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[http://www.chronicle.com The Chronicle of Higher Education]<br /> | [http://www.chronicle.com The Chronicle of Higher Education]<br /> | ||
[http://www.opensyllabusproject.org Open Syllabus Project] (API access only)<br /> | [http://www.opensyllabusproject.org Open Syllabus Project] (API access only)<br /> | ||
[http://www.worldcat.org WorldCat]<br /> | [http://www.worldcat.org WorldCat]<br /> | ||
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[http://www.reuters.com Reuters]<br /> | [http://www.reuters.com Reuters]<br /> | ||
=== Journals | === Journals === | ||
[http://www.deepdyve.com DeepDyve] (great for independents without access to university library) $<br /> | |||
[http://www.nature.com Nature] (International Journal)<br /> | [http://www.nature.com Nature] (International Journal)<br /> | ||
[http://www.nejm.org | [http://www.nejm.org New England Journal of Medicine]<br /> | ||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ Wiley Online Library] $$<br /> | |||
[http://muse.jhu.edu ProjectMuse] (for those with access through your library)<br /> | |||
[http://www.questia.com Questia]<br /> | |||
=== Magazines === | === Magazines === | ||
Revision as of 18:28, 11 August 2014
Introduction
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.
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.
Research Sources and Tools
Academic
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Open Syllabus Project (API access only)
WorldCat
WorldCat Lists
Archives
Ancestry.com
Internet Archive
British Library
Genealogy Bank
Project Gutenberg
Library of Congress
Prelinger Archives (over 60,000 "ephemeral" films)
Prelinger Library
WikiLeaks
Booksellers and Reviews
Advanced Book Exchange
Folio Society
GoodReads.com Non-Fiction list (2013)
New York Review of Books
New York Times Books section
Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
Broadcast Sources
Aljazeera America
Associated Press
British Broadcasting Service
Democracy Now!
National Public Radio
Reuters
Journals
DeepDyve (great for independents without access to university library) $
Nature (International Journal)
New England Journal of Medicine
Wiley Online Library $$
ProjectMuse (for those with access through your library)
Questia
Magazines
The Atlantic
The Economist
National Geographic Society
Science
Scientific American
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)
Scholarpedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WorldBook
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)
Recommended Reading for Citizens of the Compendium
The Uses of Being Wrong by Daniel W. Drezner
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
Articles/Subject Areas I Am Researching
Arlington National Cemetery
Cartography
Children's Literature
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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