Developing Standards Across the Scholarly Information Chain

Against the Grain, Dec 2014

By Bev Acreman, Published on 12/15/14

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Developing Standards Across the Scholarly Information Chain

Developing Standards Across the Scholarly Information Chain Bev Acreman BioMed Central Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation - Article 5 Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg v OLUME 23, NUMBER 1 TM FEBRUARY 2011 ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” Developing Standards Across the Scholarly Information Chain by Bev Acreman (BioMed Central, London, UK) <> www. biomedcentral.com If Rumors Were Horses Tternational organisation — the UKSG he focus in this issue is on how an in(www.uksg.org) — fulfils its remit to span the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries, and technology vendors. One way we do this is through funding research projects which look to address issues that affect all players in the community. I am grateful to Ed Pentz of CrossRef and Sarah Pearson of the University of Birmingham, UK for gathering together such a solid collection of articles covering the topics of ProjectTransfer and KBART — a valuable research project looking at standardising the metadata for online resources by setting standards for knowledge-bases which underpin technologies such as OpenURL. To comple Let’s see. Another ProQuest rumor to start this off! As its new search platform rolls out to libraries around the world, ProQuest announced at the ALA Midwinter meeting that they had acquired ebrary. Founded in Palo Alto in 1999, ebrary is a fast growing leader in the rapidly evolving eBook industry, having increased its 2010 revenue by more than 30 percent over the previous year. ProQuest plans continued investment in ebrary’s products and services for the academic, corporate, and public library markets. ProQuest will also expand ebrary’s selection of research tools and ability to support new eBook devices as well as broadening language coverage from its current support of major European languages to include Chinese, Arabic and others. ebrary founders Christopher Warnock and Kevin Sayar will remain to lead the business in its ment the KBART articles, Adam Chandler of Cornell University Library discusses the NISO IOTA project. This project looks to overcome the problem of incomplete or inaccurate OpenURLs which lead to an unacceptable rate of request failures. Both projects are critical for publishers and intermediaries to get right as librarians increasingly seek to put quality metrics into their negotiations with publishers. I know from co-caretaking the lis-e-resources discussion list (http://www.uksg.org/ serials#lis-e-journals) just how infuriating librarians find it when journals move publisher and platforms at short (or no!) notice. The series of Transfer articles within this issue explains the rationale behind the project, which seeks to bring order to the seemingly Palo Alto headquarters. http://www.proquest.com/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/01/ proquest-acquires-ebrary/ More recent news! Just learned last night that the bubbly Jill Emery is pregnant! Congratulations, Jill! Hoo-ha! And there is all sorts of news and kudos about the ER&L conference on her Facebook page. Congrats, Jill, on many accounts! And speaking of Jill’s, noticed an article on Information Today’s Website by the awesome Jill O’Neill, once of Elsevier among other places, who is director of planning and communication at NFAIS. The post is entitled “Amazon Raises the Stakes in your Reading Experience: The Platform War Continues,” and is about a recent announcement by Amazon of upgrades to the Kindle. Right-o, we know all about that continued on page 6 neverending movements of individual or entire lists of journals. Publishers need to sign up to the code of practice (30 have already joined since its inception representing 10,000 journals), and librarians need to insist that publishers comply with the code to limit the nuisance that sudden loss of access causes. As Nancy Beals states in her article, “the issue of titles moving from publisher to publisher not only affects patron access to the title on the user side, but the movement of an electronic journal title also plays a major role on the librarian and staff side.” A critical part of the UKSG’s mission is education and training, and two articles outline the different approach we take to this. First, we have Graham Stone from the University continued on page 14 What To Look For In This Issue: Back to the Future: Old Models for New Challenges................................. 38 First Sale Doctrine – Mountains From Molehills ............................................ 52 Falling Prices in the Out-of-Print Book Market...................................... 54 A Lifetime in Library Supply: 45 Years of Change .......................................... 69 Is Free a Very Good Price?............... 71 Interviews Joyce Dixon-Fyle .............................. 45 Douglas H. Wright ........................... (...truncated)


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Bev Acreman. Developing Standards Across the Scholarly Information Chain, Against the Grain, 2014, Volume 23, Issue 1,