Online Scholarship and Collaboration
When I read these chapters I think of my own work, naturally, or what occurs in the library field. Weller mentions the “journals crisis” in chapter 4. That is, the time lag between submission and...
View ArticleInterdisciplinarity and Public Engagement
I found Weller’s discussion of interdisciplinarity knowledge and research particularly interesting (section 6.1), as it focuses on both my vocation and avocation. Even though I’m the humanities...
View ArticleFaculty Initiative
This is my first post for the FI. I find myself most interested in the technology surrounding the UMW Domain of One’s Own. We all know there is much variety among the content and process of...
View ArticleOpenness and Tenure
In chapter 8, Weller discusses reciprocity and how “the more you give online that is of value to those in your network then the more ‘credit’ you establish.” I’ve noticed this with my own baseball...
View ArticleCopyright, Quality, Openness, Etc.
I am glad that Weller explores both sides of copyright issues in chapter 12, as sometimes I wonder if people realize just how big a problem this is. As he wrote in section 12.7: “I am conscious of...
View ArticleSugata Mitra’s ideas
Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, Sugata Mitra won the TED Prize for 2013. He is an extraordinary thinker, a quintessential interdisciplinarian, highly respected...
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View ArticleDigital Scholarship
In the section on “Digital Scholarship” (section 1.2), the author writes that in a digital and networked open world, “people become less defined by the institution to which they belong and more by the...
View ArticleOwnership and Identity
In section 3.3, Ownership and Identity, I could identify with the comment that one’s identify could be constructed by his or her book / music collection. Absolutely! That sense of identification led...
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