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New comment by millicentricism in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

millicentricism — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:51:50 +0000

Oral Defences have a long established tradition in Denmark, but recently there’s been real cut back on this as a money saving exercise. So both teachers and Students are familiar with this form of examination.

So for a dane this reads like “back to the old way”, rather than anything new or novel.

New comment by millicentricism in "The Perils of ISBN"

millicentricism — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:40:47 +0000

This also fails to take into account that ISBNs also contain the publisher ID in them. So identical copies of a book could have different ISBNs depending on which markets they are sold in.

New comment by millicentricism in "Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries"

millicentricism — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:32:14 +0000

LOCKSS is short for: Lots of copies keeps stuff safe.

This is for digital material where perpetual usage rights have been granted, but the original source might not be available. It’s also used to make sure that journal content from countries that censor remains available.

This all is mainly for libraries and their online collections.