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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Assignments 7 months, 1 week ago · View
Florian Ehrensperger Guide to Open Access Monographs – the future of scholarly communication in the humanities
Judy Hu Open Access Resources for Asian American Studies
Dana Logalbo & Jonathan Schatz Libre Knowledge
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Final marks, papers & farewell! 8 months ago · View
Final marks are in. The class average is a little on the high side (86% or A), but you’ve earned it! For the final paper, the class average was 83% or A-, with a range of 63% (C) to 95% (A+). Many fine papers – it was a treat to read them – and a [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Class journals & more 8 months ago · View
Here are links to the ~ very creative! ~ class OJS journals, and links to interesting stuff suggested by a student – if you have more suggestions, let me know! Open excess Our journal of perpetual sorrow: student edition Quest: exploring scholarly trends Test proceedings of local geniuses Unlocking knowledge through open access Possibly of interest: The prestigious Indian [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Class presentations 8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Great presentations so far, everyone! Here are links to some presentations: Adedoyin Adenuga Functions of Scholarly Journals Florian Ehrensperger Reading the Electronic Book Will Engle A wiki is a tool for distributed collaboration (PPTX) A wiki is a tool for distributed collaboration (PDF) Sarah Fallik Part One: Potential Benefits of Libraries Embracing the Role of Publishers, Project Euclid, and MPublishing Part Two: [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: June 7th powerpoint – emerging trends 8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
June 7 powerpoint – updated June 9th
Also highly recommended: Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen – 20 minute TED talk
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: June 2 powerpoint & notes 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Chuck Eckman’s powerpoint June 2 – Heather’s notes . These are key points and links to a few sources only, designed to draw out some key themes from my chapter on this topic, and add a few new items. These notes are pretty sketchy, if you need more detail please send me an e-mail. Note that there is [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: May 31 powerpoints 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Ingrid Parent’s presentationSLAIS-ScholarlyComms_May2011_Final
Heather’s powerpoint / Sherpa RoMEO demo
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: The Access Copyright Backlash: Writers Union of Canada Calls for Collective Licensing Reform 8 months, 4 weeks ago · View
This post by Michael Geist may be of interest with reference to a discussion at a previous class, and is of relevance to the topic for class of Tuesday, May 31 (on author’s rights and copyright). http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5821/125/
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: May 28 class powerpoint and advocacy strategies for open access in agriculture 8 months, 4 weeks ago · View
Powerpoint: May 28 LIBR 559K presentation Advocacy strategies for open access to the agricultural literature – summary of class discussion Tension between public good and agribusiness – talking points taxpayer funding impacts everyone – whole world – we all eat (are food consumers) food security / avoiding starvation and famine food safety how much funding to research on turf & lawn as compared [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: May 26 powerpoints 9 months ago · View
Brian Owen has sent the powerpoint presented to class May 26: CARL.ARL.Montreal.1106 and another one on SFU Library publishing recently presented at the University of Utah: lib.pub.110512 My powerpoint for May 26 (only part shown in class) can be found below. Those interested in peer review may find some of the sources mentioned later on in the [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Term paper and presentation – resources 9 months ago · View
Now that you have handed in your term paper outline, what next? First thing that you’ll need to do is to sign up for a date to do your presentation on the class wiki , which, due to class size, should be limited to 8 to 10 minutes. If you are talking about scholarly monographs or emerging trends [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Dove Medical Press – Peer Review Guidelines 9 months ago · View
This evening I am having difficulty connecting with the Dove Medical Press’ Peer Review Guidelines, which are required reading for tomorrow. Please find attached a copy that I downloaded about a month or so ago, just in case of a situation like this. See you tomorrow!
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Readings for May 26 (peer review, ethics & quality) 9 months ago · View
To prepare for class discussion this Thursday, May 26, please read in advance (details and links can be found on the syllabus http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/syllabi/10-11-st1/l559l.htm
Required: the Dove and PLoS Medicine Peer Review Guidelines (1-2 pages each)
and choose one of: Casadevall, Harley & Acord, or Maskalyk. Or, pick another article on this topic.
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: May 24 powerpoint 9 months ago · View
Powerpoint for the May 24 class is here
Audio of presentation-of-a-presentation coming soon. Update May 25: this doesn’t work out (accidentally stopped the recording early on), and so what I have done instead is to create a PDF version with notes that sort of roughly cover what I spoke to:
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: OJS journal assignment: update on lab days & a bit about marking 9 months, 1 week ago · View
Lab days will include as many of the following dates as are necessary to complete the journals. This is probably more time than we’ll need, which is a good thing as later in the class schedule it would be good to have more time for emerging areas in scholarly communication. If you are not able to [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Open Journal Systems – support tools and possibly of interest 9 months, 1 week ago · View
OJS in an hour – can be downloaded from here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/1321PPkp
PKP support forums: http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/
PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011
Liquid Publishing Project – PKP Conference Hackfest (preconference) http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Liquid_Publishing
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Scholar’s Biography discussion – notes 9 months, 1 week ago · View
Some things we noticed in the Scholar’s Biography exercise: Issues of standardization content / hard to find IRs, fulltext format bibliographic description Good model: LATTES (Brazil) – top down approach facilitates standards Centralization helpful otherwise fractured, hard to search Intellectual property not many authors know their rights copyright criminalizes author sharing does the university own the work, or the faculty? (in [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Instructions for group journal (May 19 exercise) 9 months, 1 week ago · View
Here are the instructions for May 19 lab exercise to create a group journal. from the post announcing the class OJS Journals Space: Thanks to Bronwen Sprout of UBC Library for creating 7 new journals for the course OJS Journals Space, available at http://tsc.library.ubc.ca/ Also at this space are the practice journals created by a previous [...]
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: Scholarly Journal Publishing in Canada 2010-11 Report 9 months, 1 week ago · View
The Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) has published their 2010-11 Report, downloadable from the CALJ website
Recommended reading for the May 19 class. Thanks to Peter Suber via the Open Access Tracking Project.
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Heather Morrison wrote a new blog post: A nightmare scenario for higher education 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
This post from Scholarly Communications at Duke suggests to me that the Georgia State University case is much more similar to the Access Copyright tariff nightmare than I had thought. Just started an Access Copyright: NOT a member facebook page for anyone who, like me, wishes to make it very clear that Access Copyright is NOT representing [...]
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