Preserving Open Access Journals: A Literature Review

This literature review addresses certain questions concerning the preservation of free, born-digital scholarly materials. It covers recent thinking on the current state of preservation efforts of born-digital materials; the range of actors involved in significant preservation initiatives of these artefacts; the perceived barriers preventing open access materials from benefiting from existing preservation efforts; initiatives that may enable local, small-scale preservation efforts to be undertaken; the challenges and opportunities posed to preservation by new models of scholarship such as open access datasets, reference sharing and annotation, collaborative authoring and community peer review. The review identifies representative international collaborative preservation initiatives, describes their goals and results, their specific preservation strategie, and their applicability to the preservation of born digital open access materials

Preserving Open Access Journals: A Literature Review

This literature review addresses certain questions concerning the preservation of free, born-digital scholarly materials. It covers recent thinking on the current state of preservation efforts of born-digital materials; the range of actors involved in significant preservation initiatives of these artefacts; the perceived barriers preventing open access materials from benefiting from existing preservation efforts; initiatives that may enable local, small-scale preservation efforts to be undertaken; the challenges and opportunities posed to preservation by new models of scholarship such as open access datasets, reference sharing and annotation, collaborative authoring and community peer review. The review identifies representative international collaborative preservation initiatives, describes their goals and results, their specific preservation strategie, and their applicability to the preservation of born digital open access materials

Libraries as Publishers: New Roles for Libraries

Libraries in the 21st century are beginning to assume roles and responsibilities further up the research chain as participants in the production and dissemination of scholarly communication. This essay examines several library-based publishing initiatives and envisions a new, ‘virtuous circle’ of scholarly research and dissemination where a portion of the collective library purchasing power would be dedicated to the production of new scholarship rather than the duplication of the same collections worldwide

The Accessibility of Open Access Materials in Libraries

Librarians often champion open access (OA) as a sustainable alternative to the current scholarly communications system, which is widely accepted as being in a state of crisis. However, there has been little insight into how far libraries are making this support tangible by providing access to OA publications in their OPACs and other library pathways. This study conducted a large-scale survey of US library holdings to determine the extent that records of journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals are held by WorldCat-affiliated Academic libraries. It then followed up with a questionnaire inquiring into the attitudes and practices of librarians from 100 libraries that were ranked highest out of the total population in terms of their holdings of DOAJ journals. The main objective of the study was to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing the incorporation of OA materials into a university library’s holdings, where and by what means they typically appear on library websites, and how librarians feel about having these materials in their collections. Our findings suggest that the majority (54%) of WorldCat-affiliated US academic libraries have at least one record for a DOAJ journal in their holdings. It additionally suggests that librarians from institutions holding high numbers of DOAJ records generally have very positive attitudes towards OA, even though most of the respondents from these institutions were largely unaware that their holdings were more heavily weighted towards DOAJ records than at comparable institutions. Regarding library selection of OA titles, a journal’s subject matter was highlighted as a more important consideration than its access model. Additional findings suggest that large publishers of OA journals tend to have a higher representation in library holdings than smaller independent publishers

The Role of Libraries in Emerging Models of Scholarly Communication

Will transformations in technology, media and scholarly cultures lead to the declining importance or ‘irrelevance’ of the university library, or can these changes be envisioned in terms of what cultural critic Ajit Pyati has called a greater “democratic participation of libraries”?1 By this, Pyati has in mind the library as an “active shaper” of technology for the progressive end of increased information access for all. Integral to this vision is an expansion rather than contraction in library roles, particularly in the arena of knowledge dissemination. In this view, shared by Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication for the ARL, libraries could assume a role and responsibility further up the research chain and participate in the scholarly communication taking place during the research process itself rather than, as presently, “sitting at the end of the line.”2 In this presentation, we explore a role for university libraries as active producers of scholarly knowledge. Using a case study of a faculty-library publishing partnership, we describe how scholars, librarians and library developers of open source publishing technologies such as the Public Knowledge Project are creatively transforming the scholarly communications landscape and generating innovative solutions to the current crisis in humanities publishing. The collaborating partners are the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), the Open Humanities Press (OHP) and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). SPO was formed in 2001 with the goal of developing low-cost, scalable mechanisms for electronic publication and distribution of journals, monographs and other digital scholarly content. A scholar-led, virtual imprint, OHP launched in 2008 to address the growing inequality of readers' access to the scholarly literature and materials necessary for research in the humanities. Begun in 1998 by Professor John Willinsky, PKP is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments. The partners envision the outcome of this collaboration as an extensible and transferable model for how libraries and faculty might work together to break new ground in support of emergent new forms of the scholarly conversation

Truth, Knowledge, and Homeopathic Magic in The Golden Bowl

Chapter 1

Love

For Badiou, love must be regarded in terms of an exceptional logic that simultaneously confirms the philosophical counting operation, while generating another number that is not a product of ordinatio

Forfeits and Comparisons: Turgenev’s First Love

Love has so honeycombed today’s ethical discourse that it’s as though we havebeen taken hostage by an Other whose escalating demands on our affection now carry thefull force and weight of the original super-egoic injunction from which Freud sofamously recoiled.1 Yet the proper answer to this loving impasse is not, as Slavoj Žižekhas recently suggested, to respond with a fully “ethical” violence that shatters the lovingcircle but, rather, more love

Portrait of an act: aesthetics and ethics in The Portrait of a Lady

Taking issue with the dominant critical tendency to view The Portrait of a Lady through the aesthetic lens of a novel of education, the author argues that Isabel's decision to return to Osmond must be recognized for an explicitly ethical act in a Lacanian sense, whose ultimate function is to guarantee the James heroine's transcendental freedom