Colleagues/ I am pleased to read the variety of recent posting about Open Access and Alternative Scholarship. On Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2007, I launched a new blog titled _Scholarship 2.0: An Idea Whose Time Has Come_ _Scholarship 2.0_ is devoted to describing and documenting the forms, facets, and features of alternative Web-based scholarly publishing practices. The variety of old and new metrics available for assessing the impact, significance, and value of Web-based scholarship is of particular interest. _Scholarship 2.0_ is located at [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/ ] Select postings include:
Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication
Show Me The Data! Show Me The Data! Show Me The Data!
Economics: A Public Peer Reviewed e-Journal
ELPUB2008: Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network
" ... The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Horizon Report 2007: New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
Quality Control in Scholarly Publishing on the Web
LAMPSS: Lots of Alternative Models Provide Sensible Solutions. I: Open Peer Review
Ideal Speech Situation
Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact
Peer Review Reviewed: The International Career of a Quality-control Instrument and New Challenges
Authority 2.0: The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Valuing Non-Traditional Vehicles of Scholarship
Electronic Literature Organization
The Promise of Authority in Social Scholarship
Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process
Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
Disruptive Scholarship DisruptiveScholarshipModel
There is a companion Facebook group for the Scholarship 2.0 blog at [ http://iastate.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6235744583 ] NOTE: Nomination of Other Sites/Sources/Publications/Etc. Are Welcome! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]