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This section features reviews of recent books of interest to SSP members. SSP earns up to 10% from the purchase of any book featured on these pages. Click on the cover art or title to access the book on Amazon.
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Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources
Becky Albitz
List price: $69.95 (Paperback)
Book Description
"Libraries are licensing information resources in greater numbers than ever before. In order to negotiate and manage the ever-increasing resulting number of licenses resulting from this trend, libraries are either establishing Electronic Resource (ER) Librarian positions, or have been assigning these responsibilities to current staff. In either case, few resources are available to acclimate new ER librarians to the diverse responsibilities associated with their position. Helping fill this gap, this book offers an introduction and practical guide to the standard responsibilities ER librarians address daily. These include: knowing the rights libraries have as consumers of information under United States copyright law, understanding licensing terms and conditions, negotiating licenses to support the specific needs of the subscribing institution, and managing these resources once subscribed. Although every college and university is different, this book provides a framework within which the new ER librarian can learn the basics behind negotiating and managing their information resources effectively."
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Christine L. Borgman
List price: $35.00 (Hardcover)
Book Description
"Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in the Digital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century.
"Borgman describes the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings. No framework for the impending 'data deluge' exists comparable to that for publishing. Analyzing scholarly practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Borgman compares each discipline's approach to infrastructure issues. In the process, she challenges the many stakeholders in the scholarly infrastructure — scholars, publishers, libraries, funding agencies, and others — to look beyond their own domains to address the interaction of technical, legal, economic, social, political, and disciplinary concerns. Scholarship in the Digital Age will provoke a stimulating conversation among all who depend on a rich and robust scholarly environment."
Developing Open Access Journals: A Practical Guide
David J. Solomon
List price: $69.95 (Paperback)
Book Description
"This book provides a practical guide to developing and maintaining an electronic open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Creating such journals requires a great deal of specialized knowledge that spans library science, web development, intellectual property rights, and publishing. The author, Dr. Solomon, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University. He started an open access electronic journal, Medical Education Online, which has grown rapidly in recent years."
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