Electronic Journals

The latest EDUCAUSE Quarterly is now available, with feature articles about an institutional survey assessing learning and scholarly techniques, a faculty development survey for teaching online, collaborative development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and lessons learned from adopting an open source learning management system at Royal Roads University.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly is also available via RSS feed. Click the orange RSS icon on the EDUCAUSE Quarterly home page to access the XML required to subscribe.

EDUCAUSE Review and Publisher/Editor D. Teddy Diggs recently gained honors from two prestigious publishing awards programs. Read more in the press release.

This 31 minute podcast, recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting, features an interview with Tara McPherson, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California, and Editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.

The March/April 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available online. Read articles from George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, and Terry Anderson on how technology is changing conference participation and organization, Peter Brantley on digital libraries, and Mark R. Nelson on the future of e-books, as well as Richard N. Katz’s interview with leaders of the Open University.

A message from ATHEN President Ron Stewart:

It is my pleasure to announce that the second issue of the ATHEN E-Journal is now live and available for your reading enjoyment. The focus of this issue is Higher Education and Web Accessibility: Providing Training and Support for the Future.

I would like to thank Cyndi Rowland for all her hard work as this issues guest editor, and to Sean Keegan the ATHEN webmaster for all the effort he extended in getting it web-ready. I would also like to extend my personal thanks to each of the authors represented. I am sure you will find the articles as informative and as insightful as I have.

Ron Stewart, President
Access Technologists Higher Education Network

The current issue of EDUCAUSE Review includes articles by Michael M. Roberts on learning from the past for future Internet development and Sandra Braman on theagenda for research and IT; an interview with Shimizu Yasutaka, president of Japan's National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME); and research results from Ali Jafari, Patricia McGee, and Colleen Carmean on learning/course management systems. View the July/August EDUCAUSE Review.

 

 

In this 23 minute recording, I'll sit down with Don Waters, Program Officer for Scholarly Communication at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Among other things, we'll talk about broadly about their activities relating to digital library initiatives, Mellon's call for Urgent Action to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals, and the undercurrents of open access. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 22 minute recording, I sit down with the Tara McPherson, Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California and editor of Vectors.  We'll talk about her involement in HASTAC, what she's learned from Vectors and emerging forms of scholarship more generally. 

You can review the abstract for her session at CNI at the link below:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/abstracts/PB-reimagining-mcpherson.html

Other podcasts of interest might include Open Talk About Dinosaurs and John Seely Brown's presentation at the University of Colorado System's Teaching with Technology Conference.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

The Shifted Librarian has a new post about David Walker's interesting RSS Creator application that uses SFX and Metalib to create RSS feeds for journals.  Pretty interesting.

What makes this work?  Open standards and open APIs.   Good stuff!

I just ran across something that might be of interest to our audience ... Simba Information, a R.R. Bowker company, released Professional Publishing: The Impact Factor of Google Scholar in March of 2005. I haven't read it, but the 25 page report is available for $350.