“... can you hear me now?” MINDS@UW and the Social Scholar Dorothea Salo Digital Repository...

“... can you hear me now?”

MINDS@UW and the Social Scholar

Dorothea SaloDigital Repository Librarian

UW Colleges Colloquium, 24 May 2007

What is social scholarship?

“... the practice of scholarship in which the use of social [software] tools is an integral part of the research and publishing process.”

“... openness, conversation, collaboration, access, sharing and transparent revision.”

Cohen, Laura B. “Social Scholarship on the Rise.” Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/04/social_scholarship_on_the_rise.html

The social scholar’s software kit

Listservs Weblogs Wikis IM, Skype, Meebo Google Docs Connotea, CiteULike, Zotero Online journals and gray literature

“Social S

oftware”

“... no? well, can you hear me now?”

Maybe you don’t care to be a social scholar ... but what about others in your field?

How do you include your work in their conversations?

What is MINDS ?

Safe haven for finished digital works Preprints and postprints White papers and tech reports Conference papers and slideshows Learning objects Multimedia and websites

Your teaching, your research, your repository!

http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

What’s in for you?

Convenience You decide what you archive We run the servers; we migrate file formats We’re here to help!

Safekeeping Library service All about long-term use

Attention

and the social scholar

Gives your work a “permalink” Social scholars talk about what they can

link to, bookmark, send others to! Gets your work out on the open Web

Social scholars discuss work that everyone can access!

Makes your work easy to find Google Scholar, Google, OAIster

How do I get started?

Contact Mark Rozmarynowski mrozmary@uwc.edu Who are you? Who else is interested? What have you got? Do you need help?

(... magic happens...)

Come to the website and deposit!

“Yes, I can hear you!”

Thanks for listening!

Interested in ?

Want to talk about social scholarship? Scholarly communication? Open access?

Dorothea Salodsalo@library.wisc.edu(608) 262-5493AIM: mindsatuw