PhD me -- PhD ideas

So, if I were going to do a PhD program and I didn't want to travel too much, it would need to be either local or nonresident program (or online, weekend classes, evenings, etc.) what are my choices?I am interested in social media, emerging technologies (such as semantic web, use of mobile as central platform), and how people use technology. Although I am interested in libraries, I don't want to limit myself to libraries.End result would be to move in a different (or perhaps, somewhat parallel) career path, or even teach in higher ed on those topics.

PhD me -- PhD ideas

So, if I were going to do a PhD program and I didn't want to travel too much, it would need to be either local or nonresident program (or online, weekend classes, evenings, etc.) what are my choices?I am interested in social media, emerging technologies (such as semantic web, use of mobile as central platform), and how people use technology. Although I am interested in libraries, I don't want to limit myself to libraries.End result would be to move in a different (or perhaps, somewhat parallel) career path, or even teach in higher ed on those topics.

Public Library of Science Open access publishing

Public library of Science (PLoS) is currently publishing seven peer reviewed scientific and medical journals on the open access model. The Open Access model charges researchers for publication of their accepted papers (in the case of PLos ~1300), but researchers retain copyright and
That means everyone, everywhere can read, redistribute and reuse your research without cost: colleagues, patients, policy makers, journalists, the next generation of researchers.

Public Library of Science Open access publishing

Public library of Science (PLoS) is currently publishing seven peer reviewed scientific and medical journals on the open access model. The Open Access model charges researchers for publication of their accepted papers (in the case of PLos ~1300), but researchers retain copyright and
That means everyone, everywhere can read, redistribute and reuse your research without cost: colleagues, patients, policy makers, journalists, the next generation of researchers.

Old spice guy's take on libraries

Well, if you don't watch TV or haven't heard about this ad campaign, this will not make much sense probably.Anyhow, I just wish he included other media besides books; libraries are so much more than books -- we are magazines & journals (both print and electronic with fulltext articles), websites & databases, photographs, digital images (photographs, scanned images of maps, postcards, and other things), maps, government publications, music (sheet music as well as music for listening) , video (even digital), and even electronic books (and that is just what I think of off of the top of my

Old spice guy's take on libraries

Well, if you don't watch TV or haven't heard about this ad campaign, this will not make much sense probably.Anyhow, I just wish he included other media besides books; libraries are so much more than books -- we are magazines & journals (both print and electronic with fulltext articles), websites & databases, photographs, digital images (photographs, scanned images of maps, postcards, and other things), maps, government publications, music (sheet music as well as music for listening) , video (even digital), and even electronic books (and that is just what I think of off of the top of my
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