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Measuring Quality In Journal Publishing: New And Emerging Methods, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Measuring Quality In Journal Publishing: New And Emerging Methods, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
This presentation focuses on measuring quality from a high-level business perspective. Participants will learn how to survive in a digital age where journals live in the new “jungle.” We will elaborate on traditional methods of quality (ISI, peer review, etc.) and discuss product differentiation (how one gets "heard"). There is an emerging trend where the quality of content that is “good enough” is being read more often than “high quality” content. Identifying how the web makes all content ubiquitous and how you need to get your content read in this new space is a challenge. Several techniques for achieving greater …
Archiving Scholarly Material: One Publisher's Perspective, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Archiving Scholarly Material: One Publisher's Perspective, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
We need large digital archives to preserve scholarly content for generations to come and we need them now. Deciding who should do the archiving (e.g. librarians and archivists), what to archive, where in the scholarly community archiving should be undertaken, and how to do it successfully, is starting to come into focus. A brief review of the scholarly digital archiving efforts underway reveals some commonality of intent. This can be contrasted with a clear need for decisions regarding the scope of what should be digitally archived, and ultimately, how archives in their many forms might be best constructed. While exploring …
Clir Forms Advisory Committee For Scholarly Communication Report, Ann Okerson, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Clir Forms Advisory Committee For Scholarly Communication Report, Ann Okerson, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
In January 2006 CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources) formed a committee of advisors to develop strategically directed scholarly communication and preservation agendas that would appeal to and create value for CLIR constituents and the broader communities of stakeholders whose existence is entwined with these two topics. This report represents the findings as presented by Ann Okerson (the committee leader) and the committee findings between mid-January and late March 2006, identifying possible directions and studies to be pursued in CLIR's scholarly communication programs over the next three years.
Google Scholar: Experiences Ideas And Plans, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Google Scholar: Experiences Ideas And Plans, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
This presentation is based on a synthesis of lessons learned in working with Google on the development of Google Scholar. A convergence of needs and developments bolstered support for federated searching, a greater number of publishers providing Google access to crawl their content, and the emergence of Google Scholar as a strong tool overshadowing any effort by publishers to launch a cooperative scholarly search engine. This presentation surveys what Google Scholar is currently use and what users are saying about it. Some found the inaccuracies and ubiquity of lower quality content troublesome. Opportunities to improve coverage, search stability (search results …
Google Scholar: The Next Big Thing?, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Google Scholar: The Next Big Thing?, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
The question of whether Google Scholar is the next big thing is really not answerable. After enabling Google Scholar to crawl publishers proprietary content publishers have learned Google is an unusual partner when it comes to copyright and partnership. Second, nothing is free. Third, stakeholders (researchers, students, librarians, etc.) have differing views of quality. Fourth, branding and attribution of content in a big search engine space will be difficult, and, more critically, may only be achievable collectively. Finally, it is evident that incomplete search services such as Google Scholar need an integrative strategy in order to retain value.
How To Survive And Thrive In A Search Engine Culture, Gordon C. Tibbitts
How To Survive And Thrive In A Search Engine Culture, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
A comparison of CrossRef Search and Google Scholar. It's essential to have a strategy when working with Google. Proprietary "vertical" search engines such as CrossRef will have a place even with the strength of an engine like Google Scholar (and Google search in general).
Everything You Wanted To Know About Licensing Agreements, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Everything You Wanted To Know About Licensing Agreements, Gordon C. Tibbitts
Gordon C. Tibbitts III
This presentation explores the intricacies of licensing agreements to help develop strategies for negotiating the broadest possible access to electronic content for a library. Issues such as inter-library loan restrictions, archiving, duplication among aggregator databases, and withdrawal of content are discussed. The process of negotiating licensing agreements and how to identify those clauses that are particularly important or sensitive are described. How to draft library-friendly agreements and collaborative ways librarians and information providers can work together to find solutions to the evolving problems of content access and delivery are described.