ARL White Paper on NIH Open Access mandate

With NIH Compliance Date Approaching, SPARC, ARL Issue White Paper

On April 7, 2008, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be required to deposit their articles in the PubMed Central online archive, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after publication in a journal. To encourage and ensure compliance, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Science Commons have released Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy: Copyright Considerations and Options http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/nih/copyright.html. The free paper is designed to help "provosts, research administrators, and campus counsel understand their institution's copyright-related obligations and options under the new Congressionally mandated policy."

The analysis was prepared by Michael Carroll, attorney, copyright expert, and faculty member at Villanova University law school. Carroll has long been involved with copyright issues as a member of the Creative Commons board and an advisor to Science Commons. In 2004 he worked with SPARC to develop the SPARC Author Addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/ designed to help authors properly reserve rights to deposit their works in open online archives. Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC, said the paper is a "great tool to help administrators jumpstart the local planning process."

IU libraries publish faculty e-journal

Indiana University Library Publishes First Faculty E-Journal

http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6534369.html?nid=2673#news2

In what librarians are calling "a turning point in scholarly publishing" the Indiana University (IU) library this week published the university’s first "faculty-generated" open access electronic journal, the Museum Anthropology Review. The journal, edited by Jason Baird Jackson, associate professor in IU’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, was chartered last February as part of a pilot project within the library’s larger scholarly communication initiative, IUScholarWorks, designed to offer faculty "a low-cost solution to the administrative and publishing functions."

In an editorial on the journal’s web site, Jackson detailed—and praised—the library’s contributions. "Almost as soon as we began publishing last February, we started partnering with remarkable, visionary librarians," Jackson wrote...

Karla Malenfant (American Library Association)

An Upstart Web Catalog Challenges an Academic-Library Giant

An Upstart Web Catalog Challenges an Academic-Library Giant
By ANDREA L. FOSTER

http://chronicle.com
Section: Information Technology
Volume 54, Issue 24, Page A11
From the issue dated February 22, 2008

"At only 21, Aaron Swartz is attempting to turn the library world upside down. He is taking on the subscription-based WorldCat, the largest bibliographic database on the planet, by building a free online book catalog that anyone can update.

Many academic librarians are wary of Mr. Swartz's project because it will allow nonlibrarians, who may be prone to errors, to catalog books"

Laurence Lessig's campaign to "Change Congress"

This site hosts this video to explain the launch of two exploratory projects — first, a Change Congress movement, and his own decision whether to run for Congress in the California 12th.
http://lessig08.org/

Librarianship in 1940s

The information-literacy.net has a 10-minutes video from 1947 (http://www.information-literacy.net/2008/02/librarian-1947.html). But I think
it is more about librarianship advocacy than about information literacy. Besides, some things have changed since then (e.g., the card catalog) because of the technology advances, although basic principles remain the same.

Enjoy watching :-)

Ying Zhang

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Ying Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Librarian for Asian Studies
University of California Irvine Libraries
P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557
Phone: 949.824.0489
fax: 949.824.0605
Email: yingz@uci.edu
Offices: Langson Library Room 466, 109
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Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles

Helpdesk support back in the day of the middle age with English subtitles. Original taken from the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)in 2001. With Øystein Backe (helper)and Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum.

"Everything is Miscellaneous" book club selection

Everything is Miscellaneous (New York : Times Books, 2007) is a new book [May 1st, 2007] by David Weinberger that is getting a big reaction from the library community and others in information professions (journalism, publishing, etc.).

Here is a video of David giving a talk on the Google Campus (57 min - May 10, 2007): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2159021324062223592&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU

LAUC-I (Library Association of the University of California - Irvine campus) is putting together a book club and Weinberger's book is set to be the first title we read.