Thunder Talks

Kevin Stanack @ SFU

  • Questions that producing a scholarly journal was necessarily an expensive affair.
  • Discussed open journal systems
  • e.g., Partnership provides a webpage, manages workflows (peer review, editing, publishing)
  • Has approx 100 journals in approx 11 languages
  • Written in php
  • How do they get the journals indexed, and raise visability?
  • Who keeps the publication schedule on-track?

Mark D. Dahl @ Lewis & Clark, Portland, Oregon

  • Enhanced OPAC to include book covers, a link to RefWorks, fulltext from Google Books, reviews.

Brown University Library

  • Beta version of “easy borrow request service” for automagic ILL requesting
  • Created php applications for all ‘brain dead’ search engines
  • Starts with WorldCat search of OPAC. If item is available, users gets the catalogue record and a message. If the item is out, an ILL request is created.

Dan Scott @ Laurentian U

  • ‘Evergreener’ at Laurentian U
  • www.coffeecode.net is his site/blog
  • Laurentian has e-delivery (!) of articles

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