Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog

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 (2007): 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 (2007): 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.

Next Weblog update on 8/6/08.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 258 (2008): Includes "Managing Copyright for NIH Public Access: Strategies to Ensure Compliance," "Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing and New Roles for Libraries," and other articles.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher." Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 6 (2008): Includes "Newfound Press: Participating in the Future of Scholarly Publishing" and other articles.

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.

Digital Humanities Quarterly 2, no. 1 (2008): Includes "The Humanities HyperMedia Centre @ Acadia University: An Invitation to Think about Higher Education" and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly 31, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Creating a Five-Minute Conversation About Cyberinfrastructure" and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 43, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Averting a Digital Katrina: Sustaining Trust in the Research Infrastructure," "Cyberinfrastructure: Changing a Cottage Industry," "Cyberinfrastructure: In Tune for the Future," "Making Research and Education Cyberinfrastructure Real," "Things to Do While Waiting for the Future to Happen: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Liberal Arts," and other articles.

The Electronic Library 26, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Achieving OAI-PMH Compliancy for CDS/ISIS Databases," "Preserving Digital Local News," and other articles.

Guthrie, Kevin, Rebecca Griffiths, and Nancy Maron. Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: An Ithaka Report. London: Strategic Content Alliance, 2008.

Information Today 25, no. 6 (2008): Includes "Putting Academic Fair Use to the Test," "SPARC Europe Seal Clarifies Legal Rights on OA Journals," and other articles.

Interlending & Document Supply 36, no. 2 (2008): Includes "eBook Loans: An E-Twist on a Classic Interlending Service," "JSTOR and the Changing Digital Landscape," and other articles.

Journal of Electronic Publishing 11, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase," "Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the 21st Century: The Future More Than Ever Should Be an Open Book," "Scholarly Publication at the Digital Tipping Point," "Scholarly Publishing Re-invented: Real Costs and Real Freedoms," "The University as Publisher," and other articles.

Learned Publishing 21, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Is the Answer Still in the Machine: Do Publishers Need Digital Rights Management?," "Oxford Journals' Adventures in Open Access," "Trends in Journal Prices: An Analysis of Selected Journals, 2000-2006," "Usage Statistics for Big Deals: Supporting Library Decision-Making," and other articles.

Library Hi Tech 26, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Exploring Faculty Experiences with E-Books: A Focus Group," "Recovery of Descriptive Information in Images from Digital Libraries by Means of EXIF Metadata," and other articles.

Library Hi Tech News 25, no. 4 (2008): Includes "OpenAIR: The Development of the Institutional Repository at the Robert Gordon University" and other articles.

OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 24, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) Repositories: What Are They? Where Do They Come from? How Do They Work?" and other articles.

Pappalardo, Kylie. Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: A Guide for Authors. Brisbane: OAK Law Project, 2008.

Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 3, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Electronic Serials Usage Patterns as Observed at a Medium-Size University: Searches and Full-Text Downloads" and other articles.

Policy Futures in Education 6, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Cyberscience and the Knowledge-Based Economy, Open Access and Trade Publishing: From Contradiction to Compatibility with Non-Exclusive Copyright Licensing"; "Open Access in the Natural and Social Sciences: The Correspondence of Innovative Moves to Enhance Access, Inclusion and Impact in Scholarly Communication"; and other articles.

Sheehan, Mark C. Higher Education IT and Cyberinfrastructure: Integrating Technologies for Scholarship. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 122 (2008): Includes "Open Access and the Self-Correction of Knowledge" and other articles.

Next Weblog update on 7/2/08.

Ariadne, no. 55 (2008): Includes "Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch," "Digital Lives: Report of Interviews with the Creators of Personal Digital Collections," "Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008," "South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides," "Towards an Application Profile for Images," and other articles.

Aslib Proceedings 60, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Viewing and Reading Behaviour in a Virtual Environment: The Full-Text Download and What Can Be Read into It" and other articles.

Austin, Anthony, Maree Heffernan, and Nikki David. Academic Authorship, Publishing Agreements and Open Access: Survey Results.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

———. Google Book Search Bibliography. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

Beagrie, Neil, Julia Chruszcz, and Brian Lavoie. Keeping Research Data Safe: A Cost Model and Guidance for UK Universities. London: JISC, 2008.

College and Research Libraries 69, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Every Library's Nightmare? Digital Rights Management, Use Restrictions, and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources"; "Transition to Electronic Resources in Undergraduate Social Science Research: A Study of Honors Theses Bibliographies, 1999-2005"; and other articles.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 5 (2008): Includes "Library Budgets, Open Access, and the Future of Scholarly Communication" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 6 (2008): Includes "©3 Perspective: DRM and ISP Surcharges" and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 5/6 (2008): Includes "Considering the User Perspective: Research into Usage and Communication of Digital Information," "PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata," "A Year of Selective Web Archiving with the Web Curator at the National Library of New Zealand," and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 43, no. 3 (2008): Includes "The Need to Formalize Trust Relationships in Digital Repositories," "A Steady Vision for Libraries," and other articles.

The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 9, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Increasing Impact of Scholarly Journal Articles: Practical Strategies Librarians Can Share," "Perceptions of LIS Professionals about Digital Libraries in Pakistan: The Pakistani Perspective," and other articles.

Gartner, Richard. Metadata for Digital Libraries: State of the Art and Future Directions. London: JISC, 2008.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no. 53 (2007): Includes "The American Chemical Society and Open Access," "Does Chemistry Content in a State Electronic Library Meet the Needs of Smaller Academic Institutions and Companies?," and other articles.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Google Scholar's Coverage of the Engineering Literature: An Empirical Study"; "Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and the Reform of Scholarly Communication"; "Meaning, Technology, and the Semantic Web"; "Use of Electronic Journals by Faculty at Istanbul University, Turkey: The Results of a Survey"; and other articles.

Journal of Digital Information 9, no. 26 (2008): Includes "Nine Questions to Guide You in Choosing a Metadata Schema," "Pliny: A Model for Digital Support of Scholarship," and other articles.

Journal of Information Science 34, no. 3 (2008): Includes "RoMEO Studies 7: Creation of a Controlled Vocabulary to Analyse Copyright Transfer Agreements" and other articles.

Library Philosophy and Practice (2008): Includes "The Role of Academic Libraries in Universal Access to Print and Electronic Resources in the Developing Countries" and other articles.

Library Review 57, no. 4 (2008): Includes "It Is All Not All Free on the Web: Advocacy for Library Funding in the Digital Age" and other articles.

Lyon, Liz, Simon Coles, Monica Duke, and Traugott Koch. Scaling Up: Towards a Federation of Crystallography Data Repositories. Bath: UKOLN, 2008.

New Review of Information Networking 13, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Evaluating the Impact of the Institutional Repository, or Positioning Innovation between a Rock and a Hard Place"; "Supporting Institutional Digital Preservation and Asset Management: A Summary of the JISC DPAM Programme Synthesis"; and other articles.

Primary Research Group. The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories. New York: Primary Research Group, 2007. (Publisher's description.)

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 42, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Digital Initiatives and Metadata Use in Thailand," "A Marathon Not a Sprint: Lessons Learnt from the First Decade of Digitisation at the National Library of Wales," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 122 (2008): Includes "Open Access and the Self-Correction of Knowledge" and other articles.

Swan, Alma. Key Concerns within the Scholarly Communications Process. London: JISC, 2008.

Next Weblog update on 6/4/08.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 257 (2008): Includes "Are Journal Publishers Trapped in the Dual-Media Transition Zone?," "The Audacity of SCOAP³," "Bound for Disappointment: Faculty and Journals at Research Institutions," and other articles.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 4 (2008): Includes "AAAS and JSTOR: Anatomy of a Successful Initiative" and other articles.

DPC/PADI What's New in Digital Preservation, no. 17 (2008).

The Electronic Library 26, no. 2 (2008): Includes "An Evaluation of the Second Survey on Electronic Databases Usage at Ankara University Digital Library" and other articles.

Fanning, Betsy A. Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF. York, UK: Digital Preservation Coalition, 2008.

First Monday 13, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Info-Communism? Ownership and Freedom in the Digital Economy" and other articles.

Foulonneau, Muriel and Jenn Riley. Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2008. (Publisher's description.)

Francke, Helena. "(Re)creations of Scholarly Journals: Document and Information Architecture in Open Access Journals." PhD diss., University College of Borås, 2008.

Hahn, Karla L. Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2008.

Information Processing & Management 44, no. 3 (2008): Includes "An Examination of the Physical and the Digital Qualities of Humanities Research"; "Exploring Usefulness and Usability in the Evaluation of Open Access Digital Libraries"; "Users' Evaluation of Digital Libraries (DLs): Their Uses, Their Criteria, and Their Assessment"; and other articles.

Information Today 25, no. 5 (2008): Includes "Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi" and other articles.

Innovate 4, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Perspective on Open-Access Publishing: An Interview with Peter Suber" and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 7 (2008): Includes "The Justification of Intellectual Property: Contemporary Philosophical Disputes" and other articles.

Library Resources & Technical Services 52, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Converting and Preserving the Scholarly Record: An Overview," "Mass Digitization: Implications for Preserving the Scholarly Record," and other articles.

Library Resources & Technical Services 52, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Defining and Achieving Success in the Movement to Change Scholarly Communication," "Using Comparative Online Journal Usage Studies to Assess the Big Deal," and other articles.

New Review of Academic Librarianship 13, no. 1/2 (2008): Includes "Developing a Digital Repository for a Humanities Research Network: The Pioneer Project," "In the Kingdom of the Blind: Successfully Implementing Institutional Repositories in the United Kingdom and the SHERPA Partnership Experience," "Supporting the Research Base: The Research Information Network and Scholarly Communications in the United Kingdom," and other articles.

Nguyen, Thinh. Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work through Their Institution. Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC: SPARC and Science Commons, 2008.

Online Information Review 32, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The Plausibility of Computing the H-Index of Scholarly Productivity and Impact Using Reference-Enhanced Databases" and other articles.

Open Medicine 2, no. 2 (2008): Includes "An Open Access Mandate for the NIH" and other articles.

Padfield, Tim. Copyright for Archivists and Record Managers, 3rd ed. New York,: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2007. (Publisher's description.)

portal: Libraries and the Academy 8, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Electronic Theses at Ben-Gurion University: Israel as Part of the Worldwide ETD Movement," "Institutional Repositories: The Experience of Master's and Baccalaureate Institutions," and other articles.

Schmitz, Dawn. The Seamless Cyberinfrastructure: The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization and Institutional Repositories. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.

ScieCom Info 4, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Open Access in Denmark" and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 120 (2008): Includes "Implementing the New NIH Policy," "Three Principles for University Open Access Policies," and other articles.

———. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 121 (2008): Includes "What We Don't Know about Open Access: Research Questions in Need of Researchers" and other articles.

Swan, Alma. Key Concerns within the Scholarly Communication Process: Report to the JISC Scholarly Communications Group. Truro, UK: Key Perspectives, 2008.

Yu, Holly, and Scott Breivold. Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2008. (Publisher's description.)

Zeng, Marcia Lei, and Jian Qin. Metadata. New York,: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2008. (Publisher's description.)

Next Weblog update on 5/7/08.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 71. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

The Code4Lib Journal, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Toward Element-Level Interoperability in Bibliographic Metadata" and other articles.

College & Research Libraries News 69, no. 3 (2008): Includes "ETDs, Scholarly Communication and Campus Collaboration" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Library Access to Scholarship: Harvard & Institutional Repositories," "Old Media/New Media Perspective: Thinking about Kindle and Ebooks," and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 3/4 (2008): Includes "The Australian METS Profile—A Journey about Metadata"; "The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation"; "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1: Four Challenges from the Field"; "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2: Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions"; and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 43, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The Academic Archives of the Future," "Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries," "E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?," and other articles.

Gillesse, Robèrt, Judith Rog, and Astrid Verheusen. Alternative File Formats for Storing Masters. Hague: National Library of the Netherlands, 2008.

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 13, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Electronic Publishing in Librarianship and Information Science in Latin America—A Step towards Development?," "Managing and Evaluating Digital Repositories," "Taking the Plunge: Open Access at the Canadian Journal of Sociology," and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Perceived Influence of the Use of Electronic Information Resources on Scholarly Work and Publication Productivity" and other articles.

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Changes in the Management of Information in Audio-Visual Archives Following Digitization: Current and Future Outlook," "Making E-Books Available through Public Libraries: Some User Reactions," and other articles.

Learned Publishing 21, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Adventures in Open Data," "Evolution of Open Access Publishing in Chinese Scientific Journals," "Journals at bepress: New Twists on an Old Model," "The NIH Mandate—We're Not in Kansas Any More," "Testing Usage-Based E-Journal Pricing," and other articles.

Library Hi Tech 26, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Capturing Intellectual Capital with an Institutional Repository at a Business School in India," "DRAM/Variations3: A Music Resource Case Study," "E-Resources: Transforming Access Services for the Digital Age," "Morphing Metadata: Maximizing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations," "OPAC Integration in the Era of Mass Digitization: The MBooks Experience," and other articles.

Library Review 57, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Is Digitisation the New Circulation?: Borrowing Trends, Digitisation and the Nature of Reading in US and UK Libraries" and other articles.

Libri 58, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Digital Libraries in India: A Review" and other articles.

Online Information Review 32, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Christine Borgman and Scholarly Communication," "Google Scholar Revisited," and other articles.

Proffitt, Merrilee, Arnold Arcolio, and Constance Malpas. Copyright Investigation Summary Report. Dublin, OH: RLG Programs, OCLC, 2008.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 119 (2008): Includes "The Open Access Mandate at Harvard" and other articles.