Publisher: Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics / L’Association canadienne de linguistique appliquée

Articles deal with a wide range of topics in applied linguistics that
include: mother tongue and second language teaching, first and second language acquisition, bilingual education, sociolinguistics, language planning, sociology of language, psycholinguistics, literacy, applied phonetics, translation/terminology, and multimedia and language teaching.

Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée/Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics is published in either English and French.

ISSN 1920-1818

Editors:

Miles Turnbull (English)
Email:  mturnbull at upei.ca

Françoise Mougeon (French)
Email:  fmougeon at glendon.yorku.ca

Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée/Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital repository/open access movement. The report helps to answer questions such as: Who cooperates with requests from librarians and who does not? Who gives their articles to repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library or academic department?

The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

* 13% of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college’s institutional digital repository for scholarly research purposes.

* Use was greatest by faculty at specialized colleges, of whom 40% had used a digital repository at some time for research purposes

* About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.

* Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard of digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually contributed an article to one of them.

* 74.62% of the faculty of the sample understood the meaning of the term ‘open access’. Individuals on the left wing of the political spectrum were more likely than those on the right wing to understand this term.

* Older faculty were more likely than younger faculty to be mystified by open access and digital repositories. Almost 43% of faculty between the ages of 50 and 59 did not know what digital repositories or open access really were.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com

For the first time, digitized copies of rare early editions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been compiled into a single online collection. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive  www.quartos.org) makes digitized versions of the play drawn from libraries in the US and the UK freely available to researchers worldwide.

source: DigitalKoans