This course covers the learning outcomes and goals of pioneering web-based scholarly communication through D-Lib Magazine. It teaches about the evolution of academic information accessibility, various pre-Web hypertext systems, the impact of NCSA Mosaic, and the Digital Libraries Initiative by NSF/DARPA/NASA. The course also explores innovations such as open access, persistent content, URLs, identifiers, and metadata. The teaching method involves discussing key milestones, contributors, and experiments in scholarly communication. The intended audience includes individuals interested in the history and development of web-based academic publishing and digital libraries.
Michael Nelson - D-Lib Magazine Pioneered Web-Based Scholarly Communication - Invited Talk
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
D-Lib Magazine pioneered Web-based Scholarly Communication
Academic Information Should be Free
D-Lib Magazine's Most Prolific Contributors
Netlib: software via email
CORE: a variety of pre-Web hypertext systems
Anonymous FTP: the original institutional repository
NCSA Mosaic changed everything in 1993
NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative
Publishers Adopt Landing Page Paradigm
Scholarship is Still Not Web-Native
D-Lib Magazine as an Experiment
D-Lib Magazine's Peers: Ariadne
D-Lib Magazine's Peers: First Monday
265 issues & 1062 articles: Somewhere between a magazine and a journal
Innovations: HTML
Our Experimentations with D-Lib
Innovations: Open Access
Innovations: Persistent Content & Layout
Innovations: Persistent URLs
Innovations: Persistent Identifiers
Innovations: Metadata
Innovations: Mirror Sites
First Issue: Dublin Core
First Issue: DLI & DL12
First Issue: KWF & DOI
To the Editor
First Issue: What's needed in future research?
Conclusions
Taught by
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
