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Publishing books under open access
Kim Christen at Long Road brings some good news about the more nuanced author agreements that some lucky authors get to sign for some real smart publishers: Last year I signed a contract with the Scho… more »
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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 »
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 »
I have an eee pc!
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Peer review, role of editors, open access and much more
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Guru wrote 3 months ago: John Hawks on the role of editors of scholarly journals: The editor’s role is to evaluate the … more »
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 »
Cheap does not mean there is no quality control
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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 »
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 »
Some mathematical links!
Guru wrote 4 months ago: The March issue of American Mathematical Monthly is full of wonderful reading material: Indika Raja … more »
Open access in the Indian context
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Guru wrote 4 months ago: Arunn at Unruled Notebook has some thoughts: For instance, shift the entire journal online. It costs … more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Free books on math and physics
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Guru wrote 6 months ago: John Baez, at This week’s finds in mathematical physics points to a large number of online res … more »
