Are we there yet? Online E-resources ten years after

Library Trends

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 671-693

  Okerson, Ann ^a  

^a University Library   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034350081     PISSN: 00242594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. 1 "Silicon Valley and Wall Street, like the press, usually heed the "three dogs barking" rule. Let one dog bark, another joins in, then another . . . ." So wrote Ken Auletta in "The Last Sure Thing," New Yorker, November 19, 1998, pp. 40-47. We have all become increasingly familiar with the barking dogs of the Internet, in the last year or two particularly. Companies never before heard of offer stock for sale and see prices soar (then swoop dizzyingly back down and up again), while companies whose names and services we have just gotten to know and rely on suddenly disappear in a cloud of smoke, bought up or sold down river in the frenzy of the marketplace. And every little while, the dogs start barking again for some new arrival on the scene. At times like these, it is easy to lose our bearings.
2. 2 The by-now classic study of the situation confronting academic research libraries at the turn of the 1990s is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Study (1992), University Libraries and Scholarly Communication, Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, November. This book can be found online at http://www.lib.Virginia.EDU/mellon/ mellon.html.
3. 3 For an in-depth study of the copyright issues affecting academic authors, see Report of the AAU Task Force on Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment submitted to the AAU Presidents Steering Committee on April 4, 1994, Washington, DC and endorsed by the AAU Presidents, April 18, 1994, Washington, DC. This report can be found online at http://www.arl.org/aau/IPTOC.html.
4. 4 New Horizons in Adult Education is an electronic journal established to describe and advance current research and ideas in its field. It is refereed and provides graduate students, faculty, researchers, and adult education practitioners with an outlet for current thinking. It can be found at http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/education/aednet.html.
5. 5 Psycoloquy is a refereed journal of peer commentary in psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. It publishes brief reports of new ideas on which the author wishes rapid peer feedback and reproduces the commentary (open peer review) along with the original paper. It can be found at http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/.
6. 6 PMC has enjoyed much visibility and staying power, now incorporating multimedia as part of its scholarly discourse. It has climbed upward in the prestige chain, moving from local ownership to Oxford University Press. Its current publisher is The Johns Hopkins University Press. To view the text-only issues for free, go to http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ pmc/contents.all.html. The full-featured articles are available through JHU's Project Muse, at http://muse.jhu.edu/ for a subscription charge.
7. 7 The site at http://www.iath.virginia.edu is well worth browsing.
8. 8 Bryn Mawr Classical Review http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr publishes extensive reviews of scholarly literature in the humanities. It was so successful that it spawned an offspring, the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, now called The Medieval Review, at http:// www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr/tmr.html.
9. 8 Bryn Mawr Classical Review http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr publishes extensive reviews of scholarly literature in the humanities. It was so successful that it spawned an offspring, the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, now called The Medieval Review, at http:// www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr/tmr.html.
10. th edited by Dru Mogge).
11. 10 The umbrella URL for numerous fields that contribute to this "e-print" archive are available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/. The site is a treasure trove of tens of thousands of articles plus numerous "helps" for contributors and background papers, usage data, and much more.
12. 11 See Ann Okerson. (Ed.). (1993). Scholarly publishing on the electronic networks; The new generation: Visions and opportunities in not-for-profit publishing (Proceedings of the Second Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. Then, Ann Okerson and Dru Mogge. (Eds.). (1994). Gateways, gatekeepers, and roles in the information omniverse (Proceedings of the Third Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. And, Ann Okerson. (Ed.). (1995). Filling the pipeline and paying the piper (Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
13. 11 See Ann Okerson. (Ed.). (1993). Scholarly publishing on the electronic networks; The new generation: Visions and opportunities in not-for-profit publishing (Proceedings of the Second Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. Then, Ann Okerson and Dru Mogge. (Eds.). (1994). Gateways, gatekeepers, and roles in the information omniverse (Proceedings of the Third Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. And, Ann Okerson. (Ed.). (1995). Filling the pipeline and paying the piper (Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
14. 11 See Ann Okerson. (Ed.). (1993). Scholarly publishing on the electronic networks; The new generation: Visions and opportunities in not-for-profit publishing (Proceedings of the Second Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. Then, Ann Okerson and Dru Mogge. (Eds.). (1994). Gateways, gatekeepers, and roles in the information omniverse (Proceedings of the Third Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. And, Ann Okerson. (Ed.). (1995). Filling the pipeline and paying the piper (Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
15. 12 Winner of the 1992 Database Product of the Year Award and the first electronic journal to be indexed in Index Medicus, the Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials offered peer-reviewed, primary medical research, reviews, meta-analyses, methodological papers, and editorials. Initially published by AAAS, it was sold to Chapman & Hall. It never achieved the hoped for submissions success and folded. The last record we are able to find of it is in a price list for 1996.
16. 13 The final and detailed report of the TULIP experiment is found in: Marthyn Borghuis. (1996). TULIP: Final Report. New York: Elsevier Science.
17. 14 The Library of Congress's Vatican exhibit remains online to this date. See it at http:// lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html with a preface by Librarian of Congress James Billington.
18. 15 See http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour. The archive has remained stable for several years at the UCSD site, with continuous improvement and upgrading - so far a genuine archive indeed. The dedicated and reliable librarian who deserves much credit for keeping NewJour ensconced at UCSD is James Jacobs. We depend as well on various volunteers for submissions (the most faithful one being Michael Möbius, head librarian of the Hochschulbibliothek der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf - University of Applied Sciences) and student labor for compiling the postings. The student mainstays have been the University of Pennsylvania's Kallan Resnick, Alex Edelman, James Renfro, and Vance Bell.
19. 16 Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure. (1995). (Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights). Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Full text is at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/ index.html.
20. 17 HighWire's publishers make earlier issues of their journals available for free. See the titles and access policies at http://highwire.stanford.edu/.
21. 18 Ann Okerson & James O'Donnell (Eds.). (1995). Scholarly journals at the crossroads: A subversive proposal for electronic publishing. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. The full text is also available online at http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/ toc.html.
22. 19 IDEAL is Academic Press's International Digital Electronic Access Library, with the full text of over 170 of its titles back to 1993. Recently, titles from W. B. Saunders and Churchill-Livingstone were added. Visit the site at http://www.idealibrary.com.
23. 20 The CONFU (Conference on Fair Use) site is located at http://www.uspto.gov/web/ offices/dcom/olia/confu/. There one may find various related documents, including the Final Report to the Commissioner on the Conclusion of the Conference on Fair Use (Nov 98).
24. 21 See the extensive Web site, LIBLICENSE, A Guide to Licensing Digital Resources, complete with unloadable software that generates licenses, at http://www.library.yale.edu/ ~llicense/index.shtml. At this site, one can join the liblicense-1 list and peruse all of its 1,500 message archive. See also the extensive description in Ann Okerson, "The Liblicense Project and How it Grows," D-Lib Magazine, September 1999, online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september99/okerson/09okerson.html.
25. 21 See the extensive Web site, LIBLICENSE, A Guide to Licensing Digital Resources, complete with unloadable software that generates licenses, at http://www.library.yale.edu/ ~llicense/index.shtml. At this site, one can join the liblicense-1 list and peruse all of its 1,500 message archive. See also the extensive description in Ann Okerson, "The Liblicense Project and How it Grows," D-Lib Magazine, September 1999, online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september99/okerson/09okerson.html.
26. 22 The Home Page of the ICOLC at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia identifies over 100 affiliate members of this almost virtual (i.e., informally organized) organization and reproduces its statements and guidelines in various important electronic content areas.
27. 23 SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, both is story and it tells a story. For information and press releases, see http://www.arl.org/sparc/.
28. 24 The Web site, with original proposal, comments, responses, etc., is titled An NIH-Operated Site for Electronic Distribution of Life Sciences Research Reports, located at http://www.nih.gov/welcome/director/pubmedcentral/pubmedcentral.htm.
29. 25 According to the press release, "PubScience, developed by DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), focuses on the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. This new PubSCIENCE service focuses on the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. Approximately 1,000 scientific and technical journals from over twenty participating publishers will initially be searchable from PubScience. It was modeled after the highly recognized PubMed, which covers medical sciences for the National Institutes of Health. Like PubMed, PubScience will continue to expand with the vision of becoming a huge resource of published information." The OSTI Web site is at http://www.osti.gov/resource.html.
30. 26 Who Should Own Scientific Papers, Science, September 4, 1998, can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/POLICYF.HTM. It reasons that authors of scientific papers, especially research funded by public monies, should retain their copyright ownership while licensing publishers. This frees authors to post their papers on any Web sites of their choice as well as to distribute the papers widely in the interests of scientific communications and learning.
31. 27 The proceedings of this widely discussed and debated conference are available at http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scholarsforum/proceedings.htm.
32. 28 See netLibrary.com's site, where one can currently view some 2,000+ books in the public domain (largely Project Gutenberg texts) and try out over 4,000 current academic imprints, available at www.netlibrary.com. Other e-book publishers are emerging such as Chris Pooley's "books 24X7" (for technical books) and the American Council of Learned Societies' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded effort to make approximately 600 key scholarly books available online with significant enhancements possible only in electronic form.
33. 29 In PEAK, libraries were given one of three pricing and packaging options, all of which made available additional content (beyond that subscribed to in print by the participating library) to readers. For a complete description of the project and players, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/peak/.
34. 30 For a comprehensive site with the Texaco ruling and commentary, see "American Geophysical Union versus Texaco, Inc." at ARL's http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/ texaco.html.