Date: November 26, 2003 Issue: # 14
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News & Announcements from Units:Tom Kilton is delighted to announce that starting December 1, Paula Carns will assume the role of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Specialist and Assistant Professor of Library Administration in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library. Her office will be in Room 437. Paula holds a Ph.D. degree in art history and an MLS from UIUC, and has been serving as a graduate assistant in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library for the past three years. Please join Tom in extending a warm welcome to Paula. |
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News from the Field:ARL Federal Relations E-Newsletter, October-November 2003
II. Government Information A. Congress Discontinues Access to Congressional Research Service Reports (Hot topics)
III. Telecommunications A. FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Rule
B. Digital Promise Project Presents Report to Congress On October 23, representatives of the Digital Promise Project presented the report, "Creating the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust A Proposal to Transform Learning and Training for the 21st Century," to Congress. According to the report, libraries and librarians will play a crucial role in implementing the proposal. "The goal is to support and enrich the national curriculum with materials from [e-learning and e-government] sources that can be used by teachers in the classroom and learners at home." Key priorities established in the report include digitization of library collections and training librarians to make use of the new technologies. At a luncheon in the Capitol on October 23, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) accepted the report and announced his intention to introduce implementing legislation. The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a hearing on the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust for November 19, 2003. ARL is part of a national coalition of public and private sector organizations who support the Digital Promise Project, a national educational research and development initiative. The project proposes that Congress create a national trust fund designed to use revenue from the auction and licensing of unused portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to fund content development and research in new media, thereby transforming education, training, and lifelong learning. IV. Other Issues
SPARC News
1. SPARC Partners with Public Library of Science
2. Partner News, Purchase commitment A. SPARC Leading Edge
B. SPARC Scientific Communities
EARTHSCAPE Karen Desiderio has been appointed the new editor of Earthscape. Desiderio has been at EPIC for three years, previously working on all its electronic publications.
C. SPARC Alternatives
3. Industry Roundup Libraries Work with Faculty to Cancel Elsevier Titles
BNP Paribas Issues Stock Warning on Elsevier
Taylor & Francis buys Dekker for $138.6 million Taylor & Francis, which specializes in science, engineering and medical publishing, with 78 journals and around 200 new book titles per year, has purchased the business and publishing assets of the Dekker group of companies in the US for $138.6 million. The deal for Dekker comprises its scientific, technical and medical publishing assets. Taylor & Francis, whose group sales for 2002 were $42.0 million, has spent £161.9 million ($273.7 million) acquiring five businesses this year and is now targeting the US, according to Financial Times. The Financial Times story stated the challenge facing Taylor & Francis in the U.S. market because of severe budget cuts at many public and private academic institutions, which represent a large portion of publishers customer base. Cornell, Harvard and a slew of publicly-funded universities in California, are expected to radically cut the number of scientific, technical and medical journals they purchase from Reed Elsevier, the leading publisher, because of budget pressures. Taylor & Francis also recently purchased the publishing business and assets of Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers and A.A. Balkema from Royal Swets & Zeitlinger. Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers was founded in 1916 and publishes English language journals and books in the specialist areas of engineering, ophthalmology, neuropsychology as well as the life and social sciences. OSI Publishes Guide to Institutional Repository Software Outsell Predicts Strong Future for Open Access In PR Wars Heat Up in Open-Access Publishing, (November 14, 2003) Outsell's e-briefs editor David Curle has written that the economics of scholarly publishing can best be described as broken and dysfunctional. Fewer and more powerful publishers are in ongoing struggles with their biggest customers, characterized by boycotts and dramatic contractual battles. Until the fundamental structural problems in the publishing industry are fixed, there will not likely be an end to the barrage of open-access alternatives. And it may already be too late. A few years ago, SPARC and others started presenting alternatives that were interesting but faced an uphill battle in their quest to replace traditional publishers. Fast-forward to today; the traditional publishers haven't advanced while the open-access folks have started to crack the code and gain high-profile support in academia, as highly regarded authors and editors fall in line.
4. Upcoming Conference and Meetings SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA Midwinter
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
5. Open Access News
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Berlin Declaration Slides Available
6. Recent articles of interest
Publishing Progress, The Guardian, October 13, 2003
Butler, Declan, Who will pay for open access? Nature. October 9, 2003
Eisen, Michael, Publish and be praised, The Guardian, October 9, 2003
Horton, Richard, 21st century biomedical journals: failures and futures, The Lancet, November 8, 2003
Malakoff, David, Opening the Books on Open Access, Science, October 24, 2003
Tamper, Pritpal S., Open access to peer-reviewed research: making it happen, The Lancet, November 8, 2003
LIBRARY RESEARCH ROUND TABLE American Library Association
CALL FOR PAPERS -- LRRT RESEARCH FORUMS ALA Annual Conference Orlando, Florida June 24-30, 2004
What are the LRRT Research Forums?
A set of programs at the ALA Annual Conference featuring presentations of LIS research, in progress or completed, followed by discussion. In 2004, two LRRT Research Forums will be scheduled, one on general LIS research, one on Research in Application of Electronic Resources and Reference Services. Who generally makes presentations? Practitioners, new researchers, and experienced researchers are all encouraged to present. Both members and nonmembers of LRRT are welcome. Selected presenters are expected to present their papers in person at the forums and to register for the conference.
What types of papers are suitable for submission to the LRRT Research Forums?
LRRT welcomes papers emphasizing the problems, theories, methodologies, or significance of research findings for LIS. Works in progress are encouraged. Papers on the evaluation of electronic resources and reference services (such as chat, email, or video reference) are especially welcome. Papers should not be previously published nor accepted for publication by December 6, 2003.
How do I submit a paper?
Submit a notice of intent and a 500 word abstract by December 6, 2003. The notice of intent must include the following name(s) and affiliation(s) of authors, name and mailing address of contact person, phone, fax, email, paper title, and a statement that the research is either in progress or complete. The abstract must include problem statement, problem significance, project objectives, methodology, and conclusions (or tentative conclusions for work in progress). The paper must not have been published, nor accepted for publication by December 6, 2003. Submit the notice of intent and abstract by mail, fax, or email to Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr., Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago, P.O. Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680-8198; fax, 312/413-0424; wiberley@uic.edu.
How will papers be selected and when will I know if my paper has been accepted?
At ALA Midwinter, the LRRT Steering Committee will conduct a "blind review" process to select a maximum of 6 papers (3 for each of 2 programs). Criteria for selection are 1) Significance of the study for LIS, 2) Quality and creativity of the methodology, and 3) Potential to fill gaps or build on previous studies in LIS. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be notified by February 15, 2004.
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Comings & Goings:NOVEMBER 2003 LIBRARY EXHIBITS
One Hundred Years of Altitude: From the Wright Brothers to the Federal Aviation Administration -Government Documents – Wall Display Cases, Main Hall, South end, 1st Floor
Day of Dead -Latín American and Caribbean Library Display
Honoring Our Faculty Achievements: Celebrating the Promotion and Tenure of UI Faculty -Main Hall Display Cases
W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) "German author ... known for his genre-crossing works of creative prose" / "Deutscher Autor ... bekannt fur seine genreubergebenden Werken von Kreativer Prosa"
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Blaise Cendrars (Frederic Louis Sausser) 1887-1961: Swiss novelist, poet, traveller and the "Homere de Transsiberie" -Modern Languages and Linguistics Library
In the Reign of Elizabeth: English Books and Manuscripts, 1558-1603 -Rare Book Room (Oct. 10 – Nov. 30)
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Miscellaneous:There will be a retirement party for Mitzi Williams on December 5 from 3:00-5:00pm in the VetMed Atrium. If you would like to donate towards a gift for Mitzi, please send donations to Judy Sims, 3505 VMBSB, MC-002 by Wednesday, December 3. We hope you all can be there. |
Send items to Kim Reynolds
Library OnLine Notes
230 Library, MC-522
ksreynol@uiuc.edu
Fax – 217-244-4358
