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Charles Watkinson's blog: April 2009
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Saturday, April 18, 2009. How Can We Articulate the Publisher "Value Add"? I was flattered to be invited last Thursday to be a panelist at the sixth Scholarly Information Symposium organized by Drexel University Libraries. In such situations, I find it useful to fall back on the clear articulation of the role of the scholarly journal publicized in Michael Mabe's writings (in refereed form in ASLIB Proceedings. Involves far more than w...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: February 2010
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Saturday, February 6, 2010. Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication" in Archaeology. A frightening amount of work has gone in the January 2010 publication by Diane Harley and her colleagues of "Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines.". There is a lot. I am still reading, but a few points jump out:. It's up to the grey panthers again t...
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Books - by Title. Books - by Author. Books - by ISBN. Books - by Keyword. Hesperia - by Keyword. Positions at the ASCSA. ADMISSION and MEMBERSHIP /. Associate Membership (w/Fellowship) Application. Associate Membership (No Fellowship) Application. Senior Associate Membership Application. Visiting Associate Membership Application. Gennadius Library Summer Session Application. Agora Excavations Summer Volunteer Program Application. Essential information for Members. The Academic Year Program. Since its fou...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: October 2007
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Saturday, October 27, 2007. Digital Repositories Offer Opportunities for Publishers. Held in Washington, D.C., the heartland of the political discussion about mandated open access, the full-day session on Monday, November 12, takes a positive view of the repository movement, emphasizing the organizational benefits of collaboration between publishers and librarians and the new possibilities for scholarship that a sustainable di...Publi...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: May 2011
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success? The workshops have started for the "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success" project. What I learned that I could apply immediately:. One starts to explore the narrow line between a "dissertation" and a "monograph.". Mining Library special collections and archives for unique archival materials deserving of reprint is a "quick win" for library-unive...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: March 2009
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Saturday, March 21, 2009. Shala Valley Project takes the LEAP. I am excited to be one of the co-authors of an upcoming article about the Shala Valley Project. SVP), the interdisciplinary expedition to Northern Albania directed by Mike Galaty of Millsaps College. LEAP II is an. Initiative of the Archaeology Data Service hosted at the University of York. And is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As you can see, the "data" elemen...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: January 2007
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Sunday, January 21, 2007. Are publishers "pervy for paper" and other twisted thoughts about Google's "UnBound," January 18, 2007 at the New York Public Library. So what about publishers, the other presumed victims of "death of the book" evangelists? Said Tim O'Reilly, referring to C.S. Lewis's moral tale. As Carolyn Pittis, VP of Global Marketing Strategy and Operations at Harper Collins, repeated as she demonstrated the c...Is probab...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: January 2015
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Friday, January 16, 2015. Three Challenges of Pubrarianship. Such integration presents great opportunities (as described elsewhere in this issue of Against the Grain. Challenge 1: Articulating the value of publishing to library colleagues. As both a university press director and a member of the library leadership team, I often sense that my. On the learning and teaching side, university presses offer libraries new opportunities for de...
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Charles Watkinson's blog: March 2008
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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Sunday, March 30, 2008. The "drill down" dilemma. Why can't we link archaeological publication to the underlying data? In Scholarship in the Digital Age. The immediate attraction of such an idea for archaeology is apparent. Even the imagery of "drilling down" and "digging for information" seems perfectly geared to a discipline that revolves around concepts of layering and stratigraphy. Why then are there so few examples of the...Do we...
