tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39380943392472724852024-03-13T07:01:18.186-06:00Collections Information News and thoughts about academic library collections issues from a Canadian perspective.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-33331540429805819092012-11-26T11:20:00.001-07:002012-11-26T11:20:26.251-07:00CRKN to Terminate National Agreement with the ACSFrom the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's <a href="http://www.crkn.ca/communications/crkn-to-terminate-national-agreement-with-the-acs" target="_blank">website</a>:<br />
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has announced a decision to terminate the national license agreement it has held with the American Chemical Society (ACS) since 2001 for its Web Editions and Legacy Archives products. Termination of the CRKN-ACS license will take effect at the end of 2013, at which time participating libraries may choose to contract directly with ACS or implement alternate arrangements.</div>
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The decision to terminate the national agreement was taken by the CRKN Board of Directors after the organization’s negotiating team was unable to reach a renewal agreement with ACS, owing to fundamental issues with the new pricing model adopted by ACS for its international (non-US) library and consortia customers.</div>
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Under ACS’s new pricing, costs for participant libraries will be determined solely by usage, using the average number of full-text downloads from the most recent three years, and with participating institutions organized into usage bands. Any growth in usage that would move a participating institution into a higher usage band would result in a prohibitive price increase that could double or triple the cost of the ACS content. This pricing regime represents a huge financial risk for those libraries that are most committed to promoting ACS resources, and will penalize those who are most successful in integrating ACS content into new web- and mobile-based discovery and access systems that are used increasingly by university researchers and students.</div>
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“CRKN’s Board of Directors took this decision, with regret, after thorough due diligence, consultation with members, and evaluation of options,” reported Deb deBruijn, Executive Director. “Volatile, unpredictable and prohibitive pricing will serve to deter, rather than foster, full utilization of this important content by our members’ researchers and students. Ultimately, ACS’s approach runs counter to CRKN’s mission of maximizing use of digital content nation-wide so as to build universities’ research capacity, enable innovative research outputs, and add to the international pool of research ingenuity.”</div>
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The decision to terminate CRKN’s agreement with ACS comes after twelve years of partnership between the two organizations, made possible by a series of large-scale, stable, multi-year agreements that were negotiated in good faith by both parties and maintained with streamlined administration. This partnership expanded the reach of ACS’s journals into sixty-six Canadian universities, transforming the research environment for chemists and enabling major advances in interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international work.</div>
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CRKN and its member libraries will use the coming year to wind down the national agreement and engage researchers, students, and other stakeholders in the critical issues that surround this development. In consultation with their user communities, member libraries will also review local needs and identify options for providing key content in ways that reduce or mitigate the financial risks introduced by ACS’s usage-based pricing. CRKN will support its members through this transition, and will also add its voice to the international efforts of research universities, libraries and consortia that are strongly urging ACS to re-evaluate the business and pricing model it has applied in recent negotiations.</div>
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<strong>About CRKN</strong></div>
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is a partnership of Canadian universities, dedicated to expanding digital content for the academic research enterprise in Canada. Through the coordinated leadership of librarians, researchers, and administrators, CRKN undertakes large-scale content acquisition and licensing initiatives, currently amounting to almost $100 million annually, in order to build knowledge infrastructure and research capacity in 75 of Canada’s universities.</div>
Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-10316844375408351802012-10-26T14:15:00.003-06:002012-10-26T14:16:06.289-06:00Penguin and Random House in merger talks<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">From today's <i>Guardian</i> newspaper:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/25/penguin-random-house-merger-talks" target="_blank">Penguin and Random House in merger talks</a></span>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-36341284357400338292012-10-26T14:13:00.003-06:002012-10-26T14:13:42.347-06:00Research Libraries Increase Spending on Digital MaterialsNo surprise here:<br />
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Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-53505137649132920332012-10-24T16:47:00.003-06:002012-10-24T16:47:38.139-06:00Open Access WeekIt's Open Access Week! Here's what's happening at the University of Alberta Libraries:<br />
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<br />Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-13341102187956020092012-10-10T16:56:00.003-06:002012-10-10T16:56:52.404-06:00Adam Matthew acquired by SAGE<div class="tr_bq">
This is the news release from SAGE that has been sent out to libraries today:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As a valued customer of Adam Matthew we wanted to give you some</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">exciting news before the official announcement is released tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Thursday 11th October).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">During our work this year with SAGE (</span><a href="http://www.sagepub.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">www.sagepub.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">) it has become</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">clear that our two businesses share the same core values and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">approaches to quality publishing. As a result of these fundamental</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">alignments, and the ambitious plans for both companies, Adam Matthew</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is now a part of the SAGE Group:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SAGE has acquired Adam Matthew Digital and Adam Matthew Education. The</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">acquisition was concluded on 5th October, 2012, but remains strictly</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">confidential until a public announcement is made tomorrow (11th Oct,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2012).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There will be no changes to the Adam Matthew team or structure. The</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">business will continue to operate from its offices in Marlborough,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wiltshire and Chicago, IL under its existing management team who will</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">continue to maintain all existing customer relationships.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Adam Matthew’s product fit, and the strongly aligned brand values with</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SAGE, make this an exciting opportunity for the next phase in Adam</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Matthew’s development.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Both SAGE and Adam Matthew strongly believe in high quality products</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and editorial integrity. With the agreement that Adam Matthew will</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">continue to operate independently, but with the backing of SAGE, the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">approach to creative, high value product development that has defined</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">both companies will be strengthened further.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All existing contracts will remain between Adam Matthew and its</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">partners, not transferred to SAGE. Please see this link:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><</span><a href="http://bit.ly/UDhcvp" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/UDhcvp</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">> for important clarification on the retention of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">digital materials and access to our collections.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SAGE’s global presence will enable the further dissemination of Adam</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Matthew products into new markets. Recent expansion has shown that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there is a great appetite for Adam Matthew products and this</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">relationship will support that demand.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All enquiries relating to Adam Matthew products will continue to be</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">managed by the Adam Matthew team.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We are extremely excited about this new relationship and believe the</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">next phase of Adam Matthew’s growth and development will be very well</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">supported by the SAGE Group. We look forward to discussing these</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">developments with you over the next few months as we meet many of you</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on our travels around the world.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Many thanks for your continued support,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Adam Matthew Team</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="http://www.amdigital.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">www.amdigital.co.uk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> | </span><a href="mailto:info@amdigital.co.uk" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">info@amdigital.co.uk</a></blockquote>
Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-76563059639086835462012-10-10T09:06:00.002-06:002012-10-10T09:06:41.130-06:00Springer for saleFrom Sky News, October 10, 2012:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: SkyNewsRegular, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 49px;"><a href="http://news.sky.com/story/995576/academic-publishing-giant-springer-for-sale" target="_blank">Academic Publishing Giant Springer For Sale</a></span>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-5536069782506903792012-10-03T14:55:00.000-06:002012-10-03T14:55:17.528-06:00TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This is a wiki I recently learned about that may be helpful for librarians when thinking about electronic resources: <a href="http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikiterms/Main_Page" target="_blank">TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management</a>. It was created by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jill Emery, Portland State University, and Graham Stone, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">University of Huddersfield</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> in an effort to create best practices for managing electronic resources. It provides information about different stages in the management process and what you need to take into consideration. Very helpful!</span>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-36631487683420141622012-10-03T14:29:00.000-06:002012-10-03T14:29:41.167-06:00YBP's Annual Book Price updateYBP has released its annual <a href="http://www.ybp.com/book_price_update.html" target="_blank">book price update</a>, based on data from their fiscal year of July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012. This is good information for academic libraries managing budgets and trying to plan spending.<br />
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Most interesting is that the average book price for cloth books is $83.59USD, and book prices are up 3.2%. Also, ebook prices from the aggregators that YBP uses (ebrary, Ebsco and EBL) averaged $95.14USD, a decrease of 2% from the previous year.<br />
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YBP predicts a 3-4% increase in the cost of both academic print and e-books for this fiscal year.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-34289575601645401702012-10-03T12:51:00.000-06:002012-10-03T12:51:31.250-06:00SCOAP3 Open Access Initiative launchedIn case you missed it, on Monday SCOAP3 was officially launched at CERN. From the <a href="http://press.web.cern.ch/" target="_blank">Press Release</a>:<br />
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Publishers of 12 journals, accounting for the vast majority of articles in the field, have been identified for participation in SCOAP3 through an open and competitive process, and the SCOAP3 initiative looks forward to establishing more partnerships with key institutions in Europe, America and Asia as it moves through the technical steps of organizing the re-direction of funds from the current subscription model to a common internationally coordinated fund. SCOAP3 expects to be operational for articles published as of 2014.</blockquote>
Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-51179265535457436852012-09-25T16:26:00.003-06:002012-09-25T16:26:54.625-06:00Open-access deal for particle physicsAnd in other open access news, this is exciting (from <i>Nature</i>):<br />
<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-deal-for-particle-physics-1.11468" target="_blank">Open-access deal for particle physics</a><br />
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The <a href="http://scoap3.org/" target="_blank">SCOAP3</a> initiative has been slowly moving things forward for a number of years, and now they have reached a milestone after negotiating contracts for 12 journals that cover 90% of the research output in the field of high-energy physics. It will be exciting to watch this play out over the coming year.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-73251337316434645612012-09-25T16:19:00.002-06:002012-09-25T16:19:25.031-06:00AHA Statement on Scholarly Journal PublishingYesterday, the American Historical Society released a <a href="http://blog.historians.org/publications/1734/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing" target="_blank">statement </a>on scholarly journal publishing, specifically relating to open access. They have concerns about payment for open access, maintaining high standards, and the potential loss of peer review. It's good to see their concerns laid out and that they are starting to talk about this within their Society. For librarians, its a good chance to speak with History faculty about these kinds of issues and maybe quell some of their fears.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-76142234137044403882012-09-25T16:06:00.000-06:002012-09-25T16:06:26.928-06:00ImpactStoryThe site previously known as <i>total-impact</i> has been relaunched as <a href="http://impactstory.it/" target="_blank">ImpactStory</a>. If you're not familiar, this is a site for gathering alt-metric measures on research articles. From their FAQ:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ImpactStory is a website that makes it quick and easy to view the impact of a wide range of research output. It goes beyond traditional measurements of research output -- citations to papers -- to embrace a much broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly output types. The system aggregates impact data from many sources and displays it in a single report, which is given a permaurl for dissemination and can be updated any time.</span></span></blockquote>
Basically, researchers can see the impact of their research in places that we previously may not have considered, such as via Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare, Mendeley, and some more traditional sources such as Scopus and PubMed. It meshes the world of social media with the world of scholarly communication, to provide a broader picture of impact beyond the number of citations in Web of Science! See what it looks like:<br />
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Something to share with faculty who are interested in looking beyond the traditional measures of impact.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-29473977386577190032012-09-25T15:40:00.001-06:002012-09-25T15:41:13.067-06:00New papers on digital preservationA few recent papers that will be of interest to those who care about digital preservation:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lockss.org/locksswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/unesco2012.pdf" target="_blank">Economics of Long Term Digital Storage</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.lockss.org/locksswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LC-final-2012.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LOCKSS Boxes in the Cloud</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/preservation/CurationCloud.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Curation in the Cloud</span></a>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-61043977288903796922012-09-24T18:18:00.000-06:002012-09-24T18:18:55.842-06:00The Disappearing WebThanks to my colleague, Kathy West, for pointing out this article in Business Week. At the University of Alberta Libraries, we've been concerned with preservation for some time now, and have been using <a href="http://www.archive-it.org/" target="_blank">ArchiveIt</a> to archive materials on the web that we've identified as priorities. <br />
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<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-20/the-disappearing-web-decay-is-eating-our-history" target="_blank">The Disappearing Web: Decay Is Eating Our History</a><br />
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Here's the research study mentioned in the article:<br />
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Bottom line from the authors: "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day."</span><br />
<br />Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-40271864422897764722012-09-18T16:18:00.001-06:002012-09-18T16:18:07.532-06:00Altmetric for Scopus<i>Scopus</i> has announced that it has incorporated a new <a href="http://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/83246-altmetric-for-scopus" target="_blank">Altmetric service</a> for article level metrics within its database. The altmetric service will capture information from social media sites such as <i>Twitter</i> and <i>Facebook, </i>mainstream media, and reference managers such as <i>Mendeley,</i> to illustrate how scholarly articles are being used beyond academia. I think this is a nice complement to the citation information currently contained in Scopus, and integration of these different sources in one place is great.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-86505074147150489402012-09-17T13:43:00.001-06:002012-09-17T13:43:41.739-06:00Serial prices likely to rise 5-7% in 2013On Friday, <i><a href="http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/Pages/index.aspx" target="_blank">EBSCO</a></i> released its <a href="http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/Documents/customer/price%20projections%20sept%2014%202013%20(FINAL).pdf" target="_blank">2013 Serials Price Projection Report</a>. Their projection is that serial prices for academic libraries will rise 5-7% in 2013. This is not good news for academic libraries facing very tight budgets with far smaller increases than 5%.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-84882754961394687612012-09-13T16:30:00.001-06:002012-09-13T16:30:26.253-06:00Article on academic libraries and e-books in University AffairsThis article in <i>University Affairs</i> gives a good overview of the situation in Canadian academic libraries with respect to e-books. <div>
<br /><a href="http://www.universityaffairs.ca/the-latest-academic-book-hopefully-one-click-away.aspx" target="_blank">The latest academic book (hopefully) one click away</a></div>
Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-28251340516747088002012-09-13T16:20:00.001-06:002012-09-13T16:22:04.155-06:00New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All OnlineTen years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative, <a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations" target="_blank">recommendations</a> for the next 10 years have been made.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soros.org/press-releases/scientists-foundations-libraries-universities-and-advocates-unite-and-issue-new" target="_blank">Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online</a><br />
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Further reading on this from SPARC:<br />
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<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/BOAI_Advocates_Ambitious_Goal_Setting_Default_OA.shtml" target="_blank">Advocates Set Ambitious Goal: Setting the Default to Open Access in Ten Years’ Time</a></h2>
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<br />Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-50967862765713907222012-09-05T15:44:00.000-06:002012-09-05T15:45:14.514-06:00Report: Moving Towards an Open Access FutureHere's a recent report from SAGE and the British Library, on the role of academic libraries with respect to open access publication. The content of the report is based on an international roundtable meeting of 14 librarians and industry experts. There are some predictions here that really don't hold any weight, but otherwise the report does provide a good overview of current issues relating to OA and academic libraries.<br />
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<a href="http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/Library-OAReport.pdf">Moving towards an open access future: The role of academic libraries</a>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-35167833297607565602012-09-04T11:06:00.002-06:002012-09-04T13:32:11.973-06:00In the digital era, we own nothingThis is a good story in <i>The Guardian</i> re: long term ownership of digital media. For academic libraries, the ownership of what we buy is of great importance, and magnified from what this story illustrates. While the University of Alberta Libraries try to "own" and "purchase" what we buy (vs. rent/subscribe to something where we lose all content should our subscription end, or should a publisher choose to remove content from a package), sometimes that is not possible, and there are still lingering questions about what a purchase actually means. Publishers are very wary of allowing local hosting of digital content, or for that content to be held by the library, so this puts us in a position of managing content in a very different way than what we do with print materials. We want to build collections that last a very long time, for use by future generations, not just for short-term use. Digital materials are here to stay and that's for the better, considering the advantages in terms of access and use of those materials; but there are still a lot of problems to work out regarding how these materials can be purchased, owned and shared. The story also makes me think about our donations, and while print book donations show no signs of slowing down, the potential donations of electronic books or music is something that we need to start thinking of as well. Will our libraries be poorer for the loss of materials that people like Bruce Willis might want to give us but cannot due to restrictions around use of that material, simply because it is digital? So many questions and lots of work to do...<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/03/bruce-willis-dilemma-digital-era-own-nothing">The Bruce Willis dilemma? In the digital era, we own nothing</a>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-37469057115797204302012-09-03T14:04:00.000-06:002012-09-03T14:07:14.606-06:00The state of California passes a bill to create open access digital library for textbooksHere's an interesting bit of news from California that's worth keeping an eye on:<br />
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<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/31/california-college-textbooks/">California passes bills to create open-source digital library for college textbooks</a><br />
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<a href="http://sacobserver.com/2012/09/california-passes-nations-first-open-source-textbook-legislation/">California Passes Nation’s First Open Source Textbook Legislation</a><br />
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According to the <i>Sacramento Observer</i>, Bill SB 1052 "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">provides for the selection, development and administration of the free open digital textbooks for the most popular lower-division courses overseen by the establishment of the California Open Education Resources Council (COERC)." These textbooks will be open access and open source, with a creative commons license allowing for reuse.</span>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-37612321367763227402012-08-29T09:17:00.001-06:002012-08-29T09:17:48.365-06:00Giving ebooks to the worldHere's an interview with the founder of <a href="https://unglue.it/">unlgue.it</a>, which the University of Alberta Libraries has supported with the first unglued book, <a href="https://unglue.it/work/81724/">Oral Literature in Africa</a>. We chose to support unglue.it because of its new approach to making scholarly books widely available and open access.<br />
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<a href="http://www.crowdfundit.com.au/2012/08/29/giving-ebooks-to-the-world/" target="_blank">Giving ebooks to the world</a>Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-57789556757031711182012-08-29T09:06:00.001-06:002012-08-29T09:06:45.133-06:00Springer Publishing extends their Springer Open program to e-books<a href="http://www.springeropen.com/" target="_blank">Springer Open</a> is now publishing open access <a href="http://www.springeropen.com/books" target="_blank">ebooks</a>. It's not exactly clear what the author fee is - looks like it's based on the number of pages in the book. Since the University of Alberta Libraries supports BioMed Central (a Springer division) with membership, our membership also applies to Springer Open for both journal articles and books. This means that UAlberta authors will receive a discount (50%) on the author fee should they wish to publish this way.Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-74305599140085706992012-08-28T19:52:00.000-06:002012-08-28T19:52:16.239-06:00The Simons Foundation provides funding for arXivToday, Cornell University Library announced that the <a href="http://www.thesimonsfoundation.ca/" target="_blank">Simons Foundation</a> is providing an operating grant to assist with the stewardship of <a href="http://arxiv.org/" target="_blank">arXiv</a>. The grant will match membership fees paid by libraries, to a maximum of $300,000. The University of Alberta Libraries has made a 5 year commitment to support arXiv and it is nice to know that our contribution is now going further through this matching grant.<br />
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<a href="http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/120828/arXiv" target="_blank">Ensuring arXiv's Future</a><br />
<br />Denise Koufogiannakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10378815599035828836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938094339247272485.post-19574487959173188182012-08-28T09:20:00.000-06:002012-08-28T09:20:29.450-06:00How to Succeed in Publishing Without Really TryingA brilliant piece in <i>Inside Higher Ed</i>:. Sums up the current state of scholarly publishing very accurately, and with humour. Definitely worth a read.<br />
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