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 Open Access interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:53:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/04/vudl-open-source-digital-library.html The Falvey Library at Villanova University has announced the Alpha Launch of VuDL: Open Source Digital Library Administration.VuDL is a simple to use Digital Library Administration application powered by all open source technologies. With VuDL, you get:METS metadata editorService image generation toolsXML database repositoryBuilt-in OAI serverBuilt-in record drivers for easy implementation with VuFindThe core of VuDL's application is powered by Orbeon Forms, a powerful XML/XForms processor. eXist (a native XML database) and the server's file system combine to support the data and image repository.VuDL is offered for free through the GPL open source license. You can modify the software and share your successes with the community! (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895886 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/04/information-standards-quarterly.html Image via WikipediaNISO’s first open access issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is now available. The full issue as well as individual articles are available for free download in PDF format. Some of the content is:NISO Year in Review 2010 by Karen WetzelTC46 Year in Review 2010 by Cynthia HodgsonSUSHI Implementation: The Client Side Experience by Omar VillaSUSHI Implementation: The Server Side Experience by Brinda ShahDedicated to Standards by Andrew PaceStandard Spotlight: The OpenURL Maintenance Agency: Extending and Promoting the Use of OpenURL by Phil Norman and Jeff YoungMember Spotlight : American Psychological Association: Using Standards to Improve the Dissemination of Knowledge by Linda BeebeEstablishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign On (ESPReSSO) Working Group by Heather Ruland Staines, Harry Kaplanian, and Kristine Ferry (Source: Catalogablog) Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895895 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/03/vufind.html VuFind, the open-source discovery tool has released a new version.The next significant version of VuFind has been released this morning. Here are some of the highlights of the new release:Improved support for non-MARC metadata and authority recordsNew search tools: autosuggesters, snippets, keyword highlighting, alphabetical heading browseAlternate jQuery-based theme (for tighter integration with non-YUI sites)- Easier and more powerful favorite list managementMore API integration: book previews through Google Books/OpenLibrary/Hathi Trust, cover images from B&T Content CaféExpanded OAI-PMH and RSS output capabilitiesBetter discovery by search engines with automatic sitemap XML generation toolNumerous bug fixes, plus better-commented and standardized codeFor more information, and to download the new release, please visit http://vufind.org. (Source: Catalogablog) Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895898 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/03/information-standards-quarterly.html The first open access issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is now available. The full issue as well as individual articles are available for free download in PDF format. (Source: Catalogablog) Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895901 http://www.teleread.com/library/scholarly-electronic-publishing-weblog-updated-for-december/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: “Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford,” “Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm,” “Trust Me, I’m an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors,” and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?” and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Google Book Search and Metadata,” “Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?,” and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force” and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes “The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?” and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Non-users’ Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano” and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes “Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It,” “OA Repositories: The Researchers’ Point of View,” “Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model,” and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes “Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing,” “Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal,” and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:35:45 +0100 895609 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/eC6Mm0oVw6U/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: "Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford," "Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm," "Trust Me, I'm an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors," and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?" and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Google Book Search and Metadata," "Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?," and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force" and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes "The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?" and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Non-users' Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano" and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It," "OA Repositories: The Researchers' Point of View," "Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model," and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes "Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing," "Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal," and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:08:58 +0100 895591 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/5ygW4OtnNTI/10-more-oa-journals-added-to.html Roddy MacLeod has added 10 more Open Access journals to JournalTOCs, where you can find the latest Tables of Contents from over 15,000 scholarly journals (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:45:37 +0100 895588 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/5ygW4OtnNTI/10-more-oa-journals-added-to.html Roddy MacLeod has added 10 more Open Access journals to JournalTOCs, where you can find the latest Tables of Contents from over 15,000 scholarly journals (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895660 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/ls4CXHgvop0/directory-of-open-access-journals_27.html International Journal of Financial Research Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia International Medical Journal Malaysia Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering EMAJ : Electronic Melbourne Art Journal Advances in Materials Science Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW : Land Reclamation Biomechanica Hungarica Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine International Journal of High Throughput Screening (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:31:45 +0100 895158 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/ls4CXHgvop0/directory-of-open-access-journals_27.html International Journal of Financial Research Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia International Medical Journal Malaysia Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering EMAJ : Electronic Melbourne Art Journal Advances in Materials Science Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW : Land Reclamation Biomechanica Hungarica Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine International Journal of High Throughput Screening (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895667 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62893 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 273 of Research Library Issues (RLI). It features articles on net neutrality, fair use, and open access to federally funded research. Guest editor, Prudence Adler, sets the stage for these articles as she describes how these issues are inextricably linked to one another. [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:57:00 +0100 894973 http://www.teleread.com/library/clir-announces-hidden-collection-awards/ CLIR Announces Hidden Collections Awards Created in 2008 with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program supports the identification and cataloging of special collections and archives of high scholarly value that are difficult or impossible to locate. Award recipients create Web-accessible records according to standards that enable the federation of their local cataloging entries into larger groups of related records, enabling the broadest possible exposure to the scholarly community. Washington, DC, Dec. 21, 2010—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the following recipients of the 2010 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards: American Museum of Natural History Library For the People, for Education, for Science: Web Access to the American Museum of Natural History Archives $117,600 Arizona State University LibrariesLabor Rights are Civil Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo Son Derechos Civiles$155,600 Eleutherian Mill-Hagley Foundation, Inc. on behalf of the Hagley Museum and LibraryZ. Taylor Vinson Transportation Collection Processing Project$246,100 J. Paul Getty Trust on behalf of the Getty Research InstituteOpen Plan, Open Access: Increasing Researcher Access to Modern Architectural Records$154,600 Northeast Historic FilmMoving Images 1938-1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World’s Fair and Its Period$186,900 San Diego Historical SocietyEnhancing Access to the History of San Diego and the Border Region$162,100 Smithsonian Institution, on behalf of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:18:06 +0100 894825 http://50.16.230.151/article/thursday-threads-2010w51/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurner When I say “<blank> is a question answering system. A question can be posed in natural language and … <blank> can come up with a very precise answer to that question” — what comes to mind to fill in the <blank>? If you guessed a system developed by IBM to appear alongside human contestants on Jeopardy, you’d be right. That quote comes from video posted by IBM earlier this year that is the topic of the first DLTJ Thursday Threads entry. This weeks other entries look at possible erosions of copyright first sale doctrine, the state of open access publishing, and a proposition for new definitions to terms of art in data modeling.If you find these threads interesting and useful, you might want to add the Thursday Threads RSS Feed to your feed reader or subscribe to e-mail delivery using the form to the right. If you would like a more raw and immediate version of these types of stories, watch my FriendFeed stream (or subscribe to its feed in your feed reader). Comments and tips, as always, are welcome.Reference Librarian of the Future? IBM Supercomputer ‘Watson’ to Challenge ‘Jeopardy’ StarsIBM 'Watson' Video on YouTubeAn I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz show “Jeopardy.” I.B.M. and the producers of “Jeopardy” will announce on Tuesday [December 14, 2010] that the computer, “Watson,” will face the two most successful players in “Jeopardy” history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in three episodes that will be broadcast Feb. 14-16, 2011.For I.B.M., “Watson” is an important test of artificial intelligence. Scientists there have been talking to “Jeopardy” about a man vs. machine match-up for the better part of two years. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:06:53 +0100 895465 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/23/open-access-publikationsfonds-an-der-uni-hohenheim/ Die UB der Uni Hohenheim informiert über einen Publikationsfonds, mit dem Publikationsgebühren für Open-Access-Publikationen finanziert werden sollen. Der Fonds wurde mit Hilfe des DFG-Förderprogramms zum OA-Publizieren errichtet. (Source: Infobib) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:38:58 +0100 894696 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/SHuAIhXp15g/taking-stock-2010.html Today's my last day of work for 2010. After completing my major goal for this week, I'm rewarding myself by taking some time to reflect on this past year, and do a little goal-setting for 2011. I enjoyed this exercise last year, so let's try it again. Looking back on 2010. All things considered, 2010 was a good year. I've really settled into my position, and have a much more defined sense of what is expected of me, as well as which directions I'd like to push forward. Our university administration sent me to the Science Commons Symposium in February, which was a much-needed validation of my particular position. I applied for and was accepted to attend the Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership Institute, which was simply amazing. It really revitalized me and helped me see ways I could improve my work, and be a leader even without any official leadership responsibilities. As the fall semester got underway, I administered a survey about the Library Minute and c0-presented a poster session at EDUCAUSE, got off some stagnant committees and got on some new, more exciting ones. I am now integrated into our digital repository management group, as well as co-chair of a new Open Access/Digital Repository policy committee - both of which are much more relevant to my position than most of the other committees I've been on. I successfully managed to co-chair the AzLA Conference Planning Committee for 2010, and will continue in that capacity for 2011. I just finished writing the first full draft of an article about the Library Minute I hope to submit to College & Research Libraries News in early January. So all in all, it's been a stimulating year. That's not to say I didn't have some failures. I initiated a collaboration to write a paper, hit several roadblocks and speedbumps, got lost, wandered in circles, and now I think it'd be best to drop it and move in another direction. I pretty much wasted my summer on that. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895032 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/17243 Morning All, Anyone have any information on open access wireless and wireless access at univerisites? thank you in advance and have a safe and fun holiday season janette (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894577 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/22/canlii-seeks-new-president/ As readers know, SLAW has regularly posted on the good work of the people at the Canadian Legal Information Institute and the free access to law movement. I see they are now advertising for the position of CanLII President. If you are interested in applying, or know of someone who you think would be interested, contact information for applications is providing on the page at the foregoing link. (Source: Slaw) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:00:15 +0100 895193 http://www.betabib.org/2010/12/22/retrospect-chalmers-bibliotek-2010/ Mot slutet av året så brukar man göra små listor och funderingar över vad man gjort det senaste året. Förra året gjorde jag någon slags toppen och botten. I år tänkte jag summera lite annorlunda och utgå från biblioteket där jag jobbar och lyfta höjdpunkterna som jag ser dem. 1 februari 2010 lämnade jag Högskolebiblioteket i Jönköping för att bli avdelningschef på Chalmers bibliotek i Göteborg. Att gå från en specialistfunktion som systembibliotekarie med fokus på utveckling av bibliotekets elektronsika tjänster till en befattning med personalansvar och tydligare strategisk inriktning på arbetsuppgifterna har varit spännande. Det är uppenbart att Chalmers bibliotek är i en mycket positiv utvecklingsfas nu. Här är de saker som jag uppskattat mest under året på Chalmers bibliotek: Chalmers OA policy Från den 1 januari 2010 råder en Open Access policy på Chalmers. Den innebär att: All forskning som Chalmers forskare publicerar ska göras tillgänglig i ett öppet arkiv, i normalfallet inom 6 månader efter publicering, dock senast efter 12 månader. Detta betyder att Chalmers forskare ska deponera en fulltextkopia av alla sina publikationer i elektronisk form i Chalmers Publication Library (CPL). Referens till publikationen ska också registreras i CPL med hänvisning till den deponerade kopian (tidigare beslut C2004/700). Överlåtelse av upphovsrättigheter skall om möjligt undvikas. Författaren bör tillförsäkra sig rätten att kunna parallellpublicera sitt arbete och skall i varje fall ha rätt att deponera det i ett öppet arkiv senast efter sex månader, eller i undantagsfall 12 månader. Chalmers forskare rekommenderas att publicera sig i tidskrifter som är fritt tillgängliga, s.k. Open Access-tidskrifter, när så är lämpligt. Dispens från denna policy kan ges undantagsvis. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:45:05 +0100 895160 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/collnet-2011.html Seventh International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & Twelfth COLLNET Meeting will take place 20-23 September, 2011, at Istanbul Bilgi University. According to the conference call for paper: the broad focus of the conference is on collaboration and communication in science and technology; science policy; quantitative aspects of science of science; and combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in study of scientific practices. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of the conference can be listed as follows:Emerging issues in scientometrics / informetrics /webometrics and history of science,Impact and role of open access and digital libraries on patterns of collaborations and sciences,Science policy and collaboration,Collaboration studies for science & society,Collaboration, knowledge management & industrial partnership,Collaborative bridge between academic research and industry,Methods for collaboration studies,Visualization techniques in collaboration studies,Quantitative analysis of S&T innovations,Informetrics laws and distributions, mathematical models of communication or collaboration,Nature and growth of science and of collaboration in science and its relation with technological output,Collaboration in science and in technology from both quantitative and qualitative points of view,Evaluation indicators for scientific productivity and other science related practices. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895023 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-3rd-qualitative-and-quantitative_22.html CFP: 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011) URL: http://www.isast.org/qqml2011.htmlWe invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011), 24 - 27 May 2011, Athens Greece . First Call of Proposals QQML2011 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011) at 24 - 27 May 2011, Athens Greece . Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 3rd QQML2011 was scheduled during the previous 2nd QQML2010 Conference. It was also decided that the 4th QQML 2012 International Conference will be organized in Limerick Ireland . QQML2009 and QQML2010 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2011 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894987 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-llama-journal-library-leadership.html CFP: LLAMA journal Library Leadership & ManagementGreetings LLAMA Members, We wanted to let you know what was happening with the LLAMA journal Library Leadership & Management and why you will not be seeing a new issue announcement this month. We are currently in the process of moving the journal to an Open Access platform for improved usability and future enhancements (no more having to remember a login). We are still tweaking the look but the archival issues are already in place and can be seen at the current url: https://journals.tdl.org/llm/issue/archiveBecause we will no longer be using outside services for the journal, we have more freedom to set a publication schedule that better corresponds to LLAMA activities and planning/following up on events. The publication schedule is shifting to the following: v. 25, no. 1, Winter February 2011 (post mid-winter meeting/pre-elections) v. 25, no. 2, Spring May 2011 (pre-Annual Conference) v. 25, no. 3, Summer August 2011 (post Annual Conference) v. 25, no. 4, Fall, November 2011 (pre mid-winter meeting/post Executive Board fall meeting) So watch for a new issue in February. We have a great set of articles that will look at topics such as preventative planning for an active shooter situation and applying return-on-investment modeling to libraries. If you have manuscript ideas, we are open to them and offer both editor-reviewed and peer-reviewed options as well as the opportunity to publish multimedia content (like presentations, audio files, etc). Per the announcement in the previous issue, we are seeking a new columnist or section editor for a column featuring noteworthy or newsworthy books, websites, toolkits, or other skill building resources. Finally, if you are interested in being a part of the journal as a guest columnist, guest section editor, or serving on the LL&M Advisory Committee, let us know. Author submissions can also be done online through: https://journals.tdl. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894985 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/KTkVRyOaBa0/directory-of-open-access-journals_21.html Hepatic Medicine : Evidence and Research Nature and Science of Sleep Clinical Optometry Clinical Pharmacology : Advances and Applications Eye and Brain Journal of Healthcare Leadership Local and Regional Anesthesia Lung Cancer : Target and Therapy Breast Cancer : Targets and Therapy Clinical Audit Journal of Blood Medicine Journal of Experimental Pharmacology Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics International Journal of Interferon, Cytokine and Mediator Research Nutrition and Dietary Supplements Ge-Conservación Pandaemonium Germanicum : Revista de Estudos Germanísticos African Journal of Health Professions Education Gerais : Revista Interinstitucional de Psicologia CogniTextes International Nano Letters (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:29:35 +0100 894274 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/KTkVRyOaBa0/directory-of-open-access-journals_21.html Hepatic Medicine : Evidence and Research Nature and Science of Sleep Clinical Optometry Clinical Pharmacology : Advances and Applications Eye and Brain Journal of Healthcare Leadership Local and Regional Anesthesia Lung Cancer : Target and Therapy Breast Cancer : Targets and Therapy Clinical Audit Journal of Blood Medicine Journal of Experimental Pharmacology Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics International Journal of Interferon, Cytokine and Mediator Research Nutrition and Dietary Supplements Ge-Conservación Pandaemonium Germanicum : Revista de Estudos Germanísticos African Journal of Health Professions Education Gerais : Revista Interinstitucional de Psicologia CogniTextes International Nano Letters (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894623 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/12/2010_california_1.php by Natalie Cole, Program Director for CLA On a typical day, more people visit a California library than live in the city of San Francisco. In October 2010, Californians showed how valuable and important their library is to them and their community, when over ONE MILLION people visited a public, academic, school or special library on California Library Snapshot Day. Library usage on Snapshot Day clearly showed that Californians need their libraries for information, education, entertainment, and enrichment. Libraries provide free access to timely, unbiased, accurate, information every day. This information helps people find jobs, study for a degree, navigate their way through school, become citizens, buy a home, set up a business and so much more. On Snapshot Day, library staff answered over 109,000 reference questions either in person, by phone, email, text, instant message or via their web page. Patrons shared their appreciation of their libraries: "The staff is incredibly helpful and friendly. I feel welcomed and comfortable asking for help. Thanks a lot!" "I do all of my homework in the library! Plenty of reference books, wifi access for D2L, and if I need it, the tutoring center is right up the hall. Full-text databases makes grade-A essays (almost) easy! Library staff is friendly and helpful...and it's QUIET! Yeay!" "This library is essential for people to discover the law, to help file suits [...]that take advantage of the laymen. I could not afford an attorney; I'm in pro per. I need this library to do research and defend my rights." "Without a school library, how would 6th graders figure out middle school?" Libraries provide free access to literature, music, and art that broadens our world view, expands our minds, and makes us laugh, cry, and think. Patrons borrowed over 770,000 items on Snapshot Day. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:46:29 +0100 894336 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-brief.html This chart by Thompson-Reuters prediting OA article growth at 20% to total article growth of 3.5% by 2020 is well worth noting. Many thanks to Springer via Stevan Harnad at the American Scientist Open Access Forum. (Source: The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894370 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/12/epub-metadata.html Image via WikipediaIt seems those ePub books I've been downloading form Project Gutenberg have metadata. It is based on Dublin Core but does provide more specific terms for the creator. Talat Chaudhri at UKOLN writes about why ePub is of interest from the point of view of metadata and application profiles, in What is ePub?Is anyone harvesting ePub metadata? It seems it would be trivial to provide OAI-PMH interface to ePubs. (Source: Catalogablog) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894146 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/JsPB7ycQYrE/directory-of-open-access-journals_19.html International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering International Journal of Smart Home International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology International Journal of Security and Its Applications The African Journal of Information Systems Revista Umbral Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience RENOTE : Revista Novas Tecnologias na Educação (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:20:06 +0100 893848 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/JsPB7ycQYrE/directory-of-open-access-journals_19.html International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering International Journal of Smart Home International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology International Journal of Security and Its Applications The African Journal of Information Systems Revista Umbral Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience RENOTE : Revista Novas Tecnologias na Educação (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894635 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/qCQkFhAvXY8/suncat-trinity-college-dublin-serials.html The serials' holdings of Trinity College Dublin have been added to SUNCAT, bringing the total number of contributing libraries to 78, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:59:21 +0100 893640 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/3xZpeAs2oyI/digital-library-research-and-open.html Digital Library Research and Open Access: Interoperability Strategies - a one-day workshop at the British Academy in London on 4 February 2011 (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:44:01 +0100 893373 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/open-access-week-dates-2011-2015.html Open Access Week 2011 will take place all over the world between October 24 and 30. In future, Open Access Week will be the last *full* week of October:2011: Oct 24 - 302012: Oct 22 - 282013: Oct 21 - 272014: Oct 20 - 262015: Oct 19 - 25Details on the program for 2011 will be announced in the New Year.Thanks to:Jennifer McLennanProgram Director, Open Access WeekSubscribe to OA Librarian (Source: OA Librarian) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893670 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/17218 ***Apologies for cross-posting*** DL.org Workshop on Digital Libraries and Open Access. Interoperability strategies 4 February 2011 British Academy London, United Kingdom http://www.dlorg.eu/index.php/dl-org-events/digital-library-research-ope n-access-repositories The European project, DL.org (Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations) is delighted to announce the Workshop on "Digital Libraries and Open Access. Interoperability strategies", which takes place at the British Academy in London (UK), 4 February 2011. Theme and objectives The DL.org Workshop in London will gather international experts on Digital Libraries and Open Access Repositories (OARs), providing a forum in which to: 1) trigger the multi-disciplinary debate about research on Digital Libraries and Open Access 2) discuss the DL.org project results, and existing frameworks and best practices for interoperability within the communities of practice 3) propose common strategies for interoperab (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893296 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/gNEts2J_tpA/ I’m really priviledged to be a part of the latest ALA TechSource Library Technology Report, Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries. When I was given the opportunity to contribute to an issue with Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Barbara M. Jones and Eli Neiburger…well, I said yes. I wrote the chapter entitled “Social Networking and the Library”, and the general thrust of the chapter can be seen in this excerpt: The central tension between libraries and social networks is simple: a social network gains usefulness when you are identifiable (people know who you are) and you share information about yourself (people know what you like). Libraries have, for years, operated under the general guideline that both of those pieces of knowledge are no ones business but yours….Taken at face value, as they relate to social networks, library ethical policies can be interpreted as directly contradictory with…privacy statements. Libraries have chosen, at times, to value privacy over access to social networks when these are in conflict. If the privacy of the patron is compromised via social networks, one possible answer is to attempt to limit access to those networks, which flies in the face of open and free access to information. If you’re interested in the topic of Freedom of Information and how difficult holding on to library’s traditional values becomes in the 21st century, this issue is a great read. Head on over to Techsource and pick it up. (Source: Pattern Recognition) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:56:00 +0100 894182 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w50/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurner This week’s Thursday Threads highlights includes two legal cases that bear watching. The first is the case of SkyRiver/Innovative Interfaces versus OCLC (covered on DLTJ previously); now that the case has been moved to OCLC’s home court (the federal district court located in Columbus, OH), it is asking for the case to be dismissed. The second legal cases is the UCLA streaming media case, with issues ranging from fair use to licensing terms to DMCA violations; if this one goes to trial we might get some new case law surrounding the intersection of copyright and libraries. The remaining two pieces are a look at how publishers (and librarians) should avoid paving cow-paths and the origins of the hash symbol.If you find these threads interesting and useful, you might want to add the Thursday Threads RSS Feed to your feed reader or subscribe to e-mail delivery using the form to the right. If you would like a more raw and immediate version of these types of stories, watch my FriendFeed stream (or subscribe to its feed in your feed reader). Comments and tips, as always, are welcome.OCLC Files Motion to Dismiss SkyRiver/Innovative LawsuitThis case arises because Plaintiffs believe they are entitled to free access to OCLC’s proprietary WordCat service, a comprehensive database of library records, developed over the past forty years. While framed as an antitrust case, Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleges only that OCLC has engaged in the types of appropriate behaviors expected of competitors: compete vigorously on price (or, at worst, price a product too high), work with libraries to develop new products, introduce innovative new products that threaten Plaintiffs’ profitability, and sell less expensive subscriptions than à la carte services. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:52:54 +0100 894346 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-dec-11.html Revised Dec. 17, 2010 - comment on renaissance of the scholar / publisher from Willinsky & Edgar added.Phil Davis on the Scholarly Kitchen has posted the comment, For Open Access Journals, the Size does Matter, as a comment on my Dec. 11, 2010 early year-end edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access.CommentIn briefThe growth of open access is particularly amazing given how little economic support has been made available so far. The economic target that I would suggest is high-quality, fully open access publishing that is economically sustainable or cost-effective. The number of open access journal titles is an indirect indication of the growth of open access publishing per se, which would ideally be measured by the number of articles published open access. As the DOAJ search by article service grows, this measure may become more feasible over time. Nevertheless, the number of titles per se is important as an indication of OA infrastructure, that is, the ability of open access to grow rapidly, given a little support. Behind the many fairly new, relatively small journals listed in DOAJ is a substantial new publishing system which can support many more titles; and small journals with relatively few articles could easily grow with even a little redirection of funding. These are just a few of the reasons why it makes a lot of sense for libraries to join the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity. Online-only, open access journals are not the same as print or subscription-based journals, and so it does not make sense to apply the same measures to assess the success of these journals - for example, the need to bundle a certain amount of articles for a print artefact, or to justify subscriptions has implications for the number of articles needed for a successful print and/or subscription-based journal that does not necessarily apply to an online open access journal. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893846 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/dramatic-growth-honoured-by-intechs.html The Dec. 11, 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access has been highlighted in Katarina Lovrecic's End of the year open access highlights. Well worth a read - thanks, Katarina! (Source: The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893845 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/LAVCKOmj8yY/editoras-procuram-alternativas-para-o.html Fonte: Publishing Perspectives. Data: 12/12/2010. URL: http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/12/making-open-access-pay/ Siobhan O’Leary relata o debate na Alemanha sobre o acesso livre. A reunião do German Book Office Editor, que reuniu editores de universidades norte-americanas e acadêmicos alemães, além de editores de livros CTP da Alemanha, mais uma vez levantou a questão do acesso gratuito a publicações, especialmente de como editores podem ganhar dinheiro com isso num momento em que a pressão de bibliotecas, autores, acadêmicos e outros são cada vez maior para que o conteúdo seja aberto e acessível. As experiências que surgem na Alemanha são várias, mas fazem parte basicamente de modelos híbridos de impressão e livro digital: acesso livre quando o autor levanta fundos para a publicação; conteúdo livre por um período na web e depois passa a ser pago; institutos desenvolvendo os seus próprios produtos “open access” e outras opções. (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:43:00 +0100 892950 http://dltj.org/article/isq-fall-2010/ I’m pleased to announce that the Fall 2010 issue of NISO‘s International Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is done and available online to NISO members and ISQ subscribers. Print copies are scheduled to be mailed on December 28th. The individual issue is available for purchase (see the form link to on the issue homepage), and some of the articles are freely available on the NISO website. The theme for the issue is resource sharing, and I was privileged to be the guest editor for the issue. Included below is my introduction letter to whet your appetite for the full issue.Issue Introduction: “Do More … With Someone Else”It comes as no surprise in today’s economic conditions that the mantra of “do more with less” is often repeated. For libraries, there simply isn’t enough money to buy and hold everything that patrons might want. Although that has been true for a long time, as has the professional ethic to share the information resources we have to the greatest extent possible, pressures are increasing to find new partnerships and new workflows that improve service to patrons and reduce the costs of doing so.This issue contains articles that illustrate new approaches and improvements to resource sharing. One feature article is an exploration by Kyle Banerjee and Anya Arnold of the standards and protocols used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance Consortial Borrowing System. The first consortium to use the WorldCat Navigator software, the Alliance is at the forefront of pushing interoperability between various systems. Their experience points to practical issues when standards such as Z39.50 and NCIP are used to connect multi-party, multi-system environments. A second feature contains a compilation of some of the new tools, systems, and standards that are available for resource sharing. One or more might be right for you. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:57:47 +0100 894347 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/NnXCItkvda0/directory-of-open-access-journals_15.html International Journal of Language Studies Iranian Journal of Language Studies Open Access Emergency Medicine Open Access Journal of Urology Transplant Research and Risk Management Korean Journal of Pathology Patient Related Outcome Measures Open Access Bioinformatics Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine Virus Adaptation and Treatment Open Access Animal Physiology Open Access Journal of Contraception Patient Intelligence Revista Crítica Histórica Sankofa : Revista de História da África e de Estudos da Diáspora Africana Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus Journal of Information and Communication Technology Revista Româna de Studii Baltice si Nordice Tropical Life Sciences Research Cardiovascular Journal Potsdamer Beiträge und Reportagen aus den Informationswissenschaften GERF Bulletin of Biosciences Logos & Episteme : an International Journal of Epistemology Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry Educação, Formação & Tecnologias JEP : eJournal of Education Policy Encuentro : Revista de Investigación e Innovación en la Clase de Idiomas Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE) Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal Criterio Jurídico University of Toronto Medical Journal Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:08:31 +0100 892982 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_johnson.aspx Gareth Johnson (to serve until 31 December 2013) Postnominals: BSc MSc F.HEA MCLIP Email: Gareth.Johnson@cilip.org.uk BiographyWith an original background in biomedical science, retail and Web design Gareth switched to working in and for Yorkshire and the Midlands Higher Education libraries in the late 1990s.  During this time he has served as a subject specialist, research & innovation officer, open access advocate and project manager.  Currently he manages the document and distance learning supply, course packs and copyright and institutional repository teams at the mutli-award winning David Wilson Library University of Leicester, UK.  Previous to this he was part of the SPARC Europe award winning SHERPA team at Nottingham. Professionally Gareth has served on a number of local and national committees, including the CILIP Editorial Panel, UCRG National & Forum for Interlending Committees; and as well as being a CILIP Councillor is Vice-Chair of the Forum for Interlending (FIL).  He has published around 20 publications, over 30 book reviews and has also contributed to three other academic texts.  He is also a frequent, popular and engaging workshop facilitator speaking passionately on a broad range of professional issues whenever the opportunity arises. Gareth is an active engager with new technologies, especially those related to the semantic web.  He maintains and interacts with professionals around the world through a range of online presences, generally under his Llordllama handle.Having worked on and with a number of JISC funded projects over the years, Gareth continues to be involved in a number of internal and externally funded activities and initiatives. His notable professional passions include advocacy, copyright, edutainment, communication, leadership, inter-lending, intrepreneurship, open access, and public speaking. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:24:52 +0100 893049 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/NnXCItkvda0/directory-of-open-access-journals_15.html International Journal of Language Studies Iranian Journal of Language Studies Open Access Emergency Medicine Open Access Journal of Urology Transplant Research and Risk Management Korean Journal of Pathology Patient Related Outcome Measures Open Access Bioinformatics Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine Virus Adaptation and Treatment Open Access Animal Physiology Open Access Journal of Contraception Patient Intelligence Revista Crítica Histórica Sankofa : Revista de História da África e de Estudos da Diáspora Africana Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus Journal of Information and Communication Technology Revista Româna de Studii Baltice si Nordice Tropical Life Sciences Research Cardiovascular Journal Potsdamer Beiträge und Reportagen aus den Informationswissenschaften GERF Bulletin of Biosciences Logos & Episteme : an International Journal of Epistemology Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry Educação, Formação & Tecnologias JEP : eJournal of Education Policy Encuentro : Revista de Investigación e Innovación en la Clase de Idiomas Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE) Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal Criterio Jurídico University of Toronto Medical Journal Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893086 http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/principles-and-strategies-for.html The Creative Commons Australia just published this document, "Opening Australia’s Archives: Open Access Principles for Australian Collecting Institutions" (version 1, Dec 2010), for Australian Collecting Institutions (e.g. galleries, libraries, archives and museums).I felt the guidelines would be useful if your institution is exploring a Creative Commons (CC) or Open Access policy, and would like to know where/ how to start. Or simply to go through all critical considerations, in order for the institution to make an informed decision whether to adopt a CC/ Open Access policy, or not.The document also describes examples of institutions that have adopted CC/ Open Access (see the Case Studies section).The 38-page* document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence.*It's 38 pages when I opened with Open Office, which seem to have different pagination.From its Introduction: The Opening Australia's Archives project aims to address this problem by working with Australia’s collecting institutions to increase the public’s ability to access and reuse our national collections. Run by the Innovation Law program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology the project encourages the adoption of open access approaches through coordinated policy, implementation and advocacy initiatives across the collecting sector. Opening Australia’s Archives: Open Access Principles for Australian Collecting Institutions were prepared in consultation with representatives of the Australian collecting sector commencing with a series of meetings held nationally during 2009. For more information on the meetings, principles and project see the Opening Australia's Archives website. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892835 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62622 In an 'early year-end edition' Heather Morrison continues her "dramatic growth of open access" series with 2010 year-end numbers. The report is rich in data (downloadable, too), charts, and analysis. Here are two pieces of OA info from Morrison's post: The Directory of Open Access Journals now lists 5,864 titles, having [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:50:52 +0100 892909 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62589 Via an NPG Announcement: Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announces open access options for fifteen further journals. Forty-one journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option or are wholly open access, including 80% (40) of its 50 academic and society journals. In total, NPG currently publishes 83 journals, of which 49% [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:20:59 +0100 892804 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/S1dBTobeC3E/niso-to-make-information-standards.html "The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly magazine will be moving to open access in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:54:49 +0100 892726 http://www.betabib.org/2010/12/14/worldcat-samkatalogen-och-expertgruppen/ Under året har frågan om avtalet mellan KB och OCLC som tillåter postutbyte varit uppe i Expertgruppen för Libris nationella system. Frågan är segsliten där de svenska principerna om samkatalogen som en öppen fri datakälla ställs mot ”club good” och att underlätta för de bibliotek som vill få in Deweyklassningar på ett smidigt sätt. Jag har flera gånger poängterat vikten av att de svenska biblioteken finns med i WorldCat och före diskussionen om principerna för återanvändning av data så försökte jag uppmärksamma att det bara varit de bibliografiska posterna som skulle exporteras från Libris och inte beståndsposterna. I mina ögon leder detta till onödiga begränsningar när det gäller att kunna skicka användaren direkt till källan från WorldCat. På OCLC:s marknadsföringsevenemang som KB var värd för tog jag upp den här frågan direkt med OCLC och KB:s ledning på plats. OCLC sade att det inte var några problem. KB sade bara att det inte ingick i förhandlingarna. Ingen motivering. Jag undrar hur det kommer sig att man kan ha hållt på att diskutera det här avtalet så länge, stött och blött det utan att det en enda gång i sin helhet (så vitt jag vet) dragits genom inflytandestrukturen. Att man inte har försökt hitta en samsyn mellan biblioteken när det gäller vad som skall ingå i postutbytet och vilka principer som skall råda. Vi har etablerade principer för LIBRIS samkatalog och jag minns klart och tydligt från riksbibliotekariens besök i Göteborg (under turnén om KB:s vidgade uppdrag) hur han på en direkt fråga svarade att samkatalogen skall stödja principerna för open data. KB:s egna OA-policy stödjer principerna för öppet och fritt metadata. Således torde det vara en grundbult i den svenska samkatalogen. Detta resonemang återspeglas även Expertgruppens resonemang. Första gången den här Expertgruppen hade uppe frågan var den 10 mars: 11. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:14:01 +0100 893919 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8974 State: Pennsylvania Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education is a comprehensive public research university with more than 39,000 students. It has a distinguished faculty in 17 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Dentistry, and a renowned Health Sciences Center. Temple is one of Pennsylvania's three public research universities, along with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. Temple University is the 26th-largest university in the United States, and it is the 6th-largest provider of professional education (law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine) in the country. Temple University seeks a Health Sciences Libraries Director to provide creative and visionary leadership for its health sciences libraries in an exciting period of growth and change. Located on the health sciences campus of a vibrant, urban research university, the newly-opened Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library and the Charles E. Krausz Library of Podiatric Medicine serve the information needs of the entire Temple health sciences community, including the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Podiatry; the College of Health Professions and Social Work; and Temple University Hospital. For more information about Temple University and Philadelphia, visit www.temple.edu/about/. Description: Reporting to the Dean of University Libraries, the Director will be responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Health Sciences Libraries. The Director will Provide leadership, direction, and planning in support of the schools, colleges, and programs served by the Health Sciences Libraries, and ensure that the libraries’ mission and goals are in alignment with those of the University, the Health Sciences Center, and the University Libraries. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:00:02 +0100 892581 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/14/zb-med-befreit-katalogisate/ Im Rahmen der Expertenkonferenz Open Access and Open Data hat die Deutschen Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED) in einer Pressemitteilung bekannt gegeben, dass die Katalogisate der ZB MED ab sofort unter CC0 zum Download, zur Verbreitung, Bearbeitung etc. bereit stehen. Die Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED) stellt ab sofort ihre Katalogdaten zur freien Nutzung bereit. Dazu gehören über 1.000.000 Medien – unter anderem Bücher und Zeitschriften – aus den Fachbereichen Medizin, Gesundheit, Ernährungs-, Umwelt- und Agrarwissenschaften. Durch eine Freigabe der Daten unter einer CC0-Lizenz ist es möglich, ohne jegliche Beschränkung die Daten herunter zu laden, zu modifizieren und für eigene Zwecke zu nutzen. Die Daten sind auf der Open-Data-Seite im HBZ-Wiki im Format RDF – ISO 2709 zu finden. Die Daten sind vom Mai 2010 und in zwei Downloads (“Ernährung, Umwelt, Agrar” und “Medizin, Gesundheit”) unterteilt. (Source: Infobib) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:22:49 +0100 893462 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-3rd-qualitative-and-quantitative.html CFP: 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011)We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011), 24 - 27 May 2011, Athens Greece. First Call of Proposals QQML2011Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011) at 24 - 27 May 2011, Athens Greece. Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 3rd QQML2011 was scheduled during the previous 2nd QQML2010 Conference. It was also decided that the 4th QQML 2012 International Conference will be organized in Limerick Ireland. QQML2009 and QQML2010 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2011 will continue and expand the related topics.Papers are invited for this international conference. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893698 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-ir-120-12th-annual-international.html CFP: IR 12.0 (12th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR))URL: http://ir12.aoir.org/October 10-13, 2011Renaissance Hotel, SeattleSeattle, Washington, USAPeople perform identities, worry about economic performance, expect better performance from technologies, and feel pressure to perform as employees or in other roles in life. We observe or participate in artistic performances, ritual performances, and the performance of experiments. Join us in considerations,analyses, and celebrations of the many types of performance and participation online and in blended online/offline contexts. We look forward to creative articulations of the many meanings of the term performance and to the many ways of considering types of participation.To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:* Creative performances and digital arts* Participatory culture and participatory design* Critical performance and political participation* Identity performance* Exclusion from participation* Economic performance of Internet-related industries* Game performance* Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.)* Ritual performances and communal participationSessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893697 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/S1dBTobeC3E/niso-to-make-information-standards.html "The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly magazine will be moving to open access in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893093 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/daily-tweets-2010-12-13/ Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online http://bit.ly/hrqWMU # The Other Shoe Drops http://bit.ly/hyiGih # AAP October Sales Report http://bit.ly/fHhcxi # E-book Trends by the Numbers http://bit.ly/fzlNdN # 10 Kindle, eReader Predictions for 2011 http://bit.ly/eRjDOl # New Copyright-Like Rights Considered Harmful http://bit.ly/hpzIzT # Demand Growing for Open Access Science Texts and Tools http://bit.ly/goUL9E # FCC Commissioner: Net Neutrality Rules Should Cover Wireless http://bit.ly/epgcdf # (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892860 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/digital-scholarships-2010-publications/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892859 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/KIt63H5lzuM/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:16 +0100 892644 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/digital-scholarships-2010-publications/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:03 +0100 893610 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/V_rlAqFsS-I/ Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online http://bit.ly/hrqWMU # The Other Shoe Drops http://bit.ly/hyiGih # AAP October Sales Report http://bit.ly/fHhcxi # E-book Trends by the Numbers http://bit.ly/fzlNdN # 10 Kindle, eReader Predictions for 2011 http://bit.ly/eRjDOl # New Copyright-Like Rights Considered Harmful http://bit.ly/hpzIzT # Demand Growing for Open Access Science Texts and Tools http://bit.ly/goUL9E # FCC Commissioner: Net Neutrality Rules Should Cover Wireless http://bit.ly/epgcdf # (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:00:00 +0100 892645 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/13/acquisitions-and-mergers-in-legal-publishing-not-over/ Acquisitions and mergers are expected to continue as the major legal publishers explore ways to increase their profitability, achieve growth and increase market share. When organic growth fails to achieve corporate expectations, acquisitions and mergers are the next best thing. The acquisition of Canada Law Book by Carswell Thomson is simply the most recent acquisition of note in the Canadian market. There have been many others of far greater significance in recent years, including the acquisition of Yvon Blais by Carswell, the acquisition of Quicklaw by Lexis Nexis and the re-acquisition of Irwin Law from Quicklaw by its founders. Long forgotten is the fact that Carswell’s core publications – the Canadian Abridgment, Western Weekly Reports, and the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest – became Carswell publications only after the Toronto based company acquired Burroughs and Co, a legal publisher based in Calgary. Prior to the acquisition, Carswell was primarily an importer of legal publications from the U.K., with only a handful of Canadian titles in print. Without the acquisition of Burroughs, Carswell would not be a major player in Canadian legal publishing today. Speculation continues in legal publishing circles in the United Kingdom and elsewhere regarding more mergers and acquisitions. Two of them could have a significant impact in Canada if they materialized. The first was a merger of Lexis Nexis and Wolters Kluwer and the second was the acquisition of The Practical Law Company by Thomson Reuters. Lexis Nexis and Wolters Kluwer – an acquisition or merger to achieve greater scale Just a short time ago, the British press reported yet again on the possible merger of Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Like Thomson Reuters, both Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer have chosen to compete on the basis of the scale of the content they provide to their customers, but have failed to keep up with their rival. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:00:35 +0100 893980 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/12/daily-tweets-2010-12-12/ University Presses Join to Face E-Book Future http://bit.ly/euPbMN # The FCC's Guide to Losing Net Neutrality without Really Trying http://huff.to/g2TmbK # Kindle, Nook Comparison (December 2010) http://bit.ly/fJ4Hqt # Open Access Business Model for Minho Conference [video] http://bit.ly/eK3bC4 # Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 11, 2010 Early Year-End Edition http://bit.ly/eTqZDN # (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892866 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/12/scholarly-electronic-publishing-bibliography-version-79/ Version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 3,880 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Changes in This Version Two new sections have been added in this version: (1) Electronic Books and Texts: Research and (2) General Works: Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works). The bibliography has the following sections (new/revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 2.4 Research* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Digital Copyright* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Digital Libraries* 6.2 Digital Preservation* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Metadata and Linking* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892865 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/12/virginia-commonwealth-university-resolution-supporting-open-access-publishing-in-tenure-decisions/ The Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty Senate has passed a resolution supporting recognition of open access publishing in the tenure process. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Whereas, the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University are dedicated to achieving the greatest public good by making their research and scholarship as widely available as possible; Whereas, commercial publishers of scholarly journals have drastically increased subscription prices to many of the journals where VCU faculty now publish their research and scholarship beyond the affordability of many individuals and institutions; and Whereas, faculty have many options for publishing their research and scholarship in open access journals, hybrid journals, or in open access repositories so that the world can have free access to it if they negotiate to retain their copyright of their work; Therefore, the Faculty Senate of Virginia Commonwealth University recommends: VCU Promotion and Tenure committees should recognize that publication and editorial effort in open access, peer-reviewed journals or republication of peer-reviewed articles in an open access repository offers added value and greater public good than scholarship made only available in expensive journal publications. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892862 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/12/niso-will-make-information-standards-quarterly-open-access-in-2011/ The National Information Standards Organization has announced that Information Standards Quarterly will become open access in 2011. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "ISQ has undergone a significant transformation over the past three years as it moved from a newsletter to a full-color magazine," states Cynthia Hodgson, NISO Managing Editor. "With the support of a new ISQ Editorial Board and guest content editors, the contributed content has expanded significantly. Our goal with ISQ is to educate and inform our readers on standards, present practical and replicable implementations of standards-based technologies and best practices, and identify areas where standards could help to solve problems." "ISQ provides a unique perspective with its overlapping interests to the library, publisher, and information systems and services audience," explains Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director and Publisher of ISQ. "NISO's Board of Directors strongly believes that providing the information in ISQ via open access will enhance the visibility and reach of the work of our community. We also intend to migrate the archives to open access and convert much of the backfile to electronic format." The print version of ISQ will still be available by subscription or free to NISO members who opt-in to receive it in print. This approach, combined with the open access of the electronic version, will reduce the environmental impact and costs of print publishing while increasing the accessibility of the magazine to everyone in the NISO community and in related standards and technology arenas. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892861 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/nLgOoXw3ssY/ The National Information Standards Organization has announced that Information Standards Quarterly will become open access in 2011. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "ISQ has undergone a significant transformation over the past three years as it moved from a newsletter to a full-color magazine," states Cynthia Hodgson, NISO Managing Editor. "With the support of a new ISQ Editorial Board and guest content editors, the contributed content has expanded significantly. Our goal with ISQ is to educate and inform our readers on standards, present practical and replicable implementations of standards-based technologies and best practices, and identify areas where standards could help to solve problems." "ISQ provides a unique perspective with its overlapping interests to the library, publisher, and information systems and services audience," explains Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director and Publisher of ISQ. "NISO's Board of Directors strongly believes that providing the information in ISQ via open access will enhance the visibility and reach of the work of our community. We also intend to migrate the archives to open access and convert much of the backfile to electronic format." The print version of ISQ will still be available by subscription or free to NISO members who opt-in to receive it in print. This approach, combined with the open access of the electronic version, will reduce the environmental impact and costs of print publishing while increasing the accessibility of the magazine to everyone in the NISO community and in related standards and technology arenas. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:05:54 +0100 892646 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/PClb687Bfho/ The Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty Senate has passed a resolution supporting recognition of open access publishing in the tenure process. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Whereas, the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University are dedicated to achieving the greatest public good by making their research and scholarship as widely available as possible; Whereas, commercial publishers of scholarly journals have drastically increased subscription prices to many of the journals where VCU faculty now publish their research and scholarship beyond the affordability of many individuals and institutions; and Whereas, faculty have many options for publishing their research and scholarship in open access journals, hybrid journals, or in open access repositories so that the world can have free access to it if they negotiate to retain their copyright of their work; Therefore, the Faculty Senate of Virginia Commonwealth University recommends: VCU Promotion and Tenure committees should recognize that publication and editorial effort in open access, peer-reviewed journals or republication of peer-reviewed articles in an open access repository offers added value and greater public good than scholarship made only available in expensive journal publications. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:04:28 +0100 892647 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/cHHLktM986Q/ Version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 3,880 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Changes in This Version Two new sections have been added in this version: (1) Electronic Books and Texts: Research and (2) General Works: Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works). The bibliography has the following sections (new/revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 2.4 Research* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Digital Copyright* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Digital Libraries* 6.2 Digital Preservation* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Metadata and Linking* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:01:01 +0100 892650 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/7Rlx5Ls0zw8/ University Presses Join to Face E-Book Future http://bit.ly/euPbMN # The FCC's Guide to Losing Net Neutrality without Really Trying http://huff.to/g2TmbK # Kindle, Nook Comparison (December 2010) http://bit.ly/fJ4Hqt # Open Access Business Model for Minho Conference [video] http://bit.ly/eK3bC4 # Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 11, 2010 Early Year-End Edition http://bit.ly/eTqZDN # (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:00:00 +0100 892651 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62547 From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce that its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) magazine will be moving to open access in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public. "ISQ [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:17:49 +0100 892254 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/KPcWkTI1V1o/directory-of-open-access-journals_12.html LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World : A Review Journal Himiâ Rastitel?nogo Syr?â OASIcs : OpenAccess Series in Informatics European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine Humanidades Médicas MEDISAN Área Abierta Frontiers in Neurology Educación Médica Superior JIDEG : Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics Veritas : Revista de Filosofía y Teología Revista Chilena de Cardiología Boletín de Filología Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition The Python Papers Source Codes Frontiers in Pharmacology Nova Scientia European Journal of Psychotraumatology Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:14:21 +0100 892229 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-information-literacy-instruction.html CFP: "Information Literacy Instruction for Science & Health Care Students" - Indiana LibrariesYou are invited to contribute articles for an issue of Indiana Libraries with the theme “Information Literacy Instruction for Science & Health Care Students”.Description: The Fall 2011 issue of Indiana Libraries will feature articles about successful and innovative information literacy instruction to students of all branches of science or health care. Articles will be edited and will not be peer reviewed. Indiana Libraries is an open access journal and is indexed in Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts and Library Literature & Information Science Index.Timeline: The journal issue will be published in the fall of 2011. Draft articles will be accepted until May 1, 2011. General information about Indiana Libraries and instructions to authors can be found athttp://www.ilfonline.org/resources/publications/. Questions or proposals may be directed to the issue editor.Editor contact informationMaribeth SlebodnikBiomedical Sciences Information Specialist &Assistant Professor of Library ScienceLife Sciences Library, Lilly Hall L-32Purdue University LibrariesPhone: 765.494.2917slebodnik@purdue.edu (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893701 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62545 From the Center for Research Libraries News Feed: The new search interface for the collections of the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) is now available. Search http://www.technicalreports.org to access over 20,000 federal technical reports (approximately 2 million pages of content). TRAIL continues to collect, digitize, and provide open access to additional [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:21:03 +0100 892057 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/ApN-PW2-aJI/german-national-library-of-medicine-zb.html Love padlocks bridge in Cologne with the Dom This week I was in Cologne, Germany in the German National Library of Medicine, the ZB MED, the second largest medical library of the world. The "ZB MED is the Federal Republic of Germany's central specialist library of medicine, health, nutrition, the environment, and agriculture, and was founded in 1969.  I was asked to perform a consultation together with team leaders and the director Ulrich Korwitz. We did spend almost a whole day discussing their new Strategic plans for 2010-2012, including marketing  and PR. The slides of my morning session are available here. The ZB Med has developed a wide range of interesting quality resources and services over the years. the Document delivery service The MEDPILOT : unique medical information portal and search engine using semantic techniques which enables multiple languages as input and quality matching with key concepts, facetting, combined with ordering service and literature search agent. MEDPILOT covers a a wide range of quality medical databases, resources and Catalogues, available for discovery and federated searching, based on the Morphosaurus project The GREENPILOT: Nutritional, environmental and agricultural information portalwith integrated ordering component ElliNET:  archive of relevant electronic publications on Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment and Agriculture GMS: German Medical Science is the Open Access portal for online journal, Conferences and Proceedings from the scope of Medicine for everybody working on or for scientific publications Specialist Information Portals on Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment and Agriculture the ZB Med is an important part(ner) in the national science platform GOPORTIS EYEMOVIEPEDIA: The portal eyeMoviePedia offers all scientists from the field of Ophthalmology the possibility to publish their films online. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892429 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-december.html In brief: the Directory of Open Access Journals now lists 5,864 titles, having added more than 1,300 over the past year, or close to 4 titles per day (a growing growth rate!). OA is growing fast in the medical area; more than half the research funded by NIH indexed in PubMed is now freely available, regardless of publication. The number of journals actively participating in PubMedCentral is growing - now over 1,000 titles; over half provide OA to all articles, and nearly 60% provide immediate free access. Percentage-wise, OA mandates continue to lead in growth, with a total of 24 mandates added to ROARMAP this quarter, with the eprints OA Week Mandate Challenge a likely contributing factor. This fall's OA Week was the biggest ever. A unique OA milestone this quarter was Jan Szczepanski's personal OA title collection exceeding 10,000 titles. Looking forward to 2011 and beyond, clearly this is just the beginning! Suggested OA New Years' Resolutions: adopt and implement an open access mandate policy, join the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or both - or just keep up the good work and know that the small efforts the many thousands of us are making are adding up to all the difference in the world.Downloadable data is available at the DGOA Dataverse, or go to Google Docs to view the full data edition, or the show growth edition which highlights quarterly and annual growth. Previous editions of Dramatic Growth can be found here. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892214 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16228 Health Sciences Libraries Director (Temple University, Pennsylvania) Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education is a comprehensive public research university with more than 39,000 students. It has a distinguished faculty in 17 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Dentistry, and a renowned Health Sciences Center. Temple is one of Pennsylvania's three public research universities, along with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. Temple University is the 26th-largest university in the United States, and it is the 6th-largest provider of professional education (law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine) in the country. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:30:02 +0100 891895 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/10/daily-tweets-2010-12-10/ "HTML5: If You Bang Your Head against the Keyboard You’ll Create a Valid Document!" http://bit.ly/ij7sqA # The 10 Most Important Info-Tech Policy Books of 2010 http://bit.ly/dF71wr # University of Glasgow Frees Up Research Instead of Trying to Sell It All http://bit.ly/f5JDMY # Elsevier Offers Scientific Book Content through Google eBooks http://bit.ly/fcmyC2 # Jammie Thomas-Rasset Files Motion to Reduce Judgment http://bit.ly/gqVRui # Aggregating and Opening OpenURL Data http://bit.ly/fHtSnY # CERN Library Releases Its Book Catalog into the Public Domain via CC0, and Other Bibliographic Data News http://bit.ly/gNJaAJ # Librarians' Role as Change Agents for Institutional Repositories: A Case of Malaysian Academic Libraries http://bit.ly/gwLaTN # Open Access Repositories and Journals for Visibility: Implications for Malaysian Libraries http://bit.ly/ijIcLc # Global Visibility of Asian Universities’ Open Access Institutional Repositories http://bit.ly/eXi26t # (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:00:27 +0100 891961 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/wvthCgMhUdo/ "HTML5: If You Bang Your Head against the Keyboard You’ll Create a Valid Document!" http://bit.ly/ij7sqA # The 10 Most Important Info-Tech Policy Books of 2010 http://bit.ly/dF71wr # University of Glasgow Frees Up Research Instead of Trying to Sell It All http://bit.ly/f5JDMY # Elsevier Offers Scientific Book Content through Google eBooks http://bit.ly/fcmyC2 # Jammie Thomas-Rasset Files Motion to Reduce Judgment http://bit.ly/gqVRui # Aggregating and Opening OpenURL Data http://bit.ly/fHtSnY # CERN Library Releases Its Book Catalog into the Public Domain via CC0, and Other Bibliographic Data News http://bit.ly/gNJaAJ # Librarians' Role as Change Agents for Institutional Repositories: A Case of Malaysian Academic Libraries http://bit.ly/gwLaTN # Open Access Repositories and Journals for Visibility: Implications for Malaysian Libraries http://bit.ly/ijIcLc # Global Visibility of Asian Universities’ Open Access Institutional Repositories http://bit.ly/eXi26t # (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:00:00 +0100 892653 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/9Gjt2AlXQfQ/ Presentations from the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting are now available. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "Reputation management systems," "new spin on Open Access," "stretching knowledge bases," "exposing reality," and "valuing knowledge exchange at the institutional level" were just a few of the ways participants in the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting expressed their vision for advancing repository advocacy into the fuller fabric of the Open Access movement. The sentiment is one outcome of the gathering, jointly hosted by SPARC, SPARC Japan/NII, and SPARC Europe, in Baltimore on November 8 & 9, 2010. SPARC has today released summaries, slides, and video from the event. The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of open online repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meeting is regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America, draws hundreds of participants from around the globe, and has helped set the stage for key developments over the past six years. This time, participants indicated the need for a broader meeting and discussion, which highlight repositories in the full Open Access context. "Repositories are core components of the Open Access movement," said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. "They’re deeply integrated with policy moves and at the forefront of managing Open Access to materials above and beyond the scholarly literature—not to mention author rights management and other aspects. It just makes sense that conversations about repository advocacy take place alongside moves to create policies. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:01:51 +0100 892657 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/09/presentations-from-the-sparc-2010-digital-repositories-meeting/ Presentations from the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting are now available. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "Reputation management systems," "new spin on Open Access," "stretching knowledge bases," "exposing reality," and "valuing knowledge exchange at the institutional level" were just a few of the ways participants in the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting expressed their vision for advancing repository advocacy into the fuller fabric of the Open Access movement. The sentiment is one outcome of the gathering, jointly hosted by SPARC, SPARC Japan/NII, and SPARC Europe, in Baltimore on November 8 & 9, 2010. SPARC has today released summaries, slides, and video from the event. The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of open online repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meeting is regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America, draws hundreds of participants from around the globe, and has helped set the stage for key developments over the past six years. This time, participants indicated the need for a broader meeting and discussion, which highlight repositories in the full Open Access context. "Repositories are core components of the Open Access movement," said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. "They’re deeply integrated with policy moves and at the forefront of managing Open Access to materials above and beyond the scholarly literature—not to mention author rights management and other aspects. It just makes sense that conversations about repository advocacy take place alongside moves to create policies. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:01:50 +0100 891965 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/09/daily-tweets-2010-12-09/ e-Readers Will Continue to Do Well in 2011, Gartner Says http://bit.ly/e8WFvA # The Future, Touchable and in Color http://nyti.ms/eGukHZ # ISP 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Strategy Rewarded by Big Four Music Service http://bit.ly/ePbqVz # Should Open Access Journals Charge Submission Fees? http://bit.ly/eqCYpp # Even IP Lawyer Trade Group Thinks Viacom Is Wrong About Its DMCA Interpretation http://bit.ly/hjFzmr # UK Team Reviewing Copyright Law Will Include James Boyle http://bit.ly/eX3Tdv # Fashioning Innovation http://bit.ly/fQcJoZ # An Undocumented Google Search Operator: AROUND(x) + More Cool Bing and Exalead Operators http://bit.ly/h8vkoQ # U.S. Pushed Spain to Adopt French-Style Three Strikes Law http://bit.ly/e5IA3t # Beyond the PDF Proposed Session : Bring the Web to the Researcher : Mainly on Authoring Tools http://bit.ly/fKqY7G # Themes from IDCC 2010 http://bit.ly/fncKFT # Springer Partners with the LOCKSS Program http://bit.ly/gukWYl # University of Pennsylvania Libraries Join HathiTrust http://bit.ly/fCa51U # Chairman Genachowski’s Next Net Neutrality Proposal: What to Watch For http://bit.ly/g6yuER # Morocco joins SCOAP3 http://bit.ly/hb0e0W # (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:00:43 +0100 891966 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/12/news_from_the_c_26.php by Mike Dillon and Christina DiCaro, CLA Lobbyists GOVERNOR-ELECT BROWN HOSTS BUDGET FORUM: Deficit Could Grow By Another $2.7 Billion On January 3, Governor-Elect Jerry Brown will be sworn into office, and by law, the new Governor will be required to submit a balanced State Budget by Monday, January 10, 2011. During the weeks leading up to the gubernatorial transition he has been actively meeting with Department of Finance representatives in the current Schwarzenegger Administration. The Governor-Elect has been receiving regular briefings on the $25 billion projected Budget deficit for the 2011-12 year and yesterday he hosted a symposium for the members of the California Legislature to present to them the dire state of the State. The forum also featured analysis and remarks from the State Controller, State Treasurer, State Legislative Analyst, Director of the Department of Finance, and three of the legislative leaders. These dignitaries sat alongside the Governor-Elect and actively worked through a detailed PowerPoint presentation regarding the state's finances, program obligations, credit ratings, and borrowing commitments. Governor-Elect Brown convened the forum by stating that he was "determined to do everything I can to get us back on track." He added that the purpose of convening was not to "argue about solutions," but rather to "set a common factual basis" for the Budget problem that would allow the legislature and statewide leaders to have a more productive discussion about solutions. In a surprise announcement, Governor-Elect Brown indicated that the Budget deficit - recently projected at $25.4 billion, may now have grown to approximately $28 billion, due to a potential estate tax revenue loss, depending on Congressional actions. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:33:28 +0100 891681 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/KEMD7xkVPYE/directory-of-open-access-journals_09.html Mokslo Taikomieji Tyrimai Lietuvos Kolegijose Revista Mexicana de Micología Revista Mexicana de Sociología Tópicos del Seminario : Revista de Semiótica Cahiers des Études Anciennes International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism Meta : Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy Revista Emancipação Ingeniería Industrial Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology. A : Applied Sciences and Engineering Diversities (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:17:14 +0100 891457 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/legal-information-institute-of-india.html The formal launch may be planned for next year, but the Legal Information Institute of India is already up and running as the newest addition to the worldwide movement for free Internet access to legal materials.Right how, it offers access to 50 databases, including 300,000 decisions from 37 Courts and Tribunals, Indian national legislation from 1836, over 800 bilateral treaties, law reform reports and law journal articles.The Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) from different countries and continents together form the Free Access to Law Movement. The goal of the LIIs is to maximize free access to public legal information such as legislation and case law from as many countries and international institutions as possible. CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, is a prominent member of the movement. (Source: Library Boy) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891774 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62489 Issue 4.2 is Now Available Direct to Table of Contents The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is an international, peer- reviewed journal that aims to investigate information literacy in all its forms to address the interests of diverse IL communities of practice. Articles Include: + "The awareness and use of [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:04:40 +0100 891345 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/AajUonZ8jMY/directory-of-open-access-journals_08.html América Latina en la Historia Económica Physicians Academy Revista Boliviana de Ciencias Sociales T'inkazos Revista Médica del Uruguay Anthropologica Revista de Biología Tropical Annual Review of Education, Communication and Language Sciences Geografia em Questão Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering Bina Journal of Ophthalmology Orientación y Sociedad : Revista Internacional e Interdisciplinaria de Orientación Vocacional Ocupacional POSTData : Revista de Reflexión y Análisis Político Standards in Genomic Sciences Archives of Foundry Engineering Kurtziana Mora (Buenos Aires) Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science Pragmatic and Observational Research Revista eSalud International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey Journal of Internet Business Aerul s,i Apa : Componente ale Mediului Journal of Economic and Social Policy Croatian Journal of Food Technology, Biotecnology and Nutrition International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Production Research Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Research Journal of Numerical Mathematics and Stochastics International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Systems Revista del Centro de Investigacion Flamenco Telethusa Acta Chirurgica Iugoslavica Conjectura : Filosofia e Educação Conexão : Comunicação e Cultura International Journal of Contemporary Business Studies (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:05:35 +0100 891287 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/08/legal-information-institute-of-india/ The global Free Access to Law Movement has just acquired its 34th member. The Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia) opened for public access at the end of November, though the formal launch isn’t until March of 2011. LIIofIndia currently has 50 databases, including, as you’d imagine, case reports from the 28 state high courts, federal legislation, and case reports from federal courts. The databases are of varying depth, averaging, it would seem, five years or so. The main (i.e. advanced) search form is here. Some links need fixing. For instance, the “help” link on the main page doesn’t function, and one of the “about” links leads to an index of the site. But these are minor matters in a very welcome development. [via @richards1000] (Source: Slaw) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:43:17 +0100 892353 http://www.cilip.org.uk/membership/benefits/informed/online-databases/Pages/default.aspx CILIP members can access the following services to find abstracts and full-text journal articles covering a wide range of library and information subject areas.   Simply log in or register on the CILIP website to gain access.  LISA - Library and Information Science Abstracts  This international abstracting and indexing tool is designed for library professionals and other information specialists.  LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Find out more and search LISA   Proquest Library Science Access information on hundreds of topics researched in the field of library and information science.  Proquest Library Science complements Library and Information Science Database (LISA) giving full-text access to 145 of the core titles. Find out more and search Proquest Library Science   SAGE Journals Free access to the full text of Journal of Information Science (JIS), Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS), Health Informatics Journal and IFLA Journal. Find out more and search SAGE Journals   IRWI - Information Research Watch International This service reports new, ongoing and completed research in information and library science and related fields from around the world. Find out more and search IRWI   LISTA - Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts This free database is available to non members too and will be of interest to anyone in libraries and information management. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:02:35 +0100 891676 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/07/submission-feesa-tool-in-the-transition-to-open-access/ The Knowledge Exchange has released Submission Fees—A Tool in the Transition to Open Access? Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The general conclusion of the report bearing the title "Submission Fees—A Tool in the Transition to Open Access?," written by Mark Ware, is that there are benefits to publishers in certain cases to switch to a model in which an author pays a fee when submitting an article. Especially journals with a high rejection rate might be interested in combining submission fees with article processing charges in order to make the transition to open access easier. In certain disciplines, notably economic and finance journals and in some areas of the experimental life sciences, submission fees are already common. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/AajUonZ8jMY/directory-of-open-access-journals_08.html América Latina en la Historia Económica Physicians Academy Revista Boliviana de Ciencias Sociales T'inkazos Revista Médica del Uruguay Anthropologica Revista de Biología Tropical Annual Review of Education, Communication and Language Sciences Geografia em Questão Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering Bina Journal of Ophthalmology Orientación y Sociedad : Revista Internacional e Interdisciplinaria de Orientación Vocacional Ocupacional POSTData : Revista de Reflexión y Análisis Político Standards in Genomic Sciences Archives of Foundry Engineering Kurtziana Mora (Buenos Aires) Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science Pragmatic and Observational Research Revista eSalud International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey Journal of Internet Business Aerul s,i Apa : Componente ale Mediului Journal of Economic and Social Policy Croatian Journal of Food Technology, Biotecnology and Nutrition International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Production Research Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Research Journal of Numerical Mathematics and Stochastics International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Systems Revista del Centro de Investigacion Flamenco Telethusa Acta Chirurgica Iugoslavica Conjectura : Filosofia e Educação Conexão : Comunicação e Cultura International Journal of Contemporary Business Studies (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891426 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-issue-of-journal-of-information.html Volume 4, Number 2 (2010) of the Journal of Information Literacy, open access at http://jil.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JILThere are book reviews plus the articles:- Susie Andretta: Looking at the evidence: reflections on the need for, and impact of, Information Literacy Education (ILE)- Consolata Angello: The awareness and use of electronic information sources among livestock researchers in Tanzania - Jeanne M. Brown, Carrie Gaxiola. Why would they try: motivation and motivating in low-stakes information skills testing.- Elizabeth Gadd, Andrew Baldwin, Michael Norris: The citation behaviour of Civil Engineering students- Stephanie Rosenblatt: They can find it but they don't know what to do with it: describing the use of scholarly literature by undergraduate students- Jodi Tyron, Emily Elizabeth Frigo, Mary Kathleen O'Kelly: Using faculty focus groups to assess information literacy core competencies at a university level - Ned Fielden, Mira Foster: Crossing the Rubricon: evaluating the Information Literacy instructor- Daniel Beck: The role of Information Literacy in the provision of virtual reference services at the enquiry desk.Photo by Sheila Webber: trees around St Mary's church, Hailsham, November 2010. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891377 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/oKduNJdtSIQ/ The Knowledge Exchange has released Submission Fees—A Tool in the Transition to Open Access? Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The general conclusion of the report bearing the title "Submission Fees—A Tool in the Transition to Open Access?," written by Mark Ware, is that there are benefits to publishers in certain cases to switch to a model in which an author pays a fee when submitting an article. Especially journals with a high rejection rate might be interested in combining submission fees with article processing charges in order to make the transition to open access easier. In certain disciplines, notably economic and finance journals and in some areas of the experimental life sciences, submission fees are already common. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:03:55 +0100 891230 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/07/submission-feesa-tool-in-the-transition-to-open-access/ The Knowledge Exchange has released Submission Fees—A Tool in the Transition to Open Access? Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The general conclusion of the report bearing the title "Submission Fees—A Tool in the Transition to Open Access?," written by Mark Ware, is that there are benefits to publishers in certain cases to switch to a model in which an author pays a fee when submitting an article. Especially journals with a high rejection rate might be interested in combining submission fees with article processing charges in order to make the transition to open access easier. In certain disciplines, notably economic and finance journals and in some areas of the experimental life sciences, submission fees are already common. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:03:19 +0100 891967 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=8469 http://www.openaire.eu/ Online-Zugang zu Forschungsergebnissen vor allem aus den Bereichen Gesundheit, Energie, Umwelt, Informations- und Kommunikations­technologie, Forschungsinfrastrukturen sowie Sozial- und Geistes­wissenschaften (via heise) (Source: IB Weblog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:04:54 +0100 891009 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/f5ThmWyotm4/elucidate-november-2010-issue-uk.html The November 2010 issue of eLucidate is now available. Articles include Phil Bradley on chat rooms, Joy Cadwallader on new open-access initiatives, Martin White reviewing intranet conferences and publications, Tracy Kent on free bibliographic management software, and Jane Inman on the Open Government Licence; a review of a major new book on search user interfaces; plus current awareness, meeting reports, and press releases (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:40:25 +0100 891054 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8824 State: Illinois DePaul University, the nation's largest Catholic university, is a private, urban institution with six campuses and more than 275 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The University's faculty, students and staff represent a wide range of ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds. General Summary: The Librarian (2)/Electronic Resources Librarian will report to the Associate Director for Collections & Scholarly Resources and coordinate the identification, evaluation, purchasing, implementation and renewal of the libraries' electronic resources. This individual will coordinate the processing and ongoing maintenance through the life-cycle of each resource. The Librarian (2) will facilitate communication between bibliographers, staff in other library departments, faculty and students. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Coordinate the identification, evaluation, purchasing, implementation and renewal of electronic resources in support of DePaul's academic programs and mission. Collaborate closely with the Collection Development Coordinator and the subject bibliographers to assess and shape the libraries’ collections to most efficiently and effectively provide a full complement of content in all formats. Identify and test electronic resources, including both subscription/purchase and open access titles. Work with vendors to set up trials, obtain licenses and pricing information. Conduct preliminary reviews of licenses before referring them to the Associate Director of Budget and Administrative Services. Coordinate the processing and ongoing maintenance of the electronic resources collection through the life cycle of each resource. Coordinate resolution of electronic resource access problems, including security breach situations, with appropriate staff, and vendors, and DePaul’s Information Services Division. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100 890879 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/ipad-and-the-kindle.html As fellow tweeters will know, I got a Kindle recently to go with the iPad. My excuse is that I'm a tech Librarian so I need to play around with this stuff so that I can talk sensibly about it. If you're hoping for an unequivocal 'buy 'x'' then you're not going to be getting it I'm afraid, as it's like trying to compare apples and biscuits - they're totally different. I love the iPad, and I take it everywhere with me in the house. It's the last thing that I use to check my email and twitter with and have a quick look through Flipboard before I go to sleep, and it's the first thing that I check when I wake up - the instant on access to the net is superb. I like the various different applications, and playing silly games, connecting to BBC iPlayer and reading books and magazines. The iPad is, for me, an all around entertainment device. In the evenings though I'll still fire up the laptop and sit downstairs with it while I catch up with whatever is on tv and tweet from there. The real casualty has been the netbook which I used to do a lot of what the iPad now does for me. I've hardly used that since I have had the iPad. The iPad is fine for reading - I've read magazines that I've got via iTunes applications and also read books on it. It's particularly good for magazines as the zoom in/out is really easy, flipping from one page to another by touch is great and so on. For bright colours, graphics and so it, it's hard to beat it. Yes, the battery life isn't great, but that's what chargers are for, and it still lasts for a goodly length of time. It's moderately heavy - about the weight of a small hard back, though when most people pick it up they do say it's much lighter than they were expecting. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891075 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/_N-t6LmTU8c/censorship-is-censorship-especially-when-its-the-library-of-congress.html The Library of Congress has blocked access on all of its computers to Wikileaks.  This action was taken, according to the Library of Congress blog, in direct response to a memo from the White House Executive Branch.  According to a New York Times article, the White House has since said that it issued no such directives to block Wikileaks in any government agency.  I am unconcerned with the “he said, she said” childish finger pointing of the different arms of government.  I don’t care who said what to whom in a memo, an email, or in a hallway conversation. I am, however, gravely concerned that the leading library of the United States has willfully and arbitrarily blocked access to information.  Blocking access to information, any information, is censorship. This action is unconscionable. I condemn the Library of Congress action in every way, and like others I fully reject their attempt at justifications or defenses of their action.  There is never a justification for blocking access to information in a library — never. The Library of Congress’s decision is a violation of the First Amendment and a violation of the American Library Association’s Bill of Rights.  Moreover, it is a violation of the professional ethics of librarians to always provide free access to all information.  The Librarian of Congress has violated our ethics knowingly.  I am horrified. The documents leaked on Wikileaks have been posted on the free and open web for some time now, and are therefore pieces of open and free information on the web, as is all other information in the United States.  These documents are not illegal.  So why, pray tell, does anyone have the right to block access to them in a federal government institution? In this case particularly, access to this information is even more critical to the continued success of an open democracy. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:15:04 +0100 892219 http://lisnews.org/librarian039s_passive_approach_market_run_against_our_interests Librarian's Passive Approach Lets The Market Run Against Our Interests - We didn’t clearly scope and demand our interests in metadata management, leaving these subscription agencies with valuable metadata that we pay them to ‘manage’ so that they can in turn sell it back to us via A-Z, link-resolver and related add-ons. - This situation is reinforced by our bungling of the ILS space, namely, allowing the market to move towards extreme vendor lock-in, and overly segmented product offerings (where functionality has been doled out in a dysfunctional ‘pay per use’ model, rather than more organically). -We’ve missed opportunities to be better organized on consortial purchasing, pricing activism, and stronger leadership towards open access. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:27:55 +0100 890803 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/neALGbH78Kw/ There are two book-length bibliographies available from Digital Scholarship: Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals and Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography. What's the difference? Feature Open Access Bibliography Transforming Scholarly Communication Publication Date 2005 (not updated) 2010 (not updated) Coverage Fairly comprehensive: diverse published and unpublished works in English Selective: published works in English, primarily books and journal articles Number of References Over 1,300 Over 1,100 Paperback? Yes, $45 Yes, $15.95 OA PDF? Yes Yes OA XHTML? Yes Yes XHTML Version Search Engine? Yes Yes Links to Freely Available Works? Yes (live in XHTML) Yes (live in XHTML) Creative Commons License? Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License Publisher Association of Research Libraries (paperback and OA PDF) and Digital Scholarship (XHTML) Digital Scholarship | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:07:11 +0100 891239 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/1FtDeb0Eiq0/ CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has signed the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. CERN is the fourteenth institution to sign COPE. Here's an excerpt from the press release: As a publicly and internationally funded research institution, CERN believes everyone should get access to its results without any financial barrier. The most important tool to implement this vision in the high-energy physics community, which CERN embodies, is the SCOAP3 initiative, through which CERN and partners in over twenty countries are working to convert to open access existing high-quality high-energy physics journals. While waiting for SCOAP3 to be operational CERN and leading publishers in the field (the American Physical Society, Elsevier, SISSA, and Springer) have reached agreements to make the scientific publications from the flagship Large Hadron Collider available open access and under a Creative Common license, as suggested by the publication policy of the CERN Physics Department. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:03:24 +0100 891242 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/DMs37nYAGL8/ The Syracuse University Library is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Syracuse University Library seeks an energetic and visionary librarian who is passionate about the challenges of digital scholarly communication. This librarian will have a deep knowledge of the scholarly process and an avid interest in the future of digital research. A main assignment will be to direct Surface, the university’s new institutional repository/research database at http://surface.syr.edu, with the goal of building it into a model, state-of-the-art online resource. The scholarly communication librarian will develop an understanding of the theory, principles, and evolving practice of scholarly communication in the academy in order to make available, facilitate, and extend the broadest access to resources needed by the Syracuse University community for teaching and learning. This position will bridge the gap between the library and the SU research community by advising, instructing, and advocating for best practices in open access, and digital resources and preservation. This position is part of the library’s Unit for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication (RCSC), and will work closely with the associate dean to communicate with faculty and graduate students. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:02:31 +0100 891243 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/RqicVVojhM0/directory-of-open-access-journals_05.html Revista UNIABEU Comparative Law Review Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal Acta Scientiarum : Education Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research Hematology Reports Analele Universita(t,ii Eftimie Murgu Res,it,a. Fascicula de Inginerie Journal of Computational Geometry Public Knowledge Blood Transfusion Germinal : Marxismo e Educação em Debate BMC Proceedings (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:02:48 +0100 890477 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/7xQVqDAEVQQ/sparc-open-access-newsletter-issue-152.html SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #152 - December 2, 2010 is now available from Peter Suber (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:58:48 +0100 890189