The UKSG has announced the latest chapters to be added to the E-Resources Management Handbook, its open access guide to the practical aspects of working with e-resources. The handbook comprises 27 chapters on topics such as licensing, archiving, marketing and ERM systems.
Recent chapters include ‘Peer Review’ by Fytton Rowland of Loughborough University, which outlines the methodology of peer review of scholarly publications, with some coverage of its history and purposes. George Macgregor of Liverpool John Moores University provides an introduction to some essential semantic web concepts and the resource description framework (RDF) in the context of e-resource discovery in the ‘E-resource Management and the Semantic Web’ chapter. ‘COUNTER: Current Developments and Future Plans’ by Peter Shepherd of COUNTER reports on the latest codes of practice to govern the recording and exchange of online usage data.
In addition to the new chapters, and in line with the handbook’s projected status as a ‘living’ e-book, two further chapters have been reviewed and updated. Topics for further new chapters and updates in 2010 include repositories, open access, consortia and intermediaries.
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