Where I catch up on #LibPub session 4, write about our research trip to comics shops and advertise session 5 on reference books, with guest lecture by Dr Katharine Schopflin.
Good opportunity for #Citylis students! Reblogged from the Open Access Button blog.
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I have deposited on figshare a third alluvial diagram, this time focusing on the country of affiliation of the Principal Investigator/Author of the articles and the geographical area mentioned in the article title.
I shared two first drafts of a couple of alluvial charts I made visualising a dataset of the 25 highest scoring peer-reviewed articles with the term "Africa" in the title.
Stuart Hall died last week. I write some words about what his works meant for me.
¿Dónde se encuentra el tiempo? Han sido días de tormenta...
For our third session of our Libraries and Publishing module at City University London, we will focus on comic books publishing and librarianship in the digital age.
Of how the module I am teaching at City is covering rock and roll, disruptive innovations in publishing and the sharing economy. We will also welcome Jean Liu (@portablebrain) who will talk to us about article level metrics.
This month I will be participating as a "curator" of the Digital Reading Network’s blog by posting some brief articles around the general topic of “digital comics”.
This term I will be leading the Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society (LAPIS) module at City University London. The first session is tomorrow.
Lo más difícil siempre es despertarse.
Muchas veces me he propuesto volver a escribir.
Everything is Connected 
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