User:Christine Bush

Introduction

(CC) Artwork: Christine Bush
I'm here to help.

       I'm an independent writer and researcher living in Mountain View, California. I earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College. My earlier undergraduate work focused on English Literature, Philosophy and Cognitive Science at NC State University. I attended San Jose State University where I studied Geography and History at the graduate level. I have training and work experience in geospatial technologies and continue to enjoy creating maps for various projects using open source GIS tools. I have over 15 years of experience as a web developer. I am researching and writing a book about the intersection of embodiment and epistemology when not working on a botanically-related app. I have a blog at ideaspeak.us and paint watercolors to relax.

      I have been awarded two "barnstars" for my contributions to Wikipedia. I am the primary contributor to the article on "Encyclopedic knowledge" and a major contributor to the article on "Open educational resources." I find the online culture at Wikipedia to be toxic. I hope to contribute original maps and articles relating postcolonial studies and postmodernism to CZ. I also want to help fill in the gaps.

      I wish to continue to support Citizendium financially, and I am working to implement a safe, secure way for donations by check in addition to using PayPal. I want to see CZ grow and thrive because I think its article cluster schema is one of the most useful and scholarly available.

From the Forum

Comment "Re: Critique of academic publishing"

June 2014 Election

      I am excited to have been given a chance to serve a one-year term on the Citizendium Council as an Author Representative. It was eye-opening, however, to discover just how few of us actually participated in this election. We have work to do.

       During the current term, I intend to work to increase participation on CZ and to encourage more contributors to vote next year. I also want new users to feel welcome to contact me directly with any questions about writing articles. I make no claim to having all the answers, only to having the right experience to find them for you.

>> I now have a page dedicated to my work in this capacity. You should still find my 2014 Election Statement here.

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Research Sources and Tools

N.B. This list is an ongoing, freely shared, work in progress.

Academic

The Chronicle of Higher Education
WorldCat
WorldCat Lists

Emergent Academic Resources

Open Syllabus Project (API access only)

Archives

Ancestry.com
Internet Archive
British Library
Gallica (National Library of France cartographic collections)
Genealogy Bank
History Is A Weapon (Useful for researching historical sources, but the site itself is not rigorously edited enough to be used as a source itself.)
Library of Congress
Prelinger Archives (over 60,000 "ephemeral" films)
Prelinger Library
Project Gutenberg
WikiLeaks

Booksellers and Reviews

Booksellers

Advanced Book Exchange

Folio Society

History Book Club

Powell's Books (Portland, OR)

Book Reviews

GoodReads.com Non-Fiction list (2013)

New York Review of Books

New York Times Books section

Broadcast Sources

Aljazeera America
Associated Press
British Broadcasting Service
Democracy Now!
National Public Radio
Reuters

Journals

Archives and Indexes

DeepDyve (great for independents without access to university library) $

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Wiley Online Library $$$

ProjectMuse (access limited to federated institutions)

Questia $

Taylor and Francis $$

Taylor and Francis Open Access

Distinguished

Harvard Law Review

Nature (International Journal)

New England Journal of Medicine $$

Topical

Botany

Fremontia (California Native Plant Society)

Botanical Studies (OpenAccess Journal)

American Journal of Botany

New Phytologist

Geography

The California Geographer

Mapping The World (T&F/Free Access)

Science (General)

Frontiers

Public Library of Science

Physics Today

Science

Scientific American

Technology

2600-The Hacker Quarterly

Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Magazines

ArcNews (Geospatial IT industry news from ESRI, Inc.)
The Atlantic
The Economist
National Geographic Society
The New Yorker
Smithsonian
WIRED

Newspapers

Archives and Indexes

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Newspaper Archive ("World's Largest Collection")

World-Newspapers.com

Daily

Financial Times

The Guardian (UK, US, AUS editions available)

International Herald Tribune

New York Times

The Telegraph

The Times

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Other Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclo.co.uk (Sources)
Grove Music Online (the authoritative musicological resource; available through some libraries) $$$
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (print only)
Scholarpedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WorldBook

Reference

Oxford English Dictionary $$ (free access available to OED Online via some local libraries)

Software

Evernote
Google Ngram Viewer
Google Scholar

Unrecoverable and As-Yet-Unrealized Sources

...But new materials are continually being scanned, and the same methods that build a compelling historical argument one year may undo the argument the next because of new fodder for the keyword searches. In some cases, the answers to historians’ questions may lie forever out of reach, because they were printed in very minor publications that will never be captured by Google or ProQuest; or printed in sources now lost, like the newspapers in the British Museum destroyed by a German bomb in World War II; or discussed orally without ever being printed anywhere; or printed and digitized but expressed in discourse whose semantics cannot be matched by Boolean searching of words and phrases.

Fred R. Shapiro, Yale Law School
"Who Wrote The Serenity Prayer?"
The Chronicle Review (May 2, 2014)

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Recommended Reading for Citizens of the Compendium

The Uses of Being Wrong by Daniel W. Drezner
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein

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Articles/Subject Areas I Am Researching

Arlington National Cemetery
Cartography
Children's Literature
Giorgio de Chirico
Encyclopedia
Gender
Hegel
Imprisonment
Map
Joan Miro
Georgia O'Keefe
Responsive Web Design
Edward Said
Sex_(disambiguation)
Watercolor
James McNeill Whistler
Wolves

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