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Information Outlook Columns 
(unknown author) via Stephen's Lighthouse on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
I'm way behind on catching up with posting my Information Outlook columns. I'm connected in Brussels airport on the way home from India so I might as well try to catch up now!
July's column (Right after the Seattle conference):
Technology and Value at SLA
September's column:
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New York Times Op-Ed: How to Publish Without Perishing
Sabrina via beSpacific on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
How to Publish Without Perishing, by James Gleick: "As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to...
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E-books mean more than just digital text
Paul Biba via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Ho on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
We most often think of e-books as digitized text coupled with a convenient reading medium. But there is a lot more to e-books than that if you use your imagination. Here’s an excerpt of a story from the Australian paper The Age.
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Videos on complying with NIH policy
Gavin Baker via Open Access News on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has posted two videos on complying with its Public Access Policy: one on depositing the final peer-reviewed manuscript in PubMedCentral and one on approving submission of a publisher-deposited manuscript. (Thanks to
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OCLC Use Policy Details: Use and Transparency
Karen Coyle via Coyle's InFormation on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
An interesting aspect of this policy is that it is entirely about the use of WorldCat records. That may seem obvious from its title, but what I am interpreting from the policy language is that the policy covers all WorldCat records currently in existence, regardless of when they were created or the policy in force at the time that were first
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Leading STM publishers win copyright infringement suit against international digital pirates
(unknown author) via Knowledgespeak.com on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
STM publishers Elsevier and Thieme Publishers have announced that they have secured a significant victory against an international piracy scheme involving illegal copying, sale, and distribution of their scientific journals. In September 2007, the publishers became aware that an unknown person had sent unsolicited e-mail advertisements to academic professors informing them that journals were avail
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IBM: Talking Web Will be Commonplace in 5 Years
Bibliofuture via LISNews - Librarian And Inform on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Every year IBM releases a "Next Five in Five" list, a list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years". This is the third such list, and it mentions a "Talking Web" among the 5 items. You will talk to the Web and the Web will talk back, according to IBM. In the future "you will be able to surf the Internet, hands-free, by using
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Blogging campus books
(unknown author) via Liberal Education Today on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/One American university has launched an unusual blogging experiment - blogging about books published by its community. The University of Texas at Austin created ShelfLife@Texas
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Academic publishers examine future of books at Yale University Press symposium
(unknown author) via Knowledgespeak.com on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
As part of its ongoing centenary celebration, Yale University Press recently hosted a one-day symposium entitled -Why Books Still Matter'. The conference on scholarly publishing was sponsored by Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Yale University Press. In his keynote address, YUP Director John Donatich invoked the theme - the hazy economic future o
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Scopus expands Arts & Humanities coverage
(unknown author) via Knowledgespeak.com on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that its flagship product Scopus will be nearly doubling its Arts & Humanities (A&H) titles. Access to the new journals will be available to Scopus users in April 2009. Currently the Scopus database contains 1,600 titles in A&H and related fields.
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LibraryThing vs. Library of Congress
davidw via Joho the Blog on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Vincent Sterken has posted his master’s thesis, which examines LibraryThing.com to understand the dynamics and utility of social tagging. It begins with an exceptionally clear backgrounder on tagging and taxonomies, and then moves to a fascinating exploration of LibraryThing’s folksonomy, in
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Elsevier opens its article API
Peter Suber via Open Access News on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Wouter Gerritsma, The changing face of Elsevier Science, Wouter on the web, November 22, 2008. Excerpt: The last couple of days I had the pleasure to attend the Elsevier Development Partners meeting. The exact products they are working on might be of interest to some people, but
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NY Times has 10,000 Kindle subscribers
Paul Biba via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Ho on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
The Neiman Journalism Lab of Harvard University seems to have gotten a hold of an internal Times memo saying that the Times has more than 10,000 paid subscription
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Chinese research added to WorldWideScience with Deep Web search tool
(unknown author) via Knowledgespeak.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Search solutions provider Deep Web Technologies has announced the addition of key Chinese research to WorldWideScience.org, the WorldWideScience Alliance's global science gateway. WorldWideScience.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator, a federated search engine. Deep experts worked with their Chinese counterparts to identify a relevant and useful subset of the mass
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Collexis launches Reviewer Finder product to streamline grant and peer reviewer recruitment
(unknown author) via Knowledgespeak.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc. has announced the formal launch of the Reviewer Finder product, an application which identifies the best reviewers based on their research profile. By using the proprietary Collexis Fingerprint technology, a submitted grant proposal or submitted scientific manuscript is analysed and the resulting document Fingerprint is
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Metadata Extraction
David via Catalogablog on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Effective Metadata Extraction from Irregularly Structured Web Content by Baoyao Zhou, Wei Liu, Yu Yang, Weichun Wang Ming Zhang, (HPL-2008-203)Metadata extraction is one crucial module for domain specific Web content discovery and management, because the accuracy and completeness of the extracted met
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Google Is Mortal
(unknown author) via John Battelle's Searchblog on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
I reported skeptically on this issue earlier, but let's call a spade a spade. Google used its contractor workforce to quickly scale without having to spend on permanent employees, and now, it's using that same workforce to cut back costs. I've heard from a fair number of "laid off" contractors, in particular in Europe, and the reality
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An author’s experience with Kindle publishing
Paul Biba via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Ho on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
I found the link to this story at Joe Wikert’s Kindle Blog. It is the first article I’ve seen which describes what the Kindle experience is like from the sending, not the receiving side. Here are some excerpts.
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