http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:44:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cornell University Scholarly Communications Council Charter and Goals for 2007 Scholarly Communication refers to the formal and informal processes by which the research and scholarship of academics, researchers, and independent scholars are created, evaluated, edited, formatted, distributed, organized, made accessible, archived, used, and transformed. We start from the premise that economic, technological, ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=90 Janus Challenge #1: RECON This challenge was initially framed in terms of a collective effort to comprehensively digitize print publications through an aggressive and coordinated redeployment of local materials budgets. Large-scale digitizing initiatives by Google, the Open Content Alliance, the European Union, and other groups have since arisen or ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=89 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:13:30 -0500 From: "Shreeves, Edward" Whither Recon? Not much has moved forward with the Recon challenge since the annual conference and the work done at the end of 2005 immediately following the Janus Conference. Finding a mutually convenient time for a conference call seems futile, so Dan and I would ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=88 Janus Challenges Steering Committee June, 2006 Stephen Bosch (University of Arizona) Nancy Davenport (CLIR) Dan Hazen (Harvard) October Ivins (Society  for Scholarly Publishing) Assunta Pissani (Stanford) Jeanne Richardson (Arizona State University) Mark Sandler (University of Michigan) John Saylor (Cornell) Karen Schmidt (University of Illinois) Brian Schottlaender (ARL, UC San Diego) Cindy Shelton, chair (UCLA) Ed Shreeves (University of Iowa) Melissa Trevvett (CRL) Challenges and their ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=87 Agenda CMDS Chief Collection Development Officers Discussion Group Saturday, June 24, 8:00am-10:00 am, 10:30am-12:00pm Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Grand Salon 19 1. Business (8:00-8:10) ∑ Introductions and announcements ∑ Election of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect 2. Q & A on the members’ institutional reports (8:10-8:40) Anticipating that the reports will provoke questions of common interest, we will use this time to ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=86 Dear Friends, It is my sad duty to let you know that Ross Atkinson passed away this morning. His wife Carole and son Andy were at his side. At Ross's request, there will be no memorial service. He told me several weeks ago that he wanted to be here ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=84 Presentation and open discussion of the Janus Conference key challenges from the minutes of the Chief Collection Development Officers (CCDO) of Large Research libraries Discussion Group ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, Saturday, January 21, 2006 Cynthia Shelton (UCLA) gave a brief summary of the Janus Conference held at Cornell University in ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=83 Challenge 6 Alternative Channels of Scholarly Communication: Action Report Margaret Landesman (Utah) The group believes there is not a clear direction at this time. The challenge paragraph will be rewritten to tease out the issues. There was discussion about successful local efforts, but there seem to be fewer successful national ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=82 Challenge 5 Archiving: Action Report Karen Schmidt (Illinois) Next Steps: Karen Schmidt and Melissa Trevvett will co-chair this working group. Members of the Working Group are: The group plans to revise the statement that addresses the challenge, bring it to the New Orleans ALA meeting, and then agree on ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=81 Challenge 4 Licensing Principles: Action Report Charles Spetland (Minnesota) The group discussed the idea of issuing a national cite license or an RFP. Representatives from regional consortia could look at available models. Libraries also need to be insistent with publishers about disclosure; the group will act on CLIR’s offer to post ... http://janusconference.library.cornell.edu/?p=80