The struggle between two conceptions of the library: the traditionnal librarian-built, prediction-based collection and a library centered on the collaboration with the traditional publishers.
IFLA joined a wide coalition of stakeholders representing civil society, news publishers, libraries, consumers and the digital industry in expressing concern regarding the European Commission’s approach in consulting on copyright matters.
The aim of this study was to establish the role of academic libraries in the context of open access (OA) journal publishing, based on the perceived needs of the journals and/or their editors. As a study sample, 14 OA journals affiliated to the University of Zürich, Switzerland, were taken.
This event was organised by Couperin, the French consortium of academic libraries for e-publications, during October 12th-14th. This year’s focuses were: growth of OA in France and Europe, new legal French developments and the next steps in open science.
The participations are now available online (French).
The German National Library has successfully launched its licensing service for out-of-commerce works (VW-LiS) as a contribution to the digitisation of literature of the 20th century. VG Wort, a copyright management association, granted use licenses for the first 352 titles in September. The German National Library can now make these works available via the Internet in digitised form.
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium, rather than any kind of author fee. OLH has partnered with the LingOA initiative and with Ubiquity Press to support the transition of subscription linguistics journals to a pure OA model. The LingOA project is designed to move linguistics journals out of unaffordable subscription models and into a pure, gold OA environment. Ubiquity Press is the technological platform provider that underpins the OLH.
The Library of Congress announced that a new version of the CIP Data Block, the cataloging information printed by publishers at the front of the book, will be implemented by the Cataloging in Publication Program this fall. There are numerous changes to the data block layout, including the use of labels to clearly identify the different components within the block, addition of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and electronic resource data elements, and a URL that links directly to the LC catalog for easy retrieval of bibliographic records.
This conference will reflect how libraries are and should be deeply involved in the debates concerning quality assurance, selection, preservation, and access, how they try to manage new media diversity in the light of their archiving and access roles.
The deadline is set for December 10th.
IBICT, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, has launched the new version of its portal featuring significant changes in its interface, metadata harvesting, and metadata interoperability with international initiatives such as Driver and OpenAIRE, in Europe.
