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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: "CERN’s Open Access E-print Coverage in 2006: Three Quarters Full and Counting," "Comparison of Content Policies for Institutional Repositories in Australia," "Discovering Books: The OCA/GBS Saga Continues," "A Library’s Contribution to Scholarly Communication and Environmental Literacy: The Case of an Open-Access Environmental Journal," "The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an ARL Member Survey," Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe, and "Surveying the E-Journal Preservation Landscape"

Emerald Group Publishing has announced that the volume 34, number 1 (2006) issue of Reference Services Review has been dedicated to the memory of that journal’s former long-time editor Dr. Ilene F. Rockman, whose obituary was previously published in DigitalKoans.

This issue includes "tributes to Rockman, along with the editorial she was composing during the final days of her life."

Emerald will make this issue freely available during the month of April. (See the press release for access details.)

Emerald will also:

• Fund the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS) Instruction Publication of the Year Award for five years, beginning with the 2006 Award, renaming it the Ilene Rockman Publication Award.
• Establish that the Emerald Literati Network Award from Reference Services Review—the journal’s Outstanding Paper Award—hereafter be known as the Dr. Ilene Rockman Award.
• Nominate Rockman for an Emerald Outstanding Service Award in April 2006.

Thanks to Emerald for these welcome tributes to Ilene.

Want to publish an open access journal, but you don’t want to license a commercial journal management system, develop your own system, or to do it all by tedious HTML hand-coding? Here’s summary information about two existing open source e-journal management systems (and one emerging system) that may do the trick.

HyperJournal

• "HyperJournal is a software application that facilitates the administration of academic journals on the Web. Conceived for researchers in the Humanities and designed according to an intuitive and elegant layout, it permits the installation, personalization, and administration of a dedicated Web site at extremely low cost and without the need for special IT-competence. HyperJournal can be used not only to establish an online version of an existing paper periodical, but also to create an entirely new, solely electronic journal."
• Overview
• Documentation
• Download

Open Journal Systems, Public Knowledge Project

• "Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research."
• Open Journal Systems (Overview)
• FAQ
• OJS Technical Reference
• Download

DPubS (Digital Publishing System), Cornell University Library (In development)

• "DPubS’ ground-breaking software system will enable publishers to cost-effectively organize, deliver, present and publish scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse."
• About DPubS
• FAQ

Postscript: Peter Suber suggests adding several other software packages, including:

1. ePublishing Toolkit
2. SciX Open Publishing Services (SOPS)

Now you can store a 20-second video that can be viewed on a cell phone in a colored bar code the size of a postage stamp. Or, if the cell phone is connected to the Internet, use the bar code to launch a URL. The user snaps a picture of the bar code to utilize it. Content Idea of Asia invested this new bar code technology, which can store 600 KB, and plans to offer it later this year.

Source: Hall, Kenji. "The Bar Code Learns Some Snazzy New Tricks." BusinessWeek, 3 April 2006, 113.

This posting updates and considerably expands my earlier "Scholarly Communication Web Sites at ARL Libraries" posting.

It presents a list of scholarly communication Web sites and Weblogs at the academic member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries. Web sites and Weblogs were identified using separate Google "site:" searches for the exact phrases "scholarly communication" and "open access." Search results were then scanned to identify Web sites or Weblogs that appeared to be intended as the main library’s primary means of communicating to the university community about scholarly communication and/or open access issues. Conferences, presentations, newsletter articles, symposiums, and similar materials were excluded, as were Web sites or Weblogs at branch libraries. Searching was limited to the first few pages of search results.

Additions and corrections are welcome. Use the "Leave a Comment" function for this.

• Auburn University
  
• Brigham Young University
  
• Boston College
  
• Brown University
  
• Cornell University
  
• Emory University
  
• George Washington University
  
• Howard University
  
• Indiana University Bloomington
  
• Iowa State University
  
• Johns Hopkins University
  
• McMaster University
  
• Michigan State University
  
• MIT
  
• North Carolina State University
  
• Queen’s University
  
• Rutgers University
  
• Stanford University
  
• Syracuse University
  
• University at Albany
  
• University at Buffalo
  
• University of Alabama
  
• University of Arizona
  
• University of California
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  
• University of California, Davis
  
• University of California, Irvine
  
• University of California, Los Angeles
  
• University of California, Santa Barbara
  
• University of Connecticut
  
• University of Houston
  
• University of Houston (Weblog)
  
• University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Weblog)
  
• University of Iowa
  
• University of Kansas
  
• University of Kentucky Libraries
  
• University of Iowa
  
• University of Maryland
  
• University of Miami
  
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  
• University of Minnesota (Weblog)
  
• University of Missouri-Columbia
  
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
• University of Notre Dame
  
• University of Oregon
  
• University of Pennsylvania
  
• University of Pittsburgh
  
• University of Tennessee
  
• University of Tennessee (Weblog)
  
• University of Texas, Austin
  
• University of Virginia
  
• University of Washington
  
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• Washington State University
  
• Washington University