Scholar’s Biography
Due: September 16, 2009
Overview
The purpose of the Scholar’s Biography exercise is to begin discussion of scholarly communication with the perspective of the scholar. The biographical information is information publicly posted to the web, e.g. information about the scholar’s current position and research. This exercise will form the basis for discussion on September 16, and is also the paper that will go through peer review for the journal creation exercise.
Instructions
Find one citation to a recently published scholarly work by a non-UBC author that you do not know (e.g. peer-reviewed journal article or book, 2008 – 2009), in the field of your choice. Please feel free to choose a topic / discipline of interest to you, or perhaps relevant to your previous academic work. See if the author has a website. One way to do this is to look up the author’s affiliation, then search that university’s web pages. If you cannot find an author’s website, please select a different citation. If the scholarly work you find has more than one author, please select just the first author.
Record, along with your name, course number, etc.:
- The citation
- Name and affiliation of the author
- URL for the author’s website
- Brief summary of the author’s position and publications as listed on the author’s website.
- Can you find a self-archived version of the article? Some places to look include: the author’s library pages for an institutional repository, repository metasearch tools such as OAIster http://www.oaister.org/ or Scientific Commons http://www.scientificcommons.org/, discipline-specific repositories such as PubMedCentral, arXiv, RePEC, or E-LIS, or try a web author / tile search.
An example is attached.
Marks: 2 (1 for handing in on time, 1 for completeness of content)
Approximate time: 1 hour
LIBR 559L: Issues in scholarly communication and publishing, Fall 2009
Instructor: Heather Morrison, hgmorris@gmail.com
Scholar’s Biography – Example
Prepared by: Heather Morrison
For: LIBR559L
September 16, 2009
Citation:
Papacharissi, Zizi (2009). The virtual geographies of social networks: A comparative analysis of Facebook, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld. New Media & Society. 11 (1, February), 199-220.
Author affiliation: University of Illinois-Chicago
Website: http://tigger.uic.edu/~zizi/cv.html
About the author and her publications: Zizi Papacharissi is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago. Papacharissi has published one book, Journalism and Citizenship, and has two more in the works, Digital Politics and the Networked Self. The author has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters (including two that are in press), and conference proceedings, and lists media interviews on her web page. Most of her research seems to focus on social network topics, with some on media, e.g. television. According to the experience portion of her CV, the author was once a DJ and music director.
There are no links from the author’s web page to full-text versions of any of the author’s works.
The UIC-Illinois Library has an institutional repository, called Indigo. This was not easy to find; it was under services / for faculty / scholarly publishing / scroll to the bottom of the page. There were no results for “Papacharissi” in Indigo.
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