November 7, 2007

Next Weblog update on 12/5/07.

ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee. Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2007.

Ariadne, no. 53 (2007): Includes "The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands," "DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across Europe," "Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library," "Providing Access to European Television Heritage," and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 7, no. 12 (2007): Includes "©3: Balancing Rights—Sometimes They're Guilty" and other articles.

The Electronic Library 25, no. 5 (2007): Includes "Using Journal Use Study Feedback to Improve Accessibility" and other articles.

First Monday 12, no. 10 (2007): Includes "Annotating and Linking in the Open Journal Systems"; "A Critical Theory of Open Access: Libraries and Electronic Publishing"; "DiPP and eLanguage: Two Cooperative Models for Open Access"; "Establishing an Online Editorial and Publishing System: One-Year Experience with the Journal of Research in Medical Sciences"; "Extending OJS into Small Magazines: The OMMM Project"; "From Production to Publishing at CJC Online: Experiences, Insights, and Considerations for Adoption"; "The Impact of the Open Access Movement on Medical Based Scholarly Publishing in Nigeria"; "The Library as a Mediator for E-Publishing: A Case on How a Library Can Become a Significant Factor in Facilitating Digital Scholarly Communication and Open Access Publishing for Less Web-Savvy Journals"; "Newfound Press: The Digital Imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries; "Open Access to Open Publish: National Library of Australia"; "Opening Up Scholarly Information at the University of Illinois at Chicago"; "Partners in Science: OJS, a Collaborative Researchers' Workbench and an Open Repository"; "Rethinking Collections—Libraries and Librarians in an Open Age: A Theoretical View"; "Scholarly Publishing in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities"; "Scholarly Publishing Initiatives at the International Rice Research Institute: Linking Users to Public Goods via Open Access"; "Scientific Journal Publishing in India: Promoting Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Journals in India"; "Transitioning to Open Access (OA)"; and "Using a Tetradic Network Technique and a Transaction Cost Economic Analysis to Illustrate an Economic Model for an Open Access Medical Journal."

Hood, Anna K. Open Access Resources, SPEC Kit 300. Washington: DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2007.

IFLA Journal 33, no. 3(2007): Includes "Open Access and Institutional Repositories—A Developing Country Perspective: A Case Study of India" and other articles.

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 12, no. 4 (2007): Includes "The Use of Weblogs (Blogs) by Librarians and Libraries to Disseminate Information," "The 'Platinum Route' to Open Access: A Case Study of E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship," and other articles.

Information Today 24, no. 10 (2007): Includes "Progress Report: The British Library and Microsoft Digitization Partnership" and other articles.

International Journal on Digital Libraries 8, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Evaluation of Digital Libraries" and other articles.

Journal of Documentation 63, no. 6 (2007): Includes "Open Access in Context: A User Study" and other articles.

The Journal of Electronic Publishing 10, no. 3 (2007): Includes "CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Text"; "Market Formation for E-Books: Diffusion, Confusion or Delusion?"; "The Prevalence of Additional Electronic Features in Pure E-Journals"; "Redefining Scholarly Publishing as a Service Industry"; "University Publishing in a Digital Age"; "What Happened to the E-Book Revolution?"; and other articles.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 13 (2007): Includes "The Citation Performance of Open Access Journals: A Disciplinary Investigation of Citation Distribution Models," "The Effect of 'Open Access' on Citation Impact: An Analysis of ArXiv's Condensed Matter Section," and other articles.

Journal of the Medical Library Association 95, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Comparing Test Searches in PubMed and Google Scholar," "Expanding Medical Library Support in Response to the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy," and other articles.

Library Trends 56, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Collaboration for Electronic Preservation"; "Defining Digital Sustainability"; "Moving Image Preservation and Cultural Capital," "Tending the Garden or Harvesting the Fields: Digital Preservation and the UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage"; "Training Professionals to Preserve Digital Heritage: The School for Scanning"; "Virtual Preservation: How Has Digital Culture Influenced Our Ideas about Permanence? Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library"; and other articles.

Newman, Kathleen A., Deborah D. Blecic, and Kimberly L. Armstrong. Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives, SPEC Kit 299. Washington: DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2007.

OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 23, no. 4 (2007 ): Includes "Building Institutional Repository Infrastructure in Regional Australia," "Digital Curation," "E-Science and Open Access Repositories in Spain," "From Digital Library to Institutional Repository: A Brief Look at One Library's Path," "Linking Repositories: Scoping the Development of Cross-Institutional User-Oriented Services," "New Possibilities for Metadata Creation in an Institutional Repository Context," "Outsourcing Open Access: Digital Commons at the University of Wollongong, Australia," and other articles.

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 41, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Developing an Integrated Institutional Repository at Imperial College London," "Pure Dead Brilliant?: Evaluating the Glasgow Story Digitisation Project," "Use of Digital Repositories by Chemistry Researchers: Results of a Survey," and other articles.

Research Information (October/November 2007): Includes "Open-Access Debate Gets Personal," "Particle Physicists Push for Publishing Changes," and other articles.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 115 (2007): Includes "Society Publishers with Open Access Journals," "Victory in the Senate: Update on the Bill to Mandate Open Access at the NIH," and other articles.