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Subject: Scholar-Based Innovations in Publishing
From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <gerrymck@iastate.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:13:52 -0500

_Scholar-Based Innovations in Publishing_

    I am pleased to announce the availability of a most 'exciting' [:-)]
  PowerPoint presentation  prepared for the ALCTS Scholarly
Communications Discussion Group meeting at ALA Toronto on Monday, June
23, 2003 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.

    The revised presentation is available at:

    [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased.ppt ]

In recent years, a number of innovations have emerged that seek to
provide sustainable alternatives to the predominant publishing paradigm.
In this presentation, a variety of initiatives that exploit the inherent
potential of the Web and other digital environments to offer open and
enhanced access to the personal and collective scholarship of
individuals, organizations, and nations will be profiled.

   In its concluding section, the presentation focuses on the two major
discipline-based repositories for library and information science
scholarship,_ DLIST Archive: Digital Library of Information Science and
Technology_ (http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/) and _E-LIS_
(http://eprints.rclis.org/ ), "an electronic open access archive for
scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in
Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related
application activities."

    To expedite the adoption and further development of scholar-based
innovations in publishing, librarians and other information specialists
are encouraged to 'Lead By Example' by depositing their own scholarship
within either or both these repositories.

  The 'References' section of the presentation includes four of my
publications that  served as the basis for this presentation, the first
three of which are linked to their respective full-text:

  "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part I: Individual and
Institutional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 2 (March
2003): 19-26.

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-I.pdf ]

"Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part II: Library and
Professional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 3 (April 2003):
19-27.

  [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-II.pdf ]

"Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part III: Organizational and
National Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 5 (June 2003): 15-23.

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-III.pdf ]

"Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature," in
E-_Serials Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities_, ed.
David Fowler (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Fall 2003).

[Of course, I wll  deposit these full-text items, as well as other
scholarship,  including this ALCTS presentation {:-), in  _DLIST_ and
_E-LIS_].

    Enjoy!

BTW: Don't forget to explore the embedded (and non-embedded)hyperlinks! {:->

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Circumstantial Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was
unable to attend ALA to deliver this presentation in person. I am most
grateful to Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC,
and fellow panelist, for presenting on my behalf.  Thanks!, Julia! |
Gerry McKiernan