June 4, 2008

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.