NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION
MARCH 2004 issue
Editorial note:
This section contains items
culled from various Internet news services, discussion lists and other
announcements. Unless specifically noted,
I have not visited the sites, used any of the software, reviewed the
literature, or written the news items. I
present this digest to you in good faith but cannot vouch for the accuracy of
its content.
Books required by University Libraries in Iraq
sophie.felfoldi@ifla.nl Tue 9/03/2004
Books required by University Libraries in
While almost all university libraries south of Iraqi Kurdistan were
looted and/or burned, even the ones left untouched have little in them. In
That said, where they think the need is greatest is in the sciences and
medicine - including nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine and
science. These books, also, can and
should be in English. All agriculture related material is also vitally
necessary.
While they will gladly accept all texts and back copies of journals,
they would lean toward the sciences and engineering and computer science over
the political science texts which predominate on your list. Political science
(hard as it might be to believe) is not widely taught.
Still, I need to emphasize that the need is across all fields, though
the books that would be most useful in English are in the sciences, medicine,
English literature and language, agricultural sciences, and engineering simply
because those fields are all taught in English.
John Agresto
Senior Adviser
Higher Education
CPA,
The Governing Board of IFLA at its meeting on
Offers should be sent to
Thank you.
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CNIB Digital Library and Children's Discovery Portal
Shelagh Paterson
[Shelagh.Paterson@cnib.ca]
Thu
CNIB's Digital Library
revolutionizes accessibility and provides a world of information for Canadians
who are blind or visually impaired Service includes world's first Internet
portal of its kind for blind children
"For sighted people, technology makes access to information easier.
For people like myself who are blind, it makes access
possible," said Jim Sanders, president of The Canadian National Institute
for the Blind (CNIB). "The CNIB
Digital Library will open up worlds of opportunity and knowledge. For example,
I can now read a newspaper the same day it hits the newsstand. And the new
service is particularly exciting for young CNIB clients, who will be able to
visit a Web site that is just as much fun, attractive and informative as any
other children's site."
The CNIB Digital Library offers a completely new reading experience for
people who are blind or visually impaired. Currently, only 3% of published
materials are available in an accessible format. Highlights include:
Ø Accessible. The CNIB Digital Library was designed from the outset to ensure it met
the accessibility needs of people who are blind or visually impaired. It works
with major adaptive technology products including screen reading programs and braille keyboards.
Ø Comprehensive
and easy to use. Brings
all of the Library's online services including the CNIB catalogue and digital
repository of books into one unified, bilingual, Internet gateway.
Ø Vast
repository. There are more than 10,000 audio, text,
and braille titles available online for instant
reading, including bestsellers such as Life of Pi and The Stone Diaries.
Clients can also search and order from a collection of more than 60,000 titles.
Ø Exciting
new access. Clients can listen to a CNIB Library
talking book (with human-voice narration) right from their computer simply by
selecting a link for the title of that book.
Ø Newspapers,
magazines, databases. The current editions of
more than 40 daily, national, and community newspapers from across
The Children's Discovery Portal is one of the most exciting parts of
this digital transformation. For the first time children who are blind or
visually impaired will be able to play online games, participate in online
polls, get homework help, sample or read entire books online and chat with
other children who are blind from across the country. For some this may be the
first opportunity they have ever had to meet another child who is blind.
"The whole Portal is cool but I especially love the chat room
because I can speak to other kids like me," said 11-year-old CNIB client
Robert Hampson.
"I also like playing games like Dreadnought and it's
fun to be able to read books right away instead of waiting for them to arrive
in the mail."
The CNIB Digital Library is the result of a bold venture to fully
transform the CNIB Library's collection and production process to a digital
library environment. The Library was relying on obsolete technology to
reproduce materials. The collection was also at risk of being lost forever had
it not been digitized. The transformation is being funded by That
all may read..., an on-going $33 million nationwide campaign.
The campaign got a boost today when The Honourable Jane Stewart,
Minister of Human Resources Development Canada, made a surprise announcement
that the Government of Canada would be contributing $6 million towards the CNIB's digital library.
"This launch is only the beginning for The CNIB Digital Library. In
order to complete this historic project, we need to reach our fundraising goal
of $33 million," said Frank Clegg, chair of That
all may read... and president of Microsoft
Donations total $19.4 million to date with Microsoft
Microsoft
Since 1906, the CNIB Library for the Blind has been working to promote
literacy and to ensure that Canadians who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind have equitable access to information, culture,
and lifelong learning. The CNIB Library is one of the largest producers of
alternative-format materials in the world and circulated 1.8 million items last
year.
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To try out The CNIB Digital Library, visit the Library's Web site at www.cnib.ca/library or www.inca.ca/bibliotheque and select the
"guest" option on the login screen. Some functions are not available
to guests (they are for CNIB Library clients only and available with password
access).
For more information, or to receive a comprehensive live demo or a CD
presentation of The CNIB Digital Library, contact:
Julia Morgan
Communications Coordinator
CNIB Library for the Blind
(416) 480-7423
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DPC/PADI 'What's New in Digital Preservation'
Issue 7
From: Gerard Clifton [mailto:gclifton@nla.gov.au]
Sent:
To: 'padiforum-l@nla.gov.au'
Subject: [padiforum-l] DPC/PADI 'What's New in
Digital Preservation' Issue 7 available
Issue no. 7 (October 2003 - January 2004) of the DPC/PADI "Whats New in Digital Preservation" quarterly bulletin
is now available from the DPC and NLA websites at:
Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/
National Library of
'What's New' is a summary of selected recent activity in the field of
digital preservation - compiled by Michael Day of UKOLN, University of Bath,
and Gerard Clifton of the National Library of Australia - from the Preserving
Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway and the digital-preservation and padiforum-l mailing lists, although additional or related
items of interest may also be included.
Issue 7 features news from a wide range of organisations and
initiatives, including the UK Digital Curation
Centre, the Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee, the
NESTOR Network of Expertise in long-term Storage of digital Resources, the
World Summit on the Information Society and the European Union's 6th Framework
Programme.
The digest also includes links to recent major reports, such as those of
the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation and the US
National Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, as well as
reports from the JISC Supporting Institutional Records Management Program.
Specific topics covered by this issue include: Web archiving, file
formats and tools, preservation metadata, legal issues, institutional
repositories, e-prints and e-journals, and digital library futures.
Finally, the bulletin also includes summaries of other selected recent
publications and information on past and forthcoming events.
Regards,
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Gerard Clifton
PADI Administrator
National Library of
Tel: +61-2 6262-1366 Fax: + 61-2 6262-1653
Email: gclifton@nla.gov.au
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Digital Rights Management Year in Review
Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Sat,
From: Mark Goldstein <markg@researchedge.com>
Subject: Digital Rights Managment Year in
Review
For IP if you wish:
DRM Watch (http://www.drmwatch.com/)
is a great source for the ongoing monitoring of Digital Rights Management
issues and news. They've put out a useful 2003 year in review for DRM across
several categories that IP readers will likely find of interest.
2003 in Review: DRM Technology
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published
A look back at the year's significant trends in DRM
technology, along with some predictions for 2004 and beyond. http://www.drmwatch.com/drmtech/article.php/3294391
2003 in Review:
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published
A look back at the year's significant trends in
DRM-enabled online content services, along with some predictions for 2004 and
beyond. http://www.drmwatch.com/ocr/article.php/3294461
2003 in Review: DRM Standards
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published
A look back at the year's significant trends in DRM-related standards
initiatives, along with some predictions for 2004 and beyond. http://www.drmwatch.com/standards/article.php/3295291
2003 in Review: Legal Issues
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published
A look back at the year's significant trends in legal actions related to
DRM, along with some predictions for 2004 and beyond. http://www.drmwatch.com/legal/article.php/3296061
Best Regards,
Mark Goldstein
Voice & Fax: 602-470-0389
IRC: http://www.researchedge.com/
Helping Build the Tech Oasis - http://www.techoasis.org/
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Fifth International Conference on Grey Literature
TextRelease [info@textrelease.com] Thu
GL5 CONFERENCE MEMORANDUM NO.9 -
Fifth International
Conference on Grey Literature
Conference memoranda provide an ideal means of keeping authors,
delegates, and participants informed on the progress and planning of the Fifth
International Conference on Grey Literature. This event will be held at the
CONTENTS:
GreyNet
publications from 1994-2000 available via BLDSC . . . . . . . . 1 GL5 Program
and Conference Proceedings ~ Forthcoming
. . . . . . . . . 2 P&S Reviews add the finishing touch . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 An All-In Conference Fee, the All Round Dutch Treat . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. GREYNET PUBLICATIONS FROM 1994-2000 AVAILABLE VIA BLDSC
GreyNet
(Grey Literature Network Service) publications from 1994-2000 Are now available
on interlibrary loan/document delivery via the British Library Document Supply
Centre (BLDSC) in Boston Spa, United Kingdom http://www.bl.uk/services/document/delivery.html These include the Proceedings of the first
four international conferences in the GL-series (ISSN 1386-2316), as well as
the fourth edition of the Annotated Biblio- graphy on the Topic of Grey Literature (ISBN
90-74854-26-5). Together these five information resources contain the full text
of some 120 papers and more than 750 bibliographic records most of which are
annotated, and are a valuable resource for authors, researchers, and students. GreyNet Service has been re-launched in June 2003 by TextRelease and the Fifth International Conference on Grey
Literature will be held in
2. GL5 PROGRAM AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ~ FORTHCOMING ~
These forthcoming publications can be ordered via the conference
website. Libraries & Information Centers that
house earlier editions of the GL- series will certainly want to compliment
their collections. A special set price is now available at €70, excluding postage
and handling. Advance publication orders are now being taken. Conference Program. -
GreyNet/TextRelease, Dec.'03. ISBN
90-77484-02-7 Conference Proceedings GreyNet/TextRelease,
Jan.'04. ISBN 90-77484-01-9 http://www.textrelease.com/pages/3
3. P&S REVIEWS ADD THE FINISHING TOUCH
The GL5 Product & Service Reviews will be held in the Tinbergen Hall of the
* INIST Institut de l'Information Scientifique et
* BLDSC British
Library Document Supply
* EAGLE
European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation
* NIWI Nederlands
Inst. voor Wetenschappelijke
Informatiediensten
* Etc. http://www.textrelease.com/pages/3
4. AN ALL-IN CONFERENCE FEE, THE ALL ROUND DUTCH TREAT
The GL5 conference fee includes attendance at the Plenary and Breakout
Sessions, including P&S Reviews. A copy of the GL5 Program Book, Conference
Papers, badge, and pouch are likewise included. Also, the lunches and
refreshments during the breaks as well as local taxes are all-in the
registration fee. If you have not yet registered, please take a moment to
complete the form found on the conference site. http://www.textrelease.com/pages/4
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Gates Report on Public Libraries Helping to Close the DigitalDivide
sophie.felfoldi@ifla.nl Wed 3/03/2004
For Immediate Release
New Report Finds libraries help close Digital Divide
but struggle to sustain
public access computing services
Bill Gates, Sr. releases report developed in partnership with national
civic organizations at Public Library Association conference
The report, "Toward Equality of Access: The Role of Public
Libraries in Addressing the Digital Divide," was developed by the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with the AARP, American Library
Association, Beaumont Foundation of America, Benton Foundation, Institute of
Museum and Library Services, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National
League of Cities and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Pew Internet & American
Life Project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, served as research advisers.
In 1996, only 28 percent of public library systems offered public
Internet access. Today, more than 95 percent of library buildings offer public
access computing, and 14 million Americans regularly use these computers. This
benefit has especially reached certain socioeconomic groups that are less
likely to have access at home or work. African Americans and Hispanics are
twice as likely to use library computers as Asian Americans and whites.
Families making less than $15,000 annually are two to three times more likely
to rely on library computers than those earning more than $75,000.
"Today, if you can reach a public library, you can reach the Internet,"
said Bill Gates, Sr., co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a
featured speaker at the Public Library Association conference. "The
challenge now is to continue providing this access that millions of our neighbors depend upon. Cuts in library budgets won't turn
off the Internet for wealthy or middle-class families. It will turn off the
Internet for people who have nowhere else to turn."
Although Internet use has increased substantially in the
"By offering free access to computing, and therefore information,
libraries bring opportunity to all," said Carla Hayden, president of the
American Library Association. "Libraries offer more than
hardware-librarians are tech-savvy and help library users gain the skills needed
to use technology effectively and find what they need online and in
print."
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has worked in partnership with
public libraries since 1997, investing more than $250 million to provide
libraries with public access computers and software, while simultaneously
providing training and technical support for librarians.
Research shows that patrons use library computers to conduct research,
write resumes, keep in touch with family and friends and complete assignments
for school or work. According to a recent Marist Institute study, Americans
believe that providing computers for public use is one of the three most
important things a library can do. Beyond high patron satisfaction and demand,
the technology has revitalized libraries. Nationwide, total visits to the
library have increased by more than 17 percent between 1996 and 2001.
Despite these benefits, libraries face serious challenges as they
continue to provide access to digital information. In keeping pace with
ever-evolving technology, libraries often lack sufficient resources and
technical support to upgrade computer hardware, software and Internet
connections. Librarians and staff members also must seek continued technology
training to assist patrons and troubleshoot equipment. Severe budget cuts
nationwide have caused some libraries to cut operating hours, lay off staff
members or close altogether.
Gates released the new report during a speech at the 10th biennial
conference of the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American
Library Association, where he also outlined the next phase of the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation's support for public libraries. The foundation plans
to build broader partnerships with local governments, business, foundations, nonprofits,
libraries and library supporters that will help keep libraries open, improve
technology and support ongoing training.
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The report which can be found at: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/Downloads/libraries/uslibraries/reports/TowardEqualityofAccess.pdf
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Contact: Kara Palmer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
206-709-3400
media@gatesfoundation.org
Larra Clark
Press Officer,
312-280-5043
lclark@ala.org
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Other Resources:
AARP, www.aarp.org
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, www.gatesfoundation.org
American Library Association, www.ala.org
Beaumont Foundation of America, www.bmtfoundation.com
Benton Foundation, www.benton.org
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, www.civilrights.org
National League of Cities, www.nlc.org
Pew Internet & American Life Project, www.pewinternet.org
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, www.uschamber.com
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GreyNet
[info@greynet.org] Thu
G r e y L i
t e r a t u r e N e t w o r k S e r v i c e
"To date 30% of the
Survey Respondents are New to GreyNet"
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This survey is held in advance of the Sixth International Conference on
Grey Literature (GL6). The instrument used is an open-ended questionnaire
consisting of twenty-two questions or items designed to compile information for
further analysis. It is not only important to know if a respondent agrees or
disagrees with the questions, but also their comments stand central. While this
questionnaire is not anonymous, the identity of an individual respondent will
remain undisclosed. http://www.greynet.org/pages/2
In 1993-1994, GreyNet carried out its first
survey on grey literature. However, within the past decade, due to Internet
technology, grey literature has become a daily work experience in all sectors
of society and constitutes a mainstream, flow of information. An estimated
10-12 minutes of your time will be needed to complete this online
questionnaire. The results will be presented at GL6 and will be made available
to all respondents.
GreyNet
Grey Literature Network Service
Beysterveld 251
1083 KE
The
info@greynet.org
listserv@greynet.org
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GreySource: A Selection of Web-based Resources in Grey Literature
GreyNet [info@greynet.org]
GreySource: A Selection of Web-based Resources in Grey Literature
“GreySource provides examples of grey
literature to the average net-user and in so doing profiles organizations
responsible for its production and/or processing. Only web-based resources that
explicitly refer to the term grey literature (or its equivalent in any
language) are listed. GreySource identifies the
hyperlink directly embedded in a resource, thus allowing immediate and virtual
exposure to grey literature.” New examples are always welcome and will be
incorporated in GreySource!
The web-based resources appear within categories derived from the COSATI
(American) and SIGLE (European) Classification
Systems. The few changes that have been
introduced into the classification scheme are intended to facilitate the search
and retrieval of net-users.
To access GreySource, http://greynet.org/pages/3
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GreyNet
Grey Literature Network Service
Beysterveld 251
1083 KE
The
Tel/Fax +31(0)20-672.1217
info@greynet.org
http://www.greynet.org
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Guidelines
for the Application of the ISBDs to the Description
of Component Parts
John D Byrum [jbyr@loc.gov] Wed 1/10/2003
Philippe Le Pape; Elena Escolano; francoise.bourdon@BNF.FR; Patrick LeBouef; Renate Goempel; Lynne Howarth; eeva.murtomaa@helsinki.fi; Cristina Magliano; ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr; m.guerrini@leonet.it;
Bill Garrison; AUTOCAT@listserv.BUFFALO.EDU; Mirna Willer; Glenn Patton; Dorothy McGarry;
Ton Heijligers
ISBD for Component Parts now on IFLANET
The ISBD Review Group is pleased to announce publication of __Guidelines
for the Application of the ISBDs to the Description
of Component Parts__ on IFLANET, available at: <http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/Component_Parts_final.pdf
>. This version is a reproduction
of the original published in 1988, which has long been out of print, with
typographical corrections largely focused on the examples included in the text.
The Review Group is especially grateful to Robert August, Library of
Congress, and Dorothy McGarry, UCLA (retired) for
their oversight of the project that led to this publication.
John D. Byrum, Jr.
Chief, Regional & Cooperative Cataloging
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C. 20540-4380
Tel: +(202) 707-6511
Fax: +(202) 707-2824
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Hague
Convention Second Protocol
sophie.felfoldi@ifla.nl Tue
9/03/2004
Dear Colleagues,
After more than 13 years hard work and campaigning, the 1999 Second
Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in
the Event of Armed Conflict has finally come into force this morning (3 months
after the deposit for the 20th ratification -
The Protocol greatly strengthens and clarifies cultural protection and
introduces new measures including the designation of cultural property under
Enhanced Protection, specific war crimes, and new administrative procedures
including the establishment of an International Committee and International
Fund for the Protection of Culture.
The Second Protocol is not retrospective in respect of events before
today's date, of course, and initially is it is binding only on, and between,
those States that have adopted it by ratification or accession. The list of
States Parties (i.e. countries that have agreed to be bound
by) to the Second
Protocol is on the UNESCO website at:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/hague/images/2plist.doc
Patrick Boylan
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N.B. Please note my new
address and phone number:
(Prof.)
Patrick J. Boylan
2A
Tel.: (+44) (0)-116.220.5496
E-mail: P.Boylan@city.ac.uk
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ICSTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to Scientific
and Technical Information:State of the Art and
Future
Gerry Mckiernan [gerrymck@iastate.edu] Thu 1/01/2004 12:47 AM LIS-E-JOURNALS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK;
LIS-ELIB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK; SERIALST@LIST.UVM.edu; OAI-eprints@fafner.openlib.org;
AUTOCAT@listserv.buffalo.edu; BUSLIB-L@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.edu;
CHMINF-L@LISTSERV.INDIAN
_Proceedings of Major Open Access Conference Published_
_Proceedings of Major Open Access Conference Published_
The proceedings of the
ICSTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to Scientific
and Technical Information:State of the Art and Future held
the French Ministry of
Research, Carré des Sciences,
a special issue of
_Information Services & Use_ (v 23 (n. 2-3) (ISSN 0167-5265)
(IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl ).
The issue includes the following major themes and notable papers:
**Open Access: What Does It Mean for STI Distribution**
o Open Access: marginal or core phenomenon? a
commercial publisher's view (Pieter Bolman)
o Open publishing: how publishers are reacting (Sally Morris)
o A brief overview of the OAI protocol and its potential impact
(Andy Powell)
**Open Access: Economic Models and Legal Implications**
o Ingenta's economic and technical
models for providing institutional OA archives (Geoffrey Bilder)
o Open Access publishing (Jan Velterop)
o Libraries and institutional infrastructure for Open Access
services (Elmar Mittler)
o The legal framework for access to STI (Thomas Dreier)
**Open Access: Challenges for the Scientific Community**
o
o The Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (Daniel Charnay)
o The research-impact cycle (Stevan Harnad)
**Open Access: Issues for Developing Countries**
o Round Table: Open Access issues for developing countries (Kay Raseroka,
Barbara Kirsop, Jean-Jacques Pierrat, Georges Malamoud,
Barbara Aronson,
Manfred
Spiesberger)
**Open Access: Projects and Initiatives**
o Institutional repositories and Open Access: the future of
scholarly communication (David Prosser)
o The
o FIGARO and Open Access to electronic information objects (Stefan
Gradmann)
o E-BioSci: Semantic networks of
biological information (Les Grivell).
The issue also contains a lengthy review titled "Open Access to
Scientific and
Technical Information: The State of the Art" prepared by Jack
Franklin, ASFRA bv,
The
Answers sessions, welcome and closing addresses, and a summary of
discussions with commentary.
An OCLC record for the issue is
available [OCLC # 53966590] thanks to my
Cataloging Colleagues at the ISU Library! I encourage
all who own the journal to analyze it for their local
OPAC.
**Ironically,
while the proceedings is a major contribution to the Open Access
literature and movement,
it is *not* Open Access [:-( ]. However, some
authors have self-archived a version of their presentations [:-)]** [Google Author/Title to see
who has self-archived]
*** Perhaps,
in the spirit of the Season, the publisher would make this issue available as
their Free (Electronic) Sample Issue -
How About It IOS Press? ***
IMHO This is an important
collection that should be required reading in the New Year for every librarian
and those who wish they
were {:->
Joy!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
New Year Librarian
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Jamshid
Beheshti [jamshid.beheshti@MCGILL.CA] Thu
The IEEE (
Some high level IEEE executives have also announced their dismay at the
policy that IEEE has taken into place (check Science Mag article here). That
has definitely not changed the IEEE's general attitude and regulations towards
the countries targeted.
IEEE is an International Professional Organization by its own
definition; it is the leading publisher of Electrical, Electronics and Computer
Engineering papers and is also a leading figure in the Standardization of many
Engineering standards. It is of great shame that such a prestigious
organization would ban activity and contribution by its members based on their
country of origin. This violates IEEE's own code of ethics that
states:
"We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of
our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in
accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the
communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and
professional conduct and agree to treat fairly all persons regardless of such
factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin."
It also violates Section I-104, Part 12 of the IEEE bylaws, which
states:
"Admission to membership in IEEE in any grade shall not be affected
by the race, religion, nationality, or sex of the applicant."
Of course to many this sounds like just another sanction on the so
called "rogue" states. What people miss the most is that IEEE serves
as a bridge for many young students in these countries to keep in touch with
the world outside of their country and also find their way out to a better
education and a better life outside their country of orgin.
It is noteworthy to mention that at least in the case of
Since the establishment of the first Student Branch in 1997 in
IEEE has responded to pressure that was brought upon them by some
members, they have written an open letter in response, but that did not lift
any bans.
As a result of this new IEEE ban, this site was created, a petition was
created and we want to tell IEEE this is not in the best interest of IEEE or
Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Please sign the petition to support a
better IEEE. You can also write to IEEE via this site. www.shameonieee.org
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Director
voice: (514) 398-3366
fax: (514) 398-7193
email:
jamshid.beheshti@mcgill.ca
Web: www.gslis.mcgill.ca
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Information Representation and
Retrieval in the Digital Age
Heting
Chu [Heting.Chu@liu.edu]
[Asis-l] A new book on information retrieval
Dear list members,
My book titled “Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital
Age” was published by Information Today as an ASIST monograph this August.
Below lists the 12 chapter headings of my book:
1. Information Representation and Retrieval: An Overview
2. Information Representation I: Basic Approaches
3. Information Representation II: Other Related Topics
4. Language in Information Representation and Retrieval
5. Retrieval Techniques and Query Representation
6. Retrieval Approaches
7. Information Retrieval Models
8. Information Retrieval Systems
9. Retrieval of Information Unique in Content or Format
10. The User Dimension in Information Representation and Retrieval 11. Evaluation of Information Representation and Retrieval 12.
Artificial Intelligence in Information Representation and Retrieval
More description about the book can be found at either http://books.infotoday.com/books/InfoRep.shtml
or http://shop.store.yahoo.com/infotoday/inrepandreti.html.
Physical copies of my book will be available for browsing at Information
Today’s booth during the ASIST annual meeting in
Thank you for your attention.
Heting Chu
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Information
Technology, Science and Management - New Titles
jsundstrom@idea-group.com Wed 15/10/2003
New 2004 titles Now Available in
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Innovation v. intellectual property
protection
Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date:
From: Susan Crawford <susanpcrawford@yahoo.com>
Subject: Innovation v. intellectual property protection
To: dave@farber.net
The Committee for Economic Development is releasing a
report today called
"Promoting Innovation and Economic
Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual
Property."
"Report Raises Questions About Fighting
Piracy," by John Schwartz (NYT):
The entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws
to protect copyrighted
materials from online piracy is
bad for business and for
the economy, according to a
report being released today
by the Committee for
Economic Development, a
has its roots in the
business world.
Record companies and movie and television studios have
fought copyright
infringement on many fronts, hoping
to find ways to prevent
their products from being
distributed
free on the Internet. But critics warn
that many of the new
restrictions that the
entertainment
industry proposes - like enforcing
technological
requirements for digital television
programming
that would prevent it from being
transmitted
online - would upset the balance between
the rights of the
content creators and the rights of
the public.
"We are sympathetic to the problems confronting the
content
distribution industry," said the report,
"Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special
Problem of Digital Intellectual Property." "But these
problems -
perfect copies of high-value digital works
being transmitted
instantly around the world at almost
no cost - require
clear, concentrated thinking, rather
than quick legislative or
regulatory action."
rest of the story is
here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/technology/01rights.html
Susan
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Susan Emilie Manus [sman@loc.gov] Wed 5/11/2003
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE
4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
ISMIR 2003 is now over but copies of the printed Proceedings are available for sale,
for those who didn't get a chance to attend (and those who did and would like additional copies.)
To place an order, please see the information listed at the top of the
page on the conference web site (http://ismir2003.ismir.net/).
Sue Manus
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Libraries@the Heart of the Information Society
IFLANET
[ifla2@netscape.net]
# First Phase of WSIS - IFLA's Report from
<http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis.html>
Libraries@the
Heart of the Information Society
IFLA Issues from World
Nr. 4
The Declaration of Principles
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp>
and Action
Plan <http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp>
were
finally
adopted on Friday evening after many hours of statements about
the Information Society.
Particularly strong statements were made about
gender issues and the needs
of people with disabilities.
Adoption was the culmination of eighteen months of consultations and
negotiations and
represented a major achievement for IFLA and its
partners in
lobbying the negotiators. The final versions were agreed at
the eleventh hour, late
on Tuesday 9 December, just before the opening
of the
Unqualified acceptance of the fundamental importance of human rights,
and especially of
freedom of expression and information was obtained but
two issues could not be
resolved. The first was Internet governance
which some nations wish to
keep under the control of ICANN, supervised
by the US Department of
Commerce and with the involvement of major ICT
operators,
while others would prefer supervision by an INGO such as the
ITU. The second was
funding mechanisms to address the digital divide on
which a split emerged
between developed and developing nations. The
Government of
EU and other developed nations argued that existing funding mechanisms
should be used. To secure
endorsement of the documents, it was agreed to
study both between the
positive
note, the Mayors of Lyons in
announced on
Friday that they had added to the Senegal Government's
contribution
taking the fund to over EUR1 million.
As the civil society organisations have noted, the Declaration and
Action Plan fall short of providing the means to implement fully a
vision for an equitable and
inclusive information society. The make a
start but there is much to
do.
IFLA has signed the Civil Society Declaration
<http://www.geneva2003.org/wsis/documents/summit/WSIS-CS-Decl-08-12-03-en.pdf>
and will be working with
our partners in civil society to advance a
shared vision.
Nevertheless, most of our concerns are included in the Declaration and
Action Plan which offer a framework for action over the next 23 months
to
that we can turn the
statements into reality, that the global library
network
provides the foundation for the information society.
This has been the most sustained and widespread advocacy campaign ever
undertaken by
IFL
has taught us many
lessons, including the need for the strong core
support,
provided this time by our Swiss colleagues. We need to learn
for the experience as we
engage with the
for advocacy in other
areas.
Many colleagues from national library associations, national libraries
and other related
organisations participated, presenting an alliance to
promote the
role of libraries in the information society. Right up to
the end, IFLA
representatives met with key players including government
delegates and
ministers, civil society members and HE Adama Samassékou,
President of the preparatory process who spoke at WLIC
2003 in
Contacts made during the summit included funders
and organisers of
Telecentres in the developing world. IFLA considers this as a valuable
contact and
we are preparing a joint workshop during the World Library
and Information Congress
in
The assistance of students and lecturers from the
Information Science in
willingly
staffed our booth, which we shared with
information
while we met with the key players.
A commentary on the Declaration and Action Plan will be distributed
shortly. It
will show how IFLA, library associations and libraries are
turning the
ideas and actions into practice and how, with a little
support, we
can extend our work so that we will have many stories to
tell in
We will also work to strengthen the outcomes in those areas in which the
Declaration and Action Plan could be improved including the deficiencies
identified in
the Civil Society Declaration.
The effectiveness of our advocacy campaign was demonstrated when an IFLA
representative was
told by a government delegate: "I am sick of hearing
about libraries and from
you librarians ..."
As IFLA President Kay Raseroka noted.
"This experience reminds us of the
need to partner but also
to remember our core values".
Association)
Winnie Vitzansky
(Standing Committee Member of the IFLA Section on
Management of Library Associations, Director of the Danish Library
Association)
Alex Byrne (IFLA President-elect,
Video coverage:
* Sally Burch-Alai:
"Launch of Civil Society Declaration"
<rtsp://ibs.itu.ch/archives/wsis/summit/pc-20031211-1600-en.rm>
[French
<rtsp://ibs.itu.ch/archives/wsis/summit/pc-20031211-1600-fr.rm>]
Read more:
* The final official press
release on the outcome of the
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/newsroom/summaries/12roundup.html>
* Plenary Meetings Summaries:
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/newsroom/summaries/12.html>
* Press Release: Global
Information Society
Alliances But
Hard Work, Action Ahead
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/newsroom/press_releases/wsisclosing.html>
* Arrangments
for the
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>
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Library of Congress Portals Applications
Issues Group (LCPAIG)
John D Byrum [jbyr@loc.gov] Thu
LCPAIG Web site
updated with OpenURL functionalities document
The Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group (LCPAIG) is
pleased to announce that it has added a PDF format version of "Functional
Requirements for an OpenURL Resolver for the Library
of Congress,
The LCPAIG Web site also now provides links to a PPT presentations of
the program "Finding It Faster : Portal
Applications For Information Discovery and Retrieval", given
The Web site also still includes links to its List of Portal
Functionalities and to a new feature "Starting Out with Portals and
OpenURL: An
Introduction".
All of the new items may be accessed from:<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/lcpaig/paig.html>.
John D. Byrum, Jr.
Chief, Regional & Cooperative Cataloging
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C. 20540-4380
Tel: +(202) 707-6511
Fax: +(202) 707-2824
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Library
Hope Kandel
[hope@learningtimes.org] Fri 7/11/2003
Dear Colleagues:
[Please excuse any cross posting]
Following the great success of the LearningTimes
Library
(LTLOC) 2003, we are pleased to announce a new community specifically
for information service and library professionals. Members attend completely online professional
conferences, workshops and webcasts. The initial
conference populated the community with over thirty presentation and keynote
recordings, dozens of discussions, and a network of active library
professionals worldwide.
Members have any-time access to a rich repository of content, free use
of collaboration tools for meeting colleagues online,
virtual seats in free live webcasts, and access to
special discounts for high quality professional development workshops offered
throughout the year.
Use one of the discount links at the bottom of the subscription page to
receive a $20 discount:
http://www.libraryconference.com/subscribe.shtml
We look forward to your participation.
Cheers,
Hope
--
Hope Kandel
Director, Library and Information Services
LearningTimes,
LLC
http://www.libraryconference.org
hope@learningtimes.org
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National
Library of
Hester vanderWalt [Hester.vanderWalt@nlsa.ac.za]
The National Library invites stakeholders and other interested persons
to visit its newly constructed ISN Agency web page at http://www.nlsa.ac.za/isn.html. The
page distributes relevant information regarding ISBN, ISSN and other
international numbers. Publishers and authors can request an ISBN online. New
developments of the 13-digit ISBN, which will come into effect worldwide by
January 2007, will also be available. Visitors are invited to comment on the
layout and coverage of the page. We trust that the ISN Agency web page will be
a useful tool in your encounters with international standard numbers in
Enquiries: Tienie de Klerk
tienie.deklerk@nlsa.ac.za
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NCLIS/UNESCO
meeting of experts on information literacy
Michel J. Menou [Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr] Sat 25/10/2003
A presse release about the above mentioned
meeting held last September in
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=13272&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1067082199
Best regards,
Michel J. Menou mailto: Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr
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New and Old
Articles About Innovative Information Systems
Gerry Mckiernan [gerrymck@iastate.edu] Thu
_New and Old Articles About Innovative
Information Systems_
I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of
self-archived copies of
two of my SCI-5 columns
devoted to Innovative Information Systems:
"New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services,"
Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp.
223-233.
[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf]
"Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science &
Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191
[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ]
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I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies
of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information
Systems, etc:
"eCONF: The SLAC
Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18
No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf
ABSTRACT
To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference
proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has
been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services
department. At this time, the eConf archive is
limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive
presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th
International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP
99) and 20th International Linac Conference.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/
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"EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of
Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1,
January/February 2003,
30-36.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf
ABSTRACT
The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end
users and organizations having a need for
energy-related
scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include
researchers,
scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and
students), and associated information professionals.
NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system
http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/
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"Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital
Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp.
27-33.
"Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a
given information need and learn how to use its particular options for
searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy
Tennant ||
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf
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"Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and
Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7,
August 2002, pp. 31-43.
"* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all
aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be
speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and
referees." || F. W. Lancaster ||
[
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf
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And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were
[:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Enjoy!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
New and Old Irish Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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NFAIS
Guiding Principles on Reference Linking
Richard
Hill [rhill@asis.org]
[Forwarded. Dick Hill]
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NFAIS Releases Guiding Principles in Support of Industry-Wide
Collaboration on Reference Linking:
Upon unanimous vote of the Board of Directors and with strong support
from individual member organizations, NFAIS has released a set of Guiding
Principles to encourage widespread linking of bibliographic and full text
databases. The ultimate objective is to
support the flow of scholarly communication and research through an
acceleration of the information discovery process - a process facilitated by
the seamless navigation from indexes and pointers to the complete documents.
The Reference Linking Guidelines were developed by the NFAIS Information
Linking Committee - a group comprised of both NFAIS members and non-members who
recognize the need for reference linking to become an information industry
norm.
A press release and a link to the Guidelines can be found at: http://www.nfais.org
For more information on the Guidelines or on the NFAIS Information
Linking Committee contact Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication &
Planning at jilloneill@nfais.org or (215)-893-1561 Phone.
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
FAX: (301) 495-0810
PHONE: (301) 495-0900
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NISO-Sponsored
INFO URI Scheme Published
Cynthia Hodgson [chodgson@niso.org]
Fri 16/01/2004
NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme is Information Gateway to
the Web
Working under the auspices of the National Information
Standards Organization (NISO), a joint task force of the
publishing and
library communities has developed and
published a
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme aimed
at the identification
of information assets. Information
assets should be
interpreted rather broadly to include,
for example, documents
and terms from classification
schemes. The INFO URI scheme is a consistent and
reliable
way to represent and
reference such standard identifiers
as Dewey Decimal
Classifications on the Web so that these
identifiers can
be ?read? and understood by Web
applications. Led by four NISO members and associates?Los
Alamos National Laboratory,
(OCLC), Elsevier, and Manifest Solutions?the initiative
builds on earlier
consultations with representatives from
the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) and the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). An Internet-Draft for the
INFO URI scheme was first published
revision
published
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandesompel-info-uri-01.txt>).*
Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library
Research &
Prototyping at the
Research Library, stated, ?A good example of
the problem
that the INFO URI scheme
solves involves PubMed
identifiers:
unique numbers assigned to records in the
PubMed database maintained
by the
Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National Library
of Medicine. PubMed identifiers
originated prior to the
Web, so they are not URIs. As such they do not
exist
naturally in
the Web infrastructure because the Web only
recognizes URIs as a means to identify information
resources. So Web applications cannot use PubMed
identifiers,
and hence cannot reference PubMed records
that are identified by
them. The solution is to turn
PubMed identifiers into URIs. The INFO Registry enables
the registration of
public namespaces of standard
identifiers;
NCBI registered its PubMed identifier
namespace
under the INFO Registry?their namespace is
pmid?so we can now talk about the record with
the PubMed
identifier ?12376099?
in URI terms as
<info:pmid/12376099>.?
The INFO Registry is now available online at
This Registry contains all the
information needed by Web
applications to make use
of INFO namespaces. Each Registry
entry defines the
namespace, the syntax, and normalization
rules for the
representing INFO identifiers as URIs, and
gives full contact
information for the namespace authority
for that entry.
Moreover, the INFO Registry is readable by
both humans and
machines alike.
For more information about the INFO
URI scheme, see the
FAQ at < http://info-uri.info/registry/docs/misc/faq.html
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National
Information Standards Organization (NISO)
T.
301-654-2512, F. 301-654-1721
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"Directory of Libraries and
Archives in the
Circulation and Outreach Services Librarian
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Public Library of Science Launches
PIETERSEN,
David [david.pietersen@doir.wa.gov.au] Tue 14/10/2003
Multiple
recipients of list WAIN
- Open the doors to the world's library of scientific knowledge by giving any scientist, physician, patient, or student - anywhere in the world - unlimited access to the latest scientific research.
- Facilitate research, informed medical practice, and education by making it possible to freely search the full text of every published article to locate specific ideas, methods, experimental results, and observations.
- Enable scientists, librarians, publishers, and entrepreneurs to develop innovative ways to explore and use the world's treasury of scientific ideas and discoveries.
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Please find enclosed a news item relating to the 2004
edition
of the
Renaissance Library Calendar. I'd be grateful if you could
consider it for
inclusion in LIBRES.
I think it would certainly be of interest to many of your
readers.
I can provide higher definition pictures, if required.
ISIM
2004 Renaissance Library Calendar better than ever - El Escorial on Front Cover
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More about the Royal Library at El Escorial
More about the Sacristy/Library at St.
Catherine's Monastery
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Larry Woods
[larry-woods@uiowa.edu] Wed 29/10/2003
Here are the presentations from the
IFLA ITS Workshop: "The Scholar's
Portal - an International
Perspective"
http://staffweb.lib.uiowa.edu/lwoods/presentations/ifla
(319) 335-5867 (319) 335-5900
(fax)
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SIS2004 Annual
Convention and Conference Report
22nd
Annual Convention and Conference on
Digital
Information Exchange: Pathways to Build Global Information Society
held at Indian
Institute of Technology
Tutorial I ISO 9001: 2000 Application in Libraries
and
Tutorial II
Management and Development of Digital Resources
- Current Issues & Future
Directions in Digital Libraries
- Web content/Rendering Techniques
- Scientometrics and Webometrics
- Digital resources
- Open access Initiatives/ Digital
Preservation
- Networking and Security Issues
- Information Society and
Profession
- Web based Services and
E-Commerce
- E-Publishing / Digitalization
- Library Consortia/IPR/Information
Exchange
- Dr. Sangayya.
S. Sirurmath, IIM, Ahemdabad
- Prof. N.Laxman
Rao,
- Dr. S. Venkadesan,
IISc,
- Dr. Bhandi,
- Prof. K.S. Raghavan,
- Prof. Manorama
Srinath,
- Prof. Sabahat
Hussain,
- Dr. Mangal
K. Sundar, IIT
- Prof. Lalitha
Jayaraman,
- Dr. Harish
Chandra, IIT
- Dr. K. Nithyanandam,
- Mr. M. Natara
- Dr. V.S. Cholin,
INFLIBNET
- Dr. S. Chandrappa, IIM,
- Mr. K. Ramachendra
Rao,
- Mr. Mahendra
N Jhadav, IIT
- Dr. Krishna Gopal,
- Dr. S. Gopala
Krishnan, MIT, Chennai
- Mr.
- Mr. Ramesh
Kundra, NISTADS
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Stevan Harnad on Open Access to science literature
This is a key subject <hich is affecting us from many different stand points.
> ------- Start of forwarded
message -------
> From: Stevan
Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To:
SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Reply-To: September 1998
American Scientist Forum
>
<SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
> Subject: Fwd: Re: On the Need to
Take Both Roads to Open Access
> As you requested, I have
transmitted widely your announcement about
> SciDevNet's
coverage of open access:
> http://www.scidev.net/ms/open_access/
> As you also ask for my comments,
Here they are:
> (1) The SciDevNet's
coverage is very helpful and welcome, but at the
> moment
it is *extremely* lop-sided, covering only one of the two roads
> to open
access -- open-access journal publication -- but not the other
> road:
open-access self-archiving of toll-access journal publications:
> http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html
> (2) You do cite the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) but
you do
> not note that the BOAI consists of *two* open-access
strategies, of
> which the second (BOAI-2) is open-access journal publication
but the
> first (BOAI-1) is open-access self-archiving:
> http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
> (3) This is an important omission, because in actual numbers,
> open-access self-archiving is generating far more open
access articles
> per year than open-access journal-publishing, and
open-access via this
> road is also able to grow much sooner and faster. In fact,
in all
> likelihood, the "green" road of open-access
self-archiving is itself
> also the surest way to reach the "golden" road of
open-access
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> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0030.gif
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.htm
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.ppt
> (4) This is why it is so important not to represent
"open-access" as
> merely being synonymous with
"open-access-publishing"!
> (5) In your key reports and documents, you have mostly BOAI-2
reports
> and documents. May I suggest adding the following BOAI-1
reports and
> (i) The BOAI-1 (self-archiving) FAQ: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
> (ii) The original self-archiving
proposal (Okerson & ODonnell
1995)
> http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html
> (iii)
The University self-archiving policy model:
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html
> (iv) The Research-Funder
open-access policy model:
> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/
> (v) The
Berlin Open Access Declaration:
> http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
> (vi)
SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide
> http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html
> (6)
Among "Open Access Initiatives" could I suggest adding
> http://www.surf.nl/en/themas/print/index2.php?oid=7
> (iii)
The Australian initiative
> http://alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2002/10/eprints.html
> (iv) French initiatives: http://www.tours.inra.fr/tours/doc/comsci.htm
> (v) The
cross-institutional archive, OAIster
> http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
> (7) To
"Open Access Literature" I suggest adding:
> Harnad, S. (2001) The
self-archiving initiative
> http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html
> Pinfield et al (2002) "Setting up an institutional
e-print archive"
> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/intro.html
> Core metalist of open access eprint
archives