Analysis of PubGet — An Expedited Fulltext Service for Life Science Journal Articles

"In June, a new service that speeds access to life sciences literature reached a milestone. Called PubGet, it is a service that reduces the number of clicks to the full text of an article, and the milestone was activating the 50th institution using its service. Using its own proprietary “pathing engine”, it links directly to the full text on the publisher’s website. PubGet does this by understanding the link structure for each journal of each publisher and constructing the link to the full-text based on information from the citation. The PubGet service focuses on the life sciences journals indexed in PubMed — hence the play on names: PubMed to PubGet."

(source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester, 05/08/09)

ACRLog, dans le billet The Real-Time Library, revient sur les principales caractéristiques des bibs "en temps réel" (si quelqu'un a une meilleure traduction - e-bibs?):

• Elles sont intégrées dans des réseaux collaboratifs, ce qui implique plus que la simple ouverture d'un compte: une présence active et le partage d'information en temps réel.
• Elles mettent à jour régulièrement leur "statut".
• Elles offrent des services sur mesure à leur(s) communauté(s).
• Elles sont accessibles en temps réel et mettent donc en oeuvre les outils adéquats pour assurer cette accessibilité.
• Elles mettent en ligne des services d'information en flux continu.
• Elles effectuent de la veille active sur les services web émergeant et expérimentent ceux dont le potentiel peut améliorer leurs e-services.
• Elles implémentent des services spécifiques au web en temps réel.
• Les bibliothécaires "en temps réel" sont prêts à créer des relations avec les utilisateurs "en temps réel".

Evident, me direz-vous. Certes.

Blogging as a Special Librarian

"[...] We should all be communicating with our users, colleagues, patrons, markets and just plain folks regularly. Blogs can be part of your communication mosaic and add clear value.  Added to e-mail, websites, newsletters, etc. and combined with RSS and permission-based marketing, you’ve got a powerful strategy. [...]"

(source: Stephen's Lighthouse, 03/07/09)

Au menu du n°7 du Code4Lib Journal:

• How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source

In 2000 a small public library system in New Zealand developed and released Koha, the world’s first open source library management system. This is the story of how that came to pass and why, and of the lessons learnt in their first foray into developing in open source.

Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data (Edited by Nicole C. Engard, Foreword by Jenny Levine)

"This unique book is geared to help any library keep its website dynamically and collaboratively up-to-date, increase user participation, and provide exemplary web-based service through the power of mashups.
Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world share definitions, tools, techniques, and real life applications. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content."

Commander le livre ici

> Collaborative Librarianship

(vol. 1, n° 2, mai 09 / en libre accès)

> Library Hi Tech

(vol. 27, n° 2, mai 09 / sur abonnement)

Un numéro consacré notamment aux VRE (Virtual Research Environments).

Voir aussi: From OPAC to CMS: Drupal as an extensible library platform
Voir aussi: Discovering Discovery Tools: Evaluating Vendors and Implementing Web 2.0 Environments

> Copyright for Education and Research: Golden Opportunity or Digital Black Hole?

(source: British Library / via DigitalKoans, 10/05/09)

> Article@BST: passez du papier à l'électronique !

(source: BlogusOperandi, 12/05/09)

> Un univers netvibes S.I.Lex pour la veille en droit et en sciences de l’information

(source: S.I.Lex, 11/05/09)

> La loi Hadopi, vue autrement

(source: S.I.Lex, 11/05/09)

> Téléchargement : l'éducation par l'exemple

(source: affordance.info, 11/05/09)

Web Services As Public Services: Are We Supporting Our Busiest Service Point?
(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Article in Press, Corrected Proof, 25/11/08 / sur abonnement)

"This article is an analysis of academic library organizational culture, patterns, and processes as they relate to Web services. Data gathered in a research survey is examined in an attempt to reveal current departmental and administrative attitudes, practices, and support for Web services in the library research environment."

"[...] Academic library Web sites and their development, like all areas of the library, are impacted by organizational structures, cultures and climates. Organizational and institutional culture, as it relates to libraries, can be thought of in two ways. There is the culture of librarianship as a profession and then there are the organizational cultures as experienced in our respective institutions. While there are many similar definitions of organizational culture, we can say organizational culture is the shared mental models; the set of spoken and unspoken rules, values and principles; the institutional memory, feelings and experiences that gather and coalesce over time.3 Organizational culture, climate and structure are powerful, critical forces which shape strategies, determine goals, affect productivity and can make or break innovation. [...]"

A million free covers for your library or bookstore

LibraryThing propose ses couvertures de livres (~1 million).
Il faut détenir une "LibraryThing Developer Key".

On le sait, Amazon offre aussi ce service. Voici la position de LT sur le sujet:
"This service "competes" with Amazons cover service, now part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon's service is, quite simply, better. They have far more covers, and no limit on the number of requests. By changing the URL you can do amazing things to Amazon covers.
The catch is that Amazon's Terms of Service require a link-back. If you're trying to make money from Amazon Affiliates, this is a good thing. But libraries and small bookstores have been understandably wary about linking to Amazon. Recent changes in Amazon's Terms of Service have deepened this worry."

Au menu du dernier Library Technology Reports (juillet 08, vol. 44, n° 5), des articles sur le "web portable" (ou "mobile") et les bibs:

- What Is the Mobile Web?
- Mobile Devices.
- What Can You Do with the Mobile Web?
- Library Mobile Initiatives.
- How to Create a Mobile Experience.
- Getting Started with the Mobile Web.

Une liste de services web orientés bib sur TechEssence.info (R. Tennant).