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Sunday, 7th October 2007

Briefs: NetLibrary reaches 150,000- title milestone; UK: Deposit Mandated by Arts and Humanities Research Councill; International Council on Archives Strategic Vision (Draft)

+ NetLibrary reaches 150,000- title milestone
Congrats to the NetLibrary team in Boulder. Now, if they could get more people to know about the service we think these users would be pleasantly surprised at what they found and how NetLibrary works. In other words, we think plenty of new and excited users would flock to the service. NetLibrary features include being able to access FULL TEXT, FULL IMAGE BOOKS with no limit on how much you can view online and 24x7x365 from just about anywhere with a web connection. However, as we've said many times before, people (aka potential users) have NO CHANCE of using what they don't know about period. Be it a database, a new wireless device, or a service that washes your car while you're at work. Btw, The 150,000th title to go live with NetLibrary was ECOhouse: A Design Guide by Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes and Stephanie Thomas, published by Elsevier (2007).

+ The Shape of the Scientific Article in the Developing Cyberinfrastructure
by Clifford Lynch
From the intro:

For the last few centuries, the primary vehicle for communicating and documenting results in most disciplines has been the scientific journal article, which has maintained a strikingly consistent and stable form and structure over a period of more than a hundred years now; for example, despite the much-discussed shift of scientific journals to digital form, virtually any article appearing in one of these journals would be comfortably familiar (as a literary genre) to a scientist from 1900. E-science represents a significant change, or extension, to the conduct and practice of science; this article speculates about how the character of the scientific article is likely to change to support these changes in scholarly work. In addition to changes to the nature of scientific literature that facilitate the documentation and communication of e-science, it’s also important to recognize that active engagement of scientists with their literature has been, and continues to be, itself an integral and essential part of scholarly practice; in the cyberinfastructure environment, the nature of engagement with, and use of, the scientific literature is becoming more complex and diverse, and taking on novel dimensions.

Source: CTWatch Quarterly

Another UK research funding body, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has issued a deposit mandate for all research papers resulting from AHRC fundings. Now 6 of the 7 UK Research Councils have mandates in place. (See the up-dated table) describing the positions of each Research Council.)
Source: SPARC Europe

+ To Read: International Council on Archives Strategic Vision (Draft)
http://www.ica.org/en/node/38472">Direct to SV paper.
5 pages; PDF.

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