Exploring Publishing Possibilities: A McConnell Library Symposium

The fine print at that address mentions that I'm on a panel Wednesday, discussing "online publishing" with blogs, wikis and Web sites (the kind of work I've been doing for years), and its relationship to the kind of "publishing" that gets people tenure (the kind I seem to avoid compulsively).

It dawns on me that I may be on this panel to serve as a bad example! In any case, it should be entertaining.

If you can't make the event in person, here are a few relevant links for my general stream of clicks-or-consciousness on the themes of our discussion -- academic publishing issues today, including "open access" publishing, examples of online interactivity behaving something like peer review, and some online examples of research data being presented to new audiences in new ways.

I may or may not get around to annotating this list on my blog after the panel, but the compulsive clickers among you will quickly see where the collection is headed... starting with an experiment in "blog-based peer review."

http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2332n.htm *
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/28/open
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1322n.htm
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5538/2187a
http://tinyurl.com/2dxa6w
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16362.ctl
http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature04997.html

http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/
http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/
http://codev2.cc/
http://codebook.jot.com/WikiHome
http://www.smartmobs.com/
http://www.rheingold.com/
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/028317.php
http://www.cluetrain.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WEBSUC.html
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521835

http://www.danah.org/
http://www.danah.org/papers/
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/02/06/openaccess_is_t.html

http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/wesch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3ao3rm
http://everyblock.com
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140
http://gapminder.org/

OK, so your main conclusion may be that I'm developing an unrequiteable crush on danah boyd... or at least on her research productivity. Perhaps giving up uppercase letters on one's name helps...
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* While most of this page was posted on the date indicated, one breaking-news link was added the next morning. Coincidentally, I was able to do that without the need of resorting to GMail's "custom time" feature http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Actually, the deceptive "manipulation of time" is another issue in the world of academic publishing, something that would be appropriate for a new edition of another panel I was part of once, on digital research archives.

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