Library News

Peer to Peer Library Dialog
Wednesday April 7
Noon - 1pm
1916A Room - E.S. Bird Library

Join Susan Berteaux, Head of Syracuse University Science & Technology Libraries, and Betsy Elkins, Library Director at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's Moon Library, for a Peer to Peer discussion entitled Open Access Journals: The Answer to High Publisher Costs?

Stop by for a discussion touching on questions such as:

• What are the benefits and challenges in developing open access models for scholarly communication?

• Will titles from PLoS (Public Library of Science) and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) help lower subscription costs for libraries and increase access for patrons?

• Will faculty publish in these journals?

• What other issues surround this new landscape in scholarly communication?
  

Those interested in reading more about this topic are also welcome to review the following articles (all available via SUMMIT Catalog--online course reserve-"LBR 100"):

Graham, Peter S. Open Access to Scholarship--New Opportunities for the University. The Library Connection (Winter 2003-4): 1-3
http://libwww.syr.edu/information/libassoc/connection/winter0304.pdf

Doyle, Helen J. The Public Library of Science: Open Access from the Ground Up. C&RL News, 65(3), 2004
http://www.ala.org/ACRLPrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=march04&Template=/ContentManagement/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=57423

Guterman, Lila. The Promise and Peril of Open Access. The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 30, 2004): A10-14

Reed, Christopher. Just Say No to Exploitative Publishers of Science Journals. The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 20, 2004): B16

Open Access News blog: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

The ""Public Library of Science" Web Site: http://www.plos.org

SPARC Open Access Newsletter: http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa

Hope to see you there.

Peer to Peer Library Dialog is a staff initiated program of monthly discussion about trends and current topics of interest in librarianship. Send comments or questions to Michael Pasqualoni mjpasqua@syr.edu

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Michael Pasqualoni
Reference Librarian - Political Science,
Public Administration, International Relations & Economics
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
315) 443-3715

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Lexis Nexis databases are currently unavailable due to a campus router problem. Lexis Technical Support has been contacted and they will follow-up with the appropriate technical support here at the University.

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On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library, Robert Phillips will give a talk and a reading from his forthcoming collection of poems, Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Phillips (M.A., Syracuse University, 1962) is Rebecca and John Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he also served as director of the graduate creative writing program from 1991 to 1996. A prize-winning poet, fiction writer, and critic, Phillips is the author of more than 30 books, including poetry collections Spinach Days and Breakdown Lane, and short-story collections News About People You Know, Public Landing Revisited, and Land of Lost Content. Notable among his critical works are editions of the letters of William Goyen and Delmore Schwartz.

Phillips’s honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, an Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, membership in the Texas Institute of Letters, and a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal for distinguished alumni achievement.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Note: Immediately following Phillips’s talk and reception, there will be a special program, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium, to honor Chancellor Kenneth A. Shaw and Mary Ann Shaw for their 13 years of dedicated service to the University. All are welcome.

CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu

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Several SUL staff members have been awarded the SU Exemplary Achievement Award for their work as members of the WebChat Action Team in implementing WebChat. These awards are given annually by the Office of Human Resources to acknowledge outstanding employee contributions to Syracuse University.

Comprised of Tasha Cooper, Tom Keays, Donna Sullivan, and Suzanne Preate, the Team was nominated for the award by their Project Manager, Elaine Coppola.

The Web Chat Action Team was formed in the summer of 2001 to fulfill the goal of extending reference service through innovative service delivery using interactive chat. The Team was asked to develop the pilot reference service and "to assess the need for, response to, and effectiveness of the service" (Web Chat Action Plan Propoasl) and to assess policies and procedures, software selection, and patron and staff responses.

The Library's users ultimately enjoy the benefits created from the initiative and hard work of this team and other efforts to create new programs and choices for meeting information needs. It is fitting that the University recognized their achievement. Congratulations to Tasha, Donna, Tom, Suzanne, and Elaine.

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Friday, April 2, 2004
4pm
Hillyer Room
E.S. Bird Library

J.P. Carley, Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto, will lecture on April 2, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library on the Syracuse University campus. His lecture is titled "The Libraries of King Henry VIII: The Ones that Got Away."

Celebrated for his magnificence, daring in his defiance of papal authority, and restless in his choice of wives, Henry VIII was also one of the most intelligent and widely read monarchs of the Renaissance. In the wake of the destruction of the monasteries, he acquired a vast quantity of books, and with them filled the shelves of his palace libraries. His is one of the foundation collections of the British Library-though, over the centuries, many interesting items escaped to the New World.

J.P. Carley specializes in the late medieval and early modern period. His previous work has included editions of texts from Glastonbury Abbey and a general history of the Abbey. He has co-edited a collection of essays on the Tudor translator Henry Parker, Lord Morley; and he is one of the editors in the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues series published by the British Library; The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives is a companion piece to his volume on The Libraries of King Henry VIII in this series.

This event is part of The History of the Book Seminar Series at Syracuse University, sponsored by the University Library; the Dean's Office, College of Arts and Sciences; the Departments of Anthropology English, History, Philosophy, and Religion, and of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and the School of Information Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Columbia International Affairs Online has alerted the Library that CIAO [Columbia International Affairs Online] will be unavailable Sunday, March 14th from 1PM to 5PM EST [Eastern Standard Time in the USA]. At this time, Columbia webfile servers will be undergoing scheduled maintenance.

Meagan Cooke
Production Editor
Columbia International Affairs Online

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Thursday, April 8th, 2004
2:30 - 4:00pm
E.S. Bird Library, 1916 Room

Find out how to identify external and internal threats to your institution's cybersecurity, overcome system vulnerabilities, and act aggressively to establish cyber-defense. If you're nervous about your institution's vulnerability to hack attack or your system being used to attack others, you have good cause. Higher education is especially susceptible because of its extensive computing power, the large amounts of information it has on hand, and the relatively open access that is part of its culture. Indeed, the "it can't happen here" attitude has all but disappeared in light of an increasing number of system violations and cyber crimes by external hackers as well as dishonest, disgruntled, irresponsible or un-informed students and staff.

According to one expert, simply using the procedural and technological safeguards that are available now would make systems much more secure. Indeed, one study says that 90 percent of cyber attacks in the near future will take advantage of vulnerabilities for which a patch is already available. Of course cybersecurity must involve all users, not just system administrators.

By participating in this teleconference, college administrators and technical staff will gain essential information on:

• doing risk assessments
• identifying the most common vulnerabilities
• dealing with an attack if it occurs
• the importance of creating, implementing and policing an institutional policy
• that raises awareness of the problems and gets essential information to all users

Produced in cooperation with the American Association of Community Colleges.
Co-sponsored by Syracuse University Library and Faculty Computing & Media Services

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Syracuse University Library recently purchased the 1962-1997 online backfiles of Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. Similar in scope to the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie is one of the prime chemistry journals in the world, with a 2002 ISI Impact Factor of 7.671.

Published weekly, Angewandte Chemie delivers a mix of Review Articles, Highlights, and Communications. The Reviews summarize the important results of recent research on topical subjects in all branches of chemistry, point to unresolved problems, and discuss possible developments. The Highlights provide concise evaluations of current trends in chemical research. The Communications are critically selected and report on the latest research results. Angewandte Chemie also regularly publishes Nobel lectures in chemistry and related fields.

The journal and its backfiles are available through Wiley Interscience @ http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=26737

For further information, contact Tom Keays in the Science and Technology Library, at 443-9769 or htkeays@syr.edu.

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Syracuse University Library subscribes to Project Euclid, an initiative in electronic publishing by the Cornell University Library. Euclid is specifically designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership arrangement.

Full-text journals are available electronically through Euclid are in the areas of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. The complete list of journals maybe found at http://projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/TitleShort

Project Euclid is a growing collection and new titles will continue to be added to the list.

"Euclid is committed to community standards and interoperability. The project complies with the Open Archives Initiative protocol, and works with Math Reviews and Zentralblatt to facilitate interlinking between the services.
Euclid registers Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all articles with CrossRef. All article level descriptive metadata in Euclid is open access. The long-term retention of data is a project commitment and an area of continuing research." David Ruddy, Acting Director, Project Euclid

For questions about Project Euclid at Syracuse University please
contact Mary DeCarlo at mmdecarl@syr.edu

QUESTIONS? CONTACT:
- Mary DeCarlo
- Math Library
- 308 Carnegie Bldg

Phone: 443-2092
Email: mmdecarl@syr.edu
URL: http://projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/Home

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