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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Irving Rockwood | |
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Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman) |
| | Peer Review: The History, the Issues, and New Directions
by Irving Rockwood — Peer review is a much more important and more exciting topic than it might first appear. | 1 |
| | Current Peer Review Practice and Perceptions: The View from the Field
Mark Ware — Responses were received from over 3,000 academics from around the world who completed an online survey in late 2007. | 20 |
| | PLoS ONE: New Approaches and Initiatives in the Evolution of the Academic Journal
Peter Binfield — The PLoS ONE peer review process focuses on the objective assessment of scientific rigor and research integrity. | 24 |
| | Interactive Open Access Peer Review: The Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Model
Ulrich Pöschl — The editorial and citation statistics of ACP clearly demonstrate that interactive open access peer review indeed facilitates and enhances scientific communication and quality assurance. | 26 |
| | The Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative: A Subversive Proposal
Gary Hall — Gary proposes the “Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative” as a supplement to Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal.” | 34 |
| | The Odd Case of Book Reviews
David Shatz — Book reviews differ from most scholarly publications in a glaring respect: they are not peer reviewed. | 40 |
| | Op Ed
Tony Horava — The Implications of “Good Enough” and the Future of Libraries - While Voltaire didn’t work in a 21st century library, he could still teach us a thing or two about reaching beyond our circumstances. | 50 |
| | Back Talk
Tony Ferguson — There is an Old saying that Goes … - Tony made a decision to keep the library open 24/7 but he says no good turn goes unpunished. | 94 |
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| | Meris Mandernauch
Collection Management Librarian, James Madison University | 42 |
| | Dennis Brunning Q&A with Carol Saller and Ann Ewbank
Including a side-story on The New Yorker Digital Reader and his Advice Column. | 46 |
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| | Amy Kohrman
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| | Meris Mandernach
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - One of Tom’s selections for this issue is the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. | 51 |
| | Book Reviews
Deb Vaughn — Monographic Musings - This month, explore antiquities, world religions, and cooking. | 53 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note — Copyright
Bruce Strauch — When A Bare Possibility of Access Is Not Enough - This one’s about music and copyright. Don’t miss it! | 55 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Are libraries considered educational institutions? Lolly tells us. | 56 |
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| | Biz of Acq
Michelle Flinchbaugh and Robin Moskal — The Development, Growth, and Maintenance of a Web-Based Book Order System - A sampling of tools and uses for RSS in Acquisitions is here! | 57 |
| | Random Ramblings
Bob Holley — “What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander” – Survival for Public Services when Print Collections Disappear - Bob says that creating a new model for liaison work with faculty is better than guaranteeing obsolescence by doing nothing. | 61 |
| | Booklover
Donna Jacobs — Admiring the Translator - What are we missing when we can’t read a work in the language in which it was originally written? | 63 |
| | From the University Presses
Sanford G. Thatcher — Is “Functional” Use “Transformative” and Hence “Fair”? A Copyright Conundrum - Sandy contends that the decision from a case in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 16, 2009 is troubling both intellectually and practically. | 66 |
| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings - More from Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters on the 2008 Charleston Conference, and more are coming, so keep reading! | 70 |
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| | Bet You Missed It
Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings – In the News - What do Jerry Lewis and Donald Duck have in common? Read it here. | 12 |
| | Something to Think About
Mary (Tinker) Massey — Where’s the Journal? - This is about life with serials. You’ve been there. | 48 |
| | Little Red Herrings
Mark Y. Herring — We’re All Me-ists Now. - Mark shares thoughts on the rapid and furious demise of so many national newspapers. | 64 |
| | Lost in Austin
Thomas W. Leonhardt — Why I Don’t Blog - Tom has ten reasons plus he advocates the pen and paper approach instead. | 79 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Bob Nardini — Old - Bob points out that the action used to be on new books but it’s now on old ones. | 80 |
| | IMHBCO (In My Humble But Correct Opinion)
Rick Anderson — Is the Library Collection Too Risky? - should we ever again buy a book that we aren’t sure anyone wants? | 86 |
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| | International Dateline — An Insight Into Publishing
Rita Ricketts — A continuation of Benjamin Henry’s publishing adventures. | 87 |
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| | Crowd Control
Xan Arch — Are there new ways we can connect with customers that we could be missing? | 8 |
| | Standards Column
Todd Carpenter — Libraries to a Web Services Environment: Issues to Consider - In a Web services environment, an organization uses a third party service and their networked information resources to provide information technology, software and services, rather than owning and running all the services in-house. | 77 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — ProQuest - This time Greg talks to Boe Horton and Marty Kahn about the company that just turned 70. | 92 |
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| | Charleston Conference 2009
29th Annual Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition - Call For Papers, Ideas, Conference Themes, etc.... | 8 |
| | Charleston Conference Future Dates
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