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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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thank you @RefWorks - folder and findit (sfx) link now appear in each record even if not showing standard format

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I <3 my co-workers: just threw me a really nice baby shower and even invited my husband :)

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imma gonna get a pitchfork and torch and head to reston where #aiaa is to tell them they can't break all their DL URLs with no notice

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AAAS - AAAS News Release - "AAAS Does Not Endorse the Research Works Act": http://www.aaas.org/news... via @AddThis

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RT @npgnews: Nature Publishing Group and Digital Science joint statement on Research Works Act http://www.nature.com/press_r... #rwa #hr3699

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so the closing got lots of press, but no press for the current news: the Welch library at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution will not be eliminating its physical presence/ locking doors (for now). See the notice on their site: http://welch.jhmi.edu

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Yeah, I remember them sending something out to some medical listservs about that. We've been watching curiously at UIC. - Christina Pikas - -

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There's a larger narrative here about library-as-place and heretofore-independent disciplinary libraries. Did y'all see this re law libraries? <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.slaw.ca/2012/0... ; title="http://www.slaw.ca/2012/0... ; I wish I knew how to pick it all apart so as to say something sensible about it. - Christina Pikas - -

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Ben Wagner proposes that it is a breech of trust that Wikipedia is going offline for 24 hours - we donated effort to build the content and their side of the deal is distribution. What do you think?

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I think it would be breech of trust if they were supporting SOPA or PIPA. Instead they're trying to take a stand for their users and supporting a larger community, is Ben going to call it a breach of trust for other sites that do the same, such as lolcats? - Christina Pikas - -

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Phoebe Ayers is on the board of the Foundation and has posted a very nice response to Ben's comment (this is on PAMnet). - Christina Pikas - -

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has anyone heard anything about AIAA's new website launching on Jan 19? the fact that they say "remember to update your bookmarks" makes me very, very nervous

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No, but we get squat from them. - Christina Pikas - -

SO they did do their website and BROKE ALL THE LINKS TO ALL THE JOURNALS aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH - Christina Pikas - -

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RT @DrMRFrancis Is there a library blog titled "Licensed to ILL" yet? <not that i know of :)

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RT @DrMRFrancis: You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Access http://galileospendulum.org/2012...

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Access to the literature: does interlibrary loan solve our problems? - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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anyone know of newer ILL transaction fee cost estimate than the 1993 report ($29)? I keep hearing that people have all the access they need bcs of ILL so thought i might mention this in a blog post (unless someone wants to do this for me?)

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*paging Andrew Shuping* - Christina Pikas - -

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I think it depends on how you want to count the staff costs. Articles via ILL by themselves are probably averaging $20 for materials and copyright. You could throw in the cost of ILL staff, but your alternative is serials/eresources staff, and we aren't cheap, either. It takes a lot of staff time to manage subscriptions, too. Generally, I use ILL costs as a threshold to whether or not a journal is worth the subscription price for my institution, and little more than that. We consider ILL to be a supplement to our collection, but we know that not everything is going to be available that way. Luckily, we're within a few hours drive of several Research I institutions. - Christina Pikas - -

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ASME re-evaluating after cutting off (many? most?) subscribers - 2000 & 2001 backfiles were removed from current sub to archive w/ltl notice

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lazyweb question: anyone have Pajek shoot the data out to R Studio instead of just R? tried selecting using tools > R > locate R #r-project

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Dr Free Ride has a nice ethical overview of the Research Works Act http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-g...

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what did you fill them with? - Christina Pikas - -

they weren't filled this time. - Christina Pikas - -

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Kolach on final rise http://twitter.com/cpikas...

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ESA wants researchers to write a second set of articles for lay audiences and share that

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ESA does have a good point that gov't should look after its own data/info to make that more widely available

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ESA statement says research results != journal articles (hm.) http://www.esa.org/pao... (pdf)

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home to make kolach and makyivnyk (sp?) and pampushkyy for Christmas Eve dinner tonight

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customer (engineer) just told me I'm "awesome." :) to start the year.

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whoa. hit by the nap bus. what did I miss?

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And I'm up, breakfasted and starting on the cake :(

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I thought that meant you were having cake for breakfast-dessert, and could not understand the unsmiley. Then I remembered you were making the cake, not eating it! Hope it all went well. - Christina Pikas - -

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