Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Digital Libraries; and Electronic Publishing
The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship
| Title: | The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship (ID: CSD5163) | | Source: | NSF and JISC Repositories Workshop | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (09/26/2007) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | This is a report of a workshop held in Phoenix, Arizona April 17 to 19, 2007. The objective of the workshop was to build on the findings of recent Cyberinfrastructure reports ([ACLS], [CI]) to identify opportunities and strategies for managing information created and used by researchers and scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Participants included representatives from Europe and the US with affiliations in government, higher education, industry, and private foundations.
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Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google
| Title: | Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google (ID: CSD4642) | | Author(s): | Paul N. Courant (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The prospect of ubiquitous digitization will not change the fundamental relationships among scholarship, academic libraries, and publication. Collaboration across time and space, which is a principal mechanism of scholarship, ought to be enhanced. Reforms in copyright law will be required if the promise of digitization is to be realized; absent such reform, there is a serious risk that much academically valuable material will become invisible and unused. Ubiquitous digitization will change radically the economics that have supported university–based collections of published material. Scholars and scholarly institutions (including libraries and university presses) must assert vigorously claims of fair use and openness. | | View this resource: | |
2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers
| Title: | 2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers (ID: CSD3531) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2004) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | 2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers returns to the subject of the Five-Year Information Format Trends report of 2003, driven by remarkable changes since its publication. The new report examines the "unbundling of content" from traditional containers (books, journals, CDs) and distribution methods (postal mail, resource sharing). As the boundaries blur between content, technology and the information consumer, the report shows how format now matters less than the information within the container.
The report lays out the top trends in content and what they may mean for libraries in the next five years:
-Legitimacy of open-source publishing (e.g. blogs)
-Rapidly expanding economics of microcontent
-Repurposing of "old" content for new media
-Multimedia content as a service for an array of portable devices | | View this resource: | |
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