LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the E-journals interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:53:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/03/estudos-sobre-mulher-na-ciencia-da.html Adjabeng, A.,  "Las bibliotecas como recurso para Acrecentar y Apoyar el Desarrollo Económico para la Mujer".  IFLA Council and General Conference, No. 70, 2004. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/037s_trans-Adjabeng.pdfDescriptores: Mujeres/Bibliotecas/Aspecto económico/Aspecto social/Discriminaión socialResumen: Los asuntos que se centran en la mujer han asumido una dimensión más profunda. Muchas actividades se han llevado a cabo para alarmar a los gobiernos, a organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, instituciones políticas, sociales y económicas sobre los problemas de la mujer en general. Una de dichas actividades la Década para la Mujer de las Naciones Unidas 1975-1985, un periodo creado por las Naciones Unidas para crear una amplia conciencia en todo el mundo sobre los asuntos centrados en la mujer. Adjabeng, A.,  "Libraries as a source of relevant information to support and enhance economic development for women".  IFLA Council and General Conference, No. 70, 2004. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/037e-Adjabeng.pdfDescriptores: Mujeres/Bibliotecas/Aspecto económico/Aspecto social/Discriminaión socialResumen: Issues concerning women have assumed a wider dimension. Many activities have been carried out to alert governments, governmental and non-governmental organizations, political, social and economic and academic institutions about the problems of women in general. One of such activities was The United Nations Decade for Women 1975-1985, a period set aside by the United Nations to create a widespread awareness in the whole world on issues concerning women. Alfaya Lamas, E., Fernández Mariño, P., and Villaverde Solar, D.,  "Análisis de datos mediante observación documental en las noticias de prensa sobre misoginia".  Jornadas Españolas de Documentación, No. 11, 2009, pp. 298-301 . http://www.fesabid. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825058 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/05/academic-libraries-tulane-u-libraries-invest-in-digital-sources/ From the Article: In the aftermath of Katrina, more than 700,000 of the library’s print volumes were submerged, along with 1.5 million individual pieces of microfilm. All recordings from the Maxwell Music Library were lost. After receiving relief funds, the library immediately reinvested in online facsimile collections, eJournals and eBook back files to replace and digitally preserve destroyed materials. Through the generosity of the collections’ publishers, Tulane purchased roughly $10 million worth of online resources for only slightly more than half of the actual cost. [Snip] [Associate Dean Andy] Corrigan said he considers books no less important than the university’s database collection. A significant portion of the library’s funding, however, is now dedicated to online resources. Howard-Tilton currently invests more than $8.1 million annually into library acquisitions. The library allocated $2.9 million for digital resources in 2010, which mostly includes subscriptions to online journals. A separate $2.1 million is allocated for serials, which includes both online journal subscriptions and print backups. In all, 41,670 unduplicated digital subscription titles are currently listed in the Tulane Libraries online catalog and eJournals list. Access the Complete Article Source: Tulane Hullabaloo (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:38:43 +0100 823882 http://mulford.utoledo.edu/mblog/?p=2060 by Janice Flahiff The Mulford Library has a large number of online journals available both on and off campus to UT affiliates. A quick check of Browse e-journals by subject (through the Online Journals link in the left column of the Mulford Library Home Page) had these results. Medicine – about 3,100 journal titles (scroll down to Medicine) Nursing – nearly 350 journal titles Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation – nearly 60 journal titles Physical Therapy – nearly 60 journal titles Public Health – over 800 titles (scroll down to Public Health) One may also search for specific journal titles through the Search catalog… box at either the Carlson or Mulford Library home pages.  Options include title and (medical) subject headings. The Mulford Library not only provides access to journals, but also databases as CINAHL, PubMed, and many OhioLINK databases to search for specific articles. Please do not hesitate to contact a Mulford Libarian for assistance! Remember, if the library does not have a specific needed article, you may request an article through the ILLIAD link in the left column of  either the Carlson or Mulford Library home pages. Articles may also be directly requested through the Find It!  link within abstracts at OhioLINK databases. (Source: Mulford Library Blog) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:48:14 +0100 823787 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1245 Für die Frühlings- und Sommermonate bieten wir Ihnen ab April 2010 wieder verschiedenste Kurse an, um Ihre Recherchekenntnisse aufzufrischen, das Dienstleistungsangebot der Bibliothek optimal nutzen zu können, aber auch um Ihre Literatur zu verwalten und praktische Anwendungsmöglichkeiten des Webs für Ihre Informationsbedürfnisse kennenzulernen. Der Kurskalender zeigt Ihnen die Kurse auf [...] (Source: Newsblog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:43:46 +0100 823819 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1242 Liebe Nutzer und Nutzerinnen, wir geben Hefte diverser Zeitschriften aus dem vergangenen und diesem Jahr ab: Brain. A Journal of Neurology, Oxford University Press, Vol. 132 (2009), Part 1-5, 7-8 Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Springer, Vol. 32 (2009), No. 1 Nature, Nature Publishing Group, Vol. 458 (2009),  No. 7241 Nature Methods, Nature Publishing Group, Vol. 6 (2009), No. 7-11 Pancreas, Lippincott [...] (Source: Newsblog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:25:03 +0100 823824 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6945 State: Florida Assistant Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services The University of Miami Libraries seeks a nominations and applications for an Assistant Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services to provide leadership and guidance in planning and managing database maintenance, authority control, and copy-cataloging activities in the University Library to ensure the quality of its resource discovery tools. The incumbent hires, trains, and supervises 6 FTE supporting staff in cataloging and quality control and may also participate in original cataloging of print/online materials in a variety of formats, as well as provide descriptive metadata for digital collections. *UNIVERSITY: *The University of Miami is one of the nation’s leading research universities in a community of extraordinary diversity and international vitality. The University is privately supported, non-sectarian institution, located in Coral Gables, Florida, on a 260-acre subtropical campus. The University comprises 11 degree granting schools and colleges, including Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Communication, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Music, Nursing, and Marine and Atmospheric Science (www.miami.edu). *THE LIBRARY: *The University of Miami Libraries (www.library.miami.edu) rank among the top 50 research libraries in North America with a collection of over 3 million volumes, 74,000 current serials, and over 64,000 E-journal titles. The Otto G. Richter Library lies in the heart of the Coral Gables campus and serves as the central library for the University. Other University of Miami libraries include the Paul Buisson Architecture Library, the Judi Prokop Newman Business Information Resource Center, and the Marta & Austin Weeks Music Library, and the Marine and Atmospheric Science Library. The campus also has independent medical and law libraries. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:50:02 +0100 822597 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/porticos-web-site-receives-makeover-includes-tools-to-help-educate-how-content-is-preserved/ From the Announcement: More than 650 libraries and 90 publishers (representing over 2,000 scholarly associations) around the world are working together to support the digital preservation of scholarly content through Portico. Highlights include: + Who Participates? – Detailed sort-able lists of participating libraries, publishers, and titles (e-journals, e-books, and d-collections), including bibliographic information, archive holdings, and information about the preservation status of titles and their availability for post-cancellation access. + The Archive: Content & Access – A summary of archive growth and contents over time, a snapshot of current facts and figures, information about ‘triggered content,’ and readily accessible links to our archive audit and access sites. + Preservation Step-by-Step – An overview to help librarians and publishers educate others in their organizations about how digital content is preserved in Portico that is easy to understand and supported by visual aids. + How Portico Saves You Time and Money – Information on how to get value from Portico participation today, including links to our holdings comparison service and to case studies from librarian colleagues. Source: Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:54:40 +0100 822600 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/TxDV8FemiC8/3605 MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries gave us a talk entitled “The Value Equation: Social Science Perspective (or Why I Love Google).” MacKenzie started by admitting that MIT (where she works) spends millions on research databases (570 of them including 45,000 e-journals), but she doesn’t use any of them … instead she relies on conference proceedings, white papers, email, blog posts and other related project websites. The problem she finds that most of the peer-reviewed journal articles are just way too old. She needs to know about these topics now! Not a year from now. Instead, many of the resources she relies on are free and open access – resources that are and always have been open access. The problem she finds when searching databases (and this is one I’m very familiar with) how do you search across disciplines – how do you know what database to use to find information that crosses disciplines. In my world this would be my common research areas of open source development (technology/computer programming) for and in libraries (social sciences). In addition – even though she has access to EndNote & RefWords she uses Zotero. This is because Zotero is evolving more quickly to deal with the varying types of content we want to save and cite. Also, Zotero offers more mobility – accessibility form all over – and the ability to share resources with her colleagues. (As a side note, MacKenzie pointed out Mendeley which is Zotero for scientists). When it comes to searching, MacKenzie doesn’t usually use advanced search, she instead starts with a seed and then builds on that. Then to review the content she doesn’t use the publisher to decide on the quality. She instead uses the author, the organization or the person who recommended that she read the article. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:06:08 +0100 823154 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/26/report-the-future-of-research-and-the-research-library/ Panlibus has an excellent summary of the recently published, “The Future of Research and the Research Library,” report from the Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF). Sarah Bartlett writes, It’s ambitious [the report]. Very ambitious. It’s also universal in its scope – only occasionally delving into Denmark-specific structures and scenarios. Essentially, the report seeks to answer the following questions: + Does the research library have a future? + What future roles are open to the research library? + Would a roadmap be useful? [Snip] By and large, this isn’t an easy read. It’s highly theoretical and enormously broad as I’ve said. However, the report does present a very digestible history of the research library. Space constraints preclude even an attempt to do this justice, but what I will say is that it clarified in my mind many unanswered questions about how precisely the research library model has been disrupted. [Snip] The other interesting thing about the historical narrative of this report is that it presents a degree of historical continuum in the relationship between the research library and more focused problem-driven innovative activities in the broader economy. Again, Bartlett’s summary post on Panlibus is nothing short of “in-depth” and we’ve selected only a few paragraphs. The full text of the complete report is available online. Access “The Future of Research and the Research Library” (70 pages; PDF) here. From the Executive Summary: The research library has several types of users and usage. Some are directly aware of the functions of the library, but increasingly libraries have users that are not aware of the functions of the library. The researcher reading papers in an e-journal, access to which is provided by a library, is not necessarily noticing the essential function of the library. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:36:33 +0100 821820 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/P0KW5l0opiw/the-future-of-research-and-the-research-library.php According to a recent report from DEFF, Denmark’s Electronic Research Library: There are three aspects of the functions of the research library that can be seen as providing potential scenarios. The library as a learning centre focusing on the provision of learning materials and support for learning processes. The library as a knowledge centre being a co-creator in the production of knowledge closely connected to active research groups. The library as a meta-knowledge institution working as a catalyst for knowledge synthesis, the organisation, evaluation and consolidation of knowledge. As well as exploring this typology in greater detail, the report The future of research and the research library also describes a couple of more concrete and familiar scenarios. Firstly, one that might have benefited from a deeper exploration in the report: … up-to-date physical locations where the students can study with other students and in that way get a sense of a working day and a working community. In that way, the library will become more of a social zone, instead of the quiet room for lonely absorption which it is traditionally known for. And secondly, one that is very much informed by the information literacy role of modern university libraries: “’The touching library’, i.e. a research library which can touch and move its users through its competence to select and qualify knowledge, and which is touched and moved by its users in order to deliver the best possible product.” What about the report itself? It’s ambitious. Very ambitious. It’s also universal in its scope – only occasionally delving into Denmark-specific structures and scenarios. I can’t hope to do justice to the richness of its content in one single blog, so I can only present a subjective take. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:49:33 +0100 821753 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/02/new-ejournal-access-feb-2010.html Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Full text, v.1, 2010+; WU access only. Annual Review of Food Science and Technology Full text, v.1, 2010+; WU access only. (Source: Biology Library News) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821954 http://www.hsdl.org/hslog/?q=node/5392 The latest edition of the U.S. Department of State's eJournal USA focuses on A World Free of Nuclear Weapons. "Speaking last year in Prague, President Barack Obama offered a U.S. commitment to seek a world without nuclear weapons. But he also acknowledged that the objective might not be achieved in his lifetime. How that goal might be attained, and why getting there is so difficult, is the subject of this eJournal USA. Our contributors approach the issue from every angle. Most agree with President Obama's objective, although one, a former U.S. national security adviser, argues that the world may be safer with a few acknowledged nuclear weapons than with promises that all have been foresworn.read more (Source: HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:59:24 +0100 821223 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/l3jz3l3QAkQ/e-journals-are-forever-uk.html e-Journals are forever? - Preservation and Continuing Access to e-journal Content (A DPC, EDINA and JISC joint initiative) - 26 April 2010 - London, UK (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:08:37 +0100 820755 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/zpaLPccfwVU/ Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky have self-archived "A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems" on the Public Knowledge Project website. Here's an excerpt: A survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characteristics of an emerging class of scholar-publisher open access journals (with some representation from more traditional scholarly society and print-based titles). The journals in the sample follow traditional norms for peer-reviewing, acceptance rates, and disciplinary focus, but are distinguished by the number that offer open access to their content, the growth rates in new titles, the participation rates from developing countries, and the extremely low operating budgets. The survey also documents the limited degree to which open source software can alter a field of communication, as OJS appears to have created a third path, dedicated to maximizing access to research and scholarship, as an alternative to traditional scholarly society and commercial publishing routes. Related Posts BioMed Central Launches Its 200th Open Access Journal "The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Journal Systems Implementations" The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations Hindawi’s Open Access Journals’ Impact Factor Up over 27% African Journals Online Migrates to Open Journal Systems Platform (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:03:28 +0100 820724 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002058.html One of the major issues facing libraries as the network reconfigures processes is how appropriately to source and scale activities. What does it make sense to do at institutional level, what does it make sense to source elsewhere (repository services in the cloud, for example, or insitutional email services from Google), and what should be left entirely to other providers? I discussed 'scaling' from the supply side - what libraries do and how - a while ago when discussing a NISO report on resource management .. Scalar emphasis has become an important question for libraries. At what scale should things be done as institution-scale is increasingly the wrong level for many activities? Oren [Beit-Arie] discusses the transitional effect of the network in broader collaborative settings, where the power of the network can be leveraged to improve services. Shared cataloging and resource sharing may be earlier instances of this. Consider now the potential for recommendations where circulation or other usage data is aggregated at a higher level. Consider incentives also in this context. Where are library users most likely to want to invest their effort? Kat Hagedorn [ppt] discusses a collaborative project of the HathiTrust, New York University, and the partners in the ReCAP shared print facility with the involvement of OCLC Research and CLIR. What policy and service apparatus needs to be in place to provide confidence of supply from HathiTrust and ReCAP sufficient to allow NYU relegate materials from its own collection? Such 'cloud library' provision will become more common as libraries seek to transfer resource away from 'infrastructure' and towards user engagement. Kyle Bannerjee describes [ppt] Orbis Cascade's work with OCLC on the integration of local, consortial and global discovery and delivery of resources. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:18:14 +0100 820952 http://146.74.224.231/archives/2010/02/top_10_electron_28.html Listed by most popular first, these electronic resources had the highest number of accesses during the month of January: 1) Safari Tech eBooks 2) Value Line 3) Morningstar 4) Ancestry Library (Accessible Within the Library Only) 5) Overdrive 6) Dragonsource Qikan Chinese Online Magazines 7) Bookflix 8) NextReads 9) EBSCO MasterFILE Premier 10) E-Journal Portal (Serials Solutions) Find more resources by visiting our Electronic Library -- it's open 24/7! (Source: Santa Clara County Library - The Latest SCCoop) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:15 +0100 819206 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1222 Probleme beim Aufrufen aktueller Artikel oder Epubs ahead of Print? Nicht funktionierende Volltext-Links? Verschobene Zeitschriftentitel? All dies gehört jetzt der Vergangenheit an. Sowohl die Ergebnisse der Nutzerumfrage 2008 und der Umfrage zum Webangebot 2009, als auch Rückmeldungen an der Auskunft und die alltägliche Erfahrung zeigten, dass die Funktionsweise des „Check full text“-Service (ehemals „LinkSolver“) nicht zufriedenstellend und [...] (Source: Newsblog) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:38:20 +0100 818580 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/qjn6SLeD9UE/talis-news-for-academic-libraries-february-2010.php This month Talis is proud to announce its accreditation on the e4libraries scheme, recognising Talis’ ongoing commitment to electronic trading. Our products are also moving forward – the Talis Decisions Universes are available for download, and Talis Assure 1.3 is progressing well through beta test. And we’d love to hear from you if you’re interested in beta testing the Talis Alto Client Release during March. Alison Kershaw, Head of Products News from Talis Talis gains e4libraries accreditation Talis is now an accredited e4libraries supplier, under a scheme introduced by BIC. The accreditation acknowledges the strengths of Talis’ supply chain management suite, comprising Talis Gateway, which supports the full EDI procurement cycle, Talis Keystone finance and CRM system integration, and RFID interoperability. University of Chichester goes live with Prism 3 The University of Chichester has gone live with Prism 3.The university will run in parallel with Prism 2 for a short trial period, before moving to Prism 3 as its default catalogue. If you’d like to know more, a recent Talis Prism 3 development webinar is now available to view or download. Talis Assure is in beta test Talis Assure 1.3 beta test is making good progress in the three participating libraries, and is expected to be available on general release at the end of February. Talis Alto Client Release – Call for beta testers We are now working on a client-only release of Talis Alto, which will not involve a server upgrade. Libraries must already be running Talis Alto 5.0 to take this release. If your library is interested in beta testing this release during March, please contact Anne Stacey. Upgrading to Talis Alto 5.0 Fourteen academic libraries have now upgraded to Talis Alto 5.0. We advise those customers thinking of upgrading during the Easter or summer holidays to contact their account manager to schedule a date. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:54:49 +0100 817666 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/paKU9A2FgnI/ That also most sounds like a looping question. In the real estate market a house is worth as much as somebody is willing to pay.  But in media world a song may be worth millions but people are only willing to pay .99 cents for it.  In the case of the house, you only have one buyer, but the song you have millions of buyers.   Still with both products there is only so much a buyer is willing to pay for a product.  Price something too low and you will get a lot of buyers but you lose out on potential profits, price something too high and you have less buyers, possibly losing more money than if you had just priced it a little cheaper.  It is a tight rope walk.  Last year music companies were able to set their prices on their songs with iTunes variable pricing.  The variable pricing gave music lables the ability to set prices as low as .69 cents to as high as $1.29 for individual songs.  So how did that pan out a year later?  Not so good, music sales are slower. Warner Music Group (WMG) announced  that its unit sales growth (individual song sales, not album) on iTunes has slowed since the price increase.  Sales at the $1.29 level were down and if it weren’t for the revenue generated by the .69 cent songs, they would never have made a net gain.  The CEO of WMG acknowledged  he was unsure as to whether it was the economy or the 30% price increase (or both) that was the cause.  “It’s difficult to know, even today, if it is just consumer resistance to a higher price points or if taking a pricepoint of 30 percent more at such a fragile time (is to blame). I don’t think there’s been another company to have taken such a price increase in the 2009 period.” So why is this a big deal for medical libraries and companies who provide content to them?  The last 3 or 4 technology webinars and discussions I have sat in on have all talked about pay for access book and journal article content. ... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:34:06 +0100 817403 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14383 Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries (University at Buffalo, New York) Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries University at Buffalo, The State University of New York The University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York (SUNY), invites applications and nominations for a visionary leader as Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries. The University at Buffalo, a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), is SUNY’s most comprehensive research-intensive university and its primary center for professional education, currently enrolling over 27,000 students and offering 300 degree programs (baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral, and first professional). ... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:20:02 +0100 816892 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1209     Durch von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft bewilligte Nationallizenzen stehen Ihnen absofort - auch über den “Check full text”-Service - E-Journals des Anbieters BioOne zur Verfügung. Eine Titelliste können Sie hier einsehen. (Source: Newsblog) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:27:06 +0100 818583 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/08/digital-preservation-spie-to-preserve-e-books-in-portico/ From the Announcement: Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with SPIE to preserve its current collection of 93 e-books as well as those to be published in the future. Through this agreement with Portico, SPIE furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of its entire e-journals collection, and ensures that its e-books will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. SPIE is an international non-profit society that was founded in 1955 to advance the technology of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering through information exchange, education, publications, and sponsorships. SPIE publishes six refereed journals, a member magazine, a technical news website, as well as conference proceedings and peer-reviewed handbooks, reference books, and tutorials. As part of the agreement, SPIE will make an additional financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities and has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of SPIE’s 93 e-books, 34,000 e-books and over 10,700 e-journals from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. See Also: e-Journal Holdings See Also: E-Book Holdings Source: Portico See Also: Professional Literature: e-Books Officially Launch as a Part of SPIE Digital Library (ResourceShelf, Feb. 4, 2010. (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:25:45 +0100 816476 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/02/08/3641 Und hier der nächste Doody’s Review Service Featured Article: James Shedlock: The Future of Books at the Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Given all of these factors, I think the future of print books at the Galter Library is limited. The days of housing a large, just-in-case, print book collection that provides a supporting role to aid teaching and learning in the health sciences are gone, mostly due to improvements in technology which enable access to e-books and e-journals. When we talk about the future of print books, we are also talking about the future of the library as place. Libraries are built around the need to store books and other print matter. After all, that’s what the word ‘library’ means. If we picture a different future for the book based on user demand for e-books and the occasional print book for reserves, then we also paint a different picture of what the library as place looks like. The new library will be more about people and how they discover and use information. In the new space, print books will be available — on reserve to support the curriculum, for leisure reading, and to represent the history of medicine at Northwestern. But the overall space will be filled by features that support the user’s need for information discovery. ... Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:49:07 +0100 816546 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1187 Ab sofort haben Angehörige der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg und Ärzte des Uniklinikums Mannheim die Möglichkeit, auf alle Ausgaben der Deutschen Medizinischen Wochenschrift zuzugreifen. Beachten Sie bitte die allgemeinen Zugriffskonditionen. (Source: Newsblog) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:47 +0100 816820 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2010/02/04/breakdown-of-the-journal-info-enhancement-script/ So a while back I posted code which added peer reviewed indicators to a Serial Solutions E-Journal list. Never being quite satisfied with how stuff works and wanting to make things better I’d rewritten and expanded the script. Now it adds Peer Reviewed indicators to Serial Solutions and an Innovative catalog full record display screen. It also adds links to display the most current table of contents for a given journal if it exists (in both the Serial Solutions and Innovative UI). Adding Peer Review indicators Grab the ISSN from the page (Innovative, Serial Solutions) Send ISSN to xISSN service and retrieve whether or not the journal is peer reviewed Add Peer Reviewed indicator to the page The hardest part of this script involve obtaining the ISSN. Serial Solutions luckily tags this in a span. Innovative puts it in a table structure so using JQuery I can use the following $(“#fullSection td.bibInfoLabel:contains(‘ISSN’)”).next().text() what this does is find the td with the text ISSN in it and then gets the text in the next tag. Adding the Peer Reviewed indicator is a matter of finding the place in the HTML structure you want to add the new code and appending it. For simplicity sake in Innovative I’m just adding a new row to the table which contains the bibliographic data. Adding a link to the table of contents Grab the ISSN from the page (Innovative, Serial Solutions) Send ISSN to xISSN service and retrieve whether or not the journal is has a table of contents RSS feed available If ISSN has an RSS feed available, add a link which say See Latest Table of Contents and executes the TOC script This script build on what the Peer Review section of the script does and in addition to requesting the peer review field also gets the rssurl field from xISSN. If there is an rssurl field then a link is created and added to the page. ... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:17:42 +0100 815821 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/Uihbkp8q17Q/ Speakers: Dani L. Roach & Carolyn DeLuca How do you define an ebook? How is it different from a print book? From another online resource? Is it like pornography – you know it when you see it? “An electronic equivalent of a distinct print title.” What about regularly updated ebooks? For the purposes of this presentation, an ebook is defined by its content, format, delivery, and fund designation. Purchase impacts delivery and delivery impacts purchase – we need to know the platform, the publisher, the simultaneous user level, bundle options, pricing options (more than cost – includes release dates, platforms, and licensing), funding options, content, and vendor options (dealing more one-on-one with publishers). We now have multiple purchasing pots and need to budget annually for ebooks – sounds like a serial. Purchasing decisions impact collection development, including selection decisions, duplicate copies, weeding, preferences/impressions, and virtual content that requires new methods of tracking. After you purchase an ebook bundle, then you have to figure out what you actually have. The publisher doesn’t always know, and the license doesn’t always reflect reality, and your ERMS/link resolve may not have the right information, either. Also, the publisher doesn’t always remove the older editions promptly, so you have to ask them to “weed.” Do you use vendor-supplied MARC records or purchase OCLC record sets? Do you get vendor-neutral records, or multiple records for each source (and you will have duplicates). ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:24:12 +0100 815586 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/2H7jZJvXloo/ Speaker: Lee Hisle They have the standard patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model through Coutts’ MyiLibrary service. What’s slightly different is that they are also working on a pilot program with a three college consortia with a shared collection of PDA titles. After the second use of a book, they are charged 1.2-1.6% of the list price of the book for a 4-SU, perpetual access license. Issues with ebooks: fair use is replaced by the license terms and software restrictions; ownership has been replaced by licenses, so if Coutts/MyiLibrary were to go away, they would have to renegotiate with the publishers; there is a need for an archiving solution for ebooks much like Portico for ejournals; ILL is not feasible for permissible; potential for exclusive distribution deals; device limitations (computer screens v. ebook readers). Speaker: Ellen Safley Her library has been using EBL on Demand. They are only buying 2008-current content within specific subjects/LC classes (history and technology). They purchase on the second view. Because they only purchase a small subset of what they could, the number of records they load fluxuates, but isn’t overwhelming. After a book has been browsed for more than 10 minutes, the play-per-view purchase is initiated. After eight months, they found that more people used the book at the pay-per-view level than at the purchase level (i.e. more than once). They’re also a pilot for an Ebrary program. They had to deposit $25,000 for the 6 month pilot, then select from over 100,000 titles. They found that the sciences used the books heavily, but there were also indications that the humanities were popular as well. The difficulty with this program is an overlap between selector print order requests and PDA purchases. It’s caused a slight modification of their acquisitions flow. Speaker: Nancy Gibbs Her library had a pilot with Ebrary. ... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:32:39 +0100 815593 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/02/01/leveraging-opportunities-for-campus-sustainability-a-case-study-of-water-resources/ “Leveraging opportunities for campus sustainability: a case study of water resources” Kristan Cockerill & Jana Carp Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 5(2), 2009. Read it online at http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol5iss2/0904-017.cockerill.html Abstract: Institutions of higher education are well situated globally for transformation toward sustainability. The case of the Water Resources Planning Committee (WRPC) at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, United States offers insight into how educational institutions might identify and leverage transformative opportunities. The article suggests that a window of opportunity can open when diverse actor-groups share a common interest or goal and when individuals are able to bridge the groups as a way to create synergy. Once together, these groups can collaborate by sharing knowledge and resources. They do not avoid conflict, but rather constructively use organizational tensions and cultivate flexibility to further common goals. This case study focuses on interrelationships among a public university’s teaching and research missions and its place within a broader community as it transforms toward sustainably managing campus-water resources. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:17:13 +0100 814278 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15678 Colleagues/ !!! Another Tipping Point !!! If You Are Aware Of Other E-Journal Apps / Mobile Access, Please Leave As Comment On The Associated Blog Post. Thanks A Million ! /Gerry The World's Best Science And Medicine At Your Fingertips The nature.com iPhone application allows you to access science news stories and the latest published research from Nature Publishing Group on your iPhone wherever you are. As new articles are published they're pushed straight to your iPhone where you can read the full text immediately or just save them for later. Tell the app which journals you're interested in or set up saved searches, which will show you the titles and abstracts of new articles from any journals in PubMed that match your key words. Keeping abreast of the latest research has never been easier! Features Great reading experience- the nature.com app has been designed to make reading scientific content on the iPhone a rewarding experience. A fast, attractive interface lets you get straight to the news a (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 814066 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/Ky3Of48Z0Ag/ Editor’s Note: Erik follows up on Dan D’Austino’s piece mentioned above. You can find Dan’s piece here. PB Many of the issues and concerns that are brought up in Dan D’Augustino’s piece are very relevant. When eBooks first arrived it was like eJournals, everyone was trying to figure out what they had and the best way to use it. Dan mentions that buying eJournals was you may only need a few but you have to take the thousand others you don’t need. Many of the eBook aggregators out there don’t follow that model, that’s why they have perpetual access, subscription models and the ever-increasing patron or demand driven approach. We have to remember some key points though, eBooks for Higher Ed/Libraries are unique in their use and function then the retail or consumer market eBooks. In Higher Ed/Libraries they have different applications they are being used for. The specialized way in which the content is being used and the function they serve presents new challenges. To lump them all together as just eBooks without the separation of purpose or their specialized needs will cause nothing but confusion and misunderstanding. eBooks serve different purposes in each area and how you approach buying an eBook and using an eBook changes within that dynamic. Dan raises some great questions, with Google Books, are libraries collections threatened? I don’t see that, first off many of these titles are ones the publishers are doing nothing with and second of all, you are very limited in what you can do with Google Books. You cannot connect to other resources, you cannot copy and paste text with a citation to follow and biggest of all, you cannot search full text, after all, these are just images of the book, not the text that you could use in another way. Google Books will make a dent, sure, it’s big enough and they have a lot of money to throw behind. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:00:55 +0100 813200 http://mcdermottlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/01/electronic-resource-downtime-this.html The library will be performing maintenance on its EZProxy this Sunday, Jan. 31st. Electronic resources (e-journals, e-books, and databases) could be down for as little as half an hour or possibly lasting up to two hours starting at 8:30am and ending at 10:30am. The library apologizes in advance for any inconvenience to our patrons while we perform this crucial maintenance. (Source: The Orbit) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 814022 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/01/biology-ejournal-january-2010.html This is the time of year when ejournal changes and problems arise. If you notice problems with access, please notify Ruth or use the ejournal problem form so that we can get access restored as quickly as possible. In addition, Danforth Campus access to several Wiley titles will stop soon, but it hasn't changed yet so I haven't edited our holdings in the Biology E-Journals List yet. Canadian Field-Naturalist Full text, v.33-36, 1919-1922; freely available; Biodiversity Heritage Library. Genome Biology and Evolution Full text, 2009+; freely available; Oxford Univ. Press. International Forestry Review Full text, v.6, 2004+; WU access only; BioOne. Ottawa Naturalist Full text, v.1-32, 1887-1919; freely available; Biodiversity Heritage Library. Transactions - Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club Full text, v.1-7, 1819-1886; freely available; Biodiversity Heritage Library. (Source: Biology Library News) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812979 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15630 hi everyone, My library would like to search or a-to-z list from outside of the Ebsco servers/interface - we are already doing this using an outside form, but now we'd like to differentiate between e-books and e-journals, but I can't find the form variable names for the get/post request that would indicate an item type - do any web4libbers out there who admin or use Linksource know what these might be? much thanks Steve ----------------------------------------- Steven Turner Library Web Services Manager Associate Professor The University of Southern Mississippi Cook Library ----------------------------------------- email: steven.turner-aWCTzlnsAu4< at >public.gmane.org phone: 601.266.4066 ----------------------------------------- (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812855 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/b-3H4uRP1uM/ Editor’s note: Part 1 of this article can be found here. PB The best way to think of eBooks is as just another format, the content is the same as the print; it’s the format that has changed. Historically, students/patrons are accepting of such change. Think of e-journals, they have multiple platforms for the journals and each publisher presents theirs in a unique way with features and options, but the core content is still the same. Access Models In regards to access models we have to look at what the state of the industry is. In a conversation I had with Jay Henry, former Director of Blackwell Digital Services, he sums it up nicely. “What I mean is, the current state-of-the-art is really the result of compromise between what would be ideal, and what is possible—this is true in both the realm of technology and copyright/royalty-land” What Mr. Henry is referring to is that the access models are a result of what we have to work with. There is a certain field or constraint that the aggregators abide by and limitations that are in place that they must work with. Their is no grand scheme to make it harder for libraries or some evil plan hatching, everyone is simply working with what they have and can only do so much in those regards. Currently there are four types of access, Single User, Multi-User, Subscription and EBL’s Non-Linear access, which you can also partner with Patron/Demand Driven. I’ll go into each of the three and how each agg has applied them to their platform.EBL: EBL offers two types of access to their eBooks, first up is the Non-Linear model, what this means is that multiple, simultaneous use of an eBook is available with a usage limitation of 325 uses of a title in a year. A use is defined as a patron accessing the title beyond the FREE browsing period. Only after this FREE browse period that they decide to look at the title more is it a use. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:07 +0100 812422 http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/2010/01/24/ksl_spotlights Have you seen the KSL Spotlights? No, they're not outside, they're in the "Research Tools" folder on KSL's homepage, along with ejournals & ebooks, databases, and other content licensed for your research. Each month, Kelvin Smith Library creates a research theme and gathers collections & resources to highlight events, people, or outstanding resources offered by the Case libraries. Research Spotlights bring you things not on your class schedule, and can add value to your research or lifelong learning. Spotlight collections are carefully chosen for their authority, depth of coverage, uniqueness, and items of interest in today's world. If you missed them in 2009, you missed spotlights on National Parks (Oct.), Honey Bee Mystery (July), Graphic Novels (May), and free access (through March 2010) to Biography Reference Center database (December). Watch for KSL Research Spotlights—highlight some new learning with one, each month! Find the monthly KSL Research Spotlights: - in KSL NewsBlog (bottom center of the KSL homepage) - in the Research Tools folder (upper left of the homepage) (Source: KSL News Blog) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:16:32 +0100 811972 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/8D5S9EKuums/tech.html Below you will see my 13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology. These are my favorite options for libraries to use as alternatives to the expensive paid services and software that we use now, usually because our parent organizations or IT departments have gone along with the mainstream, bought the expensive stuff from the well-known companies, and never blinked.  But now that we are all facing budget crunches the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades, we have a chance to show these alternatives to the decision-makers, save the organization some money, and support the open source movement at the same time. I have personally used all of these, at least in a demo setting. Most of them I use on a regular basis at work or at home. So trust me — these recommendations do not come lightly!  I think these tools are darn good, otherwise they wouldn’t have made the cut. This list has come out of a few different presentations I’ve given for public libraries recently, from Hawaii to Iowa.  Take a look, see what you want to try, and let me know how it works.  The list is not exhaustive, so I invite all of you to comment on this post and add your own favorite free web tools, software, and open source awesomeness. 1. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:47:16 +0100 813673 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/8WgduRiBS0g/ Nervous about #alamwttt. Going to obsess over streaming options so as to not think about it. # Alright…I think tech is in place for #alamwttt Streaming on ustream now, audio only, though. hit litablog.org for details # Hey everyone watching: Is the audio ok on ustream? #alamwttt # I favorited a YouTube video — Midwinter 2010, Day 2: Jason Griffey Interview http://youtu.be/5z6Rkec4uXk?a # David is absolutely right, and it's a fabulous point re: parity between findability re: ebooks and ejournals. Awesome, awesome. #alamwttt # Had a blast at #alamwttt Hope that was good for everyone. # YAY!! Just got a hug from @Jessamyn. # Will see everyone at Blog Salon. #alamw10 # Someone should show every vendor in the exhibition hall at #alamw10 Cliff's video, and challenge them to match his $10K http://bit.ly/8wRSWk # I favorited a YouTube video — 20K for Haiti http://youtu.be/lZck7GTW9dY?a # On my way to the LITA town hall. #alamw10 # Hey @hiddenpeanuts save me some bacon. #lita #alamw10 #baconbaconbacon # In LITA Town Meeting, talking research. #alamw10 #litath # Would LITA being a research/reporting vessel for IT Stats be valuable? #alamw10 #litath # Technology best-practice documentation? Is that LITA's role? #alamw10 #litath # I'm pretty sure someone felt me up during the group hug. #alasecrets #litath #hughughug # I find it curious that LITA still publishes on dead trees. Can I read ITAL on my Kindle? #alamw10 #litath #printisdead # I just unlocked the "JetSetter" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/5uhnPY # Boarding Boston to DC. Yay! # Just discovered if you google MPOW the first phone number people see is my Google Voice. Getting calls asking if we are open today. # Passenger next to me is wearing enough pearls to impress Poseidon. #whatstheoccasion http://yfrog.com/3nyh4vj # Offline for flight. ... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:01:00 +0100 811950 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/9gWWGY_cPtU/ In the world of eBooks we have two separate areas; the leisure-reading crowd and the higher ed crowd, many similarities but also many, many differences. Since I work in the Higher Ed arena, let’s focus on that and talk about the needs of patrons and what is out there to meet those needs. These platforms as well it should be noted are hosted platforms for eBooks, meaning internet access and the Aggregator hosts the eBooks and library is accessing that way, just want to clear that up. This is an overview of the eBook platforms and how they work, not a procurement or collection development piece, those alone are articles within themselves. Aggregators First off we have the aggregators, in Higher Ed there are three main platforms out there that provide content to libraries. EBL (eBook Library), ebrary and Myilibrary, they all have content and they all have a different platform as well to provide access to that content. Each of these platforms connect with roughly 450 publishers for their content, many of them the same. EBL: EBL is an Australian based company, owned by Ebooks.com. EBL is skinned over adobe technology, which is a strength and a weakness ebrary: ebrary is based in California. Ebrary has control over their own software suite, which is also a strength and a weakness Myilibrary: MIL is owned by Ingram and is part of Ingram Digital or also known as Ingram Content Group. MyiLibrary is the only aggregator with the power of a print distributor and print-on-demand service.Content In regards to content for each of the platforms you have some commonalities and some areas of difference. For instance, roughly 90% of the content on all three platforms is the same, that’s a big number, but not necessarily a bad thing. This demonstrates that the publishers are committed to using multiple platforms to host their content. This offers a benefit to the consumer by limiting the risk of being locked into any single platform. ... Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:00:48 +0100 811149 http://146.74.224.231/archives/2010/01/top_10_electron_32.html Listed by most popular first, these electronic resources had the highest number of accesses during the month of December: 1) Safari Tech eBooks 2) Dragonsource Qikan Chinese Online Magazines 3) Morningstar 4) Ancestry Library (Accessible Within the Library Only) 5) Overdrive 6) Bookflix 7) NextReads 8) E-Journal Portal (Serials Solutions) 9) Student Research Center 10) EBSCO MasterFILE Premier Find more resources by visiting our Electronic Library -- it's open 24/7! (Source: Santa Clara County Library - The Latest SCCoop) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:43:21 +0100 810528 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1195 Laut Angabe des Verlags, werden die elektronischen Ressourcen von Science Direct am 23. Januar  voraussichtlich von 12:00 Uhr bis 24:00 Uhr nicht zur Verfügung stehen. (Source: Newsblog) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:51:56 +0100 811087 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=5962 Serves as a Supervisory Librarian for the Boston Healthcare System which is affiliated with 3 medical schools, Boston University, Tufts University, and Harvard University; and, managing the operations of the library. Planning, setting, and implementing long/short-term goals Having supervisory responsibility for as many as 6 professional/clerical employees, including selecting, training, disciplining, and evaluating their performance Planning and justifying the budget Purchasing books, journals, online databases, ebooks, ejournals, supplies, etc. Managing space for the library and its satellites As a member of the management team, formulates advocates and delivers comprehensive programs for employees and patients. Monitoring the latest developments in scientific and information fields to identify and incorporate new methodology into delivery systems Selecting medical books and journals, online databases and other educational/clinical resource materials Providing administrative and allied health personnel with reference, bibliographic, interlibrary loan, and circulation services Skill in written and oral communication in order to advise and train individuals and network extensively throughout the professional community Providing orientation and training to medical, allied- health and administrative staff, trainees, students, and patients in the use of library resources Having responsibility for the instruction of volunteers, incentive therapy patients, stay-in-school, and other employees Interfacing with personnel from the National Library of Medicine, Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network, Boston Biomedical Library consortium, Regional Medical Library Network, and the Medical Library Association or similar libraries Participating in the Education Committee, allied Health Education Committee, and or similar committees and boards (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:47:09 +0100 810177 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/b8WGhAoC5ts/ Last Sunday in between putting up cabinet doors and breaking up out of control light saber fights,  I tried to sit down and listen to the live broadcast of LITA’s Top Technology Trends at ALA Midwinter.  The librarian Twitterverse was in the house tweeting about the broadcast and the speakers ideas. It was interesting to hear what the other side of librarianship is doing.  I will do my best to sum it up. If any of you listened to the broadcast, were there, or if any of the panelists find any of this information incorrect, please let me know and I will correct it.  As I mentioned I was called away from the computer every so often.  -Sorry David Walker was the first panelist and he spoke primarily about discovery systems.  Basically it is sort of like federated search but vamped up.  These systems take advantage of library collections and open them up to the users.  According to David their impact and emergence has been small and slow but that is due mainly to the economy.  But he sees discovery systems possibly replacing federated search.  If the idea of a discovery system is a little confusing (due to my poor coverage of the meeting) and still sounds like federated searching here is an article I found about it in libraries,  The Evolution of Library Discovery Systems in the Web Environment.  Lorcan Dempsy also has a short blog post with links about them, Institutional Discovery Systems. In David’s presentation and discussion, he wondered why there aren’t more library consortiums out there coming together to build discovery systems.  Personally, I think it is because there just aren’t enough librarians who do real programming to do this sort of stuff.  Many middle to large libraries have one systems librarian who has to balance the operations of the library with everything else techie. ... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:17:37 +0100 810116 http://mcdermottlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/01/sciencedirect-scopus-downtime-on.html ScienceDirect e-journal service and SCOPUS science and social studies database will be down for maintenance this Saturday, January 23rd, from 7am to 7pm. We apologize for any inconvenience this outage causes our patrons. (Source: The Orbit) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 811720 http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/2010/01/birthday-season-begins-for-galileo.html News from the GALILEO staff:Believe it or not, GALILEO will turn 15 on September 21, 2010. Way back in 1995, long before Google, GALILEO helped bring the University System of Georgia libraries, students, faculty, and staff the ability to search indexes and retrieve full-text materials on this new thing called the “World Wide Web” using something called “ASCII text.” For many of these users, GALILEO was their first introduction to the Internet, much less graphical interfaces, as well as the benefits this technology had for learning and research. In fact, GALILEO helped put public computers into the University System libraries and provided fax machines for interlibrary loan articles, at time when some campuses had a single fax machine in the President’s office. Institutions that had only a few journals suddenly had access to hundreds of journals. GALILEO’s delivery over PeachNet helped people understand the benefits of robust networks for transmitting data, providing the impetus and legislative support for bringing both internet access and GALILEO to public libraries and schools. Even in this era of ubiquitous information that has followed its early innovation, GALILEO still provides the core resource for the libraries and media centers of Georgia, fulfilling its mission to be “One Statewide Library” by bringing quality, authoritative, and secure digital materials of all kinds to the citizens of Georgia, including encyclopedias, books, thousands of periodicals, and unique materials of historical and cultural significance. Over one billion user experiences attest to the success of GALILEO. ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809827 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=692 Acquisitions & Serials Department Head (Loyola Marymount University, California) Loyola Marymount Unversity Acquisitions & Serials Department Head William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University seeks an exceptional candidate for the position of Acquisitions & Serials Department Head. Loyola Marymount, founded in 1911, is a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education. Located on the west side of Los Angeles overlooking the Pacific Ocean, LMU is one of the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and five Marymount institutions. The Westchester campus serves nearly 5,700 undergraduates and 1900 graduate students in the Colleges/Schools of Liberal Arts, Science and Engineering, Business Administration, Communication and Fine Arts, Film and Television, and Education. Loyola Marymount seeks professionally outstanding applicants who value its mission and share its commitment to academic excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. LMU is an equal opportunity institution actively working to promote an intercultural learning community. The library is committed to employing librarians who reflect the multi-cultural nature of the university and the Los Angeles region. Loyola Marymount University offers librarians a supportive and innovative work environment. The new William H. Hanno Library opened in August 2009: http://library.lmu.edu. With a materials budget of $3. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:25:46 +0100 809394 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14254 Acquisitions & Serials Department Head (Loyola Marymount University, California) Loyola Marymount Unversity Acquisitions & Serials Department Head William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University seeks an exceptional candidate for the position of Acquisitions & Serials Department Head. Loyola Marymount, founded in 1911, is a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education. Located on the west side of Los Angeles overlooking the Pacific Ocean, LMU is one of the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and five Marymount institutions. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:50:02 +0100 808396 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/14/canadian-research-knowledge-network-concludes-agreements-for-140-million-in-digital-research-content/ From the Announcement The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is pleased to announce the conclusion of three-year license renewals with 14 scholarly publishers, valued at approximately $140 million (CAD). These agreements follow an extended round of negotiations with publishers, aimed at providing CRKN’s 73 university members with world-class resources that foster innovative research and allow Canadian researchers to remain internationally competitive. [Snip] CRKN members have taken advantage of new flexibility offered in the renewal as multiple agreements have been unbundled by CRKN, allowing members to tailor their participation in each separate agreement. Members’ return on investment is high through these agreements. A conservative estimate reflects savings of between 15% to over 50% within the national agreements compared to institutional prices for comparable content, representing savings of over $40 million over a three-year period. [Snip] The license renewals represent a diverse portfolio of content, and include science/technology/medical content as well as humanities and social sciences content, in diverse formats such as e-journals, databases, primary sources, newspapers and historical archives. These agreements leverage CRKN members’ own institutional funds, and are not dependant on investments from external granting sources. The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is a partnership of Canadian universities, dedicated to expanding digital content for the academic research enterprise in Canada. Through the coordinated leadership of librarians, researchers, and administrators, CRKN undertakes large-scale content acquisition and licensing initiatives in order to build knowledge infrastructure and research capacity in 73 of Canada’s universities. Source: CRKN (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:14:34 +0100 808463 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/13/portico-to-preserve-open-access-content-from-biomed-central/ From the Announcement: Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it will preserve BioMed Central’s entire collection of 60,000 open access online articles and all newly published articles going forward. BioMed Central, a unit of Springer Science + Business Media, will participate in Portico under the journal archive license agreement already in place between Springer and Portico. Springer now furthers its digital preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 824 journals and, since 2009, on behalf of 21,000 e-books. [Snip] BioMed Central was launched in 2000 as an independent publishing house committed to providing free access to peer-reviewed research in the biomedical sciences. Acquired by Springer Business + Media in October of 2008, BioMed Central is now the largest open access provider in the world with 205 peer-reviewed open access journals. With the inclusion of all articles from BioMed Central’s 205 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals, including over 400 open access journals, and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Source: Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:15:58 +0100 808129 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/owShwORfs0k/ Die WissKom2010 “eLibrary – den Wandel gestalten” wird in Jülich, 8. bis 10. November 2010 stattfinden. Hierfür wird ein Call for Papers veröffentlicht. Themen der Konferenz Zu folgenden Schwerpunkten des Konferenzthemas sind Beiträge und Poster erwünscht: * Virtuelle Bibliothek * eJournals * eBooks * ERM (Electronic Resources Management) * Bestandsmanagement in einer virtuellen Bibliothek Termine Einsendeschluss für Abstracts: 15. Februar 2010 Information über Annahme: Mitte April 2010 Redaktionsschluss für Beitrag: Mitte August 2010 Adresse: zb-konferenz@fz-juelich.de (Source: netbib weblog) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:37:20 +0100 807792 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/owShwORfs0k/ Die WissKom2010 “eLibrary – den Wandel gestalten” wird in Jülich, 8. bis 10. November 2010 stattfinden. Hierfür wird ein Call for Papers veröffentlicht. Themen der Konferenz Zu folgenden Schwerpunkten des Konferenzthemas sind Beiträge und Poster erwünscht: * Virtuelle Bibliothek * eJournals * eBooks * ERM (Electronic Resources Management) * Bestandsmanagement in einer virtuellen Bibliothek Termine Einsendeschluss für Abstracts: 15. Februar 2010 Information über Annahme: Mitte April 2010 Redaktionsschluss für Beitrag: Mitte August 2010 Adresse: zb-konferenz@fz-juelich.de (Source: netbib weblog) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:37:20 +0100 807545 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002047.html An 'industry' pattern appears to have emerged which builds a discovery layer over resources available from the library (or from a group library service, at the level of a state or a consortium for example). Three characteristics come to mind. First, there is an attempt to provide an integrated discovery experience over multiple resource types/workflows: bought materials (books, CDs, etc), licensed materials (A&I databases, ejournals, etc), and institutional digital materials (digitised special collections, for example, or repositories of learning and research materials). Second, this 'horizontal' discovery layer is separated from the 'vertical' management systems which may manage those resources: the 'integrated' library system, the variety of systems which manage licensed resources, repository infrastructure, and so on. And, third, API access may be provided. Various issues are being addressed as this model becomes more common. One that is interesting, I think, is that it will show how the three categories of resource I mention above - bought, licensed, and digital - have quite different dynamics in our systems and services. Think, for example, of a distinction between outside-in resources, where the library is buying or licensing materials from external providers and making them accessible to a local audience (e.g. books and journals), and 'inside-out' resources which may be unique to an institution (e.g. digitized images, research materials) where the audience is both local and external. Thinking about an external non-institutional audience, and how to reach it, poses some new questions for the library. Or think about the relationship between the 'locally available' collection and the 'universal' collection in each case. * For bought materials (books, CDs, ... ... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:11:26 +0100 808052 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/FmXt/~3/VAtKrzVcP-0/new-students-and-continuing-students.html Welcome to all the new students for the 101 semester, and welcome back to all continuing students.You may have come across the word 'InfoWise' on various signs and brochures about the place - this is a program of short, free sessions which can give you a headstart with the resources you'll be using as you study.It only happens at the start of semester, and as I mentioned the sessions are short and free - and useful! Take advantage of it; pick the session time which suits you, and just come along.● A Library Tour will quickly show you where the different facilities and resources are, and how to do the basics, like borrow, and use the university printers.● Finding Information for Assignments will show you how to find journal articles, books and other resources using the databases and other online tools such as the Library Catalogue and e-Journal portal.● RefWorks is reference management software, and as a Bond student you have free access to your own account. We'll show you how you can use it to produce reference lists and manage the references for your assignments.● The Law Library also offers special sessions targeted for Law students, and you can book in for these at the desk in the Law Library. (Source: The L Files) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809039 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/b9455x3WoxY/ Who is reading your library’s ebooks? According to Dan D’Agostino, nobody. Yikes!  In his post, The strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads, “Instead of focusing on books downloadable to e-readers or smart phones, academic libraries have created enormous databases of e-books that students and faculty members can be read only on computer screens. The result, as shown by studies like the JISC national ebooks observatory project, is that these collections are used almost exclusively for searching for information—scanning rather than reading.” Dan goes on to wonder if academic libraries will find themselves and their e-book collections obsolete because students and faculty are bypassing them.  He says academic libraries are in this potentially damaging situation due to publishing monopolies (his First Law of the Scholarly Publishing Universe), aggregated collections (his Second Law), as symbiotic relationship libraries and digital publishers, and finally the emergence of e-readers and mobile devices. I am not sure I agree with the reasons he gives for the a problem.  I think these things are more noticeable in academic libraries that must collect resources in multiple subjects and disciplines.  Medical libraries have a certain luxury in that our entire collection is one general discipline, medicine.  Sure we have subtopics like nursing, cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, etc. but at least our entire collection can relate to each other and have a common thread.  It isn’t like we are collecting poly sci, engineering, theology, and business resources together. When I look at e-books and the way the libraries I have worked for have purchased them, I see a perhaps different rational than how many academic librarians may have purchased theirs.  Or at least the way I see Dan describe how academic libraries purchase ebooks. ... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:00:46 +0100 806609 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/1SKUerGoX2M/ Dan D’Agostino, our newest contributor, is collection development librarian at a large research library. He has a particular interest in how new technology is impacting libraries. Although not a techie, he’s the happy owner of a Sony PRS-505 that he’s especially grateful for on crowded commutes. Welcome, Dan! – D.R. Over the past several years, university libraries have collectively built very large and very expensive collections of e-books that nobody reads.  These collections, often including the very best and highest demand academic titles, not only remain unread but may in format already be obsolete. They may never be read. Instead of focusing on books downloadable to e-readers or smart phones, academic libraries have created enormous databases of e-books that students and faculty members can be read only on computer screens. The result, as shown by studies like the JISC national ebooks observatory project, is that these collections are used almost exclusively for searching for information—scanning rather than reading. With a vigorous, searchable Google Books on the horizon, could academic libraries suddenly find themselves and their e-book collections completely bypassed by their students and faculty? The New Year finds both academic libraries and the big commercial publishers that serve the academic community in a state of paralysis, on the one hand knowing that their onscreen e-books are not reaching potential readers and on the other unable to embrace the exploding popularity of e-readers and smart phones as platforms for their content. How did it come to this? In order to explain it’s first necessary to understand that the world of academic publishing and academic libraries, probably the single biggest sector of the current e-book market, is a strange parallel universe in relation to the rest of the e-book world. ... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:11:00 +0100 806033 http://news.lib.vt.edu/libnews/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=756 The Journal Title Database (formerly called the Ejournals Database) now offers the best means of locating journals (including magazines and newspapers). For many years, we have recommended starting your search in Addison, since you could view both online subscriptions and physical copies. Now these physical copies (both print volumes and microform formats) have been loaded into the Journal Title Database. (Source: VT Library News) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 807180 http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2010/01/tom-sanville-resigns-as-ohiolink.html In my in box yesterday morning was the news that Tom Sanville has submitted his resignation as Executive Director of OhioLINK, effective March 31. The OhioLink system has grown and flourished primarly because of Tom's leadership (and by hiring a very talented staff!). When I came to Ohio State in 1992, OhioLINK was still crawling. The OhioLink system consisted of an ILS that included catalog creation and maintenance; the online public access catalog; circulation, interlibrary loan, and document delivery; acquisitions and serials control; and collection development and management. While the OhioLink Library Catalog is still a centerpiece, the system now includes databases, a Digital Media Center, an E-Book Center, an Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, and the Electronic Journal Center. Just recently, I came across an old 1998 talking points document where I was touting the 1400 electronic journal titles made available to our users via OhioLink, from two publishers - Elsevier Science and Academic Press. (see: Diedrichs, CP. E-journals: the OhioLINK experience) By last year, the Electronic Journal Center contained more than 8,200 full-text research journals (12.2 million articles) from 100+ publishers. Tom's reach went well beyond Ohio. If you are a part of a consortium that licenses electronic journals you should also thank Tom for his service. He was one of the pioneers in the establishment of consortium pricing from publishing giants like Elsevier. It is possible that one of the license agreements you have signed today (did I mention pricing?) grew from Tom's adept negotiation skills. The text of his email announcement:"I have submitted my resignation to Eric Fingerhut, Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, as Executive Director of OhioLINK. This will be effective March 31, 2010. This should ensure a full transfer of my almost 18 years of knowledge and files to other staff. ... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 806764 http://walt.lishost.org/2010/01/cites-on-a-plane-2010-a-pre-midwinter-non-issue/ That’s right–here’s another non-issue for your reading pleasure to and from Midwinter, with (almost) no new material: Cites ON a Plane 2010 Stuff That Originally Appeared in Cites & Insights – 50 pages Perspectives ON… Conferences in a Time of Limits Ethics and Transparency Semantics, Reality, Learning and Rockstars Disagreement and Discussion (with followup) The Middle Numeracy, Naïveté, Google & Pew The Literature Note: The links in the bullets are to the original essays, all of which appeared in 2007 and 2008. The essays in Cites ON a Plane 2010 (PDF as usual) have had URLs removed and in some cases been trimmed slightly to make them fit. Caveats and New Material While 25 sheets (50 pages, printed duplex) is nothing compared to the paper you’ll cope with during Midwinter, this non-issue is primarily intended for ereading. It has bookmarks for the essays and subheadings (but no table of contents), and it does reflow (although how well it reflows…well, that’s up to your PDF reader). It supports Adobe Reader’s text-to-speech capabilities (strange as they are). But then, 25 sheets isn’t all that much… This non-issue will disappear on or about January 19, 2010. It might be included in the book version of Volume 10, but it might not (50 pages is a significant chunk of an already-thick volume). The new material in the issue consists of an introduction and one, count it, one paragraph added as a postscript to the first essay. Here they are, for those of you who wonder but who really aren’t planning to download the whole issue: Ceci N’est Pas Une Édition Cue Magritte, not spinning in his grave. This is not an ejournal. More precisely, this is not an issue of Cites & Insights and doesn’t carry an ISSN, proper date, volume and issue number, or masthead. ... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:16:47 +0100 805580 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/05/digital-preservation-american-geophysical-union-to-preserve-e-journals-in-portico/ From the Announcement: Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to preserve 10 online journals. Through this agreement with Portico, AGU ensures that these journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. The American Geophysical Union, which was established in 1919 by the National Research Council, is a nonprofit organization that promotes the study of the geophysical sciences. AGU’s publications, which are available in more than 135 countries and nearly 2,000 libraries, include peer-reviewed scientific journals, a member newspaper, and award-winning books. As part of the agreement, AGU will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities. AGU has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of AGU’s 10 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 92 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org. Source: Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:52:41 +0100 805494 http://cical.blogspot.com/2010/01/cites-on-plane-2010-pre-midwinter-non.html That's right--here's another non-issue for your reading pleasure to and from Midwinter, with (almost) no new material:Cites ON a Plane 2010Stuff That Originally Appeared in Cites & Insights - 50 pagesPerspectives ON... Conferences in a Time of Limits Ethics and Transparency Semantics, Reality, Learning and Rockstars Disagreement and Discussion (with followup) The Middle Numeracy, Naïveté, Google & Pew The LiteratureNote: The links in the bullets are to the original essays, all of which appeared in 2007 and 2008. The essays in Cites ON a Plane 2010 (PDF as usual) have had URLs removed and in some cases been trimmed slightly to make them fit.Caveats and New MaterialWhile 25 sheets (50 pages, printed duplex) is nothing compared to the paper you'll cope with during Midwinter, this non-issue is primarily intended for ereading. It has bookmarks for the essays and subheadings (but no table of contents), and it does reflow (although how well it reflows...well, that's up to your PDF reader). It supports Adobe Reader's text-to-speech capabilities (strange as they are).But then, 25 sheets isn't all that much...This non-issue will disappear on or about January 19, 2010. It might be included in the book version of Volume 10, but it might not (50 pages is a significant chunk of an already-thick volume).The new material in the issue consists of an introduction and one, count it, one paragraph added as a postscript to the first essay. Here they are, for those of you who wonder but who really aren't planning to download the whole issue:Ceci N’est Pas Une ÉditionCue Magritte, not spinning in his grave. This is not an ejournal. More precisely, this is not an issue of Cites & Insights and doesn’t carry an ISSN, proper date, volume and issue number, or masthead. ... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 807591 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/01/04/3595 ReadWriteWeb meldet in Libraries , eBooks, and the Mobile Web : A Long Ways to Go, dass According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren’t interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalog. opening hours? location maps? contact info? access to the library catalog? – Haben wir alles… Related posts Österreichische Zentralbibliothek mit neuer Homepage (0) Öffnungszeiten über Ostern (5) ÄZB sucht Diplombibliothekar (0) Zotero – die Literaturverwaltung für Firefox (2) Zitrone des Monats geht an die American Association of Immunologists – eine Detektivstory (3) (Source: medinfo) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:06:00 +0100 805236 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2009/12/ejournals-and-databases-added-dec-2009.html ACS Chemical Neuroscience Full text, v.1, 2009+; WU access only; American Chemical Society; freely available 12 months after publication. Biochemistry Research International Full text, 2010+; freely available; Hindawi. ETHXWeb Covers 1960-present. Citations to literature on bioethics and professional ethics. More info. GenETHXWeb Covers 1960-present. Citations to literature on ethics and public policy issues in genetics. More info. Mycological Bulletin Full text, v.2-6, 1904-1908; WU access only; JSTOR. Ohio Mycological Bulletin Full text, v.1, 1903; WU access only; JSTOR. Philosophy & Theory in Biology Full text, v.1, 2009+; freely available. Research Letters in Biochemistry Full text, 2008-2009; freely available; Hindawi; continued by Biohchemistry Research International. Science News Full text, v.151, 1997+; WU access only; Wiley. (Source: Biology Library News) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 803185 http://litsisvlcteam.blogspot.com/2009/12/e-magazines.html We're familiar with e-books and e-journals but what about e-magazines? Take a look at Bonnier R&D's Mag+ prototype - the 8 minute video is very interesting and looks at magazine presentation, navigation and the reading experience on a handheld digital device. (Source: Information Services Blog (VLC)) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 803681 http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/2009/12/16/holiday_hours_at_case_libraries Case Libraries adjust hours for winter break and for the Christmas & New Year's holidays. Online content will be available, including the Case Catalog and its quick links to the Research Databases, EJournal list, E-Books, OhioLINK and more. December, Holiday, Winter Break Hours: • Kelvin Smith Library • Kulas Music Library • Health Center Library & Allen Library • Judge Ben C. Green Law Library • Harris MSASS Library • Cleveland Institute of Art Gund Library • Cleveland Institute of Music Robinson Library • Siegal College of Judaic Studies call 216-464-4050 Check KSL Hours through early January—click the icon for "Today's Desk Hours" on the homepage: When KSL is open, staff will answer general Comments & Questions from the Contact Us links, and take reference questions through the AsKSL icon on the homepage: Select the "About the Libraries" icon on the lower left of the Case Catalog for direct links to quick phone numbers & hours for Case and Affiliate Libraries. (Source: KSL News Blog) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:27:03 +0100 801194 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/16/palgrave-macmillan-to-preserve-e-books-in-portico-palgrave-also-will-make-financial-contribution-to-portico/ From the Announcement: Portico is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan to preserve about 5,400 e-books hosted on the Palgrave Connect platform. Through this agreement with Portico, Palgrave Macmillan furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 44 titles from its e-journals collection as well as participation in JSTOR on behalf of eight journals and ensures that the online version of its scholarly monographs will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. [Snip] As part of the agreement, Palgrave Macmillan will make an additional financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities. With the inclusion of Palgrave Macmillan’s scholarly monographs, over 10,600 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 88 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Source: Portico See Also: Gale and Portico Announce Plans to Preserve Gale Digital Collections (ResourceShelf, (12/4/2009) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:45 +0100 800993 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2009/12/16/are-you-ready-for-2010/ Thanks to Stephen Downes for the hat tip here. As 2010 draws near I’m certain there will be more “predictions” made about the technologies we should take notice of. An article in T.H.E. Journal has come up with 5 technologies to watch in the K-12 sphere. So my question is: are you ready? Have you played with [...] (Source: Education.au Blog) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:20:12 +0100 800873 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/6f2U4pCXsGs/ Max Anderson wrote an interesting post on the Cornflower, Top Digital Trends for 2010 (and other tech news).  In the post he links to the Top 10 most popular searches, videos, etc. of 2009 as well as Top Digital Trends for 2010 by Digital Media Buzz.  Max specifically discusses the difficulties he encounters when he teaches classes for the GMER at other hospitals and institutions.  Often the host institution does not have the correct/latest version of Flash or the institution simply doesn’t allow any Flash at all. We all struggle with rapid rate at which technology changes the way we communicate and find information.  A year ago if you asked me about hospitals on Twitter and Facebook I would have laughed.  Yet go to Ed Bennett’s blog, peruse his Hospital Social Network List and you will quickly see that hospitals are jumping into this area of the Internet.  Sometimes our IT departments are progressive, but often they are struggling right along with us, trying to balance information security with technology demands.  In spirit of all of the new year, here is my humble list. Hot in 2009: Hospitals on Twitter and Facebook - Just check out Ed Bennett blog App Phones - Say goodbye to ”smart phones”  and hello app phones. People are flocking to app phones because they turn your phone into a mini computer on the go which is what people seem to want now. EMR integration - Slowly but surely it is coming into place, but IT infrastructures in hospitals and doctor’s offices still have a lot of work and it is still may be too early to determine the benefits of the system for some organizations. Not in 2009: Blogs - Everybody is tweeting now, as PostRank’s nifty little chart on their blog indicates, more people are engaging and commenting on sites like Twitter rather than leaving blog comments. ... Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:57:48 +0100 800720 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/tenurometer-google-scholar-e-citazioni-a-portata-di-browser/ Tenurometer è un nuovo servizio proposto dall’Università dell’Indiana per il calcolo delle citazioni e dell’H-Index atttraverso Google Scholar. Risulta innovativo che sia offerto come toolbar per Firefox e che poggi su una organizzazione disciplinare collaborativa, che si esplica attraverso il tagging dei contenuti/autori ricercati. Dalla mia esperienza posso dimostrare che, al di là di database citazionali a pagamento come Scopus o Web of Science, Scholar è sempre molto consultato dai docenti e ricercatori, e se Tenurometer riesce a superare i limiti di Publish or Perish, potrà forse aspirare al successo nella comunità accademica. Di seguito qualche info in più dal sito (bold mines): … Tenurometer is a browser extension that provides a smart interface for Google Scholar, it does not have the limitations of server based citation analysis tools that sit between the user and Google Scholar. At the same time Tenurometer is not an application, such as Publish or Perish, and therefore it is platform independent and runs on every system that supports the Firefox browser. Still, Tenurometer uses Google Scholar, which provides the most comprehensive source of citation data across the sciences and social sciences. exposes advanced query syntax in a simple way to empower non-experts to submit complex queries such as boolean combinations (and/or/not) of author names and keywords. provides many advanced features that make it easier and less error prone to compute impact measures based on citations. For example, the user can merge multiple versions of the same paper; exclude papers by different authors with the same name, or other noisy data; filter papers by many criteria such as years, disciplines, name variations, and coauthors; and perform live search over the results. is a social (crowdsourcing) application that leverages the wisdom of the crowds. ... Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:46:46 +0100 800285 http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1172 Durch von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft bewilligte Nationallizenzen stehen Ihnen absofort - auch über den “Check full text”-Service - folgende neue E-Journals zur Verfügung: Verlag The Scientific World The Scientific World Journal Verlag Trans Tech Publications Advanced Materials Research (AMR) Advances in Science and Technology (AST) Applied Mechanics and Materials (AMM) Defect and Diffusion Forum (DDF) Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering (JBBTE) Journal [...] (Source: Newsblog) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:13:04 +0100 799968 http://146.74.224.231/archives/2009/12/top_10_electron_31.html Listed by most popular first, these electronic resources had the highest number of accesses during the month of November: 1) Safari Tech eBooks 2) Dragonsource Qikan Chinese Online Magazines 3) Ancestry Library (Accessible Within the Library Only) 4) Morningstar 5) Overdrive 6) Bookflix 7) NextReads 8) E-Journal Portal (Serials Solutions) 9) History Resource Center: U.S. 10) Student Research Center Find more resources by visiting our Electronic Library -- it's open 24/7! (Source: Santa Clara County Library - The Latest SCCoop) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:53:12 +0100 799000 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/04/gale-and-portico-announce-plans-to-preserve-gale-digital-collections/ From the Announcement: Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Portico, part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, announced today an agreement in which Portico will digitally preserve archival versions of a number of the Gale Digital Collections. Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers and students. To date, more than 10,000 eJournal titles and 28,000 eBooks have been committed to the Portico archive. This agreement with Gale brings the first set of digitized historical collections including newspapers, legislative documents, pamphlets and more into the service. The list of Gale Digital Collections preserved in the Portico archive will include: + Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and ECCO Part II, New Editions + The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises + The Making of Modern Law: Trials + The Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs + Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature + Sabin Americana + 19th Century British Library Newspapers + 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers + 19th Century U.S. Newspapers Portico will make the content available to Portico-supporting libraries and their users under specific defined circumstances called ‘trigger events,’ including for extended service interruptions or if the content is no longer available through the Gale system or from other sources. There is no charge from Gale for this service, but an institution must be a participant in Portico. Current fees for participation in Portico are outlined at http://www.portico.org/libraries/library_participation.html. Gale Digital Collection customers will still have the option of getting the archive in electronic format directly from Gale at no cost. Source: Gale/Cengage & Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:09:51 +0100 797574 http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/websitesurvey Library web site survey - please give us your views We will be redesigning the Library web site over the next few months and would like your help in planning the redesign. Please fill out our survey and you will be entered in a draw for a £20 store voucher. Please note that this survey refers to pages with URLs beginning www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/ - other pages, such as our Library catalogue and ejournals platforms, are products that we have limited control over. Click here for the survey Thanks for your help.     (Source: Birkbeck Library) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:39:34 +0100 797033 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=JK_VIJAYAKUMAR E-journals in a networked environment: its impact on academic libraries in the digital millennium. In M Bavakutty, M C K Veeran and T K Muhammed Sali (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:00:42 +0100 796701 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/1A0XjQa7ne0/middlemash.php I was a newbie to the library mashup scene, and took in a lot of information yesterday at Middlemash, hosted by Damyanti Patel and her colleagues at Birmingham City University. It was every bit the friendly and stimulating event that I’d expected to be, but by the time I, along with an impressive number of co-malingerers, got to the Barton Arms at the end of the day, I was able to pinpoint what had made me mildly uncomfortable at intermittent points of the day. The discomfort had nothing to do with either the organisers or the participants, or indeed with the concept of mashing itself. The problem is that the same forward-thinking librarians who celebrate the advent of electronic resources and innovative technologies for discovering them, are the same people who, in a mashing context, are forced back into the world of print. And this has to be about ownership of data. Bibliographic data is much more “ours” than electronic resource metadata, that has traditionally been proprietary, locked away in abstract and index databases, available only in academic institutions and certainly not mashable by a bunch of librarians with a strange predilection for creating more exciting experiences of scholarly information. Mashing the reading list Like many people at the event, Edith Speller from Trinity College of Music was concerned about her institution’s reading lists. She felt that they were getting too static, and out of date, and, like many Talis Aspire customers, wanted to raise awareness of all those expensive subscriptions to e-resources among academics who would then be more likely to include them on resource lists. However, the solutions arrived at seem to be very book-specific, involving the following: • Using the ISBN of a book on a resource list to look up recommendations (along the lines of “people who bought that also bought this”) using Amazon Web Services. ... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:37:03 +0100 797159 http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1160 Die Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in medizinischen Laboratorien e. V. (INSTAND e. V.) hat eine neue Online-Zeitschrift bei GMS gegründet: GMS Zeitschrift zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in medizinischen Laboratorien. Das Ziel dieser interdisziplinären Zeitschrift ist es, Beiträge zu aktuellen Fragen der Qualitätssicherung in medizinischen Laboratorien in deutscher oder englischer Sprache zu publizieren. Alle Artikel [...] (Source: Newsblog) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:05:54 +0100 798153 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2009/11/ejournal-access-added-nov-2009.html Scientific American Full text, v.292, 2005+; WU access only; Nature Publishing Group. Scientific American Mind Full text, v.16, 2005+; WU access only; Nature Publishing Group. Scientific American. Special issues. Full text, v.15, 2005+; WU access only; Nature Publishing Group. Symbiosis Full text, v.49, 2009+; WU access only; Springer. (Source: Biology Library News) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 796170 http://ifl.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/35/4/313?rss=1 This paper presents the results of a survey conducted in 2005—2006 regarding the extent of use of digital resources by students and researchers in five universities in Israel and the ratio of use between authorized electronic information resources provided by academic libraries, and the Surface Web. About 80 percent of respondents reported a high or very high frequency of use of the Surface Web for seeking information for their study or research. In contrast, only about 28 percent of the respondents reported high or very high use of academic e-journals, 40 percent high or very high use of digital databases, and only about 13 percent high or very high use of e-books. A situation in which academics use the Surface Web two or three times more frequently than more authoritative digital information sources provided by their library indicates a severe problem related to the quality of information used, which may severely harm the quality and credibility of research based upon it. The survey findings are worrying since much Surface Web information is not reliable or authoritative. The current research does not indicate what causes students and researchers to depend so heavily on Surface Web information for their research, but it is reasonable to assume that it derives mainly from the ease and convenience of using Internet search engines. (Source: IFLA Journal current issue) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:36:44 +0100 795966 http://www.frbr.org/2009/11/27/last-week-in-frbr-8 This is the last two weeks in FRBR, actually. Lots of stuff to point out to you. (I just realized I don’t get notified when there are comments waiting for approval, so a few have been sitting in the queue. Sorry about that. I’ll change it.) Alison Carlyle says 2010 is the Year of Cataloguing (or something like that) and FRBR is involved. Of course! Next Monday Ron Murray is giving a talk called Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe — FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web. The abstract: In response to dramatic increases in the quantity and types of culturally significant resources in libraries, cataloging theories like FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) have become more complex when compared to traditional cataloging theories. The need to re-conceptualize and justify bibliographic resource description theories is now critical, due to the emergence of the World Wide Web – whose structure and content is more varied and more dynamic than that of libraries. To support the argument that the “commonsense imagery” of analog materials limits our thinking about cataloging and about resource description in general, the speaker will review how for atomic physicists, the “commonsense imagery” of physical processes had to be abandoned in the early 20th Century because the mathematics that explained the measurements of physical processes could no longer be related to any perceivable object or event. The diagrams that have fueled physicist’s imagination since 1945 correspond to nothing in the physical world – but were instead generated by the theories created by the physicists. The speaker suggests that the complexity of analog and digital Cultural Heritage resources warrants a similar approach to their description. This approach – “Paper Tool” creation and use – applies equally well to bibliographic descriptions of library content as well as to the emerging Semantic Web. ... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 795452 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/26/deep-indexing-from-proquest-emerald-brings-ebook-and-ejournal-content-together/ 1) ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing Content to Select Natural Science and Technology Resources Deep Indexing technology categorizes data represented in tables, maps, charts, graphs, photographs and other figures, allowing researcher to surface data not previously included in traditional article-level index records. Now, ProQuest has combined Deep Indexing with the traditional article level indexing to offer users a more robust and relevant results set. Journal articles with Deep Indexing are further enhanced with thumbnail images, or full images where available, giving a quick preview of the image(s). Here’s an example of what an article would look like with an without “deep indexing. (PDF)” 2) Emerald Management First Collections Include eJournal and eBook Content [Emerald is] delighted to announce the latest update of Emerald Management First, with the launch of its new “Emerald Management First Collections”, bringing together, for the first time as part of Management First, Emerald’s eBook series and eJournal content. Source Companies, Hat Tip: KnowledgeSpeak (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:52:23 +0100 795354 http://146.74.224.231/archives/2009/11/top_10_electron_30.html Listed by most popular first, these electronic resources had the highest number of accesses during the month of October: 1) Safari Tech eBooks 2) Dragonsource Qikan Chinese Online Magazines 3) Ancestry Library (Accessible Within the Library Only) 4) Bookflix 5) Heritage Quest 6) Morningstar 7) Overdrive 8) E-Journal Portal (Serials Solutions) 9) NextReads 10) Reference USA Find more resources by visiting our Electronic Library -- it's open 24/7! (Source: Santa Clara County Library - The Latest SCCoop) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:19:18 +0100 794457 http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/35/6/660?rss=1 The paper reports on the results of the project ‘Evaluating the usage and impact of e-journals in the UK’. Using deep log analysis techniques, we evaluated the use of the Oxford Journals database in regard to life sciences, economics and history by 10 major UK research institutions. The aim of the study was to investigate researchers’ digital behaviour, and to ascertain whether it varied by subjects and disciplines, or in relation to the institutions. The findings revealed significant subject and institutional differences. Life scientists were the biggest users. Economists made the greatest use of abstracts. Historians proved to be the most active searchers. Research intensive universities were characterized by high volume use and short session times, light sessions, and sessions which utilized few of the search functions available. Open access journals featured strongly in the ranked lists of life sciences and history; and Google was an extremely popular means of accessing journal content, especially so in the case of historians. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:35:10 +0100 795976 http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1142 Die World Medical Association bietet die Ausgaben ab 2004 ihrer mittlerweile seit 55 Jahren erscheinenden Zeitschrift “The World Medical Journal” online zum herunterladen an. “[…] It is not the function of the WMJ to publish new scientific medical research. This is clearly the function of the multitude of information available in either the broad-based or [...] (Source: Newsblog) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:47:10 +0100 794730 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6156 State: North Carolina The University Library at Appalachian State University seeks a creative and energetic E-Resources Librarian to join a team-oriented, teaching library. This newly created position is part of the Bibliographic Services team of 16 members (6 faculty, 7 specialists, 3 technicians) which acquires, catalogs, and processes library resources in all formats. The successful candidate will work closely with the Bibliographic Services Team members and other library colleagues to create a comprehensive approach to the management of electronic resources. Our goal is to provide a seamless and transparent digital research environment for students and faculty. This position demands leadership abilities and the ability to initiate and complete projects in a timely and independent manner. It also requires collaborative work with several teams to oversee the Library’s electronic resources. All library faculty are expected to participate in the Library’s information literacy program both on and off campus and to engage in an active program of scholarship, library and professional service as outlined in the University’s Faculty Handbook and the Library’s Departmental Personnel Committee Guidelines. The E-Resources Librarian will monitor and explore developments, trends, and standards within areas of responsibility. **Responsibilities** The successful candidate will: • Evaluate and improve access to e-resources on- and off-campus: troubleshoot access, maintenance, and other performance issues related to electronic resources. Serve as lead for the management of access to e-resources. • Design effective workflows for managing the library’s e-resources using a shared ILS (III Millennium), e-journal portal (EBSCO A-to-Z) and link resolver (WebBridge). • Analyze and continually improve access to library resources in the link resolver. • Lead continual review of competing products and new methods of managing e-resources. ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:00:04 +0100 794045 http://www.bibliometria.com/de-por-que-jcr-no-acoge-a-plos-one La pregunta me la han formulado en repetidas ocasiones. La familia PLoS está en el JCR casi al completo. El JCR aun no indiza PLoS ONE, pero el resto de revistas sí. Decía Syngamus cuando calculé el factor de impacto para 2008 de PLoS ONE: Otras revistas de PLoS sí lo tienen hace un par de años, y nada pequeños, por cierto, como PLoS Pathogens. Salieron antes que PLoS One, o hay otros factores para que ésta no entre? Y parece que sí hay otro factor que justifique la ausencia de la revista en el Journal Citation Report. El pasado 10 de octubre Esteve Fernández me daba la pista al recomendarme que leyera los comentarios que en el Grupo de Facebook PLoS…Public Library of Science se habían escrito sobre Why PlosONE is not included in the ISI Journal Citation Reports. La respuesta a la pregunta remitía al Master Journal List de Thomson Reuters, en concreto a una consulta del término PLoS en Master Journal List. Si se repasa con detenimiento el resultado de la consulta, se observa que de las 7 revistas que responden al criterio, 6 están en Science Citation Index Expanded, todas menos PLoS ONE. ¿Quién me sabe decir qué diferencia caracteriza a esta revista frente a las otras 6? Una pista: Si se lee uno el artículo El profesional de la información en el Social science citation index de Emilio Delgado López-Cózar uno puede leer: Desde hace años el ISI cuenta con un estricto proceso de evaluación de las revistas candidatas a ser indizadas en sus fondos. Los criterios de selección se pueden estructurar en cuatro grandes apartados: 1. Cumplimiento de los estándares de publicación de revistas científicas: regularidad y puntualidad, calidad y corrección en los títulos en inglés de los artículos, resúmenes, palabras clave, nombres de autores, filiación profesional, referencias bibliográficas, empleo del peer review para la selección y evaluación de manuscritos.[... ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:37:53 +0100 792867 http://ec3.ugr.es/publicaciones/El_profesional_de_la_informacion_en_el_Social_Science_Citation_Index.pdf La pregunta me la han formulado en repetidas ocasiones. La familia PLoS está en el JCR casi al completo. El JCR aun no indiza PLoS ONE, pero el resto de revistas sí. Decía Syngamus cuando calculé el factor de impacto para 2008 de PLoS ONE: Otras revistas de PLoS sí lo tienen hace un par de años, y nada pequeños, por cierto, como PLoS Pathogens. Salieron antes que PLoS One, o hay otros factores para que ésta no entre? Y parece que sí hay otro factor que justifique la ausencia de la revista en el Journal Citation Report. El pasado 10 de octubre Esteve Fernández me daba la pista al recomendarme que leyera los comentarios que en el Grupo de Facebook PLoS…Public Library of Science se habían escrito sobre Why PlosONE is not included in the ISI Journal Citation Reports. La respuesta a la pregunta remitía al Master Journal List de Thomson Reuters, en concreto a una consulta del término PLoS en Master Journal List. Si se repasa con detenimiento el resultado de la consulta, se observa que de las 7 revistas que responden al criterio, 6 están en Science Citation Index Expanded, todas menos PLoS ONE. ¿Quién me sabe decir qué diferencia caracteriza a esta revista frente a las otras 6? Una pista: Si se lee uno el artículo El profesional de la información en el Social science citation index de Emilio Delgado López-Cózar uno puede leer: Desde hace años el ISI cuenta con un estricto proceso de evaluación de las revistas candidatas a ser indizadas en sus fondos. Los criterios de selección se pueden estructurar en cuatro grandes apartados: 1. Cumplimiento de los estándares de publicación de revistas científicas: regularidad y puntualidad, calidad y corrección en los títulos en inglés de los artículos, resúmenes, palabras clave, nombres de autores, filiación profesional, referencias bibliográficas, empleo del peer review para la selección y evaluación de manuscritos.[... ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:37:53 +0100 791934 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2009/11/cell-journal-pilots-new-research-tool.html The ‘Reflect’ tool identifies the proteins, genes and small molecules mentioned in the Cell articles, and generates pop-up windows containing relevant contextual information, with additional links, about those entities. Reflect versions of articles are available in the Nov. 12, 2009 issue of Cell on the cell.com site. Note: these are not available on the sciencedirect.com site. More info: http://beta.cell.com/index.php/2009/11/reflect/. Your feedback is requested. This is reminiscent of Nextbio (ScienceDirect) and Project Prospect (RSC) efforts to increase usefulness of online journal articles. (Source: Biology Library News) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 792846 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=667 Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan Salary: Not Specified Status: Full-time Posted: 11/11/09 Deadline: 02/01/10 Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian Posting #FA1018E, a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor.Appointment Description: • Tenure-track faculty position, available September, 2010. • This position is an 8-month academic year appointment, with an additional Spring or Summer appointment possible. • Appointment at the Instructor rank requires an ALA-accredited library or information science degree. Appointment at the Assistant Professor rank requires an ALA-accredited library or information service degree and 18 additional graduate credit hours and at least 3 years of professional library experience.Position Description: Eastern Michigan University Library is looking for an energetic librarian to fill the position of Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian. Primary responsibilities are to implement and maintain Electronic Resources Management software, maintains the library’s SFX OpenURL link resolver, manage a wide range of licensed electronic resources such as databases, journals, books and reference sources and serve as the functional supervisor of the Periodicals unit. This librarian will play the lead role in maximizing patron access to serials and other electronic resources. This person will communicate with internal staff and external service providers to provide optimal access to electronic resources, troubleshoot online applications, resolve access problems, and monitor trends in electronic resource management, recommending new technologies and practices. In addition, this person will also share responsibilities and duties with the Systems Office including activities such as scripting, database updates, as well as gathering, aggregating, and manipulating statistics. ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:27:59 +0100 791210 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=666 e-Resources Librarian Job Number: 2540 Date Posted: 11/5/2009 Midwestern University Library (Academic Library) Job Description: Midwestern University Come and explore the opportunities at Midwestern University Midwestern University has a proud and impressive history dating back to 1900; the organization was incorporated in Chicago, Illinois, to train physicians in a not-for-profit environment. Today, Midwestern University is still governed by the strong principles of the founding administration and faculty. The organization has grown in two campuses located in Downers Grove, IL and Glendale, AZ. Midwestern University is an independent, not-for-profit corporation organized primarily to provide undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate education in the health sciences. At our Downers Grove campus, we seek an Electronic Resources Librarian Under the direction of the Assistant Director, the Electronic Resources Librarian coordinates and maintains electronic access to library resources creates and maintains library web pages and links, provides user support for library software and web resources, and provides reference services. Hours are Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00 p.m. Responsibilities include:  Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot access to a variety of library electronic resources and utilities such as databases, ejournals, ebooks, link resolver tools, and an integrated library system.  Provide both staff and user support (in person and remotely) including troubleshooting and training for library software, web resources and equipment.  Create and maintain library web pages and links and coordinate content provided by other staff.  Manage user authentication, including global and individual ids and passwords.  Provide reference and circulation services.  Coordinate the library’s electronic systems and activities with the university’s information technology services. ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:03:03 +0100 791211 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/KTbcvrGxEqk/ So, Clinical Reader shows video content from the NEJM, including a video on chest tube insertion (yeah, the same one I blogged about a ways back). I thought this was odd. After all, if you go to the NEJM’s home for this video, it clearly says one needs a subscription to view the content. Hmmm. So I decided to look around for any notes from either organization that would indicate Clinical Reader is using this video content with permission. Didn’t find it. Also didn’t find any published terms under which NEJM offered to license it. My curiosity piqued, I decided to poke around more to see if anyone else was showing NEJMs content. Sure enough, somebody with a subscription to NEJM downloaded a decent copy and posted it on Vimeo: It has been viewed there over 1,600 times. Note to Vimeo: This violates terms of service. The user who uploaded it did not own it (as should be fairly obvious by the title cards). As much as I enjoy free access to high quality video, this belongs to NEJM, not this user. The video should at least be taken down from your servers. Anyway, Vimeo allows users to download videos in .flv format. I downloaded that .flv with no problem…so now Vimeo is serving as a distribution channel for others who would like unlicensed copies. I wonder if perhaps that is how Clinical Reader got a copy to show from their site. I’d be interested to hear from the NEJM and Clinical Reader: Was this content licensed to Clinical Reader? If so, why is the video quality so much poorer than in the original at the NEJM’s site OR the Vimeo copy? If not, why isn’t the NEJM interested that their content is being stolen? I mean…if I didn’t sweat pesky things like copyright, I think I could build an AMAZING portal for health information…made of other people’s content. ... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:12:33 +0100 790374 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/11/10/withdrawing-journals-ithaka-report In case you missed it, Ithaka release a report in September titled “What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization” [pdf]. It’s really geared towards academic libraries looking to achieve a balance between digitizing journals for access (and repurposing the floorspace they took up), and retaining print journals for preservation purposes. Being a medium-size public library, our journals are mostly for popular reading, but we do keep a small magazine archive of past issues. The criteria I use on which titles are kept in the archive is basically: Does this magazine contain information that someone will find useful in two years? In most cases, this includes things like cooking magazines (for recipes), home improvement/craft/sport magazines (for ideas and tips), those useful for research (like Vital Speeches of the Day), and of course, Consumer Reports (we also have a large [donated] collection of National Geographic, dating back to 1911). But the archive has limited space, so it gets weeded every year to make room for new issues/titles. And no discussion of digitized journals would be complete without me mentioning one of my favorite tools, the Boston Public Library’s e-Journals by Title search. I make some journal collection development decisions based on what I know I can access through them, and just hope it stays that way. For more on the Ithaka report, check out their website or Marie Newman’s summary on Out of the Jungle. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:16:58 +0100 790176 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/05/uk-interim-findings-from-study-looking-at-information-seeking-behaviour-of-generation-y-doctoral-students/ Interim findings of major study of doctoral researchers indicate urgent need for libraries and universities to develop their understanding of ‘Generation Y’ From the News Release/Summary: Emerging findings from a major three-year research study into the information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students have highlighted the need for far greater understanding of the generation born between 1982 and 1994 – commonly dubbed Generation Y. Researchers of Tomorrow was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to establish a benchmark for research behaviour, against which future generations can be measured – and also to provide guidance for librarians and information specialists on how best to meet the research needs of Generation Y scholars. The longitudinal study will be supported by a number of surveys to establish the wider context of the doctoral research landscape. The first of these surveys has just been completed; it surveyed a representative sample of all doctoral students in the UK and yielded a number of significant interim findings. + Information format. Three quarters of Generation Y students – more than those in any other age group – found the information they sought in an e-journal article. + Emergent technology. Only a small proportion of respondents (10-30%) in any age group say they use ‘emergent technology’ – such as wikis, virtual research environments, social networking and other Web 2.0 applications – in their research, Of those that do use them, more generally find them useful in their research than not. + Help and advice. Fewer Generation Y students than other age groups say they regularly use library staff support to find research resources (11% of Generation Y compared to an average of 17% for other age groups), or take advice from subject specialist librarians (4% compared to 9% average). ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:09:14 +0100 788824 http://infobib.de/blog/2009/11/05/deepdyve-nur-gucken-nicht-anfassen/ Wer bislang dachte, die Onleihe hätte schon recht verschrobene Nutzungsbedingungen für elektronische Dokumente, der sollte sich einmal DeepDyve ansehen. Dort kann man Artikel mieten. Information Today beschreibt das so: Rental means just that: DeepDyve is not selling articles for you to own. You can read the article on the screen. You can’t download it, you can’t use a screen capture, and you can’t print it. You can take notes from the article you’re viewing-but only with those old-fashioned devices, pencil (or pen) and paper. The viewer is Flash-based and is a proprietary system developed by DeepDyve. Park compares it with the YouTube viewer, which also prohibits you from downloading material. Für 24 Stunden “nur gucken, nicht anfassen” bezahlt man as little as $0.99. Wie dies dann aussieht, kann man bei den Open-Access-Artikel ausprobieren, die von DeepDyve bereitgestellt werden. Zum Beispiel dieser hier von Catriona MacCallum. Wenn ich nun aus diesem Artikel zitieren wollte, müsste ich die entsprechende Stelle abtippen. Sollte dieses Angebot wider Erwarten erfolgreich sein, wüsste ich wirklich nicht, welche Lehren Bibliotheken daraus ziehen könnten. “Erfinde möglichst abstruse und restriktive Nutzungsbedingungen für elektronische Dokumente” wäre die einzige Möglichkeit, die mir einfällt. Der einzige Punkt, mit dem Deepdyve punkten kann, ist der schnelle Zugriff auf Toll-Access-Ressourcen zu einem überschaubaren Preis. Könnte man sich bei einer großen deutschen Bibliothek mit umfangreichem E-Journal-Angebot so einfach anmelden und das Angebot dann auch so bequem aus der Ferne nutzen wie in der Koninklijke Bibliotheek, könnte DeepDyve hierzulande eigentlich gar kein Thema werden. [via Librarian in Black] Share This (Source: Infobib) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:10:06 +0100 788918 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/02/the-november-2009-issue-of-the-internet-resources-newsletter-is-now-online/ Cool! The latest issue of one of our favorite publications in now available. Happy reading and clicking (on the resources, of course (-:) You can access Issue 177by Roddy MacLeod, Catherine Ure, and Marion Kennedy at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh here. An RSS feed is also available. This issue includes content in the following categories: + Commentary Random quotes and News items of interest + A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, social networks, government sites, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research gHeriot-Watt Universityroups, plus anything else of interest, etc, etc. + Nice Web Sites + Blogorama and Twittersphere Selected interesting blogs, Twitter items, RSS feeds and news items + Get a life! Leisure Time Source: Heriot-Watt University (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:08:51 +0100 787810 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/zBMekQIICZg/burgundy-to-exclusively-represent-world.html "Specializing in the promotion of innovative publishers, Burgundy Information Services has signed an exclusive agreement to represent the World Scientific Publishing Group in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia for the sale of their 112 ejournals and digital archive. With immediate effect the contract covers growth markets of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden as well as building on Burgundy's specialist knowledge of developing countries within Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungry, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia Montenegro, Slovakia and Slovenia" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:52:01 +0100 786586 http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1123 Die Universitätsbibliothek teilt via UBlog mit: “Über 50.000 E-Journals! Das Online-Angebot der Universitätsbibliothek wächst seit Jahren dynamisch. Nun ist eine wesentliche Wegmarke übersprungen: Seit kurzem bietet die UB den Angehörigen der Universität Heidelberg über 50.000 E-Journals. Der enorme Zuwachs ist auch den DFG-finanzierten Nationallizenzen zu verdanken, durch die in den letzten Monaten zahlreiche interdisziplinäre Archivpakete von Zeitschriften renommierter [...] (Source: Newsblog) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:58:47 +0100 787480 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/bZxX9WpX4do/il2009faceoff.html IL2009: Library Website Improvement Face-Off Speakers: David Lee King, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Aaron Schmidt, Jeff Wisniewski This panel talk was focused on usability and user-centered experiences on library websites.  I liked this presentation as it has some very practical, common-sense takeaways that we can now take back to our libraries and colleagues and say “hey — somebody with authority & expertise said we should do this.”  Maybe that’s the way you can finally get some of this common sense website change done!  Hey…whatever works Amanda Etches-Johnson’s Talk Amanda started by discussing search boxes.  We’re doing a pretty good job of putting catalog searches on our homepages.  Amanda wants to see more of is to put search boxes on pages other than our homepages.  On Florida State University’s subject guide for English has the search box front & center at the top of the page.  The Articles tab should also be there – you can put search boxes up for databases you already subscribe too.  Why not add a search box for the most relevant database along with the catalog search on other subject-based pages.  Collingswood Public Library used to have a massive search box right in the middle of the page.  The search box also includes a phrase of what is in the search capability – “books, movies, etc.”  Amanda did a great job improving when her presentation exploded and she could not see her slide.  The lack of a QuickTime compressor on the presentation machine caused a problem (good note for future computer configurations).  She also says to be human and be whimsical – think about how we write & present things on our websites.  She gave an example of some language describing a change to the interlibrary loan policy at her library. ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:31:59 +0100 787029 http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1119 Der bislang unter dem Begriff “LinkSolver” bekannte Service der Bibliothek wurde nun - entsprechend der Bezeichnung des zugehörigen “Check Full Text”-Buttons - in “Check full text”-Service umbenannt. Hiermit möchten wir Sie nochmals auf diese praktische Hilfe bei der Literaturrecherche aufmerksam machen. Dieser Service der Bibliothek ermöglicht die Verknüpfung von Rechercheergebnissen mit den gedruckten und elektronischen [...] (Source: Newsblog) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:38:53 +0100 787482 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2009/10/bibliografia-sobre-ebooks.html "Adobe anuncia la compatibilidad del nuevo eBook y del formato PDF con los dispositivos móviles". Adobe, 2009. http://www.adobe.com/es/aboutadobe/pressroom/pr/feb2009/16.02.09_NdP_A2.pdf "Amazon Kindle DX". MobileRead Wiki , 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_DX "Amazon Kindle E Book Reader". Slideshare, 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/kindle/amazon-kindle-e-book-reader "Barnes and Noble's New E Reader". Slideshare, 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/marketbusiness/barnes-and-nobles-new-e-reader "Calibre: An extremely capable ebook management program by Kovid Goyal.". MobileRead Wiki , 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Calibre "Calibre E-books managemente". Calibre, 2009. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ "Calibre User Manual". Calibre, 2009. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/ "Como pasar de .doc a FB2 para leer ebooks en nuestros eReaders. Por ". ZonaEbook.com, 2008. http://vimeo.com/3410786 "Como pasar de .doc a PDF para leer ebooks en nuestros eReaders. Por ZonaEbook.com". ZonaEbook.com, 2008. http://vimeo.com/3283933 "E-book devices". MobileRead Wiki, 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_devices "E-book Reader Matrix ". Wikipedia, 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix "E-book stores". MobileRead Wiki, 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_stores "E-books 'don't cut mustard.'.". Bookseller, No. 5282, 2007- , pp. 8. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=25282269&site=ehost-live "E-Books Reader". MobileRead Wiki , 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Category:Reader "E-paper". MobileRead Wiki, 2009. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-paper "EBook Lending Libraries". MobileRead Wiki, 2009. http://wiki.mobileread. ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 786898 http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/satinduction Last chance to book for a Library induction! Our last 1 hr introductory sessions for this term will be held on Saturday October 31st at 12pm and repeated at 2pm.This will include some hands-on practice in using the Library catalogue and accessing ejournals. For further details and to book a place, please see the booking form (Source: Birkbeck Library) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:26:18 +0100 786380 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/s-Rzx7rl5O4/ Here’s the September update to the weblog.  More details are after the break. Aslib Proceedings 61, no. 5 (2009): Includes “Institutional Repositories in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions: User Interface Features and Knowledge Organization Systems” and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2009. Collection Building 28, no. 4 (2009): Includes “The Current Scenario of Open Access Journal Initiatives in India,” “Lending Kindle E-Book Readers: First Results from the Texas A&M University Project,” and other articles. College and Research Libraries News 70, no. 8 (2009): Includes “What’s The Opposite of a Pyrrhic Victory?: Lessons Learned from an Open Access Defeat” and other articles. The Electronic Library 27, no. 5 (2009): Includes “Smart Client Approaches to Digital Archiving of E-Journals” and other articles. International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 2 (2009): Includes “Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative,” “A Compound Object Authoring and Publishing Tool for Literary Scholars Based on the IFLA-FRBR,” “Data Stewardship: Environmental Data Curation and a Web-of-Repositories,” “DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks: A Standards Path through the Curation Lifecycle,” “One for Many: A Metadata Concept for Mixed Digital Content at a State Archive,” and other articles. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 35, no. 3 (2009): Includes “An Exploratory Usability Evaluation of Colorado State University Libraries’ Digital Collections and the Western Waters Digital Library Web Sites” and other articles. ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:43:23 +0100 785661 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/10/friendfeed-trainwrecks-and-accelerated-discussions/ Despite the ambitious title, this is purely some early thoughts (that might eventually lead to a Cites & Insights piece–or a column elsewhere–but “eventually” probably means “next year sometime”). (Read on: I have a question at the end.) Just this week, I’ve seen three very long FriendFeed threads (participating in one of them) that struck me as particularly interesting in terms of implications for issues, reputations and connections. In two of the cases, my own feelings about specific people changed significantly over the course of the discussions; in one, my existing feelings about a category of people strengthened. In all three, the sheer acceleration of FriendFeed threads (and hashtagged Twitter posts, I guess–but I don’t currently use Twitter) strikes me as both refreshing and a little disorienting. I’d use the word “dangerous,” but I think the only real danger is to complacency and artificial reputation, and that’s OK by me. (Yes, it’s going to be Another Rambling Crawford Post. I don’t have time to hone it down to 450 or 800 well-chosen words; I want to get back to working on But Still They Blog, now that I’ve finished the draft for one humongous Making it Work essay for the December C&I.) On one hand: OMG! FF’s Dead! Let’s take the silliest one first–or at least silly to me. Facebook purchased FriendFeed. That’s probably resulted in tens of thousands of messages on FF and elsewhere, including some panicky threads from people and groups who’ve come to rely on FF for their community of interest and fear that FB will shut it down and they’ll have to move elsewhere. I’m not really addressing that particular kerfuffle. ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:30:56 +0100 785872