E-Lert # 344 / Cyberavis no. 344

Friday September 25, 2009 / le vendredi 25 septembre 2009

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NEWS / NOUVELLES

Google Book Search Hearing to Be Postponed
Andrew Albanese
Publishers Weekly, September 22, 2009

The parties in the Google Book Search Settlement have asked the court to adjourn the scheduled October 7th fairness hearing, indicating that they intend to amend the deal. The court is expected to grant the motion. The parties reiterated their commitment to “rapidly advancing” discussions with the DOJ. The delay marks the second time the fairness hearing has been pushed back, the first time coming after lawyers for a group of authors led by Gail Steinbeck won a four month extension to the opt-out deadline.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6626695&articleid=CA6698299#379786

Google fait les yeux doux aux medias
Bruno Guglielminetti
Le Devoir, 21 septembre 2009

« Depuis longtemps, les éditeurs de journaux perçoivent Google comme un ennemi, un mal nécessaire qui cannibalise leur contenu et, au passage, vole leurs revenus publicitaires. Et pourtant, bon nombre de quotidiens doivent à Google une fière chandelle, car, jour après jour, le moteur de recherche redirige des millions d'internautes vers leurs pages. Google propose maintenant une nouvelle approche pour accéder à l'information produite par les médias traditionnels, le Fast Flip. »
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/09/21/267877.html

PMC Canada: Making Canadian health research accessible to all
September 16, 2009

Canadians will soon have access to the latest health research findings with the launch of PubMed Central Canada. Building on the successful PubMed Central archive developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PMC Canada will accelerate the creation of knowledge and facilitate its use by providing a freely accessible, Canadian archive of peer-reviewed health science literature. PMC Canada is the result of a three-way partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
http://www.cihr.ca/e/40259.html

Grâce au nouvel « outil de découverte » Encore plus facile de chercher dans les bibliothèques
16 septembre 2009

« Le vice-président à l’enseignement et à la recherche de l’Université du Québec, Pierre Lefrançois, et le vice-recteur aux études de premier cycle et au soutien académique de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), André Paradis, ont lancé officiellement aujourd’hui « l’outil de découverte », la nouvelle interface de recherche intégrée (http://decouverte.uquebec.ca) de huit bibliothèques des établissements du réseau. Le lancement a eu lieu à l’UQTR, en présence des directeurs des bibliothèques des établissements de l’Université du Québec et des membres du sous-comité des bibliothèques de la Conférence des recteurs et principaux des universités du Québec. Simple d’utilisation, le nouvel outil permet désormais d’accéder directement à la majorité des ressources bibliothécaires, qu’elles soient situées intra-muros ou dans des bases de données et portails d’éditeurs. »
http://www.newswire.ca/fr/releases/archive/September2009/16/c5994.html

What Traditional Academics Can Learn From a Futurist's University
Jeffrey R. Young
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14, 2009

For 9 weeks and $25,000, Singularity U. challenges some entrenched notions about learning and technology. Neil Jacobstein, chairman of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, during one of the first lectures at Singularity University said "We're going to be unapologetically interdisciplinary. That's not because it's fashionable, or because the faculty took a vote, but because nature has no departments." *
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Traditional-Scholars-Can/48369/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges
Zephyr Teachout
The Washington Post, September 13, 2009

Students beginning post-secondary studies this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be shaken up by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. Although a cultural shift will be required before employers greet online degrees without skepticism, all the elements are in place for that shift. Major universities already offer courses online.*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091104312.html

LIBER statement on the Google Book US Settlement Agreement
September 7, 2009

LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche / Association of European Research Libraries) submitted a statement for the European Commission’s hearing on the Google Book US Settlement. LIBER is the principal organization representing research libraries in Europe. Its current membership includes almost 400 national and university libraries in more than 40 countries. *
http://www.libereurope.eu/node/415

ARTICLES

Striking the Balance: Submission to the Copyright Consultations
Canadian Federation of Students, September 2009

As creators and owners of copyright material - essays, articles, theses, and multimedia productions - students should be able to protect their work from unjust appropriation. But studying, researching, writing, and creating new knowledge all require ready access, at a reasonable cost, to the copyrighted works of others.*
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19656127/Canadian-Federation-of-Students-CopyCon-submission-with-bonus-Creative-Commons-license

Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)
Gail Steinhart and Dianne Dietrich
D-Lib Magazine, Volume 15 Number 9/10, September/October 2009

DataStaR is a data staging repository in development at Cornell University. A data staging repository presents unique opportunities to recruit data into domain and institutional data repositories. As a transitory curation environment, however, it demands careful consideration of the role of such a repository in the full life cycle of research data. Steinhart and Dietrich describe their experience applying the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification Criteria and Checklist as a framework for specifying system, policy, and documentation requirements to ensure that DataStaR is an effective partner in the entire chain of preservation activities.*
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september09/steinhart/09steinhart.html

The information professional's profile: an analysis of Brazilian job vacancies on the Internet
Information Research, 14(3) paper 407, 2009
Miriam Vieira da Cunha

The author reports on a study to discover and describe job vacancies for information professionals available online at specific sites and discussion lists between January 2005 and February 2008. Results are compared with national and international studies on the profiles and skills of information professionals, and show that expansion in Brazil in the field of information and its professionals is still slow. The profile for a typical information professional from the job advertisements analyzed is for a librarian, with a degree in library and information studies, to perform technical and management functions in a private institution in the city of São Paulo.
http://informationr.net/ir/14-3/paper407.html

Canadian Copyright’s Just Three Things
Giuseppina D’Agostino
IP OSGOODE, September 14, 2009

D’Agostino discusses three things in Canada’s copyright consultation process that she deems necessary to help position Canada as a global leader in copyright policy - namely, the need to consider (1) process in copyright reform (2) copyright within IP (and other areas of law); and (3) substance in simplicity. By focusing on just these matters, Canada will be taking a major step towards being a more innovative, competitive and creative country.*
http://www.iposgoode.ca/2009/09/canadian-copyrights-just-three-things/

Ghostwriters Haunt the Integrity of Medical Journals: Company-sponsored contributors enhance, without disclosure, university researchers' papers
Paul Basken
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14, 2009

Instances of ghostwriting, in which drug companies help researchers write articles that appear in medical journals, are drawing sharp scrutiny. The practice raises the issue of hidden bias in published papers favoring the effects of a company's drugs. A study recently presented at a major conference on medical publishing found that in The New England Journal of Medicine, at least 11 percent of the articles had been ghostwritten. Another study tracked attempts in the late 1990s by Parke-Davis, now a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., to get articles published concerning one of its medications.*
http://chronicle.com/article/Ghosts-Haunt-the-Integrity-of/48365/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Medical Journals See a Cost to Fighting Industry-Backed Research
Paul Basken
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 13, 2009

"Major medical journals face an inherent conflict of interest" when trying to ensure the integrity of their published findings said Dr. Benjamin Djulbegovic, professor of medicine and oncology at the University of South Florida, at the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. A study concluded that The Journal of the American Medical Association saw a 21 percent drop in industry-financed research after it began requiring that data in company-sponsored medical trials be independently verified by university researchers.
http://chronicle.com/article/Medical-Journals-See-Cost-in/48393/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Is It a Library? A Student Center? The Athenaeum Opens at Goucher College
Scott Carlson
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14, 2009

Today's academic-library buildings, more than any other places on campus, increasingly need to be all things to all people - places where social and intellectual pursuits intersect, serving the community and the individual at once. The Athenaeum might be one of the most unusual library-building projects in recent years. Administrators hope it will invigorate the campus as a social and academic hub.*
http://chronicle.com/article/Is-It-a-Library-A-Student/48360/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Expanding the Library—or Redefining It?
Barbara Fister
Library Journal, September 17, 2009

Fister is unequivocally in favour of allowing students to eat in libraries, and all for comfortable furniture and areas where students can be noisy and social, high-tech multimedia spaces and equipment, quiet study areas, and access to “books that can inspire contemplation as well as research.” She also has some caveats with the type of facilities proposed for the Goucher College Athenaeum.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6697478.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=490036441

The Top Ten Things Library Administrators Should Know About Technology
Roy Tennant
TechEssence.info, September 12, 2009

A particular set of skills is needed to run an organization, and those skills do not often come packaged along with technical knowledge and experience. But administrators need to know some specific things about technology in order to do their jobs well. Tennant offers a list: “technology isn't as hard as you think it is; technology gets easier all the time; technology gets cheaper all the time; maximize the effectiveness of your most costly technology investment - your people; a major part of good technology implementation is good project management;” and more.*
http://techessence.info/topten

Making Canada a leader in the global knowledge economy: Scientific, business communities must work with international counterparts
David Emerson
The Vancouver Sun, September 9, 2009

As Canadians emerge from recession and compete for wealth-creating opportunities in the evolving global economy, a large part of their success will depend on how they perform in science, research and innovation. However, even the most productive enclaves of researchers and innovators will not by themselves translate into prosperity for the vast majority of tomorrow's job seekers. Building a powerful Canadian knowledge economy will require an extraordinary capacity to convert science into commercially successful products, services and businesses.* http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Making+Canada+leader+global+knowledge+economy/1974562/story.html

RESOURCES / RESSOURCES

Institutional Identifiers in Repositories: A Survey Report for the NISO I2 Workgroup
Michael Giarlo, September 11, 2009

Standardized institutional identifiers are increasing in importance in the repository community. The ways in which repository content is shared corroborate that view. A clear majority of repositories include identifiers for the repository itself and many include institutional identifiers. Many of these identifiers are not used in other usage contexts - e.g. Inter-Library Loan, electronic resource management systems, etc. Nevertheless, there is some agreement that it would be important for a single identifier to be used for all organizational purposes.*
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=2773

PostRank

PostRank is a social media analytics service that measures "social engagement" with online content by means of a proprietary ranking algorithm. The engagement metrics can be used to rank online content, like blogs and news sites. Publishers and content creators can determine where and how their audiences are reading, organizing, and sharing their posts.*
http://www.postrank.com/

1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Lund, Sweden, September 14-16, 2009

Many leading figures within the open access publishing movement gave talks highlighting important issues related to open access, and led a number of workshops. Webcasts of most COASP sessions are available at http://www.river-valley.tv/.

EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development
Banff, Alberta, October 12-16, 2009

Canadian innovators will showcase promising research supported by CANARIE, Canada's advanced research and innovation network. With critical funding from CANARIE, these scientists are developing new tools that exploit the power and potential of advanced networks, enabling researchers to analyze large amounts of data, collaborate more effectively and apply results in innovative ways.
http://www.summit09.ca/

Live-in for Literacy (LIL)
Discovering the Reality of Educating All Minds (DREAM)
January 23 to January 30, 2010

The DREAM (Discover the Reality of Educating All Minds) team is working with Room to Read Canada to raise funds for literacy projects in developing countries. Launched by students at Queen's in 2005, Live-in for Literacy has expanded to additional university libraries each year. UBC, Concordia, McMaster, Memorial, Queen's and the University of Toronto participated in 2009. The DREAM team plans to continue expanding this initiative across Canada, and is looking for more academic libraries to participate in 2010.*
http://www.liveinforliteracy.com/

*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source