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Interactive discussion with the owner of an e-book reader

Librarians and open access: the case of E-LIS

  • Authors: Darries, Fatima
  • Date: 2010-05-17
  • Subjects: Open access , Digital libraries , e-Publishing , Institutional repositories
  • Type: Presentation
  • Identifier: uj:1571 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3304
  • Description: The literature abounds with information on Open Access. Librarians rally to the cause as part of their responsibility of providing access to information. But what are librarians doing to further the cause of Open Access in their own discipline? E-LIS, short for Eprints in Library and Information Science, aims to further the Open Access philosophy by making available papers in LIS and related fields. It is a free-access international repository and archive, in line with the Free Online Scholarship movement (FOS) and the Eprints movement. The purpose of the E-LIS archive is to make full text documents visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet. Librarians can search and archive their own publications and presentations in E-LIS free of charge. E-LIS promotes self-archiving in LIS (not only in E-LIS) and offer an open archive to authors without acces to an institutional repository. To those who do have an institutional repository it offers the added advantage of an archive that is discipline specific to LIS and increases the visibility for authors in a global respository.
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Marketing implications for libraries in a virtual environment

Information and knowledge management in support of legal research in a digital information environment

  • Authors: Du Plessis, Tanya
  • Date: 2009-01-08T13:03:45Z
  • Subjects: Knowledge management , Information technology , Information superhighway , Digital libraries , Law libraries , Law librarians , Law firms , Legal research , Management information systems
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:14754 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1834
  • Description: D. Litt. et Phil. , The main research question addressed by this study is whether the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has an effect on the practice of law, and specifically whether information and knowledge management affects the process of legal research. Various issues are considered in this regard, including what the concept of knowledge management (KM) entails in a law firm and what the current KM trends are in South African law firms. To this extent an investigation follows of the global trends in the application of ICTs for legal research purposes and what the specific applications are of KM in support of legal research. Furthermore, this study investigates how information technology applications and KM systems and strategies can support the legal research process and what the benefits of KM are to legal research. This entails a study of the unique characteristics of legal research in a digital information environment and of the challenges legal researchers face in a changing information environment. Subsequently the skills and tools that are required for effective digital legal research are discussed. This research also considers the effect the changing information environment has on the role of the legal information professional, which includes an investigation of the reasons why legal information professionals can and should support lawyers in their legal research activities. Specifically, this study considers the roles, skills and competencies of legal information professionals as knowledge managers, digital librarians and trainers of legal research skills in a changing information environment. Lastly, this study investigates whether current legal research skills training offers useful guidelines to future digital legal researchers.
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Open access publishing: placing libraries on the high wire

  • Authors: Peters, Dale
  • Date: 2010-05-17
  • Subjects: Open access publishing , Electronic publishing , Digital libraries , e-Books , e-Journals
  • Type: Presentation
  • Identifier: uj:1570 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3303
  • Description: Electronic publishing currently reflects a vision of the future in which libraries face a balancing act, like trapeze artists on a high wire. This paper examines the challenges faced by academic research libraries, in the face of growing open architecture infrastructures for the access of digital information resources over the Internet. New distribution models are emerging for e-Books and e-Journals, which present a valuable opportunity to reassess library strategy at a time when the volume and range of library services has expanded far more rapidly than growth in budgets. Dramatic changes in the business model of academic publishing are challenging the role of the library in the university, and forcing some tough decisions between maintaining staffing - and resultant service levels - or developing infrastructure for affordable e-resource delivery. PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), is an exploration of these changes in unique collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers that challenges the traditional role of the library in the publishing chain. The PEER project investigates the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of the research landscape. While the PEER investigation is ongoing, early findings would suggest that the expiry of the publishers’ embargo period opens up the possibility of e-journal distribution via repository infrastructures. Timely planning is required, in developing strategic direction towards limiting the cost and maintaining the sustainability of online information resources.
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