Scholarly Publishing
UCSD Faculty Lunch Series
Publish and/or Perish: Changes in Scholarly Communication
The Faculty Club at UCSD will host a Faculty Lunch Series, beginning Nov. 22 and continuing through next year, that explores the current state of academic communication and suggests possible improvements. Open to all UCSD faculty, the series is intended to raise awareness of the current systems of scholarly communication and help develop support for changes.

May 31, 2006 Theme: "Valuing and Managing Your Copyright in Scholarly Articles."
Speaker: Michael Carroll, Villanova School of Law
Michael W. Carroll is an Associate Professor at the Villanova University School of Law, and he serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, Inc. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Prior to joining the Villanova faculty, Professor Carroll practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., specializing in intellectual property and e-commerce matters. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Professor Carroll received his A.B., with general honors, from the University of Chicago and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. More information can be found at http://www.law.villanova.edu/academics/faculty/biographies/faculty/carroll/detailedbiography.asp
Audio is available: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download (70MB)
The PowerPoint slides are also available for download.  
 
April 17, 2006 Theme: Scholarly Publishing is a big business : are we losing control
Speaker: Ted Bergstrom, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara
Professor Bergstrom moved to UC Santa Barbara from the University of Michigan eight years ago. His research interests include pure and applied microeconomics, public economics, and the interfaces between economics, anthropology, and evolutionary biology. He accidentally got interested in the economics of academic journals on the eve of the new millennium and has published and spoken widely on what he refers to as the peculiar pricing of this industry. His web page to track journal pricing can be found at http://www.journalprices.com/.
Audio is available: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download
Please note: the first few minutes of the presentation audio are missing, and Professor Bergstrom's remarks closely follow his slides - we recommend viewing the slides while listening.
The PowerPoint slides are also available for download.  
 

 
February 22, 2006 Theme: Electronic Publication, Changing the Way your Work is Disseminated and Read
Speakers: Stephen Rhind-Tutt, CEO Alexander Street Press,
Lynne Withey, Director, University of California Press and President, AAUP

Audio is available:
Introduction - Susan Starr: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download
Stephen Rhind-Tutt: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download
Lynne Withey: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download
 
 

 
January 11, 2006 Theme: Electronic Publication, Changing the Way you Write
Presentations:
Scholarship in the Age of Ephemerality: the A, B, C, D, and Fs of the Digital Humanities, presented by Carl Stahmer, Associate Director at Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities. Professor Stahmer, a scholar of literature from the British Romantic period, was co-creator and founding General Editor of the Romantic Circles website and is a member of the Steering Committee and a lead developer of the Networked Interface for Nineteenth Century Electronic Scholarship.
Audio is available: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download (37MB)

Realizing the Power of Online Publishing, presented by Philip Bourne, UCSD Professor of Pharmacology. Professor Bourne, an elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the immediate past President of the International Society for Computational Biology, is Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology, a prominent open access journal that publishes research articles, reviews, and perspectives on all aspects of computational biology applied to different and integrated biological scales, from molecules and cells to patient populations and ecosystems, as well as tutorials teaching important concepts in the field.
Audio is available: Streaming RealAudio format MP3 for download (30MB) The PowerPoint slides are also available for download.  
 

November 22, 2005 Authorship and Attribution; Access and Attention: Trends in Scholarly Communication
Speaker: Blaise Cronin, Rudy Professor of Information Science and Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. His books include The Citation Process (1984), The Scholar's Courtesy (1995), and The Hand of Science (2005). He was a founding director of Crossaig Ltd., an electronic publishing start-up.
The audio portion of this presentation is available in two parts (streaming RealAudio format):
Part 1 (46 min) Part 2 (6 min) Get RealAudio player
 
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