E-Lert # 359 / Cyberavis no. 359
Wednesday January 15, 2010 / le mercredi 15 janvier
2010
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
FGM 2009 Program presentationsSpeakers’ presentation slides for the November 12, 2009, CARL program
entitled Where Libraries and Research Data Intersect are available
on the CARL website.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/horaire/2009/fgm2009_presentations-e.html
/
Présentations du programme à l’Assemblée générale d’automne du 2009
Les fichiers PowerPoint des conférenciers qui ont présenté
au programme de l’ABRC intitulé Où les bibliothèques
et les données de recherche se croisent le 12 novembre 2009
sont disponibles sur le site web de l’ABRC.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/horaire/2009/fgm2009_presentations-f.html
NEWS / NOUVELLES
ALA, ACRL Say All Federal Agencies Should Follow Mandatory Public
Access PoliciesNorman Oder
Library Journal, January 14, 2010
Responding to a call
for comments on public access to federally funded research, the American
Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries
(ACRL) have asked
the federal Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to support
a mandatory policy for all agencies, with a short embargo period. Many others
are submitting comments on the OSTP
blog. ALA and ACRL says that the National Institutes of Health’s
(NIH) Public Access Policy, "as enacted, provides a tremendous public
benefit and accelerates the advancement and practical application of, and
access to, knowledge."
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6714741.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=17475791
«Google» élu mot de la décennie
Cyberpresse, 14 janvier 2010
« L'American Dialect Society (ADS) a élu le mot «tweet»
(nom commun, court message envoyé par le service Twitter.com; et
verbe, l'acte d'envoyer des messages de ce type) mot de l'année 2009.
Le 9 janvier, la société linguistique a également couronné
le verbe anglais «to google»
(un terme générique qui signifie «chercher sur internet»)
mot de la décennie. »
http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/201001/14/01-939093-google-elu-mot-de-la-decennie.php
France Offers Google Its Books in Exchange for Tax
Eric Pfanner
The New York Times, January 14, 2010
As France drags its cultural past and present into the digital future,
it is becoming more receptive to the notion that the job requires support
from a company the French often view with deep suspicion: Google. The government
in recent days has proposed a new carrot and stick approach to secure the
company’s contribution. On the one hand, it suggests Google pick up
part of the tab to aid the beleaguered music industry. On the other, it
proposes a partnership with Google to accelerate the development of a viable
French digital library.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/technology/companies/15frenchtax.html
L'avenir incertain de Google en Chine
Brice Pedroletti
Le Monde, 14 janvier 2010
« En signe de deuil, des fleurs et des bougies ont été
déposées, mercredi 13 janvier au soir, au pied du logo de
Google à l'entrée de son siège chinois à Pékin.
La compagnie américaine menace en effet de quitter la Chine à
la suite d'actions répétées de piratage contre les
comptes de messagerie d'usagers chinois impliqués dans la défense
des droits de l'homme. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2010/01/14/l-avenir-incertain-de-google-en-chine_1291632_3216.html#ens_id=1290946
China Unlikely To Budge Despite Google's Threat
Jennifer LeClaire
Newsfactor.com, January 14, 2010
A Chinese official has affirmed the nation's censorship goals despite Google's
threat to pull out of the country. Minister Wang Chen wrote on an official
Chinese web site that controlling information ensures national security.
Dropping 30 percent of China's search market could hurt Google, but it might
return in a different business form.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=03200001CRGG
Report Finds Common Ground in Efforts to Balance Public Access,
Scholarly Publishing
January 13, 2010
A group
of representatives from university administration, libraries,
information science departments, and the publishing industry have collectively
released a
report with recommendations on open access, specifically the
public availability of peer-reviewed journal articles containing data and
findings from federally-funded research. The report’s
recommendations, endorsed by a majority of the 14 members of the group,
called the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, seek to “balance the need
for increased access to scholarly articles with the need to preserve the
essential functions of the scholarly publishing enterprise.”*
http://science.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=2712
University of Waterloo welcomes site purchase for top digital media
institute
EXCHANGE, January 13, 2010
The University of Waterloo welcomed news that the City of Stratford has
finalized acquisition of downtown property that will become the home of
the university's Stratford campus and the Stratford Institute for digital
media. The digital media campus is a founding hub of the new Canadian Digital
Media Network.*
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2010/week2/Wednesday/121310.htm
Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach
Barbara Ortutay et al
Associated Press, January 13, 2010
Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may even pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders. The change of heart heralds a major shift for the Internet search leader, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws requiring some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results available in other countries.* HTML
ARL Partners in Grant to Study Value of Academic Libraries
January 12, 2010
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a
research grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in collaboration
with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Libraries and
the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The research team will study
the value of academic libraries to students, faculty, policymakers, funders,
and others. The three-year grant, entitled "Value, Outcomes, and Return
on Investment of Academic Libraries (Lib-Value)," will work to enrich,
expand, test, and implement methodologies measuring the return on investment
(ROI) in academic libraries.*
http://www.arl.org/news/pr/ROI-grant-12jan10.shtml
Innovative new web interface improves access to UK’s largest
free online life sciences resource
January 12, 2010
UK PubMed Central Provides researchers access to over 1.7 million full-text,
peer reviewed biomedical research articles and over 19 million other life
science research papers. On January 12, the British Library showcased a
whole range of new search and data mining tools designed to unlock the scientific
knowledge held by UK PubMed Central. Developed in direct consultation with
researchers, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) aims to become the information resource
of choice for the UK biomedical and health research community. The Open
Beta version of UKPMC will enable researchers to search and link to information
from the research literature and access underlying datasets in new and innovative
ways. *
http://www.bl.uk/news/2010/pressrelease20100111.html
Google a présenté ses excuses aux écrivains
chinois pour avoir illégalement numérisé des livres
protégés par des droits d'auteur
Jérôme G.
GNT Media, 11 janvier 2010
« Au mois
de novembre 2009, deux associations d'écrivains chinois avaient
accusé Google de violation de droits d'auteur en faisant entrer dans
sa bibliothèque numérique et sans accord préalable
plusieurs ouvrages. Selon une information de Xinhua,
l'Association des Écrivains de Chine a reçu samedi les excuses
de Google. »
http://www.generation-nt.com/google-chine-droits-auteur-excuses-numerisation-actualite-940341.html
Google Apologizes to Chinese Authors Over Scanning
Mark Lee
Business Week, January 11, 2010
Google Inc., responding to complaints from a Chinese writers’ group
about the scanning of books for the company’s online library, has
apologized to authors for a lack of communication. The U.S. Internet operator
said it will “respect the wishes of any Chinese author who hasn’t
authorized their books to be scanned,” in a January 9 letter to the
China Writers Association. The letter was sent by Erik Hartmann, chief of
Google Books in Asia.*
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-11/google-agrees-to-stop-scanning-uploading-china-authors-books.html
Diane Koen Interim Director of Libraries at McGill University
December 23, 2009
Diane Koen, Associate Director, Planning and Resources of the McGill University
Libraries, will serve as Interim Director of Libraries beginning February
1, 2010. Ms. Koen will serve as Director following the departure of
Trenholme Director of Libraries Janine Schmidt, who will be stepping down
on January 31, 2010. Ms. Koen has served McGill since 2003, when she joined
the Libraries as Associate Director, Information Technology Systems, implementing
technological improvements and re-positioning the strategic IT directions.
Prior to joining McGill, she worked for Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer)
in New York as Vice President, Global Sales. She also held positions
with Ovid Technologies in London, England and Sydney, Australia.
ARTICLES
Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too?Rebecca MacKinnon
The Guardian, January 13, 2010
Google's stand
against Chinese censorship and surveillance will be rightly lauded by
defenders of human rights. When it comes to upholding Google's vow
not to "do evil" by its users, however, China is by no
means the company's only headache. The Chinese are not the only ones putting
pressure on Google in ways that are arguably detrimental to freedom of expression,
even when intentions are honorable. A growing number of democratically elected
governments espouse an attitude that internet companies should act as "net
nannies" for their citizens.*
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jan/13/google-china-western-internet-freedom
Egyptian library merges modern technology with ancient relics
George Webster
CNN, January 12, 2010
The new director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Ismail Serageldin, former
World Bank vice-president and author of over 50 books on a variety of topics
including biotechnology, rural development and sustainability, has
become the first person in over 1,600 years to be officially named "Librarian
of Alexandria." Despite the library's commemorative reference to the
past and the antiquated grandeur of Serageldin's title, Alexandria's library
is unmistakably modern.*
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/12/ismail.serageldin.bibliotheca.alexandrina/
Programming skills could transform librarians' roles
David Stuart
Research Information, December 2009 / January 2010
Recent ICT innovations have led to the reappraisal of our understanding
of library and information services. The traditional vision of the library
as a provider of physical documents has been superseded by the library as
a provider of access to information – virtual and physical. However,
until now the focus has still primarily been on the concept of the document.
If librarians are going to continue being relevant in the age of Google
and Google Scholar, they need to move beyond the document and facilitate
access to the increasing amounts of data that is being made available on
the web. To do this effectively, librarians need to develop their programming
skills.
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=245
The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion
John Tierney
The New York Times, January 11, 2010
When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs? In the
1990s, Jaron
Lanier was one of the digital pioneers hailing the great possibilities
that would be realized once the Internet allowed musicians, artists, scientists
and engineers around the world to instantly share their work. Now, like
many, he is having second thoughts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12tier.html?hpw
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
January 2010
In the January newsletter: Memento: Time Travel for the Web
- The Memento framework leverages existing capabilities and protocols
of the web and applies them in a novel way to add a time-based dimension
to searching and browsing. / Library of Congress Featured
in Voice of America Video - A recent video from the Voice
of America draws attention to the expanding role of digital materials at
the Library of Congress. / Digital Preservation Pioneer: Martin
Halbert - Martin Halbert, dean of libraries at the University
of North Texas, has first-hand knowledge that institutional collaboration
is essential for digital preservation.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201001.pdf
Get ready for China's domination of science
Jonathan Adams
New Scientist, January 6, 2009
China has transformed from a poor developing country to the second-largest
economy in the world, and has also emerged from isolation to become a political
superpower. Its meteoric rise has been one of the most important global
changes of recent years; the rise of China was the most-read news story
of the decade, surpassing even 9/11 and the Iraq war. Yet when it comes
to science and technology, however, many still think of China as being stuck
in the past and visualize a country with massive steelworks and vast smoking
factories. Nevertheless, China has become the world's second-largest producer
of scientific knowledge, surpassed only by the US, a status it has achieved
at an awe-inspiring rate.*
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527426.900-get-ready-for-chinas-domination-of-science.html
A view on Europeana from the US perspective
Ricky Erway
Liber Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 2, December 2009
At the express request of the organizers of the second LIBER/EBLIDA workshop
on digitization, Ricky Erway of OCLC provided an outsider’s view on
the Europeana digital library project. Erway considers Europeana from several
vantage points: mandate and funding; branding and public relations; learning
from others; aggregation; cooperation; content; rights; metadata; technology;
access; user feedback; and sustainability – offering valuable advice
for the Europeana community.*
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000472/article.pdf
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing RoundtableScholarly Publishing Roundtable, January 2010
“In June 2009, the Committee on Science and Technology of the United
States House of Representatives, in coordination with the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), convened a Scholarly Publishing
Roundtable to examine the current state of scholarly publishing and develop
consensus recommendations for expanding public access to the journal articles
arising from research funded by agencies of the United States government.
The Committee convened a diverse set of Roundtable participants drawn from
the key stakeholders in this debate, and asked them to develop a consensus
regarding access to and preservation of the results of federally funded
research that addresses the needs of all parties. The Roundtable’s
recommendations seek to balance the need for and potential of increased
access to scholarly
articles with the need to preserve the essential functions of the scholarly
publishing enterprise.”
http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Reports/Additional%20Reports/Scholarly_Publishing_Roundtable_Report_and_Recommendations_1.13.10.pdf
Institutional Repository Bibliography
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Digital Scholarship, Version 2, January 11, 2010
The Institutional Repository Bibliography (IRB) presents select English-language
articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources
that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. (See the scope
note for further details.) While most sources have been published between
2000 and the present, a number of key texts published prior to 2000 are
also included. Links are provided, where possible, to e-prints in disciplinary
archives and institutional repositories for published articles.*
http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html
The Mobile Internet Report
Morgan Stanley Research, December 15, 2009
With a new computing cycle unfolding, roughly once a decade, the number
of devices and users rises by a factor of ten. From mainframe to minicomputer,
PC, desktop Internet, and now the mobile Internet, an ever increasing number
of people benefit from faster processing power, better user interfaces,
smaller form factors, lower prices, and expanded services. The winners in
each new innovation cycle, in turn, create more market capitalization than
the winners of the last cycle. Although the world has seen such transformations
before, some things seem different with the mobile Internet: It’s
ramping up faster (based on user growth) than other cycles; it's bigger
(based on user opportunity); it's global, and every region contributes something
to the party based on its mobile connectivity wants / needs / income levels;
and a host of relatively young, but seasoned, world-class technology veterans
have key seats at the table - they are engaged and they each have something
to prove.
http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/mobile_internet_report.pdf
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Research Data Access and Preservation SummitPhoenix, Arizona, April 9-10, 2010
Researchers in all fields generate, collect and analyze enormous quantities of digital data. In fields ranging throughout the sciences and humanities, managing, preserving, and sharing these data require substantial capital and human resources and new kinds of information professionals who are able to integrate technology, content, and policy skills. This summit aims to bring together leaders in data centers, laboratories, and libraries in different organizational and disciplinary settings to share ideas and techniques for managing, preserving, and sharing large-scale research data repositories with an eye toward achieving access and stewardship.
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/IA10/ResearchDataAccessSummit2010.html
BCNET / CANARIE 2010 Conference
Vancouver, British Columbia, May 4-5, 2010
BCNET has teamed up with CANARIE to organize this national event, which
will focus on actionable ideas to enhance teaching, learning, research and
IT services. The conference will explore emerging issues in advanced information
and communications technology in such areas as: cloud computing; collaboration
technologies; shared ICT solutions for campuses such as data centres for
research computing and identity management tools; research enabled by cyberinfrastructure;
network research and planning; more than 400 higher education delegates
including researchers, IT professionals, and students are expected to attend.*
http://bc.net/2010-conference/
What It Takes To Make It Last: E-Resources Preservation
February 10, 2010
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Thirty years into the Digital Revolution, information professionals still
grapple with how best to preserve electronic content. Whether born digitally
or the electronic version of analog content, information seekrs rely more
and more electronic resources, and their long-term usability must be ensured.
This webinar will provide an overview of current digital preservation standards
as well as a closer look at the PREMIS standard for preservation metadata.
Attendees will also hear about the work HathiTrust has undertaken to build
and preserve a comprehensive and cooperative digital library.*
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2010/preservation/
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