1. “... can you hear me now?” MINDS@UW and the Social Scholar Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Librarian UW Colleges Colloquium, 24 May 2007

2. 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

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

4. “... 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?

5. 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/

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

7. 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

8. 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!

9. “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