Next Weblog update on 1/14/09.

Ariadne, no. 57 (2008): Includes "A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions"; "Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content"; "Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access"; "Implementing e-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective"; "OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation"; and other articles.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 260 (2008): Includes "How Fair Use Prevailed in the Harry Potter Case," "On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Policy Promotes Progress," and other articles.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Author's Rights, Tout de Suite. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

Band, Jonathan. A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association, 2008.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 10 (2008): Includes "The Beauty of 'Some Rights Reserved'," "Tec(h)tonics: Reimagining Preservation," and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look. Mountain View, CA: Cites & Insights, 2008. (Publisher's description)

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 11/12 (2008): Includes "Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns," "The Future of Repositories? Patterns for (Cross-)Repository Architectures," "Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages," "A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline," and other articles.

The Electronic Library 26, no. 6 (2008): Includes "A Metadata Manager's Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries Experience," "Usability Study of Digital Institutional Repositories," and other articles.

Interlending & Document Supply 36, no. 4 (2008): Includes "'Inside Every Fat Man': Balancing the Digital Library Budget" and other articles.

International Journal of Digital Curation 3, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Access to Data for eResearch: Designing the Australian National Data Service Discovery Services," "Bringing Self-Assessment Home: Repository Profiling and Key Lines of Enquiry within DRAMBORA," "The Data Audit Framework: A First Step in the Data Management Challenge," "Digital Data Practices and the Long Term Ecological Research Program Growing Global," "Digital Preservation and Copyright: An International Study," "'Grand Theft Archive': A Quantitative Analysis of the State of Computer Game Preservation," "Migration Performance for Legacy Data Access," "SCOPE: A Scientific Compound Object Publishing and Editing System," "Sustaining Engineering Informatics: Toward Methods and Metrics for Digital Curation," and other articles.

International Journal on Digital Libraries 9, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The aDORe Federation Architecture: Digital Repositories at Scale," "DelosDLMS: From the DELOS Vision to the Implementation of a Future Digital Library Management System," "Knowledge Discovery in Digital Libraries of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An NDLTD Case Study," "Uncovering Cultural Heritage through Collaboration," "Workload Analysis for Scientific Literature Digital Libraries," and other articles.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, no. 6 (2008): Includes "A Comparison of Subject and Institutional Repositories in Self-Archiving Practices" and other articles.

Journal of Documentation 64, no. 6 (2008): Includes "Comparison and Evaluation of the User Interfaces of E-Journals II: Perceptions of the Users," "Legal Issues for Information Professionals IX: An Overview of Recent Developments in the Law, in Relation to the Internet," and other articles.

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Assessing E-Book Model Sustainability" and other articles.

Journal of Library Administration 48, no. 2 (2008): Includes "From Advocacy to Implementation: The NIH Public Access Policy and Its Impact," "Local to Global: The Emerging Research Library," "Out of the Gray Times: Leading Libraries into the Digital Future," "Partners in Knowledge Creation: An Expanded Role for Research Libraries in the Digital Future," "Unintended Consequences: A Friendly User Looks at User-Friendly Digitization," and other articles.

Journal of Library Metadata 8, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Promoting Shareability: Metadata Activities of the DLF Aquifer Initiative" and other articles.

Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries 4, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Open Access for Health and Medicine in France," "The Open Access Policy of the Italian National Institute of Health: Steps Forward to Innovative Publishing Habits," "Open Data: The Elephant in the Room," and other articles.

Library & Information Science Research 30, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Expanding the Value of Scholarly, Open Access E-Journals" and other articles.

Library Management 29, no. 8/9 (2008): Includes "The Irish Research Electronic Library Initiative: Levelling the Playing-Field?" and other articles.

Maron, Nancy L., and K. Kirby Smith. Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2008.

Online Information Review 32, no. 6 (2008): Includes "Finding Open Access Articles Using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR" and other articles.

Randall, Ryan, Jane Smith, Katie Clark, Nancy Fried Foster. The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester. UR Research, 2008.

Science & Technology Libraries 28, no. 3 (2008): Includes "FRPAA and NIH Mandate: A Blessing in Disguise for Scientific Society Publishers?" and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 21, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Electronic Journal Provision and Use in China: An Initial Study," "How Much Does It Cost, and Who Pays? The Global Costs of Scholarly Communication and the UK Contribution," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 128 (2008): Includes "Predictions for 2009" and other articles.

Walton, Donnelly Lancaster. Manuscript Collections on the Web, SPEC Kit 307. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2008.

Zorich, Diane M. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.

Next Weblog update on 12/3/08.

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 35, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Best Practice and Standardization Initiatives for Managing Electronic Resources" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 11 (2008): Includes "Library Access to Scholarship: OA Controversies" and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 43, no. 5 (2008): Includes "Curating Scientific Web Services and Workflows" and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 43, no. 6 (2008): Includes "The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research"; "Publishing Services: An Emerging Role for Research Libraries"; "Repositories, Cyberinfrastructure, and the Humanities"; "Supporting the 'Scholarship' in E-Scholarship"; and other articles.

First Monday 13, no. 10 (2008): Includes "Mass Book Digitization: The Deeper Story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance" and other articles.

Greco, Albert N., and Robert Michael Wharton. "Should University Presses Adopt an Open Access [Electronic Publishing] Business Model for All of Their Scholarly Books?." ELPUB, 2008.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, no. 5 (2008): Includes "Organizing for Digitization at Oregon State University: A Case Study and Comparison with ARL Libraries," "A Survey of Attitudes about Digital Repositories among Faculty at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge," and other articles.

Journal of Library Administration 47, no. 1/2 (2007): Includes "All Hype or Real Change: Has the Digital Revolution Changed Scholarly Communication?," "Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies," "The Million Book Project in Relation to Google," and other articles.

Journal of Library Administration 48, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Assessing the Value and Impact of Digital Content"; "A Question of Access-Evolving Policies and Practices"; "Responding to the Preservation Challenge: Portico, an Electronic Archiving Service"; "A World Infinite and Accessible: Digital Ubiquity, the Adaptable Library, and the End of Information"; and other articles.

Journal of Library Administration 48, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Attitudes and Behaviors in the Field of Economics: Anomaly or Leading Indicator," "From Advocacy to Implementation: The NIH Public Access Policy and Its Impact," "Partners in Knowledge Creation: An Expanded Role for Research Libraries in the Digital Future," and other articles.

Journal of the Medical Library Association 96, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Citation Patterns of Online and Print Journals in the Digital Age" and other articles.

Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40, no. 1 (2008): Includes "On the Author's Addendum," "University of Michigan Press: The Future of Scholarly Communication: On the Other Side of the Digital Tipping Point," and other articles.

Library Hi Tech 26, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Digital Rights Description as Part of Digital Rights Management: A Challenge for Libraries" and other articles.

Library Review 57, no. 9 (2008): Includes "Scientometric Analysis of a Sample of Physics-Related Research Output Held in the Institutional Repository Strathprints (2000-2005)" and other articles.

Library Trends 57, no. 1 (2008): Includes "A Book Publisher's Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century: How Traditional Publishers Can Position Themselves in the Changing Media Flows of a Networked Era"; "Cultural Tenacity within Libraries and Publishers"; "Digital Text Collections, Linguistic Research Data, and Mashups: Notes on the Legal Situation"; "The End of the Gutenberg Era"; "A Mass Digitization Primer"; and other articles.

OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 24, no. 4 (2008): Includes "The African Elephant: A Digital Collection of Anatomical Sketches as Part of the University of Pretoria's Institutional Repository—A Case Study," "Those Who Don't Look Don't Find: Disciplinary Considerations in Repository Advocacy," "Smack Down: Copyright Cases Head to Court (Part 1)," and other articles.

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 42, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Access to Scholarly Communication in Higher Education in India: Trends in Usage Statistics via INFLIBNET," "Selective Archiving of Web Resources: A Study of Processing Costs," and other articles.

ScieCom Info 4, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Telling a Different Story in Open Access Journals?," "University of Helsinki Opens Its Research Vaults: A Few Words on Open Access and the New Research Environment in Finland," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 127 (2008): Includes "An Open Letter to the Next President of the United States" and other articles.

Next Weblog update on 11/5/08.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 259 (2008): Includes "PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy" and other articles.

Collection Management 33, no. 1/2 (2008): Includes "Do Economic Factors Really Matter in the Assessment and Retention of Electronic Resources Licensed at the Library Consortium Level?" and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 9/10 (2008): Includes "Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals"; "Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repositories"; and other articles.

The Electronic Library 26, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Digital Repository in Ceramics: A Metadata Study," "Enhancing Literary Electronic Books with Logical Structure: Electronic Work," and other articles.

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 20, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Cutting Edge Books: The Impact of Digital Books on Public Library Acquisitions," "Selecting and Implementing an ERMS at Wayne State University: A Case Study," and other articles.

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 20, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The Case for Standardized Reporting and Assessment Requirements for Institutional Repositories," "Cracking the Egg: The South Carolina Digital Library's New Perspective," "What Faculty Think: A Survey on Electronic Resources," and other articles.

Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve 18, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Processing Reserves, Seeking Permissions and Engaging the Campus: How the Library Serves as the Copyright Touchstone"; "Shifting Responsibility for Electronic Reserves Copyright Permissions from the Academic Departments to the Library: From Confusion to Cooperation"; and other articles.

Journal of Library Metadata 8, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Cataloging Images in Millennium: A Central Repository for Faculty-Owned Images," "Dublin Core Metadata Harvested through OAI-PMH," and other articles.

Journal of Library Metadata 8, no. 2 (2008): Includes "OCLC's Work with the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set" and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 12 (2008): Includes "The Citation Advantage of Open-Access Articles" and other articles.

Journal of Web Librarianship 2, no. 2/3 (2008): Includes "CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software and End-User Efficacy" and other articles.

Learned Publishing 21, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Digital Preservation: Challenges and Implementation," "The Evolution of Web-based Peer-Review Systems," "Journal Article Version Nomenclature: The NISO/ALPSP Recommendations," "Pricing and Other Means of Charging for Scholarly Journals: A Literature Review and Commentary," "Seeking Balance: Rights and Exceptions in Section 108 of the US Copyright Act," and other articles.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 32, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Developing an Audiovisual Metadata Application Profile: A Case Study" and other articles.

Library Review 57, no. 8 (2008): Includes "Current Research Information Systems, Open Access Repositories and Libraries: ANTAEUS"; "Students' Attitudes towards E-Books in a Scottish Higher Education Institute: Part 1"; and other articles.

Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau, and Mark P. Newton. Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development—Final Report. New York: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2008.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 126 (2008): Includes "A Bill to Overturn the NIH Policy" and other articles.

Technical Services Quarterly 25, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Library Personnel's Role in the Creation of Metadata: A Survey of Academic Libraries" and other articles.

Vine 38, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Determining the Number of Simultaneous Users of an Institutional Knowledge Repository at a Management Institute in India" and other articles.

Zorich, Diane M., Gunter Waibel, and Ricky Erway. Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration among Libraries, Archives and Museums. Dublin, OH: OCLC Programs and Research, 2008.

Next Weblog update on 10/1/08.

Ariadne, no. 56 (2008): Includes "Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate," "Integrating Journal Back Files into an Existing Electronic Environment," "Open Repositories 2008," "Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options," "Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice," and other articles.

Bejune, Matthew, and Jana Ronan. Social Software in Libraries, SPEC Kit 304. Washington, DC: ARL, 2008.

Canadian Journal of Communication 33, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Online Publishing, Technical Representation, and the Politics of Code: The Case of CJC Online" and other articles.

Council on Library and Information Resources. No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 9 (2008): Includes "Old Media/New Media," "Updating the Book Discovery Projects," and other articles.

Dietrich, J. P. "Disentangling Visibility and Self-Promotion Bias in the arXiv:astro-ph Positional Citation Effect." arXiv.org (2008).

DigitalKoans (2008): Includes "37 Librarians Have Left the University of Houston Libraries Since 2003," "Institutional Repositories at Texas University and Health Science Libraries," and other posts.

Harnad, Stevan. "Are Online and Free Online Access Broadening or Narrowing Research?" Open Access Archivangelism, August 4, 2008.

Housewright, Ross, and Roger Schonfeld. Ithaka's 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education. New York: Ithaka Harbors, 2008.

Interlending & Document Supply 36, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Cataloging Free E-Resources: Is It Worth the Investment?," "The Usage and Acceptance of Domestic Preprint Servers in China," and other articles.

International Journal of Digital Curation 3, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Challenges and Issues Relating to the Use of Representation Information for the Digital Curation of Crystallography and Engineering Data," "Curation of Laboratory Experimental Data as Part of the Overall Data Lifecycle," "Data Documentation Initiative: Toward a Standard for the Social Sciences," "Dataset Preservation for the Long Term: Results of the DareLux Project," "Defining File Format Obsolescence: A Risky Journey," "Evolving a Network of Networks: The Experience of Partnerships in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program," "Moving Archival Practices Upstream: An Exploration of the Life Cycle of Ecological Sensing Data in Collaborative Field Research," "Toward Distributed Infrastructures for Digital Preservation: The Roles of Collaboration and Trust," "Towards a Theory of Digital Preservation," and other articles.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no. 54 (2007): Includes "Comparison of Journal Citation Reports and Scopus Impact Factors for Ecology and Environmental Sciences Journals," "On Impact of OA, the Jury is Still Out," and other articles.

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Books in a Virtual World: The Evolution of the E-Book and Its Lexicon" and other articles.

Library Review 57, no. 7 (2008): Includes "Establishing the National Digital Cultural Heritage Repository in Malaysia" and other articles.

Library Trends 56, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Online Systems for Information Access and Retrieval" and other articles.

OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 24, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Emerging Alternatives to the Impact Factor"; "From Cuneiform to Digital Text Encodings"; "Harvard, NIH, and the Balance of Power in the Open Access Debate"; "Thinking Outside the Library Box: Considerations in Contextualizing Digital Repositories for the Local Environment"; "Using Faculty Focus Groups to Launch a Scholarly Communication Program"; "Where IR You?: Using 'Open Access' to Extend the Reach and Richness of Faculty Research within a University"; and other articles.

Proffitt, Merrilee, and Jennifer Schaffner. The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities. Dublin, OH: OCLC Programs & Research, 2008.

Suber, Peter. "Online Researchers Have Access to More Articles but Cite Fewer." Open Access News, 17 July 2008.

———. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 125 (2008): Includes "Thinking about Prestige, Quality, and Open Access" and other articles.

Next Weblog update on 9/3/08.

Albitz, Becky. Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2008.

Aslib Proceedings 60, no. 4 (2008): Includes "UK Scholarly E-Book Usage: A Landmark Survey" and other articles.

Canessa, E., and M. Zennaro, eds. Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access. Trieste, Italy: Science Dissemination Unit, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2008.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 7 (2008): Includes "Two New Policies Widen the Path to Balanced Copyright Management: Developments on Author Rights" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 8 (2008): Includes "©4: Locking Down Technology," "Library Access to Scholarship: Signs along the Way," and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 7/8 (2008): Includes "Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS in METS"; "Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status"; "A Format for Digital Preservation of Images: A Study on JPEG 2000 File Robustness"; "Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs"; and other articles.

Galina, Isabel and Giménez, Joaquín. "Overview of the Development of Open Access Journals and Repositories in Mexico." E-LIS, 2008.

Journal of Information Science 34, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Electronic Scholarly Publishing and Open Access" and other articles.

Journal of Science Communication 7, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The Future of the Scientific Paper"; "Public Domain, Copyright Licenses and the Freedom to Integrate Science"; and other articles.

Journal of the Medical Library Association 96, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Digitizing Dissertations for an Institutional Repository: A Process and Cost Analysis" and other articles.

Library Management 29, no. 6/7 (2008): Includes "Copyright and Knowledge Advancement: A Case Study on the UAE copyright Law" and other articles.

Malina, Barbara, ed. Open Access Opportunities and Challenges: A Handbook. Brussels: European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO, 2008.

Medeiros, Norm. "Access Revolution: The Birth, Growth, and Supremacy of Electronic Journals as an Information Medium." E-LIS, 2008.

Open Access Directory. Bibliography of Open Access. Boston: Open Access Directory, 2008.

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 42, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Digital Libraries and Repositories in India: An Evaluative Study" and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 21, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Long-Term Access to E-Journals: What Exactly Can We Promise Our Readers?"; "A Parallel Universe? Blogs, Wikis, Web 2.0 and a Complicated Future for Scholarly Communication"; and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 21, no. 2 (2008): Includes "A New Digital Platform to Open up Chinese University Journals: Publishing, Communication and Some OA initiatives: Based on a Joint Paper Presented by Ruoxi Li at the 31st UKSG Conference, Torquay, April 2008"; "On the Usage of E-Journals in French Universities"; "Planets: Integrated Services for Digital Preservation"; "Something in the Water: Scholarly Communications in a Rapidly Changing Information Economy: Based on Paper presented at the 31st UKSG Conference, Torquay, April 2008"; and other articles.

Serials Review 34, no. 1 (2008): Includes "The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update"; "The Institutional Repository Rediscovered: What Can a University Do for Open Access Publishing?"; "Institutions, Their Repositories and the Web"; "Mixing and Matching the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access—Take 2"; "Open Access, Equity, and Strong Economy in Developing and Transition Countries: Policy Perspective"; "Open Data in Science"; "Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository"; and other articles.

Serials Review 34, no. 2 (2008): Includes "An Interview with Heather Joseph"; "E-Book Subscription in a Distance Education Institution: A Case of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India"; "License Mapping for ERM Systems: Existing Practices and Initiatives for Support"; "The NISO License Expression Working Group"; "Patterns of Use of Electronic Journals in Spanish University Libraries"; and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 123 (2008): Includes "Open Access and the Last-Mile Problem for Knowledge" and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 124 (2008): Includes "Gratis and Libre Open Access" and other articles.

Tonta, Yasar. "Open Access and Institutional Repositories: The Turkish Landscape." E-LIS: 2008.

Webology 5, no. 1, (2008): Includes "Science Popularization through Open Access" and other articles.

Zeng, Marcia Lei, and Jian Qin. Metadata. New York: Neal Schuman, 2008.