Randolph Hollingsworth's List: Scholarly Books Journals Open Publications

Collection of free textbooks created for the Florida schools and universities.

New research report from Isto Huvila of Sweden from user survey seeing to explain the different kinds of Wikipedia users and the quality of their contributions. References to other Wikipedia research are included and summarized to show the scholarly community's growing consensus about its reliability and validity. Refers also to new uses of Wikipedia, e.g., scholary journal requiring authors to post their summaries in Wikipedia.

Patrick R. Lowenthal and David Thomas take a strong stance in decrying the use of student-teacher electronic dropboxes for submission of student work. We all know that in the performance arts, students benefit from public critique - and as scholars we insist on this practice for ourselves, making sure we present "papers" at prestigious conferences. So, why expect our students to perform in the "real world" and be subject regularly to critique by the very public that should be supporting the funding of their education?

Great article (published online 2010) with easy access to various components of each method: description, indications when to use it, contra-indications, special precautions, notes

An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections


Southern Spaces combines innovative scholarship about real and imagined spaces and places of the American South with the tools of digital media. Realizing that few scholars are experts in website design, we are eager to work with authors, photographers and videographers in the process of producing image, sound, and video files for submissions. We are committed to assisting scholars at varying levels of technological proficiency.

If you are interested in submitting materials to Southern Spaces, please create a new account on the site and then follow the instructions for submitting. A submission will not be considered if it has have been previously published or is concurrently under consideration by another journal or press. Copyright for essays published in Southern Spaces is retained by the authors. All images, video, and sound files associated with published submissions are securely archived by Emory University's Woodruff Library. If you choose to submit by post, we accept flash drives, DV tapes, CDs, or DVDs containing your manuscript, images, sound files, etc.

The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester.

The Affordable Learning Solutions website is designed to:
- Make it easy for faculty, staff, and students to find no/low cost course content that can substitute for more costly textbooks
Enable faculty to be recognized for their efforts in reducing costs for students
- Share practices for using no/low cost digital content in CSU courses
- Support campuses in customizing their strategies to enable affordable learning solutions

For example:
As part of a three-year partnership with Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the world’s leading scientific journal Nature, CSU faculty guided and advised the development of NPG’s Principles of Biology – the first in a series of interactive "born digital" textbooks. The text will be incorporated into courses for students at the Los Angeles, Northridge and Chico campuses starting in the 2011/2012 academic year.

Dissects how a digital scholar might construct "a networked research cycle" (planning, collecting data, analyze, reflect); themes which will have increasing relevance "whether it is because they become accepted practice or because the research community reacts against them."
Granularity (e.g., iTunes vs music industry's album)
Pushback from outlets (e.g., open blog vs scholarly publication - shift from output to focus on ongoing activity, engagement and reputation - more difficult to measure and reward)
Crowdsourcing (inc. layers of filter and publication)
Light connections and nodes (sharing in "a frictionless manner")
Rapid innovation
"These emerging themes sit less comfortably alongside existing practices and can be seen as a more radical shift in research practice. A combination of the two is undoubtedly the best way to proceed, but the danger exists of a schism opening up between those who embrace new approaches and those who reject them, with a resultant entrenchment to extremes on both sides. This can be avoided in part by the acknowledgement and reward of new forms of scholarship..."

Showcasing digital humanities initiatives

Rhetoric, technology, pedagogy

Published by MERLOT, CSU Chancellor's Office

Univ of Lincoln

vs. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Ed

"a model for open access (OA) publishing"