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Questions discussed includ privacy, monopoly, size

Launched by NCBI, Rapid Research Notes (RRN) "allows users to access and cite research that is provided through participating publisher programs designed for immediate communication."

emphasis on sharing and pooling of resources

a new online publication

This is a very condensed newsletter-like format, mostly useful for EU/UK information, sponsored by BBC, British Library, JISC and others.

A town hall meeting scheduled for 4/8/10, 2- 3.30 PM addresses accelerating sci-tech journal costs and insufficiency of open access efforts to date

This article from Inside Higher Ed includes a link to a 116 page pdf report by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

Call for OA journal innovation in Canada, particularly inclusion of multiple media formats

This faculty survey (with a return rate of 8.6%) indicates library disintermediation, increasing comfort (of fac members) with e formats, and persistence in conservative attitudes towards publishing in scholarly journals

Analysis of 12 UK/US studies on digital information usage

A series of case studies presents how libraries (or knowledge centers) contribute to achieving organizational goals, including streamlining contracts with partners, increasing access to corporate members via newsletters and mobile-accessible technology, facilitating directories of "intellectual capital" (think HMS's Catalyst or MIT Expertise), a knowledge source and filter of developments in risk management, and a video archive of institutional knowledge. A wide range of organizations were consulted for the report and HBS' Deb Wallace was instrumental in its creation.

From a study conducted by Purdue University librarians, with respect to repository data collection of faculty output, identifying skill sets needed for the process.

The 2011 SPARC-ACRL form, "Marketplace: Open Access and the changing state of scholarly publishing," painted a picture of the rapidly changing-and maturing-open-access publishing sphere, illustrated the growing range of options and approaches that are emerging, and offered help to the library community to make sense of what it all means.

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases Run a sample search to see what national libraries' content is already pulled into this database

Investigates data from two multi-user studies funded by IMLS, finding convenience is a determinative of infomation seeking regardless of "age, gender, academic role," virtual or non-virtual use.