Lost in the cloud

Library Resources and Technical Services

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 195-204

  Hazen, Dan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860195132     PISSN: 00242527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/lrts.55n4.195     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Research libraries make up an elusive category. The principles and criteria for membership in the Association of Research Libraries, which includes about 120 repositories in the United States and Canada, provide a working definition. See Association of Research Libraries, About ARL, Membership, Principles of Membership in the Association of Research Libraries, http://www.arl.org/arl/membership/qualprin.shtml (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
2. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1996).
3. Project Information Literacy: A Large-Scale Study about Early Adults and their Research Habits, www.projectinfolit.org (accessed Mar. 21, 2011) documents a massive and continuing effort at the University of Washington's Information School.
4. See also John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (New York: Basic Books, 2008).
5. Chris Anderson, "The Long Tail," Wired 12, no. 10 (Oct. 2004), www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html (accessed Mar. 21, 2011) provides a classic modern analysis of uneven distributions of demand and use across large sets, specifically suggesting that digital technologies can facilitate marketing and access that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive.
6. The literature on serials pricing issues is immense. An excellent, exhaustive starting point is Charles W. Bailey Jr., Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, vers. 79 (Dec. 13, 2010), www.digital-scholarship.org/ sepb/sepb.html (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
7. The extraordinary price increases announced by the Nature Publishing Group precipitated highly public exchanges with the University of California during the fall of 2010. See, for example, Jennifer Howard, "Nature Publishing Group Defends Its Price Increase for U. of California," Chronicle of Higher Education (June 9, 2010), http://chronicle.com/article/ Nature-Publishing-Group/65848 (accessed Feb. 15, 2011)
8. Laine Farley, Richard A. Schneider, and Brian E.C. Schottlaender, "Response from the University of California to the Public Statement from Nature Publishing Group Regarding Subscription Renewals at the California Digital Library," June 10, 2010, http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/ news/UC-Response-to-Nature-Publishing-Group.pdf (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
9. Glenn S. McGuigan and Robert D. Russell, "The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing," Electronic Journal of Academic & Special Librarianship 9, no. 3 (Winter 2008), http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v09n03/mcguigan-g01.html (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
10. The Italian aggregator Fabrizio Serra has become notorious for acquiring scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences whose prices then explode. See Claudio Giunta, "Quanto (ci) costa la cultura accademica," La rivista dei libri (Feb. 2010), www.claudiogiunta.it/wp- content/uploads/2010/02/quanto-ci-costa-leditoria-accademica-.pdf (accessed Mar. 21, 2011).
11. California Institute of Technology's co-pay approach to providing articles in journals to which CalTech does not subscribe is described in Caltech Library Services: How to Find a Journal Article, http://libguides.caltech.edu/ howtofindajournalarticle (accessed Feb. 15, 2011). The library also provides subscription access to many journals.
12. See also Stuart M. Shieber, "Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing," PLoS Biology 7, no. 8 (Aug. 2009): 1-3, http://www. plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000165 (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
13. Mark Ware and Michael Mabe, The STM Report: An Overview of Scientific and Scholarly Journal Publishing (Oxford, UK: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, Sept. 2009): 62, www.stm-assoc.org/news.php?id=255 (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
14. Cornell University Library, arXiv Support, http://arxiv.org/help/support/ (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
15. Many OA journals (some calculations put the number as high as 75 percent) charge no fees. Additional data compiled by Stuart Shieber and others suggest that OA charges, as applied by journals with Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factors, average around $1,100. PLoS One carries a fee of $1,350. See Stuart Shieber, "What Percentage of Open-Access Journals Charge Publications Fees?" online posting, May 29, 2009, The Occasional Pamphlet, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/05/29/ what-percentage-of-open-access-journals-charge-publication-fees (accessed Feb. 15, 2011)
16. and his "Is Open-Access Journal Publishing a Vanity Publishing Industry?" online posting, The Occasional Pamphlet, Oct. 16, 2009, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/10/16/is-open-access-publishing-a- vanity-publishing-industry (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
17. See also Raym Crow, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice (Washington, D.C.: Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, Sept., 2009), www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/incomemodels-v1.pdf (accessed Mar. 21, 2011).
18. The combined issue of Collection Management 35, no. 3/4 (2010) is devoted to patron-driven acquisitions.
19. Many conference sessions also have considered this topic, for example the 2010 Charleston Conference program, www.katina.info/conference/program.php (accessed Feb. 15, 2011) and the American Library Association's 2011 Midwinter Meeting.
20. Judy Luther, University Investment in the Library: What's the Return? A Case Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, White Paper no. 1 (San Diego, Calif.: Library Connect Editorial Office, Elsevier, 2008), http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/whitepapers/lcwp0101.pdf (accessed Feb. 15, 2011)
21. the follow-up by Carol Tenopir et al., University Investment in the Library, Part II: An International Study of the Library's Value to the Grants Process, White Paper (unnumbered) (San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier, 2010), http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/whitepapers/roi2/2010-06-whitepaper-roi2.pdf (accessed Mar. 21, 2011)
22. Other value metrics include those being developed at the California Digital Library and mentioned in Ivy Anderson, "Challenges to Licensing from Some Publishers," Jan. 27, 2011, www.cdlib.org/services/collections/ current/challenges.html (accessed March 21, 2011).
23. "Radical collaboration" is proclaimed in the joint statement of University Librarians Anne Kenney (Cornell University) and Jim Neal (Columbia University) on the 2CUL homepage, http://2cul.org, and explicated with additional detail throughout the site (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
24. See, for example, descriptions of foundation-supported, open-source systems and tools such as Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org)
25. and Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), (http://www.kuali.org/ole) (accessed Feb. 15, 2011).
26. See, for example, Robert H. Kieft and Lizanne Payne, "A Nation-Wide Planning Framework for Large-Scale Collaboration on Legacy Print Monograph Collections," Collaborative Librarianship 2, no. 4 (2010): 229-33, www.collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/article/view/119/77 (accessed Feb. 15, 2011)
27. and Constance Malpas, Cloud-Sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-Digitized Library Environment (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research, 2011)