Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog

February 6, 2008

Next Weblog update on 3/5/08.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 256 (2008): Includes "New SPARC Campaign Engages Students on Open Access" and other articles.

Aslib Proceedings 60, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Use and Linkage of Source and Output Repositories: Interviews with Chemistry Researchers" and other articles.

Community & Junior College Libraries 14, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Where Do Electronic Books Fit in the College Research Arsenal of Resources?" and other articles.

DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology 28, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online"; "India, Open Access, the Law of Karma and the Golden Rule"; "Open Access and Open J-Gate"; "Open Access and Quality"; "Open Access for Indian Scholarship"; "Open Access: Major Issues and Global Initiatives"; "Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations"; "Open Access to Publicly Funded Research Information: The Race Is On"; "Open Access to Scientific Knowledge"; and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 1/2 (2008): Includes "Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository," "Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources," "The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective," "Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language," "Necessary but Not Sufficient: Modelling Online Archive Development in the UK," and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 43, no. 1 (2008): "Learning from E-Databases in an E-Data World" and other articles.

The E-Resources Management Handbook. Newbury, UK: UK Serials Group, 2008.

First Monday 13, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Creative Commons and Contemporary Copyright: A Fitting Shoe or 'a Load of Old Cobblers'?," "In Archiving We Trust: Results from a Workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin," "Open Access Book Publishing in Writing Studies: A Case Study," and other articles.

Foulonneau, Muriel, and Francis Andre. Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.

International Journal of Digital Curation 2, no. 2 (2007): Includes "Digital Data Preservation for Scholarly Publications in Astronomy," "Digital Preservation Theory and Application: Transcontinental Persistent Archives Testbed Activity," "Emulation for Digital Preservation in Practice: The Results," "Planets: Integrated Services for Digital Preservation," "PRONOM-ROAR: Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services," "The UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme: A Perspective from the LOCKSS Technical Support Service," and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Metadata Harvesting for Content-Based Distributed Information Retrieval," "Usage Impact Factor: The Effects of Sample Characteristics on Usage-Based Impact Metrics," and other articles.

Knight, Gareth, and Sheila Anderson. SHERPA DP: Final Report of the SHERPA DP Project. London: JISC, 2008.

Library & Information Science Research 29, no. 4 (2007): Includes "The Use of Online Electronic Information Resources in Scientific Research: The Case of Neuroscience," "The Web Impact of Open Access Social Science Research," and other articles.

Library Technology Reports 4, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The Preservation of Digital Materials."

Macdonald, Stuart. DISC-UK DataShare: Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools: Part 1—Numeric Data. London: JISC, 2008.

New Library World 109, no. 1/2 (2008): Includes "Citation Impact of Open Access Journals" and other articles.

Nilsson, Mikael, ed. Harmonization of Metadata Standards. Hannover: PROLEARN, 2008.

Online Information Review 31, no. 6 (2007): Includes "The DeLorean or the Mini?: Digital Imperatives for Publishers, Digital Dilemmas for Repositories"; "An Exploratory Study of Google Scholar"; and other articles.

Pennock, Maureen. JISC Programme Synthesis Study: Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions: A Review of the 4-04 Programme on Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions for the JISC Information Environment: Part II: Programme Synthesis. Bath: UKOLN, 2008.

Policy Futures in Education 6, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Promoting 'Hidden' Research," "SPARC: Creating Innovative Models and Environments for Scholarly Research and Communication," and other articles.

Research Information Network. Stewardship of Digital Research Data: A Framework of Principles and Guidelines: Responsibilities of Research Institutions and Funders, Data Managers, Learned Societies and Publishers. London: Research Information Network, 2008.

Serials Review 33, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Enhancing Access to Rare Journals: Cover Images and Contents in the Online Catalog," "Maximizing Access through Consortial Partnership: Mississippi State University Libraries' Journal Expansion Project," "Web-Exclusive Articles in Traditionally Print Periodicals," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 118 (2008): Includes "The Mandates of January" and other articles.

van der Graaf, Maurits, and Kwame van Eijndhoven. The European Repository Landscape: Inventory Study into Present Type and Level of OAI Compliant Digital Repository Activities in the EU. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.

Weenink, Kasja, Leo Waaijers, and Karen van Godtsenhoven, eds. A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

January 9, 2008

Next Weblog update on 2/6/08.

ACRL Research Committee. Environmental Scan 2007. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008.

CLIR Issues, no. 60 (2007): Includes "DLF Surveys U.S. Moving-Image Archives" and other articles.

The Code4Lib Journal, no. 1 (2007): includes "The Rutgers Workflow Management System: Migrating a Digital Object Management Utility to Open Source" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Discovering Books: OCA & GBS Retrospective" and other articles.

The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 8, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Developing a Web-Based Evaluation Tool for Purchasing Electronic Resources: A Librarian-Faculty-Student Partnership," "A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications," and other articles.

First Monday 12, no. 12 (2007): Includes "The Cost Profiles of Alternative Approaches to Journal Publishing" and other articles.

Geist, Michael. In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law. Toronto: Irwin Law Inc., 2007. (Publisher's description)

IFLA Journal 33, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication in Africa—A Library and Information Systems Perspective," "Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Heritage Policy: Maintaining Long-Term Access to Multimedia Content," and other articles.

Information Services and Use 27, no. 4 (2007): Includes "APE 2007: Pre-Conference Day—'Embracing Change' Workshop: University Presses and Open Access: Presentation: Isabella Meinecke, Hamburg University Press, State and University Library of Hamburg"; "Article Repositories and Journal Subscription—Future Scenarios"; "The i2010 Digital Libraries Initiative: Europe's Cultural and Scientific Information at the Click of a Mouse"; "Libraries in Times of Open Access: Paper Presented at the APE 2007: Academic Publishing in Europe Conference 'Innovation & Publishing,' Berlin, 23-24 January 2007"; "ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms"; "Pricing, Business Models and Open Access: Status Quo vs. Apocalypse"; "Pricing in Academic Publishing: A Wake-Up Call to the Online Era"; "Usage Statistics: About COUNTER and SUSHI"; and other articles.

Interlending & Document Supply 35, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Creating a Consumer Market for Scholarly Journals," "The Importance of Aggregators for Libraries in the Digital Era," and other articles.

Johnson, Richard K., and Judy Luther. The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What's Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2007.

Joint Task Force on Library Support for E-Science. Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries: Final Report and Recommendations to the Scholarly Communication Steering Committee, the Public Policies Affecting Research Libraries Steering Committee, and the Research, Teaching, and Learning Steering Committee. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2007.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 33, no. 6 (2007): Includes "Diversity in the Information Seeking Behaviour of the Virtual Scholar: Institutional Comparisons," "Assessment of Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories: Across Disciplines," and other articles.

Journal of Scholarly Publishing 39, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Authority 3.0: Friend or Foe to Scholars?," "The Changing College and University Library Market for University Press Books and Journals: 1997-2004," and other articles.

Learned Publishing 21, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Data, Disciplines, and Scholarly Publishing"; "Integrating Research Articles and Supporting Data in Crystallography"; "Publishing Technologies: What Does the Future Hold?"; " Vendor-Supplied Usage Data for Electronic Resources: A Survey of Academic Libraries"; and other articles.

Library Hi Tech 25, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Accessibility of Web-Based Library Databases: The Vendors' Perspectives in 2007," "Ten Years After," and other articles.

Morrison, Heather. "Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2007 Update." Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 31 December 2007.

Murray-Rust, Peter. "Open Data In Science." DSpace at Cambridge, 2008.

portal: Libraries and the Academy 8, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Closing the Repository Gap at Small Institutions" and other articles.

SCRIPT-ed 4, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Copyright and Research: A Different Perspective," "Emerging Global Networks for Free Access to Law: WorldLII's Strategies," and other articles.

Searcher 16, no. 1 (2008): Includes "'Copyfraud' and Public Domain Works," "Crisis or Opportunity: The First International Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Scholarly Publishing Conference," "The Race to the Shelf Continues: The Open Content Alliance and Amazon.com," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. "AAP/PSP Response to the OA Mandate at NIH." Open Access News, 4 January 2008.

———. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 117 (2008): Includes "Open Access in 2007," "An Open Access Mandate for the NIH," and other articles.


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