Weblog Archive (April 2006)

April 24, 2006

Next Weblog update on 5/8/06.

The Acquisitions Librarian 18, no. 35/36 (2006): Includes "The Changing Format of Reference Collections: Are Research Libraries Favoring Electronic Access Over Print?," "The Decline of Print: Ten Years of Print Serial Use in a Small Academic Medical Library," "Signing Away Our Freedom: The Implications of Electronic Resource Licences," and other articles.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "A Simple Search Hit Comparison for Google Scholar, OAIster, and Windows Live Academic Search." DigitalKoans, 12 April 2006.

Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools: Draft 2B. (2006).

Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development. Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness. Washington, DC: Committee For Economic Development, 2006.

Digital Library Federation Aquifer Services Working Group. DLF-Aquifer Services Institutional Survey Report. Washington, DC: Digital Library Federation, 2006.

D-Lib Magazine 12, no. 4 (2006): Includes "Coming Together around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms," "The Development of a Local Thesaurus to Improve Access to the Anthropological Collections of the American Museum of Natural History," "Identifier Interoperability: A Report on Two Recent ISO Activities," "The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition," "Investing in Value: A Perspective on Digital Preservation" "Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age," and other articles.

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA. San Francisco, CA: Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2006.

European Commission. Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research Information and Communication Unit, European Commission, 2006.

Goodman, David. "What Journals, If Any, Should Still Be Printed." (2000).

Information Research 11, no. 3 (2006): Includes "The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): An Open Access Journal Using an Un-Paid, Volunteer-Based Organization" and other articles.

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 3, no. 1 (2006): Includes "Online vs. Print Journals: New Challenges for Academic Medical Libraries" and other articles.

Library Journal, 15 April 2006: Includes "Journals in the Time of Google," "The New Cataloger," and other articles.

McCown,Frank, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair. "Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus." (2006).

Resource Sharing & Information Networks 18, no. 1/2 (2005/2006): Includes "Managing the Grey Literature of a Discipline Through Collaboration: AgEcon Search" and other articles.

RLG DigiNews 10, no. 2 (2006): Includes "MIC (Moving Image Collections)," "Six Lessons Learned: An (Early) ARTstor Retrospective," and other articles.

Shadbolt, Nigel, Tim Brody, Les Carr, and Stevan Harnad. "The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable." (2006).

April 10, 2006

Next Weblog update on 4/24/06.

Antelman, Kristin. "Self-Archiving Practice and the Influence of Publisher Policies in the Social Sciences." (2006).

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 245 (2006): Includes "The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an ARL Member Survey" and "Surveying the E-Journal Preservation Landscape."

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 6, no. 6 (2006): Includes "Discovering Books: The OCA/GBS Saga Continues," "Journal of Electronic Publishing Returns!," and other articles.

College & Research Libraries 67, No. 2 (2006): Includes "Allocation of Costs for Electronic Products in Academic Library Consortia," "Google Scholar and the Library Web Site: The Early Response by ARL Libraries," and other articles.

College & Research Libraries News 67, No. 4 (2006): Includes "Facilitating Open Access" and other articles.

Dewatripont, Mathias, Victor Ginsburgh, Patrick Legros, Alexis Walckiers, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Marianne Dujardin, Françoise Vandooren, Pierre Dubois, Jérôme Foncel, Marc Ivaldi, and Marie-Dominique Heusse. Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe. Brussels: European Commission, 2006.

DLF Newsletter 6, no. 1 (2005).

First Monday 11, no. 4 (2006): Includes "Comparison of Content Policies for Institutional Repositories in Australia," "In Google We Trust: Information Integrity in the Digital Age," and other articles.

Harnad, Stevan. "Manual Evaluation of Robot Performance in Identifying Open Access Articles." (2006).

———. "Online, Continuous, Metrics-Based Research Assessment." (2006).

Herb, Ulrich. "PsyDok: Electronic Full-Text Archive for Psychological Documents." (2006).

High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, no. 12 (2006): Includes "2005, the Year CERN Ran for Open Access"; "CERN's Open Access E-print Coverage in 2006: Three Quarters Full and Counting"; "Electronic Grey Literature in Accelerator Science and Its Allied Subjects : Selected Web Resources for Scientists and Engineers"; "Google Scholar Versus Metasearch Systems"; and other articles.

INDICARE. Content Providers' Guide to DRM. (2006)

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 38, no. 1 (2006): Includes "The Use of Electronic Information Services and Information Literacy: A Glasgow Caledonian University Study" and other articles.

Morrison, Heather. "The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2006 Update." Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 31 March 2006.

Online Information Review 30, no. 1 (2006): Includes "Use and Non-Use of Electronic Information Sources by Undergraduates at the University of the West Indies" and other articles.

Research Information (February/March 2006): Includes "Relationship Building Is Key Outcome of Digital Divide Meeting" and other articles.

Searcher 14, no. 4 (2006): Includes "A Scholarly Society Faces Open Access" and other articles.

The Serials Librarian 49, no. 4 (2006): Includes "Degrees of Separation: Linking and Link Distribution in CNSLP Publisher E-Journal Packages," "A Library's Contribution to Scholarly Communication and Environmental Literacy: The Case of an Open-Access Environmental Journal," and other articles.

Serials Review 32, no. 1 (2006): Includes "Serials—The Constant Midlife Crisis," "Some Thoughts on the Meaning of Open Access for University Library Technical Services," and other articles.

SPARC E-News (February-March 2006).

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 96 (2006): Includes "Germany's DFG Adopts an Open Access Policy," "Top Stories from March 2006," and other articles.

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