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“... 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected](608) 262-5493AIM: mindsatuw
