Editor-in-chief Damon Jaggars and the whole editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned en masse on March 22 over the journal’s licensing terms.
Research Librarians Discuss New Ways to Support Scholars
By on March 11, 2013 1 Comment
The stable and predictable days of the 20th century, when research libraries could rely on their prized local collections to define their distinct and distinguished place on campus, are long gone.
The 21st-century’s user-centric networked world and the concomitant Sturm und Drang of cyber scholarship have caught research libraries in a seemingly unending flux. Traditional practices and services are no longer adequate to support scholars, but how best to reassess and redefine services, how best to reposition the library within the scholarly enterprise, how best to add new value, remains an ongoing, critical challenge.
Thirty-two research librarians gathered March 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ, at a symposium hosted by Ex Libris to discuss this challenge, which is as prickly, vast, and shifting as the nearby Sonoran Desert.
Scholars and Musicians | Peer to Peer Review
By on March 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
The White House recently released a memo entitled Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research. According to the memo, “the Administration is committed to ensuring that…the direct results of federally funded scientific research are made available to and useful for the public, industry, and the scientific community.” To clarify “direct results,” the memo continues: “Such results include peer-reviewed publications and digital data.” Along with the recent Congressional bill The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), the country is possibly one step closer to open access scholarship.
Administration Takes Faster Action on Access to Federally Funded Research
By on February 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
In a policy memorandum released today, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director John Holdren directed Federal agencies with more than $100 million in research and development spending to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication, and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.
In one swoop, Holdren may have achieved many of the aims of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), the recently introduced legislation which many feared is likely to die in committee as its predecessor FRPAA repeatedly did.
FASTR Aims to Speed Open Access to Government-Funded Research
By on February 21, 2013 1 Comment
The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced on February 14 in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. If passed, FASTR would require government agencies with annual extramural research expenditures of more than $100 million make electronic manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles based on their research freely available on the Internet within six months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Open Library of Humanities Begins Infrastructure Phase
By on February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
Since LJ interviewed Martin Eve about his nascent project, then called PLOHSS, a lot has happened. In the intervening month, it’s been rechristened the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). OLH has launched a campaign asking scholars to Pledge to Publish a paper with OLH within its first year.
Six Questions for Joseph Kraus and a Board of Creative Librarians
By on February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
The Journal of Creative Library Practice (JCLP) is a new open access project edited by Joseph R. Kraus of the University of Denver, Amy Buckland of McGill University, Barbara Fister of Gustavus Adolphus College, Colleen Harris of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Marie Kennedy of Loyola Marymount University. LJ caught up with Kraus to find out what inspired the project and what the library community can expect to read in its (virtual) pages.
8 Questions with Peter Brantley on Hypothes.is
By on January 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
Peter Brantley, until recently Director of the Bookserver Project at the Internet Archive (IA) and previously the Director of the Digital Library Federation, has just accepted the position of Director of Scholarly Communication at Hypothes.is. LJ caught up with him to find out what this new project is all about and why it has captured his interest.
NIH Access Policy Gains Teeth
By on January 16, 2013 Leave a Comment
Q&A: Martin Eve on Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences
By on January 15, 2013 Leave a Comment
Dr. Martin Eve, a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, recently proposed an open access archive for the humanities and social sciences on the PLOS model. LJ caught up with him to hear about his plans.
