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“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken. “
— Frank Herbert
Thesis submission – 42 days and counting....
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Notes from:
Waltham, Mary. 2009. “The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations”,
Report on a study funded by a Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [www.nhalliance.org] This is an interesting report that ...
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Helping to define the “anthropology” and “change” parts of the thesis question, “how is the internet fueling change in anthropology?”:
“The intellectual history of the nineteenth century is marked above all by this disciplinarization and professionalization of knowledge, that is ...
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After a long summer delay wondering what was up with the Mana’o repository, today I finally got word that yes, it is officially shutting its doors [it has unofficially been down all summer due to the operation being run on ...
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[to explain, since this post is not very self-explanatory, this is a story about how two sections of my thesis have changed drastically over the summer - one section, on self-archiving, part of a larger discussion on open access, discussed ...
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“The Conservatives will appeal a federal court ruling that orders the government to repatriate Canadian-born terrorism suspect Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, the CBC is reporting.
According to the report, the government has filed a ...
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After supporting the U.S. administrations (past and present) illegal detention and torture of Omar Khadr, Stephen Harper has finally been forced to help repatriate him:
“The Federal Appeal Court upheld a ruling Friday that ordered the Canadian government to press ...
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Last month I had the pleasure of attending a talk by David Yetman, discussing a program developed at Memorial University that works to “mobilize knowledge” between the university and outside interests. The program acts as a liaison of sorts, between ...
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A few weeks ago a peculiar piece of email spam came to my attention. The email was a rather sophisticated scam, that involved posing as a soldier in the U.S. army, offering “sensitive” documents, which required that you visit a ...
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I’m a bit late (ignoring this blog to write a thesis of course), but if you haven’t heard yet, anthropologists have come together to form the “open anthropology cooperative”. The project has received a lot of enthusiastic support, and couldn’t ...
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Steven Harnad suggests that institutions could mandate self-archiving to get researchers to comply, as opposed to voluntary policies that have proven ineffective. The ineffectiveness of voluntary policies is backed up by my own research where very few professors were aware ...
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I’m excited to see Enkerli’s latest project, which he was “pondering” only a few weeks back, has already materialized. Check out the latest anthropology-related podcast, focusing on ethnography. Also take note of Enkerli’s new blog, “Informal Ethnographer”, and twitter accounts, ...
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I’ve never met the man, even though he teaches in Montreal, but if I was to put a face on his written voice, it would look something like this.
When the U.S. congress tried to pass a bill mandating the ...
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In his article, “Open Access or Faux Access” (2008), Scott Jaschik writes:
“The anthropology association has been divided for years over open access — the view that research findings should be online and free. Many rank-and-file anthropologists embrace the idea, ...
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Strolling through various journal articles I’ve tagged, I noticed Concordia Library has placed an “Open Access” resources link on its list of databases page. It links to the OAIster search engine.
After helping a teacher archive their work on the ...
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Just capturing a little quote from a discussion over at Savage Minds, which I might include in the thesis section on reader interaction.
“I am reluctant to post on a blog which, although raising central issues, so often then distorts ...