Libraries and Publishing 3.0: Student Views from SLAIS

The Canadian Library Association's Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Services (CASLIS) has just released the Occasional Paper, Libraries and Publishing 3.0: Student Views from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia, available for free download from: http://www.cla.ca/caslis/CASLIS-Paper-01.pdf

Contents include:

• Historical Collections 2.0: From Information to Understanding by Tania Alekson

• Digital Copyright and Indigenous Cultural Ownership by Erin M. Abler

• The Impact of the Open Access Movement for Scholars in India by Natalie Porter

• The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Communication in Ornithology by Christina Struik

• Google Scholar: An Outcast in the Library World by Mê-Linh Lê

Congratulations to all of the students! I am especially proud to see works by two of the students from my scholarly communications in this occasional paper. Congratulations, Natalie Porter and Christina Struik!

[Disclosure: I am an Adjunct Faculty at UBC's SLAIS, where I teach courses on open access and scholarly communications, and co-teach information policy with Devon Greyson].

Thanks to CASLIS' Robyn Stockand.

This post in part of the Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement (emerging) series.