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Dear Lesley Crawshaw,
Volume 22 Number 3 / November 2009 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=MH27007H8480>.
This issue contains:
UKSG<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=1H4L0N2J0T674581>
p. ii
Contents<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=145H81Q570581H13>
p. i
CONNECTING THE INFORMATION COMMUNITY<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=166201466577W132>
p. iii
Editorial<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4651G72M572V8706>
p. 193
Mini‐profile:: a day in the life of an e‐publishing business development executive<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=CR1414502617H512>
p. 194
Mini‐profile:: a day in the life of a scholarly information consultant<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=526662U5982071P0>
p. 196
An introduction to the JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=D27502NG31V75KW3>
p. 199
Liam Earney
The JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic databases. The ADAT is freely available and provides access to detailed information and title lists for major bibliographic and full‐text databases, and key service information for database and e‐book content platforms.This paper will provide an introduction to the ADAT, why it was created, where it is today, reactions to it from both the academic and publishing communities and how libraries and service providers can help to develop the service and ensure it is kept up to date and free.
Economists Online: user requirements for a subject repository<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=07644522GN7561T2>
p. 206
Michelle Blake
The Network of European Economists Online (NEEO) project is a 30‐month project running from September 2007 - February 2010. NEEO aims to create a central multilingual portal, Economists Online (EO), with enhanced metadata descriptions and links to the full‐text research publications and primary data output of at least 500 top researchers and the economics publications of partner institutions.In late 2007 the first user requirements study was undertaken to identify the needs of economics researchers regarding access to full‐text documents and datasets; dissemination of research outputs; services to be implemented in EO; and any multilingual issues. A follow‐up mid‐project questionnaire was conducted in early 2009 in order to obtain early feedback from users of EO and identify any necessary refinements. A third evaluation questionnaire will be conducted near the end of the project. This article presents the results of the first two of these studies.
Publishers for Development (PfD): a new initiative to help researchers in developing countries<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=68494P662927002M>
p. 214
Jonathan Harle, Anne Powell
High quality research is critical to international development. For developing countries to address the many and complex social, environmental and health challenges which they face they will need to bring new knowledge and thinking to bear on a wide array of problems. Academic publishers are a vital part of the global research communication cycle, and can help to encourage the dissemination of research and ideas from underrepresented areas of the international scientific and academic community. Publishers for Development (PfD) is a new initiative of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) which aims to forge a new partnership of publishers for international development.
The AuthorAID project at INASP: building on a holistic approach to research communication<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=E883611723914320>
p. 220
Julie Walker
The AuthorAID project at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is a pilot project which aims to increase the success rate of developing‐country researchers in obtaining publication and, ultimately, to increase the visibility and influence of research undertaken within the developing world. Through providing mentoring, training, resources and networking, the project supports early career researchers with writing up and disseminating their work. As part of INASP's PERii programme, the project both links and complements the other components of INASP's work. This paper outlines the AuthorAID project and explores its symbiotic relationship with INASP and its holistic approach to supporting research communication in developing countries.
The ‘DOD’ and ‘POD’ project in context at McGill: part of digitizing collections to preserve content, provide access and enrich research<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=X104682273N61578>
p. 224
Janine Schmidt, Louise O'neill
The McGill Library in Canada has extensive holdings of online resources, including its own theses and purchased e‐book and e‐journal collections. It also holds significant collections of rare books and heritage materials in its central Rare Books and Special Collections and branch libraries, amassed over many years through significant donations as well as purchase. Material covers many languages and multiple formats, and ranges from Canadiana to cook books. Most items held are not listed in the online catalogue, making discovery difficult. Early digitization focused on scanning of content and creation of individual websites for projects. More recently, planned standardized approaches have focused on the publishing of two online journals, on a digitization‐on‐demand (DOD) project with materials in the public domain, linked to print on demand (POD), and on improving discoverability. This paper tracks some developments, outlines current projects and indicates future directions.
Print on demand (POD) from a publisher's viewpoint: the case of Taylor & Francis journals<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=F611130063130L28>
p. 230
Matthew Howells
Print on demand (POD) has been gathering momentum in all areas of book production, most notably over the past five years. Increased use of POD is the result of significant improvements: first, in technology (file supply, content management and data quality) and, second, in the quality of what is being produced. These two factors, combined with the increasing market penetration of digital printing for journals and the relatively low numbers of print subscribers, make POD a very relevant consideration for journal publishers. The question for journal publishers has been: how do we make it work for journals? Taylor & Francis answered this question by developing over the past two years an initiative termed ‘Distributed Print on Demand’ (DPOD) where journal issues are printed and despatched simultaneously from three global locations (USA, UK and Singapore), near to the subscriber.
Key issue: Usage factors<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=062518L733424128>
p. 233
Richard Gedye, Fytton Rowland
Profile: Robert Parker<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=80VQ263R138207G6>
p. 235
People<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=11J53L7435X7LQ71>
p. 238
Notes for contributors<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=14P6J6X6030J5404>
p. 243
CONNECTING THE INFORMATION COMMUNITY<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=102M023581192G72>
p. 244
The backfile of Serials from 1995 is freely available online, apart from the latest three issues for which you must hold either a UKSG membership or a subscription to Serials to gain access. To access this backfile, click here<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=107730>.
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