February 4, 2009

Next Weblog update on 3/4/09.

ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force. The Research Library's Role in Digital Repository Services: Final Report of the ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2009.

Ayers, Leighann, Beth Picknally, Lisa German, Peggy Johnson, Caroline Miller, and Karen Smith-Yoshimura. What We've Learned from the RLG Partners Metadata Creation Workflows Survey. Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2009.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 3. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2008.

Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation. Interim Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. La Jolla, CA: Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, 2009.

Caplan, Priscilla. Understanding PREMIS. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, 2009.

Crow, Raym. Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues. Washington, DC: SPARC, 2009.

Currier, Sarah. "SWORD: Cutting through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories." JISC, 2009.

de Groat, Greta. Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators. Washington DC: Digital Library Federation, 2009.

D-Lib Magazine 15, no. 1/2 (2009): Includes "Institutional Repository on a Shoestring"; "A Policy Checklist for Enabling Persistence of Identifiers"; "Search Web Services—The OASIS SWS Technical Committee Work: The Abstract Protocol Definition, OpenSearch Binding, and SRU/CQL 2.0"; "A Set of Transfer-Related Services"; "Sharing Functionality on the Web: A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library"; and other articles.

EDUCAUSE Review 44, no. 1 (2009): Includes "Education in the Digital Age," "It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks," "Some Thoughts on Free Textbooks," "The Truly Free Textbook," and other articles.

First Monday 14, no. 1 (2009): Includes "Always On: Libraries in a World of Permanent Connectivity" and other articles.

Grimmelmann, James. "How to Improve the Google Book Search Settlement." SelectedWorks, 2009.

Houghton, John, Bruce Rasmussen, Peter Sheehan, Charles Oppenheim, Anne Morris, Claire Creaser, Helen Greenwood, Mark Summers, and Adrian Gourlay. Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring the Costs and Benefits. London, JISC, 2009.

Journal of Library Administration 48, no. 2 (2008): Includes "Do Off-Campus Students Use E-Books?" and other articles.

Journal of Library Metadata 8, no. 4 (2008): Includes "Developing a Metadata Best Practices Model: The Experience of the Colorado State University Libraries," "Evaluating Descriptive Richness in Collection-Level Metadata," and other articles.

Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40, no. 2 (2009): Includes "A Tax on Productivity?" and other articles.

Journal of the Medical Library Association 97, no. 1 (2009): Includes "Status of Open Access in the Biomedical Field in 2005" and other articles.

Journal of Web Librarianship 3, no. 2 (2009): Includes "Legal Issues Related to Whole-of-Domain Web Harvesting in Australia " and other articles.

Library and Information Research, no. 102 (2008): Includes "Collection Management of Electronic Journals in Academic Libraries: Notes on Embracing Change in an Unstable Environment" and other articles.

Library Hi Tech 27, no. 1 (2009): Includes "One Box to Search Them All: Implementing Federated Search at an Academic Library," "Tracking Repetitive Use of Electronic Reserve Items: Using Electronic Reserves Repetitive Use Information to Help Gauge Copyright Compliance," and other articles.

New York Review of Books 56, no. 2 (2009): Includes "Google & the Future of Books" and other articles.

Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau, and Carrie M. Pirmann. Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development. Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2009.

Pessach, Guy. "Reciprocal Share-Alike Exemptions in Copyright Law." SSRN, 2009.

Spiro, Lisa. Archival Management Software: A Report for the Council on Library and Information Resources. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009.

Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 130 (2009): Includes "Open Access Policy Options for Funding Agencies and Universities" and other articles.