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