E-Lert # 332 / Cyberavis no. 332
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE l’ABRC
Representatives of the Library Community in Canada meet with Google Inc.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) participated in a meeting with Jacob Glick, Canada Policy Counsel, and Alexander Macgillivray, Senior Product and Intellectual Property Counsel, of Google Inc. on June 26, 2009. Mark Haslett, University Librarian, University of Waterloo, and Brent Roe, Executive Director, represented CARL. John Teskey, CLA President and Director of Libraries at the University of New Brunswick, and Kelly Moore, Executive Director, were present for the Canadian Library Association; Bethany Tory, Director of Operations, represented the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN); and Jefferson Gilbert, Executive Director, attended for the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC). The meeting provided the Google representatives an opportunity to give an overview of the Google Books Search and the settlement to some representatives of the library community, who were able to ask questions about the proposed settlement and what it might mean for Canadians and Canadian libraries if approved.
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Des représentants de la communauté des bibliothèques au Canada se réunissent avec Google Inc.
L'Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada(ABRC) a participé à une réunion avec Jacob Glick, Canada Policy Counsel, et Alexandre Macgillivray, Senior Product and Intellectual Property Counsel, de Google Inc. le 26 juin 2009. Mark Haslett, University Librarian, University of Waterloo, et Brent Roe, Directeur général, représentaient l’ABRC. John Teskey, Président de l’ACB et Director of Libraries de la University of New Brunswick, et Kelly Moore, Directrice générale, ont été présents pour l' Association canadienne des bibliothèques ; Bethany Tory, Directrice des opérations, a représenté le Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR) ; et Jefferson Gilbert, Directeur général, a été présent pour le Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada (CBUC). La réunion a fourni les représentants de Google Inc. une occasion de donner une vue d'ensemble de Google Books Search et du règlement à quelques représentants de la communauté des bibliothèques qui, de leur part, ont pu poser des questions par rapport au règlement proposé et ce que cela pourrait signifier pour les canadiens et les bibliothèques au Canada si il est approuvé.
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Digital revolution needs to speed up in Canada
David Crane
The Chronicle Herald, July 2, 2009
A new race is underway in the world today, which is to see which country — or
region in a country — can be the most advanced in the digital revolution.
As the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports
in a new study high-speed
broadband networks "serve as a communication and transaction platform
for the entire economy and can improve productivity across all sectors," and
so "are increasingly fundamental to economic and social development." According
to the latest OECD data, Canada is poorly served when it comes to the information
and communications technology revolution.*
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1130249.html
The Directory of Open Access Journals Receives SPARC Europe Award
for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2009
July 2, 2009
The Directory of Open Access Journals was presented with the 2009 SPARC
Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications at
the LIBER 38th Annual General Conference, held at the University of Toulouse
1 in France. Lars Björnshauge, Director of the Lund University Libraries
and head of the DOAJ, said the SPARC award “is a recognition of the
outstanding work of the DOAJ team at the Head Office of Lund University
Libraries and a much welcomed encouragement for the further operation and
development of services for the constantly increasing support for worldwide
free access to research results for the benefit of research. We are very
proud of receiving the award and we will do our outmost to continue to
support the open access movement in the future as we have done it in the
past.” *
http://www.sparceurope.org/news/the-directory-of-open-access-journals-receives-sparc-europe-award-for-outstanding-achievements-in-scholarly-communications-2009
Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Heather Morrison
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, June 30, 2009
The last quarter saw significant gains for Open Access; the number of
departmental policies in particular, doubled in the last few months from
6 to 13. There are now well over a hundred open access policies, and many
more in the works, such as the recently re-introduced U.S. Federal Research
Public Access Act (FRPAA). 253 journals have recently been added to the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).*
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/
Why universities need a digital content strategy - JDCC 2009
June 30 – July 1, 2009
A major conference to discuss the future of online content took place
to examine why UK universities need a sustainable, digital content strategy
to successfully deliver accessible learning and research materials for
the future. Over 200 delegates attended the Digital Content Conference
(JDCC), hosted by JISC. Sarah Porter, head of innovation at JISC said, “The
aim of the conference is to explore with colleges and universities the
next steps that need to be taken to integrate digital content into research
and education in a sustainable way. Digital content is key to their future
and we are not just talking about journals but unlocking our rich digital
heritage and making content far more accessible to a wider community.” *
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/06/jdcc.aspx
Tariff for photocopying set by Copyright Board of Canada
June 30, 2009
The Copyright Consortium of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada,
is reviewing the Copyright Board of Canada’s decision that establishes
the rate that must be paid to Access Copyright. The rate applies to schools
operated by school boards in all Canadian provinces and territories except
Quebec, and will permit schools to photocopy materials for which the copyright
is held by members of Access Copyright. “We are pleased to have a
decision on this important matter; however, we will need time to assess
the implications of this tariff on public education,” said Marilyn
More, Nova Scotia’s minister of education and chair of the CMEC Copyright
Consortium.*
http://www.cmec.ca/Press/2009/Pages/2009-06-30.aspx
NASA releases new extensive digital topographic map of Earth
Breaking News 24/7, June 30, 2009
NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, have released
a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than
ever before. The new global digital elevation model of Earth was created
from nearly 1.3 million individual stereo-pair images collected by Japan’s
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
instrument aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft. According to Mike Abrams,
ASTER science team leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California, the new topographic information will be of value
throughout the Earth sciences community. “ASTER’s accurate
topographic data will be used for engineering, energy exploration, conserving
natural resources, environmental management, public works design, firefighting,
recreation, geology and city planning, to name just a few areas,” Abrams
said.*
http://blog.taragana.com/n/nasa-releases-new-extensive-digital-topographic-map-of-earth-95350/
Is Ottawa still Silicon Valley North?
CBC News, June 29, 2009
Analysts consider the fate of the high-tech sector in the capital as Nortel
crumbles. In June, executives at Nortel Networks Corp., Ottawa's former
high-tech star, began selling the company off, piece by piece, after seeking
bankruptcy protection five months earlier. Under the circumstances, some
people were questioning whether the city still deserves its nickname.*
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/26/t-tech-silicon-valley-north-ottawa.html
Aux Etats-Unis, les journaux régionaux sont les plus menacés
par Internet
Xavier Ternisien
Le Monde, 29 juin 2009
Le Nieman Journalism Lab a été lancé en
octobre 2008 par la fondation du même nom, et déjà il
fait figure de référence chez les professionnels de la presse,
notamment à travers son site Internet. Installé dans une
petite maison en bois de style Nouvelle-Angleterre, sur le campus d'Harvard,
près de Boston (Massachusetts), il a pour vocation de réfléchir à ce
que seront l'avenir du journalisme et le nouveau business model des journaux.*
http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2009/06/29/aux-etats-unis-les-journaux-regionaux-sont-les-plus-menaces-par-internet_1213000_3236.html#ens_id=1204881
YouTomb: Obituaries for disputed videos
Adrian McCoy
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 28, 2009
Many YouTube videos are taken down for alleged copyright violations. Some
of them are leaving digital tracks in cyberspace, thanks to a group of
MIT students that has created YouTomb -
a kind of online burial ground for disputed YouTube content.*
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09179/979912-370.stm
CANARIE Strengthens its Board of Directors with Canadian Industry
and
Research Leaders at the Frontiers of Science, Technology and
Innovation
June 26, 2009
CANARIE, Canada's advanced research and innovation network, announced
the 2009-2010 Board of Directors - accomplished Canadian industry and university
executives who will advise the corporation as it develops a new strategic
plan. Drawing on 20 years of entrepreneurial leadership, Jim Roche, President & CEO
of Stratford Managers Corporation, will serve as Chair of the Board of
Directors. The CANARIE Board of Directors is composed of 12 leaders, with
equal representation from Canadian industry and academic or research institutions
(such as universities or government organizations). The 2009-2010 Board
of Directors was announced at CANARIE's 17th Annual General Meeting on
June 22, 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario.*
http://www.canarie.ca/press/releases/09_06_26.html
CIHR and SSHRC in discussions to transfer over health-related
research
RE$EARCH MONEY, Volume 23, Number 10, June 23, 2009
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are discussing whether SSHRC will transfer over or collaboratively support research that is primarily health-related. The discussions stem from last year's strategic review exercise requiring the granting councils to identify research endeavours peripheral to their core missions. The negotiations focus on research being conducted in the social determinants of health, the history of medicine and the health aspects of ethics — areas of research that account for about 2% of SSHRC’s budget.*
Open Access – What are the economic benefits? A comparison
of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark
John Houghton
Knowledge Exchange, June 23, 2009
Building on previous work, this study reviews the costs and potential benefits
of alternative open access models for scholarly publishing in the UK, Netherlands
and Denmark. Analysis focuses on comparing three alternative models for
scholarly publishing, namely subscription publishing, open access publishing
and self-archiving. Various members of the European commission and other
European bodies discussed this report in a seminar held on June 22,
2009. Some of the presentations at that event are available with the report
at
http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316.
Podcast: How Google Book Search Affects Academe
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 15, 2009
Google’s Book Search book-scanning project lays the foundation for
a universal, digitized library or creates a dangerous monopoly on information
depending on who you ask. Jennifer Howard of The Chronicle sat down with
Adam Smith, director of product management at Google, to discuss Book Search,
the proposed
settlement in the authors-and-publishers lawsuit against it, what it
means for researchers, and orphan works. Smith also addressed fears of
a Google monopoly.*
http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v55/i40/smith/
Major content metadata vocabularies to be mapped
June 15, 2009
Work has begun on an extensive and authoritative map of vocabularies from
major content metadata standards. The work is an expansion of the existing
RDA/ONIX Framework into a comprehensive vocabulary of resource relators
and categories, which will be a superset of those used in major standards
from publisher/producer, education and bibliographic/heritage communities.
The resulting tool will be known as the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF).
The new vocabulary is not intended as a replacement for any existing standards,
but as an aid to interoperability, whether automatic or human-mediated.*
http://www.doi.org/news/VMF_project_announcement_090615.pdf
Memorial wins award for Second Life shipyard
University Affairs, June 8, 2009
A marine engineering course featuring a virtual shipyard in the online
world of Second Life has won an award for excellence and innovation in
the use of learning technology by the Canadian
Network for Innovation in Education. Students were provided with space
on one of Memorial University's islands in Second Life to build the virtual
shipyard. They were able to meet online, walk through the shipyard to evaluate
its functionality, and correct any flaws they spotted in the design.*
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/memorials-second-life-shipyard.aspx
ARTICLES
Repérage d’Images Ordinaires : Analyse des Requêtes
des Chercheurs d’Images
Elaine Ménard
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and
Research, Volume 4, Number 1, 2009
Depuis quelques années, le web est devenu un média incontournable
pour la diffusion de ressources multilingues. Cependant, les différences
linguistiques constituent souvent un obstacle majeur aux échanges
de documents scientifiques, culturels, pédagogiques et commerciaux.
Les collections d’images numériques sont aussi nombreuses
que diversifies, et le besoin de repérer une image spécifique
dans diverses collections est devenu une préoccupation partagée
par plusieurs communautés. La croissance du web a mis en relief
le besoin pressant de se doter d’outils propres à la description
des images dans le but de faciliter leur repérage, puisque l’on
retrouve celles-ci dans la plupart des ressources disponibles.*
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/928
Unraveling Canadian copyright policy recycling strategy
Michael Geist
The Hill Times, June 29, 2009
The Conference Board of Canada garnered national headlines when it recalled three reports on intellectual property policy after acknowledging that the reports contained plagiarized content drawn from U.S. copyright lobby documents. The board admitted, in a follow-up report, that in addition to the plagiarism, there was undue reliance on feedback from a funder, the reports relied heavily on too few sources, and lacked balance. These further admissions are perhaps the more significant development since they provide a glimpse into the long-standing copyright policy recycling effort in Canada.*
And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Government
Information Online
Nicholas Thompson
Wired, June 18, 2009
“The Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest:
Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available
online, all in one place. For anyone to see. Are you searching for a Food
and Drug Administration report that used to be obtainable only through
the Freedom of Information Act? Just a mouseclick away. Need National Institutes
of Health studies and school testing scores? Click. Census data, nonclassified
Defense Department specs, obscure Securities and Exchange Commission files,
prison statistics? Click click. Click. Click.”
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/magazine/17-07/mf_cio
Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed
Laura Carscaddon & Colleen S. Harris
Library Journal, June 15, 2009
Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes
persists. There's hope yet for the savvy librarian; Twitter and FriendFeed
turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers
as a filter for the best, most credible information. As Clay Shirky (New
York University) remarked at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote in January, the problem
isn't “information overload. It's filter failure.” *
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6663770.html
Experimenting with the Trial of a Research Data Audit: Some Preliminary
Findings about Data Types, Access to Data and Factors for Long Term Preservation
Panayiota Polydoratou
Proceedings from ELPUB 2009, June 10 – 12
Developing systems and services to effectively manage, preserve, and provide
enduring access to research data is an area of increasing activity in UK
Higher Education. Polydoratou discusses some preliminary results from a
questionnaire survey, conducted as part of the trial implementation of
the Data Audit Framework Methodology at University College London (UCL).
Fifty seven (57) academic and research staff from 5 designated departments
and an interdisciplinary research centre provided information about the
nature of their research and the types of primary research data they produce.*
http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2009/
A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures
Johan Bollen et al
PloS ONE, Volume 4, Issue 6, June 2009
Traditionally , citation counts have been used to chart the impact of
scientific publications. In an effort to better capture scientific impact
in the digital era, a number of new impact measures are proposed on the
basis of social network analysis and usage log data. Bollen et al investigate
how these new measures relate to each other, and how accurately and completely
they express scientific impact.*
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006022
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Author Addenda, SPEC Kit 310
Karen Fischer
Association of Research Libraries, July 1, 2009
The Author Addenda, SPEC Kit 310, explores how ARL member libraries are
promoting researchers’ use of author addenda at their institutions.
Recent developments in scholarly communication have raised the issue of
author rights on academic campuses with increasing frequency. The National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, the expanding interest
in and use of institutional repositories, new publishing models, and the
growing number of universities mandating open access policies are all changing
the current research environment. It is important to manage copyright in
ways that serve author interests and those of the scholarly community.*
http://www.arl.org/news/pr/spec310-1july09.shtml
Google Book Search Bibliography
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Version 4: June 29, 2009
Select English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google
Book Search are presented in this resource. The bibliography focuses
on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social
issues associated with it. Links are provided to works that are freely
available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives
and institutional repositories.*
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
L'attraction des professeurs-chercheurs dans les universités
québécoises : un levier pour l'économie du savoir
Jacinthe Gagnon
Laboratoire d’étude sur les politiques publiques et la mondialisation,
juin 2009
Ce rapport propose d’examiner l’activité des établissements
d’enseignement supérieur québécois en matière
d’attraction de professeurs-chercheurs étrangers, de cerner
les défis à relever et de réfléchir aux solutions éventuelles
afin de faciliter l’intégration de ce personnel étranger
au système universitaire québécois.*
http://www.reperes.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/fr/index.php#5050
A Guide for the Perplexed Part II: The Amended Google-Michigan
Agreement
Jonathan Band
Association of Research Libraries, June 12, 2009
Google and the University of Michigan entered into an amendment,
on May 20, 2009, expanding the 2004 agreement that allowed Google to scan
books in the Michigan library for inclusion in Google’s search database.
The new agreement (the Amendment) addresses the provisions of the proposed
settlement agreement between Google and the plaintiffs in the Google Book
Search litigation.*
http://wo.ala.org/gbs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/google-michigan-amended.pdf
ICSTI 2009 Conference Managing Data for Science
Ottawa, Ontario, June 9 – 10, 2009
Sharing research data is essential for effective collaboration, but few
scientists, have the time or resources to ensure sustainable access to
data for joint projects, domain-specific applications, or re-use. The ICSTI
2009 conference was designed to examine how researchers, librarians and
publishers can work together to create the frameworks for managing, disseminating
and preserving scientific data. Videos and presentations from the proceedings
are available on the conference Web site.*
http://www.icsti2009.org/02-program-abs_e.shtml
Creating Catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world
Research Information Network, June 8, 2009
This report explains how bibliographic data are created and used from
publishers through a range of intermediaries (including libraries), to
the end users. In spite of pressure to make these data more freely available,
the various players in the process have their own motivations and business
models in the creation, modification, and re-use of bibliographic data,
many of which hinder efforts to open up this data. Creating Catalogues identifies
key issues in the process and aims to stimulate debate on possible ways
forward while eliminating wasteful duplication of effort and making the
data more freely available for re-purposing and innovation.*
http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Creating_catalogues_REPORT_June09.pdf
Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace
Susan d’Antoni and Catriona Savage (eds.)
UNESCO, 2009
The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement offers one solution to extend
the reach of education and to facilitate the expansion of learning
opportunities. It seeks to make educational content from institutions and
individuals all over the world available freely and openly online for use,
adaptation and reuse. Open sharing and collaboration offer real potential
for enhancing both teaching and learning. Education for All requires innovation
and there is no innovation without knowledge sharing. The background papers
and reports available in Open Educational Resources: Conversations
in Cyberspace provide an overview of the first steps of the OER movement, capture
the conversations between leaders of some of the first projects, and document
early debates on the issues that continue to challenge the movement.
http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Open_Educational_Resources:_Conversations_in_Cyberspace
Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide
Ann Green et al, May 15, 2009
This guide is intended to be used as a decision-making and planning tool
for institutions with digital repositories in existence or in development
that are considering adding research data to their digital collections.
It was also a public deliverable of the JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project
(2007-2009) which established institutional data repositories and related
services at the partner institutions: the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford
and Southampton. It is a distilled result of the experience of the partners,
together with Digital Life Cycle Research & Consulting, and also a
means of sharing experience and expertise with the wider community, as
more institutions expand their digital repository services into the realm
of research data to meet the demands of researchers who are themselves
facing increasing requirements of funders to make their data available
for continuing access.*
http://www.disc-uk.org/deliverables.html
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Canadian Science Policy Conference / Conférence sur le
Politiques Scientifiques Canadiennes
Toronto, Ontario, October 28-30, 2009 / 28-30 octobre 2009
This conference represents a measured first step towards building a robust
science policy network in Canada. Such a system will be critical for producing
the next generation of policy-makers who understand S&T issues, as
well as scientists who understand how to integrate their research into
a broader societal context for the benefit of all Canadians.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/
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Cette conférence représente un premier pas vers la création
d’un réseau canadien robuste se concentrant sur les politiques
scientifiques. Ce système est nécessaire pour produire la
prochaine génération de décideurs qui saisissent les
enjeux reliés aux sciences et technologies, ainsi que des scientifiques
qui comprennent comment intégrer leur recherche dans un contexte
social élargi pour le bénéfice de tous les Canadiens.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/fr/
EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
Denver, Colorado, November 3 – 6, 2009
These are challenging times when the need for uncommon thinking is unprecedented.
Participants at EDUCAUSE 2009 will be able to tap into an expansive pool
of the best thinking in higher education IT. This year’s conference
promises to deliver one of the richest, most member-driven programs ever,
keenly focused on providing the kind of tangible benefits attendees can
take back to campus and use all year long – for example: more perspectives
and insight with lightning rounds built into every track; more global viewpoints
and a 100% increase in sessions featuring international speakers; more
diversity of opinion: increased numbers of sessions spotlighting multiple
presenters; numerous networking opportunities; and increased focus on some
of the most complex issues in higher learning such as cloud computing;
emerging technologies; distributed, cooperative, and blended learning environments;
the latest on P2P regulations; green and sustainable IT; and much more.*
http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=399
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