Oh thats a shame..........

[Dinosaur]

I thought this was meant to be a discussion about typology?

Does typology have relevance within an animist world-view? :face-thinks:

[Welsh Andy]

Agreed, if only there were a way to make scholarly publications more accessible to the non-university affiliated public...

To do that we would have to radically restructure both academia and the academic publishing scam... I mean industry. Getting access to articles costs far too much for most people. A single article from Antiquity is ?15 ffs! Which means that those doing research outside of academia could easily shell out ?100+ just doing enough reading for a blog post. Ironic given that most research is funded by the state.

[Bodger51]

First off there is the prosepect of formulating job descriptions to ecourage, require and recomend a certain number of hours from the difference between 37.5hr and 40hrs per week to provide a platform to develop mutually the independent fields.

Secondly the situation stems fro how we propose to work volunteering and public engagement into the field in a way to broaden our own skil sets, but also to enable young unemployed people to establish practical work skills that can old them in good stead for different employment.

Id admit that Im still job hunting and from where I am there is a real sence of opportnity, but opportunities are only ever as good as the logistics and the mometnum that can give it a real push.

As foe employment outside of the industry, its really still working on the basis of direct experience of any given job (hittingthe ground running) so we really need to boil down what it is we can offer to people looking to make a break into the working environment let alone specialist skills for outside employability.

I dont like it as much as you, in talking about peoples livlihoods and families, but we must also take and bring to any programme of working the mindsets that that provides to really provide a taster of a working environment, not just tea and busicuits in the sunshine.

[CARTOON REALITY]

If it's alright with you I'll stick with the tea and biscuits in the sunshine . . .

[BAJR]

One lump or two?

Will have a cunning plan for access to articles at a budget rate. it involves joing a SocAnts, and getting them to get corporate access ergo... we then get full access bwa ha ha ha ha!

[Dinosaur]

Sometimes you show a less attractive side....

The Uni library I use keeps removing paper journals from the shelves, which I can use for 'free' with my million-pounds-a-year 'visitor' library card, cos they're now available as 'E' resource, which I'm not allowed to access....who exactly is it that pays for the contents of that library? Certainly not the students who mainly seem to scribble on and otherwise deface or lose the books that I, the taxpayer, paid for (and in several cases wrote).....and they complain that 'commercial' reports lack 'academic' content.....b******s, b******s, b******s !

[Welsh Andy]

who exactly is it that pays for the contents of that library? Certainly not the students

Tuition fees.

[Dinosaur]

Tuition fees.

Nah, only the most recent ones, and of course the bl***y E-resources.....

[Welsh Andy]

It isn't defacement, it's collective study.

[Bodger51]

Its all fine as long as you dont believe you did it in a way that is better than anyone else, for the want of a rare book that costs more than a season ticket