Comments for Academic Librarian

Comment on Tempted, Very Tempted by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Wayne Bivens-Tatum — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:04:54 +0000

I didn't bother to check, but I'm not surprised it's on there. I'm aware of this trend, but I haven't gotten many emails making this request of me, and I thought the wording was amusing.

Comment on Tempted, Very Tempted by Jason

Jason — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:02:35 +0000

Hi Wayne. You probably already know this or have verified, but according to metadata librarian Jeffery Beall who tracks bogus or con-job publishers at Scholarly Open Access (http://scholarlyoa.com/), there is the ‘Science Journal Publication’ on his ‘beware’ list (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/). I’m assuming the SJP publisher you mention here is different the one mentioned on his site, but thought I would pass along the information just in case. — Jason

Comment on Organizing My Research Life [Updated] by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Wayne Bivens-Tatum — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:51:58 +0000

It sounds like a nice setup, Adam. At the moment I'm trying hard to distribute my productivity tools among as many companies as possible, though, just so I don't rely on Google for everything. Google's let me down before, and I'd like to avoid Google developing products that copy others, driving out competition through cheaper prices, and then killing the products. So for now I'm using Google for products they clearly do better than everyone else (e.g., gmail) or for which there is no adequate substitute (e.g., bookmarks) or which I know they're making money on (e.g., Android), preferably all three. I love Evernote Clearly, but now I'm definitely going to have to try out the Clean Print extension. Sounds like it might be even better!

Comment on Being a Man in a Man’s World by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Wayne Bivens-Tatum — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:06 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Maggie. I’ll take a look at it.

Comment on Being a Man in a Man’s World by Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:42:16 +0000

Great post!

Also, another book for your daughter might be — http://www.amazon.com/Goo-Gaga-Some-Thoughts-Balls/dp/B00B9ZGZPY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369053417&sr=1–1&keywords=f%27em

Comment on On Librarians Writing by Celia

Celia — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:03:52 +0000

This is wonderful — thanks for sharing your thoughts on academic writing. I’m also drawn to nonfiction, and it helps me to see how you’ve integrated writing practice and community with LIS work!

Comment on Organizing My Research Life [Updated] by Adam

Adam — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:49:53 +0000

I used Evernote for a bit but (believe it or not) found it offering too many options and I got tired of bouncing from a bunch of different software to find something. I started using Google Keep and that is simple and to the point. Three things I wish Keep had are organizing the cards order, card links, and to have the cards integrated into my Google Drive search.

I use the Drive 100gb plan and store everything in it so I can have it where ever I am. I do make sure however that I sync it to my desktop so I keep a safe copy at home. I use Google Docs to do notes for longer options such as taking notes for books or articles. Google Drive also has pdf full text searching which is handy — wish they had it for epubs too, but oh well.

I loved Clearly and that is what probably kept me on Evernote as long as I was. Now I have found Clean Print Chrome Extension. I can click that and it turns the site I am looking into a clean page optimized for printing. If I don’t like something that it kept, it gives you the option to click on it and remove it. You can also add sections back that it removed in the initial processing. The big feature I love is that it then allows you to save it right to your Google Drive account as a PDF so everything I read can be clipped right into Drive.

Right now I am not using a citation manager but have used Zotero in the past. I liked it and when I need one again I will probably go back to it.

I love Calibre and have been using that ever since I read (what I think was yours) a little over a year ago. I wish that it did a better of job of turning epubs into pdfs though because then all my documents would be full text searchable in Drive.

Thanks for the great article! You got me started thinking about a lot of these things.

Comment on Organizing My Research Life [Updated] by Michael Hughes (@anachronautics)

Michael Hughes (@anachronautics) — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:18:46 +0000

One downside: it seems to recognize hyperlinked endnotes as unwanted clutter. It wipes out the notes in this NY Review of Books article, for example: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/debt-we-shouldnt-pay/

Comment on Organizing My Research Life [Updated] by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Wayne Bivens-Tatum — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:52:04 +0000

My usual response is a sigh of relief at no longer being overwhelmed by pop-ups, but I’ll try Presto next time.

Comment on Walt Crawford’s Big Deal and the Damage Done by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Wayne Bivens-Tatum — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:50:42 +0000

I took a look at that post. It seems to me that Crawford and Beall are writing about two different issues. If by the "serials crisis" you mean that libraries are having to drop subscriptions, then yes, that's over and the Big Deals stopped the practice of being able to drop subscriptions to save money. Walt is showing how the percentage of library spending has moved significantly to ejournal content at the expense of everything else, including monographs. These are different issues. Yes, libraries have more access to scholarly journals. They also have less access to everything else.