The webcast of the recent SCOAP3 focal meeting hosted at Berkeley -- including Ivy Anderson's excellent overview of the UC SCOAP3 review process -- is now available online in three venues. For those of you who could not attend, here are the links.
Berkeley webcast:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23003
iTunesU Library System Playlist:
https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/berkeley.edu.78024696.01412145225
youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F932157403977087
Background on SOAP3
At the IATUL Conference, being held in Stockholm this week, Rudiger Voss, CERN, outlined in his keynote speech a practical approach for a transition of High Energy Physics scientific publishing to Open Access.
This approach is centred on the conversion of existing high-quality journals to Open Access by re-directing subscriptions through a sponsoring consortium of High Energy Physics funding agencies and libraries worldwide.
Those of you who are not present at the conference this week and wish to access additional details on this initiative, named SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), can consult a detailed document which is available at http://cern.ch/oa/Scoap3WPReport.pdf.
Currently the emerging consortium are building alliances around the world to create a sustainable framework for financing high-quality open access particle physics journals. We have all reasons to believe that the publishers will be ready to take the titles that will be selected to be converted to OA out of the current subscription packages reducing the prices accordingly. Libraries, or consortia of libraries, interested in exploring the possibility of redirecting their current subscription costs towards covering peer-review costs for their academics within an Open Access schema are therefore invited to contact Jens.Vigen@cern.ch for further discussion.
A successful transition to Open Access can only take place with a strong involvement from the libraries around the world serving our global research community.
With kind regards,
Jens Vigen - CERN Library, Head - Jens.Vigen@cern.ch
Salvatore Mele - CERN Open Access Section, Head - Salvatore.Mele@cern.ch
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Monkey Mail
Monk-E-Mail
From CareerBuilder.com you can choose a chimpanzee avatar, their headgear, glasses, stuff and locations. You can enter your own text to speech. Worth exploring.
From CareerBuilder.com you can choose a chimpanzee avatar, their headgear, glasses, stuff and locations. You can enter your own text to speech. Worth exploring.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians | JSTOR Facebook App
Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians | JSTOR Facebook App
Ellyssa Kroski, a Reference Librarian at Columbia University Butler library, recently posted a Three-Part series on the “Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians” on her iLibrarian blog
TheTopTenLibApps include:
*** JSTOR Search - Enables to the user to search the JSTOR full-text scholarly journal archive in the humanities, social science, and other fields. NOTE: Users may need to sign in from their library website before attempting to use the Facebook JSTOR Search
_AppAvailableAt_ [ http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2412474777&b ]
---------------------------------------------
LibGuides Librarian - Allows one to display Springshare LibGuides subject guides within your Facebook profile as well as to search your local OPAC.
-----------------------------------------------
Librarian -This virtual librarian service provides links to books, scholarly sources, open access reference resources, and a community-based ‘Ask A Librarian” service.
_AppAvailableAt_:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=4ba85acd652971a6a8633d919bb9a05a
------------------------------------------------
UIUC Library Search - An App that allows the user to search the OPAC of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or request live assistance from a librarian. The App also permit the user to search the library’s journal article databases (but not retrieve full-text items
unless university-affiliated)
Other OPAC Apps: University of Michigan library catalog, , Ryerson University Library catalog, Hennepin County Library catalog.
_AppAvailableAt_
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=ad4ccedf62d21a09bf140d1533102b20&pwstdfy=fa0565221a24b781f7ef3d42d04a9c30
------------------------------------------------------
The Three-Part Series is Available At
[1] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one/
[2] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-two/
[3] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-three/
If you have other unlisted favorite Facebook library-related apps, let Ellyssa know [ http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/about/ ]
Ellyssa Kroski, a Reference Librarian at Columbia University Butler library, recently posted a Three-Part series on the “Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians” on her iLibrarian blog
TheTopTenLibApps include:
*** JSTOR Search - Enables to the user to search the JSTOR full-text scholarly journal archive in the humanities, social science, and other fields. NOTE: Users may need to sign in from their library website before attempting to use the Facebook JSTOR Search
_AppAvailableAt_ [ http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2412474777&b ]
---------------------------------------------
LibGuides Librarian - Allows one to display Springshare LibGuides subject guides within your Facebook profile as well as to search your local OPAC.
-----------------------------------------------
Librarian -This virtual librarian service provides links to books, scholarly sources, open access reference resources, and a community-based ‘Ask A Librarian” service.
_AppAvailableAt_:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=4ba85acd652971a6a8633d919bb9a05a
------------------------------------------------
UIUC Library Search - An App that allows the user to search the OPAC of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or request live assistance from a librarian. The App also permit the user to search the library’s journal article databases (but not retrieve full-text items
unless university-affiliated)
Other OPAC Apps: University of Michigan library catalog, , Ryerson University Library catalog, Hennepin County Library catalog.
_AppAvailableAt_
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=ad4ccedf62d21a09bf140d1533102b20&pwstdfy=fa0565221a24b781f7ef3d42d04a9c30
------------------------------------------------------
The Three-Part Series is Available At
[1] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one/
[2] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-two/
[3] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-three/
If you have other unlisted favorite Facebook library-related apps, let Ellyssa know [ http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/about/ ]
Google Books Now in Melvyl Test Version
The CDL (California Digital Library) is excited to announce that records for Google mass digitized books are now visible in a test copy of the Melvyl Catalog:
http://melvyl-test.cdlib.org:8164/F
This was accomplished by means of Google Book Search API (application programming interface), a "hook" which extends the ability for UC students, faculty and staff to find the mass digitized content in a search tool they are very familiar with - the Melvyl Catalog. With this API, the UC community will be able to find not only what UC has digitized, but they will also have access to content digitized by any other Google partner.
Please see the attached press release and UC Talking Points for further information about this project, as well as the Google Book Search Blog:
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/03/preview-books-anywhere-with-new-google.html
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The best solutions to 10 of the world's biggest challenges, Copenhagen, May, 2008
Copenhagen Consensus 2008
The best solutions to 10 of the world's biggest challenges, Copenhagen, May, 2008
More than 55 international economists, including 4 Nobel Laureates, will assess more than 50 solutions and assemble a list of priorities for everyone involved in solving the world's biggest challenges.
The aim of CC08 is to take stock of the world's biggest problems and the most promising solutions and provide informed input into the policy making process surrounding efforts to deal with these problems. CC08 will revisit issues from CC04, as well as take up new issues in the light of improved knowledge of the state of the world since 2004. CC08 will provide an in-depth assessment of the costs and benefits of solutions to some of the biggest challenges the world is facing today.
Copenhagen Consensus Center
The Ten Challenges
The best solutions to 10 of the world's biggest challenges, Copenhagen, May, 2008
More than 55 international economists, including 4 Nobel Laureates, will assess more than 50 solutions and assemble a list of priorities for everyone involved in solving the world's biggest challenges.
The aim of CC08 is to take stock of the world's biggest problems and the most promising solutions and provide informed input into the policy making process surrounding efforts to deal with these problems. CC08 will revisit issues from CC04, as well as take up new issues in the light of improved knowledge of the state of the world since 2004. CC08 will provide an in-depth assessment of the costs and benefits of solutions to some of the biggest challenges the world is facing today.
Copenhagen Consensus Center
The Ten Challenges
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."
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."
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
IU libraries publish faculty e-journal
Indiana University Library Publishes First Faculty E-Journal
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)
Karla Malenfant (American Library Association)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
