Online Publishing & The Blogosphere
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Online Publishing & the Blogosphere
If it isn’t online,
it doesn’t exist
Research Retreat 2008, CDU
Bill Wade, Faculty LBA, SCAH
(available online at www.slideshare.net/billwadecdu
or email [email protected])
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A Quick Story
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A First Publication
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Last Week’s Presentation
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AuseAccess claims …
There is now considerable evidence that making a refereed publication openly accessible on the Internet (whether on a personal website (or blog – emphasis mine), an institutional website or an OAI-compliant institutional repository) increases the research impact of the publication.
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Dermatology Online Journal
Credibility is earned by consistent performance and quality of peer reviewed articles; no journal that is exclusively online has existed long enough to earn that.
Source http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2/editorials/fleckman.html viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Harley et al. (2007)
Perceptions of electronic-only publications are frequently negative because those venues are considered to lack strong peer review and are, consequently, believed to be of relatively lower quality.
Source http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0010.204 viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Harley et al. (2007)
Too much reliance on informal “publishing” such as blogs, at the expense of publishing in more traditional outlets, can have a negative effect on tenure and promotion in some fields.
Source http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0010.204 viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Harley et al. (2007)
Others expressed fear that scholarly work placed in open-access media could be “stolen.”
Many faculty utilize scholarly material through new modes of communication and publication, but for the last stage of scholarly practice … they relied on traditional publishing formats.
Source http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0010.204 viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Harley et al. (2007)Online publishing advantages include:
• the ability to reach a larger audience, • ease of access by readers, • more rapid publication even when peer reviewed, • the ability to search within and across texts, and • the opportunity to make use of hyperlinks.
Source http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0010.204 viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Nature.com - Peer Review Debate
But now a new kind of peer review is emerging online, outside the scientific community, and it's worth asking if there are lessons for science.
Source http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature04992.html viewed Sept 5, 2008
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ePrints & Australian Uptake
1 An ePrint is an electronically published research paper.
2 ePrints can be pre-prints or post-prints.
3 Who is making use of ePrints?
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/database/eprints.html
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National Library of Australia
The Library’s objective is to establish ‘new ways of collecting, sharing, recording, disseminating and preserving knowledge’.
We want ‘to ensure our relevance in a rapidly changing world, [by participating] in
new online communities’.
Open access journal publishing trial, called Open Publish.
Source http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2006/documents/BGraham_Info-online-2007.pdf viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Henry Jenkins – New Media Literacy
• Collective Intelligence -- the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others towards a common goal.
• Judgment -- the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information source.
Source http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/06/what_wikipedia_can_teach_us_ab.html viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Henry Jenkins – New Media Literacy
• Networking -- the ability to search for, synthesize and disseminate information.
• Negotiation -- the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative sets of norms.
Source http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/06/what_wikipedia_can_teach_us_ab.html viewed Sept 5, 2008
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Online, Blogging & Originality
Source http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/281/11/6889 viewed Sept 5, 2008
Peer Review
Tenure
Promotion
Credibility
“Openness”
Accessibility
Relevance
Impact
Creativity
Originality