considering a preprint to be prior published material that is keeping chemists from posting these earlier drafts to institutional repositories or to a chemistry preprint server. This policy is helping to keep chemists stuck in the mud when it comes to Open Access."<br />
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Is the ACS afraid that researchers will unsubscribe because a fraction of the research is scattered online as preprints? Maybe they are afraid that researchers won't see that the ACS adds enough value to the articles? Then, people can compare a preprint with what the ACS has published. Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-73269267944271406142013-11-13T12:52:00.003-07:002013-11-20T12:49:03.123-07:00Some Mathematics Resources for LibrariansSent this to a colleague, and thought I would blog it so that I could easily get back to these later on.<br />
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Are you on the PAMnet discussion list? One does not
need to be a member of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of SLA to
subscribe. <a href="http://pam.sla.org/manual/pamnet-information/">http://pam.sla.org/manual/pamnet-information/</a><br />
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Are you a member of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics
Division of SLA? <a href="http://pam.sla.org/">http://pam.sla.org/</a><br />
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In any case, I would recommend that you get your hands on
these two books, but they were published about 9 years ago.</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-information-sources-in-mathematics-and-statistics/oclc/57498276">Guide to information sources in mathematics andstatistics</a> / Martha A. Tucker and Nancy D. Anderson, Westport, Conn. :
Libraries Unlimited, 2004.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/using-the-mathematics-literature/oclc/55530537">Using the mathematics literature</a> / edited by
Kristine K. Fowler, New York : Marcel Dekker, Inc., c2004.</li>
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For something more recent, these have some chapters in
mathematics.
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>The <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-walford-guide-to-reference-resources/oclc/61137469">new Walford : guide to reference resources</a> /
editor-in-chief, Ray Lester, London : Facet Pub., 2005-<2008>
"Volume 1 covers 12 broad subject groupings: mathematics, physics &
astronomy, earth sciences, chemistry, biological sciences, agriculture,
forestry, fisheries & food, pre-clinical sciences, clinical medicine,
health, natural resources & energy, engineering, information &
communication technology."<!--2008--><!--2008--><!--2008--><!--2008--><!--2008--><!--2008--></2008></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/science-and-technology-resources-a-guide-for-information-professionals-and-researchers/oclc/548555583">Science and technology resources [electronic resource] : a guide for information</a> professionals and researchers / James E.
Bobick and G. Lynn Berard, Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, c2011.
Mathematics is covered on pages 242-247, not very much.</li>
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You may already know this, but you will want to collect
materials from Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Springer (Especially their Lecture
notes in Mathematics, the <span class="highlight">Springer undergraduate</span>
texts in <span class="highlight">mathematics</span> and technology, and their <span class="highlight">Graduate texts</span> in <span class="highlight">mathematics.</span>),
American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mathematical Association of America, SIAM
Books, and maybe IMS Publications.<br />
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Walter de Gruyter, Inc.</div>
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Marcel Dekker, Inc.</div>
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Dover Publications, Inc.</div>
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Taylor & Francis</div>
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Wiley</div>
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World Scientific</div>
Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-63399741799703596392013-07-15T10:05:00.002-06:002013-07-15T10:09:37.045-06:00It should be "information wants to be valued"--not that information wants to be freeI've been thinking of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free">information wants to be free</a>" phrase lately. I am not sure that that is quite right. Most people by now know that the phrase was coined by Stewart Brand back in the 1960's, and many librarians know about <a href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/">Meredith's blog of the same name</a>. The full quote by Stewart is:<br />
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On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so <b>
valuable</b>. The right information in the right place just changes your
life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost
of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have
these two fighting against each other.</blockquote>
However, just because nformation can be valuable does not mean that it has to be expensive. Information can be valuable and free at the same time, so that is why I say that information wants to be valued. People who are open access advocates know that information is valuable, and they know that it isn't free. But, it can be free for the end user. There is a cost to providing high quality information, but there are different models for paying for the dissemination. <br />
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For example, I know of a report that is published by Outsell, Inc. They are trying to sell a 32 page report "Open Access: Market Size, Share, Forecast, and Trends" for $895. But, if one is a savvy searcher on the Internet, one can find the report that had been posted on the web somewhere. I am sure that Outsell is not that happy about that, but I would rather not pay $895 to learn about their views of the Open Access Market.<br />
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The value of information that is available in open access channels has also been discussed in a couple of other recent blog posts. Joe Esposito had noted <a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/07/09/what-happens-when-the-marginal-cost-of-content-is-no-longer-zero/">at</a> the Scholarly Kitchen that:<br />
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This basic economic formulation has given rise to the world of the
Internet as we know it today with a plethora of free services, some of
astonishing <b>value</b>, of which Google is simply the most prominent. But it
wasn’t always this way and it may not be that way forever. </blockquote>
It is true that it may not last forever, but content producers need to make content that people value and find worth paying for. People can get free television over the airwaves, but lots of people pay for entertainment content over cable, dish, or through services like Hulu or Netflix.<br />
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Scholarly content is a different kind of market, where this information has a different kind of value. Scholars are learning about the value to providing their content using green or gold open access means.<br />
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In a section of a blogpost concerning past scholarly communication behavior, <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/07/11/open-is-a-state-of-mind/">Cameron Neylon said</a>:<br />
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<span class="content" id="descContent_1">We work on the assumption that,
even if we accept the idea that there are people out there who could
use our work or could help, that we can never reach them. That there is
no <b>value</b> in expending effort to even try. And we do this for a very good
reason; because for the majority of people, for the majority of history
it was true.</span> </blockquote>
Now, people are seeing that it is easy to reach an audience of Billions over the Internet. There is value in expending a small effort to try to reach them. The scholar can either publish in a gold open access journal, or he or she can post the preprint or the postprint manuscript to a green open access repository.<br />
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As an aside, here are some good articles and reports that discuss the value libraries provide.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="readed" href="http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/19614/15220" id="titleLink_0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linking
Information Seeking Patterns with Purpose, Use, Value, and Return On
Investment of Academic Library Journals | King | Evidence Based Library
and Information Practice - King & Tenopir</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="readed" href="http://crl.acrl.org/content/74/2/143.short" id="titleLink_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Value of Research in Academic Libraries - C&RL March 2013, 74 (2)</a> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/walt-crawford/give-us-a-dollar-and-well-give-you-back-four-2012-13/paperback/product-20413581.html">Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) </a></span></li>
</ul>
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<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-26435656219045552272013-07-09T13:06:00.001-06:002013-07-09T13:08:25.746-06:00Soylent Green OA is People - #openaccessYup. It takes people to run institutional repositories.<br />
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I got the idea for the title of the post from a friend, who may publish a paper with a similar title. Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-20745886019806279222013-06-28T11:18:00.000-06:002013-06-28T11:20:00.160-06:00Support for gold open access journals and SCOAP3 #openaccessI <a href="https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1306&L=PAMNET&F=&S=&P=66968">wrote this</a> as a response to a discussion list on PAMnet, but I thought I would also post the majority of it here.<br />
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I would argue for another reason to support SCOAP3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the most part, researchers and scholars want to use, read and cite the final published version of an article (or book
chapter or report or whatever piece of information.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While researchers will often read the eprint/preprint/postprint, they might cite the final version once it
appears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, they may not be
reading the item that they are citing. (See <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212043">http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212043</a>.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As more research gets published as gold open
access, more researchers will be citing the things they are reading (or
skimming), and that would be a good thing.<br />
<br />
For example, just yesterday, the journal Science came out
with three interesting articles concerning Voyager leaving the solar
system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was curious if any of the
three articles were available in repositories before they were published in
Science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Researchers in the field had
probably already read "At Voyager 1 Starting on about August 25, 2012 at a
Distance of 121.7 AU From the Sun, a Sudden Disappearance of Anomalous Cosmic
Rays and an Unusually Large Sudden Increase of Galactic Cosmic Ray H and He
Nuclei and Electron Occurred" via <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0883">http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0883</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the future, I would bet that more
researchers will probably cite the Science article "Voyager 1 Observes
Low-Energy Galactic Cosmic Rays in a Region Depleted of Heliospheric Ions"
(<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/26/science.1236408.abstract">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/26/science.1236408.abstract</a>)
by the same six authors even though the title of the article, the abstract, the
text, the figures, and the references are significantly different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The acknowledgement
provides a clue that this is essentially the same research. (I did not find
eprints for the other two Voyager articles, <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/26/science.1235721.abstract">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/26/science.1235721.abstract</a>,
and <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/26/science.1235451.abstract">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/26/science.1235451.abstract</a>,
but maybe I am not searching well enough.)<br />
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For background reading material, many people have studied
the use and citation of papers found in the arXiv. (This is just a small
sample. Scholarly Communication: The Use and Non-Use of E-Print Archives for
the Dissemination of Scientific Information <a href="http://www.istl.org/02-fall/article3.html">http://www.istl.org/02-fall/article3.html</a>,
Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0503020">http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0503020</a>,
Physics Conference Proceedings and the Electronic Environment-an Investigation
of New Dissemination Patterns <a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/42/">http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/42/</a>,
Demographic and Citation Trends in Astrophysical Journal papers and Preprints <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411275">http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411275</a>,
Citation Patterns to Traditional and Electronic Preprints in the Published
Literature <a href="http://crl.acrl.org/content/59/5/448.full.pdf">http://crl.acrl.org/content/59/5/448.full.pdf</a>)
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Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-2831957513737349952013-06-05T15:18:00.000-06:002013-06-06T09:47:03.614-06:00Some new news on #openaccess and #altmetricsSome traditional publishers have recently unveiled a plan called CHORUS which is essentially a way for them to maintain their cash flow and the status quo. This is a response to the OSTP recommendation, "<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research">Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research</a>." They do not want to let go of their stranglehold over the scholarly communication system. I am assuming that the government agencies are not going to buy this ploy. <br />
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This article at<i> Inside Higher Ed</i> covers the topic pretty well.<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/05/publishers-universities-both-prep-open-access-plans"> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/05/publishers-universities-both-prep-open-access-plans</a> - How To Provide Open Access? The articles notes that “scholarly publishers want to keep hosting taxpayer-funded research that will soon be made public free of charge. The publishers <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/708875-understanding-chorus.html">unveiled a plan</a> to do so Tuesday.”<br />
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The response from OA supporters has been less than enthusaistic. See:<br />
<ul>
<li>A CHORUS of boos: publishers offer their “solution” to public access - <a href="http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1382">http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1382 </a></li>
<li><a href="http://gavialib.com/2013/06/chorus-hoping-for-re-enclosure/">http://gavialib.com/2013/06/chorus-hoping-for-re-enclosure/ </a></li>
<li><a href="http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/52216808588/chorus-its-actually-spelled-c-a-b-a-l">http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/52216808588/chorus-its-actually-spelled-c-a-b-a-l </a></li>
<li><a href="http://pascophronesis.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/scientific-publishers-aim-to-get-ahead-of-agency-repositories/">http://pascophronesis.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/scientific-publishers-aim-to-get-ahead-of-agency-repositories/ </a></li>
<li><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/publishers-propose-public-private-partnership-to-support-access-to-research/44005">http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/publishers-propose-public-private-partnership-to-support-access-to-research/44005</a> (Heather Joseph from ARL / SPARC noted: “It’s hard to judge the merits of Chorus based on the document being circulated, but it ‘seems like very much of a restatement of the status quo,’ she said via e-mail. Under the plan as it’s been explained so far, ‘publishers will still continue to control the sole point of access to publicly funded articles.’”)</li>
</ul>
Here are the new Altmetric items of interest.<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/6/292.full">Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave</a> via @researchremix @jasonpriem C&RL News June 2013 [Jason Priem is going to be speaking at SLA at the session, “Next Generation Sci-Tech Librarians: Helping Institutions and Researchers Increase Their Impact” <a href="http://www.blogger.com/(http://bit.ly/18X4OMH">(http://bit.ly/18X4OMH</a> and <a href="https://www.sla.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NextGenSciTechLibrarians_Priem.pdf">https://www.sla.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NextGenSciTechLibrarians_Priem.pdf</a>) Co-author Heather Piwowar (@researchremix) also works with Jason at ImpactStory.]
</li>
<li><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Altmetrics-Revives/139557/">Rise of 'Altmetrics' Revives Questions About How to Measure Impact of Research</a> - The Chronicle
</li>
<li>The <a href="http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/148956">Proof of the Proxy</a>: #Altmetrics, Impact, and Use by @sp_meta
</li>
</ul>
[Edit: I should have noted that many of these links were found via <a href="http://ff.im/1fBDC1">John's post to the LSW</a>.]<br />
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[Edit2: Here are two other recent posts in the Chronicle that I missed.<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Reliance-on-3rd-Party-Data/139537/">Reliance on 3rd-Party Data Creates Uncertainty for 'Altmetrics' Providers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/New-Metrics-Providers-Help/139555/">New Metrics Providers Help Keep Libraries in the Research-Tracking Game</a>] </li>
</ul>
Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-40733921200446288132013-05-13T11:10:00.000-06:002013-05-13T12:35:51.448-06:00Some free Twitter adviceI am not be a social media guru, but I do have some advice for information professionals (and others) who are starting to use twitter. I know that there is no right or wrong way to use twitter, but I think that some uses are more courteous than others.<br />
<ol>
<li><b>Say "Thanks" in tweets</b>. I tend to follow people more if I see that they are thanking others for help or advice.</li>
<li><b>Look at your @ replies</b>. Someone is trying to talk with you or say something to you. Respond to them, or favorite their tweet to let them know that you saw it.</li>
<li><b>Retweet the good things that others say</b>. Don't just send out your own messages. </li>
<li><b>Use MT for a Modified Tweet</b> instead of an RT in some cases. In order to get information to fit into 140 characters, and if you want to RT what someone else has said (or make a short response), you might have to modify it a little bit to get the URL to work, or to have space to put in a hashtag.</li>
<li><b>Use standard hashtags</b> so that others can follow along a topic or discussion. (And, spell the #hahstag correctly, otherwise, people won't find it.) For example, I follow the #openaccess hashtag. While I could follow or tweet about this with the #OA hashtag, I figure OA probably has lots of other meanings--#openaccess is unique, and lots of other people use that. If you are arranging an event (conference session or whatever), make sure that you have a twitter hashtag announced beforehand.</li>
<li><b>Don't feel that you have to send out the same information numerous times</b>. Some people who think they are social media gurus say they send out the same information multiple times a day, so that people in different parts of the world will see. If you are sharing such wonderful information, people will keep track of what you say, no matter when you say it.</li>
<li> <b>Schedule a tweet or blog post <i>only</i> when needed. </b>I really don't care to time my tweets or blog posts to get posted during the right time of the day or week, but there are some times when it is good to<b></b> do so. For example, for the library twitter account, I will schedule a tweet about an event to go out an hour or so before the event to remind some people. If a library service is going to be under maintenance, I will schedule a tweet to let people know that service X is down about 15 minutes before hand. </li>
<li><b>Use a URL shortener</b> like bit.ly or dlvr.it.</li>
<li><b>Use a dashboard</b> like hootsuite to keep track of replies, conversations, hashtags, what messages you sent, etc.</li>
</ol>
Of course, there are times when rules are made to be broken, but this is what I try to do. Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-30916226209703292772013-04-12T15:12:00.000-06:002013-04-15T11:53:24.368-06:00A not-comprehensive chronology of reactions to Elsevier purchasing MendeleyI first heard that Elsevier might purchase Mendeley back on January 17, 2013. I <a href="http://collaborativelibrarianship.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/elsevier-in-talks-to-buy-mendeley/">blogged about it over</a> at <i>Collaborative Librarianship News</i> which has a link to the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/elsevier-mendeley-education/">TechCrunch piece</a> of the same day. I'll bet <a href="http://www.infodocket.com/2013/01/17/report-elsevier-in-advanced-talks-to-acquire-mendeley-for-100-million/">other</a> news sources also picked it up.<br />
<br />
Then on April 8th and 9th, <a href="http://elsevierconnect.com/elsevier-welcomes-mendeley/">Elsevier</a> <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/corporate/elsevier-acquires-mendeley,-an-innovative,-cloud-based-research-management-and-social-collaboration-platform">and</a> <a href="http://blog.mendeley.com/press-release/qa-team-mendeley-joins-elsevier/">Mendeley</a> <a href="http://blog.mendeley.com/start-up-life/team-mendeley-is-joining-elsevier/">announced</a> that it was official. This created quite a flurry of opinion concerning the merger. Here are some of the reaction pieces.<br />
<br />
<b>April 8, 2013</b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/">http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/</a><br />
Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts<br />
<br />
<a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/08/a-matter-of-perspective-elsevier-acquires-mendeley-or-mendeley-sells-itself-to-elsevier/">http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/08/a-matter-of-perspective-elsevier-acquires-mendeley-or-mendeley-sells-itself-to-elsevier/</a><br />
A Matter of Perspective — Elsevier Acquires Mendeley . . . or, Mendeley Sells Itself to Elsevier<br />
<br />
<b>April 9, 2013</b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/47527556151/my-thoughts-on-mendeley-elsevier-why-i-left-to-start">http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/47527556151/my-thoughts-on-mendeley-elsevier-why-i-left-to-start </a><br />
My thoughts on Mendeley/Elsevier & why I left to start PeerJ<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/In-Sale-to-Elsevier-Mendeley/138449">http://chronicle.com/article/In-Sale-to-Elsevier-Mendeley/138449</a><br />
Sale to Elsevier Casts Doubt on Mendeley's Openness (Closed access article???)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/04/09/elsevier-acquires-mendeley-all-the-data-about-what-you-read-share-and-highlight/">http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/04/09/elsevier-acquires-mendeley-all-the-data-about-what-you-read-share-and-highlight/</a><br />
Elsevier acquires Mendeley + all the data about what you read, share, and highlight (David Weinberger)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://bjoern.brembs.net/comment-n908.html">http://bjoern.brembs.net/comment-n908.html</a><br />
Elsevier changes strategy and buys Mendeley instead of shutting it down<br />
<br />
<a href="http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/09/is-it-a-good-thing-that-elsevier-bought-mendeley/">http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/09/is-it-a-good-thing-that-elsevier-bought-mendeley/</a><br />
Is it a good thing that Elsevier bought Mendeley?<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/e4iZMQfoENc">https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/e4iZMQfoENc</a><b> </b><br />
Elsevier bought Mendeley (Peter Suber)<b></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/09/elsevier_all_your_data_belongs_to_us/">http://www.salon.com/2013/04/09/elsevier_all_your_data_belongs_to_us/</a><br />
Elsevier: All your data belongs to us. The huge scientific publisher sparks
resentment by gobbling up a popular online gathering place. Sound
familiar?<br />
<br />
<a href="http://svpow.com/2013/04/09/a-few-words-on-elseviers-acquisition-of-medeley/">http://svpow.com/2013/04/09/a-few-words-on-elseviers-acquisition-of-medeley/</a><br />
A few words on Elsevier’s acquisition of Medeley (Mike Taylor) <br />
<br />
<a href="http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/09/the-empire-acquires-the-rebel-alliance-mendeley-users-revolt-against-elsevier-takeover/">http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/09/the-empire-acquires-the-rebel-alliance-mendeley-users-revolt-against-elsevier-takeover/</a><br />
The Empire acquires the rebel alliance: Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover<br />
<br />
<a href="http://colditzjb.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/mendelete/">http://colditzjb.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/mendelete/</a><br />
Word of the day: “mendelete” (Jason B Colditz)<br />
<br />
<b>April 10, 2013</b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/10/elsevier-buys-mendeley-academic-reaction">http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/10/elsevier-buys-mendeley-academic-reaction</a><br />
The sale of the London-based startup to the publishing giant has
prompted strong reactions from the academic community – is the
partnership good or bad news for open access research?<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/10/elsevier-buys-document-management-platform-mendeley">http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/10/elsevier-buys-document-management-platform-mendeley</a><br />
Elsevier Buys Document-Management Platform Mendeley<br />
<br />
<a href="http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant/2013/04/10/the-latest-land-grab-in-the-lis-world-citation-managers/">http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant/2013/04/10/the-latest-land-grab-in-the-lis-world-citation-managers/</a><br />
The latest land grab in the LIS world: Citation managers (Christine Pikas)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sylvaindeville.net/2013/04/10/to-mendelete-or-not-to-mendelete/">http://sylvaindeville.net/2013/04/10/to-mendelete-or-not-to-mendelete/</a><br />
To #mendelete or not to #mendelete?<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=60256">http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=60256</a><br />
"It appears (unsurprisingly) that Mendeley users are not happy with Elsevier's acquisition of the company." <br />
<br />
[Added <a href="http://www.darkrepository.net/blog/garret/elseviers-slice-of-big-data-pie">http://www.darkrepository.net/blog/garret/elseviers-slice-of-big-data-pie</a> "Elsevier's slice of Big Data pie" on April 15, 2013.]<br />
<br />
<b>April 11, 2013</b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2013/04/11/mendeley-and-elsevier/">http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2013/04/11/mendeley-and-elsevier/</a><br />
Mendeley and Elsevier (By Martin Fenner)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/04/11/mendeley-elsevier.html">http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/04/11/mendeley-elsevier.html</a><br />
why I’m quitting Mendeley (and why my employer has nothing to do with it) <br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html"><br /></a>
I'm sure I've missed some good ones, but feel free to let me know of major sources. If you have time, it is also interesting to read all of the comments, particularly on the last one by danah boyd at zephoria.org.<br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html"><br /></a>
Personally, I am going to keep my Mendeley account so that I can keep on putting citations into the Open Access Irony Award Group.<br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html"><br /></a>
** Edit ** Here are some more that came out more recently.<br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html"><br /></a>
April 12, 2013<br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html</a><br />
When the Rebel Alliance Sells Out. Posted by David Dobbs.<br />
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<a href="http://del-fi.org/post/47782042378/lessons-from-mendeley-wheres-the-open-in-the-model">http://del-fi.org/post/47782042378/lessons-from-mendeley-wheres-the-open-in-the-model</a><br />
Lessons from Mendeley: Where’s The Open In The Model? (John Wilbanks)<br />
<br />
April 13, 2013<br />
<br />
<a href="http://cameronneylon.net/blog/whats-the-right-model-for-shared-scholarly-communications-infrastructure/">http://cameronneylon.net/blog/whats-the-right-model-for-shared-scholarly-communications-infrastructure/</a><br />
What’s the right model for shared scholarly communications infrastructure? (Cameron Neylon)<br />
<br />
April 15, 2013<br />
<br />
<a href="http://svpow.com/2013/04/15/seriously-mendeley-people-what-did-you-expect/">http://svpow.com/2013/04/15/seriously-mendeley-people-what-did-you-expect/</a> <a href="http://svpow.com/2013/04/15/seriously-mendeley-people-what-did-you-expect/#update">and http://svpow.com/2013/04/15/seriously-mendeley-people-what-did-you-expect/#update</a><br />
Seriously, Mendeley people, what did you expect? (Mike Taylor)<br />
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<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-5561064280152957942013-01-04T13:04:00.000-07:002013-01-04T15:38:41.670-07:00UU chalice lighting this weekend in which I plug #openaccess and twitter<br />
I am going to be lighting the Chalice for the Jefferson Unitarian Church this Sunday, January 6, 2013. I get about 350-400 words and three minutes of fame. I figured out a way to get in a plug for Open Access and using twitter for scholarly communication. <br />
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Michael Dowd is the visiting minister, and he will be talking about <a href="http://www.thankgodforevolution.com/">evolution and other scientific stuff</a>. Check out his book (<a href="http://www.thankgodforevolution.com/book">Thank God for Evolution</a>) if you are so inclined.<br />
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I was supposedly raised Roman Catholic (which has a hierarchical structure), but I always seemed to question authority, and I do not always believe everything I read. As a kid, I always asked “why”, probably to the point of annoyance for my Mom and Dad. Some of the stories from the Bible just didn’t make sense to me. For example, as a teenager, I questioned the story behind Noah and his Ark. Why would an all-knowing, all-loving God kill billions of life forms in the 40 day flood? How could all of the Earth’s species fit onto that small boat. What did the carnivores eat when they were onboard? There are many stories and miracles from the Bible that I am skeptical of. Why am I so skeptical?<br />
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Lack of evidence. For me, my God (or Higher Power or whatever) is rooted in the language of science and mathematics, and this “thing” provides us with evidence about the what, when and how the Universe works. (And some of the whys.) The Universe reveals facts about itself to us through scientific discovery. The evidence shows that we are “star stuff” as Carl Sagan used to say. The evidence shows that we evolved from other life forms--the theory of evolution is just about as accepted in science as the theory of gravity. The evidence shows that the light and energy we get from the sun (through nuclear fusion) and other stars are what provides us with ALL of our energy here on Earth.<br />
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While I may not believe in a traditional God, I do believe in love, in caring, and in helping other people get along on this little blue planet. <br />
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I am also a librarian, and I am a big user of Twitter. If you followed me on twitter, you would know how passionate I am about Open Access to scientific information. In the area of scholarly and scientific communication, I find social networking tools on the Internet to be a great way for people to connect, interact and to learn from people from all over the world. <br />
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So, I light this chalice (which includes energy from the sun) in the spirit that we all continue to learn more about science and the universe that we live in.Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-13643345700077717112012-12-13T21:59:00.002-07:002012-12-13T21:59:53.570-07:00Why we need open access--$192.95My kid, a 7th grader, is doing some research for his science class. He randomly picked a biome from a hat, and it was the Neritic Zone in the ocean. The assignment asked him to pick a species that lives in that zone, so he chose the Conus Geographus (Geography Cone Snail) which lives in the Great Barrier Reef (and other places, too). <br />
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So, going to the handy dandy <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Conus+geographus">Google Scholar</a> database, we looked at the first 12 articles for the Conus Geographus to see which might be useful. Six of the twelve are freely available, but we have to pay for the other six from the publisher. If I was not affiliated with a place that has access to a lot of scientific journals, I might think that I would have to pay $192.95 for those other six articles. (I did not see green OA versions of those six articles, either.) This is the reason why we need more open access to research and scholarship. Science research is NOT just needed by scholars who work at subscribing universities. <br />
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If I was not affiliated with a university, I would just ignore those articles that are hidden behind paywalls. Too bad that the ACS journals and some of the Elsevier journals would not get used by the 7th grader. Actually, one of the Elsevier journals had some of their articles freely available. Thanks FEBS Letters.Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-60303282339455362652012-11-20T10:12:00.002-07:002012-11-20T10:14:57.861-07:00The joy of having print books around you in a libraryMy academic library has been going <a href="http://library.du.edu/site/academicCommons/home.php">through a renovation for over a year</a>, and it continues through March of 2013. During that time, about 98% of the collection had been moved to storage. (We have a very small reference collection in print.) Patrons can request materials, and they will be delivered within 2 hours. It really is amazing, but that is besides the point.<br />
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During the middle of the renovation, the <a href="http://www.nuthingbut.net/2011/05/academic-libraries-can-have-it-both.html">administration of the university tried to make sure </a>that most (about 80%) of the collection was held off site even after the renovation was done. They see the library as a cost center instead of as a source of inspiration. The faculty and students rebelled. The librarians documented multiple reasons why more of the collection needed to be held on site. Much of the reasoning was browsability. But, it was difficult to find articles that documented qualitative research. (I think we did find some.) These next two blog posts could have been useful at the time, but they were not published when we needed them. Thanks <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/stacks-and-awe">Barbara</a> and <a href="http://acrlog.org/2012/10/29/enabling-the-research-flow-and-serendipity-in-todays-digital-library-environment/">Bohyun</a>.<br />
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I recently visited the Brooklyn College Library for the <a href="http://stellagroup.wordpress.com/">STELLA Unconference</a>, and I was able to simply browse the stacks. (Yeah, I know, the ebooks are not there...) I found a book concerning the <a href="http://prospector.coalliance.org/record=b28758196*eng">development of the Hubble Space Telescope</a> simply by browsing the print collection. (The <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/3017857.html">book is also online</a>.) It would have been difficult for me to find this book using the catalog, because the Space Telescope was not named after Edwin Hubble yet. It was simply known as the Space Telescope in the mid 1970's. I was able to skim the book looking for a specific author, but he was not there. I really miss not having a big collection of books around me. If only the administrators cherished the book collection the same way the students and faculty do.<br />
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<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-40505880105688582212012-10-11T12:56:00.000-06:002012-10-11T13:04:12.227-06:00Clubs and cliques in STM publishing and the impact on Open Access (#openaccess)I know that one the major reasons Open Access has had a hard time getting a foothold into the publishing world is because of the clubishness of science and scientists. People often do not know about the social aspects of scientists and their work. This is one of the reasons that associations, societies [like clubs] and conferences play such an important part of a scientist's career.<br />
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Everybody wants to feel that they belong by being a member of a variety of social groups [clubs]. Scientists are no different, and there are differences from one club to the next. Some are more exclusive than others. There are clubs of scientists who were educated at Ivy League schools [a pretty small club], and clubs of those who haven't been. There are other kinds of clubs, such as the set of people who:<br />
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<li>Work at an ivy league school</li>
<li>Are a tenured professor at an ivy league school</li>
<li>Got 1600 (or 2400) on the SAT</li>
<li>Published multiple times in <i>Science/Nature/Cell/PRL/JACS</i></li>
<li>Were award winners in a society like the ACS or the American Physical Society</li>
<li>Received a grant of $1M plus from the NIH</li>
<li>Are members of the National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Carry a public library card </li>
<li>Are short, slightly pudgy middle-aged balding men with two dogs</li>
<li>Make beer at home</li>
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Some of these clubs are more prestigious than others. (Note, I am a member of two of the clubs noted above.) Scientists generally try to join the clubs that are the most exclusive. In other words, they want to be members of groups that exclude the most number of other people, so that they look good in comparison. (Side note: Some science fields don't like <a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/10/10/richard-smith-a-successful-and-cheerful-whistleblower/">whistleblowers</a>, too. They may not be seen as playing well with others within those clubs.)<br />
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So, what does this all have to do with Open Access?<br />
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Scientists like the clubs that are prestigious and are exclusive. Some scientists like the fact that only relevant subscribers can read their articles in toll-access journals. If you work for a rich institution that can afford a subscription to a journal like <i>Tetrahedron Letters</i> ($16,773 list price for an annual subscription, or if you or your institution can afford to buy articles as needed), then you must be at a place deemed good enough to read it. These scientists may <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17568">not even post green OA versions of their articles</a>, even though the publisher allows it. <br />
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Administrators may use value judgments to say that if you published in a 4 star journal, then your work must be good because it is difficult to get articles accepted by that journal. Hence, you may look good simply because you are a member of that particular club. If you have great articles that are not published in four star journals, you may have a <a href="http://occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2012/10/10/in-which-numbers-lie-except-when-they-flatter-us/">much harder time getting your work noticed by the administrators</a>. However, it <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/06/mendeley-altmetrics-open-access-publishing">has</a> <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22731/abstract">been</a> <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2012/06/24/understanding-the-journal-impact-factor-part-two/">shown</a> <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328">that</a> simply having an article in a prestigious journal (with a <a href="http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/">high impact factor</a>) does <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Quantitative_Psychology_and_Measurement/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00215/full">not mean</a> <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/06/14/more-reason-to-outlaw-impact-factors-from-personnel-discussions/">that any specific accepted article</a> is any good. <br />
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Some Open Access publishing sources are trying to break down this exclusivity mindset and thought process. Journals like <i>PLOS ONE</i> have a <a href="http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action">different standard of acceptance</a>. Even with the different standard, the journal still rejects about 30% of incoming papers. Some scientists see <a href="http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/whats-the-matter-with-ecology.html">this as a lower standard</a>, and hence they may think that all of the articles in <i>PLOS ONE</i> must be of low quality. Of course, that is not true. (Note: if you care, <i>PLOS ONE</i> has an impact factor of about 4.0 which is pretty good overall.)<br />
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Scientists are trying to figure out <a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32427/title/Bring%20On%20the%20Transparency%20Index">different ways to measure quality research</a>, but the impact factor will probably used as a proxy for article quality for many years to come, partially because people may not know about <a href="http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/">alternative metrics</a>.<br />
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<i>PLOS ONE</i> is just one example. Most Open Access journals are trying to break the mold and change the mindset of some scientists and publishers who still want to limit access to scientific research to the exclusive members of certain clubs and groups. Will you help me change the system?Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-10704332706062864792012-10-09T14:31:00.002-06:002012-10-09T14:32:50.168-06:00Open Access books X 2: Crawford & Suber #openaccess<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finished these two Open Access books (<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_%28the_book%29">One by Peter Suber</a>, and the other <a href="http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3281">by Walt Crawford</a>) a while ago, but I haven't been able to blog about them until now. I was thinking of comparing and contrasting the two books, but I think it will be easier to just pull out my favorite parts from each book separately. <br />
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Here are the overviews.<br />
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<b><span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent"><span class="additionalFields">Walt Crawford</span><span id="promoteRelevanceStatusAnyComponent">. </span></span><i>Open Access: What You Need to Know Now</i><span class="additionalFields"></span>, Chicago: American Library Association. 2011. </b>(Some of the book is <a href="http://bit.ly/Rd9DoQ">also on Google Books</a>.)</blockquote>
This is a pretty quick read. I usually take forever to read books, and I read this is just two days. I am sure a fast reader could whip through this in an afternoon. <br />
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Walt begins with a section on Who Cares? He clearly explains why librarians of all stripes and flavors should care about understanding the basic underpinnings of OA. <br />
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Here are some quotes and insights that struck me. <br />
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Les Carr, repository manager at the University of Southampton, noted that "Repositories are hard work because changing researchers' working practices is hard work and I guess there's no single magic solution that's going to make that efford disappear." (Page 32-33.) In other words, it takes more work than just setting up a computer with some software on the Internet somewhere. It takes work to get scholars to change their workflows and practices.<br />
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In the section on Why Change? Walt said that in order to get scholars to change their practices, "They need to prefer OA journals for new papers when that makes sense. They need to deposit existing papers and assure that they have (and use) the rights to deposit new papers when OA journals don't make sense. Librarians need to have scholars change, but scholars need reasons to change. That's an ongoing issue for librarians and libraries, one where you can't do it yourself but need to take part in moving things forward." (Page 37) Yes, we need some good carrots to lead scholars to change their behavior.<br />
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Chapter 4 addressed controversies. Walt noted in the section concerning "Researchers already have all the access they need" that Alan Adler claimed "there is no crisis in the world of scholarly publishing, or in the dissemination of scientific materials." (Page 49.) Of course this is wrong. Even the largest institutions in first world countries (Harvard, for example) do not provide access to all of the materials that are needed by their students and faculty. Walt also did a good job addressing responses such as "The public can always get access to articles from the public libraries" and that "Scholarly articles are intended for other scholars and world just confuse laymen." (Page 50.) Many other misunderstandings are addressed.<br />
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On pages 60-61, Walt lists some open questions that could be answered with research into scholarly communication practices. Some of them are:<br />
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<li>How much publishing is there in a particular discipline? What are the ways to estimate the number of articles or pages publishing in that discipline?</li>
<li>What percentage of that corpus is available as OA, either green or gold?</li>
<li>What percentage of papers are CC-By, CC-By-NC or other?</li>
<li>What are the business models of various journals or publishers who do not have author-side fees?</li>
<li>How are researchers responding to funder and university policies? Do these policies change where they submit their work?</li>
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In a way, I see Walt's book as the <i>practical</i> book of Open Access for librarians. The next book covers more of the philosophical underpinnings.<br />
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<b><span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent"><span class="highlight">Peter Suber. <i>Open Access</i></span>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2012. <span style="font-weight: normal;">(The <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12862">book</a> will be Open Access as of June 2013, and a bunch of the book is</span> <b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://bit.ly/QbfnjV">available at Google Books</a>.)</span></b></span></b></div>
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If you want see or hear more from the author, here are some good <a href="http://beyondthebookcast.com/open-access-the-book/">audio</a> and <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2012/09/suber">video</a> clips of Peter talking about the book. Here are some good sections of the book.<br />
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Peter noted that scholars "don't do it [publish articles] to earn profits from the results. They are all nonprofit. They certainly don't do it to make scholarly writings into gifts to enrich publishers, especially when conventional publishers erect access barriers at the expense of research." (Page 14.) Yes, scholars should not be working to provides profits to the commercial publishers.<br />
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On page 18, it was noted that Tim O'Reilly said that "OA doesn't threaten publishing; it only threatens existing publishers who do not adapt."<br />
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"OA isn't an attempt to punish or undermine conventional publishers. OA is an attempt to advance the interests of research, researchers, and research institutions." (Page 24.) My comment to this would be that if conventional commercial publishers are undermined, I would not be heartbroken.<br />
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On page 25, Peter noted that the "publishing lobby sometimes argues that the primary beneficiaries of OA are lay readers, perhaps to avoid acknowledging how many professional researchers lack access, or perhaps to set up the patronizing counter-argument that lay people don’t care to read research literature and wouldn’t understand it if they tried."<br />
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A study from the UK-based Research Information Network reported that "60 percent [of researchers] said that access limitations hindered their research, and 18 percent said the hindrance was significant." (Page 30.)<br />
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"Conventional publishers regard easy online sharing as a problem while researchers and libraries regard it as a solution. The internet is widening the gap between the interests of conventional publishers and the interests of researchers and research institutions." (Page 35.)<br />
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"OA is a kind of access, not a kind of editorial policy. It's not intrinsically tied to any particular business model or method of digital preservation." (Page 103.) Many scholars know about some of the larger OA journals that have author-side page charges, but they don't know that roughly 70% of all OA journals do not have author-side fees.<br />
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"As the late Jim Gray used to say, 'May all your problems be technical.'" (Page 112.) Yes, the technical problems of publishing open access journals and articles have been solved, but we still have the social problems of getting more and more scholars to understand and support the OA ecosystem.<br />
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Also on page 112, Peter noted that OA could include "the whole shebang" of knowledge claims, proposals, hypotheses, conjectures, arguments, analysis, evidence, data, algorithms, methods evaluations, interpretations, discussion, criticism, dissent, summaries and reviews, and more.<br />
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On page 115-116, he covered who needs OA? "It's easy to agree that not everyone needs it. But in the case of OA, there's no easy way to identify those who do and those who don't. In addition, there's no easy way, and no reason, to deliver it only to those who need it, and deny it to everyone else." He continued with "OA allows us to provide access to everyone who cares to have access, without patronizing guesswork about who really wants it, who really deserves it, and who would really benefit from it." The rest of pages 116-117 continues to counter the argument about lay readers not needing access to research.<br />
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A Harris poll showed that "an overwhelming majority of Americans wanted OA for publicly funded research. 83 percent wanted it for their doctors and 82 percent wanted it for everyone." (Page 118.)<br />
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And finally--"Even if we acknowledge the need for cultural change in the transition to OA--far more critical than technological change--it's easy to underestimate the cultural barriers and the time required to work through them. OA may be compatible with copyright, peer review, profit, print, prestige, and preservation. But that doesn't quiet resistance when those facts about it are precisely the ones hidden by confident false assumptions." (Page 167.)Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-22245400028608746532012-10-02T16:15:00.000-06:002012-10-02T16:38:17.866-06:00On the need for social change in the #openaccess and scholarly communication systemI have written a <a href="http://www.nuthingbut.net/2011/09/does-it-pay-to-beat-your-head-against.html">little</a> <a href="http://www.nuthingbut.net/2012/02/clash-of-two-cultures-scientists.html">bit</a> in the past about how the culture of information sharing and dissemination is different from one discipline or field of research to the next.<br />
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Barbara Fister recently wrote in Inside Higher Ed about how we need more than just <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/we-need-talk-about-kevin-er-open-access">technological change to create greater access</a> [Open Access] to scholarship, we need to create a culture where scholars are encouraged to share their research using Open Access methods. This is true for those in the sciences, the social sciences and in the humanities. She noted:<br />
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Much harder is changing the cultural practices that surround publishing,
the ones that assign value to certain prestigious journals and
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Of course, researchers and faculty are concerned with the perceived prestige of the sources they publish in. Harvard is trying to convince the faculty that <a href="http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448">they should move the prestige to Open Access</a>. But, that tactic may not work at all institutions and fields. Some fields like chemistry have strong ties to industry, and there is some reluctance for many chemists to share their knowledge widely (for financial reasons, patent reasons, etc.). [See page 20 of <a href="http://www.researchsupportservices.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IthakaSR_ChemistryProject_InterimReport_03272012.pdf">this PDF report</a>.] Some in the <a href="http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/advice-on-academic-blogging-tweeting-whatever/">humanities</a> may have concerns with others sharing (tweeting, blogging, etc.) their work that the author thinks is inappropriate. However, <a href="http://scientopia.org/blogs/proflikesubstance/2012/10/02/english-profs-want-to-control-the-internet/">most scientists would be happy to know</a> that their work is being discussed in non-traditional scholarly channels. <br />
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The policies of tenure and promotion committees vary from institution to institution, and from department to department. If we are going to truly promote greater access to research and the literature (and data and everything else), we (OA advocates) need to provide greater incentives for the researchers with different tenure and promotion policies. This starts with the premise that <a href="http://www.andrewlawler.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=127:scholarly-publishing-harvard-faculty-votes-to-make-open-access-its-default-mode">Open Access is the default mode of scholarship (PDF)</a>, and that if they want to hide their research in a closed toll-access journal (or a journal that does not allow for green OA versions, or in a low-circulation book), then they will need to jump through hoops to submit articles/chapters to such journals and books.<br />
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This opinion piece in Aljazeera also noted the culture of some academics to hide their research from the rest of the world, because some researchers want to only share their research with a small set of other researchers through toll-access journals or books--to only those with the correct keys to that set of knowledge. <span class="articleTitle" id="ctl00_cphBody_AuthorDataCtrl1_authorName">Sarah Kendzior wrote:</span>
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Academic publishing is structured on exclusivity. Originally, this exclusivity had to do with competition within journals. Acceptance rates at top journals are low, in some disciplines under 5 per cent, and publishing in prestigious venues was once an indication of one’s value as a scholar. </blockquote>
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Today, it all but ensures that your writing will go unread. "The more difficult it is to get an article into a journal, the higher the perceived value of having done so," notes Katheen Fitzpatrick, the Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association. "But this sense of prestige too easily shades over into a sense that the more exclusively a publication is distributed, the higher its value."</blockquote>
When we convince tenure and promotion committees of the value of sharing research through Open Access channels, and that OA has more benefit to the institution (and the department and the individual) than hiding the research in supposedly prestigious toll-access sources, then the value of OA will go up as more and more t&p committees and funders demand it.<br />
<br />Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-36743446592671310102012-09-26T22:46:00.002-06:002012-10-11T11:28:56.055-06:00Scholars--Don't give away your work for free: Synthesizing many scholarly communication issues tonightIt seems like scholars and researchers are finally starting to get the point that they shouldn't be <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Change-Academic/134546">giving away their work for free</a> to commercial publishers who then sell back that content to libraries, at often-times huge profits. Libraries do not exist to make sure that commercial publishers can rake in huge amounts of cash for their stakeholders.<br />
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This even holds true for non-profit societies such as the American Chemical Society who act as if they are a commercial outfit. See this <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/?key=Tj0icF9sZyUSNHpiMGlBbTYHb3Y7N0kmYyNPOiglbltXGQ%3D%3D">Chronicle article</a> (temporary full text access) and Jenica's posts <a href="http://www.attemptingelegance.com/?p=1765">about</a> <a href="http://www.attemptingelegance.com/?p=1781">them</a> on her blog and in <a href="https://list.indiana.edu/sympa/arc/chminf-l/2012-09/msg00122.html">CHMNINF</a>. Other <a href="http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2012/09/on-discourse-civility-and-vendors-or-jove-and-acs-are-bullies.html">bullies</a> have also been recently outed. [Edited to add: The ACS is scared of the new information environment (including social networking sites such as blogs and Twitter (and discussion lists?) where they can't control all of the terms and the language of librarians. They <a href="http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2012/09/the_acs_and_fud.html">respond with fear, uncertainty and doubt</a> to attack librarians who dare question their position.]<br />
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In other Open Access news, the <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-deal-for-particle-physics-1.11468">SCOAP3 deal</a> seems to be moving along. <br />
<br />
I just finished reading Peter Suber's book on Open Access. Thankfully, <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2012/09/26/reading-diary-open-access-by-peter-suber/">John wrote a great overview</a> of the book similar to what I was going to say. In the next day or seven, I will try to compare and contrast Suber's OA book with Walt Crawford's OA book. As John notes, they are complementary, and do not compete for the same audience. Both are very worthwhile reads.<br />
<br />
[Another edit: I forgot to mention all of the <a href="http://blog.historians.org/news/1734/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing">stuff</a> <a href="http://www.dancohen.org/2012/09/25/treading-water-on-open-access/">going on around the American Historical Association</a>. <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/historical-association-raises-concerns-about-open-access-movement/49434">Fun reading</a>. Especially <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/we-need-talk-about-kevin-er-open-access">the post from Barbara</a>.] <br />
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Good night. Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-65665373513155567902012-08-24T12:30:00.000-06:002012-08-24T13:39:49.622-06:00Some statements from scientists and researchers noting that Open Access isn't needed by the general publicStatements such as the following really chap my hide and get my goat. Some scientists and researches seem to think that the general public is too stupid to be able to use scientific articles and information. GAAAHHHH!<br />
<ul>
<li>Lord Robert Winston noted that “Open Access isn’t going to solve the world’s problems at all. I don’t believe it really contributes greatly to public engagement.” (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELZ3kbFj1w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELZ3kbFj1w</a> about 48 minutes in) and “Clarity, relevance and perhaps interaction are more important than open access. Society has paid for our science, so we have a duty to communicate, but electronic media may not be the best ways to engage the public.” (<a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419254">http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419254</a>) </li>
<li>From <a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/05/23/intellectual-access-it-takes-more-than-accessibility/">this Scholarly Kitchen post</a> -- “Despite accessibility, the information remains inaccessible in any functional sense — they [the general public] can’t apply it, understand it competently, or put it into context. The information is accessible, but the person has no access to its real value.” </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/04/opening-doors-knowledge%20"><i>Chemistry World</i> article</a> -- “The vast majority of people who need regular access to journals - primarily researchers - belong to institutions or companies with subscriptions to the journals they want to read. How much would the general public actually gain from access to complex, technically written and jargon-heavy articles?”</li>
<li>Sandy Thatcher noted in an email to me and others on a discussion list [scholcomm@ala.org on January 8, 2012] that -- Laypeople/General public would not be able
to benefit “from the more abstract theoretical discussions that occur
in journal articles that they are very likely not going to understand
anyway.”
</li>
</ul>
Joseph Kraushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929426552639540819noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556790994203447077.post-2200092804874653092012-07-10T12:43:00.000-06:002012-07-10T12:43:16.418-06:00Declining importance of journal Impact Factors, and move the impact to Open Access<div class="DialogResponseTitle">
I left this comment on an internal Elsevier forum called <a href="http://elsevier.communispace.com/">Innovation Explorers</a>.</div>
<span class="DialogText" style="display: inline;"> </span><br />
<span class="DialogText" style="display: inline;">"It
was interesting to see the several comments about impact and Thomson's
Impact Factors (IF). I should note that the impact factor of the
journal title containing articles is becoming less and less important.
Administrators should try to determine the impact of individual
articles, not the impact of the journal title container. (A great
article for someone can appear in a small publication with low IF, while
mediocre tangential articles can appear in high IF journals.) It has
been shown that over the last 20 years, it is becoming less important
for authors to get published in high IF journals to get their research
noticed. See <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/06/14/more-reason-to-outlaw-impact-factors-from-personnel-discussions/">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/06/14/more-reason-to-outlaw-impact-factors-from-personnel-discussions/</a> and "<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328">The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor and papers' citations in the digital age</a>."
Many are in favor of moving the prestige (and impact) to OA
publications because anyone can read the articles, not just subscribers.
See <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/05/10/moving-the-prestige-to-open-access-publishing/">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/05/10/moving-the-prestige-to-open-access-publishing/</a>."</span><br />
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<tr><td align="left" class="DayHeader" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="middle" width="100%">----- Saturday, July 14, 2012 ----- </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Frontier Airlines 531 - 11:50am flight</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>10:00 AM-12:00 PM </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201214-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Depart Denver, Colorado Frontier Airlines 531 <br />Economy | Airbus A319<br />11:50 AM Denver International Airport (DEN) <br />Arrive Chicago, Illinois <br />3:06 PM Midway Airport (MDW) </span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Fly out to Chicago for SLA</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>12:00 PM-2:45 PM </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201214-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Early-Bird Dinner</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>6:00 PM-9:00 PM (755 South Clark Street, Blackie's of Chicago) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201214-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Please meet at the restaurant for this member-paid event. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="DayHeader" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="middle" width="100%">----- Sunday, July 15, 2012 ----- </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Sci-Tech Newcomers Lunch</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>11:30 AM-1:00 PM (get location) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201215-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Lunch for
those who are new to the division or first-time conference attendees. </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Meet each other and the Sci-Tech Division leadership. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>DST Board Meeting</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>1:00 PM-3:00 PM (Hilton Chicago, Joliet Room, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201215-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Annual
board meeting of the Science & Technology Division. </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Open to all
division members and any others interested. </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">MODERATING:Cheryl Hansen,
Engineering Systems Inc.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Taste of Chicago Welcome Reception</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>3:00 PM-5:00 PM (Convention Center, INFO-EXPO, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201215-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">All
conference attendees are invited to celebrate the start of the SLA 2012
Annual </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Conference & INFO-EXPO. Come join us in the INFO-EXPO to
network with </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">fellow attendees,enter to win one of many terrific prizes,
and enjoy food and drink </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">before the General Session.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Sunday General Session and Awards Presentation</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>5:15 PM-7:15 PM (Convention Center, Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201215-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Join us as
we honor our 2012 Award Recipients and outstanding conference </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">partners
before featured speaker, Guy Kawasaki, takes the stage of the </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">impressive
Arie Crown Theater. Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of
Alltop.com, </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">an “online magazine rack” of popular
topics on the Web, and a founding partner </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">at Garage Technology Ventures.
He is also a columnist for the Open </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201215-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Forum of America...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="DayHeader" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="middle" width="100%">----- Monday, July 16, 2012 ----- </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Sci-Tech Business Meeting and Breakfast</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>7:30 AM-9:30 AM (Convention Center, Room S402A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">PRICE:
$20.00 Member/ $5.00 Student Member/ $25.00 Non-Member Annual</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;"> business
and breakfast meeting of the Sci-Tech Division. Come have some </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">breakfast, network with your colleagues old and new, and find out what
the </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">division is doing. MODERATING:Cheryl Hansen, Engineering Systems
Inc.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Collections in Transition: E-Books and Collection Development</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>10:00 AM-11:30 AM (Convention Center, Room E351, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">As
collections move from the print to the electronic world, libraries must </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">change their collection development practices and policies to reflect
new </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">opportunities and challenges. In this session you will
learn how libraries </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">are transforming their collection development
practices and policies to </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">address the proliferation of electronic books,
including acquisitions based</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">on patron demand. In a...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM-wide Roundtable</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>10:00 AM-11:30 AM (Convention Center, Room S403A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Discussion
of issues related to Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics information </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">and
libraries. MODERATING:Zahra Kamarei, University of Rochester</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Business Meeting and Lunch</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>12:00 PM-1:30 PM (Convention Center, Room S401A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS).</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Use of Social Media by Non-Profits</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>12:00 PM-1:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E451A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Social
media offers a powerful yet low-cost way for nonprofits to demonstrate, </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;">through pictures, words, and video, how they are making a difference and
why </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;">they need support. Whether you're considering social
media for your organization</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;"> or you've been using it successfully for
years, this session is for you. Participants </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;">will learn best
practices for creating an engaging social media p...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>INFO-EXPO Magnificent Mile Networking Refreshments</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>2:00 PM-4:00 PM (Convention Center, INFO-EXPO, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-6s" style="font-size: xx-small;">TBD</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Computer Science Roundtable</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>4:00 PM-5:30 PM (Convention Center, Room S403B, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-7s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Join us in this roundtable discussion on issues in computer science librarianship. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>SPOTLIGHT SESSION: Reinventing Library Skills</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>4:00 PM-5:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E450B, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Case
studies and practical advice for transporting library skill sets to new</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;"> areas of the information profession or to entirely new careers, with a
focus</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;"> on reinventing skills to stay competitive in a tight economy;
branching out, </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;">and developing in areas that are still relevant to SLA.</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;"> MODERATING: Mary Talley, Talley Partners
SPEAKING:Richard Hulser, </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Book Group Discussion</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>5:30 PM-7:00 PM (Convention Center, Room S404A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-9s" style="font-size: xx-small;">This event
will be held in the PAM Division's Hospitality Suite at McCormick
Place. </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-9s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Please contact Elizabeth Brown at 607.237.2917 with any
questions.</span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-9s" style="font-size: xx-small;">MODERATING:Elizabeth Brown, Binghamton University</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>American West Reception - 6-8pm</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>6:00 PM-6:00 PM (TBA, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-10s" style="font-size: xx-small;">A hosted
reception for members of SLA’s "western" chapters, their
colleagues and friends. </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-10s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Please meet at the Newberry Library and contact
Philip Gust (cell: 650.367.-7652; e-mail: pgust@stanford.edu) </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-10s" style="font-size: xx-small;">with any
questions you may have.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>SLA Chicago APS Dinner</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>6:00 PM-8:00 PM (Gioco’s Restaurant, 1312 South Wabash Ave.) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-11s" style="font-size: xx-small;">By invitation only </span><br />
<span class="show" id="7201216-11s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Gioco’s Restaurant<br />Monday, July 16th, 2012 at 6:45 pm<br />1312 South Wabash Avenue <br />Chicago, IL 60605<br />(312) 939-3870</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Open House</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>7:00 PM-10:00 PM (Hilton Chicago, Williford Room A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-12s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Sponsored by the AIP Publishing.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Knovel - Join us for the best cocktail party of SLA 2012!</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>8:00 PM-10:00 PM (The Gage, 24 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60603) </td></tr>
<tr><td><br /></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-13s" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Chocolate Reception</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>8:00 PM-9:30 PM (Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL 60610) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201216-14s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Continue a
wonderful day of sessions and activities by connecting with colleagues
while enjoying offerings of delectable chocolate. MODERATING:Richard
Hulser; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="DayHeader" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="middle" width="100%">----- Tuesday, July 17, 2012 ----- </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Vendor Update and Networking Breakfast</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>8:00 AM-9:30 AM (Convention Center, Room S401A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Publishers
and vendors, especially in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, will
present on agility in changing times. MODERATING:Julie Arendt, Southern
Illinois University; Kim Hukill, American Institute of Physics Niels
Bohr Library and Archives SPEAKING:John
Haynes, AIP; David
Marshall, SIAM; Eric
Pepper, SPIE; Olaf Ernst, IOP Publishing</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Go to PAM suite.</b></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"></td><td>10:00 AM-12:00 PM (PAM Division Suite (S404A, Convention Center)) </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>INFO-EXPO Lincoln Park Networking Lunch</b></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"></td><td>12:00 PM-2:00 PM (Convention Center, INFO-EXPO, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Academic Division Roundtable</b></td></tr>
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<td>2:00 PM-3:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E271B, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">A
networking session designed for small-group discussions on the most
important and relevant issues facing academic librarians today. Bring
your problems, solutions and ideas and be prepared for lively
discussion!</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>How and Why Things Fail - Forensic Engineers and Information Specialists</b></td></tr>
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<td>2:00 PM-3:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E253C, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Real
Forensic Engineering not made for TV. Librarians, information
researchers, and libraries of all types and forms are essential to the
field of forensic engineering. Come hear Michael Stevenson of ESI talk
about what forensic engineering really is and how the gathering of
information is key to the field. MODERATING:Cheryl Hansen, Engineering
Systems Inc. SPEAKING:Michael Stevenson, ESI</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Physics Roundtable</b></td></tr>
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<td>2:00 PM-3:30 PM (Convention Center, Room S402B, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-6s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Small
discussion topics include: physics library instruction, non-traditional
services, institutional repositories, historical exhibits, faculty
interaction and outreach, and space planning and redesign.
MODERATING:Michael Chesnes, LAC Group / NASA Goddard; Kathleen A.
Lehman, University of Arkansas</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Open Access to Federal Science Technology Information</b></td></tr>
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<td>4:00 PM-5:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E253C, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-7s" style="font-size: xx-small;">The
session will address Open access through the Federal Science Repository
Service (FSRS) and the collaboration between NTIS and the scientific and
engineering communities. Learn the what, why and how of this
collaboration and find out how it is working and what it can do for you.
SPEAKING:Wayne Strickland, National Technical Information Serv</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>SLA Contributed Papers - Tuesday Session</b></td></tr>
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<td>4:00 PM-5:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E253A, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-8s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Adding
Value - Honing Our Craft:• “Copyright in Special
Libraries: Overview and Suggestion of Best Practices” (Susan
Craft)• “How the Agility of Librarians Led to the
Development of TRAIL” (Daureen Nesdill)•
“Models of Agility: Lessons from Embedded
Librarians” (David Shumaker)•
“People-focused Marketing: Showing Value, Gaining Loyalty,...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>All-Sciences Poster Session and Reception</b></td></tr>
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<td>6:00 PM-8:00 PM (Hilton Chicago, Williford Room BC, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-9s" style="font-size: xx-small;">This event
highlights multiple themes representing innovation, creativity, and
change, with support from multiple divisions. Join your
colleagues for food, drink, and networking, and learn new ideas to take
back to your library.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Joint Poster Session</b></td></tr>
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<td>7:00 PM-9:00 PM (Hilton Chicago, Waldorf Room, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201217-10s" style="font-size: xx-small;">The theme
for this year’s poster session is “Jumping over the
Candlestick: Individual and Institutional Efforts to Be Nimble and
Quick in an Interconnected World.” Posters will
present case studies, research and innovative ideas about how
information professionals and/or their institutions are staying agile in
today’s open world economy. This session is a
relaxe...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="DayHeader" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="middle" width="100%">----- Wednesday, July 18, 2012 ----- </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Science and Engineering 101</b></td></tr>
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<td>8:00 AM-9:30 AM (Convention Center, Room E264, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">This year
in 101 our experts will introduce the best tools to help you discover,
obtain, and work with resources in nuclear engineering and physics.
SPEAKING:Mary Frances Lembo, PNNL Tech Library Pacific Northwest
Technical Laboratory; James Manasco, University of Louisville
PRESENTATION
HANDOUTS: http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/SciEngineering101MaryFLembo.pdf</span></td></tr>
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<b>Open Data in Chicago</b></td></tr>
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<td>10:00 AM-11:30 AM (Convention Center, Room E253C, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Chicago
has recently launched major government transparency efforts.
Learn more about open data initiatives in the Windy City,
particularly the work of the Metro Chicago Information
Center.SPEAKING:Virginia Carlson, Urban Rubrics</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>PAM Mathematics Roundtable</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>10:00 AM-11:30 AM (Convention Center, Room E267, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-3s" style="font-size: xx-small;">A
discussion of issues related to mathematics information and libraries.
MODERATING: Jane Holmquist, Princeton University; Andrew Shimp , Yale
University</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Gov on the Go: Mobile Apps</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>12:00 PM-1:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E253C, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-4s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Government
information is now being made available on the go via smart phone
applications. This session will explore creating mobile
applications using government information as well as one government
library's experience evaluating mobile applications for use in an agency
setting.SPEAKING:Heidi Peters, DARPA Support
Contractor; Katrina Stierholz, Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>SLA Webmasters Meetup (Operation Vitality)</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>12:00 PM-1:30 PM (Convention Center, Room E252, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-5s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Calling
all SLA Unit Webmasters and members of the Webmaster Section (IT
Division)! Join Daniel Lee and Quan Logan for this interactive meetup to
discuss "Operation Vitality" SLA's effort to adopt Wordpress as the CMS
of choice for unit websites. We'll share tips and strategies for
optimizing Wordpress, discuss what the future holds and have a general Q
& A session. Bring your lunch and your lapto...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>SLA Annual Business and Membership Meeting</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>2:00 PM-3:00 PM (Convention Center, Room E450, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-6s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Come hear
SLA CEO Janice R. Lachance deliver the annual state-of-the association
presentation. In addition, SLA President Brent Mai and Treasurer Dan
Trefethen will report on the successes and planned initiatives of the
association.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Future Now: A Panel Discussion</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>3:00 PM-4:00 PM (Convention Center, Room E450, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-7s" style="font-size: xx-small;">SLA 2012
is turning the conference closing session on its head!Join us for a new
and exciting panel presentation by leading information pros who will
discuss and debate topics that were popular during the conference and
will continue to be important throughout 2012. This highly engaging
event will build on the momentum created by conference sessions and
attendee interactions and will include conte...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Get ready to go to O'Hare to get to bus for 6 or 7pm.</b></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"></td><td>3:30 PM-6:00 PM </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Closing Reception</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><img border="0" class="show" height="10px" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/joseph.kraus/Desktop/ARROWR.GIF" width="5px" /></td>
<td>4:30 PM-6:30 PM (TBA, Chicago, IL) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201218-9s" style="font-size: xx-small;">PRICE:
$20.00 Member/ $5.00 Student Member/ $20.00 Non-Member The Kentucky
Chapter invites all conference attendees to join us in putting the icing
on the cake of another successful conference. We hope you
will take this chance to bid adieu to your friends and colleagues before
you travel back to your place of origin. We also hope to ease your
parting tears by including a drink ticket and a...</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Get to janesville at either 8:30 or 9:30.</b></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"></td><td>6:00 PM-9:30 PM </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" class="DayHeader" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="middle" width="100%">----- Saturday, July 21, 2012 ----- </td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Van galder bus from janesville to Midway</b></td></tr>
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<td>9:30 AM-1:00 PM </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><a href="http://www.coachusa.com/vangalder/ss.details.asp?action=Lookup&c1=Janesville&s1=WI&c2=Chicago+Midway+Airport&s2=IL&resultId=132612&order=&dayFilter=&scheduleChoice=&sitePageName=%2Fvangalder%2Findex.asp&cbid=504997805425%20"><span class="show" id="7201221-1s" style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.coachusa.com/vangalder/ss.details.asp?action=Lookup&c1=Janesville&s1=WI&c2=Chicago+Midway+Airport&s2=IL&resultId=132612&order=&dayFilter=&scheduleChoice=&sitePageName=%2Fvangalder%2Findex.asp&cbid=504997805425 </span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><b>Frontier Airlines 536 - 3:50pm Midway</b></td></tr>
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<td>2:00 PM-5:30 PM </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><span class="show" id="7201221-2s" style="font-size: xx-small;">Return Sat, Jul 21 2hr 29min Total time <br />Depart Chicago, Illinois Frontier Airlines 536 <br />3:50 PM Midway Airport (MDW) <br />Arrive Denver, Colorado <br />5:19 PM Denver International Airport (DEN) </span></td></tr>
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