Report on Best Practices and Recommendations :
“This report is the third in a series of studies conducted by OAPEN on digital monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The first report focused on the needs of users and stakeholders, and the second looked at the existing (and developing) publishing and business models. The aim of this report is to provide the different players—publishers, funders, librarians, readers, scholars and politicians—with a set of recommendations concerning the strategic issues in Open Access book publishing. For those already in the process of developing an Open Access policy, this report maps out the issues and decisions they may confront.”
URL : http://www.oapen.org/images/D316_OAPEN_Best_practice_public_report.pdf
Archives des auteurs : Hans Dillaerts
Will open-access publication fees grow o…
Will open-access publication fees grow out of control? : http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2010/07/31/will-open-access-publication-fees-grow-out-of-control/
Who owns our work? : “Much turmoil in t…
Who owns our work? :
“Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of stakeholders, desires, products and struggles. Some products of the research process, especially novel ones, are difficult to fit into legal concepts of ownership. As collaborative research burgeons, traditional ownership and authorship criteria are stretched to their limits and beyond, with many contributors still feeling short of due credit. The desire for access and impact brings institutions and grant funders into the formerly exclusive relationship between authors and publishers. Librarians, stripped of first-sale rights by electronic licensing, wonder about both access and long-term preservation. Emerging solutions to many of these difficulties threaten to cut publishers out of the picture altogether, perhaps a welcome change to those stakeholders who find publishers’ behavior to block progress.”
URL : http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/45742/SaloSerials.pdf?sequence=1
Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs…
Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs in Repositories : http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/automated-accessibility-analysis-of-pdfs-in%C2%A0repositories/
A sustainable future for open textbooks?…
A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story :
“Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential solution; open source textbooks have also been explored. A company called Flat World Knowledge produces and gives away open source textbooks in a way they believe to be financially sustainable. This article reports an initial study of the financial sustainability of the Flat World Knowledge open source textbook model.”
URL : http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2800/2578
Recommandation de description des manusc…
Recommandation de description des manuscrits et fonds d’archives modernes et contemporains en bibliothèque :
“La présente recommandation a pour objet de donner des règles permettant la description de
manuscrits ou d’ensembles de manuscrits conservés dans les institutions publiques ou privées
(bibliothèques, musées, etc.). Ces règles fixent les éléments à prendre en compte pour la
description des manuscrits isolés, des recueils factices, des fonds d’archives ou des collections.
Elles s’appliquent au traitement des différents états de la rédaction d’une oeuvre, des
correspondances, des carnets, des papiers de famille et d’affaires, des archives privées d’une
personne physique ou morale (qui peuvent parfois inclure des documents de nature différente :
coupures de presse, photographies, dessins, cartes, enregistrements sonores ou audiovisuels,
documents informatiques, documents imprimés, objets, etc.).
Par le mot « manuscrit », on désigne, traditionnellement et conformément à l’étymologie,
tout texte écrit à la main. Cependant, par extension, on assimile aux manuscrits des documents
dactylographiés ou saisis sur ordinateur, voire imprimés, produits ou reproduits sans intention de
diffusion sous cette forme, en exemplaire unique ou en très petit nombre.
Les manuscrits concernés par la présente recommandation sont essentiellement les manuscrits modernes et contemporains. Par opposition au manuscrit médiéval, le terme manuscrit moderne recouvre les documents produits à partir de l’époque où la production normale des livres
devient le fait de l’imprimerie, soit entre la fin du XVe siècle et la fin du XVIe siècle.
Les règles énoncées dans la présente recommandation peuvent éventuellement servir à décrire des documents antérieurs à l’apparition de l’imprimerie.
Elles s’appliquent principalement aux manuscrits occidentaux mais pourront, le cas échéant,
s’appliquer à des manuscrits d’autres traditions.
Un fonds d’archives ou une collection peuvent se présenter sous une grande diversité de
formes et de supports. Pour les décrire, les présentes règles peuvent être complétées par d’autres
normes spécialisées : enregistrements sonores, images fixes et animées, etc.”
URL : http://www.bivi.fonctions-documentaires.afnor.org/content/download/19537/135613/version/4/file/demarch.pdf
User’s behaviour inside a digital library
CASPUR allows many academic Italian institutions located in the Centre-South of Italy to access more than 7 million of articles through a digital library platform. We analyzed the behaviour of its users by considering their “traces” stored into the web server log file.
Using several Web Mining and Data Mining techniques we discovered that there is a gradual and dynamic change in the way how articles are accessed; in particular there is evidence of a Journal browsing increase in comparison to the searching mode.
We interpreted such phenomenon by considering that browsing better meets the need of users when they want to keep abreast about the latest advances in their scientific field, in comparison to a more generic searching inside the digital library.