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This article mostly covers the process of mass digitization. One of the recommendations at the end of the article states, " A "digital lending right" should be created to provide universal access to all out-of-print works, through collaboration between national governments and creative communities. This would remove a barrier to the mass democratization of information access and make a contribution to the survival of some threatened languages."

This can deleted, it is just an opinion article with no hard research to support our project.

References cited in C. Palmer, L. Teffeau and C. Pirmann, Disciplinary Research Practies and Library Services in the Online Environment (OCLC, 2009). This list excludes 21 resources (mostly conference proceedings, grant reports and older periodical literature) that could not be identified in WorldCat. Original bibliography includes 145 references in total.

How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future. What will that future be?

2006 San Jose State University study discussing the preferences of print vs. electronic resources in the university's library. Different disciplines prefer different formats. Access the full article through ScienceDirect.

This is a statistical sample size calculator that can be used to try to determine the sample size needed for our study. For example, if we decide to use a library with 2,000,000 titles as the basis for our study, and we want a confidence interval of 2 (meaning we are fairly sure that a title we choose would be included in the included) our sample size should be 2398. A lower number for the confidence interval increases the sample size, and a higher number for the confidence interval decreases the sample size.

overview of print to digital transition

This is a lengthy 2005 article on Google's digital book preservation initiative. Google has undertaken an ambitious project, and the author details how exactly the books digitally preserved, how they are cataloged, and how ancient handwritten books are transformed into searchable text. At the time this article was written, it was still unknown as to what Google planned on doing with all the books it digitized and various options are discussed. Policy issues are touched on very lightly, other than the books added to the digital collection are largely those which are not protected by copyright law.

"The academic-library market has been slow to embrace electronic monographs, he said, but lately interest has begun to surge. E-book sales at Blackwell's increased 216 percent in the 2007 fiscal year and 164 percent in the first six months of 2008. That's evidence that the e-book trade "has the potential to rebuild the monograph business," Mr. Nauman said."

This article is only available for purchase. North Texas does not carry this journal.

Blog posting re: the SUL library council's report

Blog entry about micro-publishing

This can be deleted. Again, my annotated and tagged bookmark didn't overlap the existing bookmark.

Note in particular Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann. Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development.

Again, I have annotated and tagged this bookmark. Somehow my bookmark did not overlap this bookmark.

Of course, the key questions are: What is the reality with respect to e-books? Does print really have an anticipated life span of five more years? Will e-books finally take off? After nearly two decades of talking about how e-books are right around the corner, have we finally reached the corner? This research bulletin looks at some of the hype and the reality of e-books in higher education.