- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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how do you read articles?
if you’re an academic librarian you probably have a stack of articles you’re waiting to read. what’s your process? i usually read at my desk in the office. there are few visual distractions there, which works for me concentration-wise (cute … Continue reading
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Economics Bulletin and transparency in publishing
So much of how academic journals come to be published is mysterious to the end user, from what makes a journal cost what it costs to why or why not the journal is available electronically. You know what is starting … Continue reading
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the last step of writing an article: the celebratory organization
writing an article always begins neatly: i have an idea, i write down a few guiding thoughts, i begin my literature search. i create four folders on my computer: the main folder has the working title of the paper, three … Continue reading
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methodspace
i’m just getting started exploring methodspace, “… the home of the Research Methods community from across the world.” it’s a social networking site run by sage publications. i have a weakness for sage’s skinny green pamphlet series, quantitative applications in … Continue reading
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