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D-Lib
October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis.   |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Information Today
December 8, 2003
Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today
March 2009
Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
Information Today
December 2003
Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
D-Lib
January 2004
Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
D-Lib
July 2001
Steven J. Bell |
The New Digital Divide Dissecting Aggregator Exclusivity Deals... |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
Searcher
December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
July 2, 2007
Karie Kirkpatrick |
Injecting Life Into the Ebook: Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 Released Adobe announced the release of its new ebook software, Adobe Digital Editions. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
Information Today
August 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Ebooks Corp. Announces New Ebook Lending Platform The company worked closely with the library, technology, and publishing communities to develop EBL, which is said to offer a pioneering approach to lending. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Information Today
August 2004 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Unveils New Interface Enhancements... Ingenta Launches Beta Version of Its IngentaConnect Flagship Web Service... NewsStand Introduces iBrowse Reader... Information Today, Inc. Releases Two New Directories... etc. |
Information Today
March 2001
Judy Luther & Ana Arias Terry |
Professional Publishers Confront Change Taking risks was the mandate at the annual conference of the Association of American Publishers' Professional Scholarly Publishing division, from Napster to e-books to new business models... |
Information Today
October 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Factiva Introduces New Subscription Options... Dialog Announces Content Additions... OUP Updates American National Biography Online... etc. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today
November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today
September 2002
Richard Poynder |
Poynder on Point: Reinventing MCB University Press Can this journal publisher distance itself from its once-controversial reputation? |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
D-Lib
May 2000
Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
D-Lib
October 2004
John Cox |
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities Where content matches need, e-books can support the academic mission effectively, saving time and adding value as a collective online reference resource rather than a set of individual titles. |
Information Today
March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
Information Today
June 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest on Factiva, Ingenta, Google, and More Library and information vendors seemed to be holding back their big announcements for two events in June: the SLA and ALA annual conferences. |
Information Today
May 2001
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Provides Integrated Serials Solutions There may still be folks out there who only associate the name EBSCO with magazine subscriptions for libraries. But EBSCO Subscription Services is just one of two divisions within EBSCO Information Services... |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Web Hits the Stacks The bulk of human knowledge represented by printed material -- especially that more than 25 years old -- does not exist in digital form. But Yahoo! and Google are are leading the way in efforts to open the world of print and proprietary material to browsing. |
Information Today
November 21, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments. |
D-Lib
October 2004
Gatten & Sanville |
An Orderly Retreat from the Big Deal: Is It Possible for Consortia? The struggle to find cost-effective alternative approaches to scholarly publishing resulting in a meaningful change to funding models--as opposed to simply reshuffling the funding deck--continues in full force. |
Information Today
July 2, 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group. |
Information Today
October 7, 2002 |
News Digest CrossRef Launches Version 2.0, Expands Membership... Infotrieve Signs Two STM Aggregators, 10 Publishers... EBSCO Increases Links to JSTOR, Adds Access to Elsevier Content |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
D-Lib
May 2001
Amy Brand |
CrossRef Turns One What started as a cooperative effort among publishers and technologists to prototype DOI-based linking of citations in e-journals evolved into an independent, non-profit enterprise last year... |
D-Lib
September 2001
Dale Flecker |
Preserving Scholarly E-Journals For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today
March 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Yahoo! Provides 2004 Election Information... NPG Launches Chinese Edition of Nature... MicroPatent Unveils MPI-INPADOC Plus... etc. |
Information Today
March 31, 2008
Barbara Quint |
HighWire's New H2O Platform Updates Epublishing for Publisher Partners HighWire is an online repository for scholarly publications. Version 2.0 (H2O) will enable content to work with a variety of Web 2.0 applications, and it will allow publishers to expand their content types beyond journals to books, reference works, and non-journal web content |
Information Today
November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Barbara Quint |
New Dialog E-journal Feature Links Database Citations to Full-Text Article Images Dialog Corp. has become the first of the traditional commercial online services to offer users full linking from citations appearing in abstract/index databases to electronic versions of the journals... |
D-Lib
February 2006
Titia van der Werf-Davelaar |
Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies A look at the aspects of the transformation in academic publishing, looking at it from the perspective of the Africanist community in the Netherlands. |
Information Today
July 22, 2002
Barbie E. Keiser |
Sage Publications Withdraws Titles from EBSCOhost, ProQuest Access to electronic journals is in a state of flux. There are many options on the customer side and just as many avenues for the publisher. The appropriate mix, with adequate compensation for publishers' efforts and access provided by intermediaries, is a continuing experiment. |
