Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25: California Digital Library

Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25: California Digital Library

June 29, 2011 | Category: Curation Micro-services,Digital Preservation (UC3),Digital Preservation Repository,Newsletter |
Author: Patricia Cruse

DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting — Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape—will be a 1.5 day event hosted by the California Digital Library, and we invite you to participate. You can register at: http://datacite2011.eventbrite.com/ .

The Summer Meeting brings together people from research organisations, data canters, government, and information service providers to hear about the latest developments in data science, data citation, discovery, and reuse. It also provides opportunities to exchange experience and influence the next generation of data citation services.

This year’s 2011 program will include sessions on data citation, data publishing, and discussions on the new challenges that come with increasing access to scientific data.

The 2010 DataCite summer meeting brought together a strong program of speakers and participants (http://www.datacite.org/datacite_summer_meeting_2010).

Highlights were published in D-Lib (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1045/january2011-contents).

DataCite helps researchers find, access, and reuse data. It is an international not-for-profit association founded in 2009 with members across the globe.

21st Century Scholarly Communication: Conversations for Change - ALA Presentation

"21st Century Scholarly Communication: Conversations for Change" took place at ALA Annual on June 27, 2011. The presentation slides are now online at: http://connect.ala.org/node/150173

Panelists: 

Speaker: Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Speaker: Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks, Indiana University, Bloomington
Speaker: Martin J. Brennan, Copyright Licensing Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator: Sherri L. Barnes, Humanities Collection Coordinator, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Twitter stream of this session can be viewed at: http://www.libr.org/wss/conferences/2011/index.html

Research Paper on Journal Article Mining - Publishing Research Consortium - May 2011

Journal Article Mining: A research study into Practices, Policies, Plans…..and Promises.
Commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium

By Eefke Smit, BV Bronfonteyn, Amsterdam
and Maurits van der Graaf, Pleiade Management & Consultancy BV, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, May 2011  © BV BRONFONTEYN, 2011  (153 pp.)

"Overall, experts expect a further acceleration of text and data mining into scholarly content, sparked by a greater availability of digital content corpuses, the ever increasing computer capabilities, improved user‐friendliness of software tools and easier access to content."

The report is at: http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf

and there is an accompanying press release at http://www.publishingresearch.net/Media_page.htm

Librarians in the U.S. from 1880-2009 from OUP SocIal Explorer

Social Explorer: Librarians in the U.S. from 1880-2009

Oxford University Press

An analysis using 120 years of census data
By Sydney Beveridge, Susan Weber and Andrew A. Beveridge, Social Explorer

"The U.S. Census first collected data on librarians in 1880, four years after the founding of the American Library Association. They only counted 636 librarians nationwide. Indeed, one respondent reported on his census form that he was the “Librarian of Congress.” The U.S. Census, which became organized as a permanent Bureau in 1902, can be used to track the growth of the library profession. The number of librarians grew over the next hundred years, peaking at 307,273 in 1990. Then, the profession began to shrink, and as of 2009, it had dropped by nearly a third to 212,742. The data enable us to measure the growth, the gender split in this profession known to be mostly female, and to explore other divides in income and education, as they changed over time.

We examined a number of socioeconomic trends over the duration, and focused in on 1950 the first year that detailed wage data were recorded, 1990 at the peak of the profession and 2009 the most currently available data.¹ We looked at data within the profession and made comparisons across the work world."

Libraries and Publishers postion themselves on issue of International Interlibrary Lending - Who Shares and How?

Research Libraries, Publishers Stake Out Positions on International ILL

"The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), representing some of the major STM publishers like Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, among others, released a statement on June 8, which says that library exceptions for document delivery in the digital environment, particularly of individual journal articles, are justified only in very limited circumstances and with the permission of the publisher. Among other points, STM asserts that:

• In order to "maximize legal clarity," cross-border deliveries "should be governed by voluntary licenses negotiated directly with publishers";
• Direct digital delivery to an end-user "is best governed and coordinated by rights-holders";
• Libraries should only be able to deliver on-site, print copies to walk-in library patrons;
• Libraries should exercise "due diligence" to ensure that any deliveries to individuals are for "private, non-commercial use."

"We do believe that digital document delivery must take place in a licensed environment, especially for international deliveries and especially for commercial deliveries," said Michael Mabe, the chief executive office of STM."    (more).

ARL Research Task force report on international Interlibrary Lending (ILL)

"ARL reaffirms precedence of copyright law
An ARL task force has published a three-part report this month that reaffirms the right of domestic research libraries to engage in international interlibrary loan and document delivery and to send copies of some copyrighted works to foreign libraries, "provided the libraries meet the requirements of the law."

ARL cautions its membership not to allow license agreements to supplant the rights granted by Section 108, which is "a leading legal support for the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works in ILL."  (more)

Research Library Issues, no. 275 (June 2011)

Adjusting to new market realities
Kevin Smith, the scholarly communications officer at Duke University and another member of the ARL task force, wrote on his blog that STM has "been carrying on a quiet campaign of intimidation regarding ILL." (more)