Scholarship
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Annotating Books and Other Texts
As a child, I was horrified by people who wrote in books. In high school, I’d go through my textbooks at the start of the new school year and carefully erase the penciled…
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I Need a Shredder
It’s been just over a month since I started my digital migration. I’m making slow but steady progress on getting rid of paper. I’ve been getting digital statements where possible for several years…
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VDM or Verlag Dr. Mueller Has a New Tactic
I’ve written about VDM (Verlag Dr. Mueller), an exploitive academic/scholarly mill before. Writer Beware writer advocate and writer Victoria Strauss notes that VDM has a new wrinkle: . . . a company called…
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Free Evernote Premium Account for College Students
Evernote is giving giving away premium Evernote accounts good through the end of the school year (June 30, 2012), to US college students with a .edu email address. This is a fabulous offer;…
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Pinterest
I always check out new blogging and CMS platforms, so when I started hearing about Pinterest.com, I took a look, and then tried Pinterest. Pinterest describes itself as “Pinterest is an online pinboard.…
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The Academy Doesn’t Prepare Humanists for Publishing Professionally
When I was filling out all the paperwork for filing at UCLA, not even the library seemed terribly clued in to copyright. For instance, as part of the filing process, UCLA students are…
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Trials and Tribulations
I managed to avoid commenting on the first pseudonymous Chronicle of Higher Education article by “Ivan Tribble,” “Bloggers Need Not Apply. Tribble’s piece included a less than professional description of the academic review…
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Bibliography Software
I’m looking for free or cheap (under $100.00) bibliographic database software. I’d like something that uses MySQL, Perl, and/or PHP and that includes a GUI, or that one could fairly easily create a…
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Linking and Citations
In the various discussions of whether or not bloggers are journalists, or the distinctions between war bloggers and tech bloggers, or what we do when we blog, perhaps we’ve taken for granted one…
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Information Architecture or Scholarship
According to Gerry McGovern at New Thinking “J R R Tolkien was an information architect.” McGovern writes: Information architecture is concerned with the organization and layout of content. It is a discipline that…