December 5, 2007

Next Weblog update on 1/9/08.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 252/253 (2007): Includes "The Changing Environment of University Publishing," "Encouraging Public Commentary on the Ithaka Report," "Publishing Journals@UIC," "Synergies: Building National Infrastructure for Canadian Scholarly Publishing," "The University of California as Publisher," "University Publishing in a Digital Age: Highlights of the Ithaka Report," and "University Research Publishing or Distribution Strategies?"

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives 59, no. 6 (2007): Includes "Disciplinary Repositories in the Social Sciences," "What Do Faculty and Students Really Think about E-Books?," and other articles.

Borgman, Christine L. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.

The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 20, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Digitized Books" and other articles.

College & Research Libraries News 68, no. 10 (2007): Includes "Student Activism: How Students Use the Scholarly Communication System" and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, Volume 7, 2007. Mountain View, CA: Cites & Insights, 2007.

D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 11/12 (2007): Includes "Census of Institutional Repositories in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Institutions at Different Stages of IR Development"; "Creating Online Historical Scrapbooks with a User-Friendly Interface: A Case Study"; "The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive"; "Good Terms—Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization: A Report Prepared by Intelligent Television for RLG Programs, OCLC Programs and Research"; "Manakin: A New Face for DSpace"; "SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding): Opening Up New Possibilities for Electronic Resource Transactions"; "Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories"; and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly 30 no. 4 (2007): Includes "Use and Users of Digital Resources" and other articles.

Fernando, Bernadine, and Daina Gibson. "All Change: The Ever Evolving Institutional Repository at the University of Melbourne." E-LIS (2007).

Guédon, Jean-Claude. "Open Access and the Divide between 'Mainstream' and 'Peripheral' Science." E-LIS (2007).

International Journal on Digital Libraries 7, no. 1/2 (2007): Includes "Collaborative eScience Libraries"; "Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility, Annotation, E-Research Technologies (DART) Project: A Case Study Using an X-Ray Diffractometer"; "eScience and the Humanities"; "Little Science Confronts the Data Deluge: Habitat Ecology, Embedded Sensor Networks, and Digital Libraries"; "Not By Metadata Alone: The Use of Diverse Forms of Knowledge to Locate Data for Reuse"; "Pathways: Augmenting Interoperability across Scholarly Repositories"; "Transitioning from the Ecological Fieldwork to an Online Repository: A Digital Library Solution and Evaluation"; and other articles.

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13, no. 1 (2007): Includes "The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses" and other articles.

Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries 17, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Consortium Negotiations with Publishers—Past and Future," "Embedding Open Access into the European Landscape—The Contribution of LIBER," "Public Policy and the Politics of Open Access," "Slip-Sliding Away—Some Reflections on Recent Developments in Copyright and Their Consequences," and other articles.

New Library World 108, no. 11/12 (2007): Includes "Opening Up Information for Better Public Value" 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.

portal: Libraries and the Academy 7, no. 4 (2007): Includes "The Dark Side of Digitization" and other articles.

Royster, Paul. "Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository." DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2007).

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 20, no. 3 (2007): Includes "Authors' Attitudes to, and Awareness and Use of, a University Institutional Repository"; "Can Open Access Repositories and Peer-Reviewed Journals Coexist?"; "The Importance of Linking Electronic Resources and Their Licence Terms: A Project to Implement ONIX for Licensing Terms for UK Academic Institutions"; "Institutional Identifiers and the Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot"; "UK Access to UK Research"; "Will the Parasite Kill the Host? Are Institutional Repositories a Fact of Life—and Does It Matter?"; and other articles.

Slavic & East European Information Resources 8, no. 2/3 (2007): Includes "JSTOR's Work in the Russian Federation: A Case Study" and other articles.

Smith-Yoshimura, Karen. RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey Results. Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2007.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 116 (2007): Includes "Predictions for 2008," "Update on the Bill Mandating OA at the NIH," and other articles.

Technical Services Quarterly 25, no. 1 (2007): Includes "Cataloging Department Participation in Digital Initiatives," "Learning Objects: An Expedition from Archival Collection to Online Collaboration," and other articles.

Tehranian, John. "Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap." (2007)