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CONTENTS: COLUMN:
Link Managers for Grey Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
GL'99 Questionnaire Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SIG Report on Copyright and Grey Literature . . . . . . . 3
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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L I N K M A N A G E R S F O R G R E Y L I T E R A T U R E
"Excerpts from a paper presented at GL'99"
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by Jens.Vigen_at_cern.ch
co-authored by Martin Vesely, CERN and
Elena Lodi, Dipartimento di Matematica di Siena
In the self service area of the library reading rooms it is
necessary to organise the collections in the simplest way
possible. This is an important feature for readers making it
possible to get direct access to the material without necessarily
having to go via the library catalogue to retrieve the call
number. A typical example will be that a collection is organised
so that a reader can easily get directly from an article
reference to the article itself in a library where the journal
collection simply is organised alphabetically.
This requirement seems to have been forgotten by many of the most
important actors in the digital library, both by the commercial
publishers and many of the bodies producing grey literature.
How are the users supposed to get directly to report xyz without
having to navigate through n different web pages? This is on top
happening in "The Library" which is intended to be close to 100%
based on self service!
CERN Library has developed a mechanism, "Go direct", which
handles the problem. So far it only processes articles published
in journals, but due to it's success it will however be extended
to also include grey literature issued in series holding a report
number. CERN Library catalogue uses "Go direct" to automatically
generate links from bibliographic information to the
corresponding fulltext of a document.
This presentation provides an overview of the present situation
concerning link managers and URL architecture in the field of
electronic publishing within high energy physics.
I N T R O D U C T I O N
The CERN Scientific Information Service has for more than forty
years been collecting and organising information of interest for
the whole high energy physics community. The aim is to have a
collection as complete and up to date as possible. With the
explosion of the Internet and the introduction of the preprint
servers the amount of information has multiplied several times
over the last ten years in parallel to the fact that user
requirements are much higher today than ever before. The Service
is now processing around thirty thousand grey research documents
per year in addition to "whitewashing" thousands of other
documents collected in earlier years.
With the introduction of the electronic preprints (Dallman et
al., 1992) and later the journals (Chaney et al., 1999a),
complete new possibilities for weaving the information together
have come up and so have new problems. In the pre electronic era
it was possible to get directly from a reference to the
corresponding document in the library, often without using a
catalogue, while now the same operation would require a
significant amount of navigation through a number of web pages.
The CERN Scientific Information Service's main aim in organising
the information has been to avoid unnecessary navigation and the
introduction of new identification systems. Related documents are
linked together and the system permits the users to get to a
given document simply based on the bibliographic reference
without having to go via hierarchical trees or any other
"clicking exercises".
The very first solution to this problem was solved by a simple
form with a script behind, which based on the given information,
computed the URL of the corresponding document. The idea was to
provide a facilitating tool for the scientists so that it should
be easy to retrieve the articles available online. As the form,
now called "Go Direct", became so successful, it also became
clear that the script which is behind could of course take it's
arguments directly from the library catalogue so that links
could be created "on the fly".
F U T U R E C H A L L E N G E S
The developments which were meant to make the world simpler for
the scientists made it in some senses actually more complex. The
documents are in principle easier to get access to, but there are
more references to a single document and it's published
counterpart than there were ever before: author/title, report
no., preprint archive no., URL, DOI etc., and finally the
traditional bibliographic citation - or at least it is still
there for the time being. The goal must be to reduce these
different references to a minimum and establish a standard which
is as intuitive as possible. Having made the major publishers
aware of the power of the link managers and later getting several
of them onboard, the situation seems to be turning in the right
direction. The work of lobbying the publishers, also the ones
issuing grey literature, is however not yet at an end. To augment
the pressure the campaign should also be directed to other
database providers. The more people applying this simple system,
the more likely it will be that it will become a de facto
standard. The major challenge for the future will be however to
find a better solution for how to associate GL with it's
published counterparts. The DOI Foundation, a foundation more and
more publishers are joining, is aiming for this. The DOI is meant
to be a unique identifier of any piece of intellectual content,
together with a system for using that identifier to locate
digital services on the Internet associated with that content
(Paskin, 1999). In the field of high energy physics there is
already a veritable preprint culture which is accordingly well
organised. More or less all these preprints have report numbers
and it is not difficult to imagine that they accordingly could
be assigned DOIs. Exploiting the power of the DOI system, one
could then reach a situation where by pointing to the DOI of a
preprint, the researcher would automatically be offered the
option to follow a link to the published counterpart as soon as
this would be available.
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Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature
"New Fronties in Grey Literature"
According to the respondents, the information found in the found in the
conference materials (Announcements, Call-for-Papers, Pre-Program,
Conference Updates, Newsletters, etc.) was:
1. Quite Satisfactory (66%)
2. Satisfactory (34%)
3. Unsatisfactory ( 0%)
4. No Response ( 0%)
The administration of GL'99 including the pre-registration, the
registration desk, etc. was:
1. Quite Satisfactory (86%)
2. Satisfactory (14%)
3. Unsatisfactory ( 0%)
4. No Response ( 0%)
The facilities and services at the conference center (e.g. catering,
seating arrangements, technical equipment, etc.) were:
1. Quite Satisfactory (59%)
2. Satisfactory (34%)
3. Unsatisfactory ( 7%)
4. No Response ( 0%)
The content and quality of the Authors' presentations were:
1. Quite Satisfactory (34%)
2. Satisfactory (63%)
3. Unsatisfactory ( 0%)
4. No Response ( 3%)
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| T O P F I V E P R E S E N T A T I O N S |
| _____________________________________________ |
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| "Link Managers for Grey Literature" |
| Jens Vigen, CERN, Switzerland |
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| "Electronic Theses and Dissertations" |
| Gail McMillan, VT, United States |
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| "Preserving the Pyramid of STI Using Buckets" |
| Michael L. Nelson, NASA, United States |
| |
| "The Internet and the Socio-Structural Change |
| of Informal Scientific Communication" |
| Helmut M. Artus, IZ, Germany |
| |
| "Grey Copyrights for Grey Literature: |
| National Assumptions, International Rights" |
| Michael S. Seadle, MSU, United States |
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Summary by Eamon T. Fennessy
TCG, The Copyright Group, efennessy_at_att.net
What exactly is copyright? It is a piece of intellectual property
which belongs to the creator of the work (movies, software,
printed works, CDs, etc) and bestows on the rightsholder the
ability to control the use of that work. The period of copyright
generally runs for 70 years beyond the life of the author. As a
piece of intellectual property the rightsholder establishes the
terms under which the work is used by a third party and the
distribution of that work.
How can we keep up-to-date on Foreign Copyright Laws? Some of the
sources to contact are: the U.S. Copyright Office itself-in the
Library of Congress; Department General Counsels in the
government agencies where some of us work; the Web, although we
didn't spell out which URLs carried such information; and WIPO
in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency which oversees global
copyright issues.
Are all Government Publications Copyrighted? The answer is No.
Generally government publications are not copyrighted but
materials which are given to the government from outsiders, or
where the copyright has been transferred to the government are
not necessarily in the public domain. Whenever you have a
question about this contact the agency which has published the
material you are interested in and ask.
What is DOI? DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, a
numbering system that a copyright owner can assign to an article,
a book, a paragraph, or even a single sentence in order to
identify that piece of content. Rightsholders can request a base
number for a specific imprint from the DOI Foundation through the
Association of American Publishers in Washington and then can add
to the base number identifying individual pieces of content. Once
a DOI has been established a price can be assigned to that
content and the rightsholder can sell that content to users.
How can we find out about Ownership and terms of usage for
specific articles and other literary works? One way is to refer
a question like this to information brokers. I happen to run The
Copyright Group which acts on behalf of users, arranging
permissions for the electronic and print use of copyrighted works
for the user community.
What was the Tasini Suit? This was a suit filed by the National
Writers Union, of which Mr. Tasini is the president, on behalf
of writers who are not employees of major information
distributors but who submitted articles to these corporations for
the print use of the work, and which eventually turned up in the
corporations' electronic networks and were sold. Tasini & Company
lost the first suit filed but on appeal the ruling was overturned
and the writers' arguments were upheld. The decision was
announced only a week or to ago. The importance of this suit
conveys the need to have specific terms of usage included in any
agreement between publisher and author.
Are Abstracts Copyrighted? There is no simple answer to this. If
the abstract is written by the author of the article some
publishers feel its use should be paid for. Not all publishers
require payment so you should contact the publishers in order to
be on safe ground.
For more on Copyright and Grey Literature, see
http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/webforum/greynet-liblink-forum/
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R E C O M M E N D E D R E A D I N G
http://www.mcb.co.uk/ijgl.htm
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Grey Literature as unconscious : causal subjectivity of the repressed in
Lacan's Theory / by William Theaux, w.theaux_at_worldnet.att.net
In: IJGL, International Journal on Grey Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, 2000. -
Pages 28-34. - ISSN 1466-6189
Abstract:
In this article, grey literature is identified as unregistered
textuality (radicalizing its characteristics, such as the
difficulty of its identification, access, bibliographic control,
and its undervaluation, etc.) It can be deduced that, in this
scope, what is called "grey" represents a mode of expressing the
unconscious that is described by psychoanalysts. This leads to
a Freudian practical observation that no other than grey
discourses can accurately talk about grey literature. I shall
then suggest how the factor of cybernetics (aka artificial
intelligence), according to the theory of Jacques Lacan, modifies
this logical condition of "impossibility" to render a grey
discourse by the University. This can also be described as the
detection of the unregistered.
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"A Selection of S&T Events relevant to Grey Literature"
JANUARY
15-19 ALA-MidWinter
American Library Association Midwinter Meeting
San Antonio, Texas, USA
http://www.ala.org
MARCH -------------------------------------------------------------------
16-18 Third International Symposium on Electronic
Theses & Dissertations
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference
20-22 Internet Librarian International 2000
London, United Kingdom
http://www.internet-librarian.com
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4-5 Online Conferentie Nederland 2000
De Doelen, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
http://www.onlineconferentie.nl
7 Joined-up Publishing : The Significance of Linking
16th International Learned Journals Seminar, ALPSP
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
http://www.alpsp.org.uk/
14 Literati Club Awards for Excellence, London, UK
"Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field
of Grey Literature 2000"
http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati
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15-18 OSS 21, Open Source Solutions
Global Information Forum - Virgina, USA
http://www.oss.net
16-18 NOM'2000
21st Annual National Online Meeting
"Technical Session on Grey Literature"
New York Hilton, USA
http://www.infotoday.com/nom2000
25-27 CRIS 2000
"Knowledge at Work Research Information for Society"
5th Conference on Current Research Information Systems in Europe
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.cordis.lu/cris2000
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1-3 SSP, Society of Scholarly Publishing
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
http://www.sspnet.org
10-15 SLA, Special Libraries Association Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
www.sla.org/conf/2000conf
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3-7 IATUL, International Association of Technological University
Libraries Meeting
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
http://educate1.lib.chalmers.se/IATUL/qut
6-12 ALA-Annual, American Library Association
Annual Meeting - Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.ala.org
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13-18 IFLA 2000
International Federation of Library Associations, Annual Meeting
Jerusalem, Israel
http://www.ifla.org
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Received on Wed Jan 05 2000 - 10:28:46 EST