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Digital Dilemmas: The Transformation Of Scholarly Discourse In The Humanities, Anna H. Perrault Jan 2006

Digital Dilemmas: The Transformation Of Scholarly Discourse In The Humanities, Anna H. Perrault

Anna H. Perrault

The last two decades of the 20th century brought rapid and cataclysmic change to the industrialized world with the introduction and then invasion of computer technology into every aspect of life. Dissemination of scholarly research in many disciplines had migrated from journals and books produced by scholarly societies and university presses to the for-profit sector. As the corporate publishers began reaping profits from the scholarly enterprise, electronic publication and “taking back” the publication of research were solutions proposed to make the dissemination of research affordable for academe. The research library and scholarly publishing communities are collaborating in the establishment of …

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Microforms: Marriages, Mergers, And Migrations, Anna H. Perrault Mar 2005

Microforms: Marriages, Mergers, And Migrations, Anna H. Perrault

Anna H. Perrault

“Migration” is a term used to describe the reformatting of materials or the moving of information from one format to a different format. The conversion of printed and original documents to microformats was a migration from paper, which was regarded as impermanent, to film, which was regarded as permanent. Today the term “migration” is most often used to denote the conversion of print or microform texts to electronic format to another. This paper begins with a brief history of the development of microforms as a storage and preservation medium with emphasis on the last two decades of the twentieth century …

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Looking From The Outside In: An Evidence-Based Model For Website Usability Assessment, Anna H. Perrault, Vicki L. Gregory, Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth May 2003