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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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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 … Continue reading →

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.

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 … Continue reading →

Heather Morrison’s powerpoint May 12, 2011 http://blogs.ubc.ca/scholcomm2011/files/2011/05/May-12-LIBR-559L1.pdf Hilde Colenbrander’s presentation https://blogs.ubc.ca/scholcomm2011/files/2011/05/LIBR559L_2011_cIRcle_Presentation.pptx Student activism links A question came up in class about student activism. Some resources to help with this: Right to Research Coalition http://www.righttoresearch.org/ Make Textbooks Affordable – Student PIRGS … Continue reading →

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 class.