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Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources...  |
Searcher December 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready?  |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved...  |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future.  |
Searcher June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light?  |
D-Lib July 2001 Steven J. Bell |
The New Digital Divide Dissecting Aggregator Exclusivity Deals...  |
Information Today April 29, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education."  |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.  |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"...  |
Information Today October 6, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out 2016 Serials Price Projections EBSCO Information Services introduced its "Serials Price Projections for 2016," which notes that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and medical libraries is expected to be 4%-6%.  |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.  |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.  |
Searcher May 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy.  |
Information Today May 7, 2012 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users.  |
D-Lib July 2001 Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users...  |
D-Lib January 2001 Gregory Crane |
Commercial Digital Libraries and the Academic Community How New Firms Might Develop New Relationships between "Publisher" and Higher Education...  |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas.  |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories.  |
Information Today September 17, 2001 Paula J. Hane |
ingenta Institute to Report Research Study Results The institute's 2000-2001 research project explored the relationship between journal subscriptions and document delivery, as well as the impact of online delivery on article distribution...  |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing  |
Information Today May 30, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
First UK Survey of Academics 2012 Issued by Ithaka S+R The survey examines the attitudes and behaviors of researchers at academic institutions across the U.K. with regard to digital technologies, the internet, and open access.  |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product?  |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research.  |
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry.  |
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program.  |
Information Today August 18, 2011 Barbara Quint |
Project Muse Beta Tests New Platform Integrating Ebooks With Journals Project Muse is a leading provider of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences serving millions of users through its subscription arrangements with some 2,500 libraries.  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.  |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations...  |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones.  |
Information Today April 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2010 David Stern |
Ebooks: From Institutional to Consortial Considerations It is not too early for academic libraries to begin considering the implementation issues for consortial purchases and/or leases of ebooks.  |
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world?  |
Information Today January 20, 2011 |
PRG Publishes 'The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices' The 115-page report looks closely at how 70 academic, special, and public libraries in the U.S., the U.K., continental Europe, Canada, and Australia plan their database licensing practices.  |
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage.  |
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation.  |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature?  |
Information Today October 2001 George H. Pike |
Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim?  |
D-Lib November 2006 Peter B. Hirtle |
Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives While not perfect, author addenda can be an important tool that authors can use to retain the rights they want or that their employing institutions request that they retain.  |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.  |
D-Lib October 2002 Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis.  |
D-Lib August 2005 Paepcke et al. |
Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative One of the more intriguing aspects of the Digital Libraries Initiative was its matchmaking coup of uniting librarians and computer scientists.  |
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future.  |
D-Lib September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?  |
Information Today February 2002 Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them....  |
Information Today March 24, 2011 |
Cornell U Library Issues Statement on Journal Vendor Nondisclosures To promote openness and fairness among libraries licensing scholarly resources, Cornell University Library announced it will not enter into vendor contracts that require nondisclosure of pricing information or other information that does not constitute a trade secret.  |
Searcher December 2011 Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage.  |
D-Lib February 2000 Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: On eBooks, Open Archives, and Libraries  |
Information Today December 2001 Donald T. Hawkins |
Frankfurt Book Fair and IBLC Symposium The FBF is concerned with all aspects of book publishing, and it is the largest trade show in the world...  |