Archive for 'Scholarly Communications'
Caught Between the Old and the New
Over the past academic year I’ve worked on a research project with a colleague to study the ways that students do their scholarly work, similar to the project at the University of Rochester a few years ago. We finished with data collection for this year and are spending the summer analyzing our results. We’ve gotten [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 26th, 2010 under Open Access, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Not a Crisis, a Transition
Chronicle staffer Jennifer Howard reported from the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses, where the incoming president, Richard Brown of Georgetown University Press, challenged the idea that scholarly publishing is in crisis. A crisis, when it isn’t resolved for decades, becomes a way of life, and his preferred description for that way [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on June 21st, 2010 under Books, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, information industries.
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Envisioning the Academy’s Digital Future
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to attend a fantastic symposium: The Digital University: Power Relations, Publishing, Authority and Community in the 21st Century Academy, held at the CUNY Graduate Center here in New York City. The day was chock full of presentations and conversations on the implications of digital technologies on teaching, [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on April 23rd, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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Accountability and Open Access
Hey, have you heard there’s a recession on? (Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.) It’s nearly impossible to avoid news from all sectors–including higher education–about the continued economic challenges facing the country. Stories about funding difficulties for both public and private institutions, rising tuition, and declining endowments fill news outlets daily. And of course academic libraries [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on March 1st, 2010 under Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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Impact Factors Adjusted for Reality
An interesting study forthcoming in the September issue of C&RL tackles the question of how our scholarship is evaluated by tenure and promotion committees. As a tenured librarian in a department in which half of the faculty are currently working toward tenure, this question intrigues me. Fortunately, my non-librarian colleagues at my institution do not [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 7th, 2009 under Higher Education, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications, Worth Reading.
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