lib-ir: Potential candidate for SB

[Barbara Jenkins <jenkins@uoregon.edu>]

I hope we would not need to differentiate between adjunct faculty and
tenure track.  This opportunity sounds intriguing. 
Barb

At 12:14 PM 6/17/2004 -0700, Carol Hixson wrote:
> I was contacted today by Chet
> Bowers, adjunct
> professor in Environmental Studies. He was a
> professor for 20+ years at UO, then at PSU, and
> is continuing here as an adjunct.
>
> He is starting up an open-access, peer-reveiewed
> journal and had contacted me initially wondering
> how he would go about getting an ISSN for the
> journal and getting libraries to catalog the
> journal. I just spent the past hour meeting
> with him and discussing the possibility of setting
> up a community for his journal or for related
> publications in Scholars' Bank. He seemed
> very interested and went away with a lot of
> information (about SB, the DOAJ, and other
> things) and indicated he would get back
> to me.
>
> In the meantime, we have some issues we
> need to discuss about what it would
> mean to host a journal within SB.
>
> Is the fact that a founder and member of
> a journal's editorial board is an adjunct
> faculty member at UO sufficient grounds
> for us to host a journal in Scholars' Bank?
>
> There are other issues, as well, but that's
> the first one that comes to mind.
>
> Carol

Barbara Jenkins 
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