WorldCat.org users can now view digitised books in the Google Book Search collection, on the WorldCat.org website. This is thanks to the new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that were released by Google on 22 September.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Elsevier addresses plagiarism
Elsevier to contribute millions of articles to CrossCheck
27 June 2008
Elsevier is implementing CrossCheck to help combat plagiarism. The company has invested in CrossCheck to develop, pilot and implement a single database of published articles enabling publishers to easily verify the originality of submitted and published work.
Elsevier is now integrating CrossCheck into its editorial workflows as part of its efforts to support the peer-review process and assist the scientific community in all aspects of publishing ethics. Elsevier will contribute nearly nine million journal articles to the CrossCheck database, which is launching with a commitment of over 20 million journal articles from publishers.
CrossCheck, developed by iParadigms and CrossRef, was piloted for six months pilot with eight leading publishers. ‘By creating a pooled database of articles from multiple publishers and tested tools, we can provide assistance to the scholarly community on an unprecedented scale,’ commented Martin Tanke, Elsevier’s managing director of S&T Journal Publishing. ‘CrossRef has taken the principles of publisher collaboration far beyond reference linking. CrossCheck, combined with our recently launched Publishing Ethics Resource Kit and full journal membership in COPE (Committee on Publishing Ethics) further reinforce our commitment.’John Barrie president and CEO of iParadigms, LLC added: ‘Our customers, especially academic ones, have been asking for more medical and science content for checking the originality of work destined for publication. Elsevier’s adoption of CrossCheck powered by iThenticate lets us leverage their vast, industry-leading content to significantly enhance the effectiveness of our originality checking services. Likewise, Elsevier will leverage the CrossCheck and iParadigms database which makes for a powerful alliance and one that is extremely beneficial to our network of institutional subscribers.’
27 June 2008
Elsevier is implementing CrossCheck to help combat plagiarism. The company has invested in CrossCheck to develop, pilot and implement a single database of published articles enabling publishers to easily verify the originality of submitted and published work.
Elsevier is now integrating CrossCheck into its editorial workflows as part of its efforts to support the peer-review process and assist the scientific community in all aspects of publishing ethics. Elsevier will contribute nearly nine million journal articles to the CrossCheck database, which is launching with a commitment of over 20 million journal articles from publishers.
CrossCheck, developed by iParadigms and CrossRef, was piloted for six months pilot with eight leading publishers. ‘By creating a pooled database of articles from multiple publishers and tested tools, we can provide assistance to the scholarly community on an unprecedented scale,’ commented Martin Tanke, Elsevier’s managing director of S&T Journal Publishing. ‘CrossRef has taken the principles of publisher collaboration far beyond reference linking. CrossCheck, combined with our recently launched Publishing Ethics Resource Kit and full journal membership in COPE (Committee on Publishing Ethics) further reinforce our commitment.’John Barrie president and CEO of iParadigms, LLC added: ‘Our customers, especially academic ones, have been asking for more medical and science content for checking the originality of work destined for publication. Elsevier’s adoption of CrossCheck powered by iThenticate lets us leverage their vast, industry-leading content to significantly enhance the effectiveness of our originality checking services. Likewise, Elsevier will leverage the CrossCheck and iParadigms database which makes for a powerful alliance and one that is extremely beneficial to our network of institutional subscribers.’
Academic Libraries in 21st century
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/resourcediscovery/lmsstudy.pdf
Academic libraries shape their future through collaboration
13 July 2008
The report ‘Library Management Systems: Investing wisely in a period of disruptive change’ was used as a starting point by professionals from across the library community at a recent consultation in London.
Looking at how academic libraries can adapt to the 21st century learner, the consultation raised various questions regarding tensions facing the sector and how best to take the challenge forward.Findings from the report including ‘how libraries need to be more agile and responsive to meet a wider online role’ - was a view shared by the attendees at the consultation.Discussions at the consultation were focussed on the users’ experience from personalised delivery to how to overcome the technology challenges of legacy systems and interoperability between other university systems.The report was published by JISC and SCONUL (Society for College, National and University Librarians).
Academic libraries shape their future through collaboration
13 July 2008
The report ‘Library Management Systems: Investing wisely in a period of disruptive change’ was used as a starting point by professionals from across the library community at a recent consultation in London.
Looking at how academic libraries can adapt to the 21st century learner, the consultation raised various questions regarding tensions facing the sector and how best to take the challenge forward.Findings from the report including ‘how libraries need to be more agile and responsive to meet a wider online role’ - was a view shared by the attendees at the consultation.Discussions at the consultation were focussed on the users’ experience from personalised delivery to how to overcome the technology challenges of legacy systems and interoperability between other university systems.The report was published by JISC and SCONUL (Society for College, National and University Librarians).
OUP and PubMed Central
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=353
Oxford Journals has announced it will deposit articles published in any of its journals, identified by the authors as being funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), into PubMed Central (PMC).
Martin Richardson, managing director of Oxford Journals, commented: ‘Already all of our open-access articles are being deposited into PMC. Now any NIH-funded authors who publish their articles in one of our journals will not need to deposit them into PMC themselves – Oxford Journals will do so for no charge on their behalf.'Any NIH-funded manuscripts submitted to Oxford Journals from 31 July 2008 onwards will be identified and tagged, and the final published version will then be sent to PMC for them to include on their platform. NIH-funded articles which are open access will be available immediately, and those which are not open access will be available after 12 months.
Oxford Journals has announced it will deposit articles published in any of its journals, identified by the authors as being funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), into PubMed Central (PMC).
Martin Richardson, managing director of Oxford Journals, commented: ‘Already all of our open-access articles are being deposited into PMC. Now any NIH-funded authors who publish their articles in one of our journals will not need to deposit them into PMC themselves – Oxford Journals will do so for no charge on their behalf.'Any NIH-funded manuscripts submitted to Oxford Journals from 31 July 2008 onwards will be identified and tagged, and the final published version will then be sent to PMC for them to include on their platform. NIH-funded articles which are open access will be available immediately, and those which are not open access will be available after 12 months.
Bloomsbury to publish Open Access academic books
Bloomsbury Publishing is launching into academic publishing with a new imprint: Bloomsbury Academic. The imprint plans initially to publish monographs in the humanities and social sciences. It plans to have approximately 50 new titles online and in print by the end of 2009.
These titles will all be published online under an open-access models. Free downloads, for non-commercial purposes, will be available immediately upon publication, using Creative Commons licences. The works will also be sold as books, using short-run technologies or Print on Demand (POD).
'The new Bloomsbury Academic imprint represents new thinking, new technology and new directions in academic publishing. We're making a major commitment to spreading knowledge more easily throughout the world – with a sustainable business model,' commented the newly-appointed Bloomsbury Academic publisher Frances Pinter.
The platform will also be available to showcase and promote other publishers' titles. The initiative is not exclusively in the English language, says the company. Bloomsbury’s German partner, Berlin Verlag, will be participating actively in the venture.
These titles will all be published online under an open-access models. Free downloads, for non-commercial purposes, will be available immediately upon publication, using Creative Commons licences. The works will also be sold as books, using short-run technologies or Print on Demand (POD).
'The new Bloomsbury Academic imprint represents new thinking, new technology and new directions in academic publishing. We're making a major commitment to spreading knowledge more easily throughout the world – with a sustainable business model,' commented the newly-appointed Bloomsbury Academic publisher Frances Pinter.
The platform will also be available to showcase and promote other publishers' titles. The initiative is not exclusively in the English language, says the company. Bloomsbury’s German partner, Berlin Verlag, will be participating actively in the venture.
Information professions could become disconnected from users
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=379
16 September 2008
Information professions including librarianship, archives, publishing and journalism could become increasingly disconnected from their users. This is one of the conclusions of a new book edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands of the CIBER group at University College London, UK. (978-1-85604-651-0)
Digital Consumers, published by Facet Publishing, is based on intensive research by the CIBER Group. It states that the digital transition has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice. Professional skills are increasingly being performed without the necessary context, rationale and understanding.
The book states there is a need for a new belief system to help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players nor the first-choice suppliers.
16 September 2008
Information professions including librarianship, archives, publishing and journalism could become increasingly disconnected from their users. This is one of the conclusions of a new book edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands of the CIBER group at University College London, UK. (978-1-85604-651-0)
Digital Consumers, published by Facet Publishing, is based on intensive research by the CIBER Group. It states that the digital transition has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice. Professional skills are increasingly being performed without the necessary context, rationale and understanding.
The book states there is a need for a new belief system to help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players nor the first-choice suppliers.
Reference Notes: Useful blog to join
http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/
The Reference Notes blog is devoted to providing profiles of significant or substantive developments and news of potential interest to Reference and Research Librarians worldwide.
The Reference Notes blog is devoted to providing profiles of significant or substantive developments and news of potential interest to Reference and Research Librarians worldwide.
LIFe magazine photo archive freely available
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Some amazing photos here
Some amazing photos here
Europeana - the European Union's new digital library launched
from: http://en.kioskea.net/actualites/massive-eu-online-library-looks-to-compete-with-google-10965-actualite.php3
Inspired by ancient Alexandria's attempt to collect the world's knowledge, the EU launches on Thursday its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe's cultural heritage.
Using the latest technologies, the European Union aims to draw together millions of digital objects, ranging from film, photographs, paintings, sound files, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, documents and, of course, books.
From its opening, users will be able to find major literary works like Dante's Divine Comedy, or masterpieces such as Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring or the manuscripts of composers including Beethoven. The Internet and digitalisation techniques will "enable a Czech student to browse the British library without going to London, or an Irish art lover to get close to the Mona Lisa without queueing at the Louvre," said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner responsible for new technologies.
Europeana is a chance to "give greater visibility to all the treasures hidden deep in our libraries, museums and archives," said Reding, and "compare masterpieces until now spread around the four corners of the globe."
With 14 staff members and at an annual cost put at around EUR2,5-million, Europeana is set for humble beginnings.
The prototype to be launched on Thursday will contain around two million digital items, all of them already in the public domain, as the most recent items are plagued by problems linked to copyright and their use online.
By 2010, the date when Europeana is due to be fully operational, the aim is to have 10 million works available, an impressive number yet a mere drop in the ocean compared to the 2,5 billion books in Europe's more common libraries.
The process of digitalisation is a massive undertaking.
Around one percent of the books in the EU's national libraries are now available in digital form, with that figure expected to grow to four percent in 2012. And even when they are digitalised, they still have to be put online.
The size of the task proved daunting even for Internet giant Microsoft.
The US computer firm launched its own online library project at the end of 2006, but abandoned it 18 months later after having digitalised about 750 000 works.
Google, one of the pioneers in this domain on the other hand, claims to have seven million books available for its "Google Book Search" project, which saw the light of day at the end of 2004.
Indeed Europeana was first seen as the 27-nation bloc's response to Google. Based on a proposal from France, several nations came together in 2005 to call for the creation of such a library at EU level.
A first attempt, with a few thousand works from France, Hungary and Portugal, was put online in March 2007 by France's national library, which has its own digital section, Gallica, launched in 1996.
Adding to the degree of difficulty, the EU project also aims to operate in 21 languages, although three - English, French and German - will be most prevalent early on.
In parallel with Europeana, Brussels will invest a total of about EUR120-million in 2009 and 2010 to develop digital technology, and put another 40 million into multilingualism techniques, like automatic translation. But it hopes the private sector will also invest and help speed up the work.
Inspired by ancient Alexandria's attempt to collect the world's knowledge, the EU launches on Thursday its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe's cultural heritage.
Using the latest technologies, the European Union aims to draw together millions of digital objects, ranging from film, photographs, paintings, sound files, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, documents and, of course, books.
From its opening, users will be able to find major literary works like Dante's Divine Comedy, or masterpieces such as Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring or the manuscripts of composers including Beethoven. The Internet and digitalisation techniques will "enable a Czech student to browse the British library without going to London, or an Irish art lover to get close to the Mona Lisa without queueing at the Louvre," said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner responsible for new technologies.
Europeana is a chance to "give greater visibility to all the treasures hidden deep in our libraries, museums and archives," said Reding, and "compare masterpieces until now spread around the four corners of the globe."
With 14 staff members and at an annual cost put at around EUR2,5-million, Europeana is set for humble beginnings.
The prototype to be launched on Thursday will contain around two million digital items, all of them already in the public domain, as the most recent items are plagued by problems linked to copyright and their use online.
By 2010, the date when Europeana is due to be fully operational, the aim is to have 10 million works available, an impressive number yet a mere drop in the ocean compared to the 2,5 billion books in Europe's more common libraries.
The process of digitalisation is a massive undertaking.
Around one percent of the books in the EU's national libraries are now available in digital form, with that figure expected to grow to four percent in 2012. And even when they are digitalised, they still have to be put online.
The size of the task proved daunting even for Internet giant Microsoft.
The US computer firm launched its own online library project at the end of 2006, but abandoned it 18 months later after having digitalised about 750 000 works.
Google, one of the pioneers in this domain on the other hand, claims to have seven million books available for its "Google Book Search" project, which saw the light of day at the end of 2004.
Indeed Europeana was first seen as the 27-nation bloc's response to Google. Based on a proposal from France, several nations came together in 2005 to call for the creation of such a library at EU level.
A first attempt, with a few thousand works from France, Hungary and Portugal, was put online in March 2007 by France's national library, which has its own digital section, Gallica, launched in 1996.
Adding to the degree of difficulty, the EU project also aims to operate in 21 languages, although three - English, French and German - will be most prevalent early on.
In parallel with Europeana, Brussels will invest a total of about EUR120-million in 2009 and 2010 to develop digital technology, and put another 40 million into multilingualism techniques, like automatic translation. But it hopes the private sector will also invest and help speed up the work.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Subject Guides (LibGuides)
We now have theses Depts - Anthro, Chem, Ecos, Fine Art and Psycho - completed. Also Evaluated Websites, Virtual Reference and Newspapers
Please let Info Services have you suggestions and comments
Please let Info Services have you suggestions and comments
Minnesota Press & Amazon revive out of print books
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/11/7572n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
(user name: rulibrary ; password: ru2007)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
University Press, With Amazon, Revives and Sells Out-of-Print Books
By JENNIFER HOWARD
Like homesteaders sitting on land with untapped oil reserves, many university presses possess a rich but underused resource: out-of-print titles. The challenge has been how best to drill into that resource—how to let readers know about books that have been out of print for years or decades, and then make it easy for them to buy a copy.
Many presses have been testing out print-on-demand and other ways of delivering old books to new readers. On Thursday, the University of Minnesota Press will formally announce a new program to put almost every book it has ever published back in print and make them readily available. The program, Minnesota Archive Editions, comes out of a partnership with Amazon.com, Google, and the Minneapolis-based company BookMobile, and is notable for its scope and how it outsources much of the heavy lifting to commercial partners.
Under the arrangement, Amazon has agreed to digitize the files of the press's out-of-print books; the full texts will be browsable using Google Book Search. If a reader comes across one online and likes what he sees, he can click through to Amazon.com and order a copy to be printed and shipped to him using Amazon's BookSurge publishing program. Or he can click over to the press's Web site and place an order, which Minnesota's distributor, the Chicago Distribution Center, will forward to BookMobile for printing and delivery. That option may be more appealing to library and bookstore clients who have specific warehousing and distribution accounts.
Either way suits the press just fine, says its director, Douglas Armato. The point is to get as many books as possible out there, and at very little cost to the press. It paid no money upfront to Amazon; the online book seller will recoup the cost of digitizing as copies are sold.
About 660 books are already available through the program, and Mr. Armato expects that number to reach a thousand. From the press's perspective, the hardest part has been researching the rights to everything it has published since it opened its doors in 1925. Contracts had to be unearthed, and living authors or heirs had to be contacted and informed about the plan. "It has familiarized us in a remarkable way with our backlist," Mr. Armato said. "It really amounted to an archaeological dig."
Most authors have been happy to hear that their work will be back in print, he said, but "they do have questions"—most involving what kinds of royalties might be involved.
That, of course, depends on sales and on the original contracts. Mr. Armato isn't expecting Minnesota Archive Editions to leave the press's coffers overflowing, but he already has evidence that a market exists for at least some of those books.
Without any publicity, the program has already generated sales through Amazon: about 200 units so far, with the highest concentrations in history and philosophy, where a classic is perhaps more likely to remain a classic than in more newfangled fields. A modest Minnesota Archive Editions best seller has even emerged: Essays in Ancient Philosophy, a 1987 collection by the late Michael Frede, who taught philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, has sold 12 copies.
The most surprising sale to date? One copy of a 1949 volume, Therapeutic Group Work With Children.
Copyright © 2008 by The Chronicle of Higher Education
(user name: rulibrary ; password: ru2007)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
University Press, With Amazon, Revives and Sells Out-of-Print Books
By JENNIFER HOWARD
Like homesteaders sitting on land with untapped oil reserves, many university presses possess a rich but underused resource: out-of-print titles. The challenge has been how best to drill into that resource—how to let readers know about books that have been out of print for years or decades, and then make it easy for them to buy a copy.
Many presses have been testing out print-on-demand and other ways of delivering old books to new readers. On Thursday, the University of Minnesota Press will formally announce a new program to put almost every book it has ever published back in print and make them readily available. The program, Minnesota Archive Editions, comes out of a partnership with Amazon.com, Google, and the Minneapolis-based company BookMobile, and is notable for its scope and how it outsources much of the heavy lifting to commercial partners.
Under the arrangement, Amazon has agreed to digitize the files of the press's out-of-print books; the full texts will be browsable using Google Book Search. If a reader comes across one online and likes what he sees, he can click through to Amazon.com and order a copy to be printed and shipped to him using Amazon's BookSurge publishing program. Or he can click over to the press's Web site and place an order, which Minnesota's distributor, the Chicago Distribution Center, will forward to BookMobile for printing and delivery. That option may be more appealing to library and bookstore clients who have specific warehousing and distribution accounts.
Either way suits the press just fine, says its director, Douglas Armato. The point is to get as many books as possible out there, and at very little cost to the press. It paid no money upfront to Amazon; the online book seller will recoup the cost of digitizing as copies are sold.
About 660 books are already available through the program, and Mr. Armato expects that number to reach a thousand. From the press's perspective, the hardest part has been researching the rights to everything it has published since it opened its doors in 1925. Contracts had to be unearthed, and living authors or heirs had to be contacted and informed about the plan. "It has familiarized us in a remarkable way with our backlist," Mr. Armato said. "It really amounted to an archaeological dig."
Most authors have been happy to hear that their work will be back in print, he said, but "they do have questions"—most involving what kinds of royalties might be involved.
That, of course, depends on sales and on the original contracts. Mr. Armato isn't expecting Minnesota Archive Editions to leave the press's coffers overflowing, but he already has evidence that a market exists for at least some of those books.
Without any publicity, the program has already generated sales through Amazon: about 200 units so far, with the highest concentrations in history and philosophy, where a classic is perhaps more likely to remain a classic than in more newfangled fields. A modest Minnesota Archive Editions best seller has even emerged: Essays in Ancient Philosophy, a 1987 collection by the late Michael Frede, who taught philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, has sold 12 copies.
The most surprising sale to date? One copy of a 1949 volume, Therapeutic Group Work With Children.
Copyright © 2008 by The Chronicle of Higher Education
Monday, November 17, 2008
HeinOnline Wiki
The HeinOnline Wiki is HeinOnline's "Help Center" that contains various how-to's, FAQs, search examples, and more! The Wiki contains a dedicated page for specific HeinOnline Libraries that outlines how to navigate and understand the library, as well as how to search for a word, phrase or other term, and each page includes links to videos and training guides when applicable. In addition to library specific help pages, the Wiki also contains all HeinOnline User Guides which includes Quick Reference Guides, feature specific guides, searching guides, and more! It also provides links to each of the video tutorials that have been created for using HeinOnline.
The HeinOnline wiki is available at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page or can be accessed from the Resources tab in any HeinOnline library.
The HeinOnline wiki is available at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page or can be accessed from the Resources tab in any HeinOnline library.
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