Monthly Archives: May 2011

May 31 powerpoints

Ingrid Parent’s presentationSLAIS-ScholarlyComms_May2011_Final Heather’s powerpoint / Sherpa RoMEO demo May 31 powerpoint

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The Access Copyright Backlash: Writers Union of Canada Calls for Collective Licensing Reform

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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May 26 powerpoints

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 … Continue reading

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Term paper and presentation – resources

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 … Continue reading

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Dove Medical Press – Peer Review Guidelines

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 … Continue reading

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Readings for May 26 (peer review, ethics & quality)

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, … Continue reading

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May 24 powerpoint

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 … Continue reading

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OJS journal assignment: update on lab days & a bit about marking

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 … Continue reading

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Open Journal Systems – support tools and possibly of interest

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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Scholar’s Biography discussion – notes

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 … Continue reading

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