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Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals: A Survey of One Academic Research Library’s Licenses
by Stemper, Jim and Barribeau, Susan

Abstract: A perpetual access right to an electronic journal, defined as the right to permanently access licensed materials paid for during the period of a license agreement (not to be confused with the right to copy journal content solely for preservation purposes), is a concern of increasing importance to librarians as academic libraries discontinue paper subscriptions and retain electronic-only access. This paper explores the current environment for perpetual access to electronic journals. The authors report on analysis of the contracts between a large, research-level university library and 40 publishers of electronic journals, as well as ten large electronic journal aggregators. The authors seek to determine the frequency of contractual provisions for permanent access rights for the years of active subscription in the event an electronic journal contract is terminated for any cause other than breach by the licensee. Costs and formats of any granted perpetual access are considered. The paper concludes with an exploration of the potential impact of the perpetual access clauses libraries are accepting in licenses, the possible lack of continuing access, and options for addressing the situation.

Source: Library Resources & Technical Services 50(2):pp. 91-109.

Rachel Smith  from the New Media Consortium will be talking about the Horizon Report this Friday, 2/22, 12-2p, Schulz 3001.

The Horizon Report, jointly produced by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), looks at the top technologies expected to have an impact on teaching and higher ed in the next 1-5 years. It’s always interesting and offers an opportunity to see some of these technologies in person (if you’re not already familiar with them).

2008 Horizon Report (PDF; 254 KB)
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5320.pdf
Source: New Media Consortium/EDUCAUSE

The 2008 report focuses on the following topics:

* Grassroots Video
* Collaboration Webs
* Mobile Broadband
* Data Mashups
* Collective Intelligence
* Social Operating Systems

Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals: A Survey of One Academic Research Library’s Licenses
by Stemper, Jim and Barribeau, Susan

Abstract: A perpetual access right to an electronic journal, defined as the right to permanently access licensed materials paid for during the period
of a license agreement (not to be confused with the right to copy journal content solely for preservation purposes), is a concern of increasing
importance to librarians as academic libraries discontinue paper subscriptions and retain electronic-only access. This paper explores the
current environment for perpetual access to electronic journals. The authors report on analysis of the contracts between a large, research-level
university library and 40 publishers of electronic journals, as well as ten large electronic journal aggregators. The authors seek to determine the
frequency of contractual provisions for permanent access rights for the years of active subscription in the event an electronic journal contract is
terminated for any cause other than breach by the licensee. Costs and formats of any granted perpetual access are considered. The paper concludes with an exploration of the potential impact of the perpetual access clauses libraries are accepting in licenses, the possible lack of continuing access, and options for addressing the situation.

Source: Library Resources & Technical Services 50(2):pp. 91-109.

On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (January 9, 2008)

Final report now available [PDF, 442 KB]
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf

Perceptions 2007: An International Survey of Library Automation by Marshall Breeding. January 9, 2008

“The survey results indicate major differences in satisfaction in the products and companies from which libraries acquire their automation systems. Dissatisfaction and concern prevail, yet some companies maintain exceptional levels of satisfaction from the libraries that use their products.”
http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2007.pl

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:40:16 -0600
From: Frances Dean McNamara
Subject: New catalog at University of Chicago

We have a new catalog interface at University of Chicago that we are
currently testing. It is based on Aquabrowser Library of Medialab and
the library has named it LENS to distinguish it from the existing
library catalog.

http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/

We have added EADs from a local system, a crawl of the website (which is
still being refined, we are getting too much), data from our link
resolver and eresource database lists. We are also experimenting with
loading Oxford DNB. You have to search a last name of a British author
to see that, try just “austen”. Of course you’ll only see those
articles if you subscribe to that db.

We have loaded LC Authorities, so if you search “mountain biking” you
will see it automatically expand the search to the authorized heading
“all-terrain biking”. Some See Also’s appear in the thesaurus part of
the “word cloud”.

We can add hints and have done so for some hard-to-find titles our
bibliographers have suggested like “Pravda”

Medialab has made a number of modifications for us including the ability
to remove or keep facets in the breadcrumb trail. We worked with them
to get the LC Classification refine. We are still working on fitting
our collections in correctly.

This seems a good list to report availability of this catalog, since it
is intended to go beyond the traditional. We have a long list of
potential sources of data that we want to try loading in to see if they
increase the effectiveness of the catalog. We consider the current site
“beta” and will continue to change it until our “production” date in
mid-January.

Frances McNamara
University of Chicago

http://journal.code4lib.org/

“This mission of the Code4Lib Journal is to cover “the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.” We hope that this journal can be one more contribution to the developing culture of collaboration around library technology, and we welcome you to join in our experiment.”

http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v08n03/suarez_d01.html
Abstract

How do we know what students are really doing in the library when they are studying? This paper reports on a study that used qualitative methods to assess what students were doing during the winter term at Brock University. The goals were to try and establish if they were engaged in their studies when using the library and to see if the library nurtured academic engagement in its study areas.

from Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
v.8 no.3 (Winter 2007)

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-social-software-in-libraries.html

Webcast URL is: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=21207&p=1&ipp=15&category=

From the Web4Lib mailing list:

Message: 1
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:46:21 -0500
From: Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] ISBN linking to Wikipedia
To: web4lib@webjunction.org
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A bit more than a year ago, Lars Aronsson suggested to the Web4Lib
list that it would be really nifty to have a “reverse lookup” facility
to enable links to Wikipedia based on ISBNs cited in Wikipedia
articles. Many of us thought this suggestion was really exciting- Tim
Spalding did some nice things with it, for example- but I think the
idea of ISBN-Wikipedia lookup is just the nub of an idea that will
dramatically change the way we organize, navigate and think about our
libraries.

Last week, we quietly announced the addition of a Wikipedia article
lookup facility to OCLC’s Worldcat xISBN service. The xISBN service
groups ISBNs into works based on the entire Worldcat data set. This
means that the service will connect Wikipedia citations to any of the
ISBNs associated with the cited work. xISBN is an xml-based “grid
service” designed to help libraries plug into the data without
worrying too much about the wiring.

For more information on using the Worldcat xISBN service to get
Wikipedia articles, see http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
Here’s an example of how to access the service:
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/9789574760442?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*

During the implementation, Xiaoming Liu, the developer who is
continuing to enhance the xISBN service, suggested that instead of
working on a Wikipedia-specific service, we should generalize the
functionality to encompass any sort of identifier-based collection. So
that’s what we did. We’re offering wikipedia as our first production
“library”. To demonstrate how this functionality might be useful,
we’ve also created “libraries” out of two of the most popular book-
sharing websites.

I hope that many of you find this service to be useful.

Eric

Eric Hellman, Director                      OCLC, Global Product
Management
hellmane@oclc.org                           2 Broad St., Suite 208
tel 1-973-509-7800                           Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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