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How nice! My employer sent flowers ( from the director and staff of the lab) to congratulate me on the twins' birth

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my son gets discharged from the NICU today!

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Awesome, with a side of win. Enjoy your new family! - Christina Pikas - -

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All of us are well boy is in nicu (4.1lb, 17"), girl is in nursery (5lb, 18.25") waiting for me to get out of recovery.

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Should I make a joke now or later about how you will never really recover? - Christina Pikas - -

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This is it! Twins to be delivered by c section within the hour.

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ugh. i really need to set all my mailing lists to no mail... but i'm on soooo many... my work e-mail is going to explode while i'm out :(

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Yikes! When's your last day? - Christina Pikas - -

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Yep, a year paid and in some provinces at least you can take another year unpaid and they have to hold your job. Unfortunately, my wife is self-employed so she didn't get maternity leaves for either of our sons. - Christina Pikas - -

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Home and on strict bed rest :( guess I have time to write that blog post I promised and work on the dissertation

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At the fab lab - take a 3 hr course for ~$100 and pay for materials use 3d prototyping, cnc router, solid works, all kinds of goodies free

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At a talk by a guy from our local Fab Lab (catonsville community college). Would be fun to go and play - um- innovate

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New post: Why it's not straightforward to extend NIH's mandate and PMC to other areas of… http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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Did someone already share the Dr. Evilsevier comic? http://spikedmath.com/481.html (via Marcin Borkowski on chm-inf)

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eeeeee hee hee hee hee hee LOVE! - Christina Pikas - -

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Penguin ebooks &RWA: publishers gain, communities lose http://scienceblogs.com/confess... via @scienceblogs

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Re-post: Commentary on: The persistence of behavior and form in the organization of personal information - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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per our discussion this morning... new Gale Webinar with "library futurist"... guess who

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Umm, who? You, I hope. - Christina Pikas - -

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Helen suggests 'Library Nowist' For it is always Now. - Christina Pikas - -

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e-Books: Why Bother http://kraftylibrarian.com/...

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RT @carolh1: "More Reasons to Support the Elsevier Boycott" by Doug Arnold. http://blog.mathunion.org/journal...

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RT @NewHorizons2015: Help get to 3000 signatories by today on the petition to have a US postage stamp or New Horizons & its exploration of Pluto! chn.ge/yFpQzX

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elsevier vp of global marketing communications says there's a study of 4000 researchers in which 90% reported "very high satisfaction" with access to research articles... I have requested more details.

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You mean like how many of those researchers were *not* at well-funded first-world institutions? (Or how many were independent research...oh, I forgot, there's no such thing.) - Christina Pikas - -

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I have persuaded Elsevier to release the raw data for this survey. It can be accessed here in a cvs and/or xls file: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.publishingrese... ; title="http://www.publishingrese... ; If anyone takes a look and crunches any data I would be interested in the results. - Christina Pikas - -

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Mysteries of the Elsevier Boycott: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012... <he's got a point, really, and FWIW T&F is prob more evil than Elsevier

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not to defend the beast, but the "freedom collection" does get us a lot of content for not-so-bad $/download... and at least E is innovating with their interfaces and their stuff works... compare to T&F which is much more expensive, has pretty poor interfaces, and doesn't seem to be innovating. - Christina Pikas - -

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oh ffs elsevier launching a premium version of reaxys... i thought the $$$$ we were spending for it already gave us a premium product.

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I thought the reason we couldn't afford the $$$$ was because it was already premium. - Christina Pikas - -

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I've got the free version of reaxys called google and ChemSpider, etc. - Christina Pikas - -

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2012 Best Places To Work | Baltimore magazine: http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/feature... via @AddThis <Congrats @jhuapl !

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RT @CameronNeylon: I'd have more sympathy if schol publshrs stopped telling us how exp. everything is + started on what they're doing to bring down costs #rwa

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occasionally get cc-d on e-mails that essentially say: I've got a live librarian on the line and a budget lit searches all around? everyone ask her something :)

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Misunderstanding ArXiv - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...

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quick, i need a goal for the year for work... and i'm stumped...particularly since the year ends 9/30/12 and i'll be out 2months between now and then

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i was wondering if i could say as a goal i will come up with 3 decent goals for fy2013 - Christina Pikas - -

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ok, here are the 3 i submitted: reinvigorate our "on demand" classes (these are screencasts - last one was done in 2009), work with our communications team on market research (stole this from another member of the team), develop a plan to develop a program to support authors (schol comms stuff as well as marketing our lit search and citation manager things) - Christina Pikas - -

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from Drug Monkey: Publisher statements that may get me on the boycott-peer-review bandwagon http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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I know better than to be optimistic, but I wonder whether Issa the Tool may have inadvertently handed Elsevier & friends the proverbial "enough rope" with RWA. But after so many years of false starts...I'm afraid the legislation will disappear and so will the general will to actually move to gold OA (at a reasonable price). - Christina Pikas - -

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That's the reason I said "Elsevier & friends." In the library-related community, I have special affection for Emerald, with its over-$10K journal (truly! in librarianship!) and admitted aggressive pricing. - Christina Pikas - -

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