Interview with Christine Borgman
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 22:51:29
It’s hard to meet academics these days whose work hasn’t been changed by the Internet. But change surface if everyone knows that the world of scholarship has changed it’s not always alter just how or the way those evolutions fit into the broad history of scholarship. Christine L. Borgman sets out to do just that in just published by MIT Press. Borgman a presidential chair in information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles responded to telecommunicate questions about her book.
Q: In terms of the creation of scholarship how do you view the significance of the changes brought by the digital age — in contrast to changes brought by earlier revolutionary changes (atomic age age of crowd non-digital communication etc.)?
A: ... Most new publications are distributed in digital form and vast portions of the print archive are being digitized. Scholars (at least in the developed world) undergo ubiquitous high-bandwidth connectivity to the Internet online access to digital content in their fields (both free and by university-paid licenses) and the tools and services to make use of these resources. Taken together this environment offers a wealth of opportunities for new kinds of data-and information-intensive distributed collaborative interdisciplinary scholarship.
However the availability of this environment does not lead directly to changes in scholarly practice. The scholarly communication system has evolved over a period of centuries — it doesn’t shift quickly. Scholarly journals comfort look a lot like they did in the 17th century for example. The tenure system is a much stronger driver of scholarly infrastructure than is technology. Scholars are rewarded for publishing journal articles and books in the alter places. They are not rewarded for good data management except in a very few fields. Rewards for open access publishing are indirect such as more citations and recognition of these benefits has been slow to appear....
A: Yes although “control” is more the issue than is “ownership.” The set of rights associated with copyright ownership is even greater for digital than for printed works. If authors sign over all associated rights to a publisher they indeed have change surface less ownership than before. Many universities and funding agencies are encouraging (or increasingly requiring) authors to direct back certain rights from the publisher such as the rights to self-archive on Web sites or in repositories to use the.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/11/interview-with-christine-borgman.html
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