Yes,
Well done,
John M.
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From: Charles Wankel <
wankelc@optonline.net>
To:
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:51:16 -0400
Subject: Re: The Technology Source Archives Are Under Construction
From: Fred Nickols
nickols@att.net
Congratulations on saving the archives. Their loss would have been a
misfortune indeed.
--
Fred Nickols
nickols@att.net
www.nickols.us
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "James L. Morrison" <
morrison@unc.edu>
> Subject line: The Technology Source Archives Are Under Construction
>
> I am delighted to announce that The Technology Source (TS) archives will
be
> available to the Internet community courtesy of the UNC School of Public
Health
> Executive Master's Programs in Health Policy and Administration, which has
> funded the reprogramming of TS content on UNC's ibiblio server. As you may
know,
> ibiblio is billed as "the public's library and digital archive," and is
one of
> the largest conservatories of freely available information on the Internet
(see
> the "About" page at
http://www.ibiblio.org/about.html ). What you may not
know
> is that UNC's School of Public Health Executive Master's Programs in
Health
> Policy and Administration is one of the first programs in the country to
offer
> distance education degrees in health administration and, therefore, has
> supported online education and using information technology tools to
enhance the
> educational process for years.
>
> As Jim Porto, the program's director, told me when authorizing funding for
this
> project, "The Technology Source has been a valuable source of information
on
> topics relevant to our delivery of distance education courses. We hated to
see
> the rich archive of articles no longer available to researchers and
> practitioners. As strong advocates of maintaining open access to knowledge
> stores, we felt it important that we take action to preserve the archive.
We are
> confident that our modest investment will yield rewards for a long time to
> come."
>
> It is clear that electronic journals represent a large part of the future
of
> academic journals because these publications enhance the professional
> communication process using the same tools that we urge educators to take
> advantage of in schools, but it is also obvious that e-journals are
fragile and
> can quickly disappear into cyberspace. A movement is growing, however,
whereby
> colleges and universities are becoming publishers of open-source academic
> e-journals, which, hopefully, will allow them to have more stability. We
are
> certainly grateful to Paul Jones, who directs ibiblio, and to Jim Porto
and his
> colleagues in public health for their foresight (and funds!) in ensuring
that TS
> remains available to the community.
>
> We have a draft template of the archives posted on ibiblio at
>
www.technologysource.org and hope to have the reprogrammed ejournal,
complete
> with search engine and "read related" features, available mid-summer at
this
> address.
>
> I was deeply touched by the 400 plus letters I received in response to my
> announcement that the Michigan Virtual University (MVU) was no longer able
to
> host the TS archives. I was unable to respond to every letter, but please
know
> that all were appreciated. Also know that MVU has posted a pointer from
the
>
www.ts.mivu.org address to the ibiblio site, so the some 13,000 or so web
sites
> that had links to TS are no longer broken links.
>
> Best.
>
> Jim
> ----
> James L. Morrison
> Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
>
http://www.innovateonline.info
> Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership
> UNC-Chapel Hill
>
http://horizon.unc.edu
Dr. J. Milliken
School of Business, Retail & Financial Services
University of Ulster
Coleraine