brian long @omniadisce@scholar.social

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES RELEASED THEIR JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION COSTS 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘

46% of 80 million Canadian dollars go to Elsevier. F*cking A.

Link to article & data: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-members-release-journal-subscription-cost-data/

What morning is complete without coffee and witchcraft

This is a really great blog post about
a problem with publishing which libraries and others struggle with. Publishers are actively hostile to users getting content which is either OA or even available through the library’s subscription (eg they’ll leave a “buy this” button when the user has the rights to just download it for free). This post uncovers even more... https://researchremix.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/wheres-waldo-with-public-access-links/

Trying to find a digital home for my friend. Does anyone know if there's an instance geared around #philosophy? I found one for #academia in general but not really philosophy-specific necessarily.

If you’d like an FAQ-style Guide to #Mastodon, @noelle has made a nice one here & is looking for people to #translate it to languages other than English:
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

A programming historian tutorial by a student of mine https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/getting-started-with-mysql-using-r

Dear fediverse, I need your help. I'm going to do some research on YouTube comments. Is there someone with experience in this field? Can someone recommend a software solution to extract the entries from the website into a text file or something like this?

Plaintext is vastly underrated as a storage mechanism

#introduction

I'm a member of the eresearch support group at the University of Technology Sydney: we do dedicated IT support and data management infrastructure, policy and training for researchers.

I've worked as a programmer in tertiary education for about 20 years. Languages:
(ex) #Perl
#Python
#Javascript
#Haskell

Other work interests:
#opendata
#openaccess
#datamanagement
#reproducibility

My primary masto account is @mikelynch

#introductions

Hi scholar.social, I'm starting my PhD in American Culture at UM Ann Arbor this fall. I'm a Baby Academic!

Research Interests:
- social media ethnography
- cultural studies
- internet historiography and narrative
- gifs
- Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Studies
- surveillance capitalism

Personal Interests:
- prison abolition
- cats
- bread

I have randomly selected one article from among those suggested by users of https://scholar.social this month

We will be reading: "Hegemonic Heteronormativity: Toward a New Era of Queer Family Theory" by Allen and Mendez

https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12241

The submitter is welcome to de-anonymise themself and introduce the paper and why it was suggested—or not!

Try to keep #journalclub to a single thread by replying to this post to add your thoughts

Have a read and a think and jump in :)

Reminder:

Tomorrow (2018 March 31) is the last day to suggest a paper for this month's #journalclub

Participation is optional

Please only submit articles from *outside* your own field of study

Any https://scholar.social user may submit a paper by sending me a DM with the DOI

One will be chosen by random lottery and announced on 2018 April 1