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Dear Lesley Crawshaw,



Volume 21 Number 3 / November 2008 of Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community is now available on the uksg.metapress.com web site at http://uksg.metapress.com<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=N1N8J3434317>.



This issue contains:

Contents<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=02612298N6861740>



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UKSG<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=07850H6808257483>



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Connecting the Information Community<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=0M5GX42153138548>



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Notes for contributors<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=0736129541436047>



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Editorial<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=002U454273710270>



 p. 159



Hazel , Helen







Introducing our Editorial Board<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=003126GQ6JR372HG>



 p. 161



Rogier Van Erkel







Mini‐profile: a day in the life of an iSchool associate professor<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=025022161Q703060>



 p. 162



Joseph Janes







Mini‐profile: a day in the life of an electronic resources librarian<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=0681234151356813>



 p. 164



Paula Younger







Large‐scale digitization: the £22‐million JISC programme and the role of libraries: Based on a paper presented at the 31st UKSG annual conference, Torquay, April 2008<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=A228N817471242G9>



 p. 167



Jean Sykes







The article explains JISC's ground‐breaking programme of digitizing large collections across a variety of formats and subjects. The first phase is described, together with the challenges faced and significant lessons learned. The second phase is also outlined, and the methods for selecting the successful projects explained. These two digitization phases are providing UK higher and further education researchers and students with a very large amount of fascinating online content taken from the collections of some of the UK's major national and university libraries. The article concludes with some thoughts about a further large phase of digitization and a discussion of the issue of sustainability into the future.



Dotting the DOIs and crossing the ESSNs: Librarians' support for the RAE 2008<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=T217385U48646817>



 p. 174



Ann‐Marie James







At the University of Birmingham, 2008 was the first time that library staff were involved in a Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and by ensuring the completion of all record elements and the sourcing of over 4,000 items, they became an integral part of the process. This article highlights the information retrieval and metadata skills that they brought to the task, and the lasting benefits of involvement in the project, from better quality output data to enhanced processes for the ongoing collection and validation of publication information. In addition, there is a greater awareness of the skills and expertise of librarians in this area, which will remain even more pertinent for support in the successor to the RAE, the Research Excellence Framework (REF).



Can we subscribe to this, please? : realizing a core journal collection for the University of Sussex<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=B732J9142L00120J>



 p. 178



Jane Harvell







In 2005, like many HE institutions, the University of Sussex Library was confronting the problems of resourcing journal provision to support its teaching and research. These included increasing costs (with wide discrepancies of price across the subjects), the potential increase in access of content (such as NESLi2 consortia, deals, etc.), greater interdisciplinary research and a requirement for more non‐traditional academic titles. This was coupled with an expectation from students and staff that the Library should be responding to the explosion in availability of online journal content. It was concluded that the existing budgetary model and method of reviewing subscriptions was becoming very cumbersome and not up to the task.It became essential to formulate an innovatory method by which the Library could be confident that its journal collections supported the teaching and research work at the University. This article will detail the steps taken in the last two years to deal with this.



The EQUATOR Network: facilitating transparent and accurate reporting of health research<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=U7382L7835717342>



 p. 183



Iveta Simera







Although billions are spent each year on health research, much of this research is not reported adequately in the literature. This seriously undermines the usability of reported findings and misleads clinicians, researchers, policymakers and, ultimately, patients. The EQUATOR Network is a new international initiative that aims to improve the clarity, completeness and transparency of scientific publications by providing resources and education relating to the reporting of health research and assisting in the development, dissemination and implementation of robust reporting guidelines.



The publisher's online platform: hosting the present and the future<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=C1815K7714138617>



 p. 188



David Burgoyne







Over the past two decades the academic publisher has had to respond to the digital revolution, that of the ever increasing growth of the Internet in terms of societal importance and technical complexity. Journal publishers began their move into this digital realm by making their content, the journal article, available electronically in parallel with the printed publication and over the years, these publishers have developed or acquired their own online platforms on which to host the electronic versions of their content.These online platforms, their similarities and capabilities, are considered here in order to establish the current ‘technological baseline’ and to identify features and functionalities that may comprise a future technological baseline.



How much does it cost, and who pays? The global costs of scholarly communication and the UK contribution<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=V776365635530274>



 p. 194



Branwen Hide







Communicating the results of research is integral to expanding the frontiers of knowledge and understanding. How it is done has changed dramatically over the past few years, creating tension as the various groups involved in the process have come to terms with, and developed ways to exploit new technologies to maximize access to information resources. One of the difficulties in looking at this process has been the lack of reliable evidence about key features of the entire scholarly communications system. Therefore the Research Information Network (RIN) set out, in partnership with other key agents, to investigate the costs incurred at each stage. Since journal articles are by far the most important information outputs produced and read by researchers, the study Activities, costs and funding flows in scholarly communications (May 2008) examines the components of the process that relate to scholarly journals on both a global level and within the UK.



To boldly go – creating an online library for alumni<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=D805063408176578>



 p. 201



Helen Wetherill







The Alumni Library Online (ALO) service at Cranfield University was launched in 2007, following many months of planning and negotiation between administrative departments within the University. The article looks back at the original reasons for developing the service and highlights some of the motivational factors and issues arising from this. It examines in more detail the licensing of relevant products and goes on to show how the service was put together. Finally, it looks at the lessons learned during this project and how these are being acted upon to move the service forward.



Professional development: a Danish case‐study<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=MV35H56081R20708>



 p. 205



Gitte Larsen







This case‐study provides an introduction to the training activities of The Department of Continuing Education and Consultancy at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS) in Denmark. On an annual basis, the School offers a selection of around 150 different training courses and seminars for all kinds of library staff in addition to formal continuing education. Some years ago the Department became an independent business unit within the organization and some of the departmental and academic staff offer consultancy, with clients including public libraries, large private companies, banks, real estate companies and governmental organizations, who all suffer from similar problems. The School's expertise in knowledge organization and related areas has proved invaluable. The article concludes with practical suggestions, based on experience, of methods for continuing professional development within the library sphere.



Electronic journal provision and use in China: an initial study<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=662J4765G7W16177>



 p. 210



Ian Johnson, Hong Wang, Fei Nie







The growth of electronic journals (e‐journals) in Western Europe and North America has been widely reported. The rapid development of e‐journal publishing in China is less well known. This paper provides a brief introduction to the development of e‐journals in China before examining their impact on libraries, particularly academic libraries. Several factors that may have affected the growth of e‐journals are noted, including the nature of government initiatives and pedagogical methods. As well as pointing to and reviewing some of the limited literature on the development of the publishing industry, the researchers also conducted some interviews in China. To provide an initial understanding of the impact on libraries, a small survey of academic libraries was undertaken. In addition, a study of the perspectives of the academic and library staff of Shandong University, one of China's largest universities, identified specific effects on user behaviour, the library staff and the budget.



JIBS User Group Workshop: How to compete with Google: simple resource discovery systems for libraries: 13 November 2008 at the Diskus Conference Centre, London<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=X60553J3145QP750>



 p. 222



Linda Humphreys







Next‐generation library catalogues: reviews of ELIN, WorldCat Local and Aquabrowser<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=F1602235342316H5>



 p. 224









The Easier Things Get, The More Complicated They Become: The Dichotomy of E‐information<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=P286NX400G13103N>



 p. 231



Daniel Belda







Key issue: Securing access to print: the UKRR<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=846K711V23KM80LK>



 p. 232



Jean Crawford







Profile: Deanna Marcum<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=G7067028X16M1340>



 p. 235









People<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=13421W4113251666>



 p. 237



John Jardine







Publishers as Site License Providers: Utilising the online environment to provide more than printed articles<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=R76L728J87W2Q3V2>



 p. 242



David Bull







The transition from publishing in print to publishing online allows publishers to give both users and libraries additional benefits and services when providing access to their content online.



Scientific, technological and medical journal publication in Japan<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=U402K576107451U5>



 p. 243



Soichi Tokizane









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