Nov 3
Although we never met, I was greatly impacted by the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. I am very saddened to learn of his passing, but I recall how happy I felt upon his reaching his 100th birthday last November. He was a giant.
Alex Golub in Inside Higher Education on the Kindle for Academics.
Repeating news that various others have noted, it seems useful to call attention to the Social Science Open Access Repository. For many folklorists and anthropologists without access to an institutional repository into which to deposit pre-prints and or other materials for which suitable author rights have been retained, this looks like a very promising new option.
I have updated my earlier essay on enclosure in scholarly communications with a sort of index (at the end of the piece) of all of the major discussions of it of which I am aware. While there have been exchanges and posts on various weblogs, the main “debates” have happened on listservs in the OA and librarian communities. Links to the relative archives for these are given in the update. Thanks to everyone who considered the essay and made it my most read piece of writing on this site.
Shreds and Patches 