E-Lert # 326 / Cyberavis no. 326
Friday May 15, 2009 / le vendredi
15 mai 2009
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NEWS / NOUVELLES
Elsevier Journal Scandal Provokes Significant
Librarian Response: Elsevier admits total of six problematic publications;
Progressive Librarians Guild issues call for action
Josh Hadro
Library Journal, May 14, 2009
Merck's financial backing of the Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint
Medicine (AJBM) through Elsevier's Excerpta
Medica subsidiary came to light during testimony of a class-action
lawsuit against the drug company. Fewer details of the
other five titles are known. according to an article in The
Scientist, Elsevier has declined to provide the names of the
sponsors of these titles. Though it appears that the sponsored publication,
AJBM, was not sold or licensed to libraries as part of standard subscription
packages, the scandal is nevertheless galvanizing librarians across the
academic community. HTML
Recent senior level appointments at Library and Archives Canada
May 12, 2009
Doug Rimmer has been appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Documentary Heritage Collection Sector at Library and Archives Canada. This is a position that has been held by Ingrid Parent. Mr. Rimmer has been the Chair of the LAC Services Advisory Board. Other appointments at LAC are Zahra Pourjafar-Ziaei, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Management Sector, Marie-Josée Martel, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Programs and Services Sector, and Sean Berrigan, Senior Advisor to the Librarian and Archivist of Canada.
Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation
Join Together to Create DuraSpace
May 12, 2009
Ttwo of the largest providers of open source software for managing and
providing access to digital content, Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation,
announced that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission.
They will provide joint leadership and innovation in open source technologies
to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content. DuraSpace will
support both DSpace and Fedora by working closely with both communities
and, as much as possible, develop synergistic technologies, services, and
programs to increase interoperability of the two platforms.*
http://www.duraspace.org/pressrelease.html
Culture of Applied Research Emphasized as University of Alberta
Libraries Hires Director of Research
May 8, 2009
Dr. Alvin Schrader has accepted a sessional half-time position with University of Alberta Libraries as Director of Research effective July 1, 2009. Dr. Schrader was formerly Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Alberta. “Dr. Schrader will be responsible for advising, assisting and encouraging librarians in all phases of research projects and activities, with a view to promoting a culture of applied research in the institution, and with a view of supporting a strong, evidence-based culture placing research as a foundation for our strategic operational decision-making,” stated Chief Librarian Ernie Ingles.*
Merck Paid Elsevier to Publish Phony Peer-Review Journal
Alliance for Human Research Protection, May 5, 2009
Merck has allegedly created a fake "peer-reviewed" journal to
present favorable data that make its potentially fatal drugs - Fosamax and
Vioxx - look good. Reports are swirling about Merck's seemingly underhanded
marketing scheme evidently cooked up to mislead doctors into prescribing
its potentially fatal drugs - Fosamax (for osteoporosis) and Vioxx (for
pain).
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/585/109/
[Also covered in The Scientist. Note: Free registration required to view
article
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55671/]
Open Access policy a first in Canada
April 17, 2009
The Academic Council of Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University
of Calgary adopted a mandate to deposit their scholarly output in DSpace,
the University's open access institutional repository. This is the second
Open Access mandate for an academic library, and the first for an academic
library in Canada.*
http://library.ucalgary.ca/news/news/open-access-policy-first-canada
Library and Archives Canada 2009–2010: Report on Plans and
Priorities
April 10, 2009
The Library and Archives of Canada Act established an ambitious, wide-ranging
mandate related to the acquisition, preservation and promotion of Canada's
collective memory. LAC is applying a strategic perspective to its mandate,
evaluating processes and rethinking practices to get the best results from
available resources. Those steps are enabling Library and Archives Canada
to become a knowledge institution fully in line with the evolving information
environment in Canada and worldwide.*
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/2009-2010/inst/bal/bal01-eng.asp
[Français: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/2009-2010/inst/bal/bal01-fra.asp]
ARTICLES
EScience in Practice: Lessons from the Cornell Web Lab
William Y. Arms et al
D-Lib Magazine, Volume 15, Number 5/6, May/June 2009
EScience is a popular topic in academic circles. A new form of scientific
enquiry is emerging in which fundamental advances are made by mining information
in digital formats, from datasets to digitized books. Arms et al describe
their experience in developing the Cornell Web Lab, a large-scale framework
for eScience based on the collections of the Internet Archive, and discuss
the lessons learned. The authors’ experience is summarized in seven
lessons: (1) build a laboratory, then a library (2) for sustainability,
keep the staff small (3) extract manageable sub-collections (4) look beyond
the academic community (5) expect researchers to understand computing, but
do not require them to be experts (6) seek for generalities, but beware
the illusion of uniformity (7) keep operations local for flexibility and
expertise.*
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may09/arms/05arms.html
Library Protesters to Ohio State University: Digital's OK, but
Save Our Books!
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13, 2009
About two dozen faculty members and students, clutching signs that read
“Don’t Gut the Library” and “Keep our books on campus,”
picketed the administration building at Ohio State University. The protesters
said they were upset over the removal of printed materials—275,000
books and other works—from the university’s libraries between
2005 and 2008. Another 55,000 items have been discarded in the past four
months, according to the picketers.*
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3768&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Elsevier published 6 fake journals
Bob Grant
The Scientist, May 7, 2009
Scientific publishing giant Elsevier put out six publications between 2000
and 2005 that were sponsored by unnamed pharmaceutical companies and that
looked like peer reviewed medical journals, without disclosing sponsorship,
the company has admitted. Elsevier is conducting an "internal review"
of its publishing practices since allegations emerged that the company produced
a pharmaceutical company-funded publication in the early 2000s without disclosure
of the "journal’s" corporate sponsorship.*
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55679/
[Note: Free registration required to view article.]
Le Japon à l'heure du savoir partagé
Le Devoir, 2 mai 2009
Le Japon imagine de nouvelles transmissions du savoir, gratuites, civiques,
ancrées dans la communauté. Ce «buzz» ne saurait
surprendre, à l'heure où l'archipel succombe à l'attrait
des jeux vidéo ludico-éducatifs, ou des open colleges, des
services de cours ouverts à tous mis en place par les universités
ou certains groupes des médias pour apprendre une langue, suivre
des leçons d'histoire ou s'adonner à une activité artistique.
Autant d'initiatives - et souvent de succès - qui illustrent une
soif de découverte qui a conduit les universités à
profiter du développement d'Internet pour multiplier les cursus à
suivre à distance et à tout âge.*
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Making the Case for an Institutional Repository to Your Provost
Berkeley Electronic Press, May 2009
Successful Institutional Repositories have campus-wide support that comes
from a committed top-level stakeholder. The provost’s office is critical
to opening doors for the library and the IR manager to promote the
repository, and to have others help market it. With provost support,
dean support and faculty uptake are likely to follow.*
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=ir_research
SPARC and ACRL release new SCOAP3 FAQ
April 28, 2009
A new set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from SPARC (the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College
and Research Libraries (ACRL) highlights key details about the SCOAP3 proposal
to change the dynamics of publishing in High-Energy Physics. The purpose
of the FAQ, prepared in consultation with SCOAP3 and members of SPARC and
ACRL, is to support U.S. libraries in evaluating their commitment to SCOAP3,
and to clarify for all libraries details of the proposal and how the new
business model is intended to work.*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/scoap3_09april.pdf
Usages des bibliothèques chez les étudiants de Bordeaux
3
Septembre-décembre 2008
Le Service commun de la documentation de l'Université de Bordeaux 3 a mis en ligne le rapport qui rassemble les principales conclusions issues de l'enquête menée de septembre à décembre 2008 auprès de ses étudiants. L’étude vise à apporter une meilleure connaissance des pratiques en vigueur dans les bibliothèques, en dressant un « état des lieux » des usages mais également des besoins et des attentes concernant les bibliothèques de l’université.* HTML
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Access 2009 Conference and Hackfest
Charlottetown, PEI, Oct 1 – 3, 2009
Access, Canada’s Premier Library Technology Conference, is
the place to learn about the latest in library technology. Library technologists
south of the border have recently discovered Access and consider it a “don't
miss event.” This event provides “fruitful and interesting
cross-fertilization between the latest developments in Canada and the U.S.,
as well as Europe and points more distant." The 2009 Hackfest takes
place September 30, 2009.*
http://vre.upei.ca/access2009/node/9
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
