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Conclusion; Thanks to our Panelists

November 7th, 2007 by Ed Felten
This marks the end of the online symposium on the Future of Scholarly Communication. Thanks to our panelists: Ira Fuchs, Paul DiMaggio, Peter Suber, Stan Katz, David Robinson, Andrew Appel, and Laura Brown.  Read more »

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Reactions

October 27th, 2007 by Laura Brown
There are so many interesting strands developing in this online symposium that it is hard to know where to begin to respond. Let me start with reactions to the conversation about the connection between universities and their presses. Several people have commented here about how it is wrong to have presses get closer to the intellectual [...]  Read more »

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Response to David

October 25th, 2007 by Paul DiMaggio
In David’s otherwise excellent last post, he kindly refers to my previous post, to which he responds, as “trenchant and persuasive” I fear it was neither if he understood it to say that “Rather than struggle to modernize the operations of their eponymous presses….universities could voluntarily cede the turf they are losing to other [...]  Read more »

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A response to Paul: Reasons for university presses to stay in the game

October 25th, 2007 by David Robinson
I found Paul’s last post both trenchant and persuasive. It got me thinking about how and why organizations take on new roles, or get rid of old ones. Paul’s post might make one wonder whether it has ever made sense for universities to have presses; in any event, the case for them seems to be [...]  Read more »

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Refereeing in Computer Science

October 24th, 2007 by Andrew Appel
My previous post explained how computer scientists distribute their articles (whether refereed or unrefereed, “published” or “unpublished”). Now I will explain the strange way they referee them, because it’s probably quite unfamiliar to those in other fields of science and the humanities. I describe it not because “every discipline should do it this [...]  Read more »

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Thinking in terms of organizations in a world of networks

October 23rd, 2007 by Paul DiMaggio
Something has been nagging at me as I’ve read the postings in this symposium, and the last sentence or two of Ira’s post helped me realize what it is: Whereas the Ithaka report places responsibility for addressing the challenges it identifies in universities — not just people in universities, but universities as formal organizations — [...]  Read more »

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October 23rd, 2007 by Ira Fuchs
As others here (and the Ithaka report) have said, technology is certainly part of the solution to the problem of transforming scholarly communications; however, (IMHO) I think it would be a mistake to think that today’s technology by itself will give us, as Ed suggested, “90% of what we want”. As [...]  Read more »

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Social Factors in the Adoption of New Academic Communication Technologies

October 22nd, 2007 by Paul DiMaggio
I found David’s report fascinating and helpful. In fact, I immediately sent a colleague (at another university) a link to the Orlando project and was sufficiently inspired by David’s comment about moving figures and tables to think about including one (via a link in the paper) to a paper I’ll be working on later [...]  Read more »

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What kinds of material will scholars create in the future?

October 21st, 2007 by David Robinson
I’m writing in from the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, taking place this weekend near the campus of Northwestern University. Most of the papers are from interdisciplinary teams in which humanists and technologists are working together to study traditional humanistic areas. This morning’s schedule had three presentations, and comparisons among the three [...]  Read more »

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Self-help getting to the New System

October 19th, 2007 by Andrew Appel
The “New System” of scholarly publication need not rely on organized journals or repositories. It can consist simply of professors (and students, and anyone else) putting papers on their home pages, and readers finding these professors and papers by Google. In fact this is the way that most computer scientists communicate with each [...]  Read more »

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