- LITA Farewell http://bit.ly/dTLdDj #
- Google Expects Pre-Xmas Launch for E-Book Platform http://bit.ly/eIgDWU #
- Current Cites (November 2010) http://bit.ly/hxuif1 #
- OCLC Publishes 43rd Annual Report to the Membership http://bit.ly/e6atS2 #
- Argentinian Philosophy Professor Horacio Potel on the Fight against Restrictive Copyright Laws … http://bit.ly/gZe6KD #
- FTC to Release 'Do Not Track' Report on Web Privacy http://bit.ly/guBXA8 #
- Fed Up with ICANN, Pirate Bay Cofounder Floats P2P DNS System http://bit.ly/eeYGM4 #
- iPad Leading E-Book Reader Demand Despite Kindle Price Advantage http://bit.ly/gMQiY4 #
- Note about ARL's Guide for Research Libraries: The NSF Data Sharing Policy http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/nsf/index.shtml #
Year: 2010
Systems Librarian at University of Michigan Law Library
The University of Michigan Law Library is recruiting a Systems Librarian. Salary: $49,000 minimum.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Systems Librarian, as a member of the Electronic & Systems Services Unit, cross-departmental work groups, and committees, is responsible for setting and achieving long range plans and short term goals in conjunction with library wide goals. The Systems Librarian works under the supervision of the Head of Electronic & Systems Services.
Proceedings of the 157th ARL Membership Meeting
ARL has released Proceedings of the 157th ARL Membership Meeting.
Here's a brief selection of presentations:
- Are Libraries Rising to the Fair Use Challenge?, MP3, Peter Jaszi/Brandon Butler slides
- Reflections from Marybeth Peters, MP3
Server and Systems Coordinator at Georgetown University Law Library
The Georgetown University Law Library is recruiting a Server and Systems Coordinator.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Coordinates application development for the Electronic Resources & Services section of the library, including support to create and manage web-based applications delivering library content and services.
Collaborates with the Law Center Information Systems Technology Department on server management, security and authentication issues, including:
- Upgrades, patches, replacement, FTP software and accounts;
- Analysis of statistics and server logs;
- Security configurations for library servers;
- Authentication for electronic subscriptions, the Law Library's intranet, and other electronic resources; and
- Permissions for server software programs and applications.
RLUK Wants Serials Price Reductions to Avoid Cuts That Would "Fatally Compromise" Research
Research Libraries UK has issued a press release about needed serials price reductions.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
At its recent conference, RLUK announced it would not support future journal big deals unless they showed real price reductions. With a cut to the teaching grant and research budgets flat at best, RLUK members believe that unless this happens they will be forced to cancel significant numbers of subscriptions which will fatally compromise the UK's capacity for research.
For the past several years JISC Collections have negotiated with the publishers on behalf of UKHE. RLUK is so worried about the current situation that it has instructed JISC Collections to secure contracts which will not only rescind the unreasonable price rises of the last three years, but also offer affordable deals for the future. If reasonable deals cannot be struck RLUK libraries will be forced to provide information resources to their researchers and students in other ways.
"The capacity of UK universities to continue to pay such large year-on-year increases for access to scholarly journals is not infinite," said Professor Michael Arthur, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and Chair of the Russell Group of Universities. "To ensure the continued vitality of the UK's world-beating research base we need to reassess the costs of electronic access and find a new balance between the value added by publishers and the charges they make. We realise that finding such a balance may not be easy, but if we fail to address the problem now there will be serious long-term consequences for research and teaching in the UK."
"The UK Higher Education sector now spends almost £200m per year on access to journals and databases," explained David Prosser, RLUK's Executive Director. "This is 10% of the total QR funding the sector receives and increases above inflation each year. We understand the value publishers add to the publication process, but publishers must also understand that they cannot continue to increase prices at a time when budgets are so tight. We do not wish to cancel big deals, but we shall have no alternative unless the largest publishers substantially reduce their prices."
"Some RLUK members now pay over £1m a year to access journals from the largest publisher," said Phil Sykes, Chair of RLUK and Librarian at Liverpool University. "With annual journal price inflation running at double the rate of RPI since 2000, it has distorted the acquisition policies of libraries, with an ever-increasing proportion of budgets being spent on electronic big deals. This leads to diminishing funds for monographs, textbooks, and journals from smaller publishers, which cannot but damage scholarship and teaching in UKHE."
Daily Tweets 2010-11-30
- Amazon Charges Kindle Users for Free Project Gutenberg E-Books http://icio.us/dYxGUe #
- Netflix Partner Says Comcast Fee 'Threatens' Open Internet http://icio.us/3mcm5u #
- Academic Publishers "Committed" to Librarians http://icio.us/opnojn #
- French Author Plagiarizes Wikipedia; Does That Mean His Entire Book Is Now CC Licensed? http://icio.us/tl3z2z #
- Update: More Info About the Launch of Mexican Digital Library http://icio.us/nielil #
- Reimagining the Archive http://icio.us/gee4y1 #
- Latest Views on JPEG2000 for Presentation and Archiving http://icio.us/d1p1nc #
- Supreme Court Refuses Innocent Infringement P2P Case http://icio.us/dpeu2r #
"MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories"
David E. Millard et al. have self-archived "MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories" in the ECS EPrints Repository.
Here's an excerpt:
Teaching and Learning Repositories learning from the best practices of Web 2.0. Over this time we have successfully deployed a number of innovative repositories, including Southampton University EdShare, The Language Box, The HumBox, Open University’s LORO and Worcester Learning Box. A key part of this work has been the development of an extension for the EPrints repository platform, called MePrints, that enables configurable profile pages, and works alongside existing extensions such as IRStats and SNEEP in order to give users live feeds about repository events that matter to them. Through these deployments we have discovered that more sophisticated profile pages give users a home within a repository, act as a focus for their work, and help them feel more ownership of the work that they deposit. This increases the visibility of the repository and encourages more deposits.
Head of Electronic Resources at University of Houston (Revised)
The University of Houston Libraries are recruiting a Head of Electronic Resources. Salary: $64,000 to $68,000 anticipated hiring range.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Head of Electronic Resources will lead and manage a newly formulated department. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Access and Technical Services, this position is responsible for deploying and ensuring access to a wide range of electronic resources. The position will initially supervise one librarian and one staff member. Responsibilities include oversight of electronic resource management and discovery tools, and troubleshooting electronic resource access issues in conjunction with Acquisitions, Cataloging, Web Services and Systems departments. This position participates in the evaluation of electronic resources as a member of the Collection Management Committee.
E-Only Scholarly Journals: Overcoming the Barriers
The Research Information Network has released E-Only Scholarly Journals: Overcoming the Barriers.
Here's an excerpt:
This study is prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK, and to investigate what various players within the scholarly communications system could do in order to encourage such a move.
This study involved a thorough literature review, gathering and analysing information provided by publishers and librarians, and interviews with a range of publishers, librarians and academics. The results are presented in this report, along with some recommendations for action.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 5
Version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. The bibliography does not cover digital media works (such as MP3 files), editorials, e-mail messages, interviews, letters to the editor, news articles, presentation slides or transcripts, or weblog postings. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest:
- Institutional Repository Bibliography
- Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website)
See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications.
Daily Tweets 2010-11-29
- Courts Shut Down 82 Sites for Alleged Copyright Violations http://icio.us/nwirlf #
- Anti-Piracy Lawyers Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Extortion http://icio.us/0zu0jw #
- Beyond the Impact Factor: Building a Community for More Diverse Measurement of Research http://icio.us/xbcsse #
- The University of Michigan Releases 684,597 Open Access Bibliographic Records http://icio.us/0ha1ca #
- Digital Reader Penetration Accelerates http://icio.us/pduj0h #
- Open Bibliographic Data: How Should the Ecosystem Work? http://icio.us/mscmtz #
- Europeana Open Culture 2010 http://icio.us/4fjaax #
- Repository Fringe 2010 http://icio.us/3jvahf #
- Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm http://icio.us/1kmn4t #
- Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford http://icio.us/mmm4kt #
- HighWire Launches Six Mobile Web Sites in Collaboration with the American Heart Association http://icio.us/lzriuv #
- University of Pittsburgh Library System Offers Free Ejournal Publishing Service http://icio.us/loqgce #
Guide for Research Libraries: The NSF Data Sharing Policy
ARL has released the Guide for Research Libraries: The NSF Data Sharing Policy.
Here's an excerpt:
The Association for Research Libraries has developed this guide primarily for librarians, to help them make sense of the new NSF requirement. It provides the context for, and an explanation of, the policy change and its ramifications for the grant-writing process. It investigates the role of libraries in data management planning, offering guidance in helping researchers meet the NSF requirement. In addition, the guide provides a resources page, where examples of responses from ARL libraries may be found, as well as guides for data management planning created by various NSF directorates and approaches to the topic created by international data archive and curation centers.
Search Engine Added to Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography
A Google Custom Search Engine has been added to the XHTML version of Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography.
In related news, Amazon is now offering the paperback version of Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography at the discount price of $11.48.
Recap of Digital Library, Electronic Resource, and Library IT Jobs 10/28/10-11/28/10
In case you missed the tweets, here are jobs from 10/28/10-11/28/10 during the DigitalKoans blog hiatus.
- Humanities Design (UX) Architect [Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library] http://icio.us/hkjmrl
- Data Curator-OOI Project [UCSD] http://icio.us/zkdtux
- Associate Director, Current Journals Program [Ithaka] http://icio.us/5i2uqj
- Electronic Resources and Technology Librarian [Vermont Law School] http://icio.us/d3alwp
- Digital Collections Archivist [The American University in Cairo] http://icio.us/mchbrv
- Systems Librarian/Head of Cataloging [La Salle University] http://icio.us/ow1zsm
- Assistant Registrar for Digital Resources [Rhode Island School of Design] http://icio.us/u242gf
- Web Developer [Columbia University Libraries Digital Program] http://icio.us/0o2ebd
- Electronic Resources Librarian [Norwich University] http://icio.us/dxo1h3
- Programmer/Analyst (Emerging Technologies and Web Applications Specialist) [Penn State] http://icio.us/oqjhj4
- Web Developer I [Sno-Isle Libraries] http://icio.us/m10vyt
- Information Technology Professional [Michigan State University Libraries , posting number: 4212] http://icio.us/yisbs4
- Web Programmer [Howard County Library] http://icio.us/okjvtu
- Electronic Resources Librarian (2) [DePaul University] http://icio.us/g1n3ob
- Web Applications/Software Developer [Northwestern University] http://icio.us/0pd2xn
- Head of Electronic Services [University of Akron] http://icio.us/urheu4
- Digital & Web Services Librarian [Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine] http://icio.us/w2mprz
- Web Developer [Stanford University Libraries, Job ID: 40447, 21 months] http://icio.us/w45nrz
- Digital Applications Librarian [Oregon State University] http://icio.us/qjmd0c
- Digital Projects Librarian [Vassar College, Posting Number, 1000382] http://icio.us/251ij4
- Visual Resources Curator & Digital Services Associate [College of Wooster, through June 2012] http://icio.us/vnjj14
- Associate University Librarian, Digital & Discovery Services [University of Waterloo] http://icio.us/3tlfdp
- Digital Media Producer [John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation] http://icio.us/afr0kh
- Copyright Officer [llinois State University's Milner Library] http://icio.us/2xo3dj
- Associate Dean of Information Technology [University of Maryland Libraries] http://icio.us/2tqh5h
- Electronic Resources Support Librarian [Yale University Library] http://icio.us/nhlouy
- Lead Technologist/Architect, Online Library Environment [University of Virginia] http://icio.us/sfyxwk
- Information Technology Specialist (Customer Support) [Library of Congress] http://icio.us/0m4ka3
- Library Web Programmer/Drupal Developer [University of California, Santa Barbara] http://icio.us/brky4i
- Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship [UCLA Library] http://icio.us/2sad2b
- Digital Projects Librarian [Clemson University Libraries, # 10360] http://icio.us/lsrylw
- Senior Developer [University of Virginia] http://icio.us/pidfko
- Web Services Librarian [Memorial University of Newfoundland] http://icio.us/dwhhj5
- Digital Library Developer [University of York, 12 months] http://icio.us/aaztl3
- Technology and Serials Librarian [Fitchburg State University] http://icio.us/yilroi
- Technology Consultant [Library of Virginia] http://icio.us/hu1gww
- Director, Administration & Planning, Library and Technology Services [Lehigh University] http://icio.us/5xb44w
- Applications Developer (Temporary for One Year) [The New York Public Library] http://icio.us/ve5052
- Partt-Time E-Repository Librarian [School of Pharmacy, University of London] http://icio.us/rfv1au
- Assistant Director for Research and Development [Library Of Congress] http://icio.us/c45axd
- Information Technology Specialist (Systems Analysis) [Library Of Congress] http://icio.us/1faznw
- Digital Imaging Specialist (Physicist) [Library Of Congress] http://icio.us/flcwl2
- Web Applications Developer [Bowling Green State University] http://icio.us/4aws4w
- System Administrator [Kansas City Public Library] http://icio.us/2np141
- Web Developer [Kansas City Public Library] http://icio.us/ho0vdi
- Web Coordinator [La Trobe University] http://icio.us/werhb0
- Repository Support Officer [University of Newcastle] http://icio.us/qbzxmn
- Metadata Librarian [University of Virginia] http://icio.us/jydea0
- Newspaper Collections Project Manager [Stanford University Libraries, 3-year term] http://icio.us/rokuoa
- Technology Development Librarian (College at Oneonta) http://icio.us/ppfzoo
- Systems and Digital Resources Librarian [Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University] http://icio.us/xvpfys
- Software Developer/Analyst (Cloud Computing) [King's College, University of London] http://icio.us/isou4v
- Interface Specialist [J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University] http://icio.us/3npyl4
- Open Library Project Manager [Internet Archive] http://icio.us/joblwy
- Digital Library Specialist [Getty Research Institute] http://icio.us/gnzbve
- Systems Librarian [Rock Valley College] http://icio.us/002anb
- Web Developer [Stanford University Libraries, 21 months] http://icio.us/nms1un
- Digital Projects and Outreach Librarian [UNC-Chapel Hill] http://icio.us/p3gugz
- Digital Collections & Metadata Librarian [Western Oregon University] http://icio.us/b1g3s1
- Archivist for Digital Collections [Tufts University] http://icio.us/0p11bl
- Team Leader, Library Technology Services [University of Canberra] http://icio.us/p2q3xs
- Director, Electronic Textbook Center [Youngstown State University] http://icio.us/snimrg
- Library Systems Administrator [Drew University] http://icio.us/lnwc1x
- Columbia University Digital Repository Manager http://icio.us/ii2ozb
- Head of Technology and Digital Assets [Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University] http://icio.us/kdi24l
Gary Ward Named Chairman of the Public Library of Science
Gary Ward has been named Chairman of the Public Library of Science.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
We're delighted to announce that the PLoS board of directors has appointed Gary Ward as board chairman, effective January 1, 2011. Gary has a longstanding association with PLoS as a charter member of the PLoS Biology Editorial Board, has a deep understanding of Open Access and a strong devotion to its widespread adoption.
Gary received his PhD from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and did post doc work at UC San Francisco with Marc Kirschner. He was a Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH’s Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, and Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology. He is currently Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont.
Gary’s Open Access credentials are as impressive as his scholarly credentials: he is Chair (through year-end) of the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, a past member of the NLM Public Access Working Group, and member of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Open Access working group.
Harvard Divinity School Adopts Open Access Policy
On November 15, 2010, the Harvard Divinity School adopted an open access policy. Five other Harvard units have an open access policy: the Business School, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Law School.
Here's an excerpt:
The Faculty of the Harvard Divinity School is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. More specifically, each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy applies to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Dean or Dean's designate will waive application of the license for a particular article or delay access for a specified period of time upon express direction by a Faculty member.
Each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the author's final version of each article no later than the date of its publication at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Provost's Office in an appropriate format (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office. The Provost's Office may make the article available to the public in an open-access repository.
National Archives and Records Administration Joins ARL
The National Archives and Records Administration has joined the Association of Research Libraries.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
At its 2010 Fall Membership Meeting held October 13-14, 2010, in Washington, DC, the membership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) voted to invite the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to join as its 126th member. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, accepted the invitation.
"The National Archives is delighted to become a member of ARL," said Ferriero. "This is a very exciting time for libraries and archives. Information policy is a burgeoning field with a myriad of opportunities. Becoming a member of ARL will offer the National Archives, which is the largest archives in the United States, an opportunity to share our expertise and experience in archives and records management with our new colleagues. We also look forward to learning new ideas and fresh approaches to the challenges that we all face."
The vote of membership followed a process that considered both qualitative and quantitative documentation and involved a site visit by members of the ARL Membership Committee. The review also examined the unique breadth and depth of NARA’s collections, services to the public and research community, and potential contributions to research and scholarship. The review committee noted in particular NARA’s leadership in records and archival management activities, an area of increasingly strategic importance for research libraries.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (November 29, 2010)
The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.
Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3
An institutional repository is a digital repository specific to a single institution that contains diverse types of digital works that deal with the disciplines associated with that institution.
Version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. It primarily includes published articles, books, and technical reports. A limited number of conference papers and unpublished e-prints are also included. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated):
1 General
2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys
3 Multiple-Institution Repositories
4 Specific Institutional Repositories
5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues
6 Institutional Repository Library Issues
7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues
8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies
9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects
10 Institutional Repository Research Studies
11 Institutional Repository Software
12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies
Appendix B. About the Author
The following recent Digital Scholarship publication may also be of interest:
- Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website)
See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited’s Use of the Attributor Anti-Piracy Service
In "Thanks but No Thanks Emerald," Kristin Eschenfelder reproduces and discusses a letter that she received from the Emerald Group Publishing Limited. In short, this letter says that Emerald is expanding it's use of Attributor to detect copyright violations from "cyberlockers" to "the full breadth of the internet," and it requests the URLs for her personal, institutional, and corporate websites so that they can be excluded from Attributor searches and its "legally-binding takedown notices."
Will this expanded use of Attributor affect self-archiving of articles from Emerald journals?
Emerald's publication policies are detailed in its Authors' Charter and its Review Copyright Assignment Form. Emerald requires that authors assign their article copyrights to Emerald as a condition of publication.
The Authors' Charter states that (I have added italics in certain places in the below quotes):
Authors are not required to seek Emerald's permission to re-use their own work. As an author with Emerald you can use your paper in part or in full, including figures and tables if you want to do so in a book, in another article written for us or another publisher, on your website, or any other use, without asking us first.
It further states that:
It does NOT, in any way, restrict your right or academic freedom to contribute to the wider distribution and readership of your work. This includes the right to: . . . .
2. Reproduce your own version of your article, including peer review/editorial changes, in another journal, as content in a book of which you are the author, in a thesis, dissertation or in any other record of study, in print or electronic format as required by your university or for your own career development.
3. Deposit an electronic copy of your own final version of your article, pre- or post-print, on your own or institutional website. The electronic copy cannot be deposited at the stage of acceptance by the Editor.
Authors are requested to cite the original publication source of their work and link to the published version — but are NOT required to seek Emerald's permission with regard to the personal re-use of their work as described above. Emerald never charges its authors for re-use of any of their own published works. Emerald does not allow systematic archiving of works by third parties into an institutional or subject repository.
The Review Copyright Assignment Form says:
This assignment of copyright to Emerald Group Publishing Limited is done so on the understanding that permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited is not required for me/us to reproduce, republish or distribute copies of the Work in whole or in part.
Given the above, it would appear that the author can: (1) self-archive an article on his or her personal website, (2) self-archive an article in his or her institutional repository, and (3) self-archive an article in a subject archive (the restriction is for “systematic archiving of works by third parties,” not self-archiving). Institutional repository staff or subject repository staff cannot archive articles for authors.
If this is not correct, it would be helpful to hear from Emerald what its interpretation of these documents is.
Unlike the RIAA and the MPAA, scholarly journal publishers have a limited primary customer base—academic libraries. Moreover, academic librarians are authors as well as customers, and, for some publishers, they are a significant subset of their authors. The endless serials crisis has already seriously strained relations between academic librarians and publishers. Hopefully, scholarly journal publishers will be sensible and sensitive to customer concerns in their attempts to cope with difficult digital copyright issues.
[See Emerald's reply in the comments.]
DigitalKoans Back on 11/29/10
DigitalKoans postings will resume on 11/29/10.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (October 27, 2010)
The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.
Daily Tweets 2010-10-27
- Library Technologies Support Analyst [Ball State University] http://icio.us/sf23bs #
- Drupal Software Developer [University of Minnesota] http://icio.us/h11ezt #
- The Open Internet Under Assault http://icio.us/kvfcqx #
- Barnes & Noble Unveils Full-Color, Android-Based Nook http://icio.us/zonteo #
- New Podcast Features Adam Farquhar of the British Library (Library of Congress) http://icio.us/cyehgt #
- Digital Storage, Digital Preservation (Library of Congress) http://icio.us/jts0f3 #
- Enabling Data Discovery through Virtual Internet Repositories http://icio.us/o4noen #
- DC-2010–Pittsburgh Proceedings http://icio.us/za5bfb #
- DuraSpace OR10 DSpace and Fedora User Group Session Videos http://icio.us/fuot4f #
- Digital Preservation Recorder http://icio.us/saooyj #
- Network Neutrality 101 – Why the Government Must Act to Preserve the Free And Open Internet http://icio.us/ckkt1c #
- Results of Librarian Survey on Usage Statistics http://icio.us/kxidjy #
- Just Published: Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 [EDUCAUSE] http://icio.us/vfbxsf #
- Appraise & Select Research Data for Curation [Digital Curation Centre] http://icio.us/aazdj4 #
- The End of the Public University in England http://icio.us/m4vepz #
- New Available: Presentations (Audio, Video, Slides) from the ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship 2010 http://icio.us/5wmsop #
- ARL Announces 2010–2011 Board of Directors http://icio.us/eqhgyr #
- The Conclusion of Open Access Week 2010 (SPARC) http://icio.us/qnvmsb #
Discovery and Delivery Services Programmer at California Digital Library
The California Digital Library is recruiting a Discovery and Delivery Services Programmer. Salary: $66,900 minimum.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Reporting to the Technical Lead, Discovery and Delivery Services, this position is one of eight programmer/analyst positions in the Discovery and Delivery Services Group responsible for the technical design, implementation, maintenance, and operation of the CDL's bibliographic systems (the Melvyl Union Catalog, UC-eLinks, Request) as well as providing technical leadership in the design, development and implementation of new systems like ERMS (Electronic Resources Management System) and the HathiTrust a shared digital library being built by major research libraries.
Thomson Reuters to Release Book Citation Index in 2011
Thomson Reuters plans to release a Book Citation Index in 2011.
Nancy Herther has interviewed Thomson Reuters' James Testa about the forthcoming product.