August 5, 2008

Next Weblog update on 9/3/08.

Albitz, Becky. Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2008.

Aslib Proceedings 60, no. 4 (2008): Includes "UK Scholarly E-Book Usage: A Landmark Survey" and other articles.

Canessa, E., and M. Zennaro, eds. Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access. Trieste, Italy: Science Dissemination Unit, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2008.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 7 (2008): Includes "Two New Policies Widen the Path to Balanced Copyright Management: Developments on Author Rights" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 8, no. 8 (2008): Includes "©4: Locking Down Technology," "Library Access to Scholarship: Signs along the Way," and other articles.

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 7/8 (2008): Includes "Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS in METS"; "Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status"; "A Format for Digital Preservation of Images: A Study on JPEG 2000 File Robustness"; "Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs"; and other articles.

Galina, Isabel and Giménez, Joaquín. "Overview of the Development of Open Access Journals and Repositories in Mexico." E-LIS, 2008.

Journal of Information Science 34, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Electronic Scholarly Publishing and Open Access" and other articles.

Journal of Science Communication 7, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The Future of the Scientific Paper"; "Public Domain, Copyright Licenses and the Freedom to Integrate Science"; and other articles.

Journal of the Medical Library Association 96, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Digitizing Dissertations for an Institutional Repository: A Process and Cost Analysis" and other articles.

Library Management 29, no. 6/7 (2008): Includes "Copyright and Knowledge Advancement: A Case Study on the UAE copyright Law" and other articles.

Malina, Barbara, ed. Open Access Opportunities and Challenges: A Handbook. Brussels: European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO, 2008.

Medeiros, Norm. "Access Revolution: The Birth, Growth, and Supremacy of Electronic Journals as an Information Medium." E-LIS, 2008.

Open Access Directory. Bibliography of Open Access. Boston: Open Access Directory, 2008.

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 42, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Digital Libraries and Repositories in India: An Evaluative Study" and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 21, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Long-Term Access to E-Journals: What Exactly Can We Promise Our Readers?"; "A Parallel Universe? Blogs, Wikis, Web 2.0 and a Complicated Future for Scholarly Communication"; and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 21, no. 2 (2008): Includes "A New Digital Platform to Open up Chinese University Journals: Publishing, Communication and Some OA initiatives: Based on a Joint Paper Presented by Ruoxi Li at the 31st UKSG Conference, Torquay, April 2008"; "On the Usage of E-Journals in French Universities"; "Planets: Integrated Services for Digital Preservation"; "Something in the Water: Scholarly Communications in a Rapidly Changing Information Economy: Based on Paper presented at the 31st UKSG Conference, Torquay, April 2008"; and other articles.

Serials Review 34, no. 1 (2008): Includes "The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update"; "The Institutional Repository Rediscovered: What Can a University Do for Open Access Publishing?"; "Institutions, Their Repositories and the Web"; "Mixing and Matching the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access—Take 2"; "Open Access, Equity, and Strong Economy in Developing and Transition Countries: Policy Perspective"; "Open Data in Science"; "Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository"; and other articles.

Serials Review 34, no. 2 (2008): Includes "An Interview with Heather Joseph"; "E-Book Subscription in a Distance Education Institution: A Case of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India"; "License Mapping for ERM Systems: Existing Practices and Initiatives for Support"; "The NISO License Expression Working Group"; "Patterns of Use of Electronic Journals in Spanish University Libraries"; and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 123 (2008): Includes "Open Access and the Last-Mile Problem for Knowledge" and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 124 (2008): Includes "Gratis and Libre Open Access" and other articles.

Tonta, Yasar. "Open Access and Institutional Repositories: The Turkish Landscape." E-LIS: 2008.

Webology 5, no. 1, (2008): Includes "Science Popularization through Open Access" and other articles.

Zeng, Marcia Lei, and Jian Qin. Metadata. New York: Neal Schuman, 2008.