LIS454: Class 8

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LIS-454 Class 8

• E-Journals-Linking-
• Some discussions about Scientific Publishing

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LIS 454

• Emerald
• http//0-www.emerald-library.com.library.simmons.
  edu/
• JSTOR
• http//0-www.jstor.org.library.simmons.edu/jstor
• Project Muse
• http//0-muse.jhu.edu.library.simmons.edu/search/
  search.pl

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Making decisions

• Librarians continually face the need to make
  decisions on the selection, acquisition, access,
  and service policies and procedures related to
  electronic publications and to negotiate legal
  and financial arrangements with publishers,
  consortia, aggregators, and so on (King Xu,
  2003). (King, DW. 2004)

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1. Reference linking

• The ability to go directly from a citation to the
  work cited, or to additional information about
  the cited work (cited by Grogg).
• The nature of scholarly research has changed with
  reference linking availability from the desktop
  is the key.
• Academic libraries are for the most part key
  players on this efforts.
• How come?
• OpenURL and LinkServer Basics (A kind of linking
  technology)

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Reference linking

• You've paid a lot of money to gain access to
  full-text resources, but how do you get your
  users to use them? Suppose you have full-text of
  Nature in one of your databases and a user wants
  an article from Nature? How do you connect the
  user to the database? If your library runs an
  OpenURL Link-Server, they just click on a link,
  and they get their article! How many times have
  your users NOT come to the reference desk asking
  for that article, because it never occurred to
  them that the library might have it available
  somewhere? OpenURL link servers put your users 1
  click away from the information they need. (from
  the 1Cate Openly Informatics site/2004)

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2. Some examples of CrossRef/DOI use

• crossref.org gallery
• Notice the DOI number
• DOI an intermediary system that determines where
  and article may be found.
• crossref.org fastfacts

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The expectations Reference linking

• Reference linking is necessary because LIS users
  today expect to move seamlessly among library
  content and information on the Internet
  (McDonald, De Velde, LJ, 2004).
• SFX software For special effects. It
  facilitates the translation process.
• The user however wants the full access. No
  payment and no invalid subscriptions.

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Two advantages for libraries

• Reduce number of interlibrary loan requests.
• Accurate citation information.
• The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive
  Services - National Information Standards
  Organization (NISO)
• Administered now by OCLC

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There are some problems however Cost

• Libraries are usually the OpenURL providers.
• Purchase a resolution system
• Incorporate details of their subscriptions into
  the resolver
• Maintain the software and knowledge base
• Design the interface
• WORK INVESTMENT (Apps and MacIntyre, 2006)
• The goal More use of the resources.

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Lets be socially conscious for only a small
fraction of a second. Okay?

• In the quest for more usage we are investing on
  expensive technologies that clearly make this the
  business of a few.
• Academic libraries Research university
  libraries.
• Foreign institutions?
• Federated search and OpenURL
• Ex Libris - SFX - Scholar SFX

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What the readings suggest

• CrossRef turns one/ Amy Brand. DLIB Magazine.
• Thinking about reference linking/Jill E. Grogg.
  Searcher.

Immediate linking
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The E-Journal

• Postmodern Culture (1990)/ Johns Hopkins
  University Press.( Notice the irony here)
• 1995 115 e-journals.
• E- Zine Cult of the Dead Cow

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What the readings suggest

• King, D.W., Boyce, P., Carol Hansen Montgomery,
  Carol Tenopir. Library Economic Metrics Examples
  of the comparison of electronic and print journal
  collections and collection services. Library
  Trends, 51 (3), 376-400.
• Some of the library decisions are
• Should I rely only on e-journals?
• To subscribe to or rely on single article demand
  for certain journals.
• To use print issues as back up?
• To deal directly with publishers or rely on
  intermediary services?

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What are the options?

• Should I depend on information freely available
  on the web as a substitute for electronic costs?
• What are the risks involved?
• What are the advantages?

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Some problems E-journals and the quest for access

• The conundrum lies in identifying and
  maintaining the most effective means to inform
  users about what is available (Banush et
  al.2005).
• Cataloguers recognize the volatile structure of
  e-journal resources.
• Catalog-level access to e-journals sometimes
  inexistent.

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Serials Solutions

• Serials management supplying bibliographic data
  along with content. MARC records.
• However costly and some level of systems
  expertise.
• Ejournal access the Aggregator.
• Other options E-journal within the Library
  catalog.
• Other options Web lists

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Use of external sources cost, cost, and cost.

• Survey RLG (2003). Growing trend on
  vendor-supplied metadata
• More than one third of the 8,000 e-journal
  records supplied by their vendor contained
  changes in the first bimonthly update file they
  received (Banush, 2005).
• If this is not a hassle, then life is a wonderful
  thing.
• The role of CONSER

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Some drawbacks

• Webber, C. F. (2005)
• Unreliable archiving
• Wide range of e-journal quality
• Cost of computer equipment

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Prices among libraries

• Price comparisons between electronic and print
  subscriptions will vary from library to library,
  depending upon the collection choices, agreements
  with publishers, consortia arrangements, ability
  to negotiate, choices regarding cataloguing and
  inventory control, and surprisingly, size of the
  library.

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E-Journals

• E-Journals.Org
• HARRASSOWITZ E-Journals Resource Guide -
  Electronic Journal Providers

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Negotiating with vendors

• The Invisible Vendor (2005) Quint, Barbara,
  Information Today, 22(6).Vendors put
  registration, subscription, and payment
  restrictions between their products and the
  Webbed-up world. They deliver page after page of
  licensing restrictions that only enterprises have
  the time, temerity, and legal staff to read,
  understand, and sign. (Real people just pan down
  to the "click here if you agree" button.)

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Lets make a deal!

• Information professionals often experience the
  same frustration with the purchase of online
  content. The process invariably includes an
  overzealous rep, a complicated pricing model, a
  "customized" quote, hard-nosed management, and
  the uncomfortable feeling that your competitor
  down the street snagged a better deal. What you
  don't know is whether your competitor down the
  street feels the same way about you. Since
  contract terms in the information industry are
  usually nondisclosable, there's no way to compare
  actual prices with your neighbor, as you can when
  you buy a car. (Sharon Srodin (2004) Lets make a
  deal, Online, 28 (4)).

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Some other drawbacks

• Collection development costs are generally higher
  for electronic collections (time
  consuming-maintenance).( King, 2004)
• Subscription maintenance can be higher for
  electronic collections due to the volatility of
  the collection. (King 2004)
• They occupy less space but there are other
  factors attached e.g. training.

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Some opinions

• Serials Pricing Framing the Topic
• Scholarly Publishing Acad. Resources
  Coalition
• HS/HSL Exhibit - Show Me the Money
• Home Page - Society For Scholarly Publishing
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog

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Scientific Publishing

• Buckholtz Scientific communication is
  increasingly driven by factors that have little
  to do with researchers and more to do with
  commercial publishers profits.
• Researchers worried that their journal is not
  serving their particular community.
• Several factors have affected the cost and
  accessibility to scientific journals.

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Scientific Publishing

• David Stern. OA per se is not a solution.
• Open Access reduces stability
• Underlying industry facts
• The authors are in academia, the readers are in
  the commercial sector.
• OA will result in far fewer academic
  subscriptions (who loses here?)

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Scientific Publishing

• Do publishers produce enough added value for
  their commercial surcharge?
• What is added value in this case? Question for
  librarians.
• Is the added value what users and librarians want
  and /or need, and is it worth the cost?

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Discussion Why are these questions relevant to
us?

• We are () moving from a collection model
  centered around each institutions unique
  research population and information needs to a
  model drive primarily by economic considerations
  (Eells, 2004).

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Myxomatosis Possible answers to this.

• 1. Well, everybody is doing it, why dont we?
• 2. There is no way to escape the trend
• 3. I need my collection to be fully used
• 4. I cant adequately market my research library
  without all these innovations.

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Suggested bibliography

• Banush, D. et al. (2005). Rehabilitating killer
  serials An automated strategy for maintaining
  e-journal metadata. Library Resources and
  Technical Services, 49 (3), 190-203.
• Brady, E. et al. (2006). Print versus Electronic
  journal use in three Sci/Tech disciplines The
  cultural shift in process. College and Research
  Libraries, 67 (4), 354-363.

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More suggested bibliography

• Webber, C. (2005). A revolution in academic
  publication. Education Libraries, 28 (2), 5-10.
• Solomon, D.J. (2006). Strategies for developing
  sustainable open access scholarly journals. First
  Monday, 11 (6).
• Odlyzko, A. (1997). The Economics of electronic
  journals. First Monday, 2 (8).
• Apps, A MacIntyre, R. (2006). Why Open URL?
  D-Lib Magazine, 12 (5).

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Read for next class

• Eeels, L. L. (2004). For better or for worse the
  joys and Woes of e-journals. Science and
  Technology Libraries, 25 (1/2), 33-53.
• Cole, L. (2004). Back to Basics What is the
  E-journal? The Serials librarian, 47 (1/2),
  77-87.