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.

International Journal of Internet Science

"A peer reviewed open access journal for empirical findings, methodology, and theory of social and behavioral science concerning the Internet and its implications for individuals, social groups, organizations, and society."

Livret de Revues.org (2008-2009)

Sommaire:
* Des outils mis à la disposition de la communauté scientifique
* Suivre l’actualité du CLEO
* Des revues de sciences humaines et sociales souhaitant participer à la diffusion des savoirs
* Les revues adhérentes
* Adhérer à Revues.org

"EBSCO Publishing has launched a Sushi-compliant server to automate the collection of usage data from EBSCOhost research databases."

Open access publisher BioMed Central sold to Springer (source: Scientific American, 07/10/08)

Springer buys BioMed Central (source: OAN, 07/10/08)

Springer Will Acquire BioMed Central Group, Major Open Access Publisher (source: DigitalKoans, 07/10/08)

Comments on the Springer-BMC deal (source: OAN, 08/10/08)

A match made in open access heaven? (source: The Scientist, 10/10/08)

Le dernier n° de Liber Quarterly (désormais en libre accès) est en ligne (vol. 18, n° 2).

The Transfer Code of Practice
(source: UKSG)

Pour rappel:

"The goal of the TRANSFER Code is to establish a set of standards that would apply whenever a journal is transferred from one publisher to another and encourage the industry to embrace these standards as a baseline level of quality and performance. The Code is concerned primarily with online content and not with print – except where the Code calls for print subscription lists to be made available."

Pricing and other means of charging for scholarly journals: a literature review and commentary
(source: Learned Publishing, Volume 21, Number 4, October 2008 , pp. 248-272(25))

"There has been a clear upward trend over the past 50 years in traditional listed print subscription prices. The more recent trend towards electronic publishing has made possible new ways of charging for journals, such as differential pricing structures and bundling of journals which are purchased through license fees/charges (both of which enable libraries to buy significantly more journals, but at the same time make it more difficult to analyze prices). We are now also seeing a new emphasis on the 'author-side payment' model. This article analyzes pricing and charging policies and trends, illustrating how these are affected by the complexities of the evolving journal system."

Au menu, notamment, du D-Lib Magazine de sept.-oct. 08 (vol. 14, n° 9/10):

Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users

"This study shares the results of an effort to understand the needs and goals of future institutional repository (IR) users at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB). Due to underutilization of IRs at other institutions, the University Libraries at UCB decided it was imperative that insight into users' goals and needs of an IR be gained before design of the repository began. The libraries partnered with faculty and students with expertise in human-computer interaction to study user needs. The results of this study yielded "personas" describing different classes of potential IR users on university campuses, which can be used to guide IR architects in designing repositories that facilitate increased participation."

"As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. In addition to deciding on the more traditional descriptive and administrative metadata, particular care needs to be given to the choice of structural and preservation metadata, as well as to integrating the various metadata components. This article reports on the use of METS structural, PREMIS preservation and MODS descriptive metadata for the British Library's eJournal system. "

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