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Friday, June 27, 2003

San Francisco-based Public Library of Science promoted "a new model for scientific publishing – where all scientific and medical publications would be freely available to read and use through online public libraries of science." Now a press release announces that new legislation is being drafted that would require all federally-funded research results to be available in the public domain. comment []1:38:53 PM

Thursday, June 26, 2003

Unesco's portal to library-related weblogs features several besides mine: Catalogablog, LibLog and Library Techlog are some that I enjoy browsing. Others not listed include: Guy Aron's Eprint blog (about scholarly communication) and Rhetorica (nothing to do with libraries really). The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a piece on Professor Bloggers. While there are many uses of blogs in scholarly communication no mention was made about the potential of the medium for academic mentoring - something that I've been trying to do with mine. But, I need to implement a few more features for readers (ability to post comments, count hits/readers, for example) before that can take off. I guess I stopped doing the comment feature because nobody commented back! comment []6:45:37 PM

Wednesday, June 04, 2003

The May 2003 issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the American Psychological Society reviews the research and reports fascinating (and possibly controversial) answers to the question: Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles? Authors Roy F. Baumeister, Jennifer D. Campbell, Joachim I. Krueger, and Kathleen D. Vohs discuss their research results in 44 pages; the PDF file is 277.2 KB and can be downloaded freely from here. comment []6:08:37 PM

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Salary disparities are the focus of The Great Divide, a May 30 Chronicle of Higher Education article. An Asst. Prof. at the Business school, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa makes $ 72,691, the highest paid faculty is in law making $102,462 and the lowest paid discipline at $35,991 is still library science! While the salaries may be fair and reflect the private sector the argument and concern is over the long-term erosion of the humanities. Interestingly, this reflects the more comonly held view (at leats among the general population) of library science as a humanities discipline. Despite the inroads of information technology into the field. NOTE: Access to this article requires a subscription to the Chronicle. comment []5:24:57 PM

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