{"id":252,"date":"2005-01-28T18:14:03","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T23:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=252"},"modified":"2005-01-28T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-29T02:29:38","slug":"scholarly-communications-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/scholarly-communications-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarly Communications Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/scholcomdig\/\">Scholarly Communications Convocation<\/a>. A whole day in one building is no fun, but the discussion which followed the lines that I am intensely interested in &#8212; open access, new ways of looking at copyright, service to the citizens, digital repositories and digital curation &#8212; made it all worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Pomerantz, who was one of the conference organizers, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pomerantz\/blog\/index.php?p=82\">a summary<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pomerantz\/blog\">his blog.<\/a> Not sure I agree with everything Jeff says tho ;-><\/p>\n<p>Other SILS folks were very involved. Dean Griffiths as a reporter on the institutional repository session which was facilitated by Gary Marchionini. Much of the discussion involved Helen Tibbo&#8217;s ideas about digital curation. Brad Hemminger was there to talk about his experience with digital dissertations and his NeoRef project.<\/p>\n<p>The whole of the faculty was well represented with good folks from many disciplines. Almost all expressed exasperation with commercialization of scholarly publishing and in particular with Reed-Elservier. This should be no surprise, but the extent of the exasperation was much greater than I had thought.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally people seemed genuinely interested in open access and in <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">the Creative Commons licenses<\/a> in particular. <a href=\"http:\/\/science.creativecommons.org\">The Science Commons<\/a> was less well-known but since it was announced officially this month that&#8217;s to be expected. The overall good news is that the Commons idea seems to have broad support.<\/p>\n<p>The need for an institutional repository was also widely recognized as a common need and a common good. Moreover the idea of digital curation was easily accepted as an obvious important step.<\/p>\n<p>ibiblio got some very nice attention and props from folks like Vin Stephanitis, Lollie Gasaway, Judith Wagner and others there.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s hope all these good things become action items.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately there is a history of hollerin&#8217; and not really acting that goes back over 20 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/home.att.net\/~anne.barschall\/hhb\/hhb.html\">Henry H. Barschall<\/a> published a study called &#8220;The Cost-Effectiveness of Physics Journals&#8221; in Physics Today&#8217;s July 1988 issue (page 56) in which he showed that not-for-profit journals were consistantly a better economic bargin than commercial ones. This resulted in <a href=\"http:\/\/barschall.stanford.edu\/\">Barschall being sued by Gordon &#038; Breach in a series of lawsuits  in the U.S., German, Swiss, and French courts in an attempt to chill the discussion and to discredit him.<\/a><br \/>\nA decade later, the US courts finally found in his favor. But Barschall had died 6 months earlier in February 1997.<br \/>\nThe University of Wisconsin conducted a 1998 study using Barschall&#8217;s methods and found them still to be true.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBy the measures employed here, commercially published journals in all three fields [physics, economics, neuroscience] are significantly less cost-effective than journals published by not-for-profit enterprises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>References: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arl.org\/newsltr\/205\/wisconsin.html\">Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of Journals: The Wisconsin Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.wisc.edu\/projects\/glsdo\/cost.html\">Measuring Cost Effectiveness: Ten Years after Barschall<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/barschall.stanford.edu\/\">Gordon &#038; Breach v. American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from the Scholarly Communications Convocation. A whole day in one building is no fun, but the discussion which followed the lines that I am intensely interested in &#8212; open access, new ways of looking at copyright, service to the citizens, digital repositories and digital curation &#8212; made it all worthwhile. Jeff Pomerantz, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}