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Digital information Order or anarchy? Digital information Order or anarchy? edited by Hazel Woodward and Lorraine Estelle © This compilation: Hazel Woodward and Lorraine Estelle 2010 The chapters: the contributors 2010 Published by Facet Publishing, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE www.facetpublishing.co.uk Facet Publishing is wholly owned by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The editors and authors of the individual chapters assert their moral right to be identified as such in accordance with the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Except as otherwise permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, with the prior permission of the publisher, or, in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by The Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to Facet Publishing, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-85604-680-0 First published 2010 Text printed on FSC accredited material. Typeset from editors’ files by Facet Publishing in 12/14 pt American Garamond and Nimbus Sans. Printed and made in Great Britain by MPG Books Group, UK. Contents Acknowledgements.............................................................................vii Contributors..........................................................................................ix Preface.................................................................................................xiii 1 Introduction: digital information, an overview of the landscape.........................................................................................1 Lorraine Estelle and Hazel Woodward 2 Scholarly communications: the view from the library..............35 Rick Anderson 3 Scholarly communications: the publisher’s view......................57 Ian Russell 4 E-books and scholarly communication futures.........................89 Colin Steele 5 Digitizing the past: next steps for public sector digitization..117 Alastair Dunning 6 Resource discovery....................................................................133 Graham Stone 7 Who owns the content in the digital environment?.................165 Wilma Mossink and Lorraine Estelle Index....................................................................................................197 Acknowledgements The authors are deeply indebted to Fytton Rowland – Hazel’s husband – for all his assistance in proofing and sub-editing this book and, of course, for all the support he gave and cups of tea he made while we were working on it. Not to mention walking Freddy – Lorraine’s dog (when he’s really a cat person). Lorraine would like to thank Laurie for being so supportive. And finally we have to thank Darran Rowe who works in the Kings Norton Library at Cranfield University for valiantly trying to rescue lost files of manuscripts which had vanished into cyberspace. Aptly, a peril of our digital world. Hazel Woodward Lorraine Estelle Contributors Rick Anderson is Associate Director for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. He earned his BS and MLIS degrees at Brigham Young University, and has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and writes a regular op-ed column for Against the Grainentitled ‘In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion’. His book, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman, Inc. In 2005 Rick was identified by Library Journal as a ‘Mover & Shaker’ – one of the ‘50 people shaping the future of libraries’. In 2008 he was elected President of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009–10. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly information and information services in higher education. Alastair Dunning is Digitization Programme Manager at the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which provides support for the use of ICT in higher and further education in the UK. Alastair’s role is overseeing the successful completion of over 50 digitization projects funded by JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation), many of which are now freely available on the internet. He also oversees various other strands of work, including transatlantic digitization programmes and work to embed digitized content in various JISC-funded portals. Alastair’s professional
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