Locally Produced, Locally Published: Re-Imaging Scholarly Communication for Hampshire College
The scholarly communication landscape is changing rapidly. There are many databases that scholars can access to do their work beyond the discovery services that many libraries now subscribe to, in particular, open access journals. We can also build our own content, too.
- There are many challenges associated with maintaining a library collection in a higher education setting. Most notably, the cost of acquiring materials, a challenge Hampshire shares with large research universities.
The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of BooksWhen I look back at the plight of American research libraries in 2010, I feel inclined to break into a jeremiad. In fact, I want to deliv...- To wit, no one suggests that the scholarly communication enterprise should be free:
- So, how can we reconcile the need to spread light, but also ensure that libraries can afford to purchase scholarship? OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES!
Essay on open access scholarship | Inside Higher EdWe are the provosts of 11 large research universities that engage in over $5.6 billion of funded research each year. That research is dir...- OA HULK AGREES: ONLY WE CAN SMASH -- ER, FIX SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION. bit.ly/oyJBZA
- So, why isn't everyone doing it?
- A common refrain, it's always been this way and so it will be forever more.
- But I won't get tenure unless I publish in a highly respected journal or university press!
- The technology is available, but it won't be fully leveraged unless tenure committees respect open access and traditional publications equally.
- Policies need to be written. Models need to be created. Only then will behaviors change.
- Walk the talk.
- But change is coming. The tide is turning.
Hot Type: An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher EducationDear publishers, Boycotts, public disagreements, stalled antipiracy and anti-public-access bills: It's been an interesting time for you l...- Times Higher Education - Open, moral and pragmaticOpen, moral and pragmatic 8 March 2012 In response to Timothy Gowers ("Occupy publishing", 16 February) (http://thecostofknowledge.com), ...
The Economist On Open Access and Scholarly Publishing | LJ INFOdocketFiled by on at 7:48 pm From The Economist Article, "Open Sesame": Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media in...
