The Occasional Pamphlet

…where I should go… “Directions” image by flickr user Peat Bakke used by permission.

After a several year postponement while I established and led Harvard’s nascent library skunkworks, the Office for Scholarly Communication, my request for a sabbatical leave has been approved for the 2013–14 academic year. I hope to work on a variety of projects related to library and publishing issues, computational-linguistics–related projects, and teaching preparation.

My plans are to remain in the Boston area during the year but with perhaps several short external residencies at other institutions who might be interested in having me around for a couple of weeks. If your institution might be such a place — willing to provide an office, a place to crash, maybe a plane ticket — please let me know.

[This is a transient post.]

Observant followers of the Pamphlet will have noticed that I have taken up with Twitter over the last few months. A feed of my tweets is in the pane to the right as “Pamphlet says…”. ⇒

As I get a hang of the medium, I’ve been tweeting on a wider range of topics than covered by the Pamphlet, but still hope this will be of interest to those of you who read the blog. So feel free to follow me (pmphlt) on twitter, and urge your friends, acquaintances, family members, pets, and hangers on to follow as well. And while you’re at it, a plug for the Pamphlet would be most welcome too.

I assume that readers of the open access discussions on this blog are familiar with the state of play in the area, but just in case, here’s some background.

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This blog presents occasional writings on whatever I’m interested in at the moment, which currently includes topics such as:

• scholarly communications and open access, and other university matters
• computer science topics of various sorts
• language, linguistics, and computational linguistics
• pedagogy and writing

I expect that in the near term, I’ll primarily be commenting on open access issues.

I’ve avoided having a blog until now because Read the rest of this entry »