[BOAI] OA/Collaboration

[Carolina Rossini]

(being forward - from Diane Harley)

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We are delighted to announce the publication of the final report:
*Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration
of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines*.

The full report can be accessed at:
*http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc*<http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc>

Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education
(CSHE)<http://cshe.berkeley.edu/>,
with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<http://mellon.org/>,
has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of
faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of
communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival
publication.

The final report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across
45, mostly elite, research institutions in seven selected academic fields:
archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political
science. Our premise has always been that disciplinary conventions matter
and that social realities (and individual personality) will dictate how new
practices, including those under the rubric of Web 2.0 or
cyberinfrastructure, are adopted by scholars. That is, the academic values
embodied in disciplinary cultures, as well as the interests of individual
players, have to be considered when envisioning new schemata for the
communication of scholarship at its various stages.

Links to the complete results of our ongoing work can be found at the Future
of Scholarly Communication’s project
website<http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/scholarlycommunication/index.htm>
.

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Diane Harley, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age
Project,
Center for Studies in Higher Education
771 Evans Hall, # 4650
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
*http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/dharley.htm
*scproject at berkeley.edu
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