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ICSTI: news items
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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:11:26 +0100
- Organization: IUCr
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- 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" ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- -- Best wishes Peter Strickland Managing Editor IUCr Journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IUCr Editorial Office, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England Phone: 44 1244 342878 Fax: 44 1244 314888 Email: ps@iucr.org Ftp: ftp.iucr.org WWW: http://journals.iucr.org/ _______________________________________________ Epc mailing list Epc@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/epc
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