- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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Is Our CD/DVD Collection Worth All This? A Cost-per-use Study of Accompanying Materials
the corrected proof is up and ready to read at the journal of academic librarianship. if you don’t subscribe to the journal but would like to read, send me an email. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2007.05.007
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Addendum, not Amendment
In revising the file for my Amendment to Publication Agreement I decided to change the title to be an addendum rather than an amendment. An “amendment” suggests to me that the terms of an already-executed agreement are changed as a … Continue reading
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Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine
how cool is that? simple, direct, and clear. i like their clause 5, which states that if the publisher doesn’t return a countersigned copy and publishes the work it means that they agree to the terms in the addendum. now … Continue reading
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my first amendment to publication agreement
i got a chapter accepted for publication (yay!) and am preparing the packet of materials to send to the editors, including the publication agreement. i will be attaching the amendment to the publication agreement that i made. a particularly disagreeable … Continue reading
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NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group
the SERU working group has put together a draft of best practices (titled SERU Framework–version 0.3); it is posted on their website at http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/index.html. this draft provides a clear outline of what the issues are in communications between libraries and … Continue reading
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publish your work in the past
a researcher had her work accepted for publication in 2006 in a prestigious journal, but instead of it being published in a 2006 issue it was published in a 2005 issue. the 2005 issue was published in 2006. in this … Continue reading
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