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This article is a valuable piece of history of culture pointing out that the power of Google is now changing the way people approach to information all over the world. It considers the role of libraries, publishers, and new technologies facing copyright issues from different points of view. Google will continue to make books in the public domain available for users to read, download, and print, free of charge, but can we talk of a new monopoly? Suber P. Open access in 2008. SPARC Open Access Newsletter 2009 129:2. Clear and complete review of the open access development in 2008, including open access policies at funding agencies and universities, and data on growth, open access archiving, and open access journals. It also considers books and humanities, and is rich in data, numbers, useful reflections, and links. Tenopir C, King DW, Edwards S, Wu L. Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns. Aslib Proceedings 2009;61(1):5–32. (doi:10.1108/00012530910932267) By tracking the information-seeking and reading patterns of members of science, technology, medical, and social science faculties from 1977 to the present, this paper seeks to examine how faculty members locate, obtain, read, and use scholarly articles and how this has changed with the widespread availability of electronic journals and journal alternatives. The analysis was based on questionnaires. Results show that the average number of readings per year per science faculty member continues to increase, while the average time spent per reading is decreasing. Electronic articles now account for the majority of readings, though most items are still printed on paper for final reading. © Copyright 2009 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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