Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Archive
(December 2008)

December 3, 2008

Next Weblog update on 1/14/09.

Ariadne, no. 57 (2008): Includes "A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions"; "Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content"; "Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access"; "Implementing e-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective"; "OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation"; and other articles.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 260 (2008): Includes "How Fair Use Prevailed in the Harry Potter Case," "On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Policy Promotes Progress," and other articles.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Author's Rights, Tout de Suite. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

Band, Jonathan. A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association, 2008.

College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 10 (2008): Includes "The Beauty of 'Some Rights Reserved'," "Tec(h)tonics: Reimagining Preservation," and other articles.

Crawford, Walt. The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look. Mountain View, CA: Cites & Insights, 2008. (Publisher's description)

D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 11/12 (2008): Includes "Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns," "The Future of Repositories? Patterns for (Cross-)Repository Architectures," "Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages," "A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline," and other articles.

The Electronic Library 26, no. 6 (2008): Includes "A Metadata Manager's Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries Experience," "Usability Study of Digital Institutional Repositories," and other articles.

Interlending & Document Supply 36, no. 4 (2008): Includes "'Inside Every Fat Man': Balancing the Digital Library Budget" and other articles.

International Journal of Digital Curation 3, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Access to Data for eResearch: Designing the Australian National Data Service Discovery Services," "Bringing Self-Assessment Home: Repository Profiling and Key Lines of Enquiry within DRAMBORA," "The Data Audit Framework: A First Step in the Data Management Challenge," "Digital Data Practices and the Long Term Ecological Research Program Growing Global," "Digital Preservation and Copyright: An International Study," "'Grand Theft Archive': A Quantitative Analysis of the State of Computer Game Preservation," "Migration Performance for Legacy Data Access," "SCOPE: A Scientific Compound Object Publishing and Editing System," "Sustaining Engineering Informatics: Toward Methods and Metrics for Digital Curation," and other articles.

International Journal on Digital Libraries 9, no. 2 (2008): Includes "The aDORe Federation Architecture: Digital Repositories at Scale," "DelosDLMS: From the DELOS Vision to the Implementation of a Future Digital Library Management System," "Knowledge Discovery in Digital Libraries of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An NDLTD Case Study," "Uncovering Cultural Heritage through Collaboration," "Workload Analysis for Scientific Literature Digital Libraries," and other articles.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, no. 6 (2008): Includes "A Comparison of Subject and Institutional Repositories in Self-Archiving Practices" and other articles.

Journal of Documentation 64, no. 6 (2008): Includes "Comparison and Evaluation of the User Interfaces of E-Journals II: Perceptions of the Users," "Legal Issues for Information Professionals IX: An Overview of Recent Developments in the Law, in Relation to the Internet," and other articles.

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Assessing E-Book Model Sustainability" and other articles.

Journal of Library Administration 48, no. 2 (2008): Includes "From Advocacy to Implementation: The NIH Public Access Policy and Its Impact," "Local to Global: The Emerging Research Library," "Out of the Gray Times: Leading Libraries into the Digital Future," "Partners in Knowledge Creation: An Expanded Role for Research Libraries in the Digital Future," "Unintended Consequences: A Friendly User Looks at User-Friendly Digitization," and other articles.

Journal of Library Metadata 8, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Promoting Shareability: Metadata Activities of the DLF Aquifer Initiative" and other articles.

Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries 4, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Open Access for Health and Medicine in France," "The Open Access Policy of the Italian National Institute of Health: Steps Forward to Innovative Publishing Habits," "Open Data: The Elephant in the Room," and other articles.

Library & Information Science Research 30, no. 4 (2007): Includes "Expanding the Value of Scholarly, Open Access E-Journals" and other articles.

Library Management 29, no. 8/9 (2008): Includes "The Irish Research Electronic Library Initiative: Levelling the Playing-Field?" and other articles.

Maron, Nancy L., and K. Kirby Smith. Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2008.

Online Information Review 32, no. 6 (2008): Includes "Finding Open Access Articles Using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR" and other articles.

Randall, Ryan, Jane Smith, Katie Clark, Nancy Fried Foster. The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester. UR Research, 2008.

Science & Technology Libraries 28, no. 3 (2008): Includes "FRPAA and NIH Mandate: A Blessing in Disguise for Scientific Society Publishers?" and other articles.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 21, no. 3 (2008): Includes "Electronic Journal Provision and Use in China: An Initial Study," "How Much Does It Cost, and Who Pays? The Global Costs of Scholarly Communication and the UK Contribution," and other articles.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 128 (2008): Includes "Predictions for 2009" and other articles.

Walton, Donnelly Lancaster. Manuscript Collections on the Web, SPEC Kit 307. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2008.

Zorich, Diane M. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.