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The Challenges Of Embarking On Corporate Technology Initiatives, Gordon C. Tibbitts Sep 2006

The Challenges Of Embarking On Corporate Technology Initiatives, Gordon C. Tibbitts

Gordon C. Tibbitts III

The world of publishing is changing dramatically with the advent of the web and the dramatic shift toward the use of technology. This presentation addresses the challenges of technologic change through the case study of that change at one of the world’s largest privately owned academic publishers.


Archiving Scholarly Material: One Publisher's Perspective, Gordon C. Tibbitts Jul 2006

Archiving Scholarly Material: One Publisher's Perspective, Gordon C. Tibbitts

Gordon C. Tibbitts III

We need large digital archives to preserve scholarly content for generations to come and we need them now. Deciding who should do the archiving (e.g. librarians and archivists), what to archive, where in the scholarly community archiving should be undertaken, and how to do it successfully, is starting to come into focus. A brief review of the scholarly digital archiving efforts underway reveals some commonality of intent. This can be contrasted with a clear need for decisions regarding the scope of what should be digitally archived, and ultimately, how archives in their many forms might be best constructed. While exploring …


Clir Forms Advisory Committee For Scholarly Communication Report, Ann Okerson, Gordon C. Tibbitts Apr 2006

Clir Forms Advisory Committee For Scholarly Communication Report, Ann Okerson, Gordon C. Tibbitts

Gordon C. Tibbitts III

In January 2006 CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources) formed a committee of advisors to develop strategically directed scholarly communication and preservation agendas that would appeal to and create value for CLIR constituents and the broader communities of stakeholders whose existence is entwined with these two topics. This report represents the findings as presented by Ann Okerson (the committee leader) and the committee findings between mid-January and late March 2006, identifying possible directions and studies to be pursued in CLIR's scholarly communication programs over the next three years.