Technology & Libraries Lightning Round-up

Jacqui GralloReference and Instructional Technology Librarian, California State University Monterey Bay

ACRL/SPARC Forum

Caroline Sutton, Co-Action Publishing and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)

Wim van der Stelt, Springer Open Choice Catriona MacCallum, PLoS

Links

ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/

SPARC Forum archive http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/forum.shtml

Core vs. Non-core Practices

Core = Upholding rigor, integrity, cumulative nature of knowledge

Non-core = selling subscriptions, offering licensing agreements, parceling out knowledge into “issues” with “pages,” assigning DOIs, doing peer review prior to publication, and measuring a journal’s impact factor

Giant Sorting Mechanism

“is this the best way to disseminate science?”

Re-engineering Organization of Content

What must be done before publication, and what can wait until after?

PLoS Currents http://www.plos.org/journals/currents.php

RUSA/MARS Discovery Layers

Josh Boyer, North Carolina State University Beth Bernhardt, UNC Greensboro Johan Oberg, Macalester College

Notes at http://connect.ala.org/node/128191

Discovery Layers/Tools/Services

Single search of all types of materials (locally held and not) pre-indexed in one place

Users can limit/filter in many ways

ULS Executive Committee

Discussion of the White Paper on the ALA Midwinter Meeting

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/governance/officers/eb_documents/2010_2011ebdocuments/ebd12_17_%20mw_future.pdf

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