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Just posted my first Goodreads review (I'd joined as an author but rarely review books)...mostly because I finished a book by an author I used to read and find at least OK as a writer: Piers Anthony. No longer. Not now that I've endured Firefly (not the series). Not just the sheer nastiness and pedophilia: I'm talking about, well, drivel.

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Just published: the PDF ebook (6x9") version of the first comprehensive study of gold Open Access activity, The Gold OA Landscape, 2011-2014. (The paperback will be out in a day or two.) More info: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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This week in The Open Access Landscape: 24. Political Science http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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This week's piece of the OA landscape: 23. Physics http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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My only mildly amusing translation from today's journal scan, and this time Chrome's on solid ground. The journal: La Revista Mad. (Univ. of Chile, Anthro dept.). Chrome's translation: Mad Magazine

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Up now: The Open Access Landscape: 22. Philosophy http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Today's Great Chrome Translate of the Morning: "From January 2013 are followed the standards of the evil American Psychological Association (APA) with regard to citations and references" - I knew there was *something* about APA, but hadn't labeled it.

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Random non-review: picked up a non-genre novel by a Consistently NYT Bestselling author. Definitely a page-turner (360 pages, I probably spent 3 hours reading it). I kept fearing for the characters being out in the rain or near a fire: Cardboard doesn't hold up well to either water or fire. Big cliffhanger ending to force me to read the next volume, but for that I'd have to give a good flying spaghetti monster about at least one of the characters. Makes network TV seem deep by comparison.

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I won't name author or title since some of you may like him. (Him, of course; I have yet to read a woman writer, no matter how bad, with so little interest in characters that resemble actual people. No, I'm not looking for suggestions...) - waltcrawford - [ 1 ] -

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Great Chrome translate of the day, item #24 in a 25-item list of author guidelines: "The Magazine takes a endogeny policy to combat, following the guidelines of CAPES, in the sense that is minimized the number of published articles of the very institution teachers of authorship."

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SO: Can anyone point me to the supposed Facebook convo. re Beall/"bullying" and T. Scott's post? I can't find anything, but I find "searching" Facebook to be essentially useless. (Not posting this directly on FB because...well...)

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Asked the same question on LSW.org, and got a responsive answer. Thanks.) - waltcrawford - -

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Beall/Wise slash on Archive Of Our Own in 3... 2... 1... - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 1 ] -

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Halfway through the rest-of-DOAJ analysis: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Great author instruction of the day (from the Journal of Pedagogic Development): "You can use any font but if you are submitting in hard copy please don't use anything too zany"

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*submits entire manuscript in Zapfino* - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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A long-ago business of mine had a logo not entirely unlike D. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 1 ] -

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Just posted: The 1,702-journal (127,000-article) gorilla of OA publishing: The Open Access Landscape: 18. Medicine. http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Just posted: The Open Access Landscape: 18. Media & Communications http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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JUST IN TIME for my preso. to media & comm. grad students on the Open Access!! - Stephan1eCogSc1L1brar1an - -

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True confession: I almost hate it when I find myself disagreeing with Rick Anderson--as I frequently do in the OA arena--because he's so damn sensible,, and blunt, about so many things much of the time. Ah well: I even disagree with Ms. Rogers and Ms. Salo from time to time...

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So an ACS journal has a group of OA-related commentaries, and the editorial introducing them includes a classic misdefinition of gold & green OA ("gold is where the author pays, green is where the author doesn't"--paraphrased)...and I just can't. Life is too short.

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Remarkable journal mission statement excerpt of the day, from Alternative Francophone: "2) to promote fruitful exchanges between francophonies; " - and yes the French version uses exactly the same word. See for yourself: http://ejournals.library....

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A field near & dear to me, even though (a) I'm not one and (b) I might prefer "librarianship": The Open Access Landscape: 16. Library Science http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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I replied to a tweet and probably shouldn't have: I suppose it's unfair to hold against Jim Neal that he found it necessary to respond to my broadcast request for help in finding a new job by saying how WONDERFUL it was that he'd helped engineer the merger that caused me to lose my job. To me, needlessly rubbing salt into wounds is asshatishness, but maybe that's petty.

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I should note that, after the tweet, Jim Neal asked what the problem was and apologized--saying it was out of character for him. Which it was, I think. - waltcrawford - -

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As he noted in his apology--and as I knew--he played no part in post-merger personnel decisions; he just helped engineer the merger itself. - waltcrawford - -

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For those who care, a quick progress report on The (Fuller) Open Access Landscape project: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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A bit discouraging but not surprising. A Frontiers blog entry about spring OA conferences with various "predatory" and other stuff finished with two recommendations for Important Sources for OA journal validity. First, DOAJ. Second...thus giving him even more validation...Beall's List. Sigh.

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Yay! June 2015 American Libraries just arrived, with "Idealism and Opportunism: The state of open access journals" on p. 32, one-page extract from (summary of) my forthcoming Lib Tech Report, "Open Access Journals: Idealism and Opportunism"

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When I did an LTR in 2014 (Big Deal), I didn't even notice the clause that says you're supposed to prepare a 600-word version for possible use in American Libraries; this year, I did. Apparently Patrick Hogan prepares the extracts when authors fail to--and, as usual for Patrick, does a great job. - waltcrawford - -

Which is also to say: without checking, I believe what's in AL is an edited version of what *I* submitted--but in either case, I'm happy. (No extra $$$, but lots of extra reach.) - waltcrawford - [ 2 ] -

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450 pounds of moss rocks, individually selected. 225 pounds of rainbow jasper, individually selected. One bag (maybe 100 pounds?) of large river cobblestones. And, the biggie, six cubic yards of shredded bark. (That's 81 of the 2-cubic-foot bags, if we were buying bags.) Part of what will replace our lawn (which I've removed ab. 80% of so far, by hand, day by day...). The bark is 75%+ of the total cost. (We have some drought-tolerant plants and will be buying a few more. )

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The cobblestones -- actually Noiyo decorative rocks, where the moss rocks and jasper are considered boulders -- also individually chosen, by my wife, the brains of this operation. The bark is redwood. I'm done for the day. - waltcrawford - [ 2 ] -

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Update: I'm encouraging my wife to send me the photos she took yesterday, and if/when she does so I'll post one or two. (Still have 160-200sq.ft. of "lawn" to remove, but other than the existing camphor tree that will just be bark-covered; for now, at least, landscaping's pretty much done. And the Google Street View from February 2014 offers an excellent Before, just about the time we stopped watering. - waltcrawford - [ 1 ] -

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Halfway through The Open Access Landscape: 15. Law http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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The lightweight summer July 2015 Cites & Insights is now available: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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The Open Access Landscape: 14. Language & Literature http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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