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26
Apr

MIT Course .. Breakthroughs

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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 is much appreciated.  In a nutshell, he talks about where innovations come from – usually users and not those who are satisfied by the product or service but the lead users who are making a product/service better.  I am not sure exactly if or how this would fit into this discussion but I would be willing to work with someone or a group to see if we can come up with something.  The other premise is that the questions we ask start to change as we find the lead users and that you often go outside of your field to find the answers.
Thanks!  Anne

Anne L. McFarland
Head of Bibliographic and Digital Services
B216 Milne Library
SUNY-Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.436.2026

25
Apr

Starred Google Reader Posts

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24
Apr

OA Headlines

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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 Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas
  • 11/21/2008    For Advice on Publishing in the Digital World, Scholars Turn to Campus Libraries
  • 11/21/2008    A New Field Study Identifies Eight Major Types of Digital Scholarship
  • 6/30/2008      Stanford’s Education School Requires Open Access
  • 6/6/2008     Certifying Online Research
  • 5/30/2008     New-Media Scholars’ Place in ‘the Pool’ Could Lead to Tenure
  • 4/4/2008     U. of California Assesses Its Publishing Needs
  • 3/21/2008     The University Press of the Future – http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i28/28a03503.htm
  • 3/7/2008     Landmark Digital History Monograph Project Goes Open Access -     http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i26/26a01201.htm
  • 2/1/2008     Blog Comments vs. Peer Review: Which Way Makes a Book Better?
  • 6/29/2007     University Press Meeting Dominated by Donor Proposal and Digital Publishing – http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i43/43a01201.htm
  • 6/15/2007     The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority

Non-Chronicle

Economic Co-operation and Development Agreement 30 Nations sign DECLARATION ON ACCESS TO RESEARCH DATA FROM PUBLIC FUNDING

SEE Also .. Headlines from OPEN ACCESS NEWS

22
Apr

Open Education

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Open Education

Open Education Jmag
20
Apr

Science Commons

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more about “Science Commons“, posted with vodpod

20
Apr

This is Scholarship

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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. (1994). College promotion, tenure, and reappointment document. Indiana University South Bend. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/documents/ptrdocument.pdf

New & Remediated Forms of Scholarship

Arola, Kristin L., & Ball, Cheryl E. (2007). A conversation: From ‘they call me doctor?!’ to tenure. Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/doctor/

Braun, Catherine C., McCorkle, Ben, & Wolf, Amie C. (2007). Remixing basic writing: Digital media production and the basic writing curriculum. Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/braun/index.htm

Brooks, Kevin, Tomanek, Michael, Wald, Rachel, Warner, Matthew, & Wilkening, Brianne. (2006). What’s going on? Listening to music, composing videos. Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/brooks/index.htm

Crane, Gregory. (Ed.). (n.d.). The Perseus Digital Library. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Cushman, Ellen. (2004). Composing new media: Cultivating landscapes of the mind. Kairos, 9(1). Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1/binder.html?http://www.msu.edu/%7Ecushmane/one/landscape.html

Davis, Evan, & Hardy, Sarah. (2003). Teaching writing in the space of blackboard. Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/DavisHardy/index.html

Ellertson, Anthony. (2003). Some notes on simulacra machines, Flash in first-year composition, and tactics in spaces of interruption. Kairos, 8(2). Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://english.ttu.edu/KAIROS/8.2/binder.html?features/ellertson/home.html

Rice, Rich, & Ball, Cheryl. (2006). Reading the text: Remediating the text. Kairos, 10 (2). Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/10.2/binder2.html?coverweb/riceball/index.html

Sorapure, Madeleine. (2006). Between modes: Assessing student new media compositions. Kairos, 10(2). Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/10.2/binder2.html?coverweb/sorapure/index.html

Walker, Joyce. (2006). Hyper.activity. Kairos, 10(1). Retrieved July 19, 2007, from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/10.2/binder2.html?coverweb/walker/index.html

Wesch, Michael. (2007). Web 2.0…The machine is us/ing us. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

19
Apr

Note to Self: “Predictably Irr…

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

19
Apr

3 minutes to capture attention…

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

16
Apr

New Scholarship Issues Impossi…

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

16
Apr

Yet another iteration – working doc

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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 print journal that publishes an exact replica online

II. Traditional Paper models becoming unsustainable (swapped OA heading for cost idea)

Cause:

  • Library budgets either flat or in decline
  • Movement led by libraries subscribing to STM (science/technology/medicine) titles which they could no longer afford
  • Call for publicly-funded research to be made freely available
  • LIbraries supporting their scholars research can not afford to buy it back

Effect:

  • Open access journals begin to emerge (date?)
  • Retains quality-control of traditionally-published journals (peer-review, editorial board) but journals are free
  • Author-pays model instead of subscriber-pays model

Example: BioMed Central

III. Quantity of available research explodes prompting new access and organization paradigm

Cause:

  • Quantity of research is constantly growing; journals on new topics being started all of the time (moved from above category)
  • Need for Speed: Emerged in response to the need to speed dissemination of research
  • Ease of publication

Effect:

  • Subject archives emerge
  • Publish e-prints which includes pre-prints (not yet peer reviewed) or post-prints (peer reviewed)
  • Author deposits paper into the archive (self-archiving)

Example: arXiv.org

 
IV. Taking Back the Rightful Ownership

Cause:

  • New avenues for dissemination authors have publication alternatives
  • Opportunities for new research sharing mechanisms
  • Technology encourages and facilitates collaboration

Effect:

  • Institutional repositories emerge (date?)
  • Encouraged by SPARC report in 2002; access improved through development of OAI metadata protocol
  • A place to publish and archive the research output of an institution
  • Undermines concept that value is derived from the place where an item is placed/published
  • Issues of authority

Example: ?

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Experimentation with media to see what it can do

  • Focused primarily on the opportunities that digital media provide
  • Example: Perseus/Vectors/Google Earth projects, or something along those lines

 
Social networking tools

  • Emerged more recently as a tool for scholarly communication
  • Example: maybe use example from Media Res (CSI video and Chad’s essay)

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History of academic publishing and the results (or why we are where we are)
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/papers/jwts/develop.htm

“Most of the results of scientific, technical and medical (STM) research are published as papers or articles in refereed journals. These journals have developed over time to a standard model. The researcher submits a prospective paper to a journal relevant to the topic. The editorial board of that journal checks for relevance and basic quality. The articles that pass this test are sent to referees who assess it for overall quality. They may reject it, accept it with changes, or accept it as is. Accepted papers are copy-edited to improve appearance, readability, etc. The article is then collected together with others and published in an issue of the journal. All of this has been influenced by the model of publishing required by the paper-based journal. For example the logistics of the paper journal give rise to the ‘issue’. There is nothing in the design of the research paper that requires that it be published as part of an issue. The need to co-ordinate the activities of editors, referees, printers, distributors, marketing departments, etc, has given rise to the ‘publisher’. In order to recover the cost of operating this organisation the publisher usually requires the writer of the paper to pass copyright in the paper to the publishing company. Finally the publisher sells subscriptions to the journal to cover the production and distribution cost and to make a profit. Thus we have the rather odd situation that the writer (researcher) gives away the rights of the paper for free then he/she needs to be a subscriber (that is, to pay) to read the journal in which it is published. The whole academic journal publishing industry is based on the fact the producers (researchers) of the goods (papers) give them away in exchange for dissemination and then have to buy access back in the form of subscriptions.”

15
Apr

Bergren Draft Notes:

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Once upon a time

There were Traditonal Paper-Based Research/Scholarship ..

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  • 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 on a textual expression of valid data produced by a tested, measurable, information gathering process.  The result of which, provided new insight to an idea or process that quoted, extended, built upon or altered the work of others.
  • The content often provided points of visual reference which included images, graphs, charts, statistical presentations, etc.
  • The sponsoring agency sanctioned the validity and relevance of the content primarily by peer review
  • The presentation was published in bound paper entities of soft or hard covered containers at regular or irregular intervals based on established criteria
  • The presentation included clear authority or authorship responsible for the content as well as clear attribution where the work of others was used in its arguments.
  • The sponsoring agency distributed the publication to its members and subscribers for a price.

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Then came the Internet

And it became possible for credible external entities to …

  • Leverage a faster wider network of peer review and validation opprtunities
  • Improve upon traditional scholarly presentation formats to illustrate and reinforce textual and abstract content in more efficient, non-linear, multimodal ways
  • Easier to access and gather information from more sources
  • Easier to test, measure and validate data, using computational systems
  • Invites the opportunity to store, reuse and share oft discarded raw data
  • Cheaper to produce
  • Easier to distribute to members and subscribers or make available to all
  • Easier to reproduce, extend, quote, alter
  • Barriers to frequency of publication may be removed
  • Opportunities to enhance referential and supporting content through sound, video, advanced imaging and simulation presentation
  • Opportunity to reconsider (not abandon) matters of authority and atribution and leverage the significant power of collaboration
  • Opportunity for good work to spread faster and quantify actual usage post-publication

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We might ask ourselves ..

  1. Is the publisher/sanctioning agency credible? What is this threshold?
  2. Is the scholarship Peer Reviewed? – and how? (traditional, comments, open PR)
  3. Is authority for the work and supporting references well established?  Does it need to be? (collaboration, community)
  4. Does this scholarship gain from presentation and distribution in an electronic format?
    (visually, functionally, accuracy, usability, accessibilty, financially, data reuse, etc.?)
  5. Would this research flourish if it were available free to all?

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So what actually happened in scholarly publication…

Publishers began testing the waters:

  • Journals built online versions of their journals
  • Authors retained their rights to their research and distributed where and how they wish
  • Presentation of Scholarship incorporating new media formats

A Crisis of Costs spurred:

  • Some Journals have migrated to online-only versions of their journals
  • Libraries resist duplication, cut paper titles, and invest in online access.  Several Institutions move to Online-Only (name them)
  • Thousands of new online peer reviewed journals have been created

Innovations occurred

  • New models of Peer review evolved
  • New models of publication emerges and expands beyond societies and institutions to larger discipline-centric scholarly “portals” (
  • Repositories of related research is gathered and organized in new places and new ways. (BioCentral)
  • Institutional repositories or Pseudo-University Presses emerge (MIT)
  • Peer Reviewed Open Access Electronic Journals makes a big

Final Ponder… What has changed?  Which should we emphasize?

Process of Electronic Pubishing
How it alters content

15
Apr

AuBergren Wed. 4/15

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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

15
Apr

Bergrenlink Wed 4/15

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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

15
Apr

E Only Journals Samples

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Samples

Ejournal Only Peer Reviewed Titles

Chemical educator

Catalysis Surveys from Japan

13
Apr

Pure Joy .. “Make Our Garden G…

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