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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:39:34 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.NoDak.edu>
Subject:      Scholarly Communication Project: computer conferences announced
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> Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:03:42 CDT
> From: BRIAN KAHIN <KAHIN@hulaw1.bitnet>
> Subject:      Scholarly Communication Project: computer conferences announced
> To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@uhupvm1.bitnet>
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>   Project on Scholarly Communication in the Network Environment
>
>               Announcement of Computer Conferences
>
>      The Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at
> Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Coalition
> for Networked Information have undertaken a project to address
> principles, policy, and practice related to new forms of
> scholarly communication in the network environment.  Funded in
> part by the National Science Foundation's Program on Ethics and
> Values Studies in Science and Technology, the Project looks at a
> set of social, ethical, and legal issues raised in the
> communication and dissemination of research results.  The goal is
> to help different groups ranging from research teams to academic
> and professional societies develop appropriate policies and
> practices.
>
>      A draft background paper has been prepared by project
> director Brian Kahin and is available on the Internet by
> anonymous ftp from ftp.cni.org using the following sequence of
> commands:
>
>    ftp ftp.cni.org
>    login anonymous
>    [send e-mail address as password]
>    cd /CNI/projects/Harvard.scp
>    get background.txt
>    exit
>
>      We are now ready to initiate a set of computer conferences
> which will bring together diverse disciplinary and service
> perspectives.  The conferences will address six issue areas which
> are discussed sequentially in the background paper:
>
>      1.) JOINT AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP -- How should jointly
> authored research be structured and how should publication
> processes be handled?
>      list name: OWNERSHIP
>      moderator: Michael Strait (mstrait@linknet.com)
>
>      2.) RIGHTS IN COMPUTER CONFERENCING -- What are reasonable
> expectations for the handling and reuse of messages and other
> material posted to groups and mailing lists?
>      list name: REPOST
>      moderators: Edward Vielmetti (emv@msen.com)
>                  Steve Cisler (sac@apple.com)
>
>      3.) DERIVATIVE AND ITERATIVE WORKS -- What practices should
> apply to sequenced and variant publications of the same and
> related work?
>      list name: DERIV
>      moderators: Ann Okerson (okerson@umdc.bitnet)
>                  Steven Zink (stevenz@equinox.unr.edu)
>
>      4.) CONTROL OF DISSEMINATION -- To what extent should key
> scholarly resources be controlled by particular scholars or
> organizations?
>      list name: RESOURCES
>      moderator: Doug Greenberg (sdgls@cunyvm.bitnet)
>
>      5.) SITE LICENSING -- How will widespread site licensing
> affect access to information by unaffiliated individuals and
> small firms and organizations?
>      list name: SITE-LICENSE
>      moderators: John Garrett (jgarrett@nri.reston.va.us)
>                  Steve Gilbert (gilbert@educom.edu)
>
>      6.) INTERNATIONAL ACCESS -- How should researchers and
> practitioners in the developing world be assured access to
> research results?
>      list name: INTERNATIONAL
>      moderator: Art St. George (stgeorge@bootes.unm.edu)
>
>
>      Persons interested in participating in one of these
> conferences should send a single line mail message to
> LISTSERV@CNI.ORG as follows:
>
> subscribe [name of list] [your first name] [your last name]
>
> If you wish to participate in more than one conference, put each
> request on a separate line in the same format.  Please also send
> the moderators background information so they will know who is
> participating.  The moderators will set their own policies and
> some may choose limit the size of their conference.
>
>      We plan to report on these conferences at the November
> meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information Task Force.
> There will be an invitational workshop for the most active
> participants and representative academic organizations in
> Washington in early 1993.  A final report is due in the Spring.
>
>      For additional information, contact the list moderators at
> the listed email addresses.  Or:
>
> Brian Kahin
> Director, Information Infrastructure Project
> Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
> John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
> 79 John F. Kennedy St.
> Cambridge, MA  02138
> 617-495-8903
> Fax: 617-495-5776
> kahin@hulaw1.harvard.edu
>
> Paul Peters
> Director
> Coalition for Networked Information
> 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW
> Washington DC 20036
> 202-232-2466
> Fax: 202-462-7849
> paul@cni.org
>
>
> For technical assistance:
>
> Craig A. Summerhill, Systems Coordinator
> Coalition for Networked Information
> 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
> Washington, DC 20036
> craig@cni.org
>


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