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Monthly Archives: April 2009

MIT Course .. Breakthroughs

How to Develop “Breakthrough” Products and Services I watched the three available video lectures (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-356Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm)  and found them fascinating – the professor is Eric von Hippel from MIT and he is talking about how breakthroughs happen.  I am still trying to figure out how to apply this to the services we provide so any insight [...]

Starred Google Reader Posts

OA Headlines

Sampling of Chronicle Headlines 3/23/2009   MIT Professors Approve Campuswide Policy to Publish Their Scholarly Articles Free Online 3/27/2009    Humanities Journals Confront Identity Crisis 3/6/2009    A New Push to Unlock University-Based Research 1/30/2009    Physicists Set Plan in Motion to Change Publishing System 12/12/2008    Bringing Tenure Into the Digital Age 12/19/2008    In [...]

Open Education

Open Education Open Education Jmag Publish at Scribd or explore others: School Work Education-eLearningO

Science Commons

more about “Science Commons“, posted with vodpod

This is Scholarship

This is Scholarship Selected Works Referenced Promotion & Tenure Policy Documents College of Arts & Sciences. (2006). RPT document. California State University San Marcos. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.csusm.edu/faculty_affairs/Evaluation%20Page.html College of Humanities. (2005). Appointments, promotion, and tenure document. The Ohio State University. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from https://humanities.osu.edu/cohi/FacultyDocuments/apt/ College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. [...]

Note to Self: “Predictably Irr…

Note to Self: “Predictably Irrational” – Dan Ariely .. looks really good .. cheating, moral relativity

3 minutes to capture attention…

3 minutes to capture attention of conservative faculty re: New Scholarly Communication..What would you say/show? Feedback much appreciated

New Scholarship Issues Impossi…

New Scholarship Issues Impossible to articulate to unwashed in 40 mins.. OA, Pre-pub, E-only, Collective Intell, P&T, Content vs Process

Yet another iteration – working doc

I.  Traditional journals migrate online (Early 90s’) Cause:  Because its there. Leverage significant strengths of non-linear functions .. hyperlinking, full text searching Effect: Paper-inspired model, same publication and peer-review process Retains and enhances Subscriber-pays model A radical change when it comes to access, but not a radical change in the publication model itself Example: A [...]

Bergren Draft Notes:

Once upon a time There were Traditonal Paper-Based Research/Scholarship .. [image] The content of these journals were sanctioned, published, and peer reviewed by credible external entities such as scholarly societies, research institutions, or government agencies The content was presented in accepted scholarly formats of research papers, reports, conference/symposia presentations, and independent research The content relied [...]

AuBergren Wed. 4/15

Library Announces Electronic-Only Journals Proposal – UMass Amherst Library tags: aubergren Nature Debates: Lessons for the future of journals tags: aubergren Primer on Peer Review, Payment and Publishing – Open Access Archivangelism tags: aubergren A Future Academic Discourse « Jacob Kramer-Duffield thinks tags: aubergren Wired Campus: Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class — [...]

Bergrenlink Wed 4/15

Academic Publishing in the Digital Age | HASTAC tags: bergrenlink AERA SIG Communication of Research :: Ejournals in Education AERA SIG Communication of Research Ejournals in Education tags: bergrenlink aps.arxiv.org e-Print archive mirror tags: bergrenlink The Agrippa Files tags: bergrenlink Association of Research Libraries :: ARL 2008 New Model Publications Study: Examples Collected for Analysis [...]

E Only Journals Samples

Samples Ejournal Only Peer Reviewed Titles Chemical educator Catalysis Surveys from Japan

Pure Joy .. “Make Our Garden G…

Pure Joy .. “Make Our Garden Grow” & “Overture” from Bernstein Candide.. cranked into headphones .. exhilarating .. pure Joy.. pulsing ..wow