Building Your Licensing and Negotiation Skills Toolkit

The advent of electronic resources brought about the need for license agreements between libraries and publishers. Many librarians today are new to licensing and negotiating with publishers, or have received limited training and education. Based on her years of licensing and negotiation experience, Clair Dygert of the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) provided librarians with practical advice and tools for working with licenses and negotiating with publishers, as well as encouragement for entering into these new areas. She included examples taken directly from FLVC’s licensing guidelines and negotiation proposals and encouraged attendees to use those documents in creating their own local documents. She also drew on the book Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury to describe principled bargaining as the most effective and constructive method of negotiation.     

Building Your Licensing and Negotiation Skills Toolkit

Licensing and the negotiating of electronic resources can be a daunting task for librarians who lack the proper skill sets and are unfamiliar with the intricacies of publisher agreements. Claire Dygert broke down the individual elements of a standard licensing agreement and explained the importance of protecting the rights of libraries. By providing insight from her years of experience, librarians learned how to develop a support network, build confidence, and be more effective negotiators.     

浅析图书馆文献信息传播活动的影响因素

图书馆作为文献信息传播系统的重要组成部分，其文献信息传播活动必然受到所处环境的制约。本论文对图书馆文献信息传播活动来自宏观、中观和微观三个层面的影响因素进行了论述，旨在对图书馆文献信息传播活动的有效开展起到一定的借鉴与指导意义。     

Dialects and Popular Culture in Italy in the Past Decade

The Italian linguistic situation is characterized by the presence, alongside the national language, of diverse linguistic traditions: italo-romance dialects (which developed parallel to Italian and in such a way as to be relatively autonomous); neolatin, non italo-romance languages (Occitan, Franco-provençal, Catalan, Sardinian, Ladino, and Friulian); non-neolatin languages (Slavic, German, Albanian, Greek, and Gypsy): all are idioms which correspond frequently to local cultural realities markedly different from each other. The love of dialects is still well-rooted in the linguistic behavior of Italians. For example, the results of a 1982 Doxa study showed that 46.7% of the respondents used mainly a dialect at home; 29.4% use Italian; and 23.9% alternate between two languages. Nevertheless, the use of local speech, in particular the italo-romance dialects which in the course of the 20th century have assumed a connotation of social inferiority to the extent that they are diffused most prevalently among the lower classes, has been constantly diminishing in the face of the expansion of Italian because of a variety of social and economic factors. At the same time, a "theoretical" revaluation of dialectical speech is in progress, especially on the part of linguists who maintain that the learning of national language and culture, surely indispensible for civic growth, can take place in a milieu of local linguistic and cultural wealth. The public school system, which in the past stood out in the struggle against dialects, has taken these ideas into account. In some regions, moreover, local groups have formed as expressions of the real needs of a deeply rooted culture; these groups have among their proper aims the guardianship of dialects and regional culture. This guardianship is, however, sometimes put into practice in an acritical fashion which tends to promote an exaggerated particularism and micronationalistic ethnic revival with repercussions in the field of political action. In any case, the most revealing and positive phenomenon in this period of crisis for dialects as spoken languages is their use as literary languages. Since the second world war, but especially in the past 10 years, authors born and raised in a dialect-loving milieu have composed some of the most significant works of contemporary poetry. Dialects are by now integral parts of the 20th century Italian literature. The interest in local cultures, beyond the negative proliferation of artificial folkloric manifestations, has contributed to the foundation of museums of material culture of considerable interest and of regional, privincial, and communal institutes for the documentation and study of various aspects of folk culture. These phenomena, typical of the cultural activity of the left in the 1960s, have diminished in the course of the 1970s. The development of attention to local languages and cultures can be verified whether on a scientific level, in the domain of academic research (Italian university courses in dialectology, history of popular traditions, ethnomusicology), or on an unspecialized level with primarily editorial results. Beyond the great production of publications of a strictly local character, there have been editorial initiatives of vast scope which have brought together the diverse linguistic and cultural traditions. Moreover, the national dailies and weeklies have treated the subject at repeated intervals, which testifies to the timeliness and liveliness of the interest raised by such themes. The aspects and problems of the publishing world and of bibliographic information in this field are discussed.     

The Licensing Lifecycle: From Negotiation to Compliance

The license negotiated at the beginning of the electronic resources lifecycle impacts access to the resource throughout the life of the contract. To simplify the negotiating process, the Texas A&M University (TAMU) Libraries developed a licensing checklist. In order to make completed licenses accessible to all library personnel, the TAMU Libraries use the electronic resources management system Centralized Online Resources and Licensing (CORAL) to store license documents and terms. This presentation reviewed the TAMU Libraries’ licensing process, the creation and evolution of the licensing checklist, and the suitability of CORAL to share license details. The presenters also recounted several examples of difficult negotiations and license violations.     

Experimental Linguistic Indexing for Information Retrieval

Abstract

The primary goal of the ELIXIR project was to achieve improvements in the performance of text-retrieval systems by confronting some of the challenges presented by the indexing of full-text documents. We explored two hypotheses involving the use of linguistic analysis to improve the automatic creation of indexes: (1) if it is possible to develop algorithms that index only the words which most closely capture the document's content-not the complete text, as is done in existing sys-tems-the retrieval of irrelevant documents might be minimized; (2) if it is possible to create indexing algorithms that perform a minimal syntactic parse required to capture important phrases, the index may represent the document's content even more accurately, increasing the likelihood that the article can be retrieved by a relevant query.     

高校集团订购协议的文本解析

在我国高校图书馆数字资源采购联盟(DRAA)签署的采购协议中,抽样61个文档进行文本内容分析,建议采购协议的条款进行模板化或谈判之前拟定好模板化的使用许可协议,以最大限度地保障图书馆及其用户的合理权益,也建议多角度考虑签署的协议会对图书馆的未来发展带来的影响.     

Alternatives to Licensing of E-Resources

As libraries continue to increase the amount of content purchased in electronic format, the convention of signing a license agreement for each electronic product has become overly burdensome for both libraries and publishers. The delays inherent in this process have also created barriers to access for patrons. The NISO Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) working group was formed in 2006 to develop a best practices alternative that will allow libraries and publishers to avoid licenses for some types of electronic resources by agreeing to the “Statements of Common Understandings for Subscribing to Electronic Resources” outlined on the NISO web site (http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU). This report summarizes the history of the project and outlines next steps for libraries and publishers.     

Model Licenses and License Templates: Present and Future

This presentation reviewed the standard model licenses that are available, including models such as LicensingModels.org and LibLicense, plus institution-specific licenses available online. The licenses’ strengths and weaknesses as templates were discussed. Best practices for creating a license template at one’s own institution were modeled, with standard language that one can use in negotiation. Problems and gaps in model licenses were raised, including formats or kinds of purchases that require new language that has not yet been standardized (such as e-books and streaming media). Suggestions for developing a new model license through community action were discussed.     

Lassoing the Licensing Beast: How Electronic Resources Librarians Can Build Competency and Advocate for Wrangling Electronic Content Licensing

The role electronic resources librarians (ERLs) have in licensing electronic content is the most relevant in the breadth of an ERLs core responsibilities. While ERLs are rarely lawyers in addition to being librarians, the role they play in educating stakeholders, negotiating with publishers and vendors, and crafting understanding of licensing terms is integral for the success of a rapidly growing and changing electronic collections environment. Often, new ERLs have to learn these skills on the job. Discussed are tools and resources for new ERLs to build their electronic content licensing competency and insight on how to educate to advocate for the ERLs role in licensing.     

论高校图书馆内部沟通管理策略

通过对图书馆内部沟通的几个主要影响因素进行分析,从个体、部门、组织三个层面入手,指出图书馆内部沟通的主要方式;从培育图书馆内部沟通机制、提供有效的沟通途径、建立完善的沟通体系、增强内部垂直沟通、设立内部诉求渠道等五个方面阐述图书馆内部沟通策略。     

科技期刊编辑与作者沟通前的准备

根据科技期刊编辑工作的特点,论述编辑在与作者沟通前必须做好的准备工作,以便编辑能与作者进行有效沟通。     

数字图书馆知识组织语义互联影响因素研究

数字图书馆知识组织语义互联是一个复杂的过程,在这一过程中主体、客体和环境等诸多因素直接或间接地影响其实现。主体包括数字图书馆知识组织者和数字图书馆用户;客体主要是语义互联对象、语义模型、技术与标准;环境主要是宏观环境、中观环境和微观环境。主体通过对客体进行的一系列活动,影响和控制着语义互联的表现结果、发展与变化;环境通过作用于主体影响和控制着语义互联的进展。所以,正确识别其影响因素就显得尤为重要。     

网络原生代信息查询行为个人影响因素分析

本文介绍了网络原生代信息查询行为的影响因素,主要包括个人能力因素、个人认知因素和惯性思维因素,并从图书馆的角度提出解决对策。     

基于时间约束的双边多属性自动协商模型研究

提出时间约束的协商模型。由双边协商的需要首先将多属性归为两个协商区间进行研究,并提出基于时间约束的协商决策函数,以此建立时间约束下的多属性出价策略。注意到多卖方间的竞争关系,用贝叶斯纳什均衡的思想分析多卖方博弈模型,从而给出双边多属性的协商策略和决策依据。最后构造一个算例,对模型进行验证。     

影响专家审稿积极性的因素分析及对策

专家审稿是审稿工作的重要环节,其积极性高低直接影响审稿质量和速度.分析期刊学术影响力不高,审稿专家劳动价值得不到充分体现,保障、激励和评价机制不健全,编辑送审准备工作不到位、辅助信息提供不完整,以及编辑与审稿专家互动不及时等因素对专家审稿积极性的影响,并据此提出相应对策,以期提高审稿专家的积极性,推动审稿工作顺利进行.     

影响科技期刊影响因子的期刊因素分析与思考 ——以SCI收录的眼科类期刊为例

统计了SCI收录的16种眼科类高影响因子期刊2007—2011年影响因子的变化,通过分析16种眼科期刊2005—2010年办刊策略的变化,从办刊策略层面寻找影响期刊影响因子的相关因素。研究发现,期刊影响力、栏目设置、期刊载文量、网站建设和出版周期等是影响期刊影响因子的重要因素。     

知识共享过程中的知识失真研究

通过构建知识共享链的三种模型,分析导致知识失真的主要因素：知识的不完全共享、知识传递过程中的知识量递减、隐性知识转化为显性知识的效果影响知识共享的成效、知识共享链中的知识延迟、知识共享链条传递中的无规律知识失真、知识共享提供方和接受方的知识局限等。提出建立知识共享的激励机制和扁平化的知识共享组织结构、营造学习型的组织环境是降低知识失真率的有效方法。     

高校图书馆服务创新因素分析

文章通过对影响图书馆服务创新的用户需求因素、文献信息资源因素、知识因素、组织文化因素和管理机制因素的分析,为高校图书馆服务创新提供了一条明晰的路径。