Files added to wiki

Files have been added to the wiki on the Links page. One is pertaining to the history of IR at UCF, and the other are the results of a survey on scholarly communication conducted by two of my colleagues here at UCF (John Venecek and Aysegul Kapucu). You have to be logged in to view the files.

The Audacity of SCOAP3

The Audacity of SCOAP3
by Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections, California Digital Library
with:
Taking Action on SCOAP3 by Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations, ARL, and Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC
ARL Creates Web Guide to NIH Public Access Policy
NISO Issues Best Practices for Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU)

Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do

This cite comes from the 08-19-04 issue of Current Cites.

Nguyen, Thinh. Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work through Their Institution Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC: SPARC and Science Commons, 2008.(opendoors_v1.pdf). - Building on the momentum created by Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences open access mandate, this white paper outlines how faculty at other institutions can effectively enact similar mandates and establish appropriate university licenses to give their institutions the necessary rights to archive their scholarly works in institutional repositories. - CB

Online Scholarly Publishing Example

Here is the link to the NINES site http://www.nines.org/

NINES stands for Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship.

I added the Link on the wiki under Scholarly Publishing on the Useful Links page.

"Alternative channels for publication from open access repository"

While the focus is on library journals it's worthy of consideration as a way to think about Challenge 6:

"But something funny happened on the way to OJS: I became firmly convinced that the traditional journal model is antiquated for sharing research and knowledge among librarians. A better course is to develop and nurture excellent blogs, with multimedia capabilities and guaranteed preservation of the postings. This could be an entirely new blog that starts from scratch, or an established journal that evolves into a blog."
--Marcus Banks

"I believe that gray literature—blogs, this ejournal, a few similar publications and some lists—represents the most compelling and worthwhile literature in the library field today.
To a great extent, the formal literature now serves as history, explication, formal results of formal research studies and background; the action is in the informal literature.
I don’t think I would have said that a decade ago, and maybe not five years ago. If I had aspirations to be a respected scholar, I might not say it today.
“Compelling and worthwhile” doesn’t necessarily imply scholarly or authoritative. Are blogs either scholarly or authoritative? A good question, one I may not be qualified to answer."
--Walt Crawford

Collected Documents for Janus 6 Task Force

Pdfmenotted for your pleasure.



-Janus Challenges 6 Alternative Channels

http://tinyurl.com/588wm5



-CSUL Janus Report Final

http://tinyurl.com/6fjavv



-Janus Briefing

http://tinyurl.com/62hvg8

JANUS 6 Task Force

Our task force is to review several key papers and other sources related to "Alternative Channels for Scholarly Communication" and to make action recommendations. I will distribute an email with some attachments and pointers, and we can get to work on this in the very near future.


--Chuck

Digital & Scholarly Communication Initiatives

Florida Center for Library Automation




1. http://janus6.wikidot.com/