Browsing by Subject "scholarly communications"

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    Copyright and Institutional Repositories
    (2021) Keele, Benjamin J.
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    Ending Law Review Link Rot: A Plea for Adopting DOI
    (2022-06) Craigle, Valeri; Keele, Benjamin J.; Retteen, Aaron
    Though the vast majority of law reviews are now published online, very few law review publishers use persistent URLs, like DOI, to provide stable online access. The purpose of this article is to encourage law reviews to implement DOI, and demystifies the process for doing so.
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    How Librarians Can Help Improve Law Journal Publishing
    (2012) Keele, Benjamin J.; Pearse, Michelle
    Librarians are well positioned to improve law journal publishing and help it evolve in the ever-changing digital environment. They can provide student editors with advice on a variety of issues such as copyright, data preservation, and version control. Librarians can also help journals adopt technical standards and improve the discoverability and usability of journal content. While few libraries will be able to adopt all these suggestions, a checklist of ideas is provided to help librarians select those that are most suitable to their libraries and journals.
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    Information creates relative bargaining power in vendor negotiations
    (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-06) Macy, Katharine V.
    Purpose: This paper aims to examine how libraries can create relative bargaining power and presents a methodology for analyzing collections and preparing for negotiations. Design/methodology/approach: A brief literature review of the current state of collection budgets and electronic resource prices is presented prior to proposing a methodology based on business analysis frameworks and techniques. Findings: Electronic resource subscription prices are increasing at a rate significantly higher than inflation, while collection budgets grow slowly, remain stagnant or decrease. Academic libraries have the ability to counteract this trend by creating relative bargaining power through organizational efforts that take advantage of size and concentration (e.g. consortia), vertical integration through practices such as library publishing and open access and through individual efforts using information. This paper proposes metrics and methodologies that librarians can use to analyze their collections, set negotiation priorities and prepare for individual resource negotiations to create relative bargaining power. Practical implications: The proposed methodology enables librarians and buyers of information resources to harness the information available about their electronic resource collections to better position themselves when entering negotiations with vendors. Originality/value: This paper presents metrics, some not commonly used (i.e. average annual price increase/decrease), that aid in understanding price sensitivity. Pareto analysis has been traditionally used to analyze usage, but this paper suggests using it in relation to costs and budgets for setting negotiation priorities.
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    Library Budgets, Open Access, and the Future of Scholarly Communication
    (2007-11-06T14:51:50Z) Lewis, David W.
    This article discusses the increase in journal prices and the resulting pressures on library budgets and argues that it is no longer possible or reasonable for libraries to continue to purchase subscription based journals in the ways they have done in the past. Libraries should instead support open access and develop budget strategies that channel funds to doing so and preserving book purchasing even when this results in the decline in their subscription journal collections.