http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=6772 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:19:00 EST Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:17:00 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss RapidFeeds v0.1 -- http://www.rapidfeeds.com Professor Carter speaks about the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy from his perspective as a member of the faculty committee that put the policy forward for a faculty vote in March of 2009. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4890131 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4890131 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:37:00 EST Professor Yates explains why MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is an open access site, what is innovative about its approach and content, and why it matters for business education. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=3491152 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=3491152 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:51:00 EST MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology in the MIT Libraries, discusses the lawsuit that Thomson Reuters, owner of the proprietary bibliographic management software EndNote, has pursued against George Mason University and the Commonwealth of Virginia in relation to their open-source tool, Zotero. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=2681877 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=2681877 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:53:00 EST Dr. Clifford explains why he prefers to publish in open access journals, what problems he sees with the journal publishing system, and his view that the choice of journal is “as important as the research itself.” MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=2361409 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=2361409 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:25:00 EST Professor Ariely's book "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions" reports on his research showing that emotions, context, social norms, and related factors drive our decisions – and that we are irrational in predictable ways. 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See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1081595 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1081595 Fri, 23 May 2008 16:00:00 EST An interview with Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=585833 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=585833 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:42:00 EST Professor Lienhard speaks about making his text book — the 3rd edition of A Heat Transfer Textbook — openly available on the web, with no charge to readers. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=547242 efinnie@mit.edu Podcast http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=547242 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:53:00 EST The Executive Director of Science Commons, John Wilbanks, discusses how and why Science Commons is working to improve the flow of scientific knowledge so that complex scientific, technical, and medical problems can be solved more quickly. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=522991 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=522991 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:41:00 EST Tracy Gabridge, Associate Head of the Barker Engineering Library, speaks about a project she is leading in which a group of librarians is determining which conferences MIT Engineering faculty publish in, whether the MIT Libraries have access to the proceedings from these conferences, and whether the digital access appears to be vulnerable. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=509374 efinnie@mit.edu Podcasts http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=509374 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:12:00 EST In this episode, we hear from Professor Kai von Fintel, Professor of Linguistics at MIT. He discusses the launch of a new open access journal, Semantics and Pragmatics. 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