About the Editor | p. xiii |
Contributors | p. xv |
Preface | p. xix |
Publishing | |
D-Lib Magazine: Incremental Evolution of an Electronic Magazine | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Digital Library Research | p. 2 |
D-Lib Magazine's Mission | p. 3 |
Design and Style | p. 5 |
Persistent Identifiers | p. 6 |
Metadata | p. 9 |
Editing | p. 12 |
ScienceDirect | p. 17 |
A Brief History | p. 17 |
What Is ScienceDirect? | p. 18 |
Access Terms | p. 21 |
Back Files, Archiving, and Access After Cancellation | p. 23 |
ScienceDirect As a Publishing Environment | p. 24 |
Future Relationship of SDOS and ScienceDirect | p. 25 |
Future Technical Development of ScienceDirect | p. 26 |
In Summary | p. 26 |
Pricing | |
Electronic Serials Costs: Sales and Acquisitions Practices in Transition | p. 29 |
Cost of Electronic versus Print Publishing | p. 31 |
Purchasing Individual Electronic Serial Titles | p. 33 |
Search Interface Providers | p. 34 |
"Bundling" or Packaging of Electronic Serials | p. 34 |
Consortia: Buying in Bulk | p. 37 |
Cost of Archiving | p. 38 |
Possible Scholarly Publishing Alternatives | p. 38 |
The Future of Electronic Serials Pricing | p. 39 |
Acquisitions and Collection Development | |
An Eclipse of the Sun: Acquisitions in the Digital Era | p. 41 |
Introduction | p. 41 |
The Digital Resource Purchase Process | p. 43 |
Staffing | p. 51 |
Quality Control in the Digital World | p. 53 |
Licensing | p. 58 |
Growing Pains: The Negotiation Process | p. 63 |
Managing Licenses and Resources in Relation to License Terms | p. 64 |
The Role of the Traditional Serials Vendor | p. 70 |
Archiving | p. 72 |
Relationship of Serials Acquisitions to Cataloging | p. 73 |
Conclusion | p. 74 |
Perspectives on the Library As E-Journal Customer, Intermediary, and Negotiator in a Time of Chaos | p. 79 |
Introduction | p. 79 |
Toward Systemic Thinking and Outcomes Orientation | p. 80 |
Toward Active Negotiating Strategies | p. 81 |
Optimizing versus Maximizing | p. 82 |
Analyzing Impacts | p. 83 |
Outcomes and Accountability | p. 84 |
Conclusion | p. 87 |
Collection Development for Online Serials Redux: Now Who Needs to Do What, Why, and When | p. 89 |
Introduction | p. 89 |
Who Needs to Be Involved in Getting Electronic Products Up and Running? | p. 89 |
Setting Up Your Guidelines | p. 91 |
Draft Guidelines for Selecting, Processing, and Accessing Electronic Resources | p. 92 |
Conclusion | p. 100 |
Synopsis of Kenneth Crews' "Licensing for Information Resources: Creative Contracts and the Library Mission" | p. 100 |
Coordination and Collaboration: A Model for Electronic Resources Management | p. 111 |
Introduction | p. 111 |
The Impact of Electronic Resources | p. 111 |
Organizational Challenges | p. 113 |
The Collaborative Electronic Resources Coordination Approach | p. 114 |
Conclusion | p. 117 |
Cataloging and Metadata | |
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Applying AACR2 to Electronic Journals | p. 119 |
Introduction | p. 119 |
Background | p. 120 |
Problems of Bibliographic Description | p. 124 |
Summary | p. 137 |
Electronic Serials: Searching for a Chief Source of Information | p. 141 |
AACR2 Revisions | p. 142 |
A Look at CONSER Documentation | p. 143 |
Searching for an Alternative | p. 148 |
Advantages of Adopting the Opening Page As the Chief Source | p. 149 |
Conclusion | p. 152 |
A Meditation on Metadata | p. 155 |
Introduction | p. 155 |
Metadata As Something Old | p. 156 |
Metadata As Something New | p. 157 |
Metadata As Something Borrowed | p. 160 |
Metadata As Something We Do | p. 161 |
Conclusion | p. 163 |
Preservation and Archiving | |
Digital Preservation and Long-Term Access to the Content of Electronic Serials | p. 167 |
Introduction | p. 167 |
The Electronic Serial Landscape | p. 169 |
The Functions of Serials | p. 170 |
Electronic Serials | p. 171 |
Self-Archiving Initiatives | p. 173 |
Distribution Methods and Formats in Use | p. 177 |
E-Serials and Digital Preservation | p. 179 |
Conclusion | p. 189 |
Projects and Innovations | |
Interactive Peer Review in the Journal of Interactive Media in Education: Processes, Tools, and Techniques for Managing Persistent Discourse | p. 197 |
Introduction | p. 197 |
Discourse and Persistence | p. 199 |
Journal of Interactive Media in Education | p. 202 |
Discussion | p. 208 |
Looking to the Future | p. 211 |
Conclusion | p. 214 |
Science's Knowledge Environments: Integrated Online Resources for Researchers, Educators, and Students | p. 217 |
Developing the Knowledge Environment Concept | p. 217 |
Goals of KEs | p. 218 |
Signal Transduction: The Paradigm for KEs | p. 219 |
Features of Science's STKE | p. 219 |
Connections Maps and Connections Maps Authorities Data Entry System (CMADES) | p. 224 |
Personalization (My STKE) | p. 226 |
Future Challenges for AAAS and the KE Concept | p. 226 |
Serials Solutions: A Method for Tracking Full-Text Electronic Journals in Aggregated Databases | p. 229 |
Introduction | p. 229 |
Background and Problem | p. 229 |
Solutions | p. 232 |
Implementation and Enhancements | p. 236 |
Developments and Implications | p. 237 |
Conclusion | p. 237 |
Building DSpace to Enhance Scholarly Communication | p. 239 |
Introduction | p. 239 |
Background | p. 239 |
Shift | p. 241 |
Responding with DSpace | p. 242 |
Defining DSpace | p. 243 |
Impact on Faculty | p. 245 |
Impact on Libraries | p. 246 |
Conclusion | p. 247 |
Indexing | |
Indexing Electronic Journals | p. 249 |
The Selection Process | p. 249 |
Subscriptions | p. 250 |
Procedures and System Specifications | p. 250 |
Problems and Developments | p. 252 |
Uniform Resource Identifiers | |
Uniform Resource Identifiers and Online Serials | p. 255 |
Introduction | p. 255 |
Online Publishing and the Web--Today | p. 257 |
Development of Internet Identifiers | p. 258 |
URNs and the Internet Information Infrastructure | p. 261 |
Output of the URN Working Group | p. 264 |
URN Implementation Status | p. 267 |
Issues In URNs | p. 268 |
Illustrations of URIs in Online Publishing | p. 269 |
Where from Here? | p. 270 |
Other Work | p. 271 |
Conclusion | p. 272 |
Citation | |
Citing Serials: Online Serial Publications and Citation Systems | p. 275 |
The Modern Language Association | p. 275 |
The American Psychological Association Style | p. 279 |
Columbia Online Style | p. 284 |
Index | p. 291 |
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