DigitalKoans

Version 62 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,680 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does.

The "Open Access Webliography" (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics.

Changes in This Version

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History*
2.2 General Works*
2.3 Library Issues
3 Electronic Serials
3.1 Case Studies and History*
3.2 Critiques
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
3.4 General Works
3.5 Library Issues*
3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
5.2 License Agreements
5.3 Other Legal Issues
6 Library Issues
6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
6.2 Digital Libraries*
6.3 General Works*
6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
8.1 Digital Rights Management*
9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies
Appendix B. About the Author
Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata
Digital Libraries
Electronic Books and Texts
Electronic Serials*
General Electronic Publishing*
Images*
Legal
Preservation
Publishers
Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
SGML and Related Standards

Further Information about SEPB

The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file:

1. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list and RSS feed)
2. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites)
3. Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 220 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 580 KB.

Related Article

An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing.

What was new and interesting during the week of 4/24/06?

• "Are Libraries Managing Innovation in a Disruptive World?"
• "Change, Change, and More Change: LTF Proceedings Now Online"
• "Democrats Lose House Vote on Net Neutrality"
• "The Dream of a Virtual European Digital Library—Will CC Licensing Play a Role?"
• "Fair Use and OA for ETDs"
• "Google Scholar Adds Citation Feature"
• "How Big Is Google Scholar? 500 Million Documents?"
• "An Interview with RLG’s Merrilee Proffitt"
• "An Interview with SPARC’s Heather Joseph"
• "LC, British Library Support Common Archiving Standard for E-Journals"
• "Legal Pitfalls in Taking or Using Photographs of Copyright Material, Trademarks and People"
• "Major Canadian Artists Reject Suing Fans and Crippling CDs "
• "New Blogs of Note (and More to Come)"
• "NPR on Net Neutrality"
• "The PERFORM Act"
• Podcasting Legal Guide
• "SaveTheInternet.com: Fight to Preserve ‘Net Neutrality "
• "The Season of Bad Laws, Part 1: TM Dilution Revision Act"
• "The Season of Bad Laws, Part 2: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Drug War Style"
• "The Season of Bad Laws, Part 3: Banning MP3 Streaming"
• Sustaining Repositories: Newsletter of the APSR Project

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition," "Journals in the Time of Google," "Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age," "Signing Away Our Freedom: The Implications of Electronic Resource Licences," Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe, Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA, and The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.

What was new and interesting during the week of 4/17/06?

• "An Interview with LOC’s Bill LeFurgy"
• "An Interview with NYU’s Howard Besser"
• "An Interview with the University of Tennessee’s Barbara Dewey and Julie Little"
• "Benkler’s Book Is Out"
• "Case Study of Open Access Publishing"
• "F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)"
• "Fedora 2.1.1 released"
• "Fedora’s Wiki"
• "Free Blog Serialization of Science Book"
• "The Future of Scholarly Communication"
• "Google Scholar"
• "Herbert Van de Sompel named first SPARC Innovator"
• "Interview with Cory Doctorow"
• "License Adoption Estimates"
• "LibX: (Yet Another) Browser Toobar Redux"
• "OA in Latest Library Journal Serials Pricing Article"
• "Open Access Archiving Maillist"
• "Presentations on the OCA"
• "RIAA Wins Round One in P2P End-User Lawsuit"
• "Salon on Net Neutrality"
• "State of the Blogosphere: *Lots* More Blogs, Posts, Spam "
• "Wiki of Libraries That Blog"
• "Willinsky’s ‘Access Principle’ Is Now Published Open Access"
• "Windows Live Academic Search: The Details"

DigitalKoans and the digital-scholarship.com domain (which is actually the same as escholarlypub.com) are one today.

Of course, my blogging career began on June 07, 2001, when the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog was established. However, SEPW was designed as a supplement to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, whereas DigitalKoans was designed as a stand-alone publication, albeit one that is inevitably interwoven with my other publication efforts.

So, how did we do in year one? According to Urchin, the digital-scholarship.com domain, which includes DigitalKoans and my other digital works (excluding SEPB, SEPW, and SEPR), has had 251,033 visitor sessions, with an average of 686 sessions per day. There have been 540,054 page requests (pages typically being content-bearing HTML or PDF files), of which 377,640 were for DigitalKoans.

These requests came from 131 top-level Internet domains (e.g., .com). In terms of domains representing identifiable countries, the top ten were: Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, France, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, and Belgium. (Interestingly, India and China came in at 11th and 12th place.) Of course, most U.S. users are in the .com, .edu, .net, and .org domains, which dominated the rankings as a whole.

As I’ve noted previously, I use Urchin for first-cut use statistics, and analog for final ones, so I consider these figures to be preliminary.

In Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation, J. D. Lasica tells the story of Tarnation, a documentary film that nominated for a Camera d’Or award (pg. 84). The film was made for $218.31 using a video camera and iMovie. One catch: Lasica says that getting permission to use brief commercial music and video segments in the movie cost around $400,000. Creating derivative works that use the entertainment industry’s copyrighted works is clearly not cheap, assuming that you can obtain permission to use them at all.

Imagine instead a world where you could download, play, and use digital media works for free without paying license fees. It may sound impossible, but that world is starting to be built using Creative Commons licenses.

The most liberal license of the six main Creative Commons licences is Attribution: "This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation."

The most restrictive license is Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives: "This license is often called the ‘free advertising’ license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially."

Here’s a brief guide to selected resources that will help you get started finding digital audio works licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

• Creative Commons Audio Page: An excellent place to start. It has a search engine, featured audio Web sites, brief information about the Creative Commons Licenses, a list of sites where you can contribute audio works, and featured artists, tools, and works. See also: the Creative Commons Find page, where you can search for CC-licensed works using Google and Yahoo!.
• ccMixter: "This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want." Site tabs provide access to picks, remixes, samples, a cappellas, people, and extras.
• Common Content: "Common Content is a catalog of works licensed in the Creative Commons, available to anyone for copying or creative re-use. The catalog includes over 3,848 records, many of which are collections which include hundreds or thousands of other works." Audio categories include ambient, music, samples, and speech.
• The Freesound Project: "The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs." Sound clips are described, tagged (there’s a tag cloud for popular tags), geotagged, and rated (example: tibetan chant 4 colargol 2.aif). Site includes a "Remix! tree," sample packs, and user forum.
• Indieish: Your Free Music Daily: Blog with CC-licensed music reviews.
• jamendo: "On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses. . . .jamendo users can discover and share albums, but also review them or start a discussion on the forums. Albums are democratically rated based on the visitors’ reviews. If they fancy an artist they can support him by making a donation." Site distributes albums using BitTorrent and the M3U playlist file format.
• PodSafeAudio: "This site aims to provide a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons License for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of ‘casting’ that exists on the ‘net." A complex site with many features, including track reviews,categorization of music by genre and rating, categorization of artists by genre and region, collaboration project listing, user forums, and a blog.

Matt Pasiewicz and CNI have made available digital audio interviews with a number of prominent attendees at the CNI Fall (2005) and Spring (2006) Task Force meetings.

• "An Interview with ALA’s Rick Weingarten"
• "An Interview with ARL’s Duane Webster"
• "An Interview with ArtStor’s James Shulman"
• "An Interview with ASU’s Rob Spindler"
• "An interview with Carnegie Mellon’s Denise Troll Covey"
• "An Interview with CNI’s Cliff Lynch"
• "An Interview with Cornell’s Paul Ginsparg"
• "An Interview with DLF’s Executive Director, David Seaman"
• "An Interview with EPIC’s Kate Wittenberg"
• "An Interview with GMU’s Roy Rosenzweig"
• "An Interview with Indiana’s Brad Wheeler"
• "An Interview with Ithaka’s Kevin Guthrie"
• "An Interview with Georgetown’s Marjory Blumenthal"
• "An Interview with Johns Hopkins University’s Sayeed Choudhury"
• "An interview with Joyce Ray of IMLS"
• "An Interview with LOC’s Bill LeFurgy"
• "An Interview with Microsoft’s Tony Hey"
• "An Interview with MIT’s MacKenzie Smith"
• "An interview with NITLE’s Bryan Alexander and Michael Richwalsky"
• "An interview with NCSU’s Kristin Antelmann"
• "An Interview with Northwestern’s Jerry Goldman"
• "An Interview with NYPL’s Barbara Taranto"
• "An Interview with NYU’s Howard Besser"
• "An interview with Penn State’s Nancy Eaton"
• "An Interview with Purdue’s James Mullins"
• "An Interview with Purdue’s Jim Bottum"
• "An Interview with Rice’s Charles Henry"
• "An Interview with RLG’s James Michalko"
• "An Interview with RLG’s Merrilee Proffitt"
• "An Interview with Ron Larsen About I-Schools"
• "An Interview with SPARC’s Heather Joseph"
• "An Interview with Steve Wheatley, VP of ACLS"
• "An Interview with Susan Perry at CNI’s 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting"
• "An Interview with Tara McPherson About the Vectors Journal"
• "An Interview with the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle"
• "An Interview with the Internet Scout Project’s Rachael Bower"
• "An Interview with the National Research Council of Canada’s Glen Newton"
• "An interview with the Mellon Foundation’s Don Waters"
• "An Interview with the Mellon Foundation’s Ira Fuchs"
• "An Interview with the University of California’s Terry Ryan and Luc Declerck"
• "An Interview with the University of Minnesota’s Eric Celeste"
• "An Interview with the University of Minnesota’s Joseph Konstan about GroupLens"
• "An Interview with the University of Rochester’s Susan Gibbons"
• "An Interview with the University of Tennessee’s Barbara Dewey and Julie Little"
• "An Interview with University of Texas at Austin’s Fred Heath"
• "An Interview with UNC’s José-Marie Griffiths"
• "An Interview with Wayne State’s Jeffrey Trzeciak"

What was new and interesting during the week of 4/10/06?

• "‘Academic Search’ & Librarians in the New Information Economy"
• "ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network"
• "Berlin 4 Open Access—From Promise to Practice "
• "Blogs Join Mainstream Media Through Syndication Service"
• "The CERN Library Team: an OA Inspiration!"
• "CNI Spring 2006 Task Force Meeting Presentations "
• "Copyright Liability in Libraries"
• "Digital Distribution Drives Improvement in Recording Industry Profits"
• "The End of the Internet?"
• "HigherEd BlogCon: Library & Information Resources Track Available"
• "Innovation"
• "Institutional Repositories and Need for ‘Value-Added’ Services"
• "LATimes on Net Neutrality "
• "Little Orphan Works"
• "LJ’s Periodicals Price Survey 2006 on OA"
• "Microsoft Academic Search—The Sisyphean Work Ahead"
• "Microsoft Launches Academic Search Beta"
• "Public Access Working Group Reaffirms Recommendations to Strengthen the NIH Policy"
• "Science Reviews Willinsky"
• "Talk: Social Computing and Libraries"
• "Unintended Consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA"

Given that Windows Live Academic Search’s content is limited to computer science, electrical engineering, and physics journals and conferences, a direct comparison of it with other search engines is somewhat difficult.

Although its limitations should be clearly recognized, the following simple experiment in comparing the number of hits for Google Scholar, OAIster (a search engine that indexes open access literature, such as e-prints), and Windows Live Academic Search may help to shed some light on their differences. (Note that OAIster does not typically include content directly provided by commercial publishers, although it does include e-prints for a large number articles published in academic journals.)

The search is for: "OAI-PMH" (entered without quotes).

"OAI-PMH" being, of course, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. This is a highly specific search, where many, but not all, hits should fall within the subjects covered by Windows Live Academic Search. A major area that might not be covered is library and information science literature.

To get a better feel for the baseline published literature