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Academic Blogs: Purposes and Benefits?

In an article by Andy Guess in Inside Higher Ed titled, “Blogs and Wikis and 3D, Oh My!” (09 May, 2008), there is an interesting section featuring discussions of the nature, purposes and benefits of academic blogging, and some of the lingering suspicions that surround them. I will post a few extracts that I think […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Wikipedia, Scholarpedia, Citizendium, knol: Open Knowledge Production and Access

In “Making Wikis Work for Scholars,” an article by Andy Guess in the 28 April, 2008, issue of Inside Higher Ed, one begins to see more positive assessments by some scholars of the value of Wikipedia for teaching, with some limitations (some making use of the limitations themselves), some doubts about credibility, and some new […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

The Library as Open Access Publisher, and Digital Publishing 2.0

A report by Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Education (Abandoning Print, Not Peer Review, Feb. 28, 2008) announces what the reporter thinks will be a major new challenge to print publications in academia: Those tracking the move toward open access publishing look for milestones such as the new federal law that will make much research […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Conversation on Journals and Open Access Publishing

Several months ago, the Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, was the site of an informal discussion on journals and open access publishing. It was a wide ranging debate, involving issues of delays in the peer review process, to the nature of peer review, the origins of peer review, the question […]