Broken-Link Reports from SFX Users: How Publishers,Vendors and Libraries Can Do Better

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This study analyzes more than 400 SFX broken-link reports sent by users of an academic library. It raises technical issues regarding OpenURL linking in the handling of special journal volume and issue numbers, journal supplemental issues, embargo release dates, book reviews, DOIs, and other areas. It reports on full-text resources with the most broken links, causes of broken links, and the library's responses to users. It also explores how journal publishers, database vendors, and OpenURL vendors can improve the quality of their products and how librarians can better serve users.     

A Whirlwind of Change Data: How Libraries and Vendors Translate Data Into Discovery and Access

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Libraries and vendors share change data to ensure successful discovery and access for users. Change data have increased dramatically and affected data communication, causing barriers to access. Serials data used to be simple: There were new, ceased, and title changes. Data were efficiently exchanged. Now data are complex and difficult to communicate in the digital age. This presentation will discuss the challenges of change data and the ways libraries and vendors are teaming up to calm the whirlwind of change.     

Full-Text Aggregator Database Vendors and Journal Publishers: A Study of a Complex Relationship

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To acquire journal content rights for full-text aggregator databases, database vendors must enter into negotiations and sign contractual agreements with journal publishers. Through a survey, librarians at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs examined vendors and publishers relationships and the impact of those relationships on full-text journal content in aggregator services.     

The New Statistics for Better Science: Ask How Much,How Uncertain,and What Else Is Known

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The “New Statistics” emphasizes effect sizes, confidence intervals, meta-analysis, and the use of Open Science practices. We present three specific ways in which a New Statistics approach can help improve scientific practice: by reducing overconfidence in small samples, by reducing confirmation bias, and by fostering more cautious judgments of consistency. We illustrate these points through consideration of the literature on oxytocin and human trust, a research area that typifies some of the endemic problems that arise with poor statistical practice.     

普查重点调查全面统计怎样配套衔接

国家统计局前两年就提出,要以普查为基础,以重点调查和抽样调查为辅助,配合科学推算的方法,来替代目前的普遍基层填报表,层层汇总,逐级上报的调查方法。但是这一思路的实现在实际操作中遇到不少问题。本文以工业统计调查为例,对普查,重点调查,全面统计之间的相互关系提出一些看法,与同行们共同探讨。提高设计理念,认识三者内涵上的有机联系任何一种调查方法,都有它的特殊作用和局限性,问题是如何扬长避短,衔接配套,有机联系,以最短的时间,最低的成本,最有效的途径,取得最有用的数据,来反映社会经济发展的变化。就这三…     

What Librarians Can Learn from Cable Television: Thoughts on Transformative Business Models and Their Impact on the Business of Libraries

This column explores three issues currently dominating the discourse in the electronic resources field—the big deal, perpetual access, and open access—and draws parallels to events and trends from outside libraries that may provide some insight into where we are headed.     

Serials Spoken Here: Reports of Conferences,Institutes, and Seminars

This quarter's column spans nearly eight months in 2016 and comprises reports from three library conferences. The UKSG 39th Annual Conference and Exhibition took place in the Bournemouth International Center (BIC), April 11 to April 13. The Potomac Technical Processing Librarians 92nd Annual Meeting convened October 21 at the University of Richmond. The Charleston Conference took place in Charleston, SC, October 31 to November 5.     

Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars: Crossroads to the Future

Reports cover the 2006 Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Conference and the 2006 North American Serials Interest Group Conference.