Apologies — liveblogged, but forgot to post this from the conference… First on, McComas Taylor and Grazia Scotellaro, ‘E-texts: a new experience in learning objects’. Took us through the example of ANU E-View student textbook, The Joy of Sanskrit. Excellent presentation taking us through the process of creating and using the e-text, which students loved.…
I missed the keynotes and some other sections of the conference, but from what I saw I thought it was a useful, in fact essential, conference for any academic staff thinking of digital publishing for research, data curation or learning and teaching purposes. There were a few descriptions of University Presses etc that weren’t really reinventing university publishing,…
This is Changing Horizons, the first panel session after the keynote which I had to miss. Also missed first two presentations in this session. Third up, Belinda Tiffen, Director Library Resources Unit and Scott Abbott, UTS ePRESS Project Officer, UTS, – ‘Keep calm and unlock research: reinventing UTS ePRESS. Focused mostly on OA academic journals, a…
I’m attending the above conference at ANU, organised by CAUL Library Publishing Advisory Committee, having to drop in and out because of meetings & other things, but determined to participate as much as possible – too important to miss. CAUL notes in its conference blurb: ‘academic publishing and the scholarly communication environment is in a…