A Tale Of Two Chemists: Academic Journals And The Technology Of Science Communication, Shawn Martin
May 2017
A Tale Of Two Chemists: Academic Journals And The Technology Of Science Communication, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
No abstract provided.
Science Serving Industry: Documentary Authority And Industrial Influence In 19th Century American Chemistry, Shawn Martin
Dec 2016
Science Serving Industry: Documentary Authority And Industrial Influence In 19th Century American Chemistry, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
No abstract provided.
Growing The Vision: Next Steps For Open Access Library Publishing, Shawn Martin
Jul 2016
Growing The Vision: Next Steps For Open Access Library Publishing, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
How can (or should) institutional repositories, disciplinary websites, data warehouses, and other open access repositories form part of a larger strategy for library publishing? In the age of linked data and the semantic web, open access repositories might seem to be the first step toward solving a much larger problem, namely, creating a research management infrastructure that helps to assess the impact, productivity, and use of resources online. Yet, the answer to how library publishing units should accomplish linking research management practices and open access publishing mechanisms remains elusive.
There are two ways of trying to achieve the solution. First, …
Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin
Oct 2015
Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
The current scholarly communication system has developed over centuries; yet, more recently it has been breaking down. Different disciplines have diagnosed this as an economic breakdown between libraries and publishers, a social failure among academics, and as a technological disruption. Of course, all of these answers are true to some degree. By combining approaches from information science and history, it may be possible to understand scholarly communication system more clearly. Historians such as Steven Shapin in A Social History of Truth (1994) have suggested that academic dialogue rests on “trust.” As the number of people participating became larger, that trust …
