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Sunday, February 06, 2022

Massive open index of scholarly papers launches

“You know you’re working class when your TV is bigger than your book case.” 

– Rob Beckett


Oh then the happy hours
when a serene bartender
pours tequila, mixer
and ice into a blender
to make a soothing elixir.
Ease has a salty flavor.
After a sultry day’s
bright blurriness, we savor
another sort of haze.

As a full-time poet I work on my own poetry at least eight hours each day. This work includes raw creation from scratch and revision. In the past, I also counted literary translation of poetry but I am focusing on my own work now. Many of my writer friends (and all the poets) ask, “How do you do it?” They mean, primarily, financially, as in, “How do you pay the rent?” But they are also asking how I manage to fit poetry into a 9-5 box. 




Politicians trash-talking their leader is not new, but here’s what worries the PM most about the Berejiklian text leak

It’s not what it said so much as the timing of the leak - amid a bitter internal Liberal Party brawl in the countdown to the federal election.

  • by Janine Perrett




Massive open index of scholarly papers launches - Nature: “An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the global research system, say its founders. The database, which launched on 3 January, is a replacement for Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), a free alternative to subscription-based platforms such as Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science that was discontinued at the end of 2021. “It’s just pulling lots of databases together in a clever way,” says Euan Adie, founder of Overton, a London-based firm that tracks the research cited in policy documents. Overton had been getting its data from various sources, including MAG, ORCID, Crossref and directly from publishers, but has now switched to using only OpenAlex, in the hope of making the process easier…”


       In Chicago Nneka McGuire has a Q & A with the author, in Nnedi Okorafor's Books Focus on Future Tense. 


       Slavenka Drakulić profile 

       At Eurozine they have Zsófia Lóránd on 'How Slavenka Drakulić made space for women's issues in Yugoslavia', in The stakes of feminism. 


“The Duchamp Research Portal is an online platform that aggregates a selection of digitized archival holdings and museum collections at three partner institutions to make a significant portion of primary source materials related to Marcel Duchamp accessible and discoverable through a single interface.  Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was one of the most influential artists of the modern era. He changed the way we think about art. Duchamp’s work—which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, and readymades—represents a legacy that informs our understanding of the development of modern and contemporary art. 

The Duchamp Research Portal unites a number of museum collections and archival repositories related to the life and work of Marcel Duchamp. Making up for the geographic distances between the participating institutions, this online resource digitally aggregates Duchamp-related archival materials along with his artworks and renders them accessible, discoverable, and usable for the Duchamp research community, scholars, and the broader public in a way that has never been possible before. The portal is divided into two sections: Documents and Museum Collections. The two sections of the site reflect the partnering institutions’ administration of the materials. Documents feature items maintained by library and archives departments as well as the Association Marcel Duchamp, while Museum Collections include objects in the partners’ permanent artwork collections. 

The portal currently consists of nearly 50,000 images of digitized archival documents and related metadata. The materials include correspondence, drawings, technical plans, photographs, exhibition ephemera, newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, and more. These archival resources offer users throughout the world a unique window into Duchamp’s life and artistic production. Please note that the portal does not represent complete and exhaustive access to all Duchamp materials held at the three participating institutions – Philadelphia Museum of Art / Centre Pompidou / Association Marcel Duchamp.”



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The Charismatic Developer and the Ponzi Scheme That Suckered San Diego Bloomberg


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Seven Reactions to NFIB v. Department Of Labor Law and Political Economy Project

 

Cricket’s Class Wars Tribune

 

Routine Maintenance Harpers. Hysteresis?


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