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Dear Lesley Crawshaw,
Volume 19 Number 1/March 2006 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=0W4Q98VM36UB16M7> Editorial
p. 1
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=93GLH91661GFBVBM> Mini-profile: a
day in the life of a journal publisher
p. 3
Andrew Wray
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=09N9KPHQW6NPWG7X> Mini-profile: a
day in the life of a publishing director
p. 6
Alice Meadows
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=32LL670LFT722T6V> E-book: the new
serial?
p. 8
Steve Sharp
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=FNHY53BWG27FR2YK> 20/20 vision?
E-books in practice and theory
p. 10
Andrew Wheatcroft
In the United States '20/20' means normal vision, being clear-sighted. In
the digital book community, '2020' now has a different meaning - the British
Library's prescient understanding of 'the book' 15 years from now, in the
year 2020. It is based on first-rate research, the best that we have. But it
is a partial view. This paper suggests where we have come from, where we are
now, and where - perhaps - we might be going. It highlights the importance
to publishers of product life cycle management and all that entails, and
explains the concept of the publisher-producer. The short history of the
e-book has embraced both vision and the visionary but we need to be
sceptical of technology's wilder promises for the period up to 2020. Yet the
future prospect is positive: there should be every confidence that the new
generation joining the industry will rise to the publishing challenges
outlined.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=6LQHBQAH6LQYJ32C> E-books -
reinventing the wheel?
p. 15
Warren Holder
To quote Carole Moore, the Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto
Libraries (UTL): "One solution we have decided on is to invest in a pilot
project in electronic books."1 At UTL, we believe that our users do not care
whether the information they are looking for is in a journal article, a
section of a reference work, or a chapter of a book; they want the
information online 24/7/365. To that end, we intend to undertake a pilot
project with a critical mass of e-books, from as many publishers as we can
afford, with the purpose of ascertaining how users discover the e-books, how
they use the e-books and what they do after they get the information they
were looking for. This article will discuss the current thinking of one
large research-intensive university library as it pertains to current
academic e-books.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=1MY08BGXG5DRGQC8> Infinite riches in
a little room: how can we manage, market and modernize the e-books
phenomenon?
p. 18
Linda Bennett
E-books are not new but they are part of a sea-change in academic delivery
that is altering both publishing and the way that teaching and learning are
carried out. Publishers appear alarmed by this and have tended to cling to
print as if producing publications in one format were their main purpose.
This paper argues strongly that it is not. E-resources have migrated from
being on the fringe of academia to establishing themselves as mainstream,
and publishers seem barely aware of the resulting shift in resource
requirements. If they do not become more alert to this, they are in grave
danger of being by-passed. At the same time, librarians and academics should
acknowledge that there is a very important role for publishers to play, that
academia would be much the poorer without their services, and that,
inevitably, there is a fair price to be attached to these.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=5N2WWKVV671LN6VC> The COUNTER Code
of Practice for books and reference works
p. 23
Peter T Shepherd
The draft of the new COUNTER Code of Practice for online books and reference
works was published in January 2005. Its overall format and structure are
consistent with the existing COUNTER Code of Practice for journals and
databases. Only the content of the usage reports has been changed and the
set of definitions of terms expanded. One of the main challenges we faced in
developing the new Code of Practice was the lack of consistency among
publishers in the ways in which they define, structure and distribute online
books. Some publishers make online books available only as a single file
that can be downloaded in its entirety. Other publishers allow the
downloading of individual chapters or entries, such as dictionary
definitions. The COUNTER Code of Practice has to cover these and other
scenarios.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=0NAR9394L5DP609P> Innovative models
for procuring e-books
p. 28
David Ball
This paper gives some background on e-books and UK library purchasing
consortia, before discussing in detail an innovative tender for e-books
undertaken for higher education in the UK. The main aims of the tender were
to provide members with agreements that were innovative in terms of business
models giving value for money; were flexible, offering those with differing
requirements appropriate options; exploited the electronic medium in terms
of granularity and multi-user access; focused on users' needs rather than
libraries' requirements; and encouraged the addition of library-defined
content. The success of the tender demonstrated that libraries are not
prepared to accept the restrictive and expensive business models, often
based on hard-copy practice, which some aggregators seem to be forcing on
us. In terms of content, it also showed libraries taking the lead in
influencing what aggregators are making available.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=3KR8KV1JWEU95HD8> EThOS: progress
towards an electronic thesis service for the UK
p. 32
Jill Russell
The EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) project is building on previous
e-thesis initiatives, and co-ordinating the work of some of the key players
in the UK to develop a service for finding, accessing and archiving digital
copies of doctoral theses produced in UK higher education institutions.
Key issues for the project are the development of a sound financial basis
for a successful service, the provision of advice needed by authors and
university staff on handling intellectual property rights, and the
protection of legitimate needs for confidentiality. EThOS will also
establish workable and standards-based procedures for populating e-thesis
repositories with current and retrospectively acquired digital versions of
theses and associated metadata. These developments must also fit with
universities' own internal administrative arrangements and regulations.
The project aims to deliver an e-thesis infrastructure that is both
technically and financially sustainable, together with a full supporting
toolkit of guidance, standards and procedures.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=DGLYXJNXXJVUAN86> Making the
invisible visible: bringing e-resources to a wide audience
p. 37
Louise Cole
This paper considers the various opportunities that might be available to
promote the e-resources held within an institution. In the current decade an
ever increasing percentage of tightly stretched library budgets is spent on
e-resources (databases, back-file packages, current e-journals, textbooks,
image databanks and reference works). As these are part of a virtual library
they are not always noticed or fully exploited by their target audience.
This paper looks at some possibilities to publicize e-resources, making
these important collections more visible, and considers how these resources,
in particular electronic journals, can be made accessible, useful, relevant
and obvious to the library customer. Topics discussed include information
literacy sessions, library branding, 'spreading the word', ensuring value
for money and 'making it fun'.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=75B09JETJQP6XYRT> Proposals for
quality standards for electronic STM journals
p. 42
Matthias Gottwald, Henning Nielsen, Roger Brown, Oliver Renn
Over the last few years electronic versions of scholarly journals have
become the predominant access route to scientific articles for scientists in
the academic and corporate environments. While the format of the basic
content, the 'paper', still remains the same, the access and functionality
of the electronic version can be highly variable. This is a continuous
problem for users and librarians and more standardization is necessary in
this field. A working group under the Pharma Documentation Ring (P-D-R)
formed by information managers from pharmaceutical companies has produced a
list of quality standards for electronic scientific, technical and medical
(STM) journals that may meet the needs of all e-content customers.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=C431KL9YA6QCPL80> Establishing a UK
LOCKSS Pilot Programme
p. 47
Helen Hockx-Yu
This article describes the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme, an initiative funded
by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in partnership with the
Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL). The pilot
directly engages a number of selected UK HE institutions in trialling the
LOCKSS technology for e-journal archiving and preservation. LOCKSS (for Lots
Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an initiative that has been developed by
Stanford University Libraries. It involves an alliance of over 80 libraries
and 60 publishers worldwide, working together to preserve persistent access
to licensed e-journal content from publishers to libraries. The pilot is
funded under JISC's development programme area 'digital preservation and
records management'. This article describes the rationale to establish the
pilot programme, the aims and objectives and, in detail, the individual
components of the programme.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=8X3HNEB6K7PUXKL8> Economics of open
access publishing
p. 52
Magaly Báscones Dominguez
This article is based on a study undertaken at CERN Library. After a short
introduction to the open access movement, an analysis of some CERN Library
open access journals from a number of publishers is presented. Open access
publishing models are then applied to some of the most important journal
titles in particle physics. The results give a picture of the possible
implications and the cost of open access in the current environment.
Publishers' open access offerings, CERN authors' reactions to open access
and the probable impact for CERN as a research institution are then
examined.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4RH6YVAKXTHHKUF1> The e-Depot at the
National Library of the Netherlands
p. 61
Erik Oltmans, Adriaan Lemmen
Electronic journals have come to dominate the field of academic literature,
and it is of great importance to the international scientific community that
this electronic intellectual output is preserved well and that it remains
accessible in perpetuity. The traditional principles for the archiving of
printed academic literature no longer suffice in the digital world. These
are based on national frontiers: each national deposit library preserves its
own national academic heritage. Regarding electronic publications, however,
the geographical criterion is not very useful and the geographical
provenance of material is irrelevant, since electronic data can exist
independently of a geographic location. Most current journals of
multinational publishers no longer have a fatherland that can be easily
identified. New ways of co-operation in the field of long-term digital
archiving of electronic publications and its metadata will emerge. This
paper looks at the policy and ambitions of the National Library of the
Netherlands (KB) regarding digital archiving of electronic publications.
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=67X0A6A5HCVU4MCJ> Key issue
p. 68
Adam Chandler, Tim Jewell
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4A3THM1J12R0L1ME> Profile: Katina
Strauch
p. 71
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=72M98A0DGD8XMQN4> On the circuit
p. 73
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4HD1LAR5HQLNLPC3> People
p. 77
John Jardine
<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=1AD6CEX7RF4L56FJ> Notes for
contributors
p. 81
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