Search results for: “publicly funded”

  • Librarians, libraries, and politics: When governments gets irrational

    Travel Ban Protest Rally Boston flickr photo by Kristin “Shoe” Shoemaker shared under a Creative Commons (BY-ND) license I’ve been trying not to think about work much while I was out on parental leave, but it’s hard given how much I love my job and how the new administration has really made for interesting times.…

  • The Long Road To Open: On Access and Licensing

    flickr photo shared by Todd Huffman under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license Yesterday during a meeting I thought about how far we’ve come (and not) with open data in transportation research. In one respect we’ve come far enough that people just assume it’s happening and understand it’s a good thing. But there’s still…

  • What a headache: Access to standards and guidebooks

    Headache Pills, a photo by sacks08 on Flickr. Let’s talk about headaches (and not the Big Black “Headache” EP.) I get a lot of headaches. Always have done. Not enough coffee. Too much coffee. My glasses. The sun. Whatever. All too frequently confusion about access to publicly funded research and information is a source of…

  • Free Kittens: Aaron Swartz, Open Access, and public perceptions

    Free Kittens, originally uploaded by Trees and Bees Photog. Last night I dragged my bandmates up to Davis to twee house show. It featured Rose Melberg’s new band, Imaginary Pants, as well as two of the best bands in Sacramento right now – English Singles and Nacho Business. Thankfully the show ended early and we…

  • SOPA and the Research Works Act: Evil master plan or do publishers think so little of us?

    This week there’s been some interesting and disgusting things going on within scholarly publishing. Most of the internet is up at arms about SOPA, the ludicrous Stop Online Piracy Act. Earlier this week I stumbled across an interesting blog post Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA. I think the same…