Providing Perpetual Access to Government Information

Abstract

The past few years have seen the Government Printing Office (GPO) move from managing predominantly paper based government publications to collecting, organizing, and disseminating government information electronically. Serious concerns have been raised about perpetual access and authentication of government information in the new digital environment. This article focuses on GPO's plans to preserve both electronic and tangible government information resources and the initiatives being taken by GPO in collaboration with the library community and other stakeholders to address these matters.     

Providing Access to E-Audiobooks: Help from the Non-Cataloger

There are a growing number of Web sites that offer free e-audiobooks. Providing access to these e-audiobooks can be a challenge for libraries, particularly with shrinking budgets and staff. The author describes a process created at California State University–San Bernardino to re-record and catalog currently popular public domain e-audiobooks with a goal of making the cataloging simple enough that a non-cataloger can perform the task.     

对科研论文开放获取的期待

2020年12月22日,Nature网站将“开放获取驱动”(Open-access Drive)列为2021年值得关注的科学事件之一,并表示为期两年的学术论文开放获取“S计划”有望在2021年取得成效。开放获取“S计划”是2018年9月4日由法国、英国、荷兰、意大利等11个欧洲国家的主要科研资助机构在欧洲研究理事会的支持下联合签署的。该计划提出“从2020年1月1日起,所有由上述11国以及欧洲研究理事会拨款支持的科研项目,都必须将研究成果发表在完全开放获取的期刊上,立即开放获取”。     

Providing Access and Preservation Services to Collections in Remote Storage Facilities

ABSTRACT

As libraries continue to acquire, catalog, and preserve paper-based collections, and the early promise of digital technologies to put everything online has not yet been fully realized, the need to physically retain little used analog collections has intensified. Thus a growing trend in the field of academic and public libraries is an increased awareness of the importance of remote storage facilities (RSF). A recent American Library Association meeting featured speakers who were involved with such a facility. The speakers offered tips and hints on surviving and even thriving in one successfully. The authors of this article hope that by documenting the highlights of these presentations, other librarians and staff in the planning, construction, or implementation phase of a RSF will be better prepared for the challenges and difficulties they will face when trying to provide access to and physically maintain a collection geographically distant from their main library.     

Providing Cognitively Just Subject Access to Indigenous Knowledge through Knowledge Organization Systems

This article explores cognitively just, reliable subject access to indigenous knowledge through knowledge organization systems (KOSs). Cognitive justice requires that indigenous people be able to access materials in a way that respects their worldview, yet dominant KOSs are based on positivist, Western approaches that are fundamentally incompatible. Alternatives to universal systems include the creation of new KOSs and the adaptation of universal ones. Going forward, emerging web technologies are presented as key to moving away from universalist schemes and toward specialized access.     

Methods for Collecting,Processing, and Providing Access to Electronic Serials

The issues surrounding methods for collecting, processing, and providing access to electronic serials are discussed. Weston debates the access versus ownership issues of electronic journals, and discusses the changing roles of systems and acquisitions librarians in the provision of access to these journals. Reinke outlines the University of Houston's acquisitions process, an approach paralleling traditional serials acquisitions methods. Morgan describes an automated serials acquisitions process developed at the North Carolina State University.     

Access to the Working Papers of State Supreme Court Justices

SUMMARY

Two former Texas Supreme Court justices recently offered to donate their personal court files to the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin. These offers forced the Law Library, the Texas Supreme Court, and the State Archives to confront several issues. Should such files ever be made public? If so, what would be an appropriate waiting period? What research value, if any, do such papers have? These working files would be valued not only by legal historians, but also by litigants, voters, and political opponents, raising some sticky access issues.     

Beyond the Repository: A Mixed Method Approach to Providing Access to Collections Online

After providing access to over 100 video interviews conducted by a professor with notable entertainers and personalities from film through an institutional repository, an experiment was conducted to discover whether a larger audience could be gained by adding a subset of 32 of these videos to YouTube. The results, over 400,000 views, indicate that libraries should cultivate a mixed method approach to providing access to digital content.     

保障中国农村社区ICT接入的自上而下路径——社群信息学的机遇

社群信息学起源于20世纪80-90年代西方国家的社区ICT应用活动,其主要宗旨是运用现代信息技术(ICT)推动社区发展。我国自2010年开始引介西方的社群信息学,当时国内已存在同样宗旨的研究和应用领域,即社区信息化和农村信息化。与此相关的研究和实践构成了社群信息学在我国成长发展的重要的本土情境。     

Beyond the Federal Depository Library Program: Providing Access to Information From a Reinvented Government

The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), conceived in the nineteenth century, has served the American people and libraries for 100 years. It has provided free access to government information through a network of depository libraries distributed throughout the country. Currently, Democratic and Republican political leaders advocate reinventing, rethinking, reengineering, and renewing government. Despite significant differences between the political parties on specific changes, there is a consensus vision of a transformed or reinvented national government. What does this mean for the FDLP and access to government information? This essay looks beyond the current debates about specific legislation on the Government Printing Office or funding levels for the FDLP and outlines a vision of a reinvented federal government based on ideas expressed by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Vice President Al Gore. This paper identifies the basic challenges that their ideas present for the FDLP and depository libraries. The author concludes that these challenges will move the United States beyond the FDLP as it is presently constituted and will force librarians to rethink fundamentally how they provide access to government information.     

Access to Grey Literature in Business: An Exploration of Commercial White Papers

White papers are a form of grey literature produced by businesses that can be a valuable source of information for librarians and business practitioners. This article reports the results of an exploratory investigation of whether commercial white papers can be successfully located in full-text form through the use of online databases, aggregators, and search engines as an alternative to retrieving the document directly from the Website of the authoring organization. Also examined are the extent of secondary references to these white papers and whether such white papers can be found in library collections.     

开放存取论文开放评价方法

分析传统学术论文和开放存取论文现有评价方法的不足与困难之处;融合层次分析法和同行评议所具有的优势,提出开放存取论文评价的框架、流程以及具体实现方法。最后通过实验验证其评价效果,结果显示该方法的评价结果与文章的真实值相近。     

Innovations in Providing Access to Research and Knowledge: Directions for Systems Improvement in the Law Library

ABSTRACT

In this article, the authors explore the future of legal reference services, continuing the discussion raised in their previous article, at 26 LRSQ 57 (No. 1/2, 2007). Again considering examples of popular and effective services from the non-library (commercial) world, they examine underlying trends and suggest points for improvement in library systems. They concentrate their focus on the academic law library, and on the changing role of the reference librarian.     

Providing Access to Engagement in Learning: The Potential of Universal Design for Learning in Museum Design

Following passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), many museums improved the accessibility of their facilities. Even so, individuals with disabilities still lag behind in participation and engagement in museum experiences. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides an alternate model for the design of museum programs and exhibit spaces, one that is more aligned to progressive concepts of disability, providing not only physical access but also access to engagement in learning. In this article we argue that UDL has the potential to substantially improve the design of informal learning environments. Through two illustrative examples, we describe how the UDL design guidelines can be used to improve the probability that engagement will occur as individuals interact with exhibits, programs, and people in museums.     

我国开放存取研究论文的文献计量学研究

本文运用文献计量学与统计学方法,以国内三大期刊全文数据库为数据源,对2003-2009年我国开放存取研究论文进行统计分析,主要内容包括文献增长规律、期刊分布、作者群分布以及主题内容分布等。     

国外开放存取科技论文网站的可用性特点和启示

文章选取开放存取学术出版联盟的第一类正式会员为研究对象,对具有代表性的开放存取科技论文出版网站进行了可用性调研,涉及页面布局、导航、内容组织和获取、检索与移动友好五个方面,以统计分析为主,结合在线评估工具,分析了国外开放存取科技论文网站的可用性特点,并总结了我国开放存取科技论文网站建设应借鉴的经验与吸取的教训。     

2004-2010年国内开放存取研究论文的可视化分析

本文以2004-2010年间CNKI中国期刊全文数据库中收录的开放存取方面的论文作为研究样本,分别从作者、期刊分布、研究机构、关键词、作者-关键词耦合等多角度进行定量分析及可视化,揭示我国在该领域的研究现状、研究热点及存在的不足,为论文的开放存取研究提供参考。     

开放存取论文下载与引用情况计量研究

基于"中国科技论文在线"的论文引用、下载数据,对开放存取论文被引用的年代分布情况、被引频次与下载频次的相关关系进行研究。结果表明:①开放存取论文达到被引峰值的时间在延长,互联网并没有加快开放存取论文的老化,反而有延缓之势;②单篇论文的下载频次与被引频次之间的相关性不显著;③应用性、综述性论文更容易出现"高下载低引用"现象;④从长期、整体角度来看,开放存取论文的下载频次与被引频次之间呈现正相关趋势;⑤被引频次侧重于反映开放存取论文的内在质量,下载频次则反映外部评价指标(可识别性、可获得性、传播速率等)。图3。表2。参考文献39。