dchvatal January 30th, 2007
As a preliminary investigation to the nature and content of my presentation, entitled: Institutional Identifiers in the Journal Supply Chain, go to http://www.journalsupplychain.org/ for information about the creation of Identify as a registry for institutional identification. You will find web-based resources, white papers, and summaries of current activity regarding a Pilot Project to improve efficiencies in the “journal supply chain”. What is the journal supply chain? Business activity (orders, claims, renewals) and communication (authentication, authorization) between interested parties: publishers, subscription agents, journal hosting platforms, fulfillment software companies, link resolvers, integrated library system vendors, libraries, other institutional and personal subscribers to journals and end-users of journal content. Whew. That’s a lot of ground to cover. For those deciding to participate in this program event, check the Course later and I will provide a link where you can look up the number of your institution’s identity along with the PowerPoint to be made at the conference.
Donald Chvatal
Tags: Conference 2007, E-Journals, ERMs, Resources
Charlene Barina January 28th, 2007
Sent to me by a friend with whom we had been talking about what people should do as they graduate and begin doing research…
“Open Access to Science Under Attack” (SciAm article)
“The Open Access Debate” (blog entry by author of above)
Tags: E-Journals
Charlene Barina January 25th, 2007
Once again, from slashdot, an article from Nature discusses the responses of science publishers to a rising interest in open access. From the article:
“…a group of big scientific publishers has hired the pit bull to take on the free-information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available. Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.”
The article specifically mentions Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society as getting together to discuss this issue to them. Wonder how those being merged-into at Blackwell feel, if anything, about this?
Tags: E-Journals
Charlene Barina January 15th, 2007
From slashdot (good for reading tech commentary on the subject):
“Tags are everywhere now. Not just blogs, but famous news sites, corporate press bulletins, forums, and even Slashdot. That’s why it’s such a shame that they’re rendered almost entirely useless by the lack of a tagging standard with which tags from various sites and tag aggregators like Technorati and Del.icio.us can compare and relate tags to one another. Depending on where you go and who you ask, tags are implemented differently, and even defined in their own unique way. Even more importantly, tags were meant to be universal and compatible: a medium of sharing and conveying info across the blogosphere — the very embodiment of a semantic web. Unfortunately, they’re not. Far from it, tags create more discord and confusion than they do minimize it. I have to say, it would be nice to just learn one way of tagging content and using it everywhere.”
In case you didn’t see it, the cited article they’re referring to (on a blog, no less) can be found by clicking on this link. It also has some good commentary
Tags: Web 2.0
Bonnie Tijerina January 7th, 2007
The Balance Point: Experiencing the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference.
By: Agnew, Shantel; Gray, LaVerne; Blocker, LouAnn; Ryan, Christine E.; Smith, Kelly A.; Johnson, Kay.
Serials Review, 2006, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p195-203.
Five attendees describe their conference experiences and share viewpoints as new librarians, an experienced librarian, a paraprofessional library school student, and a librarian who participated in the online version of the conference. Highly recommended for those wanting to make sure this is a conference for them.
Another Review…
The 1st Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference: A Report.
By: Harper, Paulina V.; Goldbeck, Kyrille; Hogarth, Margaret; Greenebaum, David; Magolis, David; Jackson, Millie.
Library Hi Tech News, Volume 23, Number 5, 2006, pp. 12-22(11).
This review goes more indepth into the specifics of sessions the authors attended from the perspectives of presenters and attendees. Check this out if you missed ER&L2006 and want a good overview of content.
Tags: Conference 2006
