The theme for this year’s International Open Access Week is “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, a question that ought to be nonsensical, but which is becoming ever more urgent. I cannot help but think about Open Access (OA) within the current context both of our world generally and also my own world […]
The following is of very niche interest. It began as an email, but then blossomed (metastasized!), because I was annoyed … and nothing propels me toward obsessive productivity quite as much as annoyance does. In summary: The selection of critical essays and, especially, the bibliography in the last two editions […]
I’ve just finished attending the 2019 International Virginia Woolf Conference, a marvelous event focused this year on questions of Woolf and social justice. Most (but not all) of the attendees were affiliated in some way with academia, and one of the questions that recurred through the conference was: How do […]
Years ago, Amazon included bookmarks with their orders, and one of the bookmarks offered a loose translation of Erasmas: “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” I’ve more or less lived my life by similar principles. (I bought […]