Scholarly Communication and Mobile Computing
Oct 20
When discussing mobile access and delivery of content within the context of scholarly communication, many providers of scholarly and scientific information do not see an immediate relevance to their products and services. As a result, they choose to delay any further consideration of this new delivery channel. They just don't see the potential for now. In hindsight, this may prove to be a mistake, for as noted in a comment on the website Academic Evolution, "The walls of scholarship are coming down, and mobile computing is one of the loudest trumpets at Jericho." While written with Open Access Publishing in mind, the comments are totally applicable to traditional journals and databases as well. Citing the first three iPhone applications currently used to access papers in the arXiv archive, it is noted that "…dedicated applications for direct access to full-text authoritative publications change the game...they have crossed a key threshold for scholarly communication and set the stage for things to come." Definitely an interesting read and in combination with Michael Nielsen's essay entitled, Is Scientific Publishing About to be Disrupted?, a very motivational one.
A number of forward-thinking content providers have already
taken the leap into mobile delivery of scholarly and scientific
content, among them are NFAIS member organizations such as the
American Institute of
Physics, the New England Journal of Medicine
and RefWorks-COS. You can learn from
their experiences in a one-day Workshop on the Mobile
Delivery of Content: Challenges and Opportunities scheduled for
October 30, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA and, if you are unable to
travel, you can register as a virtual attendee and have access to
the archived webcast for up to four weeks after the meeting. Don't
be the last to understand the potential of mobile computing, for as
stated in the closing of the Academic Evolution. "Hold on to your
cell phones. The new era of scholarship is calling."
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