Au sommaire, notamment, du dernier n° de D-Lib Magazine (vol. 14, n° 11/12, nov.-déc. 08):

Edito:

- Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly Communication

Commentaire:

- The Future of Repositories?
Over the past few years, repositories have been created as a product intended to foster dissemination of scholarly works, a shared objective for most academic institutions. Because of this, repositories have grown at a rapid pace over the past decade, with the software trinity of EPrints, DSpace and Fedora leading the field. The openness and willingness of these repository systems to evolve has greatly increased the ability of repositories to disseminate scholarly works; however, the repository community is still in its infancy, and further change as a holistic community is required to support both the users of the systems (institutions) and the users of the resources within the systems (scholars).

Articles:

- Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages
Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories. It must be possible for materials archived in one repository to be exported to and ingested by a second repository without loss of authenticity, digital provenance, or other vital preservation information. Several research and demonstration projects have focused on identifying issues in the exchange of information packages and defining transfer formats. In the TIPR (Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories) project recently funded by the IMLS, partners Cornell University, New York University and the Florida Center for Library Automation will take this research to the next level. TIPR will continue to test and refine the transfer mechanism while beginning to address the semantic issues of repository-to-repository transfer.

- Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and publishing communities. Evans' in-depth research on citations in over 34 million articles and how online availability affects citing patterns, found that the more issues of a journal that are available online, the fewer numbers of articles in that journal are cited. If the journal is available for free online, it is cited even less. Evans attributes this phenomenon to more searching and less browsing (which he feels eliminates marginally relevant articles that may have been found by browsing) and the ability to follow links to see what other authors are citing. He concludes that electronic journals have resulted in a narrowing of scientific citation patterns. This brief article expands on the evidence cited by Evans (Boyce et al. 2004; Tenopir et al. 2004) based on the authors' ongoing surveys of academic readers of scholarly articles. Reading patterns and citation patterns differ, as faculty read many more articles than they ultimately cite and read for many purposes in addition to research and writing. The number of articles read has steadily increased over the last three decades, so the actual numbers of articles found by browsing has not decreased much, even though the percentage of readings found by searching has increased. Readings from library-provided electronic journals has increased substantially, while readings of older articles have recently increased somewhat. Ironically, reading patterns have broadened with electronic journals at the same time citing patterns have narrowed.

- A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline
Studies have shown the advantage of open access publication in terms of citation rate and research impact (Antelman, 2004). These studies have quantified citation rates through various methods, including comparing identical articles in both closed (meaning paid) access and open access, and historical averages within disciplines. Although the data suggest a higher citation rate with open access, some disciplines have demonstrated a reluctance to embrace open access. Issues of premature disclosure, plagiarism, fear of upsetting the current system, indifference, long term storage and retrieval, and intellectual property rights are among the most noted (Yiotis, 2005). At the same time, traditional print services, straining to keep up with the volume of material being produced, have created dissatisfaction with delays and extended wait times common in print publication. Consequently, networking and digital publication practices have, over time, found willing users. Some disciplines, notably astronomy, have embraced open access completely, having almost all scholarly content from current as well as past publications freely available in online form (Kurtz et al., 2005).

Conférences (comptes-rendus):

- ECDL 2008 Conference Report
- Report on the Third Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries
- The Use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL2)

Economie du document
Cours en ligne | Ecole de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (université de Montréal)
Session: automne 2008 | Professeur: Jean-Michel Salaün

Séquence 6: La redocumentarisation

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Au sommaire, notamment, du dernier n° d'Ariadne (n° 57, octobre 08):

Articles:

- Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.

- Implementing e-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective
Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.

- A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.

- OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.

Comptes-rendus:

- Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution
Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

- iPRES 2008
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 – 30 September 2008.

Critique d'ouvrage:

- Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

Reinventing Science Librarianship: Proceedings from the ARL/CNI Forum (16–17/10/08)

"Presentation audio and slides are now online from the recent forum on “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future,” co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Leaders of research libraries and campus IT services gathered in Arlington, Virginia, October 16–17, 2008, to discuss trends in scientific research and the development of new library roles responsive to those trends."

Pour info: le rapport annuel de la bibliothèque de la LSE (London School of Economics).

Library & Information Update (publié par le CILIP, supplément sponsorisé par le JISC).

Economie du document
Cours en ligne | Ecole de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (université de Montréal)
Session: automne 2008 | Professeur: Jean-Michel Salaün

Séquence 5: Résistance et effondrement

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Au menu, notamment, du dernier n° de Computers in Libraries (vol. 28, n° 9, oct. 08 / sur abonnement):

- Everything Digital
- The 'Long Tale': Using Web 2.0 Concepts to Enhance Digital Collections
- The Surprising Impact of Digital Repositories
- The Promise of Digitization

The British Library's Strategy 2008 - 2011

* Capture extensively and store UK digital publications
* Connect our users with content
* Transform access and preservation for newspapers
* Support UK research with innovative services and integrated processes
* Build our digital infrastructure
* Integrate storage and preservation of physical collections
* Develop as an organisation

Internet Librarian 2008: Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices (20-22/10/08, E.-U.)

A suivre, notamment, sur LibrarianInBlack:
- Designing the Digital Experience
- Making a Difference with Digital Media
Online Marketing and Promotion: Making It Fun & Economical
- Solving the Money Problem
- Solving the OPAC Problem
- Solving the Interest Problem
- Crafting the User-Centered Library
- Implementing the Next-Gen OPAC
- Library Floorplans 2.0
- SharePoint for Libraries: Streamlining Your Intranet Management
- Digital Marketing: Successful Plans/Organizations

Et sur Infotoday Blog