MINDS@UW and the Social Scholar
Dorothea Salo
Digital Repository Librarian
UW Colleges Colloquium, 24 May 2007

What is social scholarship?
 “... the practice of scholarship in which the use of social [software] tools is an integral part of the research and publishing process.”
 “... openness, conversation, collaboration, access , sharing and transparent revision.”
Cohen, Laura B. “Social Scholarship on the Rise.” Library 2.0: An Academic’s
Perspective.
http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/04/social_scholarship_on_the_rise.html

The social scholar’s software kit
 Listservs
 Weblogs
 Wikis
 IM, Skype, Meebo
 Google Docs
 Connotea, CiteULike, Zotero
 Online journals and gray literature

“... no? well, can you hear me now?”
 Maybe you don’t care to be a social scholar
 ... but what about others in your field?
 How do you include your work in their conversations?

What is MINDS ?
 Safe haven for finished digital works
 Preprints and postprints
 White papers and tech reports
 Conference papers and slideshows
 Learning objects
 Multimedia and websites
 Your teaching, your research, your repository!
 http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

What’s in for you?
 Convenience
 You decide what you archive
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We run the servers; we migrate file formats
We’re here to help!
 Safekeeping
 Library service
 All about long-term use
 Attention

and the social scholar
 Gives your work a “ permalink ”
 Social scholars talk about what they can link to, bookmark, send others to!
 Gets your work out on the open Web
 Social scholars discuss work that everyone can access!
 Makes your work easy to find
 Google Scholar, Google, OAIster

How do I get started?
 Contact Mark Rozmarynowski
 mrozmary@uwc.edu
 Who are you? Who else is interested?
 What have you got? Do you need help?
 (... magic happens...)
 Come to the website and deposit!

“Yes, I can hear you!”
 Thanks for listening!
 Interested in ?
 Want to talk about social scholarship ?
Scholarly communication ? Open access ?
Dorothea Salo dsalo@library.wisc.edu
(608) 262-5493
AIM: mindsatuw