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A New 24 Page Report From OCLC: "WorldCat Quality"
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|Title: Principle Contributors: Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management From a Summary on the OCLC Web Site: This paper describes OCLC’s steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat’s unprecedented growth […]
New Article: "A Different Question of Open Access: Is There a Public Access Right to Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada?"
Academic Libraries, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Abstract: Providing public access to libraries is a public service, but is it a right? This paper explores participation in depository programs, public university status, and public funding as possible bases for this right. It examines relevant cases and finds that courts respect the right of academic libraries to determine their own policies. […]
"IKEA Anticipates Death of Paper Books, Tweaks Bookcase"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Publishing
|OK, the headline is a bit over the top but still worth a mention. From the LA Times: Will this symbolize the death knell of the paper book? Furniture giant IKEA will debut a new version of its classic BILLY bookcase that is intended to store everything except well-thumbed reading material, a report says. Coming […]
From Yahoo Research Title: “Faceted Identity, Faceted Lives: Social and Technical Issues with Being Yourself Online” Authors: Shelly D. Farnham, S.D.; Elizabeth F. ChurchillSource: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM, Hangzhou, China (2011) Abstract: This paper explores key issues people experience managing personal boundaries within and across social technologies. We look in particular at email […]
Online Database: IUPUI Library, Indianapolis Recorder Partnership Puts 106 Years of Black History Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Resources
|From Indiana University: A digitization project of the University Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, done in collaboration with the nationally recognized Indianapolis Recordernewspaper, makes available online 106 years of black history. Indianapolis Recorder Publisher Emeritus Carolene Mays granted IUPUI University Library copyright permission to create a comprehensive online archive of the Recorder. The full-text […]
Scholarly Publishing: "HighWire Introduces 5-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a Highwire Press Announcement: With the recent launch of the peer-reviewed research journal, SAGE Open (www.sageopen.com), and its new, interactive article rating feature, HighWire Press demonstrates its support of independent scholarly publishers with a tool designed for Open Access publications. This new feature, 5-star article rating, gives readers the opportunity to weigh in on […]
New e-Print: "Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
|A new e-Print via arXiv Full Text: “Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach” (44 Pages; PDF) Authors: Prodromos Tsiavos (London School of Economics, UK), Petros Stefaneas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) The creation of open archives i.e. archives where access is regulated by open licensing models (content, […]
From a University of Kansas Story: New research by a team of researchers at the KU School of Business demonstrates that online ticker searches – for example, “XOM” for Exxon Mobil – can predict abnormal stock returns and trading volumes during the subsequent week. The research also shows that highly volatile stocks will be more […]
Article: "Publish-or-Perish: Peer Review and the Corruption of Science"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, News, Publishing
|From a Column Article by David Colquhounin in The Guardian: So what can be done about scientific publishing? The only service the publishers provide is to arrange for reviews and to print the journals. And for this they charge an exorbitant fee, a racket George Monbiot rightly calls “pure rentier capitalism”. There is an alternative: […]
Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica Is there a bias in the against women’s representation in Wikipedia biographies? Thousands of biographical subjects, from six sources, are compared against the English-language Wikipedia and the online Encyclopædia Britannica with respect to coverage, gender representation, and article length. We conclude that Wikipedia provides better coverage and longer articles, […]