Digital Information: Order or Anarchy?

225 Pages·2010·0.652 MB·English

by  Hazel M. Woodward (Editor), Lorraine Estelle (Editor), Hazel M. Woodward, Lorraine Estelle

Digital
information
Order or anarchy?

Digital
information
Order or anarchy?
edited by
Hazel Woodward and Lorraine Estelle
© This compilation: Hazel Woodward and Lorraine Estelle 2010
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Contents
Acknowledgements.............................................................................vii
Contributors..........................................................................................ix
Preface.................................................................................................xiii
1 Introduction: digital information, an overview of the
landscape.........................................................................................1
Lorraine Estelle and Hazel Woodward
2 Scholarly communications: the view from the library..............35
Rick Anderson
3 Scholarly communications: the publisher’s view......................57
Ian Russell
4 E-books and scholarly communication futures.........................89
Colin Steele
5 Digitizing the past: next steps for public sector digitization..117
Alastair Dunning
6 Resource discovery....................................................................133
Graham Stone
7 Who owns the content in the digital environment?.................165
Wilma Mossink and Lorraine Estelle
Index....................................................................................................197

Acknowledgements
The authors are deeply indebted to Fytton Rowland – Hazel’s husband
– for all his assistance in proofing and sub-editing this book and, of
course, for all the support he gave and cups of tea he made while we were
working on it. Not to mention walking Freddy – Lorraine’s dog (when
he’s really a cat person). Lorraine would like to thank Laurie for being so
supportive. And finally we have to thank Darran Rowe who works in the
Kings Norton Library at Cranfield University for valiantly trying to
rescue lost files of manuscripts which had vanished into cyberspace.
Aptly, a peril of our digital world.
Hazel Woodward
Lorraine Estelle

Contributors
Rick Anderson is Associate Director for Scholarly Resources and
Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. He earned his BS
and MLIS degrees at Brigham Young University, and has worked previously
as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and as Director of Resource
Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous
editorial and advisory boards and writes a regular op-ed column for
Against the Grainentitled ‘In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion’. His book,
Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: a how-to-do-it manual for
librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman, Inc. In 2005 Rick
was identified by Library Journal as a ‘Mover & Shaker’ – one of the ‘50
people shaping the future of libraries’. In 2008 he was elected President
of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Leadership
Fellow for 2009–10. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the
future of scholarly information and information services in higher
education.
Alastair Dunning is Digitization Programme Manager at the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC), which provides support for the
use of ICT in higher and further education in the UK. Alastair’s role is
overseeing the successful completion of over 50 digitization projects
funded by JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation), many of which are now freely
available on the internet. He also oversees various other strands of work,
including transatlantic digitization programmes and work to embed
digitized content in various JISC-funded portals. Alastair’s professional