| Identifiers: | |||
| Locating a resource via a permanent channel | |||
| Solving the appropriate copy problem | |||
| Accessibility and limiting access part of the same problem | |||
| Copyright issues | |||
| Is copyright important for a particular scenario / document? | |||
| If so, how to protect it? | |||
| Determining scope of property rights? | |||
Two worlds: digital and print media
| Subscription fees | ||
| Per month, per year | ||
| Connection time fee | ||
| Per minute (e.g., Mead Data Central) | ||
| Advertising | ||
| By an interested party | ||
| other economic models apply here | ||
| Access fee | ||
| Per download, may not have profile to remember that you accessed this resource before | ||
| Per-byte fee | ||
| Typical of connection services (e.g., Broadband) | ||
| Movie distribution as a possible model (Lesk, p. 206) | |
| With DL materials we can’t really track ownership, just access | ||
| Trend towards microanalysis | ||
| Publisher: better targeted marketing | ||
| Library: better profile of user community | ||
| Ease of publication allows more information to be free | ||
| And for people to break copyright
(perhaps accidentally) |
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| Ease of accessing (free) information deters users from accessing more cumbersome-to-use sources | ||
| Traditional functions of publishers are taken on by free services | ||
| Free e-journals do rigorous peer review | ||
| Search engines act as distributor | ||
| To deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website. | |||
| Preprint: before copyright restrictions have been signed | |||
| Not a true publication*: hasn’t been peer-reviewed, not in prestigious publication. | |||
| Detractors: accessibility will hurt future revenues of the journal | |||
| Perhaps 60-80% of a publisher’s budget doesn’t go towards the direct publication costs | |||
| Differing acceptance from different fields | |||||
| Physics: accept only if concurrently preprinted | |||||
| Medicine, Business: accept only if not preprinted | |||||
| E-journal model: who assumes the cost? | |||||
| Authoring a text Author | |||||
| Peer review Peers | |||||
| Marketing Search engine | |||||
| Editor E journal | |||||
| Publication E journal (disk
space and expertise) |
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| Goal of peer review is to insure: | ||
| Previous work adequately acknowledged | ||
| Experimental methodology realistic and reproducible | ||
| Analysis of data justifies conclusions | ||
| Peters and Ceci (82): | ||
| Resubmitted 12 psychology articles already published with different author names, 8 of 9 recommended against acceptance and were rejected “serious methodological flaw”, not because of déjà vu. | ||
| Inglefinger study of NEJM reviewers: | ||
| Concordance of reviews only slightly better than chance | ||
| Reviewers not skilled in all areas of a study, unable to discern poor writing and have their own biases | ||
Internet Archive and Bookmobile
| Internet Archive | |
| http://www.archive.org | |
| An archive of the www |
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| “The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp.” |
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| Are these examples of legal deposit? | |
| Who funds this initiative? | |
| Internet Bookmobile | |
| Prints out of copyright books for reading | |
| Over 1m books | |
| $1 USD per book printed |
| Y2K – two digits to mean four | ||
| If you knew COBOL, you could get a high paid job. | ||
| Legacy systems and knowledge need to be preserved | ||
| Use standard formats! | ||
| Media lifetime | ||
| Tape 15 years | ||
| CDR 10-50 years | ||
| HD 30 years | ||
| Software/Hardware lifetime | ||
| New hardware 3-7 years | ||
| Software cycles faster | ||
| How to access old files, applications? | ||
| A case of the rich getting richer? |
| Can use access rights to impose an unequal payment scheme | ||
| Blackwell’s – all 600 journals made free to the Russian Federation. | ||
| JSTOR – cost to access its DL depends on the size of the organization. | ||
| Open source movement – make software available to anyone | ||
| Immediate, random-access to recent knowledge | |
| May not understand foundation material | |
| More effort in selection of materials | |
| Publisher models changing, unifying | |
| International policy becoming more prominent | |
| Customized books as the future? |
| How does the economics of libraries and the information explosion influence publication rates? What about as we make the transition to the digital library? | ||
| Do you think self-archiving and e-journal venues pose a threat to the journal publisher? | ||
| As a single site, the Internet Archives, cannot keep track of all web pages on the web | ||
| Can you think of a better solution? | ||
| How would you go about designing a national web page archive for Singapore? | ||
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| Copyright in Singapore http://www.ipos.gov.sg/newdesign/indexpage/inner_frame.html?section=aboutip&sub=4 |
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| Self-Archiving FAQ http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ |
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| JSTOR | |
| www.jstor.org | |
| The future of libraries? Stephenson, Neal (00) Diamond Age: A young lady’s illustrated primer, Doubleday |