Scholarly Communication Institute 7

Information about SCI 7 will be posted in fall 2008.

SCI Background

From its inception, SCI has focused on cultivating leadership and encouraging and enabling digital scholarship. SCI 1 assembled a group of pioneers in digital scholarly communication to review progress over the last two decades and lessons learned, and to identify strategies for continuing progress in the arts and humanities. The reflections of SCI 1 participants set the stage for the SCI 2-4. These Institutes focused on several scholarly disciplines, i.e. practical ethics and architectural history, the nature and potential of collaborative working structures, critical questions surrounding the use of new media technologies to advance scholarship in unique and innovative ways, and the institutional infrastructure essential to enable digital scholarly communication. SCI 5 envisioned the possibilities and recommended strategies for visual technologies to serve scholarship across disciplines.

SCI leadership is committed to assisting participants develop real and reasonable goals that can be accomplished. Theoretical and practical discussions are designed to lead to an action agenda. To this end, SCI continues to work closely with scholars and their partners from previous Institutes including practical ethicists, architectural historians, and visual studies scholars.

Additional information on the Scholarly Communication Institute can be found at:
http://www.uvasci.org/

or contact:

Richard E Lucier
Director,
Scholarly Communication Institute
(Voice) 508-540-3859