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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (January 31, 2012)

Charles Bailey — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:01:17 +0000

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog 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.

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Digital Scholarship 2011 Use Statistics

Charles Bailey — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:03:18 +0000

In 2011, Digital Scholarship had over 12.2 million file requests of which over 9.5 million were page views (requests for HTML, PDF, or Word files). The average number of visitors per day was over 7,000 visitors.

File requests came from 212 countries. The top 5 countries by number of visitors were:

Country	No. of Visitors
United States	> 1.4 million
China	> 260,000
Germany	> 97,000
France	> 92,000
Japan	> 84,000

The top five publications were (includes PDFs for related books):

Publication	File Requests
DigitalKoans	> 8.9 million
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography	> 1.2 million
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography	> 100,000
Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography	> 82,000
Institutional Repository Bibliography*	> 80,000

* Does not include the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 PDF, which had over 48,000 requests.

Log analysis was done with WebLog Expert.

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6

Charles Bailey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:01:03 +0000

Digital Scholarship has released the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6. It includes selected English-language articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (December 19, 2011)

Charles Bailey — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:01:25 +0000

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Digital Scholarship Publication Activity in 2011

Charles Bailey — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:05:14 +0000

Digital Scholarship published the below works in 2011. From January 1, 2011 through November 30, 2011, Digital Scholarship had over 2.4 million visitors from 211 counties and over 11.4 million file requests, including over 8.8 million page views.

January 17, 2011. Published version 2 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography.
March 1, 2011. Published the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 as a paperback.
March 2, 2011. Published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 as a paperback.
March 4, 2011. Published the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 as an open access PDF file.
March 4, 2011. Published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 as an open access PDF file.
July 28, 2011. Published the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 as a paperback.
August 15, 2011. Published version 7 of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
August 30, 2011. Published the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 as an open access PDF file.
October 18, 2011. Published the E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography.
October 30, 2011. Published version 80 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This version marked the fifteenth year of publication of the bibliography, which was established on October 25, 1996.
November 13, 2011. Established the LinkedIn Digital Curation group
December 7, 2011. In 2011, there were 836 DigitalKoans posts.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (November 29, 2011)

Charles Bailey — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:01:30 +0000

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (October 31, 2011)

Charles Bailey — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:06:47 +0000

Version 80, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Charles Bailey — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:01:37 +0000

Version 80 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 4,000 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The bibliography covers a wide range of topics, such as digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital repositories, e-books, e-journals, license agreements, metadata, and open access. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

This version marks the fifteenth year of publication of the bibliography, which was established on October 25, 1996.

Changes in This Version

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

Table of Contents

Dedication
1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History
2.2 General Works*
2.3 Library Issues*
2.4 Research*
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*
4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)*
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Digital Copyright*
5.2 License Agreements*
6 Library Issues
6.1 Digital Libraries*
6.2 Digital Preservation*
6.3 General Works*
6.4 Metadata and Linking*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication*
9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies*
Appendix B. About the Author*
Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics

The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest:

Bibliographies about Open Access from Digital Scholarship

Charles Bailey — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:02:03 +0000

Below is a list of digital/paperback books and digital bibliographies from Digital Scholarship that cover open access topics. They are all under a Creative Commons license (typically the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License). The digital versions are open access.

Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 (July 2011): This selective bibliography presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and ETDs. This selective bibliography covers IR country and regional surveys, multiple-institution repositories, specific IRs, IR digital preservation issues, IR library issues, IR metadata strategies, institutional open access mandates and policies, IR R&D projects, IR research studies, IR open source software, and electronic theses and dissertations. Available as a paperback (96 pages, $9.95, ISBN-10: 146377429X) and an open access PDF file.
Institutional Repository Bibliography (June 2011): This selective bibliography presents over 460 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Available as an XHTML website with live links. Updated periodically. (Table of contents.)
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography (November 2010): This selective bibliography presents over 150 articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. Available as an XHTML website with live links. Updated periodically.
Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (September 2010): This selective bibliography presents over 1,100 journal articles, books, and other textual works about the open access movement. Available as a paperback (180 pages, $15.95, ISBN-10: 1453780815), an open access PDF file, and an XHML website. "An outstanding overview of scholarship relating to the growing Open Access movement." — The Charleston Advisor (Reviews)
Open Access Journals Bibliography (August 2010): This selective bibliography presents over 210 books and articles that are useful in understanding open access journals. Available as an XHTML website with live links. (Table of contents.)
Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (February 2005): This selective bibliography provides an overview of open access concepts, and it presents over 1,300 books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. Available as a paperback (published by the Association of Research Libraries, 130 pages, $45.00, ISBN-10: 1594076707s), an open access PDF file, and an XHML website. (Table of contents) "This title is a major contribution to the study of the open access movement in general, as well as its emergence in the early twenty-first century." — Library Resources and Technical Services (Reviews)

Also, the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 cover open access topics as part of broader coverage of scholarly communication issues.

| New: E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography

Charles Bailey — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:01:59 +0000

Digital Scholarship has released the E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography. It includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. The scope of this brief selective bibliography is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general. Most sources have been published from 2007 through October 18, 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2007 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works, such as e-prints and open access articles.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (October 6, 2011)

Charles Bailey — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:06:33 +0000

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (August 31, 2011)

Charles Bailey — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:01:42 +0000

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011

Charles Bailey — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:01:26 +0000

Digital Scholarship has released the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011. This 96-page book presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and ETDs. It covers institutional repository (IR) country and regional surveys, multiple-institution repositories, specific IRs, IR digital preservation issues, IR library issues, IR metadata strategies, institutional open access mandates and policies, IR R&D projects, IR research studies, IR open source software, and electronic theses and dissertations. Most sources have been published from 2000 through June 30, 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works.

The Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 is available as a $9.95 paperback (ISBN: 146377429X) and an open access PDF file. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

For further information about Digital Scholarship publications, see the "Digital Scholarship Publications Overview" and "Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications."

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Google Books Bibliography, Version 7

Charles Bailey — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:01:56 +0000

Digital Scholarship has released version 7 of the Google Books Bibliography, which presents over 325 selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Books. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Books and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it, especially the Google Book Settlement. To better show the development Google Books, it is now organized by year of publication. It primarily includes journal articles, e-prints, magazine articles, and newspaper articles. This version expands coverage of law review articles and legal e-prints. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet.

The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest:

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010. Presents over 500 English-language works.
Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 4. Presents over 500 English-language works.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010. Presents over 3,800 English-language works.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (July 31, 2011)

Charles Bailey — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:01:59 +0000

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