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Need to Know Now: Scholarly Communication Today
Prof. Monica Berger, LibraryPDAC, NYC College of Technology
Nov. 17, 2005
Program overview
Scholarly communication in general What is scholarly communication? How has it changed? Interdisciplinary,
electronic Four major tools for scholarly
communication in historical order
Program overview
1. Listservs (informal) = email-based communication
2. Ejournals & Open Access journals (formal: often peer-reviewed) different modes of access, complexity of
definition of Open Access Licensed vs. “free” ejournals Preprints/Postprints Hybrid open access journals: not all content
available
Program overview
3. Digital libraries (hybrid content, not always peer-reviewed) Collections of content, often by subject, can be
mixed media
4. Blogs (informal) Increasingly utilized by scholars, still new
What is Scholarly Communication?
Definition: generally understood to mean publication of research articles in scholarly journals (and possibly monographs) but there are many other forums for scholarly communication
Speed of Scholarly Communication
Then: 1. Books and journals, conference papers, newslettersInternet age (late 1980s -)1. All of the above plus2. Listservs for immediate electronic discussion“Email is the killer ap”(1990s - )1. All of the above plus2. Email becomes ubiquitous3. Push technology hot in mid-1990s but didn’t come to
fruition4. WWW used for content but not for fast communicationThe Hybrid age (2000 - )1. All of the above plus2. Blogs, wikis and other emerging technologies
Finding the content
Predigital age (before mid-1980s):print indexes, card catalog Early digital age (early 1990s, pre-WWW)All of the above plus electronic indexes, online catalogMiddle digital age (mid-late 1990s, pre-Google)All of the above (excluding card catalog) plus Internet
search engines (would retrieve only free WWW content)
Hybrid environment (2004- ) All of the above (excluding card catalog) plus hybrid
gateways to content both free and licensed including GooglePrint, GoogleScholar, Digital Libraries)
Cyclical nature of scholarship
The next two charts shows the scientific publication cycle and give some time lines ...
Conception of research idea, secondary research Email and other more informal development of idea, grant
proposal Conference presentation, preprint of article Possible “Gray literature” report publication Peer-reviewed article is published Research is included in monographs May disseminate to popular media/textbooks Influence other scholars, new research
Listservs/electronic discussion groups
Listservs and listproc are electronic discussion groups
Features: Web interface for some archives for most (some web) can suspend messages when on vacation daily digest some moderated not always open to all
Listservs/electronic discussion groups
List = the subscribers Server = the computer managing the email
and the commands
Listservs/electronic discussion groups
Command to SERVER (subscribe) Send message to
[email protected] Text = SUBSCRIBE SERIALIST MONICA
BERGER Message to LIST (people):
Send message to [email protected]
Licensed Ejournals ($)
Our library has 28,000 online periodicals Aggregate databases, e.g. Ebsco = subject to flux in
terms of titles Ejournal collections tend to be stable, have deep
archival back files Project Muse JSTOR American Chemical Society Ejournals Duke University Press Browse or search New Issue/Table of Contents alerting for specific
journals
Finding, managing, creating blogs
Finding blogs Google Blogsearch recommended to identify blogsManaging blogs Blogarithm generates “blogmail” when blogs are updated (not
very efficient) Bloglines: one-stop reading + searching, subscribing to blogs,
can get content by keyword (maybe a better solution) RSS (Really Simple Syndication): format for syndicating news
and personal weblogs: content pushed to a RSS reader. Can get content by keywords. Many RSS readers. I have used Pluck, software I downloaded from CNET
Creating a blog Blogger most popular