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December 03, 2007
What Can We Do To Improve Scholarly Communications?
Those involved with scholarly communications today are faculty, authors, editors, reviewers, and students. But what about the user? How can the user, which may include all of the above, effectively play a role in this transformation from print to online journals and articles? After all, isn't it ithe user who will ultimately determine how all this eventually plays out in the information community? We as students are some of the primary users of this "new format" for exchanging learned information. We can play a significant role in this debate. Blogs such as these are one way.....
Here are a few more ideas from the University of Washington Libraries :
As Users of UW Libraries, You Can ...
1. Support UW Libraries' cancellation of expensive low-use titles and encourage colleagues to do the same.
2. Invite library participation in faculty departmental meetings and graduate seminars to discuss scholarly communication issues.
3. Include librarians when meeting with publishers' representatives.
4. Familiarize yourselves with studies of journal costs, such as these:
http://o UAmerican Mathematical Society, 2004 (mathematics)
University of Wisconsin Libraries Journal Value Project, 2004 (sciences and social sciences)
LISU Journals Pricing Analysis, 2004 (12 publishers)
More information on this topic can be found at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/scholcomm/todo.html#users
Happy blogging!
posted by Donna Stallings
Posted by colldev at December 3, 2007 01:04 PM