From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Apr 1 10:07:12 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:07:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nfais-l] Open Research Planning Cmte Message-ID: <1364825232.03792274@webmail.nfais.org> Dear NFAIS members: NFAIS and CENDI will be jointly offering the 2013 CENDI/NFAIS workshop on November 12 at the Library of Congress, hosted under the auspices of FLICC. We have agreed on the theme of "Open Research". This is a growing movement in science and is closely connected with the other "Opens" -- open data, open access, etc. So we are now forming the planning team to put together the agenda and details of the Workshop. We will have a kick off meeting on Wednesday 4/3 from 3-4pm. All are welcome. If you want to be on the Planning Team, please let either Bonnie Lawlor or I know. If you want to participate but can't make the meeting, please let me know that as well. Planning for these annual Workshops is always an interesting and informative process. We all learn a lot about the topic. Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS Email: jilloneill at nfais.org Voice: 215/893-1561 Web: [http://www.nfais.org] http://www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Fri Apr 5 14:50:01 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nfais-l] AAUP Annual Meeting 2013, Boston, 2013 Message-ID: <1365187801.592416580@webmail.nfais.org> Posted by request: *AAUP 2013: Bridging WorldsJune 20-22; Boston*Registration is now open for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Join us in Boston this June 20-22 for "Bridging Worlds," a full program of professional education and networking events.[http://www.aaupnet.org/events-a-conferences/annual-meeting/aaup-2013] http://www.aaupnet.org/events-a-conferences/annual-meeting/aaup-2013The meeting's educational sessions will kick off on Friday, June 21, with "Three Big Ideas in Publishing," a plenary featuring Jill Lepore, Chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program and staff writer at The New Yorker; Michael Schrage, Harvard Business Review blogger and MIT Research Fellow; and a representative from the US Copyright Office. The plenary will be followed by more than 40 breakout sessions on themes practical and topical.Areas of focus and session topics will address:? Workflow: EDP Workflows; Creating E-Pubs; Designing with a Template? Emerging Trends: OA Textbooks and MOOCs; Digital Piracy; Managing Metadata; What?s Next in Digital Publishing?? Editorial: Rebranding Backlists; Creating Imprints; Author and Editorial Board Relations? Operations: Inventory Management; CMS Systems; Emergency Planning? Collaboration: Working with libraries, the campus, and the community? Marketing and Sales: Social Media Strategies; Ebooks and Chapter Sales Results; Selling to Libraries? Publicity: Boston Media Panel; The Art of the Pitch; Book Tours? Journals: Altmetrics; Sustainability; RebrandingOn June 20 there will four pre-meeting workshops: ?Thinking Outside the Book?; ?Digital Marketing for Beginners?; ?Acquisitions for Beginners?; ?From InDesign to Ebook.?Attendees can also visit with representatives from 50 companies offering the latest publishing technologies and services. 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URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Apr 16 09:08:40 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:08:40 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Workshop on Trends in Higher Education Message-ID: <006201ce3aa3$83b96a50$8b2c3ef0$@org> NFAIS Workshop on April 26th: Trends in Higher Education: Content, Services, and Business Models (Onsite and Virtual Registrations Available). On April 26, 2013 NFAIS will hold a workshop, Trends In Higher Education: Content, Services, and Business Models, from 9:00am - 5:00pm EDST in Philadelphia, PA. This workshop will provide an overview of the current educational trends sweeping college and university campuses. It will take a look at a case study on the adoption of MOOCs at a major university, new forms of content such as open textbooks and e-textbook adoption, and how traditional publishers are packaging their content for today's new "classrooms." In addition, the workshop will take a look at the results of a recent study on the return on library investment in content. The meeting will close with a look at the future of higher education and how that future is driving the acquisition and divestiture of content across the publishing community (see agenda at http://nfais.org/event?eventID=522). Why attend? Online learning is being taken to a whole new level by the combined forces of technology, financial pressures due to rising tuition and steep student loans, and future space limitations on existing campuses. Massive open online courses (MOOCS) are transforming education[1]. E-textbooks and new forms of courseware are replacing traditional teaching resources and are now shaping how content will be packaged and distributed to colleges and universities in the not-too-distant future. Indeed, at the 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, 93% of the attendees of a session on these trends agreed that their organization's current practices for content packaging and delivery to academia will be impacted! Understanding the potential impact of these trends is essential to all content providers and librarians. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available for individuals and for groups of three or more from the same organization. Group registrations can be a mix of onsite and virtual attendees, with a small food charge added for those attending onsite. Members of Sister Societies (CENDI, ISCTI, AAUP, NISO, ASIS&T, SSP, AAP/PSP, and LYRASIS) are eligible for discounts (see agenda and registration form at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=522). For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. [1] Waldrop, M. Mitchell, "Campus 2.0: Massive open online courses are transforming higher education - and providing fodder for scientific research," Nature, Vol. 495, March 14, 2013 NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community _____ [1] Waldrop, M. Mitchell, "Campus 2.0: Massive open online courses are transforming higher education - and providing fodder for scientific research," Nature, Vol. 495, March 14, 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Thu Apr 18 15:24:23 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:24:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nfais-l] NISO Awarded Mellon Grant to Encode E-Resource License Templates Message-ID: <1366313063.837318341@webmail.nfais.org> Posted on behalf of our sister society, NISO: Mellon Grant Awarded to NISO to Encode E-Resource License Templates in ONIX-PL Encodings to be deposited for free distribution in GOKb and KB+ knowledgebases Baltimore, MD ? April 18, 2013 ? The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the National Information Standards Organization a grant to support the encoding of a collection of template licenses for e-resources into the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format. The encodings will be deposited into the GOKb and KB+ knowledgebase for free distribution to the library, publishing, and library systems community. The deposited encodings?made available under a Creative Commons Public Domain (CC-0) license?will allow libraries that license electronic content to import the template licenses into their own electronic resource management systems for further local customization to match their negotiated license and implementation. The project will also fund publicly available training resources that will inform community members on how to use those encodings for their own purposes. JISC Collections, a division of the UK?s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) that manages electronic content acquisitions for member institutions of higher learning in the UK, has already encoded all of the licenses for JISC Collections-subscribed content and deposited them in their KnowledgeBase Plus (KB+) database. While KB+ has proven a useful tool for institutions in the UK, it has not moved beyond this venue because the encodings produced by the JISC Collections are restricted to JISC members? usage. To encourage ONIX-PL adoption and the use of encoded licenses, JISC Collections provided additional funding to support the project and provide training in the encoding format and the ONIX-PL Editing software. ?The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) is an element of the larger Kuali OLE initiative to provide open source management systems to the library and academic communities,? explains Nettie Lagace, NISO?s Associate Director for Programs. ?Now that the GOKb system is rapidly advancing, there is an opportunity to populate the system with useful library management information, such as these template license encodings. Much like the success that the KB+ project has had in the UK, the GOKb project has the potential to advance the state of library encodings in the broader library community.? ?NISO has contracted with Selden Lamoureux to obtain the template licenses, encode them in ONIX-PL format, and deposit the files in the GOKb and KB+ knowledgebases,? states Todd Carpenter, NISO?s Executive Director. ?Selden has a long career working with electronic resource management issues, licensing, and license encoding as Electronic Resources Librarian at both North Carolina State University (NCSU) and at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was instrumental in developing the NISO SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding) Recommended Practice, was a key leader in NISO?s work while she was at NCSU, and served as co-chair of NISO?s SERU initiative. ?ONIX-PL is elegant but very complex, since it?s designed to describe the nuances of licenses which are extremely variable,? explains Selden Lamoureux, Principle at SDLinforms and the consultant for this project. ?The use of the ONIX-PL standard to encode e-resource licenses has suffered from a ?Catch-22? situation. Publishers and librarians have little incentive to invest the time and effort to become proficient at ONIX-PL encoding until there is a demonstrated benefit. Systems developers have not prioritized implementation of ONIX-PL formatted licenses in ERM systems because there was no source of encoded licenses to import. The creation and availability of these template licenses will encourage the use and adoption of the ONIX-PL standard, which, in turn, will lead to greater ease and efficiencies in managing e-resources.? ?To ensure the use of these encodings and ongoing sustainability of the project, NISO will be producing at least four recorded 60-to-90-minute video training sessions,? states Juliana Wood, NISO Educational Programs Manager. ?The training will show librarians how to export a template license from GOKb+, import it into an ERM system, and customize the template to match an organization?s specific license terms. Some training will be directed towards publishers, explaining how to encode using ONIX-PL and deposit those encodings into GOKb and KB+. Thus publishers will be able to update their own template licenses as needed. The training materials will be available from the NISO website under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).? 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It will provide an overview of the current educational trends sweeping college and university campuses. It will take a look at a case study on the adoption of MOOCs at a major university, new forms of content such as open textbooks and e-textbook adoption, and how traditional publishers are packaging their content for today's new "classrooms." In addition, the workshop will take a look at the results of a recent study on the return on library investment in content. The meeting will close with a look at the future of higher education and how that future is driving the acquisition and divestiture of content across the publishing community (see agenda at http://nfais.org/event?eventID=522). Why attend? Online learning is being taken to a whole new level by the combined forces of technology, financial pressures due to rising tuition and steep student loans, and future space limitations on existing campuses. Massive open online courses (MOOCS) are transforming education[1]. E-textbooks and new forms of courseware are replacing traditional teaching resources and are now shaping how content will be packaged and distributed to colleges and universities in the not-too-distant future. Indeed, at the 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, 93% of the attendees of a session on these trends agreed that their organization's current practices for content packaging and delivery to academia will be impacted! Understanding the potential impact of these trends is essential to all content providers and librarians. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available for individuals and for groups of three or more from the same organization. Group registrations can be a mix of onsite and virtual attendees, with a small food charge added for those attending onsite. Members of Sister Societies (CENDI, ISCTI, AAUP, NISO, ASIS&T, SSP, AAP/PSP, and LYRASIS) are eligible for discounts (see agenda and registration form at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=522). For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. [1] Waldrop, M. Mitchell, "Campus 2.0: Massive open online courses are transforming higher education - and providing fodder for scientific research," Nature, Vol. 495, March 14, 2013 NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community _____ _____ _____ [1] Waldrop, M. Mitchell, "Campus 2.0: Massive open online courses are transforming higher education - and providing fodder for scientific research," Nature, Vol. 495, March 14, 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Wed Apr 24 09:13:25 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:13:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nfais-l] Library Discovery Technology Message-ID: <1366809205.993411127@webmail.nfais.org> NFAIS members may want to keep themselves apprised of this initiative: Please find below information about an invitation to tender for a study to assess the impact of Library Discovery Technology on content usage. The research is being sponsored by UKSG with the support of Jisc. PRESS RELEASE: 24th April 2013 UKSG and Jisc collaborate on a new research study and have issued an invitation to tender Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage UKSG, with the support of Jisc, announced today that they wish to invite tenders for a research study assessing the impact of library discovery technology on electronic content usage in the scholarly information community. The aims/purpose of the study are: ? to evaluate the impact that library discovery technologies (such as link resolvers and web-scale resource discovery services) have on the usage of academic resources ? to provide evidence to determine if there is a case for (a) investment in discovery technologies by libraries and (b) engagement with library discovery technologies by publishers and others in the academic information supply chain (unless no positive impact is found, in which case to provide evidence to this effect) ? to provide recommendations for actions that libraries, publishers and others in the academic information supply chain should take to engage with such technologies to best support the discovery of resources for teaching, learning and research ? to identify additional research, data, discussion, initiatives or other activities required that will support the implementation of the findings of this study. Ed Pentz, Research Officer for UKSG and CEO of CrossRef said ?the use of library discovery technologies has grown enormously over the last couple of years and many libraries have anecdotally reported (and in some cases provided evidence for) significant increases in usage of content as a result of their implementation. However, there still is very little publicly available information evidencing the impact of such technology. The aim is that this research project will give publishers, libraries and other content providers the means to assess the impact of these technologies on usage of their content?. The deadline for tenders is 12 noon UK time on Monday June 3rd, 2013. Bidders may be required to support their tender with an in-person presentation and if so then these will be held on a date in June to be determined. The final work under this contract should be completed bySunday 6th October 2013. More information and the tender document can be found at [http://www.uksg.org/researchstudy] www.uksg.org/researchstudy ENDS About UKSG The UKSG mission is to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. We are the only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors. About Jisc is a registered charity working on behalf of UK higher education, further education and skills to champion the use of digital technologies. Historically, JISC stood for Joint Information Systems Committee but over the last decade we have evolved and as a company we are now known as Jisc. Further information about Jisc is available at [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus.aspx] http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus.aspx. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Wed Apr 24 13:42:20 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:42:20 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Registration closes tomorrow for Workshop on Trends in Higher Education Message-ID: <019801ce4113$13f4afb0$3bde0f10$@org> REMINDER: Registration Closes tomorrow at noon for the NFAIS Workshop: Trends in Higher Education: Content, Services, and Business Models (Onsite and Virtual Registrations Available). Registration will close tomorrow at 12:00pm EDST for the NFAIS workshop, Trends In Higher Education: Content, Services, and Business Models. The workshop is scheduled to take place on Friday, April 26th, from 9:00am - 5:00pm EDST in Philadelphia, PA. It will provide an overview of the current educational trends sweeping college and university campuses. It will take a look at a case study on the adoption of MOOCs at a major university, new forms of content such as open textbooks and e-textbook adoption, and how traditional publishers are packaging their content for today's new "classrooms." In addition, the workshop will take a look at the results of a recent study on the return on library investment in content. The meeting will close with a look at the future of higher education and how that future is driving the acquisition and divestiture of content across the publishing community (see agenda at http://nfais.org/event?eventID=522). Why attend? Online learning is being taken to a whole new level by the combined forces of technology, financial pressures due to rising tuition and steep student loans, and future space limitations on existing campuses. Massive open online courses (MOOCS) are transforming education[1]. E-textbooks and new forms of courseware are replacing traditional teaching resources and are now shaping how content will be packaged and distributed to colleges and universities in the not-too-distant future. Indeed, at the 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, 93% of the attendees of a session on these trends agreed that their organization's current practices for content packaging and delivery to academia will be impacted! Understanding the potential impact of these trends is essential to all content providers and librarians. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available for individuals and for groups of three or more from the same organization. Group registrations can be a mix of onsite and virtual attendees, with a small food charge added for those attending onsite. Members of Sister Societies (CENDI, ISCTI, AAUP, NISO, ASIS&T, SSP, AAP/PSP, and LYRASIS) are eligible for discounts (see agenda and registration form at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=522). For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. [1] Waldrop, M. Mitchell, "Campus 2.0: Massive open online courses are transforming higher education - and providing fodder for scientific research," Nature, Vol. 495, March 14, 2013 NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community _____ [1] Waldrop, M. Mitchell, "Campus 2.0: Massive open online courses are transforming higher education - and providing fodder for scientific research," Nature, Vol. 495, March 14, 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Apr 25 14:21:59 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:21:59 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Text Mining - NFAIS Webinar May 15th Message-ID: <020e01ce41e1$c6e6bae0$54b430a0$@org> NFAIS Webinar: Text Mining: What it is and How to Get Started (May 15, 2013) On May 15, 2013 NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar from 11:00am - 12:30pm EDST that will take at look at a report on text mining and scholarly publishing that was published by the Publishing Research Consortium earlier this year. Our featured speaker will be the author of the report, Jonathan Clark, an independent advisor formerly with Elsevier as well as the former Chair and Director of the International DOI Foundation. Why Attend? Mining existing content to unearth new, valuable insights is becoming an essential tool in the ongoing quest by publishers to provide information seekers with more targeted, relevant answers to their queries. At the recently-held 2013 NFAIS Annual conference, data mining of both textual and non-textual content was a major topic and 43% of the attendees reported that their organizations are actively involved in some form of information mining initiatives. This is a hot topic not to be ignored! Some of the key discussion points will be: . What is text mining? What is data mining? How might attendees differentiate between the two activities? . Why should content providers be considering text mining as a part of their business model? . How do the different purposes of various scientific communities shape the activity of text-mining? . What role has computational linguistics played in the development of modern text mining? . How might this approach to a body of content support both enriched content as well as discovery? . Are there preferred forms of data against which to run text-mining applications? If so, what are they? Is this an area in flux? . What's involved in implementing text mining against a particular literature? . What do content providers need to consider prior to opening up their content for this purpose? What do researchers need to consider before approaching content providers for access? . Is there a role for libraries to play in aiding researchers and research communities seeking to further develop text mining technologies for a particular usage? . What are the challenges to be faced in text mining? . What are the copyright concerns surrounding text mining? If you or your staff want to learn more about text/data mining and how it can improve your products and services (enhancing content, adding links, insights for new products, etc,), register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $105, Sister Society members pay $115, and non-members pay $125. An unlimited number of staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate for a group fee of $255. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $275, and from a non-member organization is $295. The registration form is available at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=521. For more information contact Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: