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Volume 15, no. 11, November 2004
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
ISSN: 1060-2356 -
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.11.html
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant
[8]OCLC Top 1000 Dublin, OH: OCLC, November 2004.
(http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/). - This web site isn't the
usual thing you see reviewed here in Current Cites, but neither is
it hard to justify highlighting it. OCLC Research staff plumbed the
depths of the largest bibliographic database in the world and
discovered the 1,000 most widely held books among member libraries.
Be careful, though, the site is interesting enough to keep you
glued to your computer screen for more time than you likely have to
spare. The U.S. focus is clear, with the 2000 U.S. Census topping
the list by far -- beating out the Holy Bible by a substantial
margin. But close on the heels of those come such works as Mother
Goose (#3), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (#7). and Garfield
(yes, Garfield, at #18). But don't stop at surveying the list for
your personal favorites, be sure to visit the [9]About page that
describes how they used the principles of FRBR to create the list,
the [10]Factoids page with a bunch of interesting facts about the
list, and the [11]Lagniappes page for a couple unexpected gifts.
Rock on, OCLC! - [12]RT
Ayers, Edward L.. "The Academic Culture & the IT Culture: Their
Effect on Teaching and Scholarship" [13]Educause Review 39(5)
(November/December 2004): 48-62. - A reflective and sometime
humorous assessment of the degree to which information technology
has been adopted by academics: not much. The author, Dean of the
College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Virginia and a professor of history there, bases his comments
upon what he's observed personally, and he contrasts concisely the
cultural differences between academe and IT. He reminds those of us
fascinated by information media that most faculty regard it as
extraneous to their own work, and will embrace it only to the
degree that it facilitates (as effortlessly and transparently as
possible) their primary research. And once their writing is ready
for publication, few are interested in exploiting the possibilities
of networks to disseminate their scholarship, though Ayers sees a
gradual change there. He describes the development of his own
web-enhanced presentation of his Civil War scholarship, and his
satisfacation at being able to present digital versions of the
primary source documents which would normally be inaccessible to
his readers. After giving that concrete example of what could be
achieved on a larger scale, Ayers concludes unsurprisingly with a
call for increased dialogues between the two cultures. - JR
Carnevale, Dan. "[14]Don't Judge a College by Its Internet
Address" [15]Chronicle of Higher Education 51(14) (26 November
2004): A29. (http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i14/14a02901.htm). -
True or false: If a college or university has an Internet address
that ends in .edu, it must be a bona fide, accredited institution
of higher learning. Uh, not actually...and potential students could
well be suckered into signing on with a diploma mill, since a
startling number of unaccredited institutions have found virtual
homes in the .edu domain. [16]Educause, overseen by the U.S.
Department of Education, is the administrator for the .edu domain.
But at the top of the food chain is the U.S. Department of
Commerce, which makes the rules as to who can get a .edu address.
Part of the problem is that many of these unaccredited entities
were given .edu addresses by [17]Network Solutions, the domain
registration company that assigned the addresses before Educause
took over. Educause maintains it "would be too costly and
difficult" to track down and revoke the .edu registrations of these
unaccredited institutions. Also, accreditation itself is fluid --
an institution could easily lose its accreditation...or vice versa.
At any rate, the director of policy and networking programs says
Educause "does not have the authority to take away .edu addresses
from institutions that were granted them before Educause took over,
even if the institutions lose their accreditation or change their
names." Many college officials say that since so many unaccredited
institutions have .edu addresses, more effort should be made to
educate the public about how to determine the accreditation status
of a particular institution. The State of Oregon Office of Degree
Authorization keeps a [18]comprehensive list of unaccredited
institutions, as does the [19]State of Michigan (pdf). - [20]SK
David, Shay. "[21]Opening the Sources of Accountability"
[22]First Monday 9(11) (1 November 2004)
(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_11/david/). - David takes
a hard look at "FLOSS" (Free/Libre Open Source Systems) from the
perspective of accountability. He argues that increasing
accountability improves the value of FLOSS to society -- in
essence, by their works ye shall know them. He goes on to say that
open source computing has already fostered a collaborative culture
that has brought some results, but the journey has just begun.
Accountability in a digital society has taken on a life of its own,
he argues, and he analyzes the open environment of FLOSS to find
hidden meanings. Electronic voting and digital medical records are
two excellent tests of his thesis, as correct and reliable
information is critical for success in each case, yet trust is in
short supply if recent history is any guide. He argues that code
"visibility" -- a self-imposed standard of care and sensible
licensing arrangements -- is a potential alternative to the
liability remedies that some scholars offer as the safest bet. If
developers can craft "sensible licensing agreements" and
accommodate collaborative activity through social versus legal
mechanisms, there is a reasonable hope that the barriers to
accountability will diminish. He adds that developers should begin
to think of ways to build a framework for moral and ethical
deliberations to guide open source design, too. - [23]TH
Fister, Barbara, and Niko Pfund. "[24]We're Not Dead Yet! "
[25]Library Journal (15 November 2004)
(http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA479162). - This is actually
two pieces -- one by a librarian and another by a university press
publisher. The librarian's tongue-in-cheek piece highlights the
fact that libraries have been raiding their book funds to pay for
increasingly expensive journals, thereby potentially harming the
viability of university presses. Library purchases can be a
significant percentage of the potential sales of university press
books, so the recent decline in monographic purchasing can have a
devastating impact on their bottom line. The publisher's piece is
less playful but no less thought-provoking. - [26]RT
Hernandez, Javier C.. "[27]Google Offers Journal Searches"
[28]The Harvard Crimson (23 November 2004)
(http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=504709). - Big, big
news in both the search engine and academic library worlds this
month. Google launched a new beta called [29]Google Scholar, which
"enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature,
including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts
and technical reports from all broad areas of research." The buzz
among information professionals, as well as the media, has been
loud and raucous. One main issue -- If the average user thinks he
or she is going to get free access to a wealth of full-text
articles from academic journals, he or she is in for a rude
awakening. Many of the results are citations, or citations and
abstracts only. The searcher will have to pay to obtain the full
article. Alternately, he or she could inquire at a public, special
or academic library where affiliation permits full access to to a
set of proprietary online databases, and obtain the information
being sought for free. Cheryl M. LaGuardia, head of instructional
services for Harvard College libraries, notes in this article that
Google Scholar seems to do a better job with science searches than
humanities-related queriest. She said she is looking forward to
engaging [30]CrossRef's technology "to blend the ease of Google
with existing library systems." - [31]SK
Novotny, Eric. "I Don't Think I Click: A Protocol Analysis Study
of Use of a Library Online Catalog in the Internet Age. "
[32]College and Research Libraries 65(6) (November 2004):
525-563. - There's something magical about interface design. The
research done to determine user behavior that leads to design
decisions is positively fascinating. This time round we have a
group at Penn State testing the proficiency of users on their brand
new OPAC. The users were divided into two groups, "experienced" and
"first-time". Results confirm other studies in this area, namely,
that when confronting an OPAC, users both experienced and not,
assume they're in front of something similar to Google. They go for
keywords by default, expect results ranked by relevancy (as opposed
to chronology), make no use of Boolean Operators, have no idea of
what information is actually indexed, and lack the curiosity or
time to "learn the system". "We can either abandon this
population," the author stresses, "or design systems that do not
require expert knowledge to be used effectively." - [33]LRK
Sosteric, Michael. "The International Consortium for the
Advancement of Academic Publication--An Idea Whose Time Has Come
(Finally!)" [34]Learned Publishing 17(4) (2004): 319-325. - In
this article, Sosteric, founder of the [35]International Consortium
for the Advancement of Academic Publication (as well as of the
Electronic Journal of Sociology), describes how this not-for-profit
organization fosters the publication of scholarly e-journals with
low production and operation costs. How low? How about as low as
$3,000 for a new quarterly journal that's up in less than a month?
But even with this cost structure, the ICAAP faces challenges since
it "targets low-circulation and niche journals that cannot survive
in an environment where first-tier journals suck all the finances
from general library subscriptions." Scholars who want to publish
these journals may have difficulty paying the ICAAP's modest fees
without external support. In Canada, social science and humanities
journals can receive up to CAD$90,000 over three years from a
special funding program; however, the gotcha is that, to qualify,
journals must have at least 200 paid subscribers, and, in the small
Canadian market, publishers are afraid that switching from print to
electronic might cause a subscription drop below this level. One
can't help but wonder what could be accomplished with relatively
modest subsidies from some other source, perhaps combined with the
idea of open access. - [36]CB
Thomas, Charles F. "Memory institutions as digital publishers: a
case study on standards and interoperability" [37]OCLC Systems &
Services 20(3) (2004): 134-139. - Everyone loves standards. Who
doesn't? Oftentimes however, they're presented as a sort of
one-dimensional cure-all for all that ails us. The author of this
article suggests a far more complicated picture. First there isn't
only one set of standards but a proliferation, and the individual
standards themselves aren't necessarily set in stone but are
continually evolving. That's the reality. The author proposes a
number of considerations, given this, so that we can make the
"right standards choices". He even sees room, once core standards
have been identified, for local innovations. - [38]LRK
van der Kuil, Annemiek, and Martin Feijen. "[39]The Dawning of
the Dutch Network of Digital Academic REpositories (DARE): A Shared
Experience" [40]Ariadne (41) (2004)
(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/vanderkuil/). - Funded by a
government grant, the SURF Programme Digital Academic Repositories
(DARE) is establishing institutional repositories at Dutch
universities and harvesting metadata from them using the OAI-PMH
protocol to create a demonstrator portal called [41]DAREnet.
Participating universities are utilizing diverse software,
including ARNO, DSpace, i-Tor, and proprietary software. The
project uses Dublin Core metadata (version 1.0). The Koninklijke
Bibliotheek (Royal Library) will preserve data from the
participating institutional repositories. The project has dealt
with a variety of issues, such as how can digital objects (vs.
metadata) be harvested, what should the dc:identifier link to
(e.g., the digital object or the repository record for the object),
how should objects be identified (OpenURL, the CNRI handle, or
DOI), and other issues. - [42]CB
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