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Dear Lesley Crawshaw,
Volume 20 Number 1/March 2007 of Serials: The Journal for the Serials
Community is now available on the uksg.metapress.com web site at
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This issue contains:
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=DEUK0DPXGNX4G26T> Contents
p. i
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=DQBA0RN7VQJVQ45Q> Editorial
p. 1
Hazel Woodward, Helen Henderson
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=FF03A1CC60HBQ1UL> Mini-profile: a
day in the life of a consortium executive officer
p. 3
Diane Costello
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=ATQF0AW1N6XU5BYH> Mini-profile: a
day in the life of an e-resources co-ordinator
p. 6
Paola Gargiulo
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=913WYRG9HTCKXQ63> Digitization in
Australasia
p. 9
Warwick Cathro
This article surveys progress made by the libraries of Australia and New
Zealand in planning and implementing major digitization projects. These
projects exist within a wider context of the building and management of
digital collections, including those developed through processes other than
digitization.
New Zealand has developed a Digital Content Strategy which proposes a
nationwide digitization programme based on key local, regional and national
content. Australia is yet to develop a similar policy and funding framework.
In both countries, libraries face challenges in marshalling the resources
and skills required to undertake large-scale digitization projects, and in
addressing the issues which arise when they attempt to digitize in-copyright
collection materials. The National Libraries have recognized the value in
large-scale digitization of out-of-copyright newspapers, and have made
significant progress towards establishing free, searchable newspaper
archives.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=92AEGV4G8CRB0C2B> Digitization: the
view from The National Archives
p. 16
Dan Jones
Licensed publication of images by commercial com panies is not just a 'wider
market initiative', but can be used actively to drive the digital access
agenda facing archives in the 21st century. The experience of The National
Archives suggests that, so long as agreements are carefully planned and
structured, and content is made available at marginal cost, it is possible
to meet the demands of the private sector publishers and the knowledge
economy in general, whilst generating significant opportunities and benefits
for the host archive.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=FYBQB18DW5GJ7A2Y> Accessing the
content of nineteenth-century periodicals: the Science in the
Nineteenth-Century Periodical project (SciPer)
p. 20
Jon Topham
Nineteenth-century periodicals significantly outnumber books from that era,
and present historians with an immensely valuable set of sources, but their
use is constrained by the difficulty of identifying relevant material. For
many periodicals, contents pages and volume indexes have been the only
guide, and the few subject indexes that exist usually provide only an
indication of the subjects mentioned in the article titles. By contrast, the
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical project (SciPer)
indexed the science content of general-interest periodicals by skim-reading
the entire text. The project's approach to indexing is described and
the relative merits of indexing and digitization in aiding researchers to
locate relevant material are discussed. The article concludes that,
notwithstanding the more sophisticated search interfaces of more recent
retro-digitization projects, human indexing still has an important role to
play in providing access to the content of historic periodicals and in
mapping their data structure.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=2UH313QKYFAYJFRP> Exploring
e-learning: a publisher perspective
p. 27
Amanda Briggs, Vicky Williams, Jim Bowden, Paul Coyne
This is the summary of an internal report produced for Emerald Group
Publishing Limited into trends in technology and the market for e-learning.
It discusses the growth in demand for distance learning from around the
world and the rise of informal learning as an increasingly popular, but not
easily assimilated, pedagogical model. The article concludes with a brief
exposition of the recommendations made in the report for Emerald's
development in these areas. The full report is confidential and will not be
made publicly available.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=55K7732DTHRQ6GK1> Death of the
VLE?: a challenge to a new orthodoxy
p. 31
Mark Stiles
The VLE has become almost ubiquitous in both higher and further education,
with the market becoming increasingly 'mature'. E-learning is a major plank
in both national and institutional strategies. But, is the VLE delivering
what is needed in a world where flexibility of learning is para mount, and
the lifelong learner is becoming a reality? There are indications that
rather than resulting in innovation, the use of VLEs has become fixed in an
orthodoxy based on traditional educational approaches. The emergence of new
services and tools on the web, dev elopments in interoperability, and
changing demands pose significant issues for institutions' e-learning
strategy and policy. Whether the VLE can remain the core of e-learning
activity needs to be considered.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=86KGJHUC5LKANAYW> Patterns of
e-journal use within the Anatolian University Library Consortium
p. 37
Bülent Karasözen, Ayhan Kaygusuz, Hacer (Bati) Özen
With the establishment of the Anatolian University Library Consortium
(ANKOS), the number of accessible databases and the usage of
electronic journals has increased rapidly. Due to the diversity of the
universities, diferences in usage for various subject collections are
observed. In this study, a comparison between the research activity in
Turkey and electronic journal usage through ANKOS has been carried out. The
data on the total and subject-based full-text article usage indicates a
strong correlation between the number of published articles and their usage.
Additionally, a rank analysis was conducted to establish similarities and
differences between each institution's usage and the aggregated
consortium usage.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=78X5ELLAQL68X6J3> Discovery and
access: publisher-library collaboration on standards
p. 43
Christine Baldwin
Library users want to discover and get access to relevant publi cations
easily. In the UK, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
is developing an Information Environment that will enable more seamless
discovery and access for the academic community, based on standards and
protocols that allow online services to work together and become more
interoperable. The PALS Metadata and Interoperability programmes were funded
by the JISC to encourage publishers and libraries to work together using
these standards and develop joint solutions for improving interoperability
throughout the information chain. The second PALS programme ended in 2006
and demonstrated how the use of standards can improve discovery for users,
improve electronic resource management for libraries, and improve the
visibility of electronic publications. This article summarizes what the PALS
2 programme and its projects achieved.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=78XNT12AYCFKM9E7> Disruptive
technologies: taking STM publishing into the next era
p. 50
Karen Hunter, Scott Virkler, Rafael Sidi
Publishers today face a world of 'un prece dented uncertainty'1. The web,
Google, social networking, wikis, blogs, RSS Feeds - technological
innovation has and will con tinue to impact all aspects of our business and
the way we interact with our customers. But with scientific information
freely available and accessible on the Internet, can traditional publishing
survive? Indeed it can. While publishers have achieved a great deal
using a traditional publishing model, we must now increase our level and
speed of innovation to compete in today's technology landscape. We can
do more than just survive - it is in fact an incredibly exciting time for
the industry. The key to success and the challenge ahead lies in harnessing
the openness and collaboration today's technologies present for the
benefit of the scientific community and in adapting to our customers'
new types of demands.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=B13KYKYQ3XX1NFAV> Stock checking
e-journals: the experience of King's College London
p. 54
Stephen Prowse, Catrin Sly
Stock checks of print journals have long been a feature of good serials
management, but there has not been an equivalent for e-journals. At
King's College we thought we ought to do something about that. This
paper describes our approach and our findings. A checklist shows what we
feel are the most important aspects to such an operation, and can be adapted
by other libraries interested in undertaking something similar. Limitations
of SFX are noted as are common problems with e-journal management. It is not
felt that an automated solution to stock checking e-journals is imminent.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=BAEGQXLAV2D48G56> What a serials
publisher needs to know to be a serials cataloger
p. 58
Steve Shadle
This article illustrates why publishers need to care about library catalog
records. Back ground information on serials cataloging practices and the
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) are provided to foster
a common understanding of serials cataloging across the serials community.
The recently implemented CONSER standard record is discussed and elements of
the record are identified that could be provided by pub lishers and others
in the serials community.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=11YXKH8KYHW82PCB> Federated
searching: today, tomorrow and the future (?)
p. 67
Frank Cervone
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=6H3C8UUAK1HW6K4A> Profile: Michael
Mabe
p. 71
Michael Mabe
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=7JRJLVH00FKUUL9B> Advertising
Feature
p. 74
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=7HTQYGEAQQE90H0X> People
p. 75
John Jardine
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=CB1L6DD4JHQ2PKJ7> Notes for
contributors
p. 80
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