Professional Reading Shelf
Information Science
Source: American Society for Information Science and Technolog
The June/July Issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is Now Available
Articles include:
+ Museum Informatics: Collections, People, Access, Use Becoming Digital
+ Beyond the Gallery Walls: Tools and Methods for Leading End-Users to Collection Information
+ The Evolving Roles of Information Professionals in Museums
+ Museum Information Professionals as Providers and Users of Online Resources
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Web Preservation–United States
Source: Federal Computer Week
A Crisis for Web Preservation
“The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best.”
See also: Crawling for Content
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URLS
Source: Darwin Magazine
The Legend of Lost Links
“The many issues associated with reliable electronic access to mission critical information are numerous, but the problem of missing and changing URL addresses present a unique problem. It’s been documented time and again throughout the various technology and information journals, but still has no apparent solution on the horizon.” Thanks to Shelf Life for the link.
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Scholarly Publishing
Source: Library Journal
Elsevier Articles Can Be Posted On Personal/Institutional Sites
From the article, “Reed Elsevier will allow authors who submit articles for publication in its STM journals to make the research freely available on their personal or institutional web sites. Papers can appear on such sites, in their final versions as accepted by the journal, before publication in Elsevier titles. However, authors are still prohibited from putting links to their articles from centralized databases. Said Arie Jongejan, CEO, science and technology, Elsevier, ‘Several years ago, we supported the development of pre-print servers by deciding papers posted to such servers would not be viewed as ‘prior submissions.’ Furthermore, following Elsevier’s publication of papers, we have not required the removal of pre-print versions from pre-print servers. But we have gone even further than that: for several years we have permitted authors to post their final version as accepted on secure, internal institutional networks. Today, we have taken an important step, which demonstrates our continued support for scholarly communications.’”
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Digital Rights Management–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
New Report: Digital Rights Management Study
Interim Report, 10 June 2004

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