British Government Prefers Current Scholarly Publishing Situation
The British government rejected recommendations from the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons for changes to the current scholarly publishing model. The government stated it “is...
View ArticleSearching Scholarly Materials
Google released its search engine for scholarly material, Google Scholar this week. I realized what I could write about it, started to search for a link, then noticed Christina’s post fortuitously in...
View ArticleAre Bookless Libraries in Our Future?
Dennis Dillon of the University of Texas at Austin speculates on the future of libraries in this Chronicle of Higher Education piece. Beginning with a discussion of the possibility of outsourcing...
View ArticleWritten Works from Embargoed Countries Allowed
In a decision that opens scholarly communication channels, the US Treasury Department “… clarif[ied] the extent to which publishing activities with persons in Cuba, Iran and Sudan are authorized.” The...
View ArticleSciFi Group Investigates Vanity Publisher
Within minutes of the news about a science fiction group investigating a vanity publisher appearing on Slashdot, two people IMed me about it. I chuckled when I saw it as Sunday’s Library Link of the...
View ArticleHelping the Enemy or Helping Scholars
I submitted a scholarly article to a journal. After doing so, I reflected on a lot of the things I’ve been reading and writing lately. Am I supporting the enemy by sending in my scholarly work–signing...
View ArticleURL Decay in Scholarly Articles
Two professors analyzed Web addresses in footnotes in articles published in certain communication journals between 2000 and 2003 to study link decay. Their results show about 1/3 of the URLs in 1,126...
View ArticleConsortium Attempts to Protect Journal Issues Digitally
A consortium of universities, libraries, and interested parties is developing a digital archive of journal issues in case publishers disappear, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Adapting...
View ArticlePublishing in the New Millenium Proceedings
The proceedings of the Publishing in the New Millennium: the future of scientific publishing in the biosciences conference held at Harvard University on November 9 are available....
View ArticleCode4Lib Journal Issue 7 Out
Issue 7 of the Code4Lib Journal is out: How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC Using a Web...
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