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Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Values: Choosing our Future
I am very pleased to have been invited to the University of Minnesota to speak to the faculty and librarians there about scholarly communications. I will surely share reflections after the event but I...
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Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Values Revisited
This is a note (1 of 2) to report on my two speaking events this week. I had wanted to write more of them, but business and a weak internet connection at my hotel have kept me from it until now. Here...
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Our Circulatory System (or Folklore Studies Publishing in the Era of Open...
The following essay is adapted from a talk given on March 6, 2009 as part of the symposium “The Form of Value in Globalized Traditions” organized by the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State...
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AcademiX Presentations on Open Access Now Online
I am happy to report that the videos from the AcademiX 2010 conference on “Learning in an Open-Access World” are now online. One can get to them via this page on the MacLearning.org site or one can...
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The Zoot Suit Kid Goes Global: From Tango to Hip Hop
The Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology has recently announced the 1st Annual Richard M. Dorson Memorial Lecture with Dr. Roger Abrahams. “The Zoot Suit Kid Goes Global: From...
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A Day of Pre- Pre-conference Activities at #AFS11
Today, out of town folklorists started appearing around Bloomington for a series of events designed to rally the local troops and welcome the earliest of the visitors coming to Bloomington for the...
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On Green OA and the Future of AAA Publishing at #AAA2011
Yesterday I participated in the forum on the “Future of AAA Publishing” that was staged during the 2011 American Anthropological Association meetings. I joined this event because I was asked to do so...
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On “New Forms of Scholarly Communication”
Presented below are remarks prepared for a meeting of Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) Department Chairs and Academic Associate Deans hosted by the IUB Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and...
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Tomorrow! Workshop on Social Media and Academic Freedom
Filed under: Academic LIfe, Editorial and Opinion, In the Media, IT (Information Technology), Neoliberal Patterns, Scholarly Communication, social media, Speaking
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Don’t Miss the Great Mathers Museum Building Debate
Built in the early 1980s, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures building is an example of Brutalist architecture, a modernist style reviled by some and revered by others. Two Indiana University...
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