Archive for 'Scholarly Communications'
Web 2.0 and Open Science
Drexel University Libraries’ annual Scholarly Communication Symposium focused on web 2.0 in general and open science in particular. This is fast becoming my favorite conference: I can walk there; it’s free; it’s well organized; everyone there is smart, friendly and from diverse backgrounds; you get to eat a great lunch and it’s all over by [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on April 18th, 2008 under Conference Blogging, Faculty, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues.
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Cheaper by the .pdf, but still . . .
SUNY press has announced an initiative to sell .pdf files of new books for only $20.00 for a title that costs $75.00 in hardcover. And you can browse the first two pages of every chapter absolutely free! What a daring initiative!
Sorry, but I’m undewhelmed. I totally support the mission of university presses, but it’s [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on April 8th, 2008 under Books, Scholarly Communications.
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Academic Librarianship’s Future Strengths?
In my first job after college, as a manager at a small nonprofit, I was taught to use the euphemism “future strengths.” For instance, when I conducted performance reviews, my colleagues would often mention punctuality as one of their future strengths. We also used dozens of other terms that ate at my newly minted English-major [...]
Posted by Brett Bonfield on February 29th, 2008 under Just Thinking, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues.
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Open Access to History @ Columbia UP
Who knew? Columbia made a previously subscription-only history book project open access. Maybe Harvard’s news, and the press it generated, led them to tell us about it. From today’s Chron (subscription required, no pun intended):
Without much fanfare, Columbia University Press has radically restructured Gutenberg-e, its high-profile experiment with digital history monographs, from a subscription-only series [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 26th, 2008 under Books, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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Open Access at Harvard - Seriously
Sorry to tread on Steven’s heels with another post so quickly - but this is a story worth reading.
Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.
Faculty [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 12th, 2008 under Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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