Just how many scholars and researchers are running into paywalls as they go about their work? A new initiative, the Open Access Button, is in the process of making it very clear.
Launched on Tuesday, the Open Access Button is a browser bookmarklet to be used like so: whenever a researcher encounters a paywall, they click the button, and their individual moment of frustration and denial is added to a world map.
As Joseph McArthur, one of the creators, says:
We created The Open Access Button to collect these separate experiences and to showcase the global magnitude of the problem.
Hoover’s FBI was deeply suspicious of philosophers, especially foreign ones, virtually philosophobic; but this does not stop the organisation from developing its own brand of philosophical thinking in response to Sartre and Camus—the FBI files on being and nothingness.
Young People’s Literature: The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
Winner/Poet Mary Sybist provides the night’s winning quote: “There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle of course, is how much it can do, is how much it does do.â€
Earlier this week, The Independent reported that the first line of Beowulf has been incorrectly translated for hundreds of years. According to research by Dr. George Walkden, a University of Manchester lecturer,  the Old English word hwæt, which begins the English language’s oldest epic poem (“Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum, þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!â€), should not be read as an interjection separate from the rest of the first line  (“Listen! we have heard of the might of the kingsâ€),  but rather as part of a complete exclamatory sentence—something like “How we have heard of the might of the kings.â€
Citing research that “there’s no record of the Anglo-Saxons using exclamation marks, or any other form of punctuation, besides the full stop (or ‘point’) and the occasional semicolon†Walkden declares all previous interpretations—â€â€˜What ho!’ (Earle 1892), ‘Hear me!’ (Raffel 1963), ‘Attend!’ (Alexander 1973), ‘Indeed!’ (Jack 1994), and ‘So!’ (Heaney 2000)â€â€”to be wrong.
Since WCC has received the “Military Friendly School” award and November 11th is Veteran’s Day, Todd Library is also honoring our Veterans with a Display concerning returning Vets and what all they may encounter. Whether they be from WWII, Korean, Viet Nam to present day, come check out our collection devoted to them, and “Thank a Vet.”
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