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MARCH 2012 ISSUE
Volume 22 Issue 1
Includes:
Research and Applications Section (peer reviewed)
> > Scholarly Communication's Mess: Can Economic Analysis Help?
Essays and Opinions Section
> > Counting Cataloging: Moving Beyond Statistics to Measure the Value of Cataloging
Editor's comment
Dear colleagues
This issue contains two thoughtful articles: John Budd has researched an interesting dimension in the area of scholarly publishing: gaming; and colleagues Melissa De Fino and Jianrong Wang from Rutgers University describe and discuss the value dimensions in cataloguing.
I continue to regularly post items of relevance to the LIBRES blog under the tags of:
A matter that has come before us is one of the currency of web links that have been provided in earlier articles and notes in LIBRES. We are occasionally approached by web managers to update some of these links, and to quote one of our Technical Editors: “This raises an interesting question, as it is an ‘edition’ rather than an ongoing resource, is there a case for keeping the original ‘historical’ form even if the link is now obsolete?” (email D. Silvester, 28 March, 2012) and I have canvassed our Editorial team about this. The reasons why my preference is to keep LIBRES in its “original ‘historical’ form” are:
(a) practical - we do not have the time nor the support to continually revisit articles and check weblinks, and
(b) philosophical: keeping LIBRES in its “original ‘historical’ form” is an important part of the representation of online LIS contributions, particularly as LIBRES was amongst the very early online journals. Its online archive http://libres.curtin.edu.au/archives/ goes back to 1996, and the earliest entry of LIBRES on our ftp site http://dhsws1.humanities.curtin.edu.au/libres/ has volume 2, No 6, published on Newsgroups: bit.listserv.libres on June 16, 1992, which is about as far back as the correspondence I inherited from my predecessor, Dr Andy Exon, goes.
So until next time, and thank you one and all for your contributions to LIBRES
Associate Professor Kerry Smith
Editor-in-Chief, LIBRES