In what is widely regarded as a nuisance suit, Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing GMU for their support in developing the open source bibliographic software Zotero. For more on the controversy see here, here, and here.
In a recent announcement, GMU reports that they will be dropping their Endnote license:
With litigation […]
Kieran Healey has followed my lead and posted his sociology BibTeX files on GitHub. I could only be happier if someone forked me. C’mon, baby, fork me, fork me!
Update Kieran posts about it here.
Academics tend to be pretty good at sharing resources. For example, most publish their research online. This is really helpful since it can take a year or two after submission to finally see its way into print.
One useful thing that academics share, though less often than their research, is their bibliographies. LaTeX is predominant in […]
Stability is a precondition for the possibility of citation.
Consider direct quotation—no easy phenomena. Part of the point of citation, here, is so that the reader can read the quotation in context, to decide for themselves whether the quoted author has been misrepresented. The usual case is to quote from a dead tree source—a printed book […]
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