Time flies and I can’t contain my excitement that I will be participating in the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online. Practical strategies and collaborative approaches workshop in Nairboi, Kenya, organised by the Open UCT Initiative. For me there’s three very important A’s in scholarly communications: Africa, Access and Altmetrics.

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In our first session of Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society last Friday I hoped to encourage some collective brainstorming around the meaning and evolution of “publishing” by considering some examples from rock and roll as a particular form of disruptive innovation.

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Sing a happy song cause Spring does not last long A flower blooms and then its gone Summer follows fast, make hay while it lasts Don´t ever dwell upon the past -The Divine Comedy The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. -Philip Larkin {.wp-image-2092 .alignleft attachment-id=“2092”

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[Originally published on January 16 2014 on my Remote Participation blog at MLA Commons, here: http://remoteparticipation.commons.mla.org/2014/01/16/mla14-a-first-look/] Twitter Research and Academic Conferences The 2014 MLA (Modern Language Association) Annual Convention, was held in Chicago from 9 to 12 January 2014. You can still browse or search 2014 sessions in the online Program.