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Publishing books under open access

Guru wrote 1 month ago: Kim Christen at Long Road brings some good news about the more nuanced author agreements that some l … more »

Tags: Books, Anthropology, Australia, Kimberly Christen, School of advanced research press, Aboriginal business

A couple of Linux links!

Guru wrote 2 months ago: Oh! It feels so good to be back with a Linux (or, should I say Gnu/Linux?) machine after using Windo … more »

Tags: Computers, Computing, Linux

I have an eee pc!3 comments

Guru wrote 2 months ago: Got an 8 GB one; started loading gcc, gsl, fftw3, gnuplot and so on. Did some more tweaking to chang … more »

Tags: Computers, Computing, Linux, asus eee pc

A must-read interview with Knuth

Guru wrote 2 months ago: Via Brad DeLong, I learnt about this interview of Andrew Binstock with Knuth, in which, as the one p … more »

Tags: People, Donald E Knuth, Andrew Binstock

Linux is Grandma ready!

Guru wrote 2 months ago: Greg Laden explains why! It is one of the ways I contribute to OpenSource: I keep my Linux Laptop ha … more »

Tags: Computers, Computing, Linux

Couple of Open Source/Linux links!

Guru wrote 2 months ago: Four Commandments of Open Source: My favorite part of Passover, however, is the mandatory re-watchin … more »

Tags: Linux, Computers

Reading the election trends on the wiki page

Guru wrote 3 months ago: I should have added democratic since McCain does not figure in the piece at all. Eva Fairbanks at Th … more »

Tags: media, People, Politics, Wiki

Yet another reason to support Open Access

Guru wrote 3 months ago: Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber with her view from the “South”:  If the information I … more »

Tags: Academic Life

Peer review, role of editors, open access and much more2 comments

Guru wrote 3 months ago: John Hawks on the role of editors of scholarly journals: The editor’s role is to evaluate the … more »

Tags: Academic Life, Politics, Peer Review

Writing papers and the experience of publishing them

Guru wrote 4 months ago: With so many academic and science blogs around, one would tend to think that lots of people will be … more »

Tags: Academic Life, Peer Review

Cheap does not mean there is no quality control2 comments

Guru wrote 4 months ago: It is no surprise to the readers of this blog that (a) I am for open source publishing, (b) open rev … more »

Tags: Anthropology, Museum Anthropology Reviews, Jason Baird Jackson

Will Open Access promote "plain junk"?

Guru wrote 4 months ago: In the March 2008 issue of the Notices of AMS, the executive director of AMS, John Ewing, has a two … more »

Tags: open access, Peer Review

Some mathematical links!

Guru wrote 4 months ago: The March issue of American Mathematical Monthly is full of wonderful reading material: Indika Raja … more »

Tags: Biology, evolutionary, History, mathematics, People, computational genetics, E H Moore, euler, G H Hardy

Open access in the Indian context1 comment

Guru wrote 4 months ago: Arunn at Unruled Notebook has some thoughts: For instance, shift the entire journal online. It costs … more »

Tags: Academic Life, open access

Few pieces from Current Science

Guru wrote 4 months ago: [1] Rasoul Sorkhabi writes about Ananda K Coomaraswamy, and how his scientific training as a geologi … more »

Tags: Science, India, Academic Life, Sir C V Raman, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, evaluating teachers, evaluating researchers, Indian science journals

Some blogological links!

Guru wrote 5 months ago: Sarah Boxer at The New York Review of Books on Blogs (via Abi, at whose post, Coturnix lets us know … more »

Tags: Internet, humour, Web, media, Research, Culture, Academic Life, Blogging, ResearchBlogging.org

Free download of Future of ideas

Guru wrote 5 months ago: B-squared has some cool info: Larry Lessig’s magnificent book The Future of Ideas is now ava … more »

Tags: Books, The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig, CC License, Free Books

Alice in wonderland read by Cory Doctorow

Guru wrote 6 months ago: Another gift for the holiday season: Cory Doctorow’s reading of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in … more »

Tags: Books, media, Alice in woderland, Cory Doctorow, Lewis Carroll, open source audio

Free books on math and physics1 comment

Guru wrote 6 months ago: John Baez, at This week’s finds in mathematical physics points to a large number of online res … more »

Tags: Books, Physics, mathematics, free online book, Free Online Books, free online math books, free online physics books, free online mathematics books


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