http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in the journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the “common Stock of Knowledge.”
source: SPARC-OAF forum
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In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-2jn), recorded May 10, CNI Associate Director Joan Lippincott discusses mobile technologies, including a brief description of the executive roundtable that took place at CNI’s Spring 2012 Membership Meeting. CNI Director Clifford Lynch reports on a workshop on the future of the Web.
source: CNI announcce
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/research/phd-student-research/museological-review
Publisher: School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Museological Review (MR) is a peer-reviewed journal edited by the Students of the School of Museum Studies.
It aims to:
* To enable museum studies students and other interested parties to share and exchange museum information and knowledge.
* To provide an international medium for museology students from around the world to keep in touch with a relevant centre of research.
* To bring innovations and new thinking on museums and related matters to the attention of the practising and academic museum world.
ISSN 1354-5825
The Editors,
Museological Review,
School of Museum Studies,
University of Leicester,
Museum Studies Building
Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
Email: museological.review@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: Arts and Architecture
Museological Review is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.
www.PrimaryResearch.com
This report studies the retention practices of over 60 North American colleges and universities, exploring the most critical factors to retention success as cited by the survey participants. The comprehensive data in the report covers a wide array of trends essential to any administration’s assessment of its own retention policies, including detailed retention rates for first-year and part-time students, institutional spending on consultants and conferences, overall tutoring efforts, and the perceived impact of various student services on retention success. How does the current economic climate affect financial aid and tuition, and how do these, in turn, affect student retention? What role do exit interviews play? Academic advising and counseling services? Childcare services? Peer mentoring?
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The study looks closely at the priorities and purchasing plans of academic librarians that specialize in political science and public and international affairs, examining their use of books, journals, databases and much more, such as the number of inquiries received from patrons for specific works, and the role of the library liaison for political science and international/government affairs.
Just a few of the report’s many findings were that:
- 79.41% of libraries in this survey have a specific budgetary allocation for political science and/or related subjects including government and public affairs.
- More than 27% of libraries in the sample have an endowment, grant or other special allocation that falls outside of the normal library budget that supplements purchases in political science.
- Librarians surveyed believe that the price of print books in political science and related subject areas for libraries in the sample has increased by a mean of 8.98% over the last year.
- Research universities will spend a mean of $16,953 on political science books, while MA and PHD granting institutions will spend a mean of just $2,550.
- Libraries in the sample had a mean of 50.56 distinct subscriptions to journals that charge a subscription fee in 2010 and a mean of 53 subscriptions in 2011, some with as few as 6, others with as many as 170. The number of journal subscriptions of this kind is expected to fall to a mean of 42.56 in 2012.
- Nearly 30% of the libraries surveyed have plans to decrease spending for comparative politics, including 75% of MA and PHD granting institutions and 33.33% of community and 4-year colleges.
- Among libraries in the sample, open access journals account for about 12.46% of total journal use in political science.
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This report is based on a survey of thirty five library subject specialists in economics and finance, predominantly from research universities, including Princeton, Georgetown, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon and the Library of Congress. The study gives detailed data on budgets and spending patterns of subject specialists in economics and finance, including information on usage of eBooks, traditional books, databases and scholarly journals. The study also reports on collection development plans in a broad range of subject areas including energy economics, agricultural economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, accounting, portfolio management, international financial regulation, econometrics, mathematical methods, economic area studies in Asia, Europe and North and South America (each region reported on separately), and many other subject areas.
The study reports on the financial support received from libraries from departments of economics and finance, as well as direct measures of grant and endowment support for economics and finance collections. Among other issues discussed are: the impact of blogs, collection spending growth in economics/finance vs other areas, relations with patrons, collection development decision making, monitoring of scholarly references, relations with faculty, information literacy efforts, and breakdowns of how economics/finance subject specialists spend their work time, among other issues.
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The legendary writer’s reporting from the Toronto Star archives, featuring historical annotations by William McGeary, a former editor who researched Hemingway’s columns extensively for the newspaper, along with new insight and analysis from the Star’s team of Hemingway experts.
source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/newsroom/lectures
Audio of Cliff Lynch’s talk Memory Organizations & Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century is now available from http://www.lis.illinois.edu/newsroom/lectures.
The talk was presented as part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GSLIS Windsor Lecture Series. The Windsor Lecture honors the career of Dr. Phineas L. Windsor, who served as director of the University of Illinois Library and the Library School from 1909 to 1940.
http://www.liebertpub.com/biores
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
BioResearch Open Access, a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal, provides a new rapid-publication forum for a broad range of scientific topics including but not limited to molecular and cellular biology, tissue engineering and biomaterials, regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy, systems biology, genetics, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and neuroscience.
The Journal publishes basic science and translational research in the form of original research articles, comprehensive review articles, mini-reviews, rapid communications, brief reports, technology reports, hypothesis articles, perspectives, and letters to the editor.
Editor:
Jane Taylor, PhD, Senior Research Fellow MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine University of Edinburgh
http://www.esjournals.org/
Publisher: IRPN Publishers
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research (IJICT) is an International refereed research publishing journal with a focused aim of promoting and publishing original high quality research dealing with theoretical and scientific aspects in all disciplines of Information Technology.
Email: editor at esjournals.org
Subject: Technology and Engineering
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.