Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog

April 4, 2007

Next Weblog update on 4/25/07.

The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 20, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Online Communities" and other articles.

CLIR Issues, no. 56 (2007): Includes "A CLIR Perspective on the Future," "DLF Aquifer Receives Mellon Grant to Make Scholarly Collections Interoperable," and other articles.

Computers in Libraries 27, no. 4 (2207): Includes "A Dozen Primers on Important Information Standards," "SUSHI: What It Is and Why You Should Care," and other articles.

Cyberinfrastructure Council. Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 2007.

Fitzgerald, Brian F., Jessica M. Coates, and Suzanne M. Lewis, ed. Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2007.

FreePint, no. 227 (2007): Includes "EThOS: A New Start for Doctoral Theses in the UK" and other articles.

Harnad, Stevan. "Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise." (2007).

Information Services and Use 26, no. 4 (2006): Includes "An Improved Universal Virtual Computer Approach for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Objects," "The Split between Availability and Selection Business Models for Scientific Information, and the Scientific Process?," and other articles.

Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 9 (2006): Includes "The Academic Open Access E-Journal: Platform and Portal" and other articles.

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science" and other articles.

Learned Publishing 20, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Academic Authors, Scholarly Publishing, and Open Access in Australia"; "Author's Version vs. Publisher's Version: an Analysis of the Copy-Editing Function"; "An Innovation-Oriented Publication System"; "Open Access—Clear Benefits, Hidden Costs"; "Copyright: Past, Present and Future"; "The Cost of Journal Publishing: A Literature Review and Commentary"; and other articles.

ONLINE 31, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Trade Agreements as the New Copyright Law" and other articles.

Searcher 15, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies" and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 108 (2007): Includes "Paying for Green Open Access" and other articles.

Vine 37, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Knowledge Sharing: Developing the Digital Repository of SIPS" and other articles.

March 21, 2007

Next Weblog update on 4/4/07.

Biomedical Digital Libraries 4 (2007): Includes "Factors Influencing Publication Choice: Why Faculty Choose Open Access."

College & Research Libraries News 68, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Copyright Resources on the Web: Sites to Keep You Current," "New Librarians and Scholarly Communication," and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 3/4 (2007): Includes "Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-Use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace," "Introducing the D-Lib Alliance," "Linking Service to Open Access Repositories," and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. "7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons." Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE, 2007.

First Monday 12, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums"; "What Open Access Research Can Do for Wikipedia"; and other articles.

Hess, Thomas, Rolf T. Wigand, Florian Mann, and Benedikt von Walter. Open Access & Science Publishing: Results of a Study on Researchers' Acceptance and Use of Open Access Publishing. Munich: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2007.

IFLA Journal 33, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Battle for eBook Mindshare: It's All About the Rights" and other articles.

Jones, Maggie. Review and Analysis of the CLIR Report E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape. London, JISC, 2007.

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 4, no. 1/2 (2007): Includes "Assessing Online Use: Are Statistics from Web-Based Online Journal Lists Representative?"; "Extending Electronic Resource Licenses to a Newly Established Overseas Medical School Branch"; "Integrating E-Resources into an Online Catalog: The Hospital Library Experience"; "Is There a Pending Change in Medical Publisher and Library Liability?"; "Moving the Big Deal"; "Off-Campus User Behavior: Are They Finding Electronic Journals on Their Own or Still Ordering Through Document Delivery?"; "Scholarly E-Journal Pricing Models and Open Access Publishing"; "Two Interfaces, One Knowledge Base: The Development of a Combined E-Journal Web Page"; and other articles.

Journal of Information Science 33, no. 2 (2007): Includes "The Intellectual and Social Organization of Academic Fields and the Shaping of Digital Resources" and other articles.

Journal of Internet Cataloging 7, no. 2 (2004): Includes "PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive: How Much Metadata is Enough?," "Driving Digital Libraries Forward by Metadata Development," and other articles.

Lewis, David W. "A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025." (2007).

Library Hi Tech 25, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Electronic Books in the USA—Their Numbers and Development and a Comparison to Germany," "Intellectual Property Rights," and other articles.

Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services 57, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History and Modern Presentation" and other articles.

March 7, 2007

Next Weblog update on 3/21/07.

Computers in Libraries 27, no. 3 (2007): Includes "On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! Overview of a Digital Project from Start to Finish"; "Scanning for Digitization Projects"; "Weaving the Past into the Present by Digitizing Local History"; and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 7, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Net Media Perspective: Wikipedia Revisited" and other articles.

The Electronic Library 25, no. 1 (2007): Includes "The Effects of Electronic Access to Scientific Literature in the Consortium of Turkish University Libraries," "Electronic Journals Collections in Argentine Private Academic Libraries," "A Socio-Technical Perspective of Museum Practitioners' Image-Using Behaviors," and other articles.

Eschenfelder, Kristin R. "Every Library's Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources." (2007).

Graham, Bobby. "Open Publish: Open Access to Scholarly Research."(2007).

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 20, no. 1 (2006): Includes "Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use," "Preparing Academic Scholarship for an Open Access World," and other articles.

Inside Higher Education, 28 February 2007: Includes "University Presses Take Their Stand" and other articles.

Interlending & Document Supply 35, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Google Scholar—Friend or Foe?" and other articles.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 33, no. 1 (2007): Includes "A Comparative Analysis of Libraries' Approaches to Copyright: Israel, Russia, and the U.S."; "E-book Use by Students: Undergraduates in Economics, Literature, and Nursing"; "Open WorldCat and Its Impact on Academic Libraries"; "Use and Users of Electronic Journals at Catalan Universities: The Results of a Survey"; and other articles.

Journal of Access Services 3, no. 3 (2005): Includes "A Proposed Solution to the Scholarly Communications Crisis" and other articles.

Markey, Karen, Soo Young Rieh, Beth St. Jean, Jihyun Kim, and Elizabeth Yakel. Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States: MIRACLE Project Research Findings. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2007.

Online Information Review 31, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Complementing DRM with Digital Watermarking: Mark, Search, Retrieve"; " DRM, Law and Technology: An American Perspective"; "Toward Semantics-Aware Management of Intellectual Property Rights"; "Verification Algorithms for Governed Use of Multimedia Content"; and other articles.

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 41, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Electronic Thesis Initiative: Pilot Project of McGill University, Montreal"; "Putting Google Scholar to the Test: a Preliminary Study"; "Status of the Preservation of Digital Resources in China: Results of a Survey"; and other articles.

Searcher 15, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Librarians as Change Agents: How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress" and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 20, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Digitization in Australasia"; "Digitization: The View from the National Archives"; "Disruptive Technologies: Taking STM Publishing into the Next Era"; "Federated Searching: Today, Tomorrow and the Future"; "Patterns of E-Journal Use within the Anatolian University Library Consortium"; "Stock Checking E-Journals: The Experience of King's College London"; and other articles.

Serials Review 33, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Assessment of Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories: Depositorship and Full-Text Availability"; "Datasets, a Shift in the Currency of Scholarly Communication: Implications for Library Collections and Acquisitions"; "Perspectives on Access to Electronic Journals for Long-Term Preservation"; "Shifting from Print to Electronic Journals in ARL University Libraries"; and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 107 (2007): Includes "The Ides of February in Europe: The European Commission Plan for Open Access," "The Ides of February in the US: The National Day of Action and Other Preparation for FRPAA," and other articles.

February 19, 2007

Next Weblog update on 3/7/07.

Note: In the future, SEPW will be published on Wednesday rather than Monday. For a summary of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: "Summary of Bailey's Digital Publications Changes."

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 250 (2007): Includes "In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library."

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "The Brussels Declaration: You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows." DigitalKoans, 15 February 2007.

Bergstrom, Ted C., and Rosemarie Lavaty. "How Often Do Economists Self-Archive?" (2007).

College and Research Libraries 68, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Accessing E-books through Academic Library Web Sites," "Measurement of Use of Electronic Resources: Advances in Use Statistics and Innovations in Resource Functionality," and other articles.

Détraz, Marie-Pierre. EThOS—Final Report. London: JISC, 2006.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly 30, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Making Research Cyberinfrastructure a Strategic Choice" and other articles.

Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa. "Pricing and Publishing Models of Electronic Journals." (2006).

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 49 (2007): Includes "Ecology Articles in Google Scholar: Levels of Access to Articles in Core Journals" and other articles.

Journal of Scholarly Publishing 38, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Exploring the Willingness of Scholars to Accept Open Access: A Grounded Theory Approach" and other articles.

Library Review 56, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Digital Libraries and the Future of the Library Profession," "The State of Digitisation Initiatives by Cultural Institutions in Malaysia: An Exploratory Survey," and other articles.

Library Student Journal (February 2007): Includes "Collaborative Tagging, Folksonomies, Distributed Classification or Ethnoclassification: A Literature Review"; "The Dede Korkut Digital Library: A Student Project Faces the Real World"; and other articles.

Music Reference Services Quarterly 9, no. 2 (2005): Includes "Can't I Just Listen to that Online? Evaluating Electronic Access to Audio for Music Libraries" and other articles.

Nestor. Criteria Catalogue for Trusted Repositories, Version 1. Goettingen, Germany: Nestor, 2006.

OCLC Systems & Services 23, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Analysis of the Use of Open Archives in the Fields of Mathematics and Computer Science"; "Building Partnerships among Social Science Researchers, Institution-based Repositories and Domain Specific Data Archives"; "The Double Bind of E-Journal Collections"; "Information Retrieval Features in Indian Digital Libraries: A Critical Appraisal"; "Standard Methodology in Digital Library Project Management"; "Project StORe: Making the Connections for Research"; and other articles.

OSI e-infrastructure Working Group. Developing the UK's e-Infrastructure for Science and Innovation. Edinburgh: National e-Science Centre, 2007.

Reference Services Review 35, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Stumbling, Bumbling, Teleporting and Flying. . . Librarian Avatars in Second Life"; "Stumbling, Bumbling, Teleporting and Flying. . . Librarian Avatars in Second Life: Selected Bibliography"; and other articles.

Tanner, R. Michael. "Copyrights and the Paradox of Scholarly Publishing." (2006).

February 5, 2007

Next Weblog update on 2/19/07.

Ariadne, no. 50 (2007): Includes "Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library," "A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works," "EPrints 3 Pre-Launch Briefing," "Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education," "ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms," "Web Curator Tool," "What Happens When We Mash The Library?," and other articles.

CLIR Issues, no. 55 (2007): Includes "U.S. Institutional Repositories: A Census" and other articles.

Stevan Harnad, "Pit-Bulls vs. Petitions: A Historic Time for Open Access" Open Access Archivangelism, 30 January 2007.

Hietanen, Herkko, Ville Oksanen, and Mikko Välimäki. Community Created Content: Law, Business and Policy. Helsinki: Turre Publishing, 2007.

Journal of the Medical Library Association 95, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Continuing Use of Print-Only Information by Researchers," "Improving E-Book Access via a Library-Developed Full-Text Search Tool," and other articles.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 30, no. 3-4 (2006): Includes "A Comparison of OpenURL Link Resolvers: The Results of a University of Connecticut Libraries Environmental Scan," "A Grid-Based Architecture for Personalized Federation of Digital Libraries," "Image and Figure Quality: A Study of Elsevier's Earth and Planetary Sciences Electronic Journal Back File package," "Image Quality in Electronic Journals: A Case Study of Elsevier Geology Titles," "Managing Streaming Video: A New Role for Technical Services," "Untangling the Jungle of E-Journal Access Issues Using CRM Software," and other articles.

Mitchell, Marilyn, ed. Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2007.

New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Horizon Report 2007: Edition.

Sokol, Dominika. "Developing Marketing Strategies for dLIST and the LIS Commons." (2007).

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 106 (2007): Includes "Mandate Momentum in 2007," "Twelve Reminders about FRPAA," and other articles.

January 22, 2007

Next Weblog update on 2/5/07.

Anandan, C., and M. Gangatharan, ed. Digital Libraries: From Technology to Culture. New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2006.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "2006 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Use Statistics." DigitalKoans, 20 January 2007.

Brody, Timothy David. "Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication." Ph.D. diss., University of Southampton, 2006.

Collection Building 26, no. 1 (2007): "The Business of Collaboration and Electronic Collection Development," "Electronic Books and the Humanities: A Survey at the University of Denver," "Readiness or Avoidance: E-Resources and the Art Historian," and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 1/2 (2007): Includes "Copyright, Publishing, and Scholarship: The 'Zwolle Group' Initiative for the Advancement of Higher Education"; "Current and Future Status of D-Lib Magazine"; "Distinguishing Content from Carrier: The RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization"; "The Patchwork Mandate"; "Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century"; and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 42, no. 1 (2007): Includes "If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?" and other articles.

Harnad, Stevan. "The Open Access Citation Advantage: Quality Advantage or Quality Bias?." Open Access Archivangelism, 21 January 2007.

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 12, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Medical Education Online: A Case Study of an Open Access Journal in Health Professional Education," "A Model of Scientific Communication as a Global Distributed Information System," and other articles.

Journal of Scholarly Publishing 38, no. 1 (2006): Includes "Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing?" and other articles.

Learned Publishing 20, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Creative Commons—The Other Way?," "E-Prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: A Productive Co-Existence," "The Impact of Open Access Publishing (and Other Access Initiatives) on Use and Users of Digital Scholarly Journals," "SUSHI: Simplifying the Delivery of Usage Statistics," and other articles.

Library Management 28, no. 1/2 (2007): Includes "Investigation and Analysis of Current Use of Electronic Resources in University Libraries" and other articles.

Mugridge, Rebecca L. Managing Digitization Activities. SPEC Kit 292. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2006.

portal: Libraries and the Academy 7, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Library Faculty Publishing and Intellectual Property Issues: A Survey of Attitudes and Awareness" and other articles.

January 8, 2007

Reminder: the SEPW URL has changed: http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/. The DigitalKoans and SEPB URLs have also changed: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ and http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html. RSS feeds are unaffected.

Next Weblog update on 1/22/07.

American Council of Learned Societies. Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Final Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences. New York, American Council of Learned Societies, 2006.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 249 (2006): Includes "The Impact of Electronic Publishing on Tracking Research Library Investments in Serials," "The Research University and Scholarly Publishing: The View from a Provost's Office," and other articles.

College & Research Libraries News 67, no. 11 (2006): Includes "Scholarly Communication: Turning Crisis into Opportunity" and other articles.

College & Undergraduate Libraries 13, no. 3 (2006): Includes "Podcasting: Exploring the Possibilities for Academic Libraries" and other articles.

Coyle, Karen. Rights in the PREMIS Data Model: A Report for the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2006.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 7, no. 1 (2006): Includes "Perspective: Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update" and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 12, no. 12 (2006): Includes "Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use," "Jean-Noël Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy," "The Melvyl Recommender Project: Developing Library Recommendation Services," "Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software Applications," and other articles.

DPC/PADI What's New in Digital Preservation, no. 14 (2006).

Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 7, no. 3 (2006): Includes "Subject Librarians in the Changing Academic Library" and other articles.

First Monday 12, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Why Study Users? An Environmental Scan of Use and Users of Digital Resources in Humanities and Social Sciences Undergraduate Education" and other articles.

Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe. Implementing Persistent Identifiers. Overview of Concepts, Guidelines and Recommendations. London and Amsterdam: Consortium of European Research Libraries and European Commission on Preservation and Access, 2006.

Harnad, Stevan. "OA Progress in France." Open Access Archivangelism, 25 December 2006.

Journal of Access Services 3, no. 2 (2005): Includes "Opportunities for Libraries with Print-on-Demand Publishing" and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Self-Archiving and the Copyright Transfer Agreements of ISI-ranked Library and Information Science Journals," "Which Factors Explain the Web Impact of Scientists' Personal Homepages?," and other articles.

Lewis & Clark Law Review 10, no. 4 (2006): Includes "Download It While It's Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship"; "The Economics of Open Access Law Publishing"; "The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige and Open Access"; "The Movement for Open Access Law"; "Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market"; "Open Access in Law Teaching: A New Approach to Legal Education"; "Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance and Subordination"; "Open Access to Infinite Content (or 'In Praise of Law Review')"; and other articles.

Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries 16, no. 3/4 (2006): Includes "The Google Mass Digitisation Project at Oxford" and other articles.

Matsubayashi, Mamiko, Keiko Kurata, Yukiko Sakai, Tomoko Morioka, Shinya Kato, Shinji Mine, and Shuichi Ueda. "Current Status of Open Access in Biomedical Field—The Comparison of Countries Related to the Impact of National Policies." (2006).

MLA East of England and East of England Regional Archive Council. Report of the East of England Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project. MLA East of England and East of England Regional Archive Council, 2006.

Morrison, Heather. "Dramatic Growth December 2006 & Predictions for 2007." The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 31 December 2006.

Palmer, Carole L., Ellen M. Knutson, Michael Twidale, and Oksana Zavalina. "Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development." (2006).

RLG DigiNews 10, no. 6 (2006): Includes "Digital Image Asset Management at the National Gallery of Art (US)," "In Pursuit of Efficiency: Traversing the Boundaries of a Collection Information System," "Why Digital Asset Management? A Case Study," and other articles.

The Serials Librarian 51, no. 2 (2006): Includes "The Death of Metadata," "The Development and Use of Metadata Application Profiles: The Government of Canada Experience," "Metadata Dreaming: The Keynote Speech at the Canadian Metadata Forum, September 2005," "The Use of Folksonomies in Public Library Catalogues," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 105 (2006): Includes "Open Access in 2006" and other articles.

Technical Services Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2006): Includes "Eliminating E-Reserves: One Library's Experience" and other articles.


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