Review of “The State of Open Access,” interviews by Richard Poynder

Abstract

Moves occur due to a variety of reasons. There can be changes in the mission, budget cuts, restructuring issues, changes in the staff, or the changes that technology brings about that are either forced on or desired by the library. Acceptance, helpful participation, and a conscious effort must be made to engage the staff in accepting what will be happening, participating in the areas that affect them, directly or indirectly, and motivating them to buy into the process. This is necessary or the success of the move will be in jeopardy. The level of change that occurs is more than what you might expect. Maneuvering between mission changes and having the collection reflect those changes takes planning, teamwork, use of volunteers, and some hard work.     

Evaluating E-resource Collections in a Business School Library: A Comparative Study of Aggregator Packages at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Library

The need to continuously evaluate resource usage, whether in print or online, has been a challenge for libraries for a long time. The shift in resources to digital formats has made gauging the utility of resources more convenient as well as enabling cross database comparisons on various parameters. In this context, the article explores the aggregator databases subscribed by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad library. The study compares EBSCO's Business Source Complete, EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, Proquest's ABI INFORM Complete, JSTOR, and Project Muse packages in terms of the features available, usage, and the most used journals in these packages.     

Collection Assessment and New Academic Programs

At Oregon State University, the library is included in the review process for each new program proposal. Historically, this inclusion has taken the form of a mandatory statement regarding the adequacy of the library collection to support the new program. The level of assessment undertaken to justify these statements has changed and become more rigorous over time. These assessments also provide a basis for including collections as a component of the cost of university support for new programs but seldom result in sufficient increased funding. Their true value may be in the opportunity for dialogue on the future of scholarly communication.     

美国研究图书馆协会2010年电子资源评估调查

美国研究图书馆协会(ARL)2010年电子资源评估调查,总结了ARL成员最新的电子资源采购与许可授权获取方面的实践进展情况。调查从多方面分别对联盟采购电子资源或获取许可授权和图书馆直接采购电子资源或获取许可授权两种采购策略进行了论述。最后总结出存在问题并提出改进建议。     

Getting Started with COUNTER Statistics

A four hour post-conference workshop was offered on Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) statistics with the goal of providing participants with hands-on experience working with and manipulating statistics. Best practices and methods were also discussed.     

“馆读互动馆藏星级评等”构想及其实现模式探讨

针对图书馆馆藏质量不高、利用率低迷的问题,首次提出一种挖掘、评价、推介馆藏的新举措———"馆读互动馆藏星级评等"构想,并提出具体实现模式及需注意的问题。     

网络环境下个性化信息重组模式分析

从网络环境下个性化信息重组的动因出发,分析个性化信息重组的模式,即基于资源内容特征的信息重组模式和基于用户需求特征的信息重组模式,在此基础上对个性化信息重组中的层次差异问题及信息重组应遵循的原则进行总结。     

总结和反思高职院校评估方案对图书馆藏书建设的影响

对图书馆评估指标内容进行了分析,反思评估指标对高职图书馆藏书建设的负面影响,结合高职图书馆的实际情况,提出一些评估指标的修改建议,以期为下一轮评估提供参考。     

高校图书馆结构化藏书刍议

从结构化藏书的思维出发，分析量与质的各种结构，因素对馆藏建设的影响，并提出对策，进而探讨高校馆藏书建设中应思考的若干问题。     

馆藏文献优先数字化的策略思考

本文讨论了我国馆藏文献优先数字化的原则与宜于优先数字化的文献类型。作者认为馆藏文献优先数字化的原则是：具有较高价值的本国文献，不受版权约束的文献，以及馆藏文献的缩微胶片拷贝．考虑到用户需求、技术支持以及经济成本，作者提出了优先数字化的文献类型：非文字类型的文献，0Ck识别率高的文字文献。     

Collection Management in British Children's Literature-A Report of Five Case Studies

In order to gain insight into the collection management of children's books by British public library services, five case studies were undertaken in 1989. These studies uncovered a diversity of procedures but no comprehensive provision of collection management policies. Reasons for compromising on the ideal were found to be related to inadequate staffing rather than to a lack of concern.     

实体馆藏与虚拟馆藏选择准则比较研究

实体馆藏与虚拟馆藏建设 ,在目标、原则、方针和策略等方面 ,有极大的相似性。虚拟馆藏建设在虚拟信息资源的生存状况和使用环境方面有特殊性。实践中应掌握实体馆藏和虚拟馆藏建设选择准则之间的差别和侧重点。参考文献 10。     

20世纪上半叶的云南地方文献工作

20世纪上半叶是云南地方文献工作承上启下的重要时期。体现在：系统收集了大量的云南地方文献，对重要的云南地方文献进行了整理、汇辑、出版，修纂了各种志书，对各种专门地方文献进行了专题揭示与研究。一方面，对民国以前的云南地方文献做了较为全面的清理和总结，另一方面，对民国时期的云南历史文献作了及时的整理与保存，留下了丰富的文献收藏和宝贵的原始资料。这一时期中，学者共同策划、组织、实施了多项云南地方文献整理工程，学术思想活跃，学科交融突出，在云南学术史上有着重要的研究价值。     

Utilization of Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) by Faculty of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU)

Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) provides access to about 2,900 scholarly journals including almost 300 journals in veterinary science and related fields such as dairy science and technology, biotechnology, and fisheries. This article presents the results of a study assessing the utilization of CeRA by faculty of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana (Punjab), India. Data was collected via questionnaire with a response rate of 95%. Among the factors assessed are user awareness of CeRA, purpose of use, sources of information about consortium, search strategies used to access articles, users’ opinion about usefulness of consortium, and problems faced by them in using CeRA. It concludes with the need for adopting suitable measures for promoting utilization of CeRA.     

Why Can’t Students Get the Sources They Need? Results from a Real Electronic Resources Availability Study

Availability studies are used to estimate the proportion of items in a library collection that are available to users, and the proportion of items in a library collection that are unavailable to users as a result of system and/or human errors. Sanjeet Mann of the Armacost Library at the University of Redlands used a series of availability studies to more accurately understand and troubleshoot the e-resources access errors that keep undergraduate students at the university from obtaining the full text of electronic resources. In this presentation, Mann shared the details of his process, his results, and the implications of those results for improving local search systems as well as a conceptual model of e-resource availability errors based on the results of his research.