February 24, 2010

Next Weblog update on 3/24/10.

Ariadne, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers"; "eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?"; "Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London"; "Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profile"; "Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data"; and other articles.

College and Research Libraries 71, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty" and other articles.

College and Research Libraries News 71, no. 2 (2010): Includes "Recognizing Opportunities: Conversational Openings to Promote Positive Scholarly Communication Change" and other articles.

The Electronic Library 28, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Perception and Usage of E-resources and the Internet by Indian Academics," "Use of Electronic Information Resources and Facilities by Humanities Scholars," and other articles.

First Monday 15, no. 2 (2009): Includes "Sociological Implications of Scientific Publishing: Open Access, Science, Society, Democracy and the Digital Divide" and other articles.

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 14, no. 4 (2009): Includes "The Situation of Open Access Institutional Repositories in Spain: 2009 Report" and other articles.

Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Publisher's description)

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 36, no. 1 (2010): Includes "The Google Books Project: Will it Make Libraries Obsolete?" and other articles.

Journal of Educational Technology Systems 38, no. 2 (2009-2010): Includes "Digital Scholarship and Open Access" and other articles.

Journal of Library Metadata 10, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Can We Trust Web Page Metadata," "Interoperability and Metadata Quality in Digital Video Repositories: A Study of Dublin Core," "Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices for GREDOS," "UALC Best Practices Metadata Guidelines: A Consortial Approach," and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61, no. 3 (2010): Includes "A Longitudinal Study of Scholars Attitudes and Behaviors toward Open-Access Journal Publishing" and other articles.

Library Hi Tech News 26, no. 10 (2009): Includes "Use of Electronic Journals by Doctoral Research Scholars of Goa University, India" and other articles.

The Library Quarterly 80, no. 2 (2010): Includes "The Acquisition and Management of Electronic Resources: Can Use Justify Cost?" and other articles.

Library Review 59, no. 2 (2010): Includes "The Electronic Book: A Transformational Library Technology?" and other articles.

OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 26, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Aluka: Digitization from Maputo to Timbuktu"; "Books, Books Everywhere, but Nary a One in Print: Cushing Academy Eliminates Print Books from Its Library"; "Participation of the National Library of the Czech Republic in the Project TELplus"; "The Road to Digital: Building Unique Afghanistan Collections"; and other articles.

Online Information Review 34, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Metadata Mega Mess in Google Scholar" and other articles.

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 44, no. 1 (2010): Includes "The Bookshelf: Digitisation and Access to Copyright Items in Norway," "Digitising the Past: The Beginning of a New Future at the Royal Tropical Institute of The Netherlands," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 142 (2010): Includes "Four Analogies to Clean Energy" and other articles.