EDUCAUSE | Scholarly Communication

August 22--Free Web Seminar on Ithaka's Research Program: How New Technologies Affect Higher Ed

pkurkowski — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:08:16 -0500

Ithaka's research group studies how new technologies are affecting higher education and how colleges and universities can best manage these changes in four discrete program areas: providing academia with the policy basis needed to transition effectively and responsibly away from print collections and toward increasingly electronic-only collections; helping information-services organizations meet the needs of scholars by understanding their changing attitudes and practices; improving the community's understanding of how new information resources drive teaching and learning practices; and analyzing strategies for the most effective possible dissemination of knowledge from colleges and universities to researchers, students, and other learners.

In this free August 22 EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar, The Strategic Impacts of New Technologies on Higher Education: Ithaka's Research Program, presenter Roger Schonfeld, manager of research, Ithaka, will review these areas of work and highlight some key findings, encouraging discussion about these and other key strategic issues facing higher education.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Digital Collections, Electronic Content Delivery, Electronic Resources, Library Planning, and Scholarly Communication.

August 1: Free Web Seminar on The Gutenberg-e Project

pkurkowski — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:10:16 -0500

The Gutenberg-e project was created as a bold experiment to explore whether peer-reviewed, born-digital monographs would alter the way historical scholarship is presented, whether scholars would receive the same professional credit for these publications as they would from work published in print, and whether the project would enable the publication of monographs that would otherwise be turned down for financial reasons by university presses.

In this free August 1 EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar, The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital Monographs, presenter Kate Wittenberg, consultant, scholarly communication and e-publishing, Columbia University, will discuss the project’s findings and cover both the breakthroughs and obstacles encountered during the course of the project’s development.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Electronic Publishing and Scholarly Communication.

CNI Podcast: nanoHUB.org: Future Cyberinfrastructure - An Interview with George B. Adams III

gbayne — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:26 -0500

This podcast features an interview with George B. Adams III, Associate Director for Programs, Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University. Our interview was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

nanoHUB provides users with “fingertip access” to over 70 simulation tools for research and education. Users not only launch jobs that are executed on the state-of-the-art computational facilities of Open Science Grid and TeraGrid, but also interactively visualize and analyze the results--all via an ordinary Web browser. nanoHUB middleware hides the complexity of Grid computing, handling authentication, authorization, file transfer, and visualization, and letting the researcher focus on research. This approach also helps educators bring these tools to the classroom, letting them bypass the difficulties of Grid computing and focus instead on learning science and engineering.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 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

CNI Podcast: Library Publishing Services: An Emerging Role for Research Libraries - An Interview with Karla Hahn

gbayne — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:05:14 -0500

This 16 minute podcast features an interview with Karla Hahn, Director of Scholarly Communication for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). It was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Surveys and interviews of members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have revealed that a majority are now developing publishing services. Publishing centered in research institutions has a long history. Departments, institutes and other campus publishing have complemented university press publishing, collectively producing a wide range of high-quality works. Research libraries are positioned to transform university publishing as they create organized publishing services.

Libraries launch publishing services in response to needs for new kinds of support for scholarly publications. Services focus on the local constituency, although much of the content they are publishing comes from outside the institution. Journal publishing is the most common genre supported, although a majority of programs also support monographic publishing.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 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

CNI Podcast: Expanding the Scholarly Imagination: Vectors and Multimodal Publishing - An Interview with Tara McPherson

gbayne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:08:22 -0500

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.

Tara McPherson teaches courses in new media, television, and popular culture in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC). Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture and was a finalist for the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003) and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008). She is currently co-editing an anthology on digital narrative and politics and working on a book manuscript on the racial epistemologies of new media. Her new media research focuses on issues of convergence, gender, race, and representation, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship.

She is the founding editor of Vectors, the multimedia peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. Vectors pushes far beyond the "text with pictures" format of much online scholarly publishing, encouraging work that takes full advantage of the multimodal and networked capacities of computing technologies. She was recently selected as one of three editors for the new MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (forthcoming from MIT Press in 2009), a hybrid online/print journal that will also explore new forms of online publishing.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Clifford Lynch

gbayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:02:29 -0500

On this podcast we feature an interview with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. He spoke to us from the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Clifford Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

Drexel University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communicati

jaybhatt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:54:28 -0500

The Drexel University Libraries, with support from IEEE, will present The 5th Annual Scholarly Communication Symposium titled: Scholar2Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication. Join us for a half-day symposium featuring a speaker presentation by Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor, Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, followed by panel and roundtable discussions. An optional Dutch-treat networking lunch concludes the day.

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bossone

For more information:
Drexel University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication
http://www.library.drexel.edu/scholarlycommunication/

To register:
Registration Form
http://www.library.drexel.edu/scholarlycommunication/registration2008.html

Our Wiki:
Scholar2scholar
http://scholar2scholar.wikispaces.com/

You will need to create your account in Wikispaces (if you do not have one) by clicking on 'Join' in the top right corner. Use your username and password you created to join our scholar2scholar wikispaces.
(Note: Please try to use something resembling your real names as usernames)

Do not forget to explore our evolving section - Further reading on Web 2.0
http://scholar2scholar.wikispaces.com/Further+Reading+on+Web+2.0+and+Scholarship

ELI Podcast: Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step

gbayne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:17:16 -0600

This podcast features a keynote speech from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. It's by Bob Young, CEO at Lulu Enterprises, and is entitled, "Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step".

Today's competitive education industry requires that we deliver more relevant information to our students faster than ever before. Taking six months to prepare a document and another six months to print and distribute it simply no longer meets the needs of 21st-century students or the society we are preparing them for.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)

gbayne — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:47:41 -0600

In this 11 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). She spoke to us at the Coalition for Neworked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting.

As Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia, Kate Wittenberg directs the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia Earthscape, the Gutenberg-e online history project, Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching, and the Core Integration for the National Science Digital Library. Kate's work focuses in particular on the creation of new models for scholarly communication, sustainable business plans for digital scholarly publishing, collaborative organizational models, and the evaluation of use and costs of scholarly and educational digital resources. EPIC develops relationships among scholars, technologists, publishers, librarians, and national and international partners that move beyond the organizational and disciplinary categories within the traditional university infrastructure. Kate writes and speaks frequently on the topics of scholarly communication in the online environment and digital publishing.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 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

Tools of Change

mpasiewicz — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:18:54 -0500

I'm in San Jose at O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein kicked off the event will a fun look back at publishing over the years.Brian Murray was next and talked through the HarperCollins strategy. They're pursuing a heavy focus on digitization and control. He also talked up their new embeddable widget which I've included here for kicks. Seems pretty tame compared to the widget from Random House (also included below), but maybe I just selected the wrong book? The highlight of the morning was Long Tail author Chris Anderson talking about his forthcoming book titled FREE. He talked about a range of contexts for making books available for free. Among other things, he chatted up the idea of ad supported books. Tim O'Reilly closed out the morning's key notes with some thoughts web 2.0, social software and Safari (not the web browser). More later when I collect my thoughts.