Twitter mixdown 2 on webcast of congressional hearings on open access: Jen Howard

Take two on the congressional hearings on public/open access to results of federally funded research. These are by Jen Howard (http://twitter.com/JenHoward), who has written about this in 2009  the Chronicle (http://chronicle.com/article/Congressional-Hearing-Over/1153) Notice that after the publishers testify, most of the subcommittee leaves–before the open access advocates speak (#15-14). Read from the bottom up (#22). [END} [...]

Congressional Hearing on Public (Open) Access to Federally Funded Research 1: a mixdown of Timothy Vollmer’s tweetfeed on the webcast 7/29/10

What follows is a Twitter feed  by Timothy Vollmer (http://twitter.com/tvol) on the 7/29/10 webcast of  “Public Access to Federally-Funded Research” held today by the Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee (of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform) in Congress. For “Public Access” substitute “Open Access” to get a sense of what open access [...]

Matt Villeneuve: 2010-2011 HASTAC scholar

UO undergraduate Matthew Villeneuve  has been appointed a 2010-2011 HASTAC scholar. HASTAC  Scholars blog about their department/institution, share their own work and the work of their colleagues, participate in the forums, write reviews and interviews, and help build HASTAC’s national community of digital scholars. Matt was nominated by UO Archivist Heather Briston, Associate University Librarian [...]

Research and Instructional Technology blog

UO Research Technologist and UODS member Sean Sharp has commenced a blog, Research and Instructional Technology (http://ufolio.uoregon.edu/rit/). Have a look. We’re adding it to our links and encourage our readers to do the same.

Why Do History Digitally?

Edward Ayers, historian and president of the University of Richmond does a podcast , “The Case for Digital History,”  for the Chronicle’s Tech Therapy. Plenty of high-tech teaching materials are now available, but the use of digital tools in scholarship has been slow to take off, says Ayers. You can also subscribe to Tech Therapy [...]

Lane County awarded BroadbandUSA funds

Lane Council of Governments has received  $8,325,530 from the federal initiative BroadbandUSA (part of the National Telecommunitions and Information Administration) to deliver broadband capabilities across three large, mostly rural counties — Lane, Douglas, and Klamath — and to the Klamath Tribal regions in Western Oregon.  This project will create greater rural access to digital scholarship [...]

Visual Culture International

New networking site for folks doing research on visual culture. Lisa Cartwright (UCSD) says that the next conference will be held in New York City in 2012. We should make sure there’s a UO presence! http://visualculture.spruz.com/