Weblog Archive (August 2004)

August 23, 2004

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 235 (2004): Includes: "A Snapshot in Time: ARL Libraries and Electronic Journal Resources" and other articles.

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4, no. 11 (2004): Walt Crawford continues his incisive commentary on current issues, new articles worth reading, and other topics. Highly recommended.

Dunning, Alastair. "Developing Licence Agreements for Digitisation: The Fine Art Project": "This article looks at one particular project, AHDS Visual Arts' Fine Art Project, examining the particular approach it took when gaining permissions to disseminate digital versions of works of art created by various British fine artists who studied at various art schools within the country."

________. "Tracing Copyright Holders: How Two Digitisation Projects Coped with Copyright for Historical Material": "This case study looks at two projects, supported under the New Opportunities Fund (NOF), where the material under question was of confusing copyright status. The Coalfield Web Materials project, based at the University of Swansea, was digitising an archive relating to South Wales coal-mining; the archive, including material from the nineteenth century to the present day, incorporates photographs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, posters and audiovisual material. Meanwhile, the Hantsphere project, organised via Hampshire County Council, was creating a local studies resource on the history and heritage of Hampshire, digitising, amongst other objects, postcards, photographs and prints form the late eighteenth century to the present day."

Information Research 9, no. 4 (2004): Includes "Beyond Usage: Understanding the Use of Electronic Journals on the Basis of Information Activity Analysis," "Library Usage Patterns in the Electronic Information Environment," "On Identifying Name Equivalences in Digital Libraries," "Web Links as Analogues of Citations," and other articles.

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 40 (2004): Includes: "Death of an Encyclopedia Salesman? The Fate of Science Reference Resources in the Digital Age"; "Science, Technology and Research Network (STARNET)"; and other articles.

Kahn, Miriam B. Protecting Your Library's Digital Sources: The Essential Guide to Planning and Preservation. Chicago: ALA, 2004.

Nature Web Focus: Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues: New RSS Feed at http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/rss.rdf. More new Nature RSS feeds at http://www.nature.com/rss.

Open Access Now, 2 August 2004: Includes "A Catalyst for Change," "OUP Takes a Bold Step Following Its Open Access Experiment," "Publishing Giant Springs towards Open Access," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and other articles.

PADI Trails: "Each of our trails have been designed to introduce the beginner both to digital preservation and the PADI website. The trails consist of general background information, as well as links to resources from our PADI database."

RLG DigiNews 8, no. 4 (2004): Includes "Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow? Preservation of Weblogs," "Editor's Interview with Clifford A. Lynch," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. NIH Open-Access Plan: Frequently Asked Questions: "On July 14, 2004, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee adopted a set of recommendations for next year's federal budget. One key recommendation would have the effect of providing open access (OA) to articles based on research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."

August 9, 2004

Ariadne, no. 40 (2004): Includes "An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)," "PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing," "Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements," "Targeting Academic Research with Southampton's Institutional Repository," and other articles.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 235 (2004): Includes "A Snapshot in Time: ARL Libraries and Electronic Journal Resources" and other articles.

Chemical & Engineering News 82, no. 30 (2004): Includes "Legislators Back Open Access" and other articles.

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4, no. 10 (2004): Walt Crawford continues his incisive commentary on current issues, new articles worth reading, and other topics. Highly recommended.

Current Cites 15, no. 7 (2004): Annotated references about information technology literature written by a team of librarians.

First Monday 9, no. 8 (2004): Includes "The Devil You Don't Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing" and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 10 (2004): Includes "Multiple Viewpoints as an Approach to Digital Library Interfaces" and other articles.

LIBRI 54, no. 2 (2004): Includes "Academic Authors and Open Archives: A Survey in the Social Science Field" and other articles.

SPARC E-News (June-July 2004): News about the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 76 (2004): News and commentary about the open access movement by Peter Suber.

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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2004. <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>.