Outline of Class Presentation

 

Introduction

I.   The various uses of computers by scholars

II.  The topics we will cover in our presentation

III. History of Scholarly Communication
     1. 16th century Europe and mail networks
     2. Scientific societies
     3. Scientific journals

 


 

Digitization of Scholarly Publishing

I.   Electronic Research
     1. Encoded Archival Description
     2. Text Encoding Initiative
     3. On-line image archives

II.  Electronic Publishing

III. Dissertations and Theses
     1. University Microfilms International (UMI)
     2. Virginia Tech

IV.  Scholarly Monographs

 


 

Economics of Electronic Scholarly Publishing

I.   Introduction

II.  Past use of the Internet

III. Basic cost accounting

IV.  The current use of the Internet
     1. The shift in resources
     2. The shift in users
     3. The split between "free" and "pay"

V.   The future of "free"
     1. General conditions
     2. Web pages
     3. Mailing lists
     4. Pre-print servers

VI.  The Future of "pay"
     1. Electronic journals

VII. Conclusion

 


 

Copyright Law

I.   The purpose of copyright law

II.  What copyright law protects

III. What copyright law does not protect

IV.  "Fair Use"

V.   Internet-related issues
     1. Reproducibility of information
     2. Ease of crossing boundaries
     3. Hypertext linking
     4. Information filtering
     5. Image distribution

 


 

Scholarly Communication: The User's Perspective

I.   E-mail

II.  Academic Discussion Lists

III. Pre-prints

IV.  Electronic Journals
     1. Established forums
     2. Current Trends

V.   Versioning

VI.  Archiving

 


 

Tenure and Promotion

I.   Introduction: Tenure and its place in academic life.

II.  Traditional basis for tenure:
     1. Teaching
     2. Service
     3. Publication

III. How have advances in scholarly communication impacted tenure
        and promotion?
     1. Publication - what is it?
     2. Service - what counts?

IV.  Peer review
     1. What is the procedure?
     2. How is that procedure different in an online environment?

V.   What about promotion and tenure guidelines in the future? Will
        tenure even exist?

 


 

Internetworking Information and Capturing Activity Networks

I.   Introduction: From Information to Activity Networks

II.  Interoperability of Information Systems 
     1. Identifiers
         a. URN
         b. DOI
     2. Metadata / Text Encoding 
         a. Dublin Core
         b. Warwick Framework
         c. IMS 
         d. SGML 
                i.  TEI 
     3. Protocols
         a. Homogenous Systems
                i.  Z39.50
         b. Heterogeneous Systems
                i.  CORBA
                ii. WDDX 

III. "Information" vs. "Literatures"

IV.  Capturing Scholarly Activity Networks
     1. Representing the Processes of Distributed Reasoning
         a. Disciplinary hypermedia collections
                i. Perseus Project  
         b. a universal citation database
         c. CSCA --> automated peer review
                i. consensus journals
     2. Providing virtual memory spaces for collaboration
         a. Virtual worlds 
                i.  MUDs/MOOs
                ii. VRML  
         b. threaded discussion forums / listserv archives
         c. CSCW / Groupware systems (e.g. WCS) 
     3. Locating inchoate commonalties of interest through analyzing activity
         a. collaborative filtering 
         b. Semantic text analysis and other varieties of data mining 

V.   Putting all together: The AAHE Carnegie Teaching Academy Web Center 
        

 


 

Conclusion