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D-Lib
March 2004
Patrice A. Lyons |
The World Meets the Internet Representatives from a wide spectrum of government, intergovernmental, private and what was termed "civil society" organizations met at Geneva in December 2003 at the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular the Internet.   |
Information Today
November 14, 2005
Dick Kaser |
WSIS Still Clouded by Governance Debates--Fate of ICANN Awaits Nearly 4 years in the making, the World Summit on the Information Society is ready to start this Wednesday. But in the days preceding the summit, the world's diplomatic corps is meeting again to see if it's possible for the world to develop a consensus on how the Internet should be governed. |
Information Today
December 2005
Jim Ashling |
Sites Unseen: Spies 'R' Us and More Britain's Secret Intelligence Service launches a new website... European Association of Information Services re-registers website... Frankfurt Book Fair grows in attendance and exhibitors... Publishers get monetary support from Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) open access program... etc. |
Information Today
November 21, 2005
Dick Kaser |
WSIS: Internet Governance Forum Endorsed by World Leaders The World Summit on the Information Society endorsed a new Internet Governance Forum which will discuss global public policy matters and other issues related to the Internet worldwide. |
Information Today
December 2001
Donald T. Hawkins |
Frankfurt Book Fair and IBLC Symposium The FBF is concerned with all aspects of book publishing, and it is the largest trade show in the world... |
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... |
D-Lib
April 2003 |
In Brief Report on the NLM/AMPA Archiving Forum... Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation... The Public Knowledge Project... Manifesto on Open Access to Scholarly Literature... The Internet Archive OAI-PMH Implementation... etc. |
Information Today
May 17, 2012 |
IFLA Releases Background Paper on E-Lending As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the International Federation of Library Associations Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Information Today
November 14, 2005
Forest Woody Horton, Jr. |
Libraries--The Information Society in Action Several hot-button issues emerged from the WSIS pre-conference. |
Information Today
September 26, 2005
Dick Kaser |
Report from WSIS PrepCom-3: Shades of (Bad) Things to Come? If anyone wanted to stage a better example of why "governance" of the Internet by a coalition of governments would be a bad idea, one would need to look no further than the opening session of PrepCom-3, which was the final ramp-up meeting to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). |
Information Today
September 2003
Dick Kaser |
Impressions of IFLA 69th World Information Congress was all about access |
Information Today
September 2003
Dick Kaser |
World Library Congress Denounces USA PATRIOT Act A International Federation of Library Associations resolution called for the repeal or amendment of the USA PATRIOT Act and similar laws in other nations. |
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... |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
| D-Lib |
In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
Information Today
October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
D-Lib
November 2006 |
In Brief PLANETS: Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services... ASCB Launches Cell Biology Image & Video Library... CrossRef Extends Web Services - New OAI-PMH Interface, and Partnerships with Scirus and EMBL-EBI... etc. |
D-Lib
May 2000
Richard T. Kaser |
Brutal Honesty If Information Wants to Be Free . . . Then Who's Going to Pay for It? |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Kera Bolonik |
The e-book wars Does a glittering $100,000 prize signal the coming of age of digital books, or a takeover bid by Microsoft and New York publishers? |
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 |
D-Lib
September 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Emerging Visions for Access in the Twenty-first Century Library... Coordinating Digitisation in Europe... Scholarly Publishing Practice... The Internet and Education: Findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Project... Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity... etc. |
Information Today
June 11, 2012
Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
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
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... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries... National Academies to Release First Phase of Counterterrorism Study This Summer... Proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Virtual Communities... etc. |
Information Today
July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
Information Today
December 2002
Jim Ashling |
Report from the Field: The World's Largest Book Fair A 1-day tour of the Frankfurt Book Fair provided a quick overview. |
Information Today
February 13, 2014 |
Academic Research Available Free at U.K. Libraries The Publishers Licensing Society announced the start of a 2-year pilot project, Access to Research, which brings more than 1.5 million academic research articles and conference proceedings to all public libraries in the U.K. |
Information Today
December 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Politics of Open Access The battle of words over how research results should best be distributed heated up again this fall. And once again, the heat was coming from Europe. |
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. |
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... |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Scholarly Publishing Debate Will this debate between users, intermediaries and vendors, which has gone on now for nearly a generation, ever end? |
Information Today
March 7, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Information Today
April 24, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Publishing Technology, PLC Powers BBC Monitoring Library Publishers must adapt to survive and embrace all forms of content delivery and all media. |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
D-Lib
October 2003
Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
Information Today
March 2004
Barbara Quint |
The Horse's Mouth Even when publishers make archives available, they often provide very limited collections, especially back issues. |
