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Hi,



FYI. Another interesting range of articles and news items from the latest issue of Serials for your weekend reading!



Cheers

Lesley



Lesley Crawshaw

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Dear Lesley Crawshaw,



Volume 23 Number 1 / March 2010 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=Q51374145418>.



This issue contains:

Contents<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=U1V2W7G35156602N>



 p. i









UKSG<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=C6773621146V0053>



 p. ii









CONNECTING THE INFORMATION COMMUNITY<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=VV10112802472028>



 p. iii









Editorial<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=411151K10P2Q1538>



 p. 1



Hazel, Helen







Mini‐profile:: a day in the life of a medical editor/clinician<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4343328K8M62J884>



 p. 2



Charles Young







Mini‐profile:: a day in the life of a health sciences library director<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=EU351W75HH63R513>



 p. 4



Jean Shipman







“I tell you naught for your comfort”: budgetary prospects for academic libraries over the next few years: Based on a presentation at the UKSG seminar ‘Let's not waste a crisis’, London, 18 November 2009<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=9853438J11N76528>



 p. 6



Phil Sykes







The author speculates about the financial prospects for university libraries in the UK over the next few years. It is argued that there are three economic factors which will principally determine funding levels: the performance of the economy generally; stock market performance; and the level of government debt. The need to pay back government debt will be inescapable and will seriously depress revenues for years to come, though a recovery in the stock market and the economy generally could mitigate the severity of the problems. In this difficult environment librarians need to become more effective at demonstrating how central libraries are to university competitiveness, at competing successfully for funding for special initiatives, and at exploring alternative sources of income. The endemic problem of journal price inflation needs to be tackled nationally and internationally.



Sharing the pain, striving for gain: Based on a presentation at the UKSG seminar ‘Let's not waste a crisis’, London, 18 November 2009<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4735X7776626715M>



 p. 12



John Cox







Ireland is experiencing a particularly severe and sudden economic downturn. Spending on higher education is under the microscope, with implications for university libraries. The impact of this new environment at National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, in particular, is discussed and a range of challenges, opportunities and coping strategies explored in the context of staffing, information resources and operations. The national dimension is also covered, notably implications for the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) service. Overall, a combination of pain and gain is identified, with resource losses balanced against opportunities for new thinking and models.



Qatar – a new beginning? The development of a collaborative research and education environment in Education City, Doha<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=453T360338279573>



 p. 16



Arend Küster







Qatar is emerging fast as a major player in scientific research. The country is transforming itself into a knowledge society, which poses highly interesting and challenging questions. In this article, we are focusing on Education City in Doha, and the partnerships forged there between the Qatar Foundation and several North‐American universities. What happens when you are able to nurture research and develop science using all the current knowledge, and are also able to push the envelope in terms of access to literature, library systems and publishing?



Seeing the forest: why publishers and readers need to take a fresh look at print and online publishing to create a sustainable information industry<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4732600453602124>



 p. 20



Karen Christensen, Bill Siever







The emerging debate over whether print or online publishing is better for the environment is complicated by the fact that there is not yet a measurement system that publishers, readers, librarians and other interested parties can go by. Both mediums have their pros and cons. Paper is made from a renewable resource, but the supply chain involved in getting a book from printer to reader is extremely inefficient, both economically and in terms of climate impact. E‐books and databases have a considerable environmental impact due to the way they are stored as well as the necessary electronics needed to access them, but professionals as well as the public often assume e‐publications are better for the environment. The industry needs ways to quantify its ecological footprint before it can make informed decisions.



Peer review in a changing world – preliminary findings of a global study<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=411338803W4V164N>



 p. 25



Adrian Mulligan, Ellen Raphael







Peer review is at the core of scholarly publishing; it is the lynchpin around which the whole research information exchange is based. Recently, the process has attracted criticism. In this global study, which was conducted in the later part of 2009, we examine the influences and attitudes of over 4,000 researchers towards peer review. We find that peer review is valued, but needs to be improved. Most reviewers are actually keen to review, but believe formal training of reviewers would improve peer review. Publishers and editors need to become better at matching reviewer expertise to manuscript subject. The research community believes overwhelmingly that double‐blind peer review is the most effective form of review, and that formal peer review would benefit from some form of post‐peer review commentary.



ARROW – steps towards resolving the ‘orphan works problem’<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=445723102RT64757>



 p. 35



Mark Bide







One of the more difficult tasks to be accomplished if we are to digitize the ‘physical legacy’ is that of getting the necessary permissions for digitizing works that are still in copyright. A significant part of the challenge lies in identifying and contacting the rightsholders. The ARROW project, funded under the European Commission's eContentplus programme, has brought together an array of partners to try to develop mechanisms which will help connect those seeking to digitize books with those who are able to give them the necessary permission. This article provides a high level overview of a project which could provide an essential element of the infrastructure for communicating rights and permissions information.



The Espresso Book Machine: The Marriott Library Experience<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=42QV3U3908852708>



 p. 39



Rick Anderson







In 2009, an unusual combination of circumstances made it possible for the University of Utah's Marriott Library to purchase and install an Espresso Book Machine (EBM). The Library plans to employ the EBM in pursuit of several dovetailing Library strategies, including the distribution and commercialisation of rare and unique materials from the Library's special collections; printing of archival copies of graduate theses and dissertations; printing books on demand (both for purchase and for borrowing) for Library patrons; and making selections from the University of Utah Press's out‐of‐print backlist more readily available to the campus community. The machine has generated tremendous excitement on campus already, and initial experience and patron response both suggest that the EBM will turn out to be useful in ways not anticipated.



Print on demand (POD) as development potential for Africa<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=X3757632X3W34258>



 p. 43



Mary Jay







Independent publishing in sub‐Saharan Africa is underdeveloped in most countries, yet such development is integral to development and cultural autonomy. National, regional and continent‐wide distribution is weak. This industry weakness impacts negatively both on publishing houses and their concomitant parts. Through African Books Collective (ABC), 124 autonomous African publishers from 20 countries collectively market and distribute their titles internationally, enabling them to maximize overseas sales income. Print on demand (POD) is a major resource for production and international distribution, a tool for digital marketing to the wholesale channels, and a means to maintain publisher control over content. There is untapped potential for POD to contribute to intra‐African book trade. The Espresso Book Machine offers an opportunity to tap this potential.



Next‐generation ERM system: ‘ERM Essentials’ in context<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=F0558875411671KW>



 p. 47



Heather Klusendorf, Kristina Krusmark







With the emerging trend to migrate collections to ‘e’ only, it is becoming increasingly important for librarians to be able to manage e‐resources effectively. Electronic resource management (ERM) systems are intended to assist librarians with simplifying their daily management tasks, but many librarians have reported that the effort to input resource data can be overwhelming, leading to increased staff workload and resulting in an ERM that cannot be implemented and used.The next‐generation ERM system ‘ERM Essentials’, created by EBSCO, is explained and reviewed as an example of a system that can be easily implemented with readily available data from customers' order history. Some of the drawbacks with earlier systems are considered, and the hopes for future systems with added functionality are explored.



Next‐generation ERM system: ‘360 Resource Manager’ helping to tame the e‐world<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=841568131644U675>



 p. 51



Jeff Aipperspach, Leslie Lapham







Libraries today spend more than 60% of their budget on electronic resources. Instead of making life and work easier, these changes have created additional work and collections are incredibly complex to manage. The key to meeting customer needs in the library is being able to manage library collections effectively, and consequently to better connect users and researchers to the information they need. This requires not only the ability to choose and maintain access to e‐resource titles, but to efficiently organize metadata about the library's subscriptions. Serials Solutions' electronic management (ERM) system, ‘360 Resource Manager’, was developed to take advantage of what they believe is the industry's leading e‐resource knowledgebase, integration and interoperability with multiple services and systems, flexible architecture, and consortia support to allow library staff to spend more time on data analysis and assessment than on maintaining subscription metadata.



Key issue: The Semantic Web: What you need to know and why it is important for your user community<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=Q06L55284T555587>



 p. 55



Darrell Gunter, Terry Hulbert, Thane Kerner, Steve Leicht







Profile: Dan Tonkery<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=QL83182126732G02>



 p. 58









People in the news: Martin Svoboda<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=RR41624M217745K1>



 p. 61









People<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=A331207568X4567J>



 p. 65



John Jardine







Notes for contributors<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=B4H4881210202P86>



 p. 69









CONNECTING THE INFORMATION COMMUNITY<http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=B30M688725816758>



 p. 70











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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