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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2006 Annual Edition SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006 Annual Edition Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://www.digital‐scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2006.pdf Copyright © 2007 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution‐Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by‐nc/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital‐scholarship.org/ The author makes no warranty of any kind, either express or implied, for information in the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, which is provided on an ʺas isʺ basis. The author does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any party for any loss or damage resulting from the use of information in the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. In memory of Paul Evan Peters (1947‐1996), founding Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, whose visionary leadership at the dawn of the Internet era fostered the development of scholarly electronic publishing. Table of Contents Preface _______________________________________________________________ vi 1 Economic Issues _____________________________________________________ 1 2 Electronic Books and Texts __________________________________________ 10 2.1 Case Studies and History _______________________________________________ 10 2.2 General Works_________________________________________________________ 15 2.3 Library Issues__________________________________________________________ 22 3 Electronic Serials ___________________________________________________ 28 3.1 Case Studies and History _______________________________________________ 28 3.2 Critiques _____________________________________________________________ 36 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals _______________________________ 37 3.3.1 CORE, Cornell University _____________________________________ 37 3.3.2 JSTOR ______________________________________________________ 38 3.3.3 Other Projects________________________________________________ 39 3.3.4 Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University_________________________ 44 3.3.5 Red Sage Project, University of California, San Francisco __________ 45 3.3.6 SuperJournal Project, eLib _____________________________________ 45 3.3.7 TULIP, Elsevier Science _______________________________________ 46 3.4 General Works ________________________________________________________ 47 3.5 Library Issues _________________________________________________________ 57 3.6 Research______________________________________________________________ 71 4 General Works _____________________________________________________ 86 5 Legal Issues________________________________________________________ 99 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights_____________________________________________ 99 5.2 License Agreements___________________________________________________ 119 6 Library Issues _____________________________________________________ 126 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata___________________________ 126 6.2 Digital Libraries ______________________________________________________ 146 6.2.1 Alexandria Project, University of California, Santa Barbara ________ 146 6.2.2 Digital Library Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign ________________________________________________________________ 147 iv 6.2.3 General ____________________________________________________ 148 6.2.4 Informedia, Carnegie Mellon University________________________ 161 6.2.5 Mercury Project, Carnegie Mellon University ___________________ 162 6.2.6 National Digital Library, Library of Congress ___________________ 162 6.2.7 Other Projects and Systems ___________________________________ 163 6.2.8 Stanford Digital Library Project _______________________________ 175 6.2.9 UC Berkeley Digital Library Project ____________________________ 175 6.2.10 University of Michigan Digital Library Project _________________ 175 6.3 General Works _______________________________________________________ 176 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation__________________________________ 189 7 New Publishing Models ____________________________________________ 207 8 Publisher Issues ___________________________________________________ 233 8.1 Digital Rights Management____________________________________________ 239 9 Repositories, E‐Prints, and OAI _____________________________________ 246 Appendix A. Related Bibliographies____________________________________ 266 Appendix B. About the Author_________________________________________ 267 v Preface The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected English‐language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet. Announcements for new versions of the bibliography are distributed on DigitalKoans (http://www.digital‐scholarship.org/digitalkoans/; RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans). An article about the development and utilization of the bibliography is available: Bailey, Charles W., Jr. ʺEvolution of an Electronic Book: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.ʺ The Journal of Electronic Publishing 7 (December 2001). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07‐02/bailey.html The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E‐Prints and Open Access Journals (http://www.digital‐scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm), by the same author, provides much more in‐depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e‐prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. The ʺOpen Access Webliographyʺ (http://www.digital‐scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. vi 1 Economic Issues Anglada, Lluis, and Nuria Comellas. ʺWhatʹs Fair? Pricing Models in the Electronic Era.ʺ Library Management 23, no. 4/5 (2002): 227‐233. Bannerman, Ian. ʺPricing On‐line Journals.ʺ Serials 11 (March 1998): 23‐26. Bauer, Kathleen. ʺCost Analysis of a Project to Digitize Classic Articles in Neurosurgery.ʺ Journal of the Medical Library Association 90 (April 2002): 230‐234. http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?action=stream&blobtype=pdf&art id=100769 Bennett, Scott. ʺJust‐in‐Time Scholarly Monographs.ʺ The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, no. 1 (1998). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04‐01/bennett.html Besser, Howard. ʺDigital Image Distribution: A Study of Costs and Uses.ʺ D‐Lib Magazine 5 (October 1999). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october99/10besser.html Bide, Mark, Charles Oppenheim, and Anne Ramsden. ʺCharging Mechanisms for Digitised Texts.ʺ Learned Publishing 11, no. 2 (1998): 109‐118. Blixrud, Julia C., and Timothy D. Jewell. ʺUnderstanding Electronic Resources and Library Materials Expenditures: An Incomplete Picture.ʺ ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 197 (April 1998): 12‐13. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/197/expend.html Bonn, Maria. ʺBenchmarking Conversion Costs: A Report from the Making of America IV Project.ʺ RLG DigiNews 5, no. 5 (2001). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5‐5.html#feature2 Bonn, Maria S., Wendy P. Lougee, Jeffrey K. MacKie‐Mason, and Juan F. Riveros. ʺA Report on the Peak Experiment: Context and Design.ʺ D‐Lib Magazine 5 (June 1999). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june99/06bonn.html Bot, Marjolein, Johan Burgemeester, and Hans Roes. ʺThe Cost of Publishing an Electronic Journal: A General Model and a Case Study.ʺ D‐Lib Magazine (November 1998). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november98/11roes.html 1 Bowen, William G. ʺJSTOR and the Economics of Scholarly Communication.ʺ Journal of Library Administration 26, no. 1/2 (1998): 27‐44. Boyce, Peter B. ʺCosts, Archiving and the Publishing Process in Electronic STM Journals.ʺ Against the Gain 10 (December 1998‐January 1999): 24‐25. Butler, Meredith A., and Bruce R. Kingma. The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1996. Byrd, Sam, Glenn Courson, Elizabeth Roderick, and Jean Marie Taylor. ʺCost/Benefit Analysis for Digital Library Projects: The Virginia Historical Inventory Project (VHI).ʺ The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 14, no. 2 (2001): 65‐75. Chen, Frances L., Paul Wrynn, and Judith L. Rieke. ʺElectronic Journal Access: How Does It Affect the Print Subscription Price?ʺ Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 89 (October 2001): 363‐371. http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?action=stream&blobtype=pdf&art id=57965 Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Stephen R. Lawrence. ʺComparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study.ʺ D‐Lib Magazine 9, no. 12 (2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december03/connaway/12connaway.html Courant, Paul N. ʺScholarship and Academic Libraries (and Their Kin) in the World of Google.ʺ First Monday 11, no. 8/7 (2006). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/courant/index.html Day, Colin. ʺThe Economics of Electronic Publishing: Some Preliminary Thoughts.ʺ
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