The Open Science Shift
(xconomy.com): Recent years have seen technological revolutions in informatics, communications, and the life sciences. Xconomy readers are deeply engaged with these trends, but may be unaware of the most important development of all, the transition (sometimes painful), to an Open Science system better suited for a global, networked, knowledge economy.… Read More
Prices and Product Lifecycle – An examination of Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Apple iPad
(wiglafjournal.com): An examination of e-reader market demonstrates some serious flaws in a cursory acceptance of these premises. This article looks at the price and product evolution of the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Apple iPad to demonstrate some finer nuances of the product lifecycle. While the… Read More
Frontiers of Collaboration: The Evolution of Social Networking
(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu): Social networking tools such as Twitter and the emerging Google Wave web application are taking individuals and organizations to the frontiers of real-time communication and collaboration. The technology has the potential to make it easier to discover and share information, interact with others, and decide what to buy or… Read More
The Semantic Web, Linked and Open Data and Additional Related Resources
(wiki.cetis.ac.uk): The development of the Semantic Web has been a long running project championed by the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It is built around his concept of the ‘Web of data’ which means moving on from the existing document centric view of the Web to a data… Read More
Electronic publishing in cross-strait’s good books
(etaiwannews.com): The development of the electronic publishing industry is in the best interests of both Taiwan and China and the two sides are coming to terms with each other to jointly tap the vast Chinese-language e-book market. Officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and the non-profit Institute for… Read More
Why Are Scholarly Journals Costly even with Electronic Publishing?
(eprints.rclis.org): Journal literature has long played a prominent role in the scholarly communication chain. In recent decades, however, the scholarly communication system has been facing a crisis due to the ever-escalating costs of journals. This paper examines the reasons for the high costs of scholarly journals. A brief review of… Read More
Digital Books and Your Rights
(eff.org): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published ‘Digital Books and Your Rights,’ a checklist for readers considering buying into the digital book marketplace. Over the last few months, the universe of digital books has expanded dramatically, with products like Amazon's Kindle, Google Books, Internet Archive's Text Archive, Barnes and… Read More
Sharing and re-using catalogue records in a Web 2.0 world
(jisc.ac.uk): The internet has made sharing library catalogue records easier for libraries and users – but with it comes a new set of challenges surrounding the legal implications. A new JISC toolkit helps librarians navigate the legal minefield of making their catalogue records available to others. Web 2.0 applications such… Read More
The Convention Crashers
(nytimes.com): Convention industry insiders disdainfully call them “outboarders” — those vendors who set up shop in a hotel suite near a trade show site to promote their products. The industry sees the vendors as parasites who latch onto the host convention and reap the advantages of the often-considerable resources spent… Read More
Perspective from the 2010 SSP Librarians Focus Group
(libraryjournal.com): One mistaken impression held by the publishers is that academic librarians are fairly free to cancel titles and discard the print backfiles. While cost and space constraints are certainly considerations in these decisions, the political challenges related to eliminating print—or even just moving it offsite—are considerable. Even though some… Read More
