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 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:55:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60306 From a Web Page: Better pricing and increased access to content can be achieved by institutions operating as a single bloc at a national or UK-wide level. However, bloc purchasing also presents many challenges - for example, how should the total costs be shared between participating institutions? Our bloc payment project, managed by John Cox and Albert Prior, [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:47:14 +0100 868685 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15579 Electronic Resources Librarian (St. Olaf College, Nortthfield, Minnesota) St. Olaf is seeking a library professional who recognizes St. Olaf's unique place in higher education as a college of the church, an exemplary national liberal arts college, and a leader in global education. The Electronic Resources Librarian provides leadership to the Libraries in the rapidly developing realm of electronic collections and manages the Libraries' electronic resources including e-journals, research and reference databases, e-books, online sound and multimedia databases, and archival electronic document collections. The Electronic Resources Librarian also provides reference services to students and faculty. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:20:01 +0100 868211 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/1Ncy1KeD3dc/ Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion.   Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text.  How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc.  The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia involvement, etc.  So what were these concerns? DRM- Digital rights restrictions.  It seems that every publisher has different rules and while some things can be put on electronic reserve others cannot.  While some things can be shared through ILL or on Blackboard others cannot.  This is not only a particular frustration among librarians but also patrons who aren’t as savvy with copyright issues.  The patrons get frustrated with DRM restrictions for library materials and they are even more frustrated with the restrictions for e-books they buy themselves.  Their view is, “I bought, don’t tell me how I am allowed to use it.”  I am not saying this is always the right or wrong thought process, but it is their thoughts and to a certain extent librarians. Access – How do people find your e-books was a common question among the librarians.  The e-books publishers don’t always have decent MARC records (if they have any) that can be easily added to the catalog.  So the cataloger must work to add them into the catalog, yet more and more patrons really don’t use the catalog these days.  They would rather randomly search the library’s website or Google. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:10:53 +0100 868390 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/wm4Aw0ZbXe8/jobs-systems-librarian-university-of-la.html #3041 – Systems Librarian, University of La Verne  -- Wilson Library The University of La Verne invites applicants for a Systems Librarian (Assistant Professor), a non-tenure track 12-month faculty appointment. Reporting directly to the University Librarian, the Systems Librarian will use a high level of technical, instructional, and interpersonal skills. The responsibilities of this position include administering and providing technical support for all aspects of library technology including the Innovative Interfaces Millennium integrated library system, hardware and software installations and maintenance, library wireless, opac, proxy server, online resources and services such as LINK+, ILLIAD, ERM, OCLC, link resolver, research databases, e-journals, e-books, etc.; assisting the University Librarian with technology planning and project implementation; serving as primary liaison with the university’s Office of Information Technology to coordinate all library systems’ installation, upgrade and maintenance; supervise one full-time staff member (Electronic Services Technician); serving as liaison to database and online service providers; providing technology training to library staff; providing research consultation services to library users in a multi-disciplinary environment using multiple formats (in-person, e-mail, phone, and chat); developing, promoting, and delivering effective library research skills/information literacy instructional sessions, seminars and workshops for both on-campus and off-campus programs; developing the library collection by selecting materials for acquisition in all formats; serving as liaison with selected academic departments; maintaining a program of professional development. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:44:00 +0100 868359 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1434 Der Verlag Elsevier meldet: ScienceDirect, Scopus, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, 28 August. During this time, upgrades will be implemented to these systems as part of the launch of the new SciVerse platform. For more information about SciVerse, please visit http://www.acceleratescience.com/. Down time [...] (Source: Newsblog) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:09:17 +0100 866702 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/26/daily-tweets-2010-08-26/ Libraries Announce Supporter Membership in BioMed Central [University of Florida] http://icio.us/odjdkd # Nature Publishing Group and the University of California Make Nice http://icio.us/2basqu # SpringerLink Relaunched with Semantic Linking and Content Previews http://icio.us/ybwvof # Joel Tenenbaum to Appeal 90% Reduced File-Sharing Penalty http://icio.us/fqixec # Has the U.S. Caved on Secondary Liability in ACTA? http://icio.us/1yhtaq # Today's UK Researchers: E-journals Dominate, Access Not an Issue, Skimming Increasing http://icio.us/otxhpl # (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:00:08 +0100 866047 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/VOobJ_03DtY/ Libraries Announce Supporter Membership in BioMed Central [University of Florida] http://icio.us/odjdkd # Nature Publishing Group and the University of California Make Nice http://icio.us/2basqu # SpringerLink Relaunched with Semantic Linking and Content Previews http://icio.us/ybwvof # Joel Tenenbaum to Appeal 90% Reduced File-Sharing Penalty http://icio.us/fqixec # Has the U.S. Caved on Secondary Liability in ACTA? http://icio.us/1yhtaq # Today's UK Researchers: E-journals Dominate, Access Not an Issue, Skimming Increasing http://icio.us/otxhpl # (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:00:00 +0100 867328 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/SAnnET1MNaU/AJIC10-Gray.pdf Next Weblog update on 9/29/10. The African Journal of Information and Communication, no. 10 (2009/2010): Includes "Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value," "Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge," "Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA," "Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities," and other articles. Ariadne, no. 64 (2010): Includes: "Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment," "Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE," "Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge," and other articles. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 4/5 (2010): Includes "Excavating Grey Literature: A Case Study on the Rich Indexing of Archaeological Documents via Natural Language-Processing Techniques and Knowledge-Based Resources" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open Access Journals Bibliography, version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. International Journal of Digital Curation 5, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?," "Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network," "Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories: TIPR," "Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services," "The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives," and other articles. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty at MIT" and other articles. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 7, no. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:23:48 +0100 866426 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002129.html While writing about subject pages and library websites the other day, it occurred to me that we might think of library websites in three stages - which emerged successively and continue to exist together. Always mindful of the rule of three ;-) We might clumsily call these stages: [1] fragmentary, [2] integrated supply, and [3] demand-influenced. Fragmentary. Libraries have to manage a variety of resources which are outside their control and present them to their users as best they can. This has meant that the library website has often been a thin wrapper around two sets of heterogeneous resources.One is the set of legacy and emerging systems, developed independently rather than as part of an overall library experience, with different fulfillment options, different metadata models, and so on (integrated library system, resolver, knowledge base, repositories, ...). Another is the set of legacy database and repository boundaries that map more to historically evolved publisher configurations and business decisions than to user needs or behaviors (for example, metadata, e-Journals, eBooks, books, A&I databases, and other types of content, which may be difficult to slice and dice in useful ways). [Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - Stitching costs] Integrated supply. Recently, libraries have been focusing on the website in a more holistic way, as a unified service. There are several developments which have supported this. One is the move to the single, or tabbed, search box as a focal point of the website. This may sit over a metasearch product, or, more recently, over a discovery layer product. Another is the adoption of a consistent content management framework which gives a similar look and feel across the website, extending to linked services (the catalog for example) where possible (I was interested to note that SOPAC and Ting both advertise the integration between the catalog and the rest of the website). ... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:25:23 +0100 866750 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/08/new-wiley-and-springer-sites.html Wiley and Springer both brought up new web sites for their ejournal and ebooks recently. The new Springer interface has been available as their Beta site for several months. On the new platform you will find: Related documents for every article or eBook chapter; this is nice but only leads you to related documents within the Springer universe PDF Preview for eBook chapters. Note: I find this especially useful in when browsing in collections we do not subscribe to because you can see several pages of each chapter online even though we do not have full access to the book. Then, if needed, you can search the catalog or Mobius to find out if we have the book available. The ebook collections which we do have, 2005+, are Biomedical & Life Sciences, Medicine, Computer Science, and Mathematics & Statistics. Enhanced browsing features. Note: use the TOOLS menu if you would prefer to turn off Access Indicators or search-term Highlighting. View abstracts without leaving search results Improved search functionality - including searching by citation Easy filters for Online First and Open Access articles Wiley Online Library is also more than just a new "look." More info about Features and Benefits. My favorite feature so far is that it is much easier to see when access is freely available or accessible (due to WU-license). I have noticed several links on subject pages that need repair, particularly Wiley links, but the links from the library online catalogs and EJournals Holdings list seem to be up-to-date. If you have bookmarks or RSS feeds to Wiley or Springer tables of contents alerts or new book alerts, you may need to update your links. Please let me know when you have access problems or when you note other new features. I really appreciate your reports. (Source: Biology Library News) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866609 http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/4/494?rss=1 This paper presents the results of the second phase of a Research Information Network study, which sought to establish the impact of e-journals on the scholarly behaviour of researchers in the UK. The first phase of the project was a deep log analysis of the usage and information seeking behaviour of researchers in connection with the ScienceDirect and Oxford Journals databases. This paper reports on the second phase, which sought to explain and provide context for the deep log data by taking the questions raised by the quantitative study to the research community via interview, questionnaire and observation. Nine major research institutions took part, six subjects were covered and the behaviour of about 1400 people was analyzed. Findings show that academic journals have become central to all disciplines and that the e-form is the prime means of access. Most importantly the study demonstrates that computer usage logs provide an accurate picture of online behaviour. High levels of gateway service use point to the re-intermediating of the broken chain between publisher and reader. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:42:55 +0100 867391 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1421 Aufgrund von Arbeiten im Stromnetz des Anbieters der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) ist diese von Freitag 13.8.2010 (14 Uhr) bis Montag 16.8.2010 (8 Uhr) nicht bzw. nur bedingt verfügbar. (Source: Newsblog) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:51:55 +0100 866710 http://mcdermottlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/wiley-online-library-not-fully-working.html When Wiley InterScience migrated to its new platform, Wiley Online Library, on August 7th and 8th, the transition did not go without its flaws. Some of the old Wiley links do not redirect the user properly; some content to which the library is subscribed cannot be accessed; and some content to which the library does not subscribe can be incorrectly accessed, among other issues. Since many of the links in the catalog must be updated manually, the update to the library's catalog and e-journals pages will require a few days to execute. We ask our patrons for their patience while the library makes the necessary update. (Source: The Orbit) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867224 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6308 Scholarly Communications Librarian The Boston College Libraries seek an energetic and innovative leader to develop the Libraries' eScholarship@BC institutional repository program and associated initiatives to highlight and preserve the scholarly and research output of the University. The Scholarly Communications Librarian plays a key outreach role, promoting new forms of scholarly publication and Open Access (OA) activities and educating the Boston College community on intellectual property isues related to scholarly publishing. Working closely with both internal partners in the BC Libraries and external stakeholders (particularly faculty), and plays a central role in promoting eScholarship@BC and establishing the BC Libraries as a hub of conversation and services around scholarly communication and publishing. Building a robust and sustainable institutional repository is a key element of the Libraries' recently completed strategic planning process. The Scholarly Communications librarian will lead these efforts, building on work already under way as well as developing new services in support of the repository. Major components of the eScholarship@BC program include: A database of openly accessible faculty publications Growing electronic theses and dissertations program Open-access e-journals hosted by the libraries Faculty-contributed digital collections Digitized library special collections Research output from academic departments and research centers. This position, which reports to the Associate University Librarian for Collections, requires proven organizational, communication, and leadership skills coupled with an ability to manage in an ever-changing environment that embraces entrepreneurship, collaboration, and the continuing development of a learning organization. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:05:02 +0100 864631 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/major-library-systems-2/3608/ Due to required electrical work, the following library systems will be down from 7PM on August 4th (Wednesday) until 7AM on August 5th (Thursday). Vera: E-Journals and Databases off-campus access to most of our online resources MIT Libraries web site SFX, including the FullText Finder shortcut URLs to our databases (such as http:libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci), bookmarked URLs may work, but only on campus These systems will remain functional: Barton Catalog will still be available, but you must use this URL to reach it: http://library.mit.edu/ Note: Many (but not all) links in Barton to online resources will not function DSpace@MIT We regret this inconvenience! (Source: MIT Libraries News) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:02:53 +0100 864482 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/enSwnqRfcu0/ von unserer geschätzten Mitautorin, die aber auch z.B. bei beluga und anderswo bloggt, gibt es jetzt auch auf Annes eigenem Weblog A growing organism. Wir wünschen natürlich viel Spaß, viel Erfolg und einen regen Austausch!! Im jüngsten Beitrag macht Anne sich Gedanken über das Thema Are libraries up for e-science? I am particularly concerned about the lack of openness of our information systems, both in a technical and conceptual sense. If we don’t fix this, I don’t think that engaging in e-science is going to make much of a difference, let alone be a safeline for libraries who would otherwise just become the Starbucks with books Ich kann mir nicht so recht vorstellen, dass die Wissenschaftsgemeinde von BibliothekarInnen irgend etwas innovatives erwartet, solange uns nichts besseres einfällt als spannende Linksammlungen zusammen zu tragen, gerne auch in ViFas, eigentlich gemeinfreie Literatur zu leicht überhöhten Preisen an andere Bibliotheken zu verkaufen, Kataloge anzubieten, auf deren Einträge man nicht vernünftig verlinken kann und immer noch Webseiten aufzusetzen, auf denen bestenfalls “internetartige Zustände” herrschen… Die Bibliothek A-Z, Buchstabe “E”. Hatte eBooks oder eJournals erwartet. Der einzige Eintrag: Essensverbot. Ich liebe Bibliothekare! [via libtwi] (Source: netbib weblog) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:51:36 +0100 863967 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/5m0ye3BduOQ/ Next Weblog update on 8/25/10. Collection Building 29, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Assessment of the Problems LIS Postgraduate Students Face in Accessing E-Resources in Makerere University, Uganda" and other articles. Collection Management 35, no. 3/4 (2010): Includes "Resolving the Challenge of E-Books" and other articles. College & Research Libraries 71, no. 4 (2010): Includes "The Open Access Availability of Library and Information Science Literature," "Walk the Talk: Open Access and Academic Libraries," "The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Journal Systems Implementations," and other articles. College & Research Libraries News 71, no. 7 (2010): Includes "Open Access at the University of Kansas: Toward a Campus Initiative" and other articles. D-Lib Magazine 16, no. 7/8 (2010): Includes "No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed," "Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content," and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 7 (2010): Includes "Scientometrics 2.0: New Metrics of Scholarly Impact on the Social Web" and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 2 (2010): Includes "Innovative Services for Libraries through the Virtual Reading Rooms of the Digital Dissertation Library, Russian State Library" and other articles. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Can Web 2.0 Enhance Community Participation in an Institutional Repository? The Case of PocketKnowledge at Teachers College, Columbia University" and other articles. Learned Publishing 23, no. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:49:24 +0100 863589 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/07/ejournals-added-july-2010.html EvoDevo Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; BioMed Central. Genome Integrity Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central. (Source: Biology Library News) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 863647 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/07/29/3776 Nach einer Rundmail von Ebsco werden sich ab nächstes Jahr die Kombiabos der Verlage Wiley, OUP, Taylor&Francis deutlich verteuern. Grund sind neue Berechnungsmodelle wie folgt. Die im May letzten Jahres von Swets verbreitete Meldung einer Mehrwertsteuertrennung scheint nun also doch zu kommen. Die Mehrwertsteuer auf eJournals wird sich also weiterhin negativ für Angebot und Konkurrenzfähigkeit in der EU auswirken. Wiley Online-Anteil: 50% mit 19% MwSt. und  Print-Anteil: 50% mit 7% MwSt. Eine (netto) 1.000 Euro-Zeitschrift würde also 1.130 Euro kosten (+5,6%) Oxford University Press  Online-Anteil: 70% mit 19% MwSt. und  Print-Anteil: 30% mit 7% MwSt. Eine (netto) 1.000 Euro-Zeitschrift würde also 1.154 Euro kosten (+7,9%) Taylor & Francis  Online-Anteil: 48,72% mit 19% MwSt. und  Print-Anteil: 51,28% mit 7% MwSt. Eine (netto) 1.000 Euro-Zeitschrift würde also 1.128 Euro kosten (+5,5%) Was treibt die Verlage dazu? Soll der Druck verstärkt werden, auf e-only umzusteigen oder gibt es rechtliche Probleme? Related posts Wiley-Blackwell läutet neue Profitmaximierungsrunde ein (2) subito-Lizenzvertrag mit Taylor & Francis (0) Preise für Clinics of North America (1) Nationallizenzen, Pay-per-use-Zugang auf Laufendes (0) Is it time to stop printing journals? (6) (Source: medinfo) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:37:29 +0100 863064 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/major-library-systems/3592/ Due to required major electrical work in the Hayden Library, the following library systems will be down from 7PM on July 28th (Wednesday) until 7AM on July 29th (Thursday). MIT Libraries web site Vera: E-Journals and Databases SFX, including the FullText Finder shortcut URLs to our databases (such as http:libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci); bookmarked URLs may work on campus These systems will still be functional: Barton Catalog will still be available, but only at this URL: http://library.mit.edu/ Note: Many (but not all) links in Barton to online resources will not function. DSpace@MIT We regret this inconvenience. (Source: MIT Libraries News) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:30:53 +0100 862868 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/27/digital-preservation-the-philosophy-documentation-center-to-preserve-e-journals-in-portico/ From the Announcement: Portico is pleased to announce that it has entered into a preservation agreement with the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC), a non-profit aggregator and distributor of scholarly resources in applied ethics, philosophy, religious studies, classics, and related disciplines. PDC’s initial commitment will be to deposit 50 e-journals to the archive. Through this agreement with Portico, PDC ensures that these e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. As part of the agreement, PDC will make an annual contribution to Portico and has also named Portico as a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access to the titles committed to the archive. With the inclusion of these 50 e-journals, over 11,900 e-journals, 43,000 e-books and 10 d-collections from 115 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Further, nearly 15 million articles are currently preserved in Portico. See Also: Portico Facts & Figures. See Also: Complete List of Titles and Participating Publishers Source: Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:01:40 +0100 862567 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7626 State: Florida Position number: 040401 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. 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 http://www.miami.edu The University of Miami Libraries 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. The Libraries provide support and services for approximately 10,100 undergraduates, 5,100 graduate students, and 10,000 full and part time faculty and staff. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:30:02 +0100 861240 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/07/jstor-plant-science.html We have free access to JSTOR Plant Science through 2011. JSTOR Plant Science is an "online environment that provides access to a massive aggregation of content vital to plant science—plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, and scientific literature. It is currently the largest online database of plant type specimens (over 800,000 to date), expected to grow to 2.2 million by 2013. Not only plant type specimens, JSTOR Plant Science also includes additional materials such as foundational reference works and books; a significant set of correspondence, including handwritten letters and memorandum from the senior staff of Kew from 1841 to 1928; and more than 20,000 paintings, photographs, drawings, and other images." My guess is that, after the free period is over in 2012, WU will not have access but there will probably be access at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Comments from WU biofolk are always welcome. (Source: Biology Library News) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 862199 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002118.html I am on vacation and traveling this week, and so am taking the opportunity to air again an entry of a couple of years ago on what I called 'stitching costs' .... We are familiar with switching costs, the costs of changing a supplier. I may decide not to change my phone or email arrangements, for example, because I do not want to incur the effort of notifying all my contacts. Libraries are very familiar with switching costs given the range of data migration issues involved in changing library systems. Indeed, high switching costs are one reason that libraries often stay with the same vendor for long periods. Libraries are also familiar with high 'integration' costs: perhaps these might be called stitching costs. This means that it may be costly developing higher level services based on integration of various lower level services. Think for example of the website integration issues libraries have where they want to provide unified access to the catalog, to licensed resources, to repositories and so on. The intermittent levels of integration we see are because the 'stitching costs' are high. This is largely because they are providing a thin layer over two sets of heterogeneous resources. One is the set of legacy and emerging systems, developed independently rather than as part of an overall library experience, with different fulfillment options, different metadata models, and so on (integrated library system, resolver, knowledge base, repositories, ...). Another is the set of legacy database and repository boundaries that map more to historically evolved publisher configurations and business decisions than to user needs or behaviors (for example, metadata, e-Journals, eBooks, and other types of content, which may be difficult to slice and dice in useful ways). Or think of higher level federation across library services. We have few compelling federated services, whether these are based on metadata harvesting, metasearch, or other approaches. ... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:16:29 +0100 860901 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2010/07/09/ala-annual-2010-the-trip-report/ Hotter than blazes, but still a great venue, even after a major blister on one foot made me limp. Great discovery: the Circulator, which for $1 brought me from Georgetown (church with my stepmom) back to the CC in air-conditioned bliss. Presentations: “Ultimate Debate 2010: Open Source Software: Free Beer or Free Puppies?” Sunday, June 27, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Approximately 400 in attendance. Co-presenters: Stephen Abrams, Gale/Cengage; Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University; Roy Tennant, OCLC (debate moderator). It was what it was. Best showcase: ALA Learning Roundtable (LearnRT), of course, because Nicole Greenland of MPOW, was presenting, and her poster session about faculty development was excellent.  This was a well-attended event where librarians showed off their innovative techniques for information literacy. Best program: LITA President’s Program; Mary Madden from Pew Internet Research on “four or mores”—people who own four or more portable electronic devices. Early adopters are as racially diverse as the general population, but tend to be male, and the biggest early adopter group is not teens or young adults, but the 30-49 age range. She spent quite a while covering actual (as opposed to assumed) behavior of teens and young adults. While a typical teen texts on average 50 times per day (probably due to all-you-can-eat texting plans and the fact that parents are paying for these plans), not all other popular assumptions are correct. For example, teens and young adults are far more attentive to managing their privacy settings than other age groups. For similar higher ed issues, Madden also recommends Steven Jones’ work on the impact of tech on faculty. Best unofficial program: Battledecks. This program first appeared in 2008 at South by Southwest, the popular tech/music conference. ... Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:22:26 +0100 858335 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/PobZjZlDHxA/maney-publishing-joins-clockss-lockss.html "Maney has joined the CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico digital preservation services to guarantee the long-term security of its e-journal content" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:48:51 +0100 857375 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Action programme / International Trade Union Confederation Activiteitenverslag / Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond Administratief verslag / Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond Aktionsplan für die ITBLAV Au clair de la lutte Beamten-Post, Die Blickpunkt Europa : Newsletter / Hrsg. : DGB-Bundesvorstand, Bereich Europapolitik Bürgerinformation / Hrsg.: Ortsverein und Ratsfraktion der SPD Salzbergen Calcutta Review (via BPC) Central European University Political Science Journal (via CIAO) CGIL news international Check.punkt : Presseschau / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, [Büro in den Palästinensischen Gebieten] Claridade Collective bargaining in the european metal industry combat syndicaliste, Le / CNT Congress / International League of Religious Socialists Congresso do PCP / Partido Comunista Portugês Dem Kongress vorzulegende Anträge / Internationale Textil-, Bekleidungs- und Lederarbeitervereinigung Deutsche Hausfrauen-Zeitung (via Gerritsen Collection) Droit des Femmes : Revue Internationale du Mouvement Feminin, Le (via Gerritsen Collection) (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:10:00 +0100 857279 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: E-nieuwsbrief / FOS Socialistische Solidariteit Edinburgh Magazine and Review (via BPC) English Woman's Journal, The (via Gerritsen Collection) Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions, The (via Gerritsen Collection) Englishwoman, The (via Gerritsen Collection) EPSU newsletter Equal Rights (via Gerritsen Collection) Equal Rights: Independent Feminist Weekly (via Gerritsen Collection) Feminisme Chretien, Le (via Gerritsen Collection) Femme de l'Avenir : Journal Independant, Litteraire, Scientifique, et de Defense des Interets Feminins, La (via Gerritsen Collection) forge, La / Parti Communiste des Ouvriers Francais FOSFOR /FOS Socialistische Solidariteit Fraktion : Info der SPD-Fraktion im Römer Frau der Gegenwart, Die : Deutsche Zeitschrift für Moderne Frauenbestrebungen (Formerly: Die Frau im Osten) (via Gerritsen Collection) Frauen-Spiegel : Vierteljahrschrift für Frauen (via Gerritsen Collection) Frauenberuf : Blätter für Fragen der weiblichen Erziehung, Ausbildung, Berufs-und Hilfsthätigkeit (via Gerritsen Collection) Gründlacher Zeich & Woar [Elektronische Ressource]] / Hrsg.: SPD Großgründlach Hattersheimer Bürgerbrief / hrsg. ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:10:00 +0100 857278 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Jaarverslag / FOS Socialistische solidariteit Journal des Femmes : Organe du Mouvement Feministe, Le (via Gerritsen Collection) Kleine Courant van Rotterdam : De Huismoeder (via Gerritsen Collection) Kölner Frauen-Zeitung (via Gerritsen Collection) Kongressbericht / Internationale Textil-, Bekleidungs- und Lederarbeitervereinigung Lavoro società Left : avvenimenti Ligue : Organe Belge du Droit des Femmes, La (via Gerritsen Collection) Marxismo vivo Memoria de actividades / Fundación 1. de Mayo Mitteilungen des Breslauer Buchdrucker-Gehilfen-Vereins / Verband der Deutschen Buchdrucker (V.d.D.B) Bezirk Breslau Moção aprovada na convenção do Bloco de Esquerda monde libertaire, Le Movimento / PMDB Nachrichten des Handlungsgehilfen-Vereins zu Breslau National Bulletin, The (via Gerritsen Collection) National Business Woman (formerly: Independent Woman) (via Gerritsen Collection) National Magazine, or, Lady's Emporium (via Gerritsen Collection) Neue Bahnen : Organ des Allgemeinen Deutschen Frauenvereins (via Gerritsen Collection) Neues Frauenblatt : Zeitschrift für alle Interessen der Frauenwelt (via Gerritsen Collection) Osterrönfelder Blickpunkte : ein Informationsblatt der SPD Osterrönfeld Our sisters : a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Women of Every Class, Clime, & Creed (via Gerritsen Collection) (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:10:00 +0100 857277 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: PERC newsletter / PERC Pan-European Council PoP 2010 / Ateneo School of Goverment Proceedings of the Biennial Convention / National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (via Gerritsen Collection) Programa de acción de la CSA Programm : Weltkongress / Internationale Textil-, Bekleidungs- und Lederarbeitervereinigung Quarterly Leaflet of the Woman's National Liberal Association, The (via Gerritsen Collection) Rapport d'activité / Confédération des Syndicats Chrétiens de Belgique Revista de América / [Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores - PST] Rotweinstadt / Hrsg.: SPD-Ortsverein und SPD-Stadtratsfraktion, Die Schlesische Rundschau Schweizer Frauen-Zeitung (via Gerritsen Collection) Schweizer Frauenheim (via Gerritsen Collection) Shafts : a Magazine of Progressive Thought (via Gerritsen Collection) Standpunkt : christlich-politische Monatszeitung ; offizielles Organ der Eidgenössisch-Demokratischen Union EDU Tarifverhandlungen in der Europäischen Metallindustrie Utopia news / Mouvement Utopia Vie de gauche / Parti de Gauche Vlaams marxistisch tijdschrift Wahre Jakob, Der : sozialdemokratische Zeitung für die Stadt Willich Wendsche Post / SPD-Fraktion Wenden Wir : Bürgerzeitung für Unterschleißheim-Lohhof Woman Citizen / National American Woman Suffrage Association (via Gerritsen Collection) Woman Patriot : Dedicated to the Defense of Womanhood, Motherhood, the Family and the State, against Suffragism, Feminism, and Socialism, The (via Gerritsen Collection) (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:10:00 +0100 857276 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: A Acção socialista Actualité Économique, L' (via PAO) Analele Universitatii de Vest din Timisoara. Seria Stiinte Economice Analele Universitatii din Craiova. Seria: Stiinte Economice Anali Hrvatskog Politoloskog Drustva Analyst, The : Central and Eastern European Review Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française (1924-1995) (via PAO) Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française (2008 -) Annales Révolutionnaires (via PAO) Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica Annual report / Public Services International Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter (via BPC) Antike und Abendland (via PAO) Anuarul Institutului de Cercetari Socio-Umane "Gheorghe Sincai" al Academiei Romane Apeiron (via PAO) Arbeit , Die / Hrsg.: Gewerkschaftlicher Linksblock im ÖGB Archaeoastronomy (formerly: Archaeoastronomy Bulletin) (via PAO) Argomenti di Bioetica ASD Newsletter / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Akademie für Soziale Demokratie Balkan Journal of Philosophy Bandrieter, De Belfagor : Rassegna di Varia Umanità (via PAO) belgische vakbeweging, De Boletín de Antropología Americana (formerly: Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana) (via PAO) Bollettino del Centro di Studi Vichiani Botswana Notes and Records (via PAO) Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science Bulletin of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857286 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Cahiers Charles Fourier / Association d'Etudes Fouriéristes California Journal of Politics and Policy Celovek CFDT magazine chimie energie / Fédération Chimie Energie CFDT CG Info China labour bulletin / Magazine Civilizacii Civitas : Studia z Filozofii Polityki Clarté / Union des Etudiants Communistes Clio: Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (via PAO) CLR news / European Institute for Construction and Labour Research Collective bargaining newsletter / ETUI-REHS ; Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam Combat Congrès statutaire / FGTB de Bruxelles Conquiste del lavoro Contemporary Southeast Asia (via PAO) Débat révolutionnaire Dialog OD Dialogue. International Edition East Central Europe Echoes EKO : Vserossijskij ekonomiceskij zurnal Ekonomika i Matematiceskie Metody Elemzo, Az : Közép és Kelet-Európai Politikai és Gazdasági Szemle Emigraça Esquerra digital / Esquerra Etnograficeskoe Obozrenie ETUC newsletter / European Trade Union Federation Europa Europa Srodkowo-Wschodnia (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857285 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Fabbrica società Far Eastern Affairs FGTB Construction Filosofija Obrazovanija Filosofskie Issledovanija Financial Management (via PAO) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Büro Genf: Newsletter / Geneva Office of the Gazi Akademik Bakis global voice, The Great Plains Journal (via PAO) Hak ihlalleri raporu / Sosyal Haklar Dernegi Herramienta Holocaust. Studies and Materials IGMigration / Hrsg. : IG Metall Vorstand, Ressort Migration IMF Staff Papers (via PAO) Infobrief / Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, Bezirk Sachsen, Europabüro Intercollegiate Review, The (via PAO) Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements International Journal (via PAO) International Journal on Humanistic Ideology International Review for Social History Irish Economic and Social History (via PAO) Istorija i Istoriki Istoriko-Filosofskij Ezegodnik Italia Contemporanea Jahresbericht / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Kampala Office Journal des correspondances Journal of Applied Research in Finance (JARF) Journal of Business Strategy, The (via PAO) Journal of Consumer Affairs, The (via PAO) Journal of Developing Areas, The (via PAO) Journal of Time Series Econometrics Journal of Transport History, The (via PAO) (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857284 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Kerzenheim aktuell Korrespondentieblad Law and Development Review, The Letopis : Zeitschrift für Sorbische Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur - Casopis za Rec, Stawizny a Kulturu Luziskich Serbow LIMES : Cultural Regionalistics Logos Architekton : Journal of Logic and Philosophy of of Science Lucy : Antropologia, Storia, Femminismo Management & Marketing (Bucharest) Marxismo hoy meta sociale, La Mezdunarodnaja Zizn militante, O Mirovaja Ekonomika i Mezdunarodnye Otnosenija Mirovaja Energeticeskaja Politika Monist, The (via PAO) mouvement syndical belge, Le Mulheres socialistas National Tax Journal (formerly: Bulletin of the National Tax Association) (via PAO) Neprikosnovennyj Zapas Nou treball Novaja i Novejsaja Istorija Nowa Europa Wschodnia = New Eastern Europe Obscestvo i Ekonomika Odissej ÖGB-Frauen Newsletter / Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund, Frauenabteilung Open Otecestvennaja Istorija Otecestvennye Archivy (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857283 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Partij van de Arbeid: Beschrijvingsbrief congres Philosophical Topics (via PAO) Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger (- 2000) (via PAO) Polis : Politiceskie Issledovanija Political Science Reviewer, The (via PAO) Politiceskij Klass Ponència estratègica / Unio General de Treballadors de Catalunya Poverty & public policy : a global journal of social security, income, aid, and welfare Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Slaskiego w Katowicach. Z Problematyki Prawa Pracy i Polityki Socjalnej Problemy Prognozirovanija Public Administration Quarterly (formerly: Southern Review of Public Administration) (via PAO) Report / Association of Teachers and Lecturers Revija za Sociologiju Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala Revista de Sociologie Revista Tinerilor Economisti Revue Historique de la Révolution Française (via PAO) rinascita della sinistra, La Rocenka Zahranicnej Politiky Slovenskej Republiky Rossija v Global'noj Politike Rossijskaja Istorija Russia in Global Affairs Russian Analytica Russian History = Histoire Russe (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857282 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women (via PAO) Santalka = Coactivity Scottish educational journal / Educational Institute of Scotland Secretariat report / ICEM Sociologiceskie Issledovanija Sociologie Româneasca = Romanian Sociology Sociology of Religion (formerly: Sociological Analysis) (via PAO) Solidaridad obrera Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science (via PAO) Southeastern Europe Southern Journal of Philosophy, The (via PAO) Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, The Soziale Fortschrëtt / Lëtzebuerger Chrëschtleche Gewerkschaftsbond SPÖ Kommunal Newsletter Statutair congres / ABVV Metaal Stosunki Miedzynarodowe = International Relations Studi Secenteschi (via PAO) Studi Storici : Rivista Trimestrale dell'Istituto Gramsci Studia Interkulturowe Europy Srodkowo-Wschodniej Studia Phaenomenologica Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia Studia Polityczne Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Politica Südosteuropa : Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft Svobodnaja Mysl: Mezdunarodnyj Obscestvennyj Zurnal SVP-Klartext / Schweizerische Volkspartei SVPja / Schweizerische Volkspartei Syndicalisme hebdo / Fédération Chimie Energie CFDT (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857281 http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=FES Folgende E-Journals wurden im o.g. Zeitraum neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES verzeichnet: Transport Salaried Staffs' Association: TSSA Journal [Elektronische Ressource] UGL news / a cura dell Ufficio Stampa dell'Unione Generale del Lavoro Unité / Offensive Socialiste MJS Utopia Socialista Vadyba Valahian Journal of Historical Studies Velvet Light Trap, The (via PAO) Verslas : Teorija ir Praktika Vestnik Drevnej Istorii Veu rebel / Joves Comunistes - PSUC Viu Virus / Bloco de Esquerda Voprosy Ekonomiki Voprosy Filosofii Voprosy Istorii WCL congress / World Confederation of Labour Weekly round up / Solidar Welsh History Review, The = Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru (via PAO) Wentorfer Kurier Western Balkans newsletter / Solidar Women's Studies Quarterly (formerly: Women's Studies Newsletter) (via PAO) World Politics (2009 -) Yearbook of Slovakia's Foreign Policy Zbornik Radova Ekonomskog Fakulteta u Sarajevu (Source: Neu in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek der FES) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:05:00 +0100 857280 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/04/free-access-to-editorial-and-book-reviews-the-july-2010-issue-of-learned-information-is-now-available/ Updated/Repost: Sorry for the goof with the first attempt to share the info. Only the editorial and book reviews are available no charge. Other articles are available to members and via Ingenta (fee-based). The full text of Learned Information becomes free for everyone one year after publication. Learned Information, July 2010 (23.3) Direct to Table of Contents Editorial (Free) Why usage is useless Author: Singleton, Alan Case Study Gaining ISO 9001: the experience of Oxford Journals Author: Smith, Maxine Is it worth establishing institutional repositories? The strategies for open access to Spanish peer-reviewed articles Authors: Rodríguez-Armentia, Nerea; Amat, Carlos B. Research Article Embracing change: perceptions of e-journals by faculty members Authors: McClanahan, Kitty; Wu, Lei; Tenopir, Carol; King, Donald W. Case Study Knowing your users: the value of article database usage analysis Authors: Wan, Gang (Gary); Liu, Zao Research Article The quest for visibility of scientific journals in Latin America Authors: Estrada-Mejía, Catalina; Forero-Pineda, Clemente In defense of the reference: more than linking in evolving Web environments Author: Anderson-Wilk, Mark Article 50 million: an estimate of the number of scholarly articles in existence Author: Jinha, Arif E. Book Reviews (FREE) Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Authors: Campbell, Bob; Willinsky, John; Anderson, Rick Evaluating Electronic Resource Programmes and Provision: Case Studies from Africa and Asia Author: Mlambo-Thata, Buhle Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis; from the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics Author: Singleton, Alan The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More Author: Markwood, Priscilla S. Content Licensing: Buying and Selling Digital Resources Author: Albitz, Becky Measuring Academic Research: How to Undertake a Bibliometric Study Author: Craig, Iain D. ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:03:47 +0100 857062 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/Cc4UG1njNKQ/wiley-to-preserve-e-books-in-portico.html "Portico has announced that John Wiley & Sons has entered into an archive license agreement to preserve its collection of more than 8,000 online scholarly monographs. With this agreement, Wiley expands its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with Wiley's commitment to deposit their entire list of e-journals to the Portico archive. Wiley joins De Gruyter, Duke University Press, Elsevier, Palgrave Macmillan, SPIE, and Springer in participating in Portico's e-book preservation service, which was introduced to scholarly publishers in mid-2008. The addition of Wiley's 8,000 titles brings the total number of e-books committed to the Portico archive to more than 43,000" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:34:04 +0100 857032 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/02/coming-in-2011-portico-will-split-e-book-and-e-journal-preservation-services/ From the Announcement: Beginning in 2011, Portico will disaggregate its services into separate e-book and e-journal services for the library community in response to both the growth of the Portico archive, and to the community’s evolving preservation needs. The separate services will enable libraries to choose where to invest their preservation resources based on their collections, needs and budgets. Portico’s new e-book service for libraries will be similar to the existing e-journal service in that library access is governed by trigger events and post-cancellation access when appropriate. Portico Statistics At the Present Time: + Over 11,000 E-Journals in Portico Archive + Over 43,000 E-Books in Portico Archive + 657 Participating Libraries + 110 Publishers (on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations) More: Portico Facts and Figures Lists: Participating Libraries, Participating Publishers, and Titles/Collections “Committed” to Portico Archive See Also: Portico to Preserve Wiley E-Books Source: Portico is Part of ITHAKA (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:01:37 +0100 856593 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/LYB3HHUeV24/ JISC has released User Behaviour Observational Study: Scholarly Digital Use and Information-Seeking Behaviour in Business and Economics. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The report covers the digital usage and information seeking behaviour of tens of thousands of business/economics/management students, researchers and academic staff. The intention was to inform and provide a context for the small-scale but detailed observational and interview studies undertaken by Middlesex University researchers for a JISC funded User Behaviour Observational Study (Business and Economics). Much of the data were mined from CIBER’s Virtual Scholar research programme and has not been previously published in this form. New data was also obtained from the studies CIBER are currently conducting, especially from the JISC national E-book Observatory project and the RIN funded E-journals study. Log data, the main source of information on usage and information seeking, covers a period of more than five years and the questionnaire data represents more than 5000 people so this probably represents the biggest and most comprehensive usage data set ever assembled on the subject. E-books and e-journals are covered and usage at the three JISC User Behaviour Observational Study case study institutions—LSE, Middlesex and Cranfield, are highlighted A whole variety of analyses are featured including: volume and, patterns of use (in terms of visits and page views), dwell time (session and page times), type of content viewed (PDF, abstracts etc), number of pages viewed in a session, methods of navigating towards content, age of material viewed, and number of searches conducted, names of titles used, user’s organization, age and gender, hardcopy v digital preferences, viewing/reading behaviour. (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:03:30 +0100 856777 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/06/30/user-behaviour-observational-study-scholarly-digital-use-and-information-seeking-behaviour-in-business-and-economics/ JISC has released User Behaviour Observational Study: Scholarly Digital Use and Information-Seeking Behaviour in Business and Economics. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The report covers the digital usage and information seeking behaviour of tens of thousands of business/economics/management students, researchers and academic staff. The intention was to inform and provide a context for the small-scale but detailed observational and interview studies undertaken by Middlesex University researchers for a JISC funded User Behaviour Observational Study (Business and Economics). Much of the data were mined from CIBER’s Virtual Scholar research programme and has not been previously published in this form. New data was also obtained from the studies CIBER are currently conducting, especially from the JISC national E-book Observatory project and the RIN funded E-journals study. Log data, the main source of information on usage and information seeking, covers a period of more than five years and the questionnaire data represents more than 5000 people so this probably represents the biggest and most comprehensive usage data set ever assembled on the subject. E-books and e-journals are covered and usage at the three JISC User Behaviour Observational Study case study institutions—LSE, Middlesex and Cranfield, are highlighted A whole variety of analyses are featured including: volume and, patterns of use (in terms of visits and page views), dwell time (session and page times), type of content viewed (PDF, abstracts etc), number of pages viewed in a session, methods of navigating towards content, age of material viewed, and number of searches conducted, names of titles used, user’s organization, age and gender, hardcopy v digital preferences, viewing/reading behaviour. (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:03:25 +0100 856976 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/06/ejournal-access-added-june-2010.html We now have access to v.1+ of Endocrine Reviews, Endocrinology, Molecular Endocrinology, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology...; this is because Becker Medical Library purchased the Endocrine Society Legacy collection. Environmental History Full text, v.1, 1996-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR. Environmental History Review Full text, v.14-19, 1990-1995; WU access only; JSTOR. Environmental Review: ER Full text, v.1-13, 1976-1989; WU access only; JSTOR. Ethology and Sociobiology and other titles and volumes in the ScienceDirect Psychology backfile Full text, v.1-15, 1979-1994; WU access only; ScienceDirect. Forest History Full text, v.1-17, 1957-1974; WU access only; JSTOR. Forest & Conservation History Full text, v.34-39, 1990-1995; WU access only; JSTOR. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Journal of Forest History Full text, v.18-33, 1974-1989; WU access only; JSTOR. North American Fauna Full text, v.1-76, 1889-1991; freely available; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. New numbers are expected in 2010, but none yet published. (Source: Biology Library News) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 856355 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/06/springer-plans-several-new-open-access-titles.html Some of the expected new titles in SpringerOpen include Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Express. Because Becker Medical Library pays for a Supporting Membership in BioMed Central, WU authors will get a 15% discount on Author Processing Fees in the SpringerOpen group of journals, just as they do with BMC journals. (Remember there may be other ways to freely distribute your journal articles, such as, publishing in open access journal with lower fees or keeping your author's rights so you can submit a version to PubMed Central or self-archive on your web site.) More info. Another piece of BMC news is that BMC Biology and Journal of Biology have now merged under the title BMC Biology. Info on BMC Biology. (Source: Biology Library News) Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 856357 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/nasce-jlis-it-rivista-italiana-di-lis-peer-reviewed-e-open-access/ E’ online il primo, attesissimo numero della nuova rivista di biblioteconomia e information science, JLis.it: e-journal italiano peer reviewed e completamente open access. Il first issue si compone di diversi, interessanti articoli (immeritatamente ce n’è anche uno mio: I mashup e le biblioteche: le tecnologie dietro le quinte, ovvero la versione italiana del capitolo sulle tecnologie alla base dei mashup pubblicato nel volume Library Mashups). JLis.it è il risultato del lavoro, della creatività e del grande impegno sull’Open Access in primis di Mauro Guerrini, presidente AIB, e dei suoi valenti collaboratori, nonché del CILEA, che ha realizzato l’infrastruttura tecnologica, usando peraltro la piattaforma per e-journal OJS, prodotto open source per la gestione delle riviste elettroniche sempre più diffuso a livello internazionale e soprattutto per le riviste OA. JLis.it , pubblicato dall’Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di studi sul Medioevo e Rinascimento, pur appena nato, ha già ricevuto un importante riconoscimento: il “marchio” di SPARC Europe. Come evidenzia una news sul sito: Novità: JLis.it ottiene il sigillo di SPARC Europe per l’accesso aperto Il “sigillo” segna il rispetto di alcune condizioni importanti per l’editoria ad accesso aperto: la scelta di una licenza CC-BY, la fornitura al repertorio DOAJ dei metadati degli articoli pubblicati Per la redazione è un primo segnale positivo a conferma della validità della strada intrapresa. Sulla pagina delle Info, tutte le informazioni sulla policy Open Access, sul processo editoriale e sul profilo scientifico della rivista. Reputo la nascita di JLis. ... Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:20:13 +0100 856715 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/21/standards-and-recommended-practices-niso-number-of-development-projects-underway-at-all-time-high/ From an Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months. There are now more development projects underway than at any time in NISO’s history. [Clip] “Many of the new projects are joint efforts with other organizations,” Karen Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, points out, “or are expansions on work begun by others in our community. This is a reflection of NISO’s outreach in recent years to organizations working in related areas.” The Six New Project Working Groups are: 1. Working Group: E-journal Presentation & Identification …will develop a NISO Recommended Practice for the presentation and identification of e-journals to improve the title listings and supporting metadata on journal websites and to particularly address the issue of titles that change names or publishers. 2. Working Group: Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA) …investigating the feasibility of creating industry-wide, transparent, and scalable metrics for evaluating and comparing the quality of OpenURL implementations across content. 3. Working Group: RFID in Libraries Revision …will produce a revision of the NISO Recommended Practice, RFID in U.S. Libraries (NISO RP 6-2008). The related ISO standard on RFID in libraries is in the final stages of development, with publication expected in late 2010. 4. Working Group: Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Working Group …will take the currently existing National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite version 3.0, the three journal article schemas, and the documentation and shepherd it through the NISO standardization process. 5. ... Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:15:54 +0100 853858 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/06/20/21-years-of-open-access-publishing/ In June 1989, I launched PACS-L, a LISTSERV mailing list. PACS-L was one of the first library-oriented mailing lists, and, at the time, it was unusual in that it had a broad subject focus (public-access computer systems in libraries, such as online catalogs) rather than a narrow focus on a specific library automation system. Although PACS-L's greatest contribution may have been in raising librarians' awareness of the importance and potential of the then fledgling Internet, it was also the platform on which my initial scholarly digital publishing efforts were based. In August 1989, I began my scholarly digital publishing efforts, launching one of the first e-journals on the Internet, The Public-Access Computer Systems Review. This journal, if it was published today, would be called a "libre" open access journal since it was freely available, allowed authors to retain their copyrights, and had special copyright provisions for noncommercial use. Aside from Public-Access Computer Systems News (also "libre" open access), my subsequent digital publications, such as the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, were "gratis" open access until 2004, when all new versions of existing publications and new publications became "libre" open access under various versions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. To date, my major open access publications have been: The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, founder and Editor-in-Chief, 37 issues, 1989-1996. Public-Access Computer Systems News, co-founder and co-editor, 39 issues, 1990-1992. Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials, 25 versions, 1990-1994. "Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography," 26 versions, 1995-1996. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, 77 versions, 1996-present. ... Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 854067 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/SYhkjRNH_1Q/ In June 1989, I launched PACS-L, a LISTSERV mailing list. PACS-L was one of the first library-oriented mailing lists, and, at the time, it was unusual in that it had a broad subject focus (public-access computer systems in libraries, such as online catalogs) rather than a narrow focus on a specific library automation system. Although PACS-L's greatest contribution may have been in raising librarians' awareness of the importance and potential of the then fledgling Internet, it was also the platform on which my initial scholarly digital publishing efforts were based. In August 1989, I began my scholarly digital publishing efforts, launching one of the first e-journals on the Internet, The Public-Access Computer Systems Review. This journal, if it was published today, would be called a "libre" open access journal since it was freely available, allowed authors to retain their copyrights, and had special copyright provisions for noncommercial use. Aside from Public-Access Computer Systems News (also "libre" open access), my subsequent digital publications, such as the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, were "gratis" open access until 2004, when all new versions of existing publications and new publications became "libre" open access under various versions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. To date, my major open access publications have been: The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, founder and Editor-in-Chief, 37 issues, 1989-1996. Public-Access Computer Systems News, co-founder and co-editor, 39 issues, 1990-1992. Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials, 25 versions, 1990-1994. "Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography," 26 versions, 1995-1996. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, 77 versions, 1996-present. ... Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:06:47 +0100 853797 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/18/digital-preservation-portico-signs-john-benjamins-publishing-company-will-preserve-all-of-its-47-e-journals/ From an Announcement: John Benjamins Publishing Company [will] preserve its entire collection of 47 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, John Benjamins ensures that its collection of e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher headquartered in The Netherlands. The company publishes books and journals in the social sciences and humanities, and is particularly noted for its publications in the field of linguistics. As part of the agreement, John Benjamins will make an annual contribution to Portico and has also named Portico as a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access to the titles committed to the archive. See Also: Portico Archive Reaches Milestone in Digital Preservation, Now Home to Over 15 Million Articles (June 17, 2010) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:46:40 +0100 853334 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/LSVxGPJ0Ce4/evento-i-encontro-nacional-de-usuarios.html Local: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.Data 14-16 de julho 14, 2010.URL: http://euseer.ibict.br/index.php/euseer1/euseer1OBJETIVO DO EVENTO:Promover o intercâmbio de informações e experiências entre os usuários do programa SEER, de modo a conhecer e divulgar as atualizações do sistema, trocar experiências, verificar possibilidades de novos serviços oferecidos pelo sistema. Trata-se de um evento de capacitação profissional, com ênfase na troca de experiências e criação de relações interpessoais de trabalho. Com a realização do I EUSEER, o Ibict busca discutir a adequação do SEER às necessidades das revistas eletrônicas do Brasil, de modo a fortalecer a produção científica em todas as regiões do país, difundir o uso completo da tecnologia e promover o intercâmbio de experiências entre os participantes com vistas a aperfeiçoar o uso das ferramentas de editoração eletrônica.PÚBLICO ALVO:Usuários do SEER, ou seja, revisores, editores (pesquisadores, professores universitários, alunos de pós-graduação, profissionais de Ciência da Informação e áreas afins, bibliotecários e demais interessados em editoração científica). Trata-se de um evento de capacitação profissional com ênfase nos serviços oferecidos pelo sistema. (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:56:00 +0100 853042 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/16/portico-archive-reaches-milestone-in-digital-preservation-now-home-to-over-11k-e-journals-and-33k-e-books/ From an Announcement: Portico is pleased to announce that 110 publishers, representing more than 2,000 professional and scholarly societies, are now participating in the Portico archive. Furthermore, nearly 15 million articles are now safely preserved in the Portico archive. “These are significant milestones for Portico and this substantial growth in a short period of time underscores the importance of digital preservation, and the commitment of the hundreds of Portico’s participating libraries and publishers to ensuring long-term access to scholarly content,” said Eileen Fenton, Portico’s Managing Director. The 110 publishers who have entrusted their content to the Portico archive and signed formal agreements with Portico represent e-books, e-journals, and d-collections. Additionally, all publishers participating in JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program will now have their current content preserved in Portico. Since 2005, the number of titles and types of content preserved in Portico has grown significantly. To date, over 11,000 e-journals and 33,000 e-books have been entrusted to the Portico archive. For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit Portico’s Archive Facts & Figures. The complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at here. Source: Portico / ITHAKA (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:06:27 +0100 852711 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1369   Durch von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft bewilligte Nationallizenzen stehen Ihnen ab sofort - auch über den “Check full text”-Service - E-Journals des Anbieters Informa Health Care zur Verfügung. Eine Titelliste können Sie hier einsehen. (Source: Newsblog) Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:02:54 +0100 853530 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6187 Wheelock College Library seeks an experienced Technical Services Librarian to coordinate, plan, and manage the activities and workflow of Cataloging and Acquisitions for print, non-print, and digital media. This position supports both the Library collection and the curriculum collection in the Resource Center. Summary of Responsibilities: * Performs copycat, original, and complex cataloging of materials in all formats, including serials, electronic resources, and realia using OCLC and Voyager systems * Responsible for maintenance of access to subscription databases, e-journals, and all affiliated electronic products and services * Manages and oversees acquisitions including ordering, receiving, invoicing, and processing * Responsible for Voyager database management and overall integrity of Library catalog (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:55:01 +0100 850525 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/fXsMd7Xr9H0/ Presenters: Jonathan Nabe, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale As resources have dwindled over the years, libraries want to make sure every dollar spent is going to things patrons will use. Patron-driven acquisition (PDA) means you’re only buying things that your users want. With the Coutts MyiLibrary, they have access to over 230,000 titles from more than 100 publishers, but they’ve set up some limitations and parameters (LC class, publication year, price, readership level) to determine which titles will be made available to users for the PDA program. You can select additional title after the initial setup, so the list is constantly being revised and enhanced. And, they were able to upload their holdings to eliminate duplications. [There are, of course, license issues that you should consider for your local use, as with any electronic resource. eBooks come with different sorts of use concerns than journals, but by now most of us are familiar with them. However, those of us in the session are blessed with a brief overview of these concerns. I recommend doing a literature study if this interests you.] They opted for a deposit account to cover the purchases, and when a title is purchased, they add a purchase order to the bibliographic record already in the catalog. (Records for available titles in the program are added to the catalog to begin with, and titles are purchased after they have been accessed three times.) [At this point, my attention waned even further. More interested in hearing about how it’s working for them than about the processes they use to set up and manage it, as I’m familiar with how that’s supposed to work.] They’ve spent over $54,000 since November 2008 and purchased 470 titles (approx $115/title on average). On average, 95 pages are viewed per purchased title, which is a stat you can’t get from print. ... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:40:29 +0100 851055 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=782 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. ... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:03:46 +0100 850649 http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/2/111?rss=1 Concerns about e-journal archiving have increased in recent years.There is no central list of archived titles and there are inconsistencies in the information available about them. This makes it difficult for journal collection managers to take decisions on discarding print back runs and moving to electronic only subscriptions. In 2007, the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) commissioned a scoping and feasibility study for a registry of archived e-journals. The study involved desk research, interviews and workshops. The study found that there is a perceived need for more, easily accessible, information about archived e-journals. However, librarians expect a solution which goes beyond simply recording where a journal title is archived and tracking changes over time. Librarians need to understand, and be reassured about, their access route to journals if their normal route is unavailable. In addition, the archives and the registry must be sustainable over the long term. (Source: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science current issue) Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:50:16 +0100 850830 http://www.miami.edu/benefits/pdf/bensum-faculty06.pdf From: Ma, Hong [mailto:hma@miami.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:36 AM To: lita-l@ala.org Subject: [lita-l] Repost: Assitant Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services at UM   *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. ... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:12:00 +0100 849363 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/05/mbio-ejournal-debuts-from-american-society-for-microbiology.html mBio Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; American Society for Microbiology. (Source: Biology Library News) Fri, 28 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 849011 http://mcdermottlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/05/emerald-insight-down.html The library is currently experiencing technical difficulties with the Emerald Insight e-journal service. We appreciate your patience as we work to restore service.CORRECTION: The database is working, albeit downloading articles can take longer than usual for the user. We apologize for the inconvenience. (Source: The Orbit) Fri, 28 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 848801 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/HFHgknQ7a6Y/Biswas%20and%20Paul.pdf Next Weblog update on 6/30/10. Archival Science 10, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Only with Your Permission: How Rights Holders Respond (or Don’t Respond) to Requests to Display Archival Materials Online" and other articles. Ariadne, no. 63 (2010): Includes: "Balancing Stakeholder Needs: Archive 2.0 as Community-Centred Design," "Don't You Know Who I Am?," "Moving towards Interoperability: Experiences of the Archives Hub," "A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition," "Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries," and other articles. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Forms, Effects, Function: LIS Students' Attitudes towards Portable E-Book Readers" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. D-Lib Magazine 16, no. 5/6 (2010): Includes "Building the New-Generation China Academic Digital Library Information System (CADLIS): A Review and Prospectus," "China National Science and Technology Digital Library (NSTL)," "The National Digital Library Project," "Overview of Digital Library Developments in China," and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Interactive Open Access Publishing and Public Peer Review: The Effectiveness of Transparency and Self-Regulation in Scientific Quality Assurance," "New Journal Models and Publishing Perspectives in the Evolving Digital Environment," "Not Just Another Portal, Not Just Another Digital Library: A Portrait of Europeana as an Application Program Interface," and other articles. Information Technology and Libraries 29, no. ... Wed, 26 May 2010 15:37:27 +0100 847320 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/25/the-spring-issue-of-issues-in-science-technology-librarianship-now-online/ Access the Issue (Spring, 2010; Number 61) Articles Include: + Five Voices, Two Perspectives: Integrating Student Librarians into a Science and Engineering Library by Eugene Barsky, Aleteia Greenwood, Samantha Sinanan, Lindsay Tripp, and Lindsay Willson, University of British Columbia + Collection Assessment in Response to Changing Curricula: An Analysis of the Biotechnology Resources at the University of Colorado at Boulder by Gabrielle Wiersma, University of Colorado at Boulder + Browsing of E-Journals by Engineering Faculty Book Reviews + The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook [3rd Edition] by Margaret Henderson, Virginia Commonwealth University + Human Information Retrieval by David Hook, MDA Internet Resource Reviews + Synthetic Biology Resources on the Internet by Dana Antonucci-Durgan, Stony Brook University + Implementing Geospatial Web Services: A Resource Webliography by Cynthia Dietz, Stony Brook University More Material When You Visit the Table of Contents (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 26 May 2010 02:11:19 +0100 847154 http://yourlibrarycsu.blogspot.com/2010/05/spotlight-on-national-library-of.html Today we highlight some of the great resources freely available from the National Library of Australia, as part of our Library and Information Week celebrations. No one library is able to provide access to all the resources in every subject area, so take some time this week to look around, especially in National and State Libraries.Australian Research Online - where you can search 438,504 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. Currently more than half of Australian universities have public research repositories, which can be simultaneously searched through this site along with various government repositories. The service also searches several other collections of Australian research, including Australian Policy Online, and Australasian Digital Theses Program. While the specific open access policies will vary between contributing institutions, repositories offer a vehicle for researchers to make their work publicly available.Trove - provides integrated access to approximately 90 million items from a range of the National Library's collaborative services, as well as some external sources. External sources include: OAIsterPubMed CentralProject MUSE NASA Technical Report Server CiteBase Nature Publishing Groupand more than 1000 others... Open Library - online public domain books Hathi Trust - online public domain books Wikipedia - keywords (tags) associated with books eResources - find indexes, databases and full text ejournals. Includes freely available Websites, licenced resources available if you have a library card, and onsite resources, accessible in the Library building. ... Tue, 25 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 847337 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/24/brooklyn-public-library-receives-its-largest-donation-ever-but-budget-issues-continue-in-brooklyn-nypl-and-queens-also-face-cuts/ The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has received a $3.25 million donation (the largest in BPL history) from the Leon Levy Foundation to build the Leon Levy Information Commons at the Central Library that will be completed in 2013. Tremendous news both for the library professionals, staff, and library users. The donation is intended to cater to changing needs of library patrons and assure the institution remains relevant to the community, Ms. [Shelby] White says. [She is a NY philanthropist and the widow or Mr. Levy] [Our emphasis] The glut of information online requires new skills, she says, and librarians are in a prime position to teach people how to utilize the technology. Those words along are worth a lot. However, three paragraphs into the article the writer reminds us that while this is an exciting day for BPL, issues remain. The gift, which comes at a time when the library faces a $20.6 million cut in city funding… What really drive this point home is when we headed to the Brooklyn Public Library web site to see if we could learn more about the donation and the budget issues. One moment your up and a few minutes later you realize that major budget issues are casting their shadows on what otherwise would have everyone dancing in the streets. We do hope everyone in Brooklyn does enjoy and appreciate the exciting news. As we said, the not so good news appears at the beginning of each visit to the BPL homepage. A window appears (if you can’t see it for whatever reason, here’s a screenshot) alerting you to a possible $20.6 million budget cut. It goes on to say that BPL would have to close 16 branches. + Weekend hours severely limited + Hundreds would be laid off + “Essential” materials and “important” services would be drastically cut. Two buttons are provided. ... Mon, 24 May 2010 21:12:58 +0100 846813 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/05/chemistrys-journal-cancellations-for-2011.html Chemistry's journal cancellation plans for 2011 have been decided. Biology cannot adopt without finding more to cancel, but we can certainly consider. If any of these titles are key to your research or teaching, please let Ruth Lewis know. Thank you. Acta crystallographica package Aerosol science and technology Applied organometallic chemistry Comments on inorganic chemistry Heteroatom chemistry Instrumentation science & technology International journal of chemical kinetics International journal of high performance computing applications Journal of biological chemistry (print only - we will still have online access) Journal of carbohydrate chemistry Journal of chemical crystallography Journal of macromolecular science, part A Journal of physical organic chemistry Medicinal chemistry research Molecular simulation Monatshefte fur chemie/Chemical monthly Oxidation of metals Physics and chemistry of liquids Plasma chemistry and plasma processing Radiochimica acta (print only) Spectroscopy letters Transition metal chemistry Zeitschrift fur anorganische und allgemine chemie Zeitschrift fur naturforschung, pt. B (Source: Biology Library News) Mon, 24 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 847438 http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/blog/aardvark/2010/05/Bild139.jpg Every time I get to see other libraries, like I did extensively last week, I re-evaluate what we are doing at The Library. Following last week's visits, I am now convinced that The Library isn't a library at all. It's a book storage facility.A real library is something like this: What you can see here is: books, computer access, people studying, using the library's computers, using their own computers, taking notes, talking to other people.In other words, a library is a study and research environment that is also an information hub that allows people to instantly access information from all kinds of media -- be it as books or print journals form directly from the shelf, or from databases, Internet sources, e-journals or e-books via networked computers. It also gives the users ample space to process the information, by means of study desks for self study in quiet study areas, by providing group discussion areas, and by providing the necessary infrastructure to connect computers. Apart from information media, it also offers assistance in the shape of information specialists, i.e. librarians, that not only create and maintain this infrastructure, making sure that the best and most up-to-date information sources are available; they also can be consulted so that library users can use all these resources more efficiently and more extensively.A library that cannot offer all these things, and ideally also function as a social space where students and researchers can also take breaks nearby,pretty much loses its purpose. A book storage facility like The Library, without adequate computing infrastructure, without adequate study areas, without group discussion areas and without social spaces, is in danger of losing its justification. ... Tue, 18 May 2010 09:14:07 +0100 846384 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/xOyTIFNxwiU/ The University of Ottawa has become a member of the Association of Research Libraries. Here's an excerpt from the press release : At its 2010 Spring Membership Meeting held April 28-30, 2010, in Seattle, WA, the membership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) voted to invite the University of Ottawa Library to join as its 125th member. Leslie Weir, University Librarian, accepted the invitation. "This membership is significant as it is a reflection of the importance that the University of Ottawa has placed on research, making it the centrepiece of its academic programs," said Weir. "Scholarly communication is undergoing fundamental changes, and ARL is instrumental in advocating for and developing sustainable, viable models that meet the needs of the research community." "It is with pride and a great sense of commitment that our Library becomes a member of the Association of Research Libraries," says Allan Rock, president of the University of Ottawa. "As Canada’s university, we understand that supporting our library is critical to our institution’s success in research and learning." The vote of membership followed a multi-year review process of the uOttawa Library that considered both qualitative and quantitative documentation and involved site visits. The review also examined the breadth and depth of collections, uniqueness of research resources, services to the Library’s community, potential contributions to scholarship, and leadership in the library and information science profession. The review committee noted in particular the sustained growth of the institution and its support for the Library over the past decade. ... Mon, 17 May 2010 03:01:40 +0100 844718 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/05/call-for-evidence-summaries-writers.html Call for Evidence Summaries Writers: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice: deadline 6/4Evidence Summaries WritersEBLIP seeks to add writers to the Evidence Summaries Team. Evidence Summaries provide critical appraisal syntheses for specific research articles. These research synopses provide readers with information regarding the original research article's validity and reliability, thusproviding information on the presence or absence of evidence with which to make informed decisions. Evidence Summaries Team members are required to write two evidence summaries per year, with a two year commitment to the journal. Evidence Summaries cover all areas of library and information studies and we encourage applications from information professionals inareas such as school, public, and special libraries, as well as academic settings.Interested persons should send a statement of interest, indicating areas of strength they would bring to the role, as well as a brief resume to Lorie Kloda (Associate Editor, Evidence Summaries) at lorie.kloda@mcgill.ca by June 4, 2010. Applicants who are shortlisted will be asked to submit a sample evidence summary**Please note that Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a non-profit, open access journal and all positions are voluntary and unpaid. The positions are an excellent opportunity for continuing professional development and gaining experience in reviewing or critically appraisinglibrary related research.**Only those applicants who are selected or shortlisted will be contacted by the Editors.About the journal:Published quarterly by the University of Alberta, this peer-reviewed, open access journal is targeted at all library and information professionals interested in an evidence based model of practice. ... Fri, 14 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 844581 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/NrwnstzDMiI/the-sconul-shared-services-study-3.php In the final post of this series, I discuss the Electronic Resource Management (ERM) element of the SCONUL Shared Services Report. Electronic resource licensing and management is identified early in the report as one of the three domains for proposed shared services. For fairly obvious reasons, ERM is a high priority operational area for academic libraries. With electronic content licences identified as one of the four areas of cost under consideration, ERM is explicitly identified as the focus of the shared service initiative: “The core shared service will be centred on ‘e-resource lifecycle and access management’ encompassing e-journals, e-books, abstracts and other digital content.” And this is the clearest passage in terms of establishing the scope of ERM within this initiative: In the target scenario, a shared ERM service will be used by the service provider and customer institutions to keep track of electronic information resources, supporting acquisition and management of licensed e-resources. This will include resources licensed at a UK level where all students and staff in the UK can access them, resources with a UK framework agreement where any UK institution can obtain discounted access for its staff and students with standard licenses. The system will handle the metadata for resources and machine-readable versions of all licence agreements. The ERM system will include usage statistics related to the electronic resources. Can ERM be centralised? This is surely the fundamental question here. The report claims that 90% of respondents either agree or strongly agree that much ERM work is repeated unnecessarily across institutions, and I see no reason to dispute that. The report somewhat boldly asserts ERM is a function that is no longer needed locally, and refers to a “community source platform”. It seems unclear to me what a community source platform is exactly. ... Thu, 13 May 2010 09:00:26 +0100 843810 http://www.uab.edu/lister/news/index.php?newsID=1&ID=870 Nursing Consult an electronic database paid and licensed by the UAB Health System, will no longer be available to the UAB academic community after June 2010. The library will remove access to the online content from our catalog, website and E-Journal list beginning June 1st. If you have questions or concerns please email Liz Lorbeer at lorbeer@uab.edu. (Source: Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences News) Wed, 12 May 2010 16:25:00 +0100 844396 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1330 Vielleicht ist es Ihnen bereits aufgefallen: Die Anzahl der Zeitschriftenregale im Eingangsbereich wurde reduziert. In den nunmehr vier Regalen finden Sie die aktuellen Hefte, der von uns in der Hauptbibliothek geführten Zeitschriften in gedruckter Form. Längst ist die elektronische Version die erste Wahl, weshalb Sie den überwiegenden Teil der von der Bibliothek 292 lizenzierten Zeitschriften per [...] (Source: Newsblog) Wed, 12 May 2010 12:44:06 +0100 844369 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/05/cfp-popular-entertainment-studies.html CFP: Popular Entertainment StudiesCALL FOR PAPERSVolume 1, number 2Popular Entertainment Studies is a peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary eJournal dedicated to the exploration of all aspects of popular entertainment. Its aim is to stimulate international debate and the exchange of ideas in a field whose meaning and definition remain widely contested.We invite expressions of interest by scholars from a range of complementary disciplines: theatre and performance studies, health, history, psychology, dance, fine art and music, as well as performing arts curators and archivists, which address any aspect of popular entertainments, their genres, styles, audiences, spaces, performers and performances.In the first instance, an expression of interest should be sent to the General Editor (Victor.Emeljanow@newcastle.edu.au). The second issue will be published in September 2010 and the deadline for completed articles is July 18, 2010. Author guidelines and instructions for the submission process are accessible at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/popular-entertainment-studies/Warm regardsDr Gillian ArrighiSchool of Drama, Fine Art and MusicUniversity of Newcastle, AustraliaDr Gillian Arrighi, Lecturer in DramaSchool of Drama, Fine Art and MusicRm SRR203, Social Sciences BldgUniversity of NewcastleCallaghan NSW Australiap: +61 2 49215007Email: gillian.arrighi@newcastle.edu.auVisit the website at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/popular-entertainment-studies/ (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 844589 http://www.uab.edu/lister/news/index.php?newsID=1&ID=866 Lister Hill Library has a three month trial to Science Signaling (formerly known as STKE) and Science Translational Medicine. The trial for both journals is until July 27th, and access is through the E-Journals list at: http://www.uab.edu/lister/ejournals/index.htm. Please send feedback on these two journals to Liz Lorbeer (lorbeer@uab.edu). (Source: Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences News) Mon, 10 May 2010 18:49:00 +0100 844400 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/UTLXdlo95kM/ NDIIPP on Facebook http://icio.us/acelf5 # Transforming repositories: from repository managers to institutional data managers http://icio.us/tphxx0 # SONY'S READER STORE CELEBRATES ITS 10 MILLIONTH BOOK DOWNLOAD http://icio.us/s3demv # Wikipedia Now Lets You Order Printed Books http://icio.us/eyrquw # Open Access and Libraries: Now available as print & ebook http://icio.us/u33ec3 # Bowker and Google Collaborate to Optimize the Identification, Cataloging and Discovery of Google Editions http://icio.us/aslzqr # SMU Suspends Its University Press http://icio.us/1ycwj4 # New and Improved DSpace Registry http://icio.us/t2kj2d # The New York Public Library: Library Faces Harshest Budget Cut in History http://icio.us/dtbdtf # Queen's University Librarians and Archivists Pass Open Access Policy http://bit.ly/dfT8sq # Applications Programmer for Digital Scholarly Publishing at University of Michigan http://bit.ly/bmB7qT # Review of the State of the Art of the Digital Curation of Research Data http://bit.ly/af7QZd # Metadata Specialist at Mount Holyoke College http://bit.ly/bNx327 # Internet Archive Makes over a Million DAISY Standard Digital Books Freely Available to Blind, Dyslexic, and Visually http://bit.ly/cY7yal # Build a digital book with EPUB http://icio.us/eo3ag5 # A Database of Riches: The Business Model Behind The Google Book Settlement http://icio.us/303g1e # Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers 3: Describing content for preservation http://icio.us/i5y1fv # Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers 2: institutional and lifecycle preservation costs http://icio.us/1twbw3 # Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers 1: organisational issues http://icio.us/g0rw4a # Open Access to Research: Changing Researcher Behavior Through University and Funder Mandates http://icio.us/1lc44o # Google Editions, Bookstore in the Cloud, Will Go Live By July http://icio. ... Sun, 09 May 2010 11:00:00 +0100 843100 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14908 Collection Development Librarian (Texas A&M University Libraries) The Texas A&M University Libraries seeks an energetic, enthusiastic, innovative and forward-looking colleague to be a key player in building, assessing, and analyzing the use of the 4.1 million volumes in the libraries’ collections. This is an academic appointment carrying full faculty status and responsibilities including research, publication and service to meet both the Libraries’ and the University’s requirements for tenure and promotion. Position: Reporting to the Head of Collection Development & Acquisitions Services, this position actively participates in a wide range of collection and budget management activities that directly support faculty, students, and subject specialists. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 22:15:02 +0100 842074 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=762 Technical Services Librarian (Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia) This position oversees all operations of the technical services department including cataloging, serials processing, acquisitions, electronic resource management, and administering the integrated library system (Innovative Interfaces); serves as a leader and provides technical support for creating and maintaining access to e-journals and other electronic format material; initiates projects to implement new catalog related technologies and works to train staff on these initiatives; serves as liaison to OCLC, participates in reference services, including some evening and weekend hours, serves on faculty committees, and fulfills other duties associated with special faculty status; and supervises a staff of two. Hampden-Sydney College is a selective liberal arts college for men enrolling about 1,100 students with the mission of forming “good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.” The 1,330-acre campus is 60 miles southwest of Richmond. The college’s new library, completed in 2007, contains 83,000 usable square feet, a book capacity of 350,000, multi-media classrooms, group study rooms, a media center, a coffee shop, and wireless access throughout. This is a full-time, twelve-month appointment with special faculty status. ... Thu, 06 May 2010 17:19:25 +0100 842718 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14888 Technical Services Librarian (Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia) This position oversees all operations of the technical services department including cataloging, serials processing, acquisitions, electronic resource management, and administering the integrated library system (Innovative Interfaces); serves as a leader and provides technical support for creating and maintaining access to e-journals and other electronic format material; initiates projects to implement new catalog related technologies and works to train staff on these initiatives; serves as liaison to OCLC, participates in reference services, including some evening and weekend hours, serves on faculty committees, and fulfills other duties associated with special faculty status; and supervises a staff of two. ... Thu, 06 May 2010 07:15:02 +0100 841648 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/05/05/ensuring-that-e-doesnt-mean-ephemeral-a-practical-guide-to-e-journal-archiving-solutions/ JISC has released Ensuring That 'E' Doesn't Mean Ephemeral: A Practical Guide to E-Journal Archiving Solutions, which discusses CLOCKSS, Portico, and the UK LOCKSS Alliance. Here's an excerpt: This booklet provides a starting point for institutions interested in investigating e-archiving options. It gives a practical guide to the solutions offered by three of the main long-term preservation schemes and provides an overview of the distinguishing features of each solution. Related Posts "Data Curation and Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects" A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives: 10 Recommendations for Codec Selection and Management Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany "Copyright Provisions in Law Journal Publication Agreements" Web Archiving (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 06 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 841725 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/05/05/ensuring-that-e-doesnt-mean-ephemeral-a-practical-guide-to-e-journal-archiving-solutions/ JISC has released Ensuring That 'E' Doesn't Mean Ephemeral: A Practical Guide to E-Journal Archiving Solutions, which discusses CLOCKSS, Portico, and the UK LOCKSS Alliance. Here's an excerpt: This booklet provides a starting point for institutions interested in investigating e-archiving options. It gives a practical guide to the solutions offered by three of the main long-term preservation schemes and provides an overview of the distinguishing features of each solution. Related Posts "Data Curation and Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects" A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives: 10 Recommendations for Codec Selection and Management Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany "Copyright Provisions in Law Journal Publication Agreements" Web Archiving (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 06 May 2010 03:03:35 +0100 842503 http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/blog/archives/256 Another survey, this time the fourth of the three-yearly Ithaka studies of faculty perceptions of their libraries, suggests all is not well. Without putting too fine a point on it, the authors state up front: Since the first Faculty Survey in 2000, we have seen faculty members steadily shifting towards reliance on network-level electronic resources, and a corresponding decline in interest in using locally provided tools for discovery. This section examines this trend through the lens of several questions posed to faculty about their information discovery and usage behaviors. What follows is a colorful presentation of data that is wrapped up in suitable contemporary jargon (network-centricity, digitized resources etc.) that paints a picture which is not as bleak as some are interpreting it. Surprise surprise, faculty don’t like to leave their desks, know how to find stuff with Google, prefer domain specific to generic databases, follow links from articles, like full-text ejournals. In short, all the design features that we have been advocating for years such as ease of access, direct readability, linked documents, full coverage etc. are proving to be important to people. Where the survey might be posing some more challenging thoughts is the shifting view of academic libraries as less the gateway and more the purchaser, though this has always been a role that academic libraries played. The shift seems sharpest among scientists, who unlike their colleagues in the humanities, report less value in the library for teaching, research, or even archival purposes, and appear to just want libraries to buy the materials. I have some doubts about this. ... Wed, 05 May 2010 22:20:53 +0100 841718 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/TCEutgQFbUQ/ Die ULB Bonn hat durch den Ausbau des Angebots neue Nutzer gewonnen. Insbesondere das elektronische Angebot der eJournals und eBooks wurde erweitert. [via Die Welt] (Source: netbib weblog) Wed, 05 May 2010 10:18:02 +0100 841653 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/TCEutgQFbUQ/ Die ULB Bonn hat durch den Ausbau des Angebots neue Nutzer gewonnen. Insbesondere das elektronische Angebot der eJournals und eBooks wurde erweitert. [via Die Welt] (Source: netbib weblog) Wed, 05 May 2010 10:18:02 +0100 841525 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/tlmGiABf9Ic/national-library-and-information.html "Over 2,000 e-journals and 51,000 digitalised books will be just a click away for students, researchers and faculty members of over 7,000 colleges across the country with the launch of an electronic library, N-LIST, here today. The National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) project, inaugurated by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, will also enable users to access the e-resources and download articles. Faculty, staff, students and researches from colleges covered under section 12B of UGC Act are eligible to access e-resources through the N-LIST project. Out of nearly 25,000 colleges, over 7,000 institutions are covered under this section. The students and faculty members can directly download the material from the publisher's website after they are authenticated through servers deployed in the INFLIBNET Centre, a statement issued by the HRD Ministry said" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 05 May 2010 09:56:25 +0100 841512 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/04/india-tuesday-was-official-launch-of-national-library-and-information-services-infrastructure-for-scholarly-content-n-list/ From the Article: Over 2,000 e-journals and 51,000 digitalised books will be just a click away for students, researchers and faculty members of over 7,000 colleges across the country with the launch of an electronic library, N-LIST, here today. The National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) project, inaugurated by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, will also enable users to access the e-resources and download articles. See Also: Kapil Sibal inaugurates ”N-LIST Project” See Also: National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) Homepage;“About” Page and List of Databases. Database sources include materials from H.W. Wilson; Oxford University Press; ebrary; ISI Web of Science; and Many Others Source: ANI; Press Trust of India, Twitter (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 04 May 2010 22:28:29 +0100 841386 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/kmSldoo6N7U/ This morning I read an email from Max Anderson, Technology Coordinator of the NN/LM GMR, about the opportunity for hospital and academic medical libraries within the GMR to be a part of group purchasing packages.  As budgets shrink many librarians are looking for ways to get more bang for their buck and one is to purchase things as a group.  I know there are many hospital librarians within the 10 GMR states that may not be subscribed to the GMRLIST where Max posted this information and I felt this was just too important not to re-post.  My hope is by re-posting it, the message will spread to others who may not have been on the list when the email was sent.  If you are librarian working at a medical library within the GMR, please fill out the questionnaire.  The more people we have the better informed we are about what the needs are of the region and the better we are to try and get package that will be the most beneficial. (re-posted with permission from Max Anderson) Hello GMR Members!  The E-Licensing Working Group of the RAC at the GMR has been in contact with the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) about possibly offering group purchasing of health-related online packages (ebooks, ejournals, databases, etc) to all GMR members in the 10-state region. In order to determine which packages might be initially offered to GMR members, we would like you to complete a questionnaire.  All of these are the electronic versions - no print versions. Please submit your completed survey by 5/31/2010 These offers are for new business only. The vendors are not at this time willing to change pre-existing packages. However, if this project brings them enough new business, they may take notice of it and be more inclined to offer deals for pre-existing packages.  There are virtually no price lists for any of these products. ... Mon, 03 May 2010 15:37:54 +0100 840902 http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2010/05/02/e-licensing-group-purchasing-questionnaire/ Hello GMR Members! The E-Licensing Working Group of the RAC at the GMR has been in contact with the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) about possibly offering group purchasing of health-related online packages (ebooks, ejournals, databases, etc) to all GMR members in the 10-state region. In order to determine which packages might be initially offered [...] (Source: The Cornflower) Mon, 03 May 2010 02:55:09 +0100 841263 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/04/new-journals-from-nature.html Nature Communications, a multidisciplinary, online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group, was recently launched. The author fee for open access publishing fee ($5,000/paper) will be discounted by 20% for awhile. Self-archiving of author versions 6 months after publication will also be encouraged. Nature Climate Change is a more traditional publication that is planned to begin in April 2011. We do not currently have plans to subscribe to either title at WU. (Source: Biology Library News) Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 840942 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/04/summary-of-the-biology-plan-for-budget-cuts.html This is a summary of the biology plan to meet library budget cuts for 2011. Thank you to all who responded! Alytes cancel paper; we do not have online $149.26 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology cancel online-only $3,746.75 Behaviour cancel online-only $1,571.81 (since this is in JSTOR we will always have content more than 5 years old) Biochemical Genetics cancel online-only $1,453.60 Biochemistry (Moscow) cancel online-only $4,672.27 Cytologia cancel paper; we do not have online $283.95 Cytology and Genetics cancel online-only $2,642.75 Ecoscience cancel paper; we do not have online; available online at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $277.44 The Enzymes cancel paper; chemistry library paper subscription continues + online access at least through 2011 $130.00 Ethnobotany : journal of Society of Ethnobotanists   cancel paper; available at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $93.00 Ibis cancel online-only $686.03 Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology cancel online-only $3,794.24 Journal of Mammalian Evolution cancel online-only $412.42 Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society cancel paper; continue jstor access (older than 3 years); current available online at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $126.11 Marine Ecology cancel online-only $1,006.85 Microbiology cancel online-only $4,096.67 Note this is the Springer translation from Russian, not the Society for General Microbiology Microbiology. Natural areas journal cancel paper; available online at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $173.56 Neurophysiology cancel online-only $3,599.68 Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture cancel online-only $2,510.90 Plant Growth Regulation cancel online-only $1,144.79 Planta Medica cancel paper; we do not have online $1,574.30 Russian Journal of Developmental Biology cancel online-only $3,201.85 Symbiosis cancel online-only $926. ... Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 840945 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7193 State: Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League comprehensive research university in Philadelphia founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and his circle. It comprises twelve schools, 3,800 faculty and an enrollment of nearly 20,000 students, equally divided between undergraduate and graduate/professional school students. The University of Pennsylvania Library system includes fifteen libraries and an off-site high density storage facility. System-wide scholarly resources number nearly 6 million books, 44,000 current serials (of which 16,000 are e-journals) and 700 databases. The library is a leader in the development of digital library services and collections and is aggressively experimenting with and adopting new technology in research and teaching, including courseware. Position Scope: The University of Pennsylvania seeks qualified candidates for the position of Business Research Librarian to provide high-quality, customer-oriented business information services to the Wharton School of Business and the larger University of Pennsylvania community. The Business Research Librarian will work collaboratively with the staff of the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School and the Penn Libraries system to create, test, and apply technology-based products that enhance digital delivery of services. Specific Responsibilities Include: • Work with a team of five business librarians to provide research/reference support in person (reference desk, through appointments) and virtually (email, IM, text). • Develop and grow liaison relationships with several of the Wharton School’s academic departments and Research Centers. • Plan, direct and/or implement special projects involving library promotion and outreach activities. • Create and maintain guides to information resources. • Design and teach resource instruction sessions. Investigate opportunities for technology-based instruction. ... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:20:02 +0100 839236 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/04/27/jisc-and-oclc-user-studies/ I meant to point to this ages ago but it dropped to the bottom of my inbox. Roy Tennant first brought it to my attention in his online LJ blog. Twelve Library User Studies Distilled April 6, 2010 JISC has just announced the paper “The Digital Information Seeker: Report of findings from selected OCLC, RIN and JISC user behaviour projects”. [56 page PDF] This was prepared for JISC by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Timothy J. Dickey of OCLC. It “summarizes and compares and contrasts twelve separate user studies from 2005 to 2009.” Roy highlights the main findings as: “* Disciplinary differences do exist in researcher behaviours, both professional researchers and students. * E-journals are increasingly very important to the process of research at all levels. * The evidence provided by the results of the studies supports the centrality of Google and other search engines. * Google is often used to locate and access e-journal content. * At the same time, the entire Discovery-to-Delivery process needs to be supported by information systems, including increased access to resources. * Journal backfiles are particularly problematic in terms of access The realities of the online environment observed above led several studies to some common conclusions about changing user behaviours: * Regardless of age or experience, academic discipline, or context of the information need, speed and convenience are important to users. * Researchers particularly appreciate desktop access to scholarly content. * Users also appreciate the convenience of electronic access over the physical library. * Users are beginning to desire enhanced functionality in library systems. * They also desire enhanced content to assist them in evaluating resources. * They seem generally confident in their own ability to use information discovery tools. ... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:08:47 +0100 839102 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/04/pressdisplay-newspapers-available-from-all-over.html Foreign students and postdocs may be interested in knowing about some of the World Newspapers available from WU Libraries. Our newly acquired PressDisplay file may be especially useful. PressDisplay includes more than 1000 newspapers from 82 countries in 39 languages. Usually only the most current 60 days are available on a rolling file basis. (Source: Biology Library News) Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 839279 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=748 Electronic Resources Collection Management Librarian Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Salary: Not Specified Status: Full-time Posted: 04/21/10 Deadline: 05/20/10 Electronic Resources Collection Management Librarian The E-resources Librarian reports to the Associate Director for Collection Development and works closely with acquisitions librarians in the Technical Services Division, the Electronic Resources Management Systems (ERMS) Librarian in the Technology Division, and librarians who are liaisons to academic departments. The E-resources Librarian provides leadership in identifying, licensing, and acquiring electronic resources, including databases, individual and bundled e-journals, serials and e-books, with a focus on accessibility, maximum visibility, and optimum usage of e-resources by FSU students, faculty, and staff. Other responsibilities include gathering and analyzing use statistics, and service on library and statewide e-resources committees. For more information and to apply, please visit the Florida State University job site at https://jobs.fsu.edu. (Job ID# 31469) Apply for this job (Source: NASIG Jobs) Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:26:21 +0100 837724 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14773 Electronic Resources Collection Management Librarian (Florida State University) The E-resources Librarian reports to the Associate Director for Collection Development and works closely with acquisitions librarians in the Technical Services Division, the Electronic Resources Management Systems (ERMS) Librarian in the Technology Division, and librarians who are liaisons to academic departments. The E-resources Librarian provides leadership in identifying, licensing, and acquiring electronic resources, including databases, individual and bundled e-journals, serials and e-books, with a focus on accessibility, maximum visibility, and optimum usage of e-resources by FSU students, faculty, and staff. ... Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:04 +0100 837452 http://www.uab.edu/lister/news/index.php?newsID=1&ID=855 Cancer Information Group is offering unlimited access to its journals until November 31, 2010. Titles include : Clinical Breast Cancer Clinical Colorectal Cancer Clinical Lung Cancer Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia Clinical Ovarian Cancer Access is available through the E-Journals List at: http://www.uab.edu/lister/ejournals/index.htm. If you find any of the titles particularly useful to your research, please send feedback to Liz Lorbeer (lorbeer@uab.edu). (Source: Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences News) Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:40:41 +0100 837654 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1285 Kennen Sie schon unsere EZB-Schlagwörter? Damit können Sie sich E-Journals bestimmter medizinischer Fachgebiete in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) Heidelberg anzeigen lassen, was hilfreich ist, um sich einen Überblick über die Publikationsorgane eines Fachgebietes zu verschaffen. http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/bibl/emedien/ezb_schlagworte.php (Source: Newsblog) Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:41:25 +0100 834305 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/04/08/digital-information-seekers-new-report-analyzes-and-synthesizes-12-separate-studies/ Another great post from Gary: Digital Information Seekers: New Report Analyzes and Synthesizes 12 Separate Studies “Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Timothy J. Dickey of OCLC Research have a new report on the web titled: “The Digital Information Seeker: Report of Findings From Selected OCLC, RIN and JISC User Behaviour Projects.” An overview and summary of the report is available on the JISC web site. At the bottom of this blog post you’ll find a link to the full text report (61 pages). From the Executive Summary: There are numerous user studies published in the literature and available on the web. There are studies that specifically address the behaviours of scholars while others identify the behaviours of the general public. Some studies address the information-seeking behaviours of scholars within specific disciplines while others identify the behaviours of scholars of multiple disciplines. There are studies that only address undergraduate, graduate, or post graduate students or compare these individual groups’ information-seeking behaviours to those of scholars. Still other studies address the behaviors of young adults (Screenagers (Rushkoff 1996) and Millennials) Here is background on how the report was put together. In the interest of analyzing and synthesizing several user behaviour studies conducted in the US and the UK twelve studies were identified. These twelve selected studies were commissioned and/or supported by non- profit organizations and government agencies; therefore, they have little dependence upon the outcomes of the studies. The studies were reviewed by two researchers who analyzed the findings, compared their analyses, and identified the overlapping and contradictory findings. ... Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:07:04 +0100 833615 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/08/new-briefing-paper-digital-information-seekers-how-academic-libraries-can-support-the-use-of-digital-resources/ Yesterday, we posted about a new report by two members of OCLC Research, Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Timothy J. Dickey. It’s titled, “The Digital Information Seeker: Report of Findings From Selected OCLC, RIN and JISC User Behaviour Projects. (62 pages; PDF)” In addition to the report, Ms. Silipigni Connaway and Mr. Dickey wrote a two page briefing paper titled, “Digital Information Seekers: How Academic Libraries Can Support the use of Digital Resources.” that’s based on the “Digital Information Seeker…” Here’s are Bullet Points From a Section in the Overview (HTML) Document: How Academic Libraries Can Meet the Needs of their Users Users’ perceptions of library services have been slow to change and many people still tend to think of libraries as collections of books rather than providers of electronic resources [so true and probably the case for most types of libraries]. Academic libraries serve many constituencies with different needs and behaviours, such as academic discipline, research experience, demographic category and information-seeking context. Libraries need to understand those needs and adapt to meet them in a flexible manner. ... Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:01:48 +0100 833742 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/07/digital-information-seekers-new-report-analyzes-and-synthesizes-12-separate-studies/ Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Timothy J. Dickey of OCLC Research have a new report on the web titled: “The Digital Information Seeker: Report of Findings From Selected OCLC, RIN and JISC User Behaviour Projects.” An overview and summary of the report is available on the JISC web site. At the bottom of this blog post you’ll find a link to the full text report (61 pages). From the Executive Summary: There are numerous user studies published in the literature and available on the web. There are studies that specifically address the behaviours of scholars while others identify the behaviours of the general public. Some studies address the information-seeking behaviours of scholars within specific disciplines while others identify the behaviours of scholars of multiple disciplines. There are studies that only address undergraduate, graduate, or post graduate students or compare these individual groups’ information-seeking behaviours to those of scholars. Still other studies address the behaviors of young adults (Screenagers (Rushkoff 1996) and Millennials) Here is background on how the report was put together. In the interest of analyzing and synthesizing several user behaviour studies conducted in the US and the UK twelve studies were identified. These twelve selected studies were commissioned and/or supported by non- profit organizations and government agencies; therefore, they have little dependence upon the outcomes of the studies. The studies were reviewed by two researchers who analyzed the findings, compared their analyses, and identified the overlapping and contradictory findings. ... Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:56:28 +0100 833540 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/04/07/value-of-academic-and-college-libraries/ The value of academic libraries is often strongly tied to the value of colleges and universities themselves. There are many reports on the impact of universities and colleges and higher education on the economics of a community. In this particular sector I am fond of a study called “Libraries Designed for Learning” by Scott Bennett. This is an articulate report on what needs to be considered to place the library at the heart of the new university – virtual and bricks. As we create information and learning commons we need to consider many new and mutated issues (including our Millennial users) and this report is a good place to start. Another study that makes a good point is OCLC’s “White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students” (www.oclc.org). This excellent, free study provides data on students’ preferences in dealing with the library and research information. It concludes with some tough questions for libraries and library staff to ponder, strategically. “Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment” from CLIR/DLF (http://www.clir.org) was published after the Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources commissioned Outsell to conduct a large-scale study of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from academic institutions to better understand how users’ expectations of libraries are changing. This report, available online, is fascinating and shows the impact libraries have on research and learning. I do worry that my literature scan finds too few empirical studies of the broader role of the college and university library on learning and research. I understand that ACRL has started to fund research in this area to address the shortfall in overall studies about the value of academic libraries. Selected Academic Libraries Value Study Links 2005 Colorado Academic Library Impact Study (Feb. 2006) http://www.lrs.org/academic/impact. ... Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:27:07 +0100 833416 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7101 State: Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League comprehensive research university in Philadelphia founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and his circle. It comprises twelve schools, 3,800 faculty and an enrollment of nearly 20,000 students, equally divided between undergraduate and graduate/professional school students. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries offer an exciting leadership opportunity to shape the future development of scholarly resources and collections in support of the humanities. The Libraries seek an experienced and innovative individual skilled at conceptualizing and implementing collection development and management activities across a large, complex, and rapidly changing information landscape. The Penn Libraries include fifteen libraries and an off-site Heritage Collection Center. System-wide scholarly resources number over 5.9 million books, 44,000 current serials (of which 16,000 are e-journals) and 700 databases. The library is a leader in the development of digital library services and collections and is aggressively experimenting with and adopting new technology in research and teaching, including courseware. Position Summary: Reporting to the Director of Collection Development & Management, the Coordinator and Librarian for Humanities Collections leads the collection development and management activities for the academic departments and interdisciplinary programs designated as “Humanities” at Penn. The Coordinator spearheads collaboration with subject specialists and curators in Research & Instructional Services, the Music Library, the Fine Arts Library, the University Museum Library and the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library to develop programmatic goals and effective policies in the humanities. ... Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:20:01 +0100 833131 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7102 State: Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an experienced, innovative, and energetic leader to develop a user-focused learning and teaching program. The Libraries provide an opportunity-rich environment for a dynamic individual who is skilled at both conceptualizing and implementing research and instructional services across a large, complex, and rapidly changing information landscape. The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League comprehensive research university in Philadelphia founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and his circle. It comprises twelve schools, 3,800 faculty and an enrollment of 20,000 students, equally divided between undergraduate and graduate/professional school students. The Penn Libraries include fifteen libraries and an off-site high density storage facility. System-wide scholarly resources number nearly 6 million books, 44,000 current serials (of which 16,000 are e-journals) and 700 databases. The library is a leader in the development of digital library services and collections and is aggressively experimenting with and adopting new technology in research and teaching, including courseware. As a founding partner of the Kuali OLE Project, Penn will be at the forefront of developing a next-generation community source technology environment to support academic library operations. Position Summary: Reporting to the Director of Public Services, the Assistant Director for Research and Instructional Services provides leadership in developing and managing services to support teaching and learning on the Penn campus. ... Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:20:01 +0100 833130