Really excellent and fascinating interview-style overview of the partnership of Montana State and ShareYourPaper to expedite and automate the processes of depositing university scholarship, checking legal rights, and entering metadata. We in the CSU have already had a few meetings with Joe McArthur at ShareYourPaper / OpenAccessButton, and an integration is now at #7 in our list of ScholarWorks development priorities. Thank you for your leadership and excellent work, Leila and Joe!
Category: Open Access
How Libraries Can Learn Not to Hate Commencement
This op-ed was published earlier today in the CSU Fullerton student newspaper, the Daily Titan.
Back in the pre-digital age, when university libraries bought physical resources, graduating students knew that the university library collections would continue to be there for them. Even if it meant a trip back to campus, that reservoir of curated knowledge would always be available to enjoy.
These days, graduating students are sadly, abruptly and completely cut off from most of the digital resources that we librarians work so hard to supply and teach students how to use.
How did this happen? How have libraries learned to hate commencement?
embedded ads, revenues, and fundraising in LODLIBs
This is the part of the story where publishers, marketers, fundraisers and authors realize there is a shit ton of money to be made in Linked Open Data Living Information Books as a new kind of digital property.
Scholarly Communication and Religious Studies Discourse and Debates
[Cross-posted from my other blog: vocesanticae.com]
I’ve been emailing back and forth a bit the last few days with my friend and academic colleague, Dieter Roth, the world’s leading expert on the study of Marcion and his texts. We met at a conference at KU Leuven a few years back, one graciously hosted by Joseph Verheyden and John Kloppenborg. It was such a wonderful gathering. I’ve let Dieter know that I value our scholarly friendship and eagerly welcome his feedback. He said he’s working on a response.
Read More »OLH OA Award Kudos, Followed by a Well-Organized CD Rant
Congratulations to Ann Hidalgo and her colleagues at Claremont School of Theology for winning the Open Library of the Humanities Open Access 2020 Award. The Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is a brilliant example of what Collection Development can and should become within an increasingly Open Access world.
Read More »unsub Featured in Scholarly Kitchen
Thanks to the thorough research and sympathetic writing of Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, unsub (formerly Unpaywall Journals) has now received the positive publicity its team (Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem) so richly deserve.
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