Re: lib-ir: PPPM's note of caution about IR

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

This is similar to some of the concerns that we heard from
Bill Harbaugh. I'm not sure how we can address it. I'd be
interested to see if Rich or someone else responds.

Carol

At 03:16 PM 8/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Tom sent this to me. It was distributed to the PPPM faculty list. Is there 
>any way we can address these concerns? I fear a slowing of momentum.
>
>Andrew
>
>
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>Andrew J.P. Nicholson
>Map/GIS Librarian
>University of Oregon
>Eugene, Oregon
>97403-1299
>Phone: (541) 346-3051
>Fax: (541) 346-1958
><http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/>http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Stave [mailto:tstave@uoregon.edu]
>Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:22 PM
>To: Andrew Nicholson
>Subject: Fwd: Re: pppm-faculty: Fwd: Cataloging Faculty Works for IR
>
>Andrew: you might want to forward this to your IR list.
>
>Tom
>
>>X-Sender: jeans@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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>>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:32:50 -0700
>>To: pppm-faculty@lists.uoregon.edu
>>From: Jean Stockard <jeans@uoregon.edu>
>>Subject: Re: pppm-faculty: Fwd: Cataloging Faculty Works for IR
>>Sender: owner-pppm-faculty@lists.uoregon.edu
>>Reply-To: Jean Stockard <jeans@uoregon.edu>
>>
>>Colleagues:
>>Putting faculty writings on the web sounds like a nice idea - but I want 
>>to throw a little word of caution in about putting conference papers and 
>>reports in such a repository.  Over the years I've found that my papers 
>>improve immensely from the time they've been given at conferences or 
>>developed as working papers until they hit print, and we probably want 
>>only our best work to be out there and cited.  In addition, a fair amount 
>>of confusion can arise from having citations to different versions of the 
>>same work.  Given the ease of access to material on the web, preliminary 
>>versions on the proposed system might be found more easily than refereed 
>>journal articles or books and you really want the citations to be to your 
>>peer-reviewed published work.
>>
>>So, it sounds like a nice idea - but my elderly advice would be to use 
>>the resource very cautiously, perhaps for things that won't be published 
>>in journals or book form - or, if putting preliminary material up, 
>>remembering to withdraw earlier versions once your best one is in print.
>>
>>Jean
>>
>>
>>
>>At 08:31 AM 8/12/03 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Faculty
>>>A great opportunity to get publicity for conference papers, reports, 
>>>working papers and other information. See Andrew's message below
>>>
>>>Rich
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: "Andrew Nicholson" <anichols@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>>>>To: <rdm@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>>>>Cc: "JQ Johnson" <jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
>>>>    "Carol Hixson" <chixson@oregon.uoregon.edu>,
>>>>    "Scott D. Doyle" <scottd@uoregon.edu>,
>>>>    "Andre LeDuc" <crux@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
>>>>    "Tom Stave" <tstave@oregon.uoregon.edu>
>>>>Subject: Cataloging Faculty Works for IR
>>>>Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:51:01 -0700
>>>>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>>>>Importance: Normal
>>>>Status:
>>>>Rich,
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for sending out those messages to the department.
>>>>
>>>>To encourage wider PPPM Faculty participation in the Institutional 
>>>>Repository project, the UO Libraries is offering to catalogue any 
>>>>Faculty works submitted to the IR. These Faculty works can be papers, 
>>>>presentations, conference proceedings, technical reports, working 
>>>>papers, etc. Not only would the works appear in the UO Libraries 
>>>>catalog, but would also appear in the Orbis catalog and best of all, in 
>>>>WorldCat. This will provide a very wide exposure to Faculty works 
>>>>across the US and in many other countries, especially in Europe.
>>>>
>>>>Please let me know if you or other Faculty are interested.
>>>>
>>>>Thank you,
>>>>Andrew
>>>>
>>>>*******************************
>>>>Andrew J.P. Nicholson
>>>>Map/GIS Librarian
>>>>University of Oregon
>>>>Eugene, Oregon
>>>>97403-1299
>>>>Phone: (541) 346-3051
>>>>Fax: (541) 346-1958
>>>><http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/>http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/
>>>>*******************************
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>Dr. Richard D. Margerum
>>>Assistant Professor
>>>Planning, Public Policy and Management
>>>134 Hendricks Hall
>>>1209 University of Oregon
>>>Eugene OR  97403-1209
>>>Ph: 541-346-2526
>>>Fax: 541-346-2040
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>>
>>Jean Stockard, Professor
>>Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management
>>1209 University of Oregon
>>Eugene, Oregon 97043
>>541-346-5005
>>fax: 541-346-2040
>>e-mail jeans@oregon.uoregon.edu
>
>Please notice that my email address has changed: tstave@uoregon.edu.
>
>Tom Stave, Head
>Document Center
>University of Oregon Library
>Eugene, OR 97403-1299
>tstave@uoregon.edu
>(541) 346-3060