Introducing The Source
Why Are Scholarly Journals costly even with Electronic Publishing? (Note: PDF)
From the E-prints in Library and Information Science website
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 literature on journal publishing costs was carried out. The paper focuses on the economics of scholarly English language journals published mainly in the United States and Europe, but which are sold worldwide, largely to academic and research libraries. Two of the features of the journal publishing industry, cited a decade ago and still valid today, are a “lack of competition” and “perverse incentives.” The “first-copy cost” is reported to be the main reason for high journal prices both in print and electronic publishing.
Understanding our value; assessing the nature of the impact of library services (Note: PDF)
From the Library and Information Research Group (a Special Interest Group of CILIP) website
This paper reports an approach to assessing the nature of the impact and benefit of library services, based on the concepts introduced in Urquhart’s Value Project for healthcare information services. Two studies are described and compared. A project in the City of London public library service examined the benefits obtained from specific information requests. A project in several public library services in South West England examined the value obtained from the borrowing and reading of books, linking this with categories of learning objectives. These studies showed the promise, and also the difficulties, of adapting existing impact frameworks to understand the nature of the impact and value of library services.
Sociological implications of scientific publishing: Open access, science, society, democracy and the digital divide
From the First Monday website
Claims for open access are mostly underpinned with:
- science–related arguments (open access accelerates scientific communication)
- financial arguments (open access relieves the serials crisis)
- social arguments (open access reduces the digital divide)
- democracy–related arguments (open access facilitates participation)
- socio–political arguments (open access levels disparities)
10 sages read the future of print
From the CNNMoney website
What becomes of the printed word? What's the fate of companies that produce periodicals and books? Here is what 10 media and tech luminaries think.
Sages include:
- Paul LeClerc - President and CEO, New York Public Library
- Kurt Andersen - Novelist and public radio host
- Katharine Weymouth - Publisher, the Washington Post, and CEO, Washington Post Media
- Jimmy Wales - Founder, Wikipedia
Facebook as a Library Tool: Perceived v. Actual Use (Note: PDF)
From the American Library Association (ALA) website
Libraries, in the past few years, have begun to examine the possibilities available to them through social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook as a tool for library awareness and marketing. As Facebook has come to dominate the social networking site arena, more libraries have created their own library pages on Facebook to create library awareness and to function as a marketing tool. This has spurred a large amount of how-to articles about the uses for Facebook in libraries as well as research about how librarians and libraries use Facebook. This paper examines reported versus actual use of Facebook in libraries to identify discrepancies between intended goals and actual use. The results of the 2009 study by Hendrix, Chiarella, Hasman, Murphy and Zafron, about the use of Facebook in libraries, is used as a guide to gauge the perceived and actual uses for Facebook in this study.
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