Hi John,
I'm not sceptical at all about researcher's employing diverse technical
means of scholarly communication; rather I'm sceptical of the hype
associated with web 2.0.
I think the speed, openness and informality of information transfer via
the web, it offers velocity. I think the converse of the traditional
means of scholarly communication, it offers viscosity.
I just think the scholarly information retrieval landscape is
diversifying where the constraints of traditional means of scholarly
communication are not as well served by formal publication development.
Indexing and abstracting adds value with structured intellectual access
and coordinated subject based resources offered in useful ways. The
internet is an amorphous mass. People fish for information in both
places. Open access institutional repositories sit in an interesting
spot, in that they offer up metadata and fulltext to the web, but also
offer up metadata in accordance with international standards for
harvesting and aggregating in research hubs.
Two blogs:
Run by a practitioner:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/
Run by academics:
http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/about.html
Regards, Ingrid Mason
Ingrid Mason
Digital Research Repository Coordinator
ResearchArchive@Victoria
Victoria University of Wellington
Aotearoa : New Zealand
ph: 64-4-463 6844
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Subject: Re: Scholarly publishing and Web 2.0
Annette,
Open Access affects how we access the material but the thing accessed
remains the same (article or journal). What I am thinking about are new
communication mechanisms that replace, or could replace, even the basic
article. I have said before that true innovation comes from the users
not the technologists who provide the underlying technology. If you give
users a tool they will use it in ways that suits them to achieve their
aims, and these are often not what the inventors of the tool intended.
When Tim Berners-Lee gave the world the Web he intended it as a method
for interconnecting technical and scientific documents. He did not
intend the multi-billion dollar commercial and social thing that it has
become.
The more intelligent the users the more radical will be the alternative
uses they find for the tool and academic researchers are amongst the
brightest. Already young researchers are rejecting formal
indexing/abstracting services in favour of CiteSeer and Google Scholar.
In the past new ideas were floated in conference papers and research
seminars. With social networking sites and more academically focussed
services based on the SN model (like CiteULike) there may be other
outlets and other ways of satisfying the needs once satisfied by the
journal and the academic publishing industry (of which academic
libraries are a part).
I am too busy doing the day job to keep up with all these changes (and
possibly loosing the necessary flexibility of thought with age) but I
sense that there are new communication structures being formed by young
minds that don't realise they are not supposed to do it that way :-) .
It is sightings of these innovations by real researchers that I am
looking for.
Regards,
John.
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> Hexelschneider
> Sent: 04 April 2008 09:47
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> Subject: Re: Scholarly publishing and Web 2.0
>
> John,
>
> Perhaps this article is interesting for you: "Case studies in open
> access publishing. Number Five. Taking the plunge: open access at
> the
> Canadian Journal of Sociology"
> (http://informationr.net/ir/13-1/paper338.html).
>
> And perhaps that blog (http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/) even
> so not
> 100% about academic publishing but about innovative/challenging
> paradigm
> shifts in publishing.
>
>
>
> Best
> Annette
>
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