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Dr Danny Kingsley recently concluded a series of articles titled The case for Open Research :   the mis-measurement problem (part 1),  the authorship problem (part 2),  reproducibility, retractions & retrospective hypotheses (part 3),  does peer review work? (part 4), and  solutions? (part 5). Anyone wanting to understand some of the complex issues that are top of mind in academic and scientific publishing should read this series.  I found it extremely valuable. The series discusses issues quite different than what some Canadians have been claiming are issues in academic publishing, namely the Access Copyright activism.  Their nonsense claim is that the primary problem is educational institutions using "foreign" free texts and this is pushing out Canadian non-free texts. (See:  "Copyright-free" material is not edging out Canadian educational texts )  This misinformation campaign has even tried to waive the "Digital Canadian Content" ...

A press release from CRKN launches a dialog about the potential of a closer relationship between CRKN and Canadiana.org. I've been at Canadiana for 5 years, starting in January 2011 as a consultant and then September as staff (See photo of me receiving 5 year recognition from our previous board president Leslie Weir ) . My beliefs come more from my personal political advocacy work on Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Access, and Open Government than it does from being a staff person.  As staff I can can clarify what Canadiana.org is doing from a FLOSS/OA perspective if there are misinterpretations (See: Good News Canadiana & LAC project spun into bad news? , Why is a license required for a Canadiana project built from public domain material? ) What I believe to be the source of some of the potential benefits. For funding reasons, Canadiana has had a bit of a dual identity ( Alter Ego ?) between being a charity created by the Library, Archive and Museum (LAM) ...

My comments on:  Have Millennials Made Quitting More Common? I'm not a Millennial, and nearing 50. I am one of those people who might be considered "disloyal" by those who presume blind loyalty to an employer is a positive trait in an employee. I need to feel passionate about my work.  Paying the bills works for shorter term contracts, but if I'm going to be employed for any length of time I need to feel what I am doing is valuable beyond the salary.  Such a large part of our lives is spent at work, and I want work-life integration and not simply work-life balance. I could be considered disloyal to one of my previous longer-term contracts because I believed that millions of dollars of taxpayer money was being wasted because government lawyers and other policy makers refused to make important data sets open access.  This was data that the government collected, and which Canadian farmers needed access to.  Inexpensive (some free-libre) technology tools to access t...