scholarly communication/networks (fwd) Marcia Tuttle 27 Aug 1992 15:53 UTC
---------- Text of forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:46:32 EST From: Birdie MacLennan <BMACLENN%UVMVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list SEREDIT <SEREDIT%UVMVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> Subject: scholarly communication/networks Cross-posted from the list, cni-copyright@cni.org. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Announcement of Computer Conferences The Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Coalition for Networked Information have undertaken a project to address principles, policy, and practice related to new forms of scholarly communication in the network environment. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation's Program on Ethics and Values Studies in Science and Technology, the Project looks at a set of social, ethical, and legal issues raised in the communication and dissemination of research results. The goal is to help different groups ranging from research teams to academic and professional societies develop appropriate policies and practices. A draft background paper has been prepared by project director Brian Kahin and is available on the Internet by anonymous ftp from ftp.cni.org using the following sequence of commands: ftp ftp.cni.org login anonymous [send e-mail address as password] cd /CNI/projects/Harvard.scp get background.txt exit We are now ready to initiate a set of computer conferences which will bring together diverse disciplinary and service perspectives. The conferences will address six issue areas which are discussed sequentially in the background paper: 1.) JOINT AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP -- How should jointly authored research be structured and how should publication processes be handled? list name: OWNERSHIP moderator: Michael Strait (mstrait@linknet.com) 2.) RIGHTS IN COMPUTER CONFERENCING -- What are reasonable expectations for the handling and reuse of messages and other material posted to groups and mailing lists? list name: REPOST moderators: Edward Vielmetti (emv@msen.com) Steve Cisler (sac@apple.com) 3.) DERIVATIVE AND ITERATIVE WORKS -- What practices should apply to sequenced and variant publications of the same and related work? list name: DERIV moderators: Ann Okerson (okerson@umdc.bitnet) Steven Zink (stevenz@equinox.unr.edu) 4.) CONTROL OF DISSEMINATION -- To what extent should key scholarly resources be controlled by particular scholars or organizations? list name: RESOURCES moderator: Doug Greenberg (sdgls@cunyvm.bitnet) 5.) SITE LICENSING -- How will widespread site licensing affect access to information by unaffiliated individuals and small firms and organizations? list name: SITE-LICENSE moderators: John Garrett (jgarrett@nri.reston.va.us) Steve Gilbert (gilbert@educom.edu) 6.) INTERNATIONAL ACCESS -- How should researchers and practitioners in the developing world be assured access to research results? list name: INTERNATIONAL moderator: Art St. George (stgeorge@bootes.unm.edu) Persons interested in participating in one of these conferences should send a single line mail message to LISTSERV@CNI.ORG as follows: subscribe [name of list] [your first name] [your last name] If you wish to participate in more than one conference, put each request on a separate line in the same format. Please also send the moderators background information so they will know who is participating. The moderators will set their own policies and some may choose limit the size of their conference. We plan to report on these conferences at the November meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information Task Force. There will be an invitational workshop for the most active participants and representative academic organizations in Washington in early 1993. A final report is due in the Spring. For additional information, contact the list moderators at the listed email addresses. Or: Brian Kahin Director, Information Infrastructure Project Science, Technology and Public Policy Program John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 79 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-8903 Fax: 617-495-5776 kahin@hulaw1.harvard.edu Paul Peters Director Coalition for Networked Information 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW Washington DC 20036 202-232-2466 Fax: 202-462-7849 paul@cni.org For technical assistance: Craig A. Summerhill, Systems Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 craig@cni.org