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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...

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...

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...

Charles Watkinson's blog: August 2008

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Personal views on scholarly communication, and other such things . . . Saturday, August 30, 2008. The Next Conspiracy Theory? A humanities publisher is always happy to be recognized by the STM world, especially a giant like Elsevier, so it is delightful to receive a message addressed to the Editor of Hesperia. The largest abstract and citation database of research literature across all subject areas and quality web sources.". We immediately say "yes please" of course, but it leaves me wondering about why...

Charles Watkinson's blog: Three Challenges of Pubrarianship

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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...