Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries

Title: New UNC Library Website Functionality
Presenters: Tim Shearer , Web Access Librarian, Academic Affairs Library, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 19th, 2003, 12:00pm

Presentation Slides

Tim Shearer discussed the UNC library efforts to provide an infrastructure to cut across the current library website database, beginning with subject access to resources. He has been working to develop “tab design” and “subject drilldown”, which is due to release Fall 2003. It will allow users to go in by a subject, like “Psychology,” and get to resources collocated by the thesaurus term. Tim summarized the background behind the UNC library database, discussed what lead up to the development of this new infrastructure, and demonstrated the beta version of the new interface that is currently being developed.

Title: Scholarly Communication: The Changing Face of Peer Review
Presenters: Prof. Brad Hemminger, UNC SILS
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 5th, 2003, 12:15pm

Brad Hemminger discussed the changes wrought upon scholarly communication, and in particular the peer review process by the change to an electronic medium. The “pipeline” of the peer review process was discussed including alternative automated and human indexing & cataloging, alternative peer review mechanisms. These mechanisms include the human expert peer review, certified reviewers, open review, moderators, no review, and automated mechanisms such as citation count, usage, amount of discussion. Discussion touched on modern digital open archive systems that support multiple mechanisms. The floor discussion debated the pros and cons of the different methods.