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office is digitizing new scholarship
in the field of Romance languages
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Penn
State's new Office of Digital Scholarly
Publishing is about to make the dissemination
of research easier. Created by a partnership
between the University's Libraries
and Press, the office will use new
media technologies to advance Penn
State scholarly communication in the
community and the world.
"Given the nature of the business
climate for publishing scholarly works--the
price is high and the distribution
limited--we are now providing the
capacity for faculty to make their
work more broadly accessible,"
said Peter Potter, editor-in-chief
of Penn State Press.
Akin to the highly publicized new search
engine Google Scholar, which is making
some academic publications available
online, the office will make many
of the University Press' backlist
titles accessible electronically.
(The Press is also participating in
Google Scholar, but the Press-Libraries
venture will allow for deeper online
access to its publications.)
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The
office hopes to make old
slides and photographs accessible
electronically.
Mira
Lloyd Dock Collection, Mont
Alto Campus Library, The Pennsylvania
State University |
The office is also committed to making
new research publications available
online. One of the first projects
of the office is to digitize new scholarship
in the field of Romance languages
and literatures. Penn State Romance
Studies is being launched in collaboration
with the departments of French and
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The
series, a successor to a print series
published by the Press from 1991 to
2003, will make available monographs
electronically and by print-on-demand
technology.
The Libraries brings to the office
its expertise in programming, digitization,
Web site development and indexing,
in addition to its knowledge of user
behavior and demands. The Press brings
its experience in matters such as
peer review and editing, as well as
a reputation for scholarly excellence.
"We will offer faculty a way to
disseminate research other than through
the typical channels," said Bonnie
MacEwan, assistant dean for Collections
and Scholarly Communication at the
University Libraries.
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