Flow TV Journal - new issue

The new issue of the journal FlowTV is online. FlowTV is a critical forum on television and media culture published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

Highlights from this issue include:

• Confessions of a Television Academic in a Post-TV World
• Uncle Stevie vs. Aca-Fan: What CopyBlogger can teach us about Popular Scholarship">Uncle Stevie vs. Aca-Fan: What CopyBlogger can teach us about Popular Scholarship

Scholarly communication: Harvard opens up

In an exciting development in the push for open access scholarly communication, Tuesday's Chronicle of Higher Education news blog posted: Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement. The policy requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online through Harvard's institutional repository. There appears to be some confusion regarding when the articles can be posted (after peer review? after the article is published?). This is another facet of what MIT's open courseware project has done to make course materials available free online.

Related links:
SPARC
MIT Open CourseWare

Open-Access Student Video Contest

North Carolina Student Wins Open-Access Video Contest

via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog on 1/22/08

A library group that promotes open access to scholarly data today announced the winners of a contest that had students producing short videos that advocate sharing of ideas and information. Habib Yazdi, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won first place for this video called “Share.”

The first runner-up was a video by Tommy McCauley and Max Silver, of Carleton College, titled “Pri Vetai: Private Eye.” And the second runner-up was “An Open Access Manifesto,” by Romel Espinel and Josh Hardro of the Pratt Institute. —Andrea L. Foster