Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/agold01 Recent documents in Anna K. Gold en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 03:08:11 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/7 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/7 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:57 PDT We have heard a great deal about problems of expensive scientific journals; in this last session we are focusing on some solutions to those problems. In order to see our way out of the present cost crisis, we need to broaden our view beyond the value chain associated with scientific journals: journals are part of a much larger value chain of scientific communication. This communication occurs before, during, inside, outside, and after the journal article is published. This suggests that we ought to reframe the question posed in this workshop, and ask ourselves not about the "needs" of chemical and chemical engineering journals, but rather examine the communication needs of chemists and chemical engineers. Is the publishing segment of the cycle serving the ends of the cycle as a whole? Could that segment serve the whole better than it does today? This analysis suggests that there are three critical solutions to pursue: creative commons; open access; and library-based archiving. Of these three solutions, open access to the literature of chemistry is a key to your ability to redistribute, reuse, add value to, mine, explore, and archive the record of your system of science, without the constraints of paper-based media, commercial ownership, institutional wealth, or fragmentation by publisher. Anna K. Gold Conference Proceedings http://works.bepress.com/agold01/6 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/6 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:54 PDT Anna K. Gold Articles http://works.bepress.com/agold01/5 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/5 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:50 PDT Institutional repositories are being constructed today to address the needs of scholarly communication in a digital environment. The success of such institutional infrastructures as knowledge collections depends in part on offering low barriers for participation and on supporting heterogeneous knowledge inputs and outputs. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in partnership with CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Science & Engineering Library, has modified CERN's CDSware software to initiate the process of creating a local low barrier repository. Karen S. Baker Conference Proceedings http://works.bepress.com/agold01/4 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/4 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:46 PDT Anna K. Gold Articles http://works.bepress.com/agold01/3 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/3 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:42 PDT Anna K. Gold Presentations http://works.bepress.com/agold01/2 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/2 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:39 PDT Anna K. Gold Conference Proceedings http://works.bepress.com/agold01/1 http://works.bepress.com/agold01/1 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:36:53 PDT Individuals, teams, organizations, and networks can be thought of as tiers or classes within the complex grid of technology and practice in which research documentation is both consumed and generated. The panoply of possible classes share with the others a common need for document management tools and practices. The distinctive document management tools and practices used within each represent boundaries across which information could flow openly if technology and metadata standards were to provide an accessible digital framework. The CERN Document Server (CDS), implemented by a research partnership at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), establishes a prototype tiered repository system for such a panoply. Research suggests modifications to enable cross-domain information flow and is represented as a metadata grid. Anna K. Gold Conference Proceedings