Archive for 'Scholarly Communications'
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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Celebrating Open Access Week
Last week was Open Access Week, and my library hosted an afternoon program for faculty. We started things off with a brief introduction to open access scholarly journal publishing. After a quick review of the origins and history of OA, we discussed the benefits of OA journals for faculty, students, libraries, universities, and the general [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on October 27th, 2009 under Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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The Future of Peer Review?
It’s still a few weeks until Open Access Week, but starting now you can help reimagine what scholarly publishing might look like in the future. Media Studies scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick has made her new book manuscript available online for open peer review. While Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy will go [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on September 29th, 2009 under Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications.
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Balancing Act
I’m kind of in the pickle that Maura describes – subscribed to too many sources of information that I would read if I weren’t so busy keeping up with the stream of new information. But Current Cites is always a good ‘un for finding a cross-section of interesting new stuff and this week it pointed [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 29th, 2009 under Commercialization, Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading, information industries.
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Damming the Information Streams
It’s incredible how fast the library gets busy again once the semester starts. This week started out quiet as I caught up on email after returning from vacation, but by the end I was spending my days attending several meetings and in the thick of scheduling classes. I generally prefer to be busier than not, [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on August 28th, 2009 under Just Thinking, Scholarly Communications.
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