Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want
(eprints.rclis.org): Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want summarizes findings from research conducted by OCLC on what constitutes quality in library online catalogs from both end users and librarians’ points of view. In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.org – OCLC’s freely available end user… Read More
Where Digital is Going? E-book adoption by the numbers
What can sales data tell us about e-book adoption and digital reading habits? In this presentation Len Vlahos, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), takes a close look at book industry statistics from the publisher’s perspective, identifying trends related to global e-book adoption, and answering questions about… Read More
Around the publishing technology world in 45 minutes
At the annual Project Muse Publishers Meeting held in Baltimore, Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO (National Information Standards Organization), shared a presentation with attendees about his organization and current projects and initiatives they’re working on. Following what NISO is up to is a useful (and interesting) way to monitor… Read More
Open Access Author Survey 2013
The survey is a follow up to Wiley’s 2012 open access author survey and is the second such survey conducted by Wiley. Consistencies were seen between the 2012 and 2013 surveys in authors’ desire to publish in a high-quality, respected journal with a good Impact Factor, but the survey also… Read More
Introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD)
These 201 slides from a pre-con tutorial titled, ‘Introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD)’ was presented on September 2, 2013 at Dublin Core 2013 (DC-2013) in Lisbon, Portugal. The instructor was Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the tutorial is… Read More
Shifts in Scholarly Attention Among World Regions
Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, presented "Shifts in Scholarly Communications Among World Regions" at the OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill on June 7, 2013. At this event, Dr. Kurzman presented his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the… Read More
