The botanist J.D. Hooker was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and confidantes. Now their 40-year correspondence is freely available online. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
Writing
“Asking Authors to Buy ‘Memberships’ for Open Access”
The founders of PeerJ, a new, open-access publishing platform, want to make it faster and cheaper to publish academic papers. Can they do it? Read More at The Digital Campus (CHE) »
“Devising New Roles for Scholars Who Can Code”
A scholar can be a coder; a programmer can be an intellectual partner in collaborative scholarship. Bethany Nowviskie, the director of digital research and scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, wants to spread the "all together now" ethos of digitial humanities. Here's how she's doing it. Read More at The Digital Campus (CHE) »
“Lasting Imprint” (review of “Paper: An Elegy” by Ian Sansom and “The Missing Ink” by Philip Hensher
“At Librarians’ Meeting, Information Is Championed–But Not Always Books
My report from the Association of College and Research Libraries biennial conference, where Henry Rollins gave a punk-inflected paean to information and librarians talked about how to weed low-use print collections, among other pressing subjects. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
