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Information Today February 12, 2015 |
NISO Takes On UKSG's Transfer Code of Practice for Journals The code has been republished as a NISO Recommended Practice, with all of its supporting documentation housed on NISO's website. |
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 January 2004 Giuseppe Vitiello |
Identifiers and Identification Systems An informational look at policies and roles from a library perspective |
Information Today September 5, 2000 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef, CAS, DataStar Announce Links to Scholarly Publications The network of links to and from scholarly publications continues to grow rapidly... |
Information Today January 9, 2012 |
NISO Releases Updated Draft of SERU The National Information Standards Organization announced the availability of a draft update of SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding for public comment through Feb. 19, 2012. |
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. |
Information Today June 12, 2014 |
NISO Altmetrics Draft Now Open for Public Comment The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project began in July 2013 with the goal of studying, proposing, and developing alternative-metrics standards and recommended practices. |
Information Today June 30, 2015 |
NISO Releases Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content National Information Standards Organization suggests the best way to manage digital serial content packaging elements to help content providers and content recipients track what was delivered and received. |
Information Today November 7, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Linking Up Bibliographies: DOI Harvesting Tool Launched by CrossRef The reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query where users can enter a citation in any format and receive the matching Digital Object Identifier (DOI). |
Information Today June 9, 2008 Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
Information Today November 17, 2003 |
NewsBreaks ebrary Partners with Society of Manufacturing Engineers... CrossRef Drops DOI Retrieval Fees... OCLC Offers New Cataloging Program... |
Information Today August 2004 Peter Jacso |
Linking on Steroids Insights into the best and worst linking practices from an expert in the scholarly publishing world. |
Information Today February 14, 2008 |
CrossRef Launches Free Citation Look-Up Tool for Bloggers CrossRef announced that it has launched the beta version of a new plug-in that allows bloggers to look up and insert DOI-enabled citations (Digital Object Identifier) in the course of authoring a blog. |
Searcher April 2002 Jill E. Grogg |
Thinking About Reference Linking Information professionals need to be aware of the technical and organizational interests and obstacles associated with reference linking in order to better serve their users... |
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 July 1, 2014 |
NISO's Recommended Practices Focus on DDA and Discovery Transparency Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs and Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery are available for free on NISO's website. |
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 Nov/Dec 2013 Simons et al. |
Growing Institutional Support for Data Citation: Results of a Partnership Between Griffith University and the Australian National Data Service Data citation is an emergent practice, yet it has the potential to become a norm of scholarly attribution, in line with improved data management, access, discovery and reuse. |
D-Lib September 2001 |
Linking to the Appropriate Copy: Report of a DOI-Based Prototype Over the past several years, substantial effort has gone into building an environment to support linking between the rapidly growing number of journal articles available on the web. This paper describes one solution that can link to references across multiple delivery systems... |
D-Lib May/Jun 2012 Natasha Simons |
Implementing DOIs for Research Data The Digital Object Identifier system provides a means of persistent identification of research data collections and datasets that is global, standardized and widely used. |
Information Today May 28, 2002 Paula Hane |
CrossRef Considering Full-Text Search Service CrossRef, a publisher collaborative that enables researchers to navigate online journals via Digital Object Identifier-based (DOI) citation links, is currently considering the implementation of a full-text search service. |
Information Today March 27, 2014 |
NISO Releases Draft of Recommended Practice for Demand-Driven Acquisition NISO is interested in feedback from libraries already using a demand-driven acquisition ( aka patron-driven acquisition) model as well as institutions considering the option. |
D-Lib February 2000 Atkins, Lyons, Ratner, Risher, et al. |
Reference Linking with DOIs: A Case Study Digital Object Identifiers enable readers to find content on the Internet with a persistent and reliable identifier. Hyperlinking between article bibliographies and the cited articles is a natural application of DOIs. |
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... |
Information Today May 3, 2004 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search Uses Google to Provide Full-Text Access Google will supply the search technologies and CrossRef the reference links to publisher Web sites for the pilot project, CrossRef Search that will enable users to search the full text of scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, and other sources from nine leading publishers. |
Information Today August 2000 |
CrossRef Now on the Web CrossRef, a collaborative reference-linking service, has announced that it has activated its first links on the Internet and has gone live. "CrossRef is now well on its way to becoming the comprehensive source for linking journal articles." |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
NISO Studies Patron Privacy The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded NISO (National Information Standards Organization) a grant to develop the Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. |
D-Lib April 2007 Altman & King |
A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data There is currently no universal standards exist for citing quantitative data. |
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 April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
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 January 21, 2008 Barbara Quint |
But What About Corporate Authors? NISO Institutional Identifier Project Underway Thomson Scientific has joined an effort with the NISO to build an open standard for identifying institutions. The initial effort will focus on academic and research institutions, the kind often referred to in author affiliation or corporate author fields. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Federal Grants of $30 Million Awarded to Support Museums across the U.S... Knowledge Managers' New Role in Making Open Scholarship Mainstream... 2014 Digital Preservation Training Needs Assessment Survey... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
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 December 2002 Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
Information Today June 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
NISO Project Brings Scientific Evaluation Into the 21st Century With Altmetrics New forms of scholarly outputs, such as datasets, software tools, algorithms, or molecular structures are now commonplace, but they are not easily assessed by traditional citation metrics. These are two among the many concerns the growing movement around altmetrics is trying to address. |
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. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS to Award $154.8 Million to States to Improve Library Services... Wiley Launches Premium Open Access Journal Advanced Science... Mellon Grant Awarded to NISO to Explore Patron Privacy in Library and Publisher Systems... |
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... |
Information Today October 25, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way. |
Information Today April 16, 2007 |
Headfast Offers New Booklist Management Service The new service is designed to streamline managing and disseminating bibliographic information from a title's inception through to publication and beyond. |
ONLINE May 2001 Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Tracking Title Search Capabilities Web page title search capabilities have expanded somewhat, although to nowhere near the levels available in our more sophisticated bibliographic systems... |
Searcher May 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. |
Information Today December 2003 Donald T. Hawkins |
The ASIDIC Fall 2003 Meeting A report from the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers's Sept. 21-23 event in Montreal. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 |
In Brief and In the News Grant Awards Announcement: Museums for America... VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative... EUscreen releases Online Exhibitions... |
D-Lib October 2001 |
In Brief The German Initiative of Networked Information... The Norwegian Museum Project... Report on the Inaugural International Conference of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Teaching)... etc. |
Information Today December 13, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Announces Hosted Proxy Service It is the industry's first Software as a Service (SaaS) proxy solution designed to help librarians streamline the management of their e-resource collections, as well as improve patron access to those collections with a single sign-on. |