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- What is your location? (Give a general and/or specific place name: city, country, or region)
- Kyoto, Japan - and Auckland, New Zealand
- Self-description (You can join to represent yourself and/or something else)
- volunteer, experienced, researcher, institute
- Working topics/research interests - as general or specific as you like
- ethnobotany, plant ecology and genetics, human ecology, agricultural history, archaeology
- Preferred means of contact
- Mail via my profile mail box, Other (see further details below)
- Preferred language(s) for correspondence
- English
- Further details - e.g. contact information, working languages (e.g. one language for editing, or from one language to another for translation), short CV
- Postal address:
National Museum of Ethnology,
Senri Expo Park, Suita City,
Osaka, Japan 565-8511.
Work in Japan (since 1990):
1. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
2. Kyoto University,
3. Freelance editor, Kyoto,
4. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Study:
University of Auckland (MSc Botany)
Australian National University (PhD Prehistory).
Member of:
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA)
Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ)
Society of Economic Botany (SEB)
Society of Writers, Editors and Translators (SWET, Japan)
Tree Croppers Association (New Zealand)
World Archaeology Congress (WAC)
Journal reviewer (various years):
Archaeology in Oceania
Australian Journal of Botany
Economic Botany
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
New Zealand Journal of Botany
Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology
Tropical Agriculture and Development
- What are your favourite local and international research-related journals, newsletters, or 'popular' magazines? Please list no more than six examples in total, without ranking, across these six categories
- Economic Botany, Science, New Scientist, Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
- Website 2
- http://tarorecipes.ning.com
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The Cooperative recognises value in the diversity of how research is conducted and presented, but we do not support academic plagiarism or ghost-writing. Ethical issues related to research, writing, and publishing can be discussed in our Projects forum and elsewhere (please enquire).
Our first website (The Research Cooperative, NZ) operated successfully for seven years, using an open-source system customised by Dr Cees Lensink (Webcase, NZ).
Our new system is our own customised version of a generic social-networking system provided by Ning.com, and offers better security and many new benefits for our members and visitors.
Note: My own task list
Peter Matthews's Blog
On Open Access (from the Guardian Weekly), and volunteerism
John East, in a letter to the Guardian Weekly ("How access stacks up", 02.10.09) defends the role of librarians in making information as widely available to people as possible.
'...it is researchers, not librarians, who decide to publish their output with "predatory publishers". Librarians have been at the forefront of the Open Access movement. Unfortunately the competition for tenure and promotion means that most researchers still to prefer to publish with prestigious publishers and in highly-… Continue
'...it is researchers, not librarians, who decide to publish their output with "predatory publishers". Librarians have been at the forefront of the Open Access movement. Unfortunately the competition for tenure and promotion means that most researchers still to prefer to publish with prestigious publishers and in highly-… Continue
Posted on October 18, 2009 at 7:00am —
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On Open Access (from the Guardian Weekly), and volunteerism
Posted by Peter Matthews on October 18, 2009 at 7:00am
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