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Why James Hoffman made me make the worst coffee I’ve ever made.

  • Posted on June 14, 2020June 14, 2020
  • by Anton Angelo

A month or so ago I was lying in hospital in terrible pain, or floating on a morphine cloud, listening to youtube videos to distract myself. Somehow I fell onto…

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Institutional Repositories: preservation vs. publishing
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Institutional Repositories: preservation vs. publishing

  • Posted on August 28, 2017September 8, 2017
  • by Anton Angelo

information, like water, finds its level. Ever since I have been involved with IRs, this question has nagged at me.  Is it a publishing platform, or a preservation one?  The…

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Never pay for primary research.

  • Posted on July 6, 2017July 13, 2017
  • by Anton Angelo

You should never pay to read or to publish primary research. Scholarly publishing is in a bind.  In trying to move a business model from being subscription based ‘back loaded'(paying…

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50 shades of questionable – predatory publishing redux.

  • Posted on August 2, 2016
  • by Anton Angelo

I’ve been supporting a group of postgraduates who edit a long lived New Zealand Journal, NZ Natural Sciences We are talking about moving it onto our ‘lightweight journal publishing model’ platform…

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Podcasts

  • Posted on June 4, 2015July 13, 2017
  • by Anton Angelo

I love my podcasts…  people occasionally ask for recommendations, so here are my top five (currently) 99% Invisible – a very pleasant study on design topics.  Roman Mars enthuses me…

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I’d love to, but no.

  • Posted on April 22, 2015
  • by Anton Angelo

Dear Anton Findlay Angelo, Are you the author of work entitled « Who visits academic institutional repositories and why? »? It was apparently written at the Victoria University of Wellington…

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Totally obscure post about copyright compliance, risk and institutional repositories

  • Posted on August 1, 2014
  • by Anton Angelo

Asleep yet? No, then read this. This is a reply to an email on an Institutional Repository mailing list, asking about procedures for checking for copyright compliance when uploading post/pre…

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Academia Nuts, But Some Of Us Are Watching

  • Posted on February 19, 2014
  • by Anton Angelo

I saw this rather inflammatory piece in a local ‘zine/gig guide, Point.  (Point #50, 5-18 Feb 2014) Intro: The production of knowledge is corrupt and broken.  Those we trust and…

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Where Libraries can learn from Software – Definitions of ‘Free’.

  • Posted on October 10, 2013
  • by Anton Angelo

The Finch Report was released, and yea! there was much confusion and gnashing of teeth!  While the Babylon still reigned and its whore the Evil Seer ravaged the research grants…

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Why the Hoyts Reward Card is (almost) a complete waste of time.

  • Posted on April 12, 2013
  • by Anton Angelo

I recently moved up to Christchurch, and loving going to the movies, I got a Hoyts Reward Card.  Christchurch  – or the bits I’m local to by bike – has…

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