Dear academic and research librarians: Please encourage the faculty and research students among your clients to start blogging, the same way you would encourage them to place their publications in open access repositories and register with ORCID. Why should academics cultivate the practice of blogging? "While there are many barriers to entry into the ranks of the commentariat (though fewer than you might think), anyone can set up a blog, often within a matter of minutes, and use it to communicate ideas that don’t otherwise fit into your scholarly publishing world. Academic blogs are rarely pathways to mass public outreach, but they don’t have to be. Fueled, rather than threatened, by social-media networks, a blog offers a way to share your ideas with peers inside those networks," says David M. Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University. He continues: "Blogging — self-published, regular, semiformal, potentially public writing — fits academic life beautifully. Just pick your platform carefully, use the experience as a way to write new things, and, most of all, write for the sake of writing. And then just maybe, readers will follow." Please see < http://chronicle.com/article/3-Rules-of-Academic-Blogging/234139?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elq=45ed4b188b664145a1cdaf18dfc36d39&elqCampaignId=1823&elqaid=6866&elqat=1&elqTrackId=5e96a37f2c9849a2998508cb85028040
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