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“... can you hear me now?”. MINDS@UW and the Social Scholar. Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Librarian UW Colleges Colloquium, 24 May 2007. What is social scholarship?.
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“... can you hear me now?” MINDS@UW and the Social Scholar Dorothea Salo Digital 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 Software”
“... 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 Salo dsalo@library.wisc.edu (608) 262-5493 AIM: mindsatuw