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400+ Tools and innovations in scholarly communication
http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list
"This is a shared database that grew out of the "101 innovation in scholarly communication" project.
When we published the 101 list of selected innovations our database already contained some 200 innovations/tools. The 101 selection was strictly
on innovativeness and thus did not contain recent tools if they where not innovative compared to older ones with the same functionality, even
if the more recent ones were more popular or well-known. The database shared here has dropped that strict innovativeness criterion and thus
contains multiple tools offering bassically the same functionality. The masterfile that this database is derived from is still being worked on.
Additional fields may become available here in a later stage." -- Title page
Academic Librarian Status Wiki
http://academic-librarian-status.wikispaces.com/
"This wiki was created as a place to
gather information about the professional status of academic librarians.
Specifically it is intended as an aid to Rank and Tenure committees, library
administrators, librarian job applicants, and others interested in issues related
to professional status in the library science field."
-- Title page
Annotated Selected Bibliography of Full-Text Web-Based Articles
Relating to Library Instruction
http://suny-lic.pbworks.com/w/page/8201289/Annotated%20Bibliography%20of%20Full-Text%20Web-Based%20Articles%20Relating%20to%20Library%20Instruction
Organized by topic, such as distance
education, evaluation and assessment, teaching methodology, technology
in instruction, and so on.
Annual Library Budget Survey
http://www.pcgplus.com/white-papers/
"Each year, PCG carries out a telephone survey at academic, corporate, medical, and government libraries in order to gather their outlook on
the following year budget cycle. Institutes in North America, Europe and in the Asia Pacific region are contacted." - PCG White Papers
Article-Level Metrics: a SPARC Primer
http://sparc.arl.org/resource/sparc-article-level-metrics-primer
" Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used.
This new SPARC primer is designed to give campus leaders and other interested parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement
established utilities and metrics, and how they might be considered for use in the tenure and promotion process. " - SPARC Blog
Authorea
https://www.authorea.com
"Authorea is the leading collaborative platform to read, write, and publish research." - About us
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/
Because its relevance to the stated
mission of The Research Librarian is rather peripheral, I have
long resisted adding Bartleby.com. However, because it is in my
opinion among the most significant literary contributions to the web
community, I am adding it.
A Brief Guide to the History of the Internet
http://www.investintech.com/content/historyinternet/
Includes an internet timeline as well as links
to variety of histories of the internet.
CC Searchy
https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/
"Creative Commons� �CC Search� project will develop and release an open online search
and re-use tool that will allow high-quality content from the commons to surface in a more seamless and accessible way. " --
About CC Search
ClimateQUAL
http://www.climatequal.org/home
"ClimateQUAL�: Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment
is an assessment of library staff perceptions concerning (a) their library's commitment to the principles of
diversity, (b) organizational policies and procedures, and (c) staff attitudes. It is an online survey with
questions designed to understand the impact perceptions have on service quality in a library setting.
" -- Homepage
Copyright and Fair Use
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Provides links to primary materials;
current legislation, cases, and issues; resources on the Internet; and
an overview of copyright law.
Conservation OnLine (COOL)
http://cool.conservation-us.org/
"CoOL, a project of the
Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text
library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics
of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives
and museum materials." -- Title page
CrossRef Citation Plugin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossref-cite/
For the researching/blogging librarian -
"A WordPress plugin that allows blog entry authors to search CrossRef's metadata using
full or partial citations and then insert the formatted and DOI-linked citation into their blog
posting along with COINs metadata." -- Download page
DataFerrett
https://dataferrett.census.gov/
"DataFerrett is a unique data mining and extraction tool.
DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need.
You can then develop and customize tables. Selecting your results in your table you can create a chart or
graph for a visual presentation into an html page. Save your data in the databasket and
save your table for continued reuse." - Homepage
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/
"DPOE fosters outreach and education about digital
preservation on a global scale, and promotes continuing education and training opportunities
that increase individual and organizational capacity to provide long-term, durable access to
digital content." - Homepage
EigenFactor
http://www.eigenfactor.org/
"A journal's Eigenfactor score is our measure of the journal's total importance to the scientific community. With
all else equal, a journal's Eigenfactor score doubles when it doubles in size. Thus a very large journal such as the Journal of Biological Chemistry which
publishes more than 6,000 articles annually, will have extremely high Eigenfactor scores simply based upon its size. Eigenfactor scores are scaled so that the
sum of the Eigenfactor scores of all journals listed in Thomson's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is 100. In 2006, the journal Nature has the highest
Eigenfactor score, with a score of 1.992. The top thousand journals, as ranked by Eigenfactor score, all have Eigenfactor scores above 0.01." - FAQ
The European Library (formerly Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries)
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/
"The European Library webservice is a portal which
offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both
digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers
free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced."
-- "About Us" page
Google Books Ngram Viewer
https://books.google.com/ngrams
"When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases
have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. "
-- About Ngram Viewer
Google Scholar Library
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=library_setup&continue=/scholar%3Fhl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0,5%26scilib%3D1&hl=en
"Scholar Library, your personal collection of articles in Scholar. You can save articles right
from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search and ranking to quickly find just the one you want -
at any time and from anywhere. You decide what goes into your library and we'll provide all the goodies that come with Scholar search results -
up to date article links, citing articles, related articles, formatted citations, links to your university's subscriptions, and more.
And if you have a public Scholar profile, it's easy to quickly set up your library with the articles you want - with a single click, you can import
all the articles in your profile as well as all the articles they cite."
-- Google Scholar blog, posted 19 Nov 2013
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
https://www.nedcc.org/assets/media/documents/dman.pdf
"An easy-to-use primer on managing digital conversion projects for libraries,
museums, archives, and other collection-holding institutions."
-- "NEDCC Publications" page
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
"An Internet timeline highlighting
some of the key events and technologies which helped shape the Internet
as we know it today." -- "Description" information
Information Literacy Assessment & Advocacy Project (ILAAP)
http://ilaap.ca/
"The Information Literacy Assessment & Advocacy Project
(ILAAP) is an assessment tool designed to investigate the information literacy skills of first and
second-year post-secondary students." -- Homepage
International Federation of Library Associations
and Institutions
http://www.ifla.org/
"IFLA (The International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading
international body representing the interests of library and information
services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and
information profession." -- "About" page
ipl2
http://www.ipl.org/
"ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching
environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have
been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building,
creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that
the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.
"In January 2010, the website "ipl2: information you can trust" was launched, merging the collections of resources
from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites. " -- About ipl2
page
LibQUAL+
http://www.libqual.org/home
"LibQUAL+� is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit,
track, understand, and act upon users' opinions of service quality. These services are offered to the library
community by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). " -- Homepage
Library Fact Sheets (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=libraryfactsheet
Provides factual and statistical
information about libraries, covering such topics as the number of
libraries in the United States, the number of people who work in
libraries, the nation's largest libraries, and so on.
Library History Bibliographies
http://www.ala.org/lhrt/popularresources/libhistorybib/libraryhistory
Compiled by Ed Goedeken of Iowa State
University, these bibliographies from ALA's Library History Round Table
range back to 1990.
Library of Congress Research Tools
http://www.loc.gov/rr/tools.html
"The Library of Congress offers a
wide variety of online databases and Internet resources to the public
via the Web, including its own online catalog. In addition, LC provides
an easy-to-use gateway for searching other institutions' online catalogs
and extensive links to resources on the Internet." -- Title page
Library Publishing Directory
http://www.librarypublishing.org/resources/directory
"Published in October 2013, the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of
the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications
they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged
in this growing field." -- Homepage
Library Publishing Toolkit
http://textbooks.opensuny.org/omp/index.php/IDSProject/catalog/book/25
"The Library Publishing Toolkit looks at the broad and varied
landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers
and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines
opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to content.
" -- Homepage
Library Research Service
http://www.lrs.org/
Mission: "The Library Research
Service (LRS) is a market-driven public-private partnership that
generates research and statistics to inform decision-making in library
and information management."
Goals: "To collaborate with
clients to design and conduct research projects and supply the
results."
Services: "Research design
(secondary analysis of available data, questionnaire, interview,
observation, focus group)." -- "About" page
Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/liblists/liblists.htm
"This document is a compilation of
electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and serials which are of
interest to library professionals and staff." -- Title page
Libweb: Library WWW Servers
http://www.lib-web.org/
Lists and links to the web sites for
libraries in over 100 countries. Includes academic, public,
national, state, regional, special, and school libraries.
LISWiki
https://liswiki.org/
"LISWiki was established
to give the library community a chance to explore the usefulness
of Wikis. It is not intended to replace or detract from the Wikipedia
library and information science articles (or those in the printed LIS
encyclopedias for that matter), but exist as a niche encyclopedia covering
library-related issues." - About LISWiki
Making of America
Cornell site: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/
Michigan site: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Many articles and monographs about
libraries are preserved here. "Making of America (MOA) is a digital
library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology." -- Title
page
Map Librarian's Toolbox
http://www.waml.org/maptools.html
"This page has been compiled to
organize information on frequently asked questions related to Map
Librarianship into one resource." -- Title page
Mary Minow's Map to Library Law
http://www.librarylaw.com/
Lists resources related to libraries
and legislative matters that concern them (copyright, disability laws,
freedom of information, etc.).
Mendeley
https://www.mendeley.com/
"Organize, share and discover research papers. Like iTunesTM for research
papers. Mendeley is a free research management tool for desktop and web." -- Homepage
Metrics Toolkit
http://www.metrics-toolkit.org/
"The Metrics Toolkit is a resource
for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating
and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly
understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it�s good
match for your impact question." -- Homepage
MINES for Libraries
http://www.minesforlibraries.org/home
"Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services (MINES) is an online,
transaction-based survey that collects data on the purpose of use of electronic resources and on the demographics of
users. " -- Homepage
National Academy Press
http://www.nap.edu/topic/?browse=1
Browse or search over 1500 full-text
books in this online library.
New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum
http://library.umassmed.edu/necdmc/index
"NECDMC is an instructional tool for teaching data management best practices to undergraduates,
graduate students, and researchers in the health sciences, sciences, and engineering disciplines. Each of the curriculum�s six online
instructional modules aligns with the National Science Foundation�s data management plan recommendations and addresses universal data
management challenges. Included in the curriculum is a collection of actual research cases that provides a discipline specific context
to the content of the instructional modules. These cases come from a range of research settings such as clinical research, biomedical
labs, an engineering project, and a qualitative behavioral health study. Additional research cases will be added to the collection on an
ongoing basis. Each of the modules can be taught as a stand-alone class or as part of a series of classes. Instructors are welcome to
customize the content of the instructional modules to meet the learning needs of their students and the policies and resources at their
institutions." -- About page
NewPages: Alternatives in Print and Media
http://www.newpages.com/
"NewPages is the Portal of
Independents! News, information and guides to independent bookstores,
independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals,
independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more." --
Title page
NISO Standards Online
http://www.niso.org/publications/standards
Free PDF downloads of some interesting
and useful NISO standards, such as Permanence of Paper for
Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives, Interlibrary
Loan Data Elements, and Library Statistics.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_A.aspx
Desperately needs partitioning, but
very useful. "ODLIS is designed as a reference resource for
library and information science professionals, university students and
faculty, other library users, and the general reader. The primary
criterion for including a new term is whether a librarian or other
information professional might reasonably be expected to encounter it at
some point in his (or her) career. The technical vocabulary of
publishing, printing, book history, and computer science has been
included when, in the author's judgment, a definition might prove
helpful, not only to library and information professionals, but also to
laypersons." -- "About" page
ORCID
https://orcid.org/
"ORCID provides a persistent digital
identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through
integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission,
supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities
ensuring that your work is recognized." -- Homepage
On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in
Research
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4917
"Though 'On Being a Scientist' is
aimed primarily at graduate students and beginning researchers, its
lessons apply to all scientists at all stages of their scientific
careers." -- Preface
On-Line Books Page: Z Bibliography and Library Science
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?Z
"The On-Line Books Page is a
directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet."
-- "About" page
Open Access Button
https://www.openaccessbutton.org
"We instantly, legally find you access to the
articles and data you need. We're trying to make paywalls a thing of past and share all
research data, one request at a time." - About
Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10691
"The National Library of
Australia's Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) initiative
aims to provide mechanisms that will help to ensure that information in
digital form is managed with appropriate consideration for preservation
and future access." -- "About"
page
Project Information Literacy
http://www.projectinfolit.org/
"Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a large-scale, national study about early
adults and their research habits, conducted in partnership with the University of Washington's iSchool." -- Homepage
Recommended Formats Statement
http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/
"Recommended Formats Statement identifies hierarchies of the physical and technical characteristics of
creative formats, both analog and digital, which will best meet the needs of all concerned, maximizing the chances for survival and continued
accessibility of creative content well into the future." -- Homepage
Repositories of Primary Sources
http://webpages.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
"A listing of over 4300 websites
describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical
photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All
links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Those added
within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}." -- Title page
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/research-beyond-google/
Just what it says: a monster list of online research resources that you or may not have thought to use.
Research Methods Knowledge Base
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.htm
"The Research Methods Knowledge
Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the
topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in
social research methods." -- Title page
Research Randomizer
https://www.randomizer.org/
"This web site is designed to
assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random
sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions. Research
Randomizer can be used in a wide variety of situations, including
psychological experimentation, medical trials, and survey research." -- Title page
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
"This page lists FREE resources
for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on
"how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys,
focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these
links are to resources that can be read over the web. A few, like the
GAO books, are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you
live in the US), as well as read over the web." -- Title page
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
"The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected
English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly
electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The bibliography covers a wide range of topics, such as digital
copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital repositories, e-books, e-journals, license agreements,
metadata, and open access." -- Homepage
Scholarly Societies Project: Library and Information Science
http://www.references.net/societies/libinfsci_soc.html
From the Scholarly Societies Project, this page lists and links to
professional societies in the LIS field.
State Library Web Sites
http://www.publiclibraries.com/state_library.htm
A listing of state library agency web
sites.
Termination of Transfer Tool
https://rightsback.org/
"The Termination of Transfer (�ToT�) tool,
a collaboration between Authors Alliance and Creative Commons, empowers authors to regain control of their work.
This tool enables authors to learn about termination of transfer provisions, which allow authors to terminate licensing arrangements
they have made with publishers that have prevented them from sharing openly or otherwise re-releasing their works. Anyone, including artists,
photographers, scholars, and scientists, can use this new tool to discover more about eligibility and timing requirements for the right to take
back rights previously assigned away. While this tool is currently U.S.-based only,
Creative Commons plans to internationalize it for use worldwide." - About
Topicgraph
https://labs.jstor.org/topicgraph/
"Topicgraph is a beta tool built by JSTOR Labs
as part of its Reimagining the Monograph project. It helps researchers explore scholarly
books by letting them understand at a glance all the topics covered within a book and then
navigate directly to those pages about topics they�re researching." -About
Trends in e-books in the library market
http://www.pcgplus.com/white-papers/
"PCG and Springer have partnered to produce a new white paper titled �Scholarly eBooks: Best Practices to Encourage High Usage�.
PCG conducted a number of in-depth interviews with institutional librarians to understand different approaches to successfully
promoting eBooks and library resources in general. " - PCG White Papers
Trends in Journal Subscription Renewals and Cancellations
http://www.pcgplus.com/white-papers/
"These reports provide a detailed example of trends affecting journal subscription cancellations and renewals
for scholarly publishers since 2003. Publishers can use this information and the strategic suggestions provided as a
starting point for considering the impact of such research on their strategy." - PCG White Papers
Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist
http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf
The Center for Research Libraries' "Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC):
Criteria and Checklist" is a revision and expansion of The Audit
Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories, originally developed by RLG-NARA Digital Repository
Certification Task Force.
United States Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/
"Here you will find all our key
publications, including informational circulars; application forms for
copyright registration; links to the copyright law and to the homepages
of other copyright-related organizations; news of what the Office is
doing, including Congressional testimony and press releases; our latest
regulations; a link to our online copyright records cataloged since
1978; and much more." -- "Welcome" page
Unpaywall
http://unpaywall.org/
Browser extension for finding OA articles.
"We find fulltext for 50-85% of articles, depending on their topic and year of
publication. We think that's a game-changer for the publishing industry.
Now that most articles are free, why subscribe? Over the longer term, we'll
keep getting even better as mandatory open access requirements begin to take
effect in the US, UK, Europe, and elsewhere. " - FAQ
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