Open Access
The most chatted-about issue this week was an open access one: blogger and neuroscience PhD student Shelley Batts ran afoul of the science journal publisher Wiley when she published a clip of a chart from an article in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture for a blog post on the article in her blog Retrospectacle. All heck broke loose, or at least so it seemed for a while until Wiley apologized:- This link is right to Batt's blog, which is less than ideal (because of course, she'll blog on after this issue dies down), but there's a lot there on support from her colleagues and others in the blogging and scientific community, so if you're interested, its worth spending some time there.
- Afarensis explains why he's ditching Wiley publications, in a post called Goodbye Evolutionary Anthropology, Goodbye American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- An argument for open access, John Hawks responds to the Wiley/Retrospectacle fuss
- In Wiley threatens scientists with copyright law, Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing weighs in.
- In The Digital Past: Where is it going?,Eric Kansa on Digital Digging offers his vision of the future
- Online Activism - I Digg It, ronocdh on Anthropology.net reports on the recent foofaraw at Digg
- Leveraging Wikipedia, from Peter Suber.
On About
- The First Dot.com, 20th Century History
- Global Warming Advantages and Disadvantages, Geography
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Ancient History
- Young Catherine of Aragon, Medieval and Renaissance History
- Monks, Books, and the Preservation of Knowledge
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Women's History
- Andy Warhol's Interminable Fifteen Minutes, Art History
Books Reviewed
- In The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, Afarensis reviews this interesting
new book from Peter Dodsonbook by Adrienne Mayor I actually reviewed a couple of years ago (and loved by the way: Fossil Legends of the First Americans. - In Paleontology in the classical world, reviewed, John Hawks responds to Afarensis' review and explains his own point of view.
- In A guide to fantasy science, John Hawks takes aim at Nature senior editor Henry Gee's review of Mike Morwood's new book, The Discovery of the Hobbit
- Martin Rundqvist on Aardvarchaeology reviews the Cambridge History of Scandinavia
- Mission in England: Prehistory in the Peak and The Langdales, a brief note on two books about the Peak District, from Vitor Oliveira Jorge on Trans-Ferir; actually, Vitor has quite a few nice foggy photographs from a recent visit to UK's Lake District
- Mark Morgan on the Egyptology Blog looks at Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt.
- Everything is Miscellaneous, review of the book about the impact of the Internet from Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing.
Archaeology
How odd. Hardly anything on archaeology this week.- Rare Skeleton and Jewels Found in Bolivia pyramid, from Tim Jones on Remote Central, about some news from Tiwanaku
- Tim Jones on Remote Central reports on the latest investigations into the Archimedes Palimpsest, in Text Reveals More Ancient Secrets From Archimedes Palimpsest
Et cetera
- Alun Salt asks Is commercialism killing the Blogosphere?, in which he muses on the potential of blogs
- Teotihuacan underwater, an amazing photograph by by Flickrite Achilles_Rio_de_Janeiro
Guilty Pleasures
- I love PBS' Robert X Cringley (okay, not him personally, just his literate techno-geek column), and even though it's off topic, and in fact on the VT murders of a couple of weeks ago (don't get me started), Cringely has something insightful to say in Mean Time Between Failures: We need a search engine for hate.
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