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Recorded:
28 Feb 2013
28 Feb 2013
Filming venue:
Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom
Most discussions of the cultural changes linked to the Internet are holistically focused ñ discussing the effect of technical changes on the characteristics as a system as a whole. This talk will take a complementary perspective by focusing on how cultural change is being shaped from the bottom-up “makers”, “sufferers” or “perpetrators” of Open Access publishing.
The main part of the talk gives an insider’s perspective, as a case study, of the decisions, motivations and constraints of individuals and stakeholders at different points in the development of a major Open Access publishing project in linguistics. The perspective will then be widened to situate this particular development in the larger development of a “publication” as one functional element in the concept of open science.
- Webcast: Open Journal Publishing – Interview with Professor Dieter Stein (see right)
- Professor Dieter Stein’s Presentation Slides
- Victoria Gardner’s Presentation Slides
About this series
Scholars collaborate online. Data are collected, delivered, analysed, and distributed via the Internet. Communication, both formal publications and informal exchanges, have moved online. Yet face-to-face conversations are still valued, seminars and lectures retain prestige, conferences proliferate, and frequent flyer miles accumulate. This lecture series will provoke a rich discussion of innovations in digital scholarship with an international array of scholars, examining implications for the sciences, social sciences, and humanities and for libraries and publishing.
The series is co-convened by UCLA Professor Christine Borgman, Visiting Fellow and Oliver Smithies Lecturer at Balliol College; Professor William Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies at the OII and Fellow at Balliol College, and Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol College.
Speakers
Professor Dieter Stein
Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf
Dieter Stein is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf (Germany). He obtained degrees (Staatsexamen) in Geography and English at Saarbr¸cken University (1972) and a Doctorate in English Linguistics at Saarbr¸cken (1975). After being part of a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Sonderforschungsbereich on electronic language research and computational linguistics, he taught Applied Linguistics and Translation at Heidelberg University (until 1982). After his Habilitation at Aachen (1982) he was appointed professor for English Linguistics (text- and discourse linguistics) at Justus-Liebig-University Gieflen and transferred to Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf in 1990, where he has taught since then in courses for teacher training, as well as general Masters, BA and MA courses. He has served in most administrative capacities, including dean and several terms as chairman. He has also taught at various universities in the United States, Canada, Spain and Italy, was invited scholar at UCLA, Berkeley, UBC Vancouver and Stanford. His publications are on a broad range of topics ranging from the theory of linguistic change, via applied linguistics, the linguistics of discourse, to language and communication in the Internet, the theory of genre and the language of law and the development of modern English. He was President of the International Society if Historical Linguistics, he is currently President of the International Language and Law Society, he is also editor-in-chief of the Linguistic Society of Americaís digital Publication Portal “eLanguage”. He was the organizer and conference director of a number of major international conferences, including “Berlin 6”, the Max Planck Open Access conference at Duesseldorf. He was also involved in organizing “Berlin 6”, the Open Access conference at Howard-Hughes Medical Institution, Bethesda, Md, USA. His current main research areas include: Language of the Law, Computer-Mediated Communication and language development.
Victoria Gardner
Taylor & Francis Group, UK
Wolfram Horstmann
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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