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  FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

 

Dear Lesley Crawshaw, 

Volume 20 Number 3/November 2007 of Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community is now available on the uksg.metapress.com web site at  <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=E27PF5KP4RX8> http://uksg.metapress.com.

This issue contains:


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=9FV75F267EFR7X9F> Contents

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 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=9FM1QEYGA9VEAJ0G> Editorial

 p. 157


Hazel, Helen


 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=92V4CKGQ8VTWADXN> Introducing our Editorial Board

 p. 159


Ruoxi Li


 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=73UGCD65G3HK6YP3> Introducing our Editorial Board

 p. 160


Carole Woods


 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=214PHAHNLYAYJK9M> Mini-profile: a day in the life of a digital preservation executive

 p. 161


Frances Boyle


 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=0MCYF6DX61TPDA5K> Can open access repositories and peer-reviewed journals coexist?

 p. 163


Stephen Pinfield


 


It is often assumed that open access repositories and peer-reviewed journals are in competition with each other and therefore will in the long term be unable to coexist. This paper takes a critical look at that assumption. It draws on the available evidence of actual practice which indicates that coexistence is possible at least in the medium term. It discusses possible future models of publication and dissemination which include open access, repositories, peer review and journals. The paper suggests that repositories and journals may coexist in the long term but that both may have to undergo significant changes. Important areas where changes need to occur include: widespread deployment of repository infrastructure, development of version identification standards, development of value-added features, new business models, new approaches to quality control and adoption of digital preservation as a repository function.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=D5U4H5FEYM18PXVE> Will the parasite kill the host? Are institutional repositories a fact of life - and does it matter?

 p. 172


Sally Morris


 


Despite an apparent lack of enthusiasm among academics themselves, institutional repositories seem set to grow. Two studies have highlighted the possible damage which could be caused to journal subscriptions by widespread self-archiving. If journals were damaged financially, the scholarly community would lose some functions which it appears to value very highly: management of peer review; editing; selecting and collecting content into a convenient package. It would also suffer indirectly, if learned societies were no longer able to give the same support to their disciplines. However, publishers cannot afford simply to oppose these developments; rather, they need to work with the scholarly community to identify those functions which are of greatest importance to the community in the digital era, and then to work out how to deliver and market these.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=ECRKMN8JTK7T8AB3> Institutional identifiers and the Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot

 p. 180


Helen Henderson


 


Institutional identifiers are nothing new. The problem in the e-content world is that there is no single schema that covers all the identifiers needed. Previous identifiers have been for physical location purposes which are no longer relevant for new groupings. Publishers now need to know exactly who their customers are and the customers need to be able to identify themselves and their 'licensing unit' to the publishers and other members of the journal supply chain. A Journal Supply Chain Pilot including the major participants in the supply chain started in 2006 and is continuing to look at the identifiers, metadata and transactions that take place in the supply chain.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=3U2H80XJ9MHW9K1P> Journals in the arts and humanities: their role in evaluation

 p. 184


Professor Geoffrey Crossick


 


This article is concerned with the role and evaluation of journals in the arts. It examines the very distinctive ways in which journal publication in this area compares with the sciences and explains these through the diversity of research outputs and the distinctiveness of citation practice. It draws on data about publishing habits in arts and humanities disciplines, showing that peer-reviewed journals are not the self-evident location of choice that they are in the sciences. Furthermore, it is very difficult to construct hierarchies of journal impact and quality, in part because of the quite different cultures of citation. Nevertheless, the search for proxies for the quality of research will continue, and various current projects engage in one way or another with journals. The article concludes by briefly looking at some of these and


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=10YJ8M7H3E4LJCMW> Bibliometrics, assessment and UK research

 p. 188


Jonathan Adams


 


The Research Assessment Exercise &lpar;RAE&rpar;, based on peer review, has enabled the UK to improve its comparative international research performance. But the RAE is changing after 2008 to a system based on metrics, within which a bibliometric quality indicator will be a critical component. Bibliometrics, using publication and citation counts, have many advantages and have been extensively developed over the last 20 years. But they also have serious challenges, some real and some apparent, and researchers will need expert advice to develop and work with an effective and supportive metrics system. This paper discusses the background to the change in metrics, identifies a range of possible problems that need to be tackled, and confirms the critical role of those with prior expertise in guiding the establishment and then the development of a sensible system.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=CHH6P5XH2BAV8HB1> What impact? Whose value? Citation metrics in a work-flow perspective

 p. 192


James Pringle


 


The publishing community expresses ambivalence about the journal impact factor &lpar;JIF&rpar;, yet its use continues to proliferate. New proposals to amend, replace, or supplement it abound, but it is unclear whether any of the alternatives offer significant improvement. In spite of new approaches from Thomson Scientific and other innovators, the importance of the JIF persists. This continued importance should cause us to step back and reconsider our views about citation metrics in the context of the underlying trends shaping the evolution of the scholarly research community. A better understanding of the decisions that citation metrics support can provide us with a stronger foundation for future use and development of relevant indicators and measures of research value. This analysis must be based on a firm grasp of the real needs faced by the key stakeholders and the place of citation metrics in their work and careers.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=2XYEVUPLBRPLCDMQ> Perceptions of value and value beyond perceptions: measuring the quality and value of journal article readings

 p. 199


Carol Tenopir, Donald W King


 


When measuring quality and value of journals, what is being measured, to whom does the value accrue, and why the measurement is being done must be considered. Both implicit and explicit measures of quality and value are possible. Preliminary results of ongoing readership research show that academic library e-journal collections have both purchase and use value to academic faculty. They spend their time reading, read many articles each year, and reading benefits their work in many ways.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=04WGE99VJJTD4HHQ> To bin or not to bin? Deselecting print back-runs available electronically at Imperial College London Library

 p. 208


Ruth Cooper, David Norris


 


Increasingly, academic libraries are investing heavily in e-journals which duplicate their print back-runs. For libraries facing acute pressures on space, one solution to their problem is to dispose of or relegate print back-runs which overlap with their electronic holdings. This case-study focuses on work at Imperial College London Library to provide a tool-kit for staff making such deselection decisions. Imperial has established criteria to determine the sustainability of their e-journals. A purpose-built database has been developed to store data on sustainability and enable staff easily to identify the overlap between print and electronic holdings at each Library site. Librarians at Imperial are now using the database and have already identified 700 metres of print journals with sustainable electronic access for disposal.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=FFWH5BGYWURVGF2V> On the road with electronic resources: creating community through the ER&L Forums

 p. 215


Jill Emery, Bonnie Tijerina, Dana Walker, Elizabeth Winter


 


After the second annual Electronic Resources & Libraries &lpar;ER&L&rpar; Conference, some of the participating members of this group were approached about taking the discussion of electronic resource management on the road. These discussions, which came to be known as the Electronic Resources & Libraries Forum, were held at three major library events last year. This article provides an overview of those discussions and the conclusions about how they will inform future ER&L conferences and events.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=2YAF3TM46Q9NG6V6> E-journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop

 p. 221


Emma Cass, Helen Hockx-Yu, Carol Jackson, Philip Pothen, Samantha Tillett


 


In March 2007, the Digital Preservation Coalition &lpar;DPC&rpar;, the Joint Information Systems Committee &lpar;JISC&rpar; and the British Library invited attendees to a workshop focusing on the archiving and preservation of e-journals. Speakers from the publishing and library environments came together at the British Library to discuss developments and requirements in the area of e-journal archiving. The event was attended by over 100 delegates and the speakers&apos; presentations were followed by a lively debate enabling all attendees to put their ideas and questions forward. The speakers&apos; presentations for the 2007 workshop are available on the Internet1 and it is intended that the event will be an annual occurrence.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=6TEVEF6BGDKAMXBU> Authors' attitudes to, and awareness and use of, a university institutional repository

 p. 225


Sarah Watson


 


This article reports the findings of an author study at Cranfield University. The study investigated authors&apos; publishing behaviours, attitudes, concerns, and their awareness and use of their institutional repository &lpar;IR&rpar;, Cranfield QUEprints. The findings suggest that despite a reasonable amount of advocacy many authors had not heard of QUEprints and were not aware of its purpose. Once explained, all authors saw at least one benefit to depositing a copy of their work to QUEprints, but many were unsure how to deposit, preferring to depend on the Library to do the work. The authors voiced few concerns or conditions regarding the inclusion of their work in QUEprints, but felt that it would be an extra, inconvenient step in their workload. This research led to the development of the Embed Project which is investigating how to embed the IR into the research process and thereby encourage more authors to deposit their work.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=C7LKQH84LJDM5RDE> UK access to UK research

 p. 231


Frederick J Friend


 


Technological changes are providing opportunities for easier access to publicly-funded research. While these opportunities for easier access have been growing, concerns have been expressed that current business models are preventing their realization. Even well-funded university libraries are unable to purchase all the books and journals required by researchers and learners. A survey conducted by JISC, CURL and SCONUL looked at six situations of access in one UK university to the research papers and books written by researchers in another comparable UK university. The survey indicates that UK researchers and learners may not have access to around one-third of publications by researchers in other UK universities. The shortfall in access varies from university to university and relates to all types of content but particularly to books and journals from smaller publishers. Targeted additional funding and support for new access models are suggested to improve access for UK researchers to UK research.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=EAQUA4NFYHV0884G> The importance of linking electronic resources and their licence terms: a project to implement ONIX for Licensing Terms for UK academic institutions

 p. 235


Brian Green, Liam Earney


 


This article looks at the issues facing libraries as they seek to manage and communicate rights negotiated in an ever increasing number of licences for online resources. It addresses the work that JISC Collections and EDItEUR have been engaged in to develop machine-readable licence expressions of JISC Collections licences that are suitable for import into library systems. The article explores the potential benefits such work offers to the UK academic community, as well as the issues and challenges JISC Collections has faced in this work.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=EMMNJJBXK69WX8Q8> Key issue

 p. 240


Charlie Rapple


 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=6W6G1UB4BJH1WNJX> Profile: Tirong arap Tanui

 p. 242

	

 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=49BP474X5A90TY8B> EBSCONET® Solidifies Its Place as the Most Useful, Intuitive Subscription Management System Worldwide

 p. 244


Jan Donnelly


 


To meet librarians&apos; growing expectations for subscription management tools, EBSCO designed EBSCONET®, an intuitive, multi-lingual web-based subscription management system, and placed it in the centre of its subscription management offering. Since its August 2006 release, the redesigned EBSCONET system has earned a coveted spot in nearly 15,000 libraries as a centralized source for electronic and print subscription management.


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=6M2KA41NE65L0FVE> People

 p. 245


John Jardine


 


 <http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=C1CT22Q050JVMTEE> Notes for contributors

 p. 249

	

 

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