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This European project is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) that monitors technologies for cultural and scientific heritage preservation. Topics of discussion include national policies and initiatives and organizational change and trends and analysis in these technology areas. The ultimate aim is to provide a vision of how cultural heritage technologies will or could develop in the near future (until 2006). Also available on the site are publications and an events database.
In this article, Dr. Lynch recognized the development of institutional repositories as a new strategy that allows universities to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship and scholarly communication. He defines institutional repositories as a set of services that a university offers to its members for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. He explains the strategic importance of repositories indicating that they have roles beyond disseminating and managing the works of individual scholars that are part of the dialog of scholarly communications. He has three concerns about insitutional repositories: that they are cast as tools of institutional (administrative) strategies to exercise control over what has typically been faculty controlled intellectual work; that we respect institutional repositories as infrastructure and not overload it with distracting and irrelevant policy; and that repositories will be offered hastily and without much real institutional commitment. Dr. Lynch believes that institutional repositories will promote progress in the development of infrastructure standards. In closing Dr. Lynch predicts that institutional repositories will have a variety of configurations, e.g., consortial or cluster institutional repositories, federation repositories, and community or public repositories.
The report is the result of a survey of 275 publishers, of which 183 responded; 149 responses were valid and included in the analysis. The executive summary is available free of charge from ALPSP. Some of the major findings are: 782 new journal titles have been launched by the publishers analyzed in the last five years; 75% of journals published are available online; pricing structures vary for bundles and appears to be tied to the print version; consortia agreements vary; and larger publishers offer simpler pricing and more usage rights than smaller publishers. The report concludes that the market for online journals is still in a developing and experimental stage.
At the February 4, 2003 CENDI meeting at the National Library of Medicine, Mr. James gave a history of GPO's role in collecting, managing, and distributing government information. He remarked that less than 50 percent of GPO's output ever sees paper and that the trend is towards more digital products. Ms. Russell is the 22nd Superintendent of Documents. She stressed the need for agency collaboration and the opportunities of agencies to provide improved access to federal information. In particular she discussed the need to review the FDLP program and is interested in seeking more partnerships with CENDI to further progress toward common goals.
At the CENDI meeting on February 4, 2003 at the National Library of Congress, Mr. Crowe gave a brief history of SPARC and its goals. He discussed the current scholarly journal publishing model and suggested that the four components of the model could be disaggregated, allowing different organizations to provide services in these areas. Institutional repositories would play a major role in this new publishing model however standards must be developed to make the disaggregated system work together. Mr. Crowe also discussed impediments to the development of institutional repositories including the trend against formal publication if preprints are posted; concern about intellectual property rights; quality issues, and the need to have a critical mass of information in a repository.
The Guide presents an overview of metadata practices in publishing and related initiatives aimed at standardizing how metadata is structured and disseminated online. Metadata in publishing can be classified according to specific functions, such as technical metadata, rights metadata, and preservation metadata. The authors focus on descriptive metadata that characterizes the content itself. The Guide covers metadata's relationship to XML and to identifiers, why metadata is important to publishers and the reader, and then covers several metadata practices in the publishing industry including ONIX, JWP, CrossRef, and OAI. The authors conclude that metadata is an essential part of the publishing process and provides an extensive list of information resources on electronic publishing.
Information Access Alliance is a coalition of six leading library organizations in the US and represents the interests of these institutions as mergers among scholarly and legal publishers occur. The Web site contains information on the impact of publisher mergers on the market for STM journals and provides a link to a recently released white paper "Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis."
This report includes a report on the changing R&D information economy authored by Robert Ubell, and additional materials provided by the agencies and compiled by the Secretariat. The report discusses the transitions that are occurring between the print and digital publishing environment and analyses the current and potential impacts on cost and benefits. The economics of the print economy are compared to those of the digital environment. Key judgements based on case studies from the agencies are also included.
This "index" page links to individual issues of the quarterly newsletter that provide coverage of scientific and technical electronic information, Internet, the Web, and related issues such as policy and standards, Web site development guidelines, and topical resources with S&T information content.
This five page document summarizes the discussions on building a scientific electronic archive presented during the ICSTI 1997 General Assembly. Reviews are included for each speaker's presentation. Comparisons of the print and electronic publishing environment are made. Examples of electronic publishing projects in Japan are given. Final discussion centered on national and international issues in implementing a scientific electronic archive.
ICSU is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1931 to bring together natural scientists in international scientific endeavor. The Council acts as a focus for the exchange of ideas and information and the development of standards. This site links to the conference program, committees, and summaries of invited papers for this joint conference with UNESCO. The 13 invited papers cover topics on standards, archiving, electronic publishing in developing countries, digital libraries, S&T information, copyright, data security, and economics of information.
This assessment presents issues in improving public access to electronic Federal Government information from the Federal Depository Library Program and Federal Government information in general. Media types, formats, performance criteria, costs, and national federal policy for electronic information products are discussed.
The article describes a Web-based electronic journal publishing project and underlying concepts for electronic publishing from the Physics community. Three fundamental elements are a preprint server, a peer-reviewed and edited journal, and an electronic archive. Discusses difficulties in transitioning role of archive from libraries to publishers; product design; computer network and software tools to support the product; and cost models. This prototype explores issues in moving to Web-based systems for e-publishing.
This handbook is provided as a practical tool for policy level officials to help them understand the ideas and issues related to the Information Superhighway, Cyberspace and the Information Society. Using electronic publishing as an example, it shows the national information policy implications of the move to electronic information.
This report was prepared for the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents to assess the status of electronic publishing among U.S. government agencies and the formats in which this publishing is being done. This is the result of interviews and surveys with over 120 agencies, offices, programs, and experts. This report is part of a project to ensure transition to a more electronic Federal Depository Library Program. Key findings are in the area of policy and planning, permanent public access, authenticity issues, and product characteristics (including the most common formats).
This report, conducted through interviews with organizations that have digital archiving projects in prototype or operational stages, describes the status of the practice, identifies outstanding issues, describes a typology of archiving models, and makes recommendations for follow-up by ICSTI and CENDI.
The Office of Information Services at NIST, which supports the research activities of the NIST community, is described. The strategic plan is outlined, which calls for OIS to re-invent itself. Changes, including the introduction of a First Point of Contact Desk, are described.
OIRA attention is focused on legislative priorities, policy-related issues, and technology. Legislative priorities include government printing (Title 44) and privacy. Policy-related issues included Electronic FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), WWW policy, and the Morella Act (voluntary consensus standards to be used in purchasing and in regulations). Technology areas include the Information Technology Management Reform Act (ITMRA), the Raines Rules (eight criteria that should be met by any information systems investment), Y2K, Government Wide Agency Contracts, and the newly established CIO Council. Each of these is briefly described.
In 1999 key managers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's e-print server sent out a call to experts to join an initiative aimed at discussion and resolution of interoperability problems among and across author self-archiving systems, such as e-print and preprint archives. This site will include access to meeting minutes, white papers and prototype systems.
The February 1996 joint UNESCO/ICSU conference on Electronic Publishing, recommended this follow-on workshop to address issues of practices and standards in electronic publishing. The report covers aspects such as archiving, citations, privacy, peer review, and the benefits to developing countries.
As an outcome of the AAAS/UNESCO/ICSU workshop on scientific publishing (see record 166), an international working group was created to help define "scientific publications" in the electronic environment. This is an update to the white paper prepared by the group that presents several thoughts, acknowledging the added value presented by the electronic environment.
Paper emphasizes selective resolution identifiers -means used by a client to identify which of several copies of an item was accessed- and the minimal set of metadata software required for reference linking. Illustrates a general model for static linking and compares it against existing implementations, addresses present state-of-the-art regarding reference linking to journal articles and future works and reviews.
This document contains the details of a preconference workshop to the 2000 annual NFAIS meeting that NFAIS and NISO co-sponsored to discuss the future development of editorial, technical, linking, and archiving standards regarding electronic journals.
Exploit Portal is a service which provides a searchable and browseable catalogue containing information about European, international and national projects in the fields of Telematics Application and Information Society Technology. You can view EXPLOIT Interactive a Web magazine, and a list of workshops and upcoming events. Basic and advance search capabilities are provided. There is a provision to add and/or update new entries.
Coverage is a wide ranging with emphasis on broader issues that shape policy for professional, scientific and/or academic publishing, both books and journals. Issues include details on Web design, server management, pricing, revenue collection and policy issues. Issue have a set of short invited contributions on a particular theme. Longer pieces covering electronic publishing from publishers and/or scholars are also be included.
This paper, commissioned by the Council on Library and Information Resources, reviews how and what statistics are currently collected for electronic journals in libraries. It provides a brief overview of industry developments and notes some of the critical data issues that need to be resolved between librarians and publishers. The author interviewed librarians at OhioLINK, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Florida Center for Library Automation to determine how they provide usage data to their consortia members. Publishers and providers of electronic materials were also interviewed to compare their ideas of obtaining usage data to those of the libraries. Summaries of these interviews are included in the paper. Both librarians and providers were solicited for comments to establish a base for understanding and interpretating the data and to identify their concerns.
This discussion paper looks at three current sites for digital information: ACM Digital Library, the Internet RFC series, and D-Lib Magazine. Implications for long-term preservation, publishers as archivists, organizational stability, copyright, technology standards, long-terms strategies, partnerships, and preservation independent of the original publisher are discussed.
This tutorial from The University of Leicester provides users with all the necessary steps for locating electronic journals in the Library. The aim of the tutorial is to help users understand the different types of journals, how to locate an electronic journal; understand electronic journal suppliers; know which passwords are required; understand the issues of access on and off campus; understand copyright restrictions; and know where and how to set up current awareness alerts.
This article discusses the Electronic Bolles Archive of the history and topography of London project which explores the extent to which geographic visualization tools can assist readers to understand the complex temporal-spatial interactions that shape many documents. The goal of this project is to develop a temporal-spatial front end for digital libraries. The authors conclude by stating that we need a richer model for data exchange if digital libraries are to realize their potential.
This Web site serves as a forum for discussing, developing, and promoting interoperability standards that will facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. One of its initial efforts was to enhance access to e-print archives in order to improve scholarly communication. The Web site posts meeting minutes, current projects, and upcoming meetings and related events.
Guide to libraries on negotiating license agreements for access to electronic resources. Identifies issues of libraries and user communities for consideration by licensors. New cost models and legal agreements are required to address issues in acquiring and making available to the user community electronic products. This document provides background of legal issues, fifteen principles of licensing, terms to be defined in the legal document, and bibliographies on licensing and other related sources.
This work provides guidance for information providers in establishing accessible Websites and acquiring the appropriate hardware and software needed by people with disabilities. Internet access using large print, voice, and Braille is the book's focus. Information on funding opportunities, equipment options, and suppliers of adaptive equipment is also provided. Another useful inclusion is the list of Websites and libraries that are in the process of providing library access to persons with disabilities.
This is the executive summary for a larger report on public information dissemination conducted by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. The report concisely summarizes the findings and provides a lengthy list of strategic and other recommendations to improve the condition of government information dissemination in the United States.
Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman requested this study be made because of the complexities of providing information using emerging electronic technologies. In the report, NCLIS calls for the recognition of government information as a national resource that should be planned and managed accordingly. The findings and recommendations by NCLIS are meant to serve as a strategic plan for reform in the the way government creates, stores and disseminates information. This comprehensive study undertaken by NCLIS was begun in June 2000 consists of 4 volumes. Volume 2 was recently released in March 2001.
This resource has over 1,290 selected articles, books, electronic documents and other sources that are concerned with understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. Each major section of the bibliography is a separate Web page that includes live links to sources whenever available. Some of the major headings include electronic books and texts, electronic serials, legal issues, and publisher issues. The scholarly electronic publishing resources section include topics on digital libraries; cataloging, classification, and metadata; preprints, preservation and more.
This is a summary report of the ICSU Press Workshop held at Keble College, University of Oxford UK on 31 March to 2 April 1998. The Workshop was a follow-up to a recommendation of the Joint ICSU Press/UNESCO Conference of Experts in 1996 to conduct a technical study on the economics and benefits of electronic publishing in science. The primary benefit of electronic publishing was found to be speed of access and publication, rapid retrieval of related papers, wider access to data, and the ability for referees to conduct a more comprehensive review. Some of the disadvantages discussed were non-uniform browsers and other incompatible software issues, and conflicting copyright and intellectual property rights of authors with some of the publishers. The additional costs of online access was found to be in the range of 20-30% which also covers the cost of providing access to and maintaining a digital archive. However it does not include training techniques and access provisions for the user. The last day of the conference was devoted to the formulation of conclusions and recommendations on which there was general agreement.
This European academic digital publishing project is a collaborative effort of European universities and publishers whose aim is to support the European academic community by making scholarly publishing faster, cheaper, and simpler. The network will continue to expand into a digital e-publishing platform and will offer its European participants a technical infrastructure and a network organization strategy that will facilitate the total digital publishing process. In May 2002, the Information Society Directoratte-General of the European Union granted FIGARO a EUR 1.4 million subsidy for the project. Universities in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Belgium are current participants. Other participants include various commercial publishing companies and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
This article comments on the U.S. Congress's exploration of whether the cost of journal publications is hindering access to publicly funded research. The proposal introduced by Martin Sabo in (H.R. 2613) in conjunction with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) would put the results of scientific research that was funded primarily by the federal government into the public domain by requiring scientists to forgo copyright protection for such work. PLoS maintains that the rising cost of many journals is denying the public access to new discoveries. A new set of peer-reviewed journals that would be freely available on the Internet is being developed by PLoS will be introduced in October, 2003. The House and Senate Appropriations Committee are expected to request NIH to report on how the rising subscrption charges of for-profit biomedical research publishers are affecting access to taxpayer-funded research.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) website provides free access to scientific reports, articles and other documents. Plos publishes its own peer-reviewed journals including Plos Biology and PLoS Medicine, and will expand to include Plos Biology, PLoS Chemistry and PLoS Computer Science. All accepted articles adhere to rigorous peer review and high editorial and production standards. PLoS is a nonprofit corporation whose goal is to provide a model for sustainable open-access publication and to make scientific and technical literature freely accessible to everyone. The website has a detailed FAQ section that answers many questions concerning open-access publishing, their journals, and the the PLoS organization.
This article explores the contradictory and redundant economic aspects of the current scholarly publishing situation with a focus on the viability of an open-access model for publishing. The author examines the overlap in content between subscription-based and open access sources. Currently open access journals make up 10-20 percent of online journals The author's close examination of the economic issues of journal publishing is aimed at assisting scholarly associations and their members in determining whether open access journal publishing is the business model that should be followed.
The goals of the Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO) are to strengthen U.S. participation in international scientific, engineering, and medical organizations and to assist in building capacity in these organizations. BISO serves as the national committee for the International Council for Science (ICSU) and is a board within the National Research Council's Policy and Global Affairs Division. BISO's web site provides access to many of their projects on open access and public domain information. Background papers, symposium abstracts and bios are also available from the web site.
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