Weblog Archive (November 2001)

November 30, 2001

Collection Management Initiative: Grant-funded study by the University of California system about the effects of removing printed copies of selected journals for which electronic versions are available. Runs from October 2001 through September 2002.

Texas A&M University Libraries and ARL Receive NSF Grant for Digital Libraries Assessment: Press release about the funding of the "Developing a National Science Digital Library (NSDL) LibQUAL+ Protocol" proposal, which will: "(a) define the dimensions of digital library service quality from the users' perspectives; (b) develop a tool for measuring user perceptions and expectations of digital library service quality across NSDL digital library contexts; and (c) identify digital library best practices that permit generalizations across operations and development platforms."

November 29, 2001

Follow the eBook Road: eBooks in Oz Public Libraries: Three e-book presentations from the the Australian Library and Information Association's 2001 Public Libraries Conference.

Serials 14, No. 3 (2001): Includes "DSpace: Durable Digital Documents," "The Electronic Mathematics Archives Network Initiative (EMANI)," "Holding Moonbeams: The Challenge of Preserving Scientific Knowledge," "LOCKSS, A Permanent Web Publishing and Access System: Brief Introduction and Status Report," "Managing Electronic E-Journal Access: The TDNet solution," "Planning for the Digital Archive: The Harvard E-Journal Experience," and other articles.

November 28, 2001

Harnad, Stevan. Skyreading and Skywriting for Researchers: A Post-Gutenberg Anomaly and How to Resolve It: New paper by Harnad and an online discussion of it.

Open Digital Rights Language Initiative: Effort to define a standard "vocabulary for the expression of terms and conditions over digital content including permissions, constraints, obligations, conditions, and agreements with rights holders."

Spectra (Summer/Fall 2000): Special issue on digital imaging.

November 27, 2001

DP9—An OAI Gateway Service for Web Crawlers: Software that allows Internet search engines to index OAI repositories.

portal: Libraries and the Academy 1 (October 2001): Includes "Alliance Building in the Information and Online Database Industry," "The Symbolic Meaning of Libraries in a Digital Age," "The Sociotechnical Networks of Scholarly Communication," and other articles.

November 26, 2001

Covax News (October 2001): Includes "COVAX Metasearch Engine and Access to Native XML-Data Bases" and other articles.

Digital Resources: Annotated pathfinder by OCLC Preservation Resources staff.

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 16 November 2001: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

November 16, 2001

OCLC Makes Offer to Purchase Assets of netLibrary: Press release about the potential purchase of netLibrary, which has filed Chapter 11.

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2001: Takes a hard look at the downside of copyright laws. Read selected chapters at the author's old NYU home page.

Wiley InterScience Launches OnlineBooks: Database Will Deliver Integrated Content from Wiley's Books, Journals and Reference Works: Press release about Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks, which will have three main sections: Chemistry, Life and Medical Sciences, and Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.

November 15, 2001

Young, Jeffrey R. "New Online Service Lets Biologists Vote on Most Important Articles." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 November 2001: Describes the Faculty of 1000, a commercial service that uses more than 1,450 biologists to rate papers.

November 14, 2001

Mieszkowski, Katharine. "Dumpster Diving on the Web." Salon.com, 2 November 2001: Will copyright issues trip up the Internet Archive Wayback Machine?

November 13, 2001

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 9 November 2001: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

November 12, 2001

Managing the Delivery of Electronic Journals: Issues for a Science-Technical Library. Sci-Tech Contributed Papers for the 2001 SLA Conference: Includes "Building and Maintaining a Local Database for Electronic Journal Access Points" and "An Integrated Approach to Managing Electronic Journals: The Purdue University Experience."

November 9, 2001

EDUCAUSE Review 36 (November/December 2001): Includes "Archiving in the Digital Age: There's a Will, But Is There a Way?," "Balancing Copyright Concerns: The TEACH Act of 2001," and "Copyright Assumptions and Challenges."

PCC Standing Committee on Automation (SCA) 2nd Task Group on Journals in Aggregator Databases. Final Report, October 23, 2001: Progress report on efforts to create MARC records for journals in aggregator databases.

Young, Jeffrey R. "Law Student Warns That Professors' Quest for Rights to Lectures Could Backfire." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 November 2001: Interview with Corynne McSherry, author of Who Owns Academic Work: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property.

November 8, 2001

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections: Recommendations of the Digital Library Forum (a work group of the Institute of Museum and Library Services).

INASP Newsletter 18 (October 2001): Special issue about online journal publishing.

Managing Digital Video Content: A Two-Day Workshop on Current and Emerging Standards for Managing Digital Video Content: Presentations from the conference, which are typically in PowerPoint or RealVideo format.

November 7, 2001

OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. A Recommendation for Content Information. Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2001: Recommends metadata strategies for preserving digital content in the context of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model.

November 6, 2001

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 2 November 2001: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

"Name Change": According to this e-mail message, the posting address for E-COLLECTIONS will soon be JISC-E-COLLECTIONS@JISCmail.ac.uk.

November 5, 2001

November 2, 2001

File Specifications for the Digital Talking Book (Committee AQ): NISO committee that is developing the ANSI/NISO Z39.86-200x standard, which is in draft form.

November 1, 2001

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 26 October 2001: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

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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>.