http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/ en-us 2008-03-27T08:33:50-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives//002374.html "IEEE Joins With Consortium to Provide Free Access to Physics Articles" by Kathy Kowalenko 07 March 2008 The consortium is called the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). Members include CERN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the... colldev 2008-03-27T08:33:50-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives//002265.html In case anyone is still reading.... http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html Posted by Beth Stanley... colldev 2007-12-20T09:47:20-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/collection_development_class/002246.html What part do conventional acedemic values play when considering the advantages and disadvantages of online journals versus print? I came across this article entitled, "The Influence of Academic Values on Scholarly Publication and Communication Practices." According to this article peer... Collection Development Class colldev 2007-12-06T23:22:20-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/electronic_books/002245.html Instapundit points to a recent editorial controversy at Wikipedia (original article in The Register) and notes, "In any well-functioning anarchy you'll find an old boys' network." While Wikipedia has always faced criticism (and deals with it on a meta-level), this... Electronic Books colldev 2007-12-06T17:13:39-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives//002244.html What is the fate of print journals in the face of the tremendous new wave of technology (RSS feeds, podcasts, blogs, institutional repositories, etc.) that is luring authors and subscribers away from the traditional format?... colldev 2007-12-06T16:35:29-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives//002243.html Vannevar Bush, in his 1945 essay As We May Think, spoke of the necessity of being able to access science's "... millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based ..." Traditional journals documented... colldev 2007-12-06T14:28:07-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/collection_development_class/002242.html Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication: Survey Findings from the University of California http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/responses/activities.html There are options to download the full report (124pp!) or the executive summary and summary of findings. There is also a copy of the survey... Collection Development Class colldev 2007-12-06T11:19:34-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/collection_development_class/002241.html Donovan, Georgie, and Karen Estlund. "New Librarians and Scholarly Communication: Get Involved." College and Research Libraries News 68, no. 3 {March 2007}. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/ backissues2007/march07/newlibrarians.cfm (accessed December 4, 2007). How can new librarians become advocates for change within the scholarly community... Collection Development Class colldev 2007-12-05T16:47:02-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/collection_development_class/002238.html The August issue of CT Watch Quarterly was entirely devoted to issues in scholarly communications. A pdf of the issue can be downloaded here. I found the article titled "Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age" particularly interesting. It discusses... Collection Development Class colldev 2007-12-05T06:56:31-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/experiment/002237.html It makes sense to use a cell phone for communication. Almost everybody has one nowadays, and a few rely on their cell phone exclusively as their telecommunications device. Most people center themselves around this little handheld device--recently the phone... Experiment colldev 2007-12-04T18:40:43-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/collection_development_class/002236.html Coleman, Anita Sundaram and Cheryl Knott Malone. "Scholarly Communication and the Matter of Use." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 47, no. 1 {Winter 2006}: 1-3. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb. com.proxy.lib.utk.edu:90/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_requestid=51495 {accessed December 3, 2007}. The prevalent view among academics is... Collection Development Class colldev 2007-12-04T17:19:41-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/collection_development_class/002235.html The Phoenix Library System turns its material selection over to its vendors...... Collection Development Class colldev 2007-12-04T16:08:06-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives//002230.html I started to post about ACRL's Scholarly Communication Toolkit but thought sending a link to the ACRL's entire Scholarly Communication page would be a better resource. The ACRL has many resources discussing the recent issues involved with scholarly communication and... colldev 2007-12-04T10:15:17-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives/open_access_books/002228.html ARL provides free online access to a recent publication on scholarly communication. Open Access Books colldev 2007-12-03T23:15:43-05:00 http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/scholcomm/archives//002227.html An interesting take on blogging and the legal scholarly community...... colldev 2007-12-03T19:15:50-05:00