Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog

October 24, 2001

netLibrary and OCLC: A Statement from Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO October 19, 2001: Liblicense-l message about the OCLC/netLibrary escrow agreement.

The Ohio State Law Journal 62, no. 2 (2001): Includes articles on "Impasse: Distance Learning and Copyright," "The Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair-Use Guidelines," "Libraries in a Digital and Aggressively Copyrighted World: Retaining Patron Access through Changing Technologies."

Peek, Robin. "Forty Editorial Board Members Resign from Kluwer Journal." Information Today NewsBreaks, 22 October 2001: More on the Machine Learning Journal resignations.

October 23, 2001

Digital Preservation: Recently updated Web site of the JISC Digital Preservation Focus.

Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King. "Lessons for the Future of Journals." Nature Web Debates, 18 October 2001: Suggests that conflicts between librarians and scientists and publishers are due to an incorrect understanding of the realities of contemporary scholarly journal publishing.

October 22, 2001

Bruce's Australian E-Book Newsletter, 1 (October 2001): E-book news.

Hitchcock, Steve, and Wendy Hall. "How Dynamic E-Journals Can Interconnect Open Access Archives": Presents Perspectives in Electronic Publishing as a new model for e-journals.

October 19, 2001

eVALUEd Project: New HEFCE-funded project at the Centre for Information Research (CIRT) at the University of Central England to "develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation in higher education and to provide dissemination and training in e-library evaluation." Related mailing list: DIGI-EVAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK.

Ramirez, Diana, and Suzanne D Gyeszly. "netLibrary: A New Direction in Collection Development." Collection Building 20, no. 4 (2001): 154-164: Compares the use of netLibrary by Texas A&M University Libraries with that of the combined use of two consortiums that it is a member of.

Recording Bibliographic Citation Information for Journal Articles in Dublin Core: Second draft proposal of the Dublin Core Bibliographic Citations Working Group.

October 18, 2001

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 1 (November 2001): Walt Crawford continues his insightful commentary on the evolving e-book scene, new articles worth reading, and other topics.

D-Lib Magazine 7 (October 2001): Includes articles on "Greenstone Open-Source Digital Library Software," "Public Access to Digital Material," "Retrieval Issues for the Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database."

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 14 October 2001: Interesting current news about scholarly electronic publishing.

October 17, 2001

SPARC E-News (August-September 2001): News about the the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Includes a review of the Eprints.org software.

Shim, Wonsik, Charles R. McClure, Bruce T. Fraser, John Carlo Bertot, Arif Dagli, Emily H. Leahy, Don L. Latham, Benjamin Keith Belton, and Linda Carruth. Measures and Statistics for Research Library Networked Services: Procedures and Issues. ARL E-Metrics Phase II Report. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001: Recommends statistics and performance measures for library electronic resources and services.

October 16, 2001

"Do You Want to Buy netLibrary? Company For Sale.": Message by Gary D. Price on DIG_REF.

Program 35, no. 4 (2001): Includes articles on "Digitisation Projects at Durham University Library—An Overview" and "Librarians in the Digital Age: Planning Digitisation Projects."

RLG DigiNews 5, no. 5 (2001): Includes articles on "Benchmarking Conversion Costs: A Report from the Making of America IV Project" and "Digital Object Library Products."

October 15, 2001

DCMI Update (October 2001): News about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: Recently approved ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001 standard is available.

Library Hi Tech 19, no. 3 (2001): Includes articles on "Copyright in the Networked World: Digital Legal Deposit," "Information Architecture Planning with XML," "Moving to XML: Latin Texts XML Conversion Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities," "Metadata Harvesting," and "Using XML and XSLT to Process and Render Online Journals."

October 12, 2001

Northern Light Special Edition: XML: Directory of XML resources.

October 11, 2001

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 5 October 2001: Interesting current news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Gil, Yolanda, and Varun Ratnakar. Markup Languages: Comparison and Examples: Table that compares XML, RDF, and DAML.

"Letter of Resignation from Machine Learning Journal": E-Mail message from 40 members of the editorial board of the Machine Learning Journal who have resigned in protest over the journal's cost and intellectual property policies.

Primary Source: IMLS' Monthly E-Mail Newsletter (October 2001); News from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, including grant award and grant submission deadline information.

October 10, 2001

Ariadne, no. 29 (2001): Includes "Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives," "Establishing a Digital Library Centre," "Evolution of Portable Electronic Books," "Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions," and "Migration—A CAMiLEON Discussion Paper."

Vine (September 2001): Includes articles on "Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructure," "Linking: The State of Play Today," "Off-Campus Access: A Case Study of South Bank University," and "Security Issues in Online Distance Learning." Issue theme is information security.

October 8, 2001

First Monday 6 (October 2001): Includes articles on "Changes in Metatag Descriptions Over Time," and "Will E-Books Change the World?"

October 5, 2001

Learned Publishing 14 (October 2001): Includes articles on "Electronic Publishing in the New Millennium," "The Importance of Aggregators," "JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media," "New Practices for Electronic Publishing "1: Will the Scientific Paper Keep Its Form?, and "What Is SFX?"

October 4, 2001

The ADA Monthly Intellectual Property Wrap-Up (September 2001): Copyright and other IP news from the Australian Digital Alliance.

Depot van Nederlandse Elektronische Publicaties (DNEP). Long Term Preservation—Research Study: Description of a digital preservation study with IBM.

October 3, 2001

Bluh, Pamela, ed. Managing Electronic Serials: Essays Based on the ALCTS Electronic Serials Institutes, 1997-1999. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001: Includes "Another New Frontier: Trailblazing Electronically," "Cataloging Electronic Resources: The Practicalities, Electronic Serials into the Millennium," "How Intellectual Property Laws Affecting Libraries Are Changing," "A License to Kill For . . .," "Management and Technical Considerations for Acquiring and Accessing Electronic Serials," "Managing Electronic Serials: An Overview," "Nuts and Bolts: Public Service in an Electronic Environment," "Saddlepoints in Serials, Seriality and the Web," and "Seven Common Myths about Acquiring and Accessing E-Journal."

October 2, 2001

The Internet Public Library. Pathfinder: Digitization: Short, but useful, guide to selected digitization sources.

OCLC Systems & Services 17, no. 3 (2001): Includes articles on "The CORC Experience: Survey of Founding Libraries. Part I"; "Descriptive Metadata Strategy for TEI headers: A University of Michigan Library Case Study"; and "Metadata for E-Commerce: The ONIX International Standard."

October 1, 2001

Moxley, Joseph M. "Universities Should Require Electronic Theses and Dissertations." EDUCAUSE Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2001): 61-63: Suggests that universities should join the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and mandate electronic theses and dissertations (only five U.S. universities now require this).

Serials Review 27, no. 2 (2001): Includes articles on "ARLO: A Free, Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal That Is Not Free," "Use of OCLC's CORC at the Library of Congress," and "XML Schema Language: The New Way of Coding XML."

September 28, 2001

Cultivate Interactive (October 2001): Includes articles on "CELIP: Licensing Information for Librarians in Central and Eastern Europe," "The European Library (TEL)—The Gate to Europe's Knowledge," and "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Efforts to Leverage Existing Synergies in Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes World-Wide."

O'Connell,Terry, and Regina Kennamer. "Resources for News and Research on the Publishing/Information Industry: Sites to Keep You Informed." College & Research Libraries News 62 (September 2001): 813-816; 821.

September 27, 2001

Bremer-Laamanen, Majlis. "The Nordic Digital Newspaper Library." NORDINFO-Nytt, no. 2 (2001): Discusses the Nordic Digital Newspaper Project TIDEN and AURORA, a related Finnish project.

Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access: Useful guidelines from the National Library of Australia.

September 26, 2001

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 1 (October 2001): Walt Crawford discusses nine copyright articles and other topics.

Current Cites 12 (September 2001): Annotated references for information technology literature written by a team of librarians.

Preservation and Digitization in ARL Libraries. SPEC Kit 262. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001: Results of a June 2000 ARL Preservation Committee survey of ARL member libraries. See the executive summary for an overview of findings.

September 25, 2001

Biehl, Kathy. "Searchable Intellectual Property Databases—Updated." LLRX.com, 17 September 2001: Annotated list of U.S. and foreign copyright, patent, and trademark sites that are searchable.

ICSTI Forum (June 2001): Includes articles on "Born Digital—Live Digital? Maybe" and "Too Many Os."

September 21, 2001

Odlyzko, Andrew. "The Public Library of Science and the Ongoing Revolution in Scholarly Communication." Nature Web Debates, 18 September 2001: Odlyzko critiques the Public Library of Science proposal. Check out other recent articles at the Future E-Access to the Primary Literature site.

Read, Brock. "A University Library Creates a Virtual Walk Through Tin Pan Alley." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 September 2001: The Mississippi State University Libraries are digitizing works from the Templeton Sheet Music Collection.

September 20, 2001

Woodward, Hazel, and Louise Edwards. Shaping a Strategy for E-Books: An Issues Paper: Consideration of e-book issues for the JISC/DNER E-Book Working Group.

September 19, 2001

D-Lib Magazine 7 (September 2001): Includes articles on "Linking to the Appropriate Copy: Report of a DOI-Based Prototype," "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: Bridging the Gaps for Global Access—Part 1: Mission and Progress," "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: Bridging the Gaps for Global Access—Part 2: Services and Research," and "Preserving Scholarly E-Journals."

Shulenburger, David E. "On Scholarly Evaluation and Scholarly Communication: Increasing the Volume of Quality Work." College & Research Libraries News 62 (September 2001): 808-811: The Provost at the University of Kansas examines the role of the faculty evaluation system in the scholarly communication crisis.

September 18, 2001

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 14 September 2001: Interesting current news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 31 (2001): Includes "The Coming of Age of E-Prints in the Literature of Physics" and "Glory Days: Managing Scientific Journals in a Liberal Arts College."

September 17, 2001

Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001: Using a case study approach, looks at the business models of the Art Museum Network, Fathom, HighWire Press, the International Center for Photography and George Eastman House, JSTOR, and Questia Media, Inc.

Paskey, Janice. "Canadian Universities Band Together in a Giant Journal-Licensing Deal." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 September 2001: Describes the The National Site Licensing Project's roughly $30 million licensing effort.

September 14, 2001

Cox, Andrew, and Sarah Ormes. "E-Books." Library & Information Briefings, no. 96 (2001): 1-14: E-Book report that is currently available as a sample issue (go to http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/publications/, choose "LIBRARY & INFORMATION BRIEFINGS (LIBS)," and choose the issue).

EDUCAUSE Review 36 (September/October 2001): Includes articles on "Developing Digital Libraries: Four Principles for Higher Education" and "Information Access in the Digital Era: Challenges and a Call for Collaboration."

September 13, 2001

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (August 2001): Includes articles on "Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative," "The Metadata Harvesting Initiative of the Mellon Foundation," and "Whither Competition?"

Crocker, Richard. "Project Gutenberg Reader Web Site Launch." Planet eBook, 9 September 2001: Interview with Paul Mennega about the Project Gutenberg Reader site, which allows users to more easily read the project's texts via a Web browser.

September 12, 2001

The Australian Federation Full Text Database: New digital resource from the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) of the University of Sydney Library.

Foster, Andrea L. "Congress Should Amend Copyright Law to Protect Users' Rights, Legislator Says." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 September 2001: Interview with Rep. Rick Boucher.

History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive: New e-print archive announced on the September 1998 American Scientist Forum list.

September 11, 2001

Carlson, Scott. "'A Flickering Signifier': Putting a Word Online Changes Its Very Nature, Scholar Says." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 September 2001: Interview with UCLA English professor Katherine Hayles.

McCullagh, Declan. "New Copyright Bill Heading to DC." Wired News, 7 September 2001: Proposed law would build copyright protection into PCs and consumer electronics.

Saunders, Pam. Ebooks in Victorian Public Libraries: Findings from the USA: A report to the Library Board of Victoria that surveys U.S. e-book developments.

September 10, 2001

First Monday 6, no. 9 (2001): Includes "Copyright in a Frictionless World: Toward a Rhetoric of Responsibility," "Problems and the Epistemology of Electronic Publishing in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon," and "What Next for Internet Journals? Implications of the Trend Towards Paid Placement in Search Engines."

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 6 September 2001: Interesting current news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials Archive: Librarians interested in tracing the development of mailing lists and e-serials in their discipline may find this archive to be helpful.

September 7, 2001

Becker, Snowden. Digital Imaging: Report Number 1. Building a Digital Archive at the Japanese American National Museum. eSpectra: Description of digitization efforts at the Japanese American National Museum.

"The Future of the Electronic Scientific Literature." Nature, 6 August 2001, 1-3: Examination of scientific electronic publishing trends that encourages continued experimentation and a diversity of approaches.

September 6, 2001

Archive: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography was first published on October 25, 1996. The archive provides access to the first version of the bibliography and its subsequent updates.

Ginsburg, Jane C. "What to Know Before Reissuing Old Titles as E-Books." Communications of the ACM 44 (September 2001): 25-27: Examines the implications of the Random House v. Rosetta Books decision.

Update on Public Library of Science Initiative: PLoS evaluates its progress and future directions in an e-mail message distributed on liblicense-l.

September 5, 2001

Cave, Damien. "Copywrong?" Salon.com, 31 August 2001: Law school professors, librarians, and others react to the Copyright Office's DMCA report.

Frank, Martin. "No Free Lunch!" Nature Web Debates, 20 August 2001: The Executive Director of the American Physiological Society critiques the Public Library of Science proposal. Check out other recent articles at the Future E-Access to the Primary Literature site.

Watkinson, Anthony. Electronic Solutions to the Problems of Monograph Publishing. London: Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, 2001: Examines whether e-publishing can solve the monograph publishing crisis. (Acrobat file available from the Publishers Association.)

September 4, 2001

Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources: Draft report from RLG and OCLC.

CalState/NetLibrary Press Release: These organizations respond on liblicense-l to the August 14th The Chronicle of Higher Education story.

Foster, Andrea L. "Libraries Criticize Federal Report on Digital-Copyright Law." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 August 2001: Librarians are unhappy about the Copyright Office's DMCA report, especially its position on first-sale doctrine issues.

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