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8 Symposium Wrap Up
8 Symposium Wrap Up
Pages 95-104
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Filtering and quality control of the information are central to the publishing process but, in the future with more open access to all types of information and data, who will provide reliable and consistent filtration and quality control, and who will pay for it? Increased online access results in increased usage of information.
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We ultimately have to achieve understanding in science, and it may mean different things in different fields. During the symposium, Professor Beasley heard ideas that might implement that, but he did not hear a focus on what might be done to improve that aspect of the scientific enterprise.
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His cofounder, Professor Richard Hamilton, and he began publishing Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) , an online book review journal for classical studies in the fall of 1990.
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So it is the responsibility of university libraries to think across those kinds of boundaries. It appears that the raw material and the evaluated conclusions coming out of scholarly research are bifurcating into two fairly distinct realms.
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This may be a perfectly rational business model from the standpoint of someone who manages a university press and struggles on a day-to-day basis with the finances of publishing. However, it is not a perfectly rational business model if one happens to be on the university library end of this formula and looking at buying these materials from publishers under the kinds of intellectual property controls that are created largely for the benefit of the entertainment industry rather than education and non-profit research.
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He did, however, add that faculty in general do not understand the costs of providing these library services in this modern sense and therefore are not necessarily informed people to make judgments about how these things ought to be paid for and what the real trade-offs are. Ann Wolpert asked the question in part because she was interested in knowing how and where the discussion can go forward on university campuses.
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Interaction between Scientists and Archivists Steve Berry asked Jim O'Donnell whether it is possible to overcome the arrogance of the scientists and the humility of the archivists, so that the natural solution will come from these two groups of people learning to talk to each other, to deal with the problems of these enormous databases, and realize that each brings something, but not a complete solution. Jim O'Donnell thought the critical intellectual capital will be formed in the dialogue between the archivist and the information scientist on the one hand, and the working researcher on the other.
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But as a practical matter, we are in a serious transition phase right now. She has no idea how long this is going to last, but we will know that we have successfully tipped into the electronic environment and learned how to archive material that is formatted digitally in reliable and sustainable ways when someone gets a Nobel Prize based entirely on an electronic publishing record.
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When only one format existed, it served a variety of needs: the current information dissemination, the near-term research requirement, and the long-term archiving requirement. In the digital environment, people want to use the digital materials for the sake of convenience and productivity, but there are difficulties with that, in that the electronic material does not perfectly mirror what came out in print.
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There are many potential topics for study, and he welcomed advice from symposium participants on which areas the National Academies could make useful contributions in, such as areas that have not been looked at effectively by others perhaps, and where there is a need for further work. On that note, he thanked the National Academies staff for assisting with the symposium and adjourned the meeting.
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