- To: epc@iucr.org
- Subject: ICSTI: news items
- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:11:26 +0100
- Organization: IUCr
- Reply-To: ps@iucr.org, "IUCr Committee on Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Storage of Information" <epc@iucr.org>
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Subject: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals
Date: Saturday 30 April 2005 1:31 pm
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
From Current Cites;
Abstract:
The emergence of e–journals brought a great change in scholarly communication
and in the behavior of scholars. However, the importance of scholars’
behavior in the pricing of scientific journal has been largely ignored in the
recent debate between libraries and publishers over site license practices
and pricing schemes. Stanford’s survey results indicate that sharply
increasing costs are the main reason for individual subscription
cancellation, driving users to rely on library or other institutional
subscriptions. Libraries continue to be a vital information provider in the
electronic era and their bargaining power in the market and the importance of
roles in scholarly communication will be increased by branding and a strong
relationship with users. Publishers’ strategy for thriving in the electronic
era is not to lose personal subscribers. Cooperation among the three sectors
— scholars, libraries, and publishers — promises optimal results for each
sector more th!
an ever.
<URL: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ >
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Subject: ACS broadens access to its journals
Date: Saturday 30 April 2005 1:31 pm
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific
society, is broadening access to research articles published in its 33
scholarly journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental
policies that define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS
articles beginning one year after publication.
First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by
the NIH, the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after
publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the
National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH
policy encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their
peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital
archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
the rest of the information is at:-
http://acsinfo.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html
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Subject: Goobledegook..... plain English please!
Date: Wednesday 04 May 2005 9:33 am
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
This is a message about an additional feature in OAI-PMH - as far as I can
make out.
Life is hard enough without trying to decipher what it actually says.....
I'd welcome any views on what it means.....[note the phrase 'simple and clear
semantics']
Bye, Barry
"We are pleased to announce the release of guidelines for conveying rights
expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework:
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm
The guidelines specify a mechanism for including rights expressions that
pertain to the contents of the <metadata> parts of records in OAI-PMH
responses. No new rights expression language has been created. Instead,
the specification provides a mechanism to include existing and future XML
rights expressions. Description of rights expressions associated with set
and repository aggregations is supported through manifests of rights
expressions in set and repository descriptions. The design has been guided
by the need for simple and clear semantics that will allow
service-providers to make harvesting and use decisions based on these
rights expressions.
The guidelines were developed by the OAI-rights effort initiated in
collaboration with project RoMEO, and have benefited from the broad
experience of a number of contributors:
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm#acknowledgements"
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Subject: Apropos Carol Tenopir presentations - data on users patterns of
search and usage.
Date: Wednesday 04 May 2005 3:26 pm
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
In addition to Fred Wood's excellent summary, those of you in need of
justifications for your budgets might like to view Carol's latest set of
slides from the AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy (Washington,
D.C., April 21-22) - which are at:-
http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/forum05tenopir.pdf
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Best wishes
Peter Strickland
Managing Editor
IUCr Journals
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