{"id":75,"date":"2012-05-11T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-05-11T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:19:00","slug":"links-of-interest-ebook-lending-web-design-bibliographic-software-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/links-of-interest-ebook-lending-web-design-bibliographic-software-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of Interest – ebook lending, web design, bibliographic software, open access"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lending eBooks<\/strong>
Colorado’s Douglas County Libraries has come up with a model whereby they buy, host, and manage the lending of ebooks<\/a> (including DRM), rather than subscribe to publishers’ platforms. See more details on the model<\/a> and a letter to publishers<\/a> about how it works.<\/p>\n

Here’s a cute way of reminding users of the value of libraries<\/a> when they check out print books. It would be interesting to think of ways to make this work with e-resources…<\/p>\n

Web design<\/strong>
See a demo of One-Pager<\/a>, a free template for library websites designed and user-tested to make it easy to find the most important information – and to be immediately mobile-friendly and accessible. You can read more or download the code here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bibliographic software<\/strong>
Beyond Bibliographies: Collaborating with Citation Software<\/a> (powerpoint) is a poster comparing Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley.<\/p>\n

Open Access<\/strong>
(I try to include a variety of stuff in these round-ups, but open access is kind of a strong interest of mine, so…)<\/p>\n

Some keen-eyed librarians noticed that the previously open-access Reference and User Services Quarterly<\/em> was suddenly open-access no longer; the Library Loon investigated<\/a> and reported back<\/a>. Apparently in future articles will be embargoed for a year, although as at writing older articles aren’t available yet either.<\/p>\n

(This reminds me that I keep meaning to find out whether The New Zealand Library And Information Management Journal<\/a> is intended to be open access or if it’s just openly accessible by default, so to speak. In any case they’re there at the moment – as are all the LIANZA conference papers from 2004<\/a>. They’re not browsable\/searchable in the most user-friendly format but I know from experience what the web group’s dealing with, and that just getting them all in one place is a fantastic achievement.)<\/p>\n

The Library Loon also has a fantastic discussion about how to recognise scammy “open access” publishers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SCORE Library Survey Report<\/a> “aimed to get a national [UK] perspective on institutional engagement in Open Educational Resources through their librarians”.<\/p>\n

Open Access in Chemistry<\/a> – slides from a presentation at the 2011 ACS Spring Meeting giving an excellent overview of what it says on the tin – in terms both of numbers and of attitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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