Scholarly Communication in Engineering

“A new Web site allows scientists to organize research papers online and share them with their colleagues, while doing some social networking on the side.” 

“This spring, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to enable open access to their scholarly articles in an institutional repository. This vote granted the university the rights necessary to archive and make freely available on the Internet articles written by Arts and Sciences faculty members. It is the first time the faculty of a U.S. university has voted for an open access directive and the first time a faculty has granted permission to the university to make its articles available through open access. It is because of this vote, and the efforts leading up to it, that the Harvard FAS was named as the SPARC Innovators for June 2008”

Source: University of Melbourne Library Intelligencer

Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel University

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) is an organization that provides access to several Open Access Journals.

These are:

Molecules  since 1996. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences since 2000. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

Sensors since 2001. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

Marine Drugs since 2003. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

Entropy since 1999.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health  since 2004.

Materials since 2008 (new).

Energies since 2008 (new). Energies, An Open-Access Journal of Related Scientific Research, Technology Development and Studies in Policy and Management, is the most recently launched Journal.

See: New OA journal on energy research and policy launched  article in Knowledgespeak web site.

Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel University

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) provides an international forum for refereed original contributions, reviews and focus issues covering all aspects of materials science, including theoretical analysis, synthesis and processing, phase and structure analyses, characterization, properties, engineering and applications.

From 2008 the journal will be published in an open-access model, with all content completely free to read. There is no publication charge, as the costs of publication will be covered by the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).

See: Science and Technology of Advanced Materials for more information

Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel University

Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication 

The Drexel University Libraries, with support from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), will present The 5th Annual Scholarly Communication Symposium titled: Scholar2Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication. Join us for a half-day symposium featuring a speaker presentation by Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor, Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, followed by panel and roundtable discussions. An optional Dutch-treat networking lunch concludes the day.

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bossone

For more information:
Drexel University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication

To register:
Registration Form

Our Wiki:
Scholar2scholar

You will need to create your account in Wikispaces (if you do not have one) by clicking on ‘Join’ in the top right corner. Use your username and password you created to join our scholar2scholar wikispace.
(Note: Please try to use something resembling your real names as usernames)

Do not forget to explore our evolving section - Further reading on Web 2.0

Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel University

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. Additionally, we provide tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure. Further explanation of these features is given in a project document Beyond the list.

Browse through Nanotechnology related papers archived: OpenDOAR Nanotechnology

Drexel’ E-Repository and Archives - iDEA is also indexed in the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories.

Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel Univesity

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