Thinking about Digital Publishing

Some implications of "digital" for scholarly writing and communication

Caroline Ball: an activist perspective

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Caroline Ball, who I interviewed on the ATG Podcast, has had a career of engagement with users: from working in a public library, to a trustee of Wikipedia UK, and her present role, as Community Engagement Lead with the Open …

Peter Brantley on the role of the library

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Peter Brantley (talking recently in an interview on the ATG Podcast) has been involved with the interaction between publishing and technology ever since studying sociology at university. For his dissertation, he looked at how established companies adapt to rapidly changing product …

A sustainability plan for repositories

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Each node in a network is insignificant, but together, the network has substantial power

Institutional Repositories were typically founded ten or twenty years ago, and today have reached a kind of maturity. Yet, unlike startups, which go through a trough of …

How a library publishing program benefits an institution

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What does a library publishing program actually do—and why are more universities creating them? In a conversation with Jonathan Grunert, scholarly publishing librarian at the University at Buffalo, he describes how library publishing supports open access, helps researchers share their work, …

Elizabeth Gadd: metrics aren’t the whole story

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When people talk about research quality, they often jump straight to numbers: citations, impact factors, H-indices, and rankings. But, as Elizabeth Gadd explains a conversation on the ATG Podcast, research assessment is much bigger than metrics alone. To understand what …

The future of the book

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A young woman reading a book, an image that suggests that reading is good for you.
Girl sat reading, an 1893 charcoal drawing

Here was an intriguing subject for a webinar, with the challenging title, The Future of the Book: Timeless or Time-Challenged? What could be more central than considering the role of books, in the …

Daniel Dollar on the role of the scholarly library

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Daniel Dollar’s career has covered a wide range of information management and retrieval. After studying politics, he worked with the Congressional Research Service, which fired his enthusiasm for libraries. After a Master’s in Library Science, Daniel started at Yale working in …

How libraries can experiment with AI

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Small libraries face the same challenges as larger institutions, but with fewer resources, which is why it was so fascinating to talk for ATGthePodcast with Russell “Rusty” Michalak, Library Director at Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware. Despite having only 1300 students, Goldey-Beacom …

Orland Hoeber: how to use AI in the loop

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Orland Hoeber (University of Regina, Canada) has spent much of his academic career looking at why and how we search for scholarly content. Should we have one search interface for everything? Clearly not, but what kind of searching is most appropriate …

Ben Lee, Digital Humanities teacher and researcher  

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Ben Lee teaches on the library master’s course at the University of Washington, including AI literacy, as well as editing a scholarly journal, Digital Humanities Quarterly. He  trained as an astrophysicist, but got involved in human-computer interaction by working with …

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