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VALA2010 Plenary 6 Wark

 

VALA20120The Networked Book

VALA 2010 PLENARY 6: Mckenzie Wark
Thursday 11 February 2010 15:55 - 17:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-6-wark

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerMckenzie Wark

Associate Professor of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research, New York, USA
http://www.newschool.edu and http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark

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In 2007 I collaborated with the Institute for the Book on a 'networked book' version of Gamer Theory, which was later published in the old dead tree format by Harvard University Press. That experience led all of us on a merry chase after solutions to many problems, some technical, some economic, some cultural. In this presentation I will sum up that experience and try to draw some lessons from it for future experiments that lie at the intersection of publishing, librarianship and writing, at a time when the boundaries between these professions are interestingly fluid.

 

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VALA2008 Session 6 Buckley

 

VALA2008Streamlining the stress! How Project Transfer is improving the process of journals transferring between publishers

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Publishing
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 14:35 - 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-6-buckley

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperNancy Buckley

Managing Director, Burgundy Information Services Ltd (UK Serials Group)
http://www.uksg.org

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This paper is a progress report on the UKSG project called Project Transfer. The Transfer Working Group is currently creating best practice guidelines and standards for the movement of titles between publishers. The ultimate aim of the group is to create an industry code of practice similar to the excellent work that the Project COUNTER organisation has done for journal usage statistics.

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VALA2008 Session 6 Mercieca

 

VALA2008Publication patterns of Australian academics and the impact on open access publishing

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Publishing
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 14:00 - 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-6-mercieca

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPaul Mercieca

Lecturer – Information Management and Digital Publishing, RMIT University
http://www.rmit.edu.au

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This paper reports on research that is exploring the publication patterns and engagement with open access publication processes by Australian academics. The findings are based on a survey of academics that was administered in late 2006. The survey explores the publication process of the respondents' last article (last instance analysis), as well as discussion of their perceptions and general engagement with open access publication processes. The practice is predominantly one of focusing on international journals, possibly at the expense of local publications. While there is some support for open access publication processes, the last instance analysis suggests that this is not currently extensive.

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VALA2008 Session 14 Heterick

 

VALA2008 Invited PaperShift happens: how the network effect, two-sided markets, and the wisdom of crowds are impacting libraries and scholarly communication

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Social Networking
Thursday 7 February 2008 14:35 - 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-14-heterick

Bruce Heterick

Director, Outreach & Participation Services, JSTOR, USA
http://www.jstor.org

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This session will discuss the changing nature of library services and scholarly research in the networked world. Our affiliated group of not-for-profit digital initiatives - JSTOR, ARTstor, Portico, and Aluka - has a unique perspective on this shifting environment. There is ongoing discussion about the evolving Web (or Web 2.0): the migration of the Internet from a platform to a service; the network effect that encourages (and values) contributions and collaborations; and a shift in software and services to a participatory model. This evolution is changing libraries, publishing, and scholarship. In particular, it is fundamentally changing the paradigm of scholarly communication, and this presentation will examine this change.

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