Technological Threats to Academic Publishing
This is a short and pessimistic view on what could be out there in the near future that seriously impedes…
Category: Between Legal and Illegal
Get Out of the Cloud
I use Dropbox and Google Drive to keep a synced backup of a handful of important files. I have noticed…
Why you should download now – as much as possible
Academics should ramp up downloads of valuable resources, to make them available privately, offline. Relying on them being available on the…
Book Repositories for Islamic Studies (not a preliminary list)
I shall not attempt to put together a list of online repositories for books related to Islamic Studies, whether it…
Does anyone have a PDF of…
It is the number one question of our days. “Does anyone have a PDF of…” What does this question mean?…
To Scan or Not To Scan
Scanning a book by hand is time-consuming. However, there are good reasons to keep scanning books. Many books are only…
Academia in the Digital Age
Talking openly about certain things, means being pounded into submission by some lawyer firm, sent by a couple of the…