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September 30, 2008
The Attempt to Reverse the Nation's First Public Access Mandate
SPARC enews for September 2008 starts with the information about the bill attempting to reverse the NIH Public Access Policy by proposing legislation known as the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (HR6845).
The news provides the "NIH Update" about the status of the aforementioned policy, see, https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:5584.1340671215/rid:dc7f80ddb2201fa70273ea2a9e32b5ce#spnews, viewed Sept. 20, 2008).
At the beginning of 2008 "Library Journal" Academic Newswire (Jan 3, 2008) and other media announced that on December 26, 2007 President Bush signed the NIH Public Access Policy mandating the NIH "to provide the public with open online access to its funded research. Researchers are now required to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine's online archive, PubMed Central. Full text of these articles will then be publicly available and searchable online no later than 12 months after publication."
Thanks to an intensive work of librarians, SPARC, research institutions, public and patients, and due to lobbying for the support of public access, the NIH Public Access Policy was signed into a mandate. Publishers, however, promised to oppose this bill and lobby against it, see http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6516694.html?nid=2673#news2 (viewed Sept. 17, 2008).
As a result of publishers' decisive opposition on September 9, "Representative John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary, introduced legislation that would amend U.S. copyright law, overturn the NIH Public Access Policy, and effectively make it illegal for other U.S. federal agencies to enact similar policies. The proposed legislation is the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (HR6845). Currently, as of 9/9/2008 this legislation is "Referred to House committee [and] referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary", see link above.
The battle will continue in 2009, and may last even longer. People who support the NIH policy and public access give their voice and disseminate information to lobby their cause. "The House Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet held a hearing to proposed legislation" on Sept. 11, 2008.
In support for the NIH Public Access policy Congress also received letters of from 33 Nobel prize-winners, see [PDF].
For more information visit the ATA Web site
Wanda Rosinski
Posted by colldev at 11:13 PM
September 29, 2008
Open Access Day, October 14, 2008
Open Access Day is an event intended to raise awareness about issues regarding open access and to educate the scholarly community about policies and mandates. A full schedule of events can be found here.
UT-Knoxville is one of 65 participants of Open Access Day, which is sponsored by SPARC, Students for FreeCulture, and The Public Library of Science..
The program includes webcasts from Sir Richard Roberts and Philip E Bourne.
Would you like to participate?
-Susan Wood
Posted by colldev at 04:47 PM
September 22, 2008
Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and Reform of Scholarly communication
Jantz, Ronald C and Wilson, Myoung C. May 2008. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 34, Number 3, pages 186-195.
The abstract is available with the following link:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W50-4SF9C8S-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8dde194a80432def93d960cb2b1033d5
Full-text can be accessed from UTK e-journal.
Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and Reform of Scholarly communication
"Academic Libraries are today at the intersection of three momentous changes in the world of scholarly communication."
The rise in the number of journals available online which led to the re-evaluation of the scholarly communication process. The article points out the increase in the journal costs and almost monopoly of intellectual rights with some commercial vendors.
"Democratization of knowledge" or open access brought easy and free access not only to the academic community, but anyone who is interested in research. Academic libraries continue to do their traditional role as to collect, organize and preserve, started collecting resources which could be accessed digitally by the academic community. The result is the Institutional repositories!
Institutional repositories, according to the article has contributed to some development on the research front; possible sharing of the faculty research literature. The reference to Antelman's article suggests that there is an increase in citation trend for the online article. ( that the online articles are cited 4.5 times more than the off line articles)
The article further discusses the deposit of the contents and evaluation of the contents in the IR.
The qualitative analysis found out that the institutional repositories are not linked to their library website. They are scattered through out with navigation from digital projects, scholarly communication page, faculty pages and collections and resources pages.
As for the quantitative analysis, the article points out that the libraries "do not see a connection between institutional repositories and scholarly communication or if they do they are not using the library website to explain and market the benefits if IR."
As a conclusion the article discusses, the faculty participation and their lack of interest, lack of communication for the value of institutional repositories. The article ends with a powerful statement, "There is an institutional vacuum here that the libraries should consider filling, namely the articulation and marketing of IR services and how IR can advance scholarship."
It is almost impossible to do a thorough review on the blog, but I think these are some key issues addressed.
~Anu
Posted by colldev at 10:26 PM
September 21, 2008
Government Weighs Open Access Against Publisher Interests
September saw the introduction of HR 6845, a piece of legislation known as the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act. This legislation seeks to reverse federal public-access policies, such as the requirement that manuscripts resulting from research funded by the National Intitutes of Health must be deposited into PubMed Central; the articles are made freely available to the public within 1 year of publication.
A hearing was held on September 11 by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. Library Journal reports that the committee meeting "focused almost entirely on the current NIH public access mandate" and that the discussion "looked far more to the economic future of science publishing than to public access to taxpayer funded research." According to another Library Journal report, the legislation is on hold until at least next year and that the bill's sponsor (Rep. John Conyers) seems to be more focused on a political "turf war" regarding the issue. Several blogs have addressed the topic in recent weeks, including Techdirt, Chemical & Engineering News, and ars technica, which provides a solid discussion of the issues at stake and views from both sides of the debate.
Posted by Jerianne Thompson
Posted by colldev at 09:40 PM
Towards State of the Art in the Humanities
On September 5, 2008, Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, gave a lecture at Vanderbilt University titled "The State of the Humanities". Cole's talk detailed NEH initiatives to use digital technologies in humanities research, bringing it more in line with current trends in the sciences and social sciences.
Cole spoke of three effects of the digital age on humanities scholarship. First, whereas humanities scholarship has traditionally focused on individual work, digitization brings greater opportunities for interdisciplinary, collaborative work. Second, Cole predicted that the ability to search resources on a larger scale will make humanities scholarship more data-intensive. Finally, he spoke of increased public access to federally funded humanities resources.
Cole described the work of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH). ODH, working with the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, hopes to apply supercomputing power to humanities research. The office is also awarding start-up grants to promote innovative ideas for digital humanities research. In addition to its national projects, ODH also works with e-humanities initiatives in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. ODH has proposed such a partnership with China.
Cole also spoke of the National Digital Newspaper Program that NEH and the Library of Congress have developed. This program will eventually digitize 30 million pages of historic microfilmed newspapers, transferring them into a searchable format available for free online.
In concluding his lecture, Cole advocated a greater democratization of the humanities, critiquing scholars whose highly specialized research interests have led to self-marginalization. Cole hopes the humanities will return to center stage by focusing on big questions that can engage a larger public. Cole, a Bush appointee, here echoes conservative critics of elitism in the academy, bringing to mind the politics behind government funding agencies.
--Brian Boling
Posted by colldev at 02:59 PM
September 19, 2008
Open Access and K-12 School Libraries
A quick search for articles on open access and scholarly communication in the K-12 school library world reveals very few articles and even fewer full-text links. Either the conversation is not happening or I just can't get to it.
Rick Kopak in his abstract to his article Open Access and the Open Journal Systems: Making Sense All Over states,
At a time when students are increasingly turning to the Web as their primary source of information it is well worth continuing to consider ways and means of taking advantage of this trend, and to perhaps relocate attention to traditional information sources presented in new ways. This paper makes the case that Open Access to electronic scholarly journals creates an opportunity for schools and school libraries to benefit from use of these journals.
The source, a biannual journal School Libraries Worldwide, is only available online at a membership fee. Neither UTK nor my more local Vanderbilt library had this journal in their database. Is this UTK's or Vandy's responsibility to purchase yet another e-journal? Is it the journal's to find a way to make itself accessible, especially after publishing an article that makes a case for open access?
Editor-in-Chief of School Library Journal, Brian Kenney, wrote an editorial on September 1, 2008 bemoaning "the lack of online availability of professional literature published by the American Library Association (ALA). He notes that while librarians advocate for open access to journal content, their professional association has failed to make its own content freely accessible." September 2, 2008 8:00am American Libraries Editor-in-Chief, Leonard Kniffel, posted this comment to Kenney's editorial,
The ALA Membership, Publishing, and American Libraries Advisory Committees all discussed this issue at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. A proposal to open up all the content of American Libraries, as well as subscriptions to American Libraries Direct, received virtually unanimous support, and we will be doing so this fall, after the launch of the new ALA website.
It's just fascinating to me that this new knowledge - this post, this comment - is out there for me, an ordinary web searcher, to find because the source chose to make it free and online and accessible. They enabled the conversation to continue.
It seems scholarly communication concepts are crawling into to K-12 conversations. Hopefully they are successful and next lead to best practices.
UPDATE (25 September 2008):
Since posting last week I've been engaged in a wonderful email discussion with Gavin Baker of Open Access News. What began as a simple, generous offer of where I could find the article I said I couldn't find evolved into an interesting (for me!) examination of my assumptions about OA.
Whereas, like Mr. Baker mentioned, conventional wisdom observes students google first and then "resort" to databases second, I began and restricted my search in my university's databases. Here was my first assumption (or perhaps misconception) - OA should resemble institutional repositories. If the information/article is somewhere in the bowels of the university - library catalog, department website - it, in its full-text form, should be available. Clearly a library's paid database subscriptions believe differently, which is most likely the reason for my second assumption - the responsibility of making information accessible is the publisher's. When I was unsuccessful in accessing the full-text in the databases I googled the publication hoping to find it on their site.
The article wasn't available at my university, so I went to the publisher. It wasn't available (for free) from the publisher, so I stopped my search. I stopped my search at the "golden road," where journals are the ones responsible for providing OA to the articles they publish (Harnad, 2004). What I didn't consider were the other two roads - "green" where authors provide the OA or [insert-favorite-color-here] where a third party provides the OA nor necessarily with the author's not the publishing journal's permission. It is because of this third road that a simple Google search of my elusive article's title returned at least a few avenues for me to follow, complete with full-text.
The most fascinating part of this examination happened this morning as I retraced my steps. School Libraries Worldwide, where I stopped my search because I had to pay to receive full-text access, hosts three blogs - one that is exclusive to Volume 14, Number 2, July 2008 themed New Learners, New Literacies, New Libraries. Here guest editors Marlene Asselini and Ray Doiron have included "the abstracts and links to all the articles in this special issue of School Libraries Worldwide." They have also created a wiki (linked from the blog) for this important discussion. It is through this wiki that one is able to download a .pdf of the Kopak article.
So. Turns out the publisher does provide open access to this article. Kind of. One must leave the publisher's main site to travel to the blog, and then access the article via the wiki. But this is the only issue with its own blog, still leaving all other articles published by School Library Worldwide unavailable via their site. Should it be so convoluted? Yes, one Google search will get me the article, but for the sake of quality control, I guess I remain convinced that the golden road should be more...golden? As well as perhaps being encouraged to assist those trudging along the green road.
Thanks to Gavin Baker for the discussion and thanks to open access for my name and this humble post popping up on a Google search more times than I ever thought possible.
~bryn samuels
Posted by colldev at 12:21 PM
September 15, 2008
Fair Use and Copyrighted Texts- What is Our Role?
The June 27, 2008 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education had an article about fair use as it pertains to copyrighted texts. The article discusses the lawsuit between Georgia State University and academic publishers (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Sage Publications). The concern is over the ambiguously large amounts of scholarly material made available to students through online course reserves and Blackboard/WebCT types of systems.
Basically, the University believes it is well within fair use guidelines to make these materials available to students, while the publishers believe that the amount of materials and the systematic, widespread practice pushes the University out of the scope of fair use. This has made me consider the role that librarians might play in understanding the scope of fair use and educating university faculty about the amount of content that may be distributed in this manner. Is it the role of a university's legal department to determine and monitor an amount of scholarly material that could be distributed, or should it be the duty of campus librarians to educate individual faculty about these practices?
Perhaps the outcome of Georgia's lawsuit will affect practices nationwide. I see this as an issue with many implications in regards to scholarly communication, as it relates to the ever-increasing cost of materials (both online databases and physical textbooks), the question of fair use, and the role of librarians. If the cost of accessing the most appropriate scholarly communication prohibits its use, will course instructors be forced to use inferior course materials? How will this influence the way that faculty view their publishing options as they produce research? Legal issues such as Georgia State's lawsuit may make institutional repositories even more appealing to publishing faculty as academic publishers are continually vilified.
-Posted by Anna Galyon
Posted by colldev at 09:24 AM
September 13, 2008
Clearing the Air: Intellectual Property Revisited
On September 11th, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) issued a press release titled Publishers Praise New Legislation to Safeguard Copyright in Research Works regarding the legislation of the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (H.R. 6845) that will aid to "protect the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles."
The hearing was held to discuss the "implications of a government mandate that relies on a Federal agency's funding of scientific research." The previous mandate gives funding agencies the freedom as they see fit, to distribute the funding recipient's works, which "undercuts...the quality assurance processes of peer review." This legislation is to address issues of the mandate's inconsistencies with U.S. copyright law and "our nation's ability to comply with international treaty obligations." Allan Adler, AAP Vice President for Government and Legal Affairs recognizes the need to keep incentives in place for peer-reviewed information so that "we are ensured of the quality and integrity of published research."
This act recognizes the "importance of the added value that journal publishers contribute," and would "keep the Federal Government from undermining copyright protection for journal articles where private-sector publishers have added such significant value." In other words we must encourage productivity of this valuable information, not hinder it.
To learn more about this and other issues in scholarly publishing visit:
**The Association of American Publishers (AAP)
**Professional Scholarly Publishing (PSP) a division of AAP
~posted by Dawna Beasecker
Contact information for referenced press release:
Judith Platt/Acacia O'Connor
Ph: 202-220-4550
Posted by colldev at 03:32 PM
September 12, 2008
New Scholarly Communication Web Site at UT
The University of Tennesse Libraries launched a new web site today, Scholarly Communication , home for a new service created by a recent library reorganization. Committed to increasing access to information for scholars, the Scholarly Communication department offers assistance to the University of Tennessee community about scholarly publishing, intellectual property, and our rapidly changing research culture. The site includes a link to the library's open access digital press, Newfound Press .
Posted by Linda Phillips
Posted by colldev at 04:07 PM
September 11, 2008
Maybe Piracy Isn't So Bad After All?
Monika Ermert wrote an article, "Symposium Calls for an End of Binary Discussion of Righsholders Versus Pirates," for Intellectual Property Watch. In it, she discusses the sometimes unintended benefits of piracy on the entertainment industry.
One example is the tecnobrega industry in Brazil. (See a recent CNN article on this topic). Musicians and studios have "skipped normal distribution lines" used by big labels such as Sony, and instead, made deals with street vendors (a.k.a. pirates) to sell their material. This doesn't make much money for the musicians, but the publicity that it stirs is enough to make up for it because musicians benefit from concert ticket sales, higher-quality CD sales, and other income derived from sold out shows.
Similarly, Nigerian video film producers have benefited from pirated videos because they created a demand for DVD and VCR players. These profits allowed the electronics dealers to be able to reinvest that money into more film production.
Ermert's point is definitely taken: Many economies have benefited from the loosened (or ignored) restrictions. But this isn't the answer to the problem of "pirates that steal everything" versus "rightsholders that want to protect everything". People who produce artwork deserve to be compensated directly for their work. They shouldn't have to depend on the possibility that their work will provide them with indirect benefits sometime in the future.
Ermert's discussion sheds light on the debate of intellectual property, copyright, and the indirect benefits of pirating, but it doesn't give a voice to the individual people (the artists) who lose in the exchange. Sure, society and industry as a whole may benefit from these activities, but if we lose the artists in the process, the industry may collapse on itself.
--posted by Maggie Anderson
Posted by colldev at 12:01 PM
September 09, 2008
Future of Scholarly Communication: Digital tipping point
Phil, Pachoda. 2008. Future of Scholarly communication: On the Other side of digital tipping point, Choice Journal, Volume 45, Issue 9, University of Michigan Press, Pages 1486-1488.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0011.202
Future of Scholarly Communication: Digital tipping point
This article seems to open up the topic of innovative publishing (mainly scholarly publishing) further. The project focuses on a model which will explore the open access scholarly publishing while maintaining the standards. The project suggests that the reading behavior and preferences vary among different scholarly community and further proposes to reduce the communication gap. The project addresses the future of the scholarly communication.
The author discusses six main points that he thinks are considered important for the future of the scholarly communication.
~Digital collaborations among the university presses have resulted in "locating, recruiting, assessing, and editing the scholarly resources."
This not only has resulted in collaborations within the country but around the world.
~The Open access has bypassed the more traditional forms of communication. This may bring out the digital scholarly communication.
Example I find is that the scholars in India who had to use the British Library or American Embassy library for scholarly articles are now able to access materials through their universities.
~The rise in digital publication and decline in the print models will create a paradigm shift in the scholarly communication. This is the trend in the scholarly communication within and outside the academic community.
~Each university will reevaluate their distribution and design of the publishing community.
~University presses must continue to play their customary role of locating authors and texts. This may be an important aspect in maintaining authority.
~"Networked book to become the gold standard for the scholarly publishing of the future" (Institute for the Future of the Book, IFB). Can network books concept replace books? A blog-like feature to replace books? What happens to authority? What happens to the scholarly communication? Will the scholarly community accept and incorporate the comments from scholars and other readers?
~Anu
Accessed Sep 5,08 http://www.futureofthebook.org/
Posted by colldev at 09:53 PM
September 07, 2008
Agents of Change in Scholarly Communication
In the article "Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and the Reform of Scholarly Communication" (The Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.34, no.3, May 2008) Ronald C. Jantz and Myoung C. Wilson discuss their study investigating the current and potential roles of the academic library (and librarian) in the success of the institutional repository. The three objectives of Jantz and Wilson's study were to note the current faculty input into institutional repositories - divided according to academic department, to assess the ways in which institutional repositories are presented and marketed on library homepages and finally to explore the library's role as a "change agent" in scholarly communication. The study finds the actual use of institutional repositories by faculty appears to be pretty dismal, thereby limiting its value as an alternative to traditional scholarly communication. However Jantz and Wilson offer reasonable ideas for increasing the use of institutional repositories, with academic libraries and librarians playing influential roles in facilitating that change. Posted by: Deborah Job
Posted by colldev at 04:58 PM
September 05, 2008
Who's doing what, and with who?
Published by Library Journal (May 2008) Information With A Twist provides us with a comprehensive snapshot of the going-ons in the world of scholarly communication.
This article provides a condensed version of what is happening with well known (and not so well known) sources that provide scholarly (and maybe not so scholarly) communication. Included are updates from resources such the socially contributable Wikipedia, news of language additions for Encyclopedia Britannica and Oxford Dictionary, to the digitization of older volumes for PubMed and news about everything in between. We are briefed about what some sources are doing to enhance interfaces and promote collaboration. New information is covered in the areas of training and planning tools for librarians, online books, to the recent mergers and acquisitions of databases, such as ProQuest and CSA. Also covered are recent changes in copyrights, subscriptions, and what info resources have changed from open access to subscription based, and vice-versa.
This is a comprehensive article that puts perspective on the overwhelming resources that are out there, but does not overwhelm with too much information. So if you're looking for an overview of what is going on in the world of scholarly communications have a look . Make sure to check out the many company profiles with direct links at the end of the page. I'm going to take note of them and I hope you will too!
---posted by Dawna Beasecker
Carol Tenopir (ctenopir@utk.edu) is Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee (UTK), Knoxville, and LJ's Online Databases columnist; Gayle Baker (gsbaker@utk.edu) is Electronic Services Coordinator, UTK Libraries; and Jill E. Grogg (jgrogg@bama.ua.edu), a 2007 LJ Mover & Shaker, is Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa
Posted by colldev at 09:18 AM
September 04, 2008
A YouTube For Scholarship
The August 2008 issue of the ACRL's Choice magazine features an essay by Susan Ariew titled "YouTube Culture and the Academic Library: A Guide to Online Open Access Educational Videos". Much of the article focuses on using online video to reach computer-savvy students with library and information literacy messages. However, the article also pointed me to the website ResearchChannel, a glimpse at a possible future direction for scholarly communications.
ResearchChannel's sponsors include universities, scholarly societies, and national funding agencies, all of whom contribute programming about the cutting-edge research and lectures occuring at their institutions. Topics of the 3500+ videos range from Old Testament prophets to nanotechnology, from bell hooks to decentralized information flow control.
One of the ResearchChannel's missions is to "bring together ideas from the world's premier institutions and disseminate those ideas to the public directly". In addition to broadcasting content online, they also have a research agenda to enhance scholarly infrastructure by leading in "the development and testing of new technological applications that enable institutions to exchange and distribute rich-media resources on an unmediated global scale--using next-generation technologies, at any bandwidth, and in all forms and formats."
Apparently, much of this content also appears on a ResearchChannel associated cable network with which I--as a television illiterate--was unfamiliar. However, the "pull technology" used by the website has a definite advantage over channel-surfing, allowing on demand access to those lectures that match the viewer's learning interests. My only complaint is the low resolution of some videos, but this is not a major hindrance with lectures until the speaker incorporates visual aids such as charts or graphs.
-- posted by Brian Boling
Posted by colldev at 10:45 PM
Even Librarians Suffer from the Digital Divide.
In the May 2008 issue of Library Journal, Shannon Bohle contributed an article entitled, "The New Digital Awareness". Bohle writes about how every library or information organization falls on a continuum related to how much (or little) the organization shares digital information with other organizations and people.
There are three paradigms put forth by Bohle: the competitive isolationists, the exclusionary collaborateurs, and the free mashups & crossovers. Each group has varying levels of collaboration with other institutions. Bohle says that this level of sharing mainly focuses on metadata. Competitive isolationists often create their own metadata structures and do not share it with anyone else to maintain their competitive advantage. Exclusionary collaborateurs team up with specific institutions and forge formal ties as a basis for sharing. These teams are often determined by geography or linguistics. The free mashups & crossover organizations focus on overcoming boundaries to establishing open access to materials. Bohle discusses the pros and cons of each attitude and points out that the digital divide can even affect libraries and librarians, not just end-users. She suggests that the use of social networking sites is an excellent way to promote and achieve open access.
Shannon Bohle is the founder of Archivopedia and a Reference Librarian at Lima Public Library in Ohio.
--posted by Maggie Anderson
Posted by colldev at 03:27 PM
New Medical Wiki Promises Content
The September 5, 2008 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/infotech contains an article about a new online medical encyclopedia that will go live by the end of the year. MedPedia will be written and edited by contributors holding an M.D. or PhD in the biomedical field.
The medical field is once again joining the wiki world by introducing a new medical encylopedia that hopes to "set itself apart from existing medical websites." MedPedia is the brainchild of James Currier, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and is backed by prestigious medical institutions such as the Harvard Medical School and the Stanford School of Medicine. Edited by qualifed professionals in the medical field, MedPedia will contain pages for more than 30,000 known medical conditions and thousands of prescription medicines. The National Institutes of Health and the American College of Physicians have also contributed content to the project. Each page will contain all the information available on a subject as well as links between topics, updates on the latest advances, and translation tools that will make the information available in other countries. Once the site goes live, this vast amount of medical information will be available to the public. This site could be another valuable resource on medical information for medical professionals, the in depth researcher, or the casual user.
The article states that if the MedPedia project complies with the Medical Librarian's Association's quality standards for health-information websites, then the Association will recommend it to the public.
Since one has to subscribe to the Chronicle to access their articles, here are two other links to information about MedPedia. MedPedia's own website www.medpedia.com and an article in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300256.html
--Posted by Peggy Dillard
Posted by colldev at 02:13 PM
September 02, 2008
Podcasting and Intellectual Capital
As a member of the Special Libraries Association, I receive their monthly magazine, "Information Outlook." The August edition had a great article on Podcasting. If you're a member of SLA, you can log in and read the article here. Although the article is aimed at using podcasting for "knowledge capture" in organizations, the academic implications would be similar. The article discusses benefits of podcasting, tips for creating podcasts, other uses for podcasts, and the future of podcasting. In my opinion, a podcast might not fully capture experiences in scholarly communication. However, as a support tool, or a supplement to work that is available elsewhere, podcasts could add a new dimension to knowledge sharing. I think it's an avenue worth exploring. Incidentally, the "Information Outlook" magazine is a great resource for hot topics in Information Science- I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out sometime.
-Posted by Anna Galyon
Posted by colldev at 10:29 PM