NET EFFECTS: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet Edited by Marylaine Block

Chapter Six: The Techno-Economic Imperative: How Librarians Are Managing the Financial Drain Caused by Technology

Open Source Software

• Eric's Linux Information http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux/
  Start with this detailed explanation of what Linux could do in your library. He also includes a description of building a library network from scratch, and lots of Linux and open source software links.

• The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org
  Its mission is "to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users."

• Kerr, Bob. "Getting Open Source into Public Libraries." NewsForge, December 15, 2003 http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/14/1545216

• The Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/
  Includes how-to's, guides, and an FAQ file.

• Linux Online--general Linux Information http://www.linux.org/
  Includes a Linux 101 online classroom.

• The Open Source homepage http://www.opensource.org/
  "Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source."
  
  
  

  Free Online Scholarship

• BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
  "All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access."

• Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
  "to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet." Includes a business planning guide for open access journals.

• Core Metalist of Open Access Eprint Archives http://opcit.eprints.org/archive-core-metalist.html

• Crawford, Walt. "Tipping Point for the Big Deal?" Cites and Insights, January, 2004, pp. 23-26. http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ4i1.pdf -- a review of the increasing resistance by universities to Elsevier's high cost packages.

• Create Change http://www.createchange.org/faculty/issues/quick.html
  "CREATE CHANGE seeks to put you, the scholar, back in control of the scholarly communication system that exists for your benefit, as well as for your students and colleagues worldwide."

• Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
  "devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share." Includes a weblog, links to licensed content to copy and build on, different types of licenses you can use, and more.

• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
  "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages."

• Eprints.org http://www.eprints.org
  "dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving."

• Gaining Independence: A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture http://www.arl.org/sparc/GI/
  "SPARC intends this manual to help universities, libraries, societies, and others implement alternatives to commercially-published scholarly and scientific information."

• "Introduction to Open Access for Librarians," by Peter Suber
  http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm
  Suber explains why the creation of open access scholarship may help librarians solve the problems of serials pricing and the limits on access to electronic journals they've paid for.

• MERLOT [Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching] http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
  Provides peer-review of discipline-specific scholarly web resources

• Nature Debates: e-Access http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/
  A collection of articles by stake-holders in scholarly communication debating its future.

• Peter Suber, Open Access to Science and Scholarship http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
  Peter Suber is your basic starting point for information about the free online scholarship movement. His site includes a blog, a newsletter, a timeline and glossary of the movement, and related links.

• The Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ "a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource."

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm
  Here and in his quarterly bibliography, Charles Bailey tracks what's going on in the world of scholarly publishing, both open access and fee-based.
  
  
  

  Institutional Repositories

• Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives http://library.caltech.edu/digital

• Creating an Institutional Repository: A Role for Libraries http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib181.html
  Article by Blake Carver about his work with Ohio State's institutional repository.

• DSpace http://web.mit.edu/dspace

• Report of the Ohio State University Knowledge Bank Planning Committee
  http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/Lib_Info/scholarcom/KBproposal.html

• Scholarship Repository, California Digital Library http://escholarship.cdlib.org
  "offers faculty a central location for depositing research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating University of California research unit, center, or department, including working papers and pre-publication scholarship. The repository provides persistent access to working papers..."

• SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf
  Advice on the economics, politics, and technical aspects of starting an institutional repository.

  
  
  
  

  Train Your Own Techies

• The Accidental Systems Librarian http://lisjobs.com/tasl/index.htm
  Web site with all the links for Rachel Singer Gordon's book of the same name.

• InfoPeople How To Guides http://www.infopeople.org/howto/
  Infopeople "provides a wide variety of technology-related training to those who work in California libraries."

• Public Library Association - Tech Notes http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PLA/Publications_and_Reports/Tech_Notes/Tech_Notes.htm
  "short, web-based papers introducing specific technologies for public librarians."
  
  
  

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