Version 46, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]

Version 46 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over
1,750 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources
that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.

 HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
 Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf

The HTML document is designed for interactive use.  Each
major section is a separate file.  There are links to sources
that are freely available on the Internet.  It can be can be
searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document includes three sections not found in
the Acrobat file:

(1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

 http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related
Web sites)

 http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm

(3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new
resources that is updated on weekdays)

 http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

The Acrobat file is designed for printing.  The printed
bibliography is over 145 pages long.  The Acrobat file is
over 390 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are
marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
 2.1 Case Studies and History*
 2.2 General Works*
 2.3 Library Issues
3  Electronic Serials
 3.1 Case Studies and History
 3.2 Critiques*
 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals
 3.4 General Works*
 3.5 Library Issues*
 3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
 5.2 License Agreements*
 5.3 Other Legal Issues
6  Library Issues
 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
 6.2 Digital Libraries*
 6.3 General Works*
 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
 8.1 Digital Rights Management
9 Technical Reports and E-Prints*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author
Appendix B. About the Author

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes
the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
Digital Libraries*
Electronic Books and Texts*
Electronic Serials*
General Electronic Publishing*
Images*
Legal*
Preservation*
Publishers
SGML and Related Standards
Technical Reports and E-Prints*

An article about the bibliography has been published
in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:

http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html


Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems,
University of Houston, Library Administration,
114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000.
E-mail: cbai...@uh.edu.  Voice: (713) 743-9804.
Fax: (713) 743-9811.  http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm

Re: Online Self-Archiving: Distinguishing the Optimal from the Optional

[Tim Brody]

- Original Message -
From: Arthur P. Smith apsm...@aps.org

  The main focus of your tragic loss article was the obsolescence of
 paper, and the resulting consequences. One consequence which was perhaps
 not widely anticipated is expanded access to research journal content -
 now available from
 the desktop instead of having to go to the library. And the increased
 availability that
 consortium deals and other special arrangements are providing. So the
 library as a physical
 facility is less useful, but as a provider of information, surely the
 utility
 of every library has grown over the past 8 years? Are the other things
 you mention
 (phone, fax, email, etc.) really a substitute for traditional scholarly
 communication?

The SPARC paper (http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html) identified four
features of scholarly publishing: registration, certification, awareness,
and preservation.

Given the growth of e-journals, consortia agreements, and aggregators (or,
in the case of the big publishers, simply a single publisher's holdings),
what role does the institutional library - and it's librarians - have in the
future of scholarly publishing?

Is the future of the research library a web page of user names and
passwords, along with a form for request-a-journal?

(... if the research literature was Open Access, perhaps even this would be
supplanted by a single Google-search?)

All the best,
Tim.