UO Open Access Week 10/15-22

Open Access Week 2010

Join the University of Oregon Libraries as we participate in an international celebration of Open Access, Oct 14-22, 2010. We’re highlighting a series of new services provided by the UO Libraries that support Open Access.  For more details of UO initiatives to support Open Access see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/uoopenaccess.html.

Week at a Glance

Friday Oct 15 3:30pm-5pm	Keynote speaker:  Kevin L. Smith, Duke University: “Why Open Access Works and Copyright Doesn’t” Friday, Oct 15, 3:30pm Knight Library Browsing Room
Monday Oct 18 1pm-1:30pm	OA Week kickoff videocast Harold Varmus (director, National Cancer Institute) and Cameron Neylon (author of “Science in the Open”) are featured speakers in this short video highlighting the benefits of open access. Screening in the Knight Library Collaboration Center
Tuesday Oct 19 1pm-2:30pm	Electronic Theses and Dissertations at the UO 1:00pm ETDs at UO, an Overview, Ann Miller 1:30pm How to Prepare and Submit an ETD, Nargas Oskui Knight Library Collaboration Center
Wednesday Oct 20 1pm-2:30pm	New Library Services Supporting Open Access at UO 1:00pm Open Access Repositories, Karen Estlund 1:30pm OA Publishing Grants from the UO Libraries, Dean Walton 2:00pm UO Libraries as OA Journal Publisher, JQ Johnson Knight Library Collaboration Center
Friday Oct 22 1pm-2:00pm	Retaining Your Rights: Negotiating Publisher Copyright Transfer Agreements, JQ Johnson Knight Library Collaboration Center

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 Villeneuve, UO HASTAC scholar

Matt was nominated by UO Archivist Heather Briston, Associate University Librarian Andrew Bonamici and Kevin Hatfield, Assistant Director of Academic Initiatives, who highlighted Matt’s innovative work with the Residential Freshman Interest Group (FIG), two national conference presentations, and his forthcoming responsibilities  with the Undergraduate Editorial Board for the University Common Reading Program on-line forum, Mountains Beyond Mountains.

To see Matt and his nominating trio in action at the spring 2010 conference of the Coalition for Networked Information (where they discussed UO’s Living/Learning Center FIG research), click the link below:

http://news.cni.org/2010/07/27/video-web-2-0-and-the-study-of-history-from-spring-2010-cni-meeting-available/

HASTAC Scholars may be nominated until August 13, 2010. See our June 22  post for details on HASTAC’s call for 2010-2011 nominations, and congratulations to Matt.

David Silver, Green Media Studies Talk 5/28 12-1:30

David Silver

Creating a Campus Farmstand:
the Landscape of Green Media Studies

Arts & Administration Friday Forum
12-1:30 pm 249 Lawrence Hall

David Silver is an associate professor of media studies and environmental studies at the University of San Francisco where he teaches classes on media history, digital media production, and green media. David co-directs USF’s Garden Project, a freshmen living learning community built around an organic garden on campus.

In 2007, USF students and professors transformed a derelict ROTC training site into the Garden Project, an organic garden. Now a flourishing testament to students’ dedication to growing food and community at USF, the 1/8 acre urban garden produces everything from apples to artichokes, and provides an inspiring space for students, staff, librarians, and faculty to experience and explore organic and sustainable gardening techniques. Beginning this year, each week Garden Project students harvest fresh produce from the garden and offer it through the campus farmstand in the middle of campus. Students also prepare homemade soups, salads, breads, and desserts featuring one or more ingredients from the garden.

In this Friday Forum, David Silver will share early experiences and observations about the Garden Project, the campus farmstand, and garden-based learning. http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/

New Voices for New Media: UO Student Conference 6/2

Wednesday 6/2
2-5 pm, Lawrence Hall 241

• ACCESS, INFORMATION, AND BOUNDARIES: HEATH BUNTING AND NEW MEDIA ART
John Bogaard, Art History

• THE PUBLIC SPACE OF TELEVISION – UTOPIAN IDEALS OF VIDEO ART AND THE INFLUENCE OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
Ashley Gibson, Art History

• AT-HOME 3D PRINTING AND THE RETURN OF A CRAFT UTOPIA
Stacy Jo Scott, Art

• DYSTOPIAN VISIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL ANXIETY IN THE WORK OF TACITA DEAN
Michaela Rife, Art History

• INFORMATION AS AGENCY: THE ‘HYPERMODERN’ AS FERTILE HABITAT FOR A DATA-CENTRIC EXPERIMENTATION LAB
Tali Purkenson, Art History

• FACE/INTERFACE: ANN HAMILTON’S PINHOLE PORTRAITS
Sonja Dahl, Art

5/28/10 deadline to crowdsource “Hacking the Academy”

Can submissions for an edited volume on digital scholarship be compiled in 7 days, relying on a Twitter hashtag? We’re in the middle of that week now, and the hashtag is #hackacad. This project is being organized (unsurprisingly) by the savvy and effervescent Center for History and New Media.

If you have anything to contribute (or know someone who does) to the latest understanding of the following topics in digital scholarship, submit it via @#hackacad by midnight EST 5/28/10.

Table of contents/topics:

* Lectures, Classrooms, and the Curriculum
* Educational Technology
* Scholarly Societies and Conferences
* Scholarly Communication, Journals, and Books
* Academic Employment, Tenure, and Scholarly Identity
* Departments and Disciplines
* Libraries
* Miscellaneous

It’ll be interesting to see how fast the submissions are winnowed and produced into the open-access book. (Don’t blink.) Read on for hackingtheacademy.org’s synopsis.

Wired Humanities Project “Virtual Oaxaca” recognized by NEH & NMC

The Wired Humanities Project, in collaboration with Dr. Jonathon Richter (Center for Learning in Virtual Environments), Professor Gabriela Martínez, and graduate students Alina Padilla Miller and Yasmin Acosta-Myers, has received news from NEH that WHP has won a Digital Dissemination and Impact supplemental grant to underwrite the creation of “Virtual Oaxaca” — a map-based, three-dimensional space in Second Life (and, later, Open Sim).

WHP will be adding still images, videos, drawings, and curricular materials to the various spaces they create ( archaeological sites, artistic communities, museums, and the ethnobotanical garden), enabling their preservation and dissemination.  This is part of WHP’s NEH-funded Summer Institute, but also a step toward their vision of a Virtual Americas project.  The Smithsonian Latino Center, MERLOT, and the New Media Consortium are WHP’s national partners in Virtual Oaxaca, while the local partner, CLIVE, is housed in the UO’s Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE).

This NEH grant follows the news that WHP won the national New Media Consortium contest for a free sim island in Second Life through the end of September. This is where Virtual Oaxaca will be built, to gather photos, video clips, and curricular materials from teacher-participants  during the Oaxaca NEH Summer Institute, July-August, 2010.

MLA Promotion & Tenure Guidelines for Digital Work

Just in from HASTAC:

The MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) invites faculty, administrators, and graduate students to join a discussion about the evaluation of digital work for tenure and promotion. The MLA CIT is proposing revisions to the MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages, which are designed to help departments and faculty members implement effective evaluation procedures for new models of scholarship and teaching.

Review the guidelines and the committee’s comments at http://www.mla.org/guidelines_evaluation_digital, and share your thoughts, concerns and experiences with the evaluation of digital work. Scroll to the bottom of the page to read the comments and to add your own. MLA members, use your  member information to login to the site. Non MLA faculty/administrators/students may also comment on the Evaluation Guidelines; they simply have to register as a nonmember at http://www.mla.org/nm_registration&xurl=guidelines_evaluation_digital.

If you want to see P&T credit for being a digital scholar, make your voice heard here.

Mellon funds regional THATcamp coordination/training

In 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason created THATCamp—The Humanities and Technology Camp—a yearly user-generated “unconference.” Organized on a shoestring and driven by participant interests, the new style of academic conference attracted a wide range of interest, and it spawned numerous locally-organized regional THATCamps in 2009, including recent events in Austin, TX, Pullman, WA, Columbus, OH, Los Angeles, CA, and East Lansing, MI. In coming months, additional THATCamps are planned for Paris, Toronto, London, Seattle, and other cities around the world.

Until now, the skeleton crew at CHNM (Jeremy Boggs, Dan Cohen, and Tom Scheinfeldt) has worked diligently to meet the many requests for assistance  from prospective organizers. With the announcement of a major grant from the Mellon Foundation, CHNM will finally be able to give local organizers and the regional THATCamp network the attention they deserve.

CHNM’s aim with the new funding is not to alter the essential bootstrap nature of THATCamp or the grassroots character of the regional events. None of the Mellon funding will be directed toward CHNM’s own Fairfax camp, and regional THATCamps will continue to be locally conceived, organized, and financed. Instead the program aims simply to make it easier for regional THATCamps to be established and run and to provide new supports for training aspiring digital humanists.

“Bridging Cultures:” new NEH initiative for 2011-2012

UO humanities scholars who want to be ahead of the curve in planning research activities that the NEH might fund should be aware that the agency’s next big push is themed “Bridging Cultures.” NEH Chairman Jim Leach announced the initiative last week during his 2011-2012 budget presentation to the House Appropriations Committee.

The Bridging Cultures Initiative is meant “to help American citizens gain a deeper understanding of our own rich and varied cultural heritage, as well as the history and culture of other nations.” The NEH will fund pilot projects with “cultural bridging themes,” but also, through its existing grant programs (e.g. Fellowships), will support other projects in which cultural bridging is a core component.

UO was on Jim Leach’s Civility Tour itinerary in February, but a DC blizzard forced his last-minute cancellation. A pdf of his statement to the Appropriations Committee is available here.

NHA Data Shows Decline In Funding for Humanities Researchers

From the National Humanities Alliance News, 2/26/10

“The humanities continue to play a core role in higher education and student interest is strong, but to meet the demand, four-year colleges and universities are increasingly relying on a part-time, untenured workforce. Those are among the findings from the Humanities Departmental Survey, conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and a consortium of disciplinary associations. The survey, administered during the 2007-2008 academic year, includes data collected from English, foreign language, history, history of science, art history, linguistics, and religion departments at approximately 1,400 colleges and universities.

“The Humanities Indicators include data covering humanities education from primary school through the graduate level; the humanities workforce; humanities funding and research; and the humanities in civic life. Modeled after the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators, the Humanities Indicators serve as a resource to help scholars, policymakers, and the public assess the current state of the humanities.”

In The Landscape of Humanities Research and Funding, Alan Brinkley of Columbia University writes about the paucity of humanities research funding at the NEH, where the big chunk (32%) was as usual disbursed to state humanities agencies for public programs. This NEH funding pie chart from 2006 shows that just 13.3% of $138.3 million was allocated for individual and collaborative humanities researchers at IHEs and similar institutions.