Walt Crawford writes “Sorry for the late notice, but:
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:1 (January 2004) is now available for downloading at
http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ4i1.pdf
This 26-page issue, PDF as usual (sorry, but there will be some bigger-than-20-page issues this year) includes the following:
Walt Crawford writes “Sorry for the late notice, but:
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:1 (January 2004) is now available for downloading at
http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ4i1.pdf
This 26-page issue, PDF as usual (sorry, but there will be some bigger-than-20-page issues this year) includes the following:
*Bibs & Blather (looking forward & back, plus weblog blather
*First Have Something to Say: 15: Breaks and Blocks (the third and final free chapter)
*Scholarly Article Access (PLoS publicity and feedback; other OA notes; and why this is the final Scholarly Article Access)
*Following Up (Martin Luther King, Jr. library; DVD compatibility; Amazon’s Search in the Book and swamping)
*Ebooks, Etext and PoD (the ebook biz, elibraries, devices)
*Copyright Currents (DMCA exemptions, the SunnComm follies, more music stuff, SCO and Linux)
*A Scholarly Access Perspective: Tipping Point for the Big Deal? (Elsevier, ScienceDirect, Cell Press, and academia)
Fair warning: In addition to this oversize issue, it’s highly probable that a special issue will appear before ALA Midwinter.”
Titles. Headlines. Layout.
Better titles, headlines are needed for each article. It’s an interesting compilation though. It would be easier to read with a better layout and better titles, headlines for each piece.
ODP weblog categories
I edit at dmoz.org, and I have gone through that LIS weblog category now and then looking for dead or hopelessly abandoned blogs. I’m glad that someone has noticed that most of the listings are for active blogs. We try to err on the inclusive side, not culling a blog until it’s really obvious that it’s out of date and not likely to be updated.
Overall, I’m proud of the collection. I think that librarian types tend to write better and find more interesting material than most. The editor who does nearly all of the work in those categories is planetneutral who has Open Stacks, a neat weblog of his own.
More descriptive titles, headlines are needed.
More descriptive titles, headlines are needed for each article in Cites & Insights.∞ü
A better summary on the first page.
How about a better summary, more explicit detailing of the content of each issue of Cites & Insights on the first page!
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