Core Research Tools--KSL Research Spotlight Sept. 2010
Find your ejournals, articles, CourseReserves, Research Guides and Citation Guides, and more, with key resources on the KSL homepage! Start the school year with KSL's Research Spotlight, highlighting how KSL organizes a lot of your favorite tools on the left side column of the homepage.
Look through some of those icons with QuickLinks for things like finding articles, the Case Catalog, Course Reserves, and more...
...then look at the September Research Spotlight, to find other helpful sources like Research Databases, ASK-A-Librarian, and how to find and borrow items for fun that aren't on your syllabus!
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KSL News Blog - September 7, 2010 Tags: Events & News @KSL Research Spotlight
Scholarly E-books on the Way
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article at page A12 of its print issue for September 10, online if you have a subscription. "Publishers Join forces to Sell E-Books to Libraries," by Jennifer Howard, surveys several efforts by publishers to either set up consortia or otherwise get digital versions of scholarly monographs to academic libraries. She speaks with Garret Kiely, director of the university of Chicago Press, who is watching several efforts, but whose press already markets e-books. Kiely says that 80% of Univ. Chicago Press' e-book sales came from sales to consumers through e-tailers like Amazon.com, whi...
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Out of the Jungle - September 7, 2010 Author: Betsy McKenzie
New Report from the UK: "Examining the Economics of Bloc Payments for E-Journals"
From a Web Page:
Better pricing and increased access to content can be achieved by institutions operating as a single bloc at a national or UK-wide level.
However, bloc purchasing also presents many challenges - for example, how should the total costs be shared between participating institutions?
Our bloc payment project, managed by John Cox and Albert Prior, [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 2, 2010
Transition from Print to Electronic: Ebooks on the Same Path as Ejournals
Yesterday I posted about ebooks and what some of the librarians attending the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar discussed. Today I saw a post on liblicense from Scott Plutchak comparing the transition and the situation to what librarians experienced when journals transitioned from print to electronic.
Interesting. I have to admit that just never occurred to me. But Scott brought up some excellent points saying just like now with ebooks, librarians were very frustrated and up in arms when journals started becoming much more electronic. Just think, the official version of BMJ isn’t the print any m...
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The Krafty Librarian - September 2, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized
Electronic Resources Librarian (St. Olaf College, Nortthfield, Minnesota)
Electronic Resources Librarian (St. Olaf College, Nortthfield, Minnesota)
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Latest ALA Job Listings - September 1, 2010
Playing Hard to Get: Purchasing and Reading E-Books
Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion. Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text. How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc.
The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia inv...
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The Krafty Librarian - September 1, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Electronic Access Journals and Books
#Jobs : Systems Librarian, University of La Verne (California) -- Wilson Library
#3041 – Systems Librarian, University of La Verne -- Wilson Library The University of La Verne invites applicants for a Systems Librarian (Assistant Professor), a non-tenure track 12-month faculty appointment. Reporting directly to the University Librarian, the Systems Librarian will use a high level of technical, instructional, and interpersonal skills. The responsibilities of this position include administering and providing technical support for all aspects of library technology including the Innovative Interfaces Millennium integrated library system, hardware and software installations and maintenance, lib...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - September 1, 2010 Tags: systems librarian California Jobs
Biology-related Ejournals added in August, 2010
We now have access to the entire run of Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 1933+. We purchased the 70-year backfile (1933-2003) with some end-of-the-year funds.
Ecosphere
Full text, v.1, 2010+; open access; Ecological Society of America.
Oecologia Australis
Full text, v.14, 2010+; freely available.
Oecologia Brasiliensis
Full text, v.1-13, 1995-2009; freely available.
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Biology Library News - August 31, 2010 Author: wubiolibrarian Tags: Journals & E-Journals
Springer clarifies no-fee option for NIH-funded authors
A new form for NIH-funded authors with Springer makes it easy to request submission to PubMed Central in a timely manner. More info from Cathy Sarli at Becker Medical Library.
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Biology Library News - August 30, 2010 Author: wubiolibrarian Tags: Journals & E-Journals Scholarly Communication
Students' keenness on use of e-resources : Table of Contents
Abstract: Purpose This study aims to focus on the keenness of students of business schools of Orissa (India) on the use of electronic resources and attempts to evaluate the level of electronic information services offered by the primary information reserves of the respective business schools with an opinion pool of sample respondents. Moreover, it intends to elicit the barriers in use of e-information with recommendations for the improvement of services and usage of e-resources. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines the use of electronic resources by students of business schools of Orissa (India) through str...
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The Electronic Library : Table of Contents - August 29, 2010
ScienceDirect am 28.08.10 nicht verfügbar
Der Verlag Elsevier meldet:
ScienceDirect, Scopus, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, 28 August. During this time, upgrades will be implemented to these systems as part of the launch of the new SciVerse platform. For more information about SciVerse, please visit http://www.acceleratescience.com/.
Down time [...]
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Newsblog - August 27, 2010 Author: Manuela Schulz Tags: Datenbanken Zeitschriften / E-Journals
Daily Tweets 2010-08-26
Libraries Announce Supporter Membership in BioMed Central [University of Florida] http://icio.us/odjdkd #
Nature Publishing Group and the University of California Make Nice http://icio.us/2basqu #
SpringerLink Relaunched with Semantic Linking and Content Previews http://icio.us/ybwvof #
Joel Tenenbaum to Appeal 90% Reduced File-Sharing Penalty http://icio.us/fqixec #
Has the U.S. Caved on Secondary Liability in ACTA? http://icio.us/1yhtaq #
Today's UK Researchers: E-journals Dominate, Access Not an Issue, Skimming Increasing http://icio.us/otxhpl #
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DigitalKoans - August 26, 2010 Author: admin Tags: Daily Tweets
Daily Tweets 2010-08-26
Libraries Announce Supporter Membership in BioMed Central [University of Florida] http://icio.us/odjdkd #
Nature Publishing Group and the University of California Make Nice http://icio.us/2basqu #
SpringerLink Relaunched with Semantic Linking and Content Previews http://icio.us/ybwvof #
Joel Tenenbaum to Appeal 90% Reduced File-Sharing Penalty http://icio.us/fqixec #
Has the U.S. Caved on Secondary Liability in ACTA? http://icio.us/1yhtaq #
Today's UK Researchers: E-journals Dominate, Access Not an Issue, Skimming Increasing http://icio.us/otxhpl #
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DigitalKoans - August 26, 2010 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Daily Tweets
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, August 25, 2010
Next Weblog update on 9/29/10.
The African Journal of Information and Communication, no. 10 (2009/2010): Includes "Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value," "Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge," "Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA," "Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities," and other articles.
Ariadne, no. 64 (2010): Includes: "Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessm...
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (Atom/RSS) - August 26, 2010 Author: Charles Tags: SEPW
3 stages of library websites ...
While writing about subject pages and library websites the other day, it occurred to me that we might think of library websites in three stages - which emerged successively and continue to exist together. Always mindful of the rule of three ;-)
We might clumsily call these stages: [1] fragmentary, [2] integrated supply, and [3] demand-influenced.
Fragmentary. Libraries have to manage a variety of resources which are outside their control and present them to their users as best they can. This has meant that the library website has often been a thin wrapper around two sets of heterogeneous resources.One is the set of lega...
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Lorcan Dempsey's weblog - August 22, 2010 Tags: Learning and research - systems and technologies Libraries - organization and services User experience Websites: design and role
New Wiley and Springer sites
Wiley and Springer both brought up new web sites for their ejournal and ebooks recently.
The new Springer interface has been available as their Beta site for several months. On the new platform you will find:
Related documents for every article or eBook chapter; this is nice but only leads you to related documents within the Springer universe
PDF Preview for eBook chapters. Note: I find this especially useful in when browsing in collections we do not subscribe to because you can see several pages of each chapter online even though we do not have full access to the book. Then, if needed, you can search the catalog or Mobi...
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Biology Library News - August 10, 2010 Author: wubiolibrarian Tags: Journals & E-Journals
Researchers' e-journal use and information seeking behaviour
This paper presents the results of the second phase of a Research Information Network study, which sought to establish the impact of e-journals on the scholarly behaviour of researchers in the UK. The first phase of the project was a deep log analysis of the usage and information seeking behaviour of researchers in connection with the ScienceDirect and Oxford Journals databases. This paper reports on the second phase, which sought to explain and provide context for the deep log data by taking the questions raised by the quantitative study to the research community via interview, questionnaire and observation. Nine major re...
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Journal of Information Science current issue - August 9, 2010 Author: Nicholas, D., Williams, P., Rowlands, I., Jamali, H. R.
E-Journal-Datenbank bedingt verfügbar
Aufgrund von Arbeiten im Stromnetz des Anbieters der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) ist diese
von Freitag 13.8.2010 (14 Uhr) bis Montag 16.8.2010 (8 Uhr) nicht bzw. nur bedingt verfügbar.
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Newsblog - August 9, 2010 Author: Manuela Schulz Tags: Datenbanken Zeitschriften / E-Journals
Wiley Online Library Not Fully Working
When Wiley InterScience migrated to its new platform, Wiley Online Library, on August 7th and 8th, the transition did not go without its flaws. Some of the old Wiley links do not redirect the user properly; some content to which the library is subscribed cannot be accessed; and some content to which the library does not subscribe can be incorrectly accessed, among other issues. Since many of the links in the catalog must be updated manually, the update to the library's catalog and e-journals pages will require a few days to execute. We ask our patrons for their patience while the library makes the necessary update.
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The Orbit - August 9, 2010 Author: McDermott Library
Scholarly Communications Librarian, Boston College
Scholarly Communications Librarian
The Boston College Libraries seek an energetic and
innovative leader to develop the Libraries' eScholarship@BC
institutional repository program and associated initiatives
to highlight and preserve the scholarly and research output
of the University. The Scholarly Communications Librarian
plays a key outreach role, promoting new forms of scholarly
publication and Open Access (OA) activities and educating
the Boston College community on intellectual property
isues related to scholarly publishing. Working closely with
both internal partners in the BC Libraries and external
stakeh...
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MBLC Job Listings - August 5, 2010
Major library systems down overnight Wednesday (rescheduled from last week)
Due to required electrical work, the following library systems will be down from 7PM on August 4th (Wednesday) until 7AM on August 5th (Thursday).
Vera: E-Journals and Databases
off-campus access to most of our online resources
MIT Libraries web site
SFX, including the FullText Finder
shortcut URLs to our databases (such as http:libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci), bookmarked URLs may work, but only on campus
These systems will remain functional:
Barton Catalog will still be available, but you must use this URL to reach it: http://library.mit.edu/
Note: Many (but not all) links in Barton to online resources will not functio...
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MIT Libraries News - August 3, 2010 Author: Darcy Duke Tags: All news
Bibliothekarische An- und Aussichten
von unserer geschätzten Mitautorin, die aber auch z.B. bei beluga und anderswo bloggt, gibt es jetzt auch auf Annes eigenem Weblog A growing organism. Wir wünschen natürlich viel Spaß, viel Erfolg und einen regen Austausch!!
Im jüngsten Beitrag macht Anne sich Gedanken über das Thema Are libraries up for e-science?
I am particularly concerned about the lack of openness of our information systems, both in a technical and conceptual sense. If we don’t fix this, I don’t think that engaging in e-science is going to make much of a difference, let alone be a safeline for libraries who would otherwise just become th...
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netbib weblog - August 2, 2010 Author: Edlef Stabenau Tags: Bibliothek20 Berufsbild bibliotheken e-science wissenschaft
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, July 30, 2010
Next Weblog update on 8/25/10.
Collection Building 29, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Assessment of the Problems LIS Postgraduate Students Face in Accessing E-Resources in Makerere University, Uganda" and other articles.
Collection Management 35, no. 3/4 (2010): Includes "Resolving the Challenge of E-Books" and other articles.
College & Research Libraries 71, no. 4 (2010): Includes "The Open Access Availability of Library and Information Science Literature," "Walk the Talk: Open Access and Academic Libraries," "The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Jo...
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (Atom/RSS) - July 30, 2010 Author: Charles Tags: SEPW
Ejournals added, July 2010
EvoDevo
Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; BioMed Central.
Genome Integrity
Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central.
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Biology Library News - July 30, 2010 Author: wubiolibrarian Tags: Journals & E-Journals
Wiley, OUP, Taylor & Francis verteuern Kombi-Abos
Nach einer Rundmail von Ebsco werden sich ab nächstes Jahr die Kombiabos der Verlage Wiley, OUP, Taylor&Francis deutlich verteuern. Grund sind neue Berechnungsmodelle wie folgt. Die im May letzten Jahres von Swets verbreitete Meldung einer Mehrwertsteuertrennung scheint nun also doch zu kommen. Die Mehrwertsteuer auf ejournals wird sich also weiterhin negativ für Angebot und Konkurrenzfähigkeit in der EU auswirken.
Wiley
Online-Anteil: 50% mit 19% MwSt. und
Print-Anteil: 50% mit 7% MwSt.
Eine (netto) 1.000 Euro-Zeitschrift würde also 1.130 Euro kosten (+5,6%)
Oxford University Press
Online-Anteil: 70% mit 19...
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medinfo - July 29, 2010 Author: ob Tags: Publikationswesen Ebsco Mehrwertsteuer OUP Print Swets TaylorFrancis Wiley Zeitschrift
Major library systems outage this Wednesday/Thursday
Due to required major electrical work in the Hayden Library, the following library systems will be down from 7PM on July 28th (Wednesday) until 7AM on July 29th (Thursday).
MIT Libraries web site
Vera: E-Journals and Databases
SFX, including the FullText Finder
shortcut URLs to our databases (such as http:libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci); bookmarked URLs may work on campus
These systems will still be functional:
Barton Catalog will still be available, but only at this URL: http://library.mit.edu/
Note: Many (but not all) links in Barton to online resources will not function.
DSpace@MIT
We regret this inconvenience.
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MIT Libraries News - July 27, 2010 Author: Darcy Duke Tags: All news
Digital Preservation: The Philosophy Documentation Center to Preserve E-Journals in Portico
From the Announcement:
Portico is pleased to announce that it has entered into a preservation agreement with the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC), a non-profit aggregator and distributor of scholarly resources in applied ethics, philosophy, religious studies, classics, and related disciplines.
PDC’s initial commitment will be to deposit 50 e-journals to the archive. Through this agreement with Portico, PDC ensures that these e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students.
As part of the agreement, PDC will make an annual contribution to Portico and has also named Portico as...
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ResourceShelf - July 27, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized
Assistant Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services
State: Florida
Position number: 040401
The University of Miami Libraries seeks a nominations and applications for an Assistant Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services to provide leadership and guidance in planning and managing database maintenance, authority control, and copy-cataloging activities in the University Library to ensure the quality of its resource discovery tools. The incumbent hires, trains, and supervises 6 FTE supporting staff in cataloging and quality control and may also participate in original cataloging of print/online materials in a variety of formats, as well as provide descriptive metadata for digi...
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SLIS Careers Feed - July 21, 2010
JSTOR Plant Science
We have free access to JSTOR Plant Science through 2011. JSTOR Plant Science is an "online environment that provides access to a massive aggregation of content vital to plant science—plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, and scientific literature. It is currently the largest online database of plant type specimens (over 800,000 to date), expected to grow to 2.2 million by 2013. Not only plant type specimens, JSTOR Plant Science also includes additional materials such as foundational reference works and books; a significant set of correspondence, including handwritten letters and memorandum from the senior staff of ...
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Biology Library News - July 20, 2010 Author: wubiolibrarian Tags: Books & E-Books Journals E-Journals
Stitching costs - retread
I am on vacation and traveling this week, and so am taking the opportunity to air again an entry of a couple of years ago on what I called 'stitching costs' ....
We are familiar with switching costs, the costs of changing a supplier. I may decide not to change my phone or email arrangements, for example, because I do not want to incur the effort of notifying all my contacts. Libraries are very familiar with switching costs given the range of data migration issues involved in changing library systems. Indeed, high switching costs are one reason that libraries often stay with the same vendor for long periods.
Libraries ar...
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Lorcan Dempsey's weblog - July 18, 2010 Tags: Libraries - organization and services Libraries - distributed environments
