What is the interdisciplinary slant: what do we bring to this because of our own research interests?

Nonroman scripts --- need for standardization

Digital divide is of particular concern because of our interdisciplinary, global concern

Greater publicity for indigenous scholars & getting our materials into the Third World so that the models we use can be understood, whether or not they are accepted.

Collaboration is integral to interdisciplinary studies work: the issue of how we collaborate is one to pursue further

Dispersal of information makes our time even scarcer, w/additional complications stemming from distance, language, bureaucratic obstacles, etc

Deconstructing the Questionnaire:

Issues that were discussed:

Access: what is it:

Time & saving it

Technology: need for training, hardware, software

Intellectual access

New model for evaluation of scholarship:

Peer review without traditional markers

How we judge each other

Define copyright of electronic materials in a way that ensures scholarly communication: making it affordable to consumers & possible for producers to remain viable.

What's missing:

Practical discussion of resources: money

Adequate discussion of sources other than textual ones

Adequate discussion of full range of possibilities for collaboration/ cooperation: skills, institutions, resources

Possible proposal idea:

Collaboration: Need for scholars/librarians/publishers to work together, important not only as good technical strategy but also important economic one