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

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My first reaction to the latest Bohannon "let's undermine science to improve ethics in science!" thing is to suggest that he's intent on becoming another Beall. My second reaction: Bohannon would take that as a compliment. Arggh.

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Apropos very little except being related to a bunch of almond growers and sick of the repeated "OMG! It takes a gallon of water to grow an almond! California has to stop growing almonds!" (esp. Mother Jones): The current World Wildlife Fund magazine notes that it takes NINE gallons of water to produce one teaspoon of sugarcane-based sugar. (I know, I know, the drought's local. For now.)

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My favorite was when they interviewed a CATTLE RANCHER about how much water almond growers were using up. Right. 'Cause cows don't take any water at all. Gah. - laura x - -

Yeah, it's pretty much BS to be worried about who much water food production takes when the bottled water industry is using so much water. - Kirsten - -

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Looking for bright ideas for the right cost-effective PDF tool: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Never mind. Ordered Power PDF at Memorial Day sale prices; hope it works out well. - waltcrawford - -

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Just out: The Open Access Landscape: 13. History http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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If you care about OA and appreciate my research, please read this golden opportunity: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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How likely is it that an OA article involved a fee? I've posted a subject-by-subject list for 2014: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Uncharitable thought on catching up with the latest comments in the marathon Skitch "predatory" thread: "You don't like the Spanish Inquisition? Build a better inquisition!"

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Yes, I did leave another comment suggesting that it's a bit hypocritical to insist that There Must Be A Blacklist for OA, when there's no such blacklist for subscription journals--implying, but not stating, that such a blacklist would have to include at least Elsevier and Emerald. - waltcrawford - -

And, going back once more after Joe E. seems to think I'm saying nobody's ever criticized Elsevier or Nature, realized that at a certain point responding to some of the Cooks is very much like feeding the trolls. Better things to do. Like set up my new notebook! Soon... - waltcrawford - -

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Out now: The Open Access Landscape: 12. Engineering. http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Reading that Verizon's buying AOL (why?) reminded me that we saw a movie last weekend from AOL Time Warner--and I wondered at the time: How much more value would have been retained if AOL, Time-Life and Warner Bros. had stayed three companies--which is what they are now--instead of devaluing themselves into a conglomerate?

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<snark>I see S.Abram has just labeled Denning's bizarre Forbes future-of-libraries column cum CIL keynote "fantastic." And he's right, for certain traditional meanings of fantastic.</snark>

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Is it at his lighthouse? - Joe - -

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I don' know about bizarre. Sort of 5 years ago, maybe? Not new an original as Aaron says. - Christina Pikas - -

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Rick Anderson makes a point I agree with (hey, it can happen!) in Skitch today...and wow, is the comment stream revealing about some of the other "chefs," and not in a good way. http://scholarlykitchen.s...

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The comment stream continues apace, now with multiple assurances that we *need* a blacklist and a whitelist for OA journals. I've commented to ask: can you point me to the blacklist and whitelist for subscription journals? (OK, I know I should stay away, but it's SO tempting.) - waltcrawford - -

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Just posted: The Open Access Landscape: 11. Education. http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Wonderful, just wonderful: now there's a "study" saying that Flanders scholars published in "predatory" journals X number of times, because Beall--that is, HIS UNSUPPORTED WORD is enough to form the basis of a study. (Edited: the study wasn't really scholarly, but the basis for it's pretty damn objectionable--oh, and they threw in a Hindawi appendix, because The Great Beall's still suspicious of them.) Arrgghh... http://eprints.rclis.org/...

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Yesterday I was itching to say something snarky about the CiL keynote I'm so glad I didn't hear, based on the Forbes blog entry by the speaker--where I pretty much stopped after a paragraph listing all these things (books, newspapers, watches, magazines, etc., etc.) that are "obsolete" because of smartphones. Turns out The Annoyed One did a good brief take on this guy: http://lj.libraryjournal....

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oh THAT guy. yeah, they had him at SLA Leadership Summit and he didn't have much that was interesting or useful to say. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Not going to name names, and it's on another former-ff hangout, but *damn*: 20 years ago, some of today's Hot Library White Male Keynoters were overexposed (IMNSHO). Twenty years ago. Too bad there are no thoughtful, interesting, informed, maybe-less-than-nearing-retirement-age women or non-whites in the library profession: where did they all go? (Since there were plenty of them back in the day..,admittedly underfeatured on same-old, same-old, safe-keynote rosters.)

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Heck, even two years ago--the last time I spoke at a conference--there were women who were better speakers, better informed, more interesting than most of the Men On The Podium. Was there some plague I'm unaware of? - waltcrawford - -

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I do too. But in this case, it's not only sexual and racial diversity (needed as those are), it's *giving today's librarians a shot at the podium.* - waltcrawford - -

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Cites & Insights 15:6 (June 2015) now available: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Now up: The Open Access Landscape: 10. Economics http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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A Word (or LibreOffice) formatting expertise question: you're printing a bunch of shelf labels, which are always one line long but vary in type size (depending on the length of the label), and the labels need to be 3/4" apart vertically. What's the easiest way to assure this spacing (when you're not planning to make a career out of it)? I figured out one very easy way, but it took me a few minutes to think of it. Can others do better? (I'll look again tomorrow morning and offer my own answer.)

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table? - Christina Pikas - -

OK, here's what I did--and I think it's easier/fewer steps than a table (or defining a new style): selected the whole list (ctrl-A or select all), right-clicked, chose Paragraph, made sure above & below spacing was zero, then set line spacing to exactly 54 points. Worked like a champ--and that process took about 10 seconds, much faster to do than to describe. - waltcrawford - -

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If you find my open access work worthwhile, please read this and provide feedback by the end of April 2015: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Just posted: The Open Access Landscape: 9. Ecology. http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Just finished writing draft of primary essay for June Cites & Insights--mostly "anti-OA" pieces, ending with a few "pro-OA." Geez, that was depressing. Including my sense that independent researchers (on OA or anywhere else) are invisible and should disappear. But stubbornness seems to run in my family.

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New post: The Open Access Landscape: 8. Earth Sciences http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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I'll just hide this casual comment here: Reading Twitter stream, encountered a new Outsell report on OA. $100 a page--for each reader, that is. Clearly, I've been in the wrong game. (But, of course, Outsell has Sekrit Sources thus providing Authoritative Info.)

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They had a report on OA last year (or 2?) that was about $1,295 or some such. One could find the pdf of it that someone posed for free on the Internet. - Joe - -

Gee, only $2,595... http://www.outsellinc.com... - Joe - -

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While I'm hopeful frenf.it may prove suitable...at this point, I'm guessing a bunch of stuff is going to wind up as blog posts (or, sigh, FB status updates) that would otherwise be casual FF comments/queries. Just did one (Excel, to my surprise, using a non-zero Y axis for an auto-created graph).

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So is there some way to tell Frenf.it not to show g**D animated gifs as avatars or self-playing videos? Both of them drive me nuts.

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