Administrative Metadata
Jewell, Timothy D. Electronic Resource Management: the Quest for Systems and Standards"
Medeiros, Norm. "A Pioneering Spirit: Using Administrative Metadata to Manage Electronic Resources." OCLC Systems & Services 19:3 (2003).
Archiving
Searle, Sam, and Dave Thompson. "Preservation Metadata: Pragmatic First Steps at the National Library of New Zealand." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 4 (2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/thompson/04thompson.html (external link)
Baudoin, Patsy. "Uppity Bits: Coming to Terms with Archiving Dynamic Electronic Journals." The Serials Librarian 43, no. 4 (2003): 63-72.
Flecker, Dale. "Digital Archiving: What Is Involved?" EDUCAUSE Review 38, no. 1 (2003): 10-11. Available from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0316.pdf
Marcum, Deanna, and Amy Friedlander. "Keepers of the Crumbling Culture: What Digital Preservation Can Learn from Library History." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 5 (2003). Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/friedlander/05friedlander.html (external link)
Reich, Victoria A. "Diffused Knowledge Immortalizes Itself: The LOCKSS Program." High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, no. 7 (2003). Available from: http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/7/papers/1/ (external link)
Waibel, Gunter. "Like Russian Dolls: Nesting Standards for Digital Preservation." RLG DigiNews 7, no. 3 (2003).
Federated Searching
Hane, Paula "The Truth About Federated Searching" Information Today Vol. 20 No. 10 (Nov./Dec. 2003) available from
Luther, Judy "Trumping Google? Metasearching's Promise" Library Journal (October 1, 2003) http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA322627&publication=libraryjournal (external link)
Tennant, Roy The Right Solution: Federated Search Tools - Library Journal (June 15, 2003)
Linking
Beit-Arie, Oren et al. "Linking to the Appropriate Copy: Report of a DOIBased Prototype." D-Lib Magazine, vol. 7, no. 9 (Sept. 2001). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/caplan/09caplan.html (external link)
Brand, Amy. CrossRef after three years ICSTI FORUM Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information No44, December 2003
Cummings, Joel, and Ryan Johnson. "The Use and Usability of SFX: Context-Sensitive Reference Linking." Library Hi Tech 21, no. 1 (2003): 70-84.
Hellman, Eric. "OpenURL: Making the Link to Libraries." Learned Publishing 16, no. 3 (2003): 177-181.
Hendricks, Arthur. "The Development of the NISO Committee AX's OpenURL Standard." Information Technology and Libraries 22, no. 3 (2003): 129-133.
ONeill, Jill. Reference Linking: A Basic Overview ICSTI FORUM Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information No44, December 2003 Available from: http://www.icsti.org/forum/44/overview (external link)
Paskin, Norman. "DOI: A 2003 Progress Report." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 6 (2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june03/paskin/06paskin.html (external link)
Powell, Andrea. The Practicalities of Reference Linking from a Secondary Publishers Perspective ICSTI FORUM Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information No44, December 2003 Available from: http://www.icsti.org/forum/44/cab (external link)i
Metadata formats
Dekkers, Makx, and Stuart L. Weibel. "State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 2003." D-LIB Magazine 9, no. 4 (2003). Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/weibel/04weibel.html (external link)
Greenberg, Jane. "Metadata Generation: Processes, People and Tools." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 29 (December/January 2003): 16-19. Available from http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-02/index.html (external link)
Guenther, Rebecca S. "MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema 3, no. 1 (2003): 137-150.
Guenther, Rebecca, and Sally McCallum. "New Metadata Standards for Digital Resources: MODS and METS." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 29 (December/January 2003): 12-15. Available from http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-02/index.html (external link)
Cummings, Joel. "Full-Text Aggregation: An Examination of Metadata Accuracy and Implications for Resource Sharing." Serials Review 29, no. 1 (2003): 11-15.
Wusteman, Judith. "XML and E-Journals: The State of Play." Library Hi Tech 21, no. 1 (2003): 21-33.
OPAC, bibliographic control options
Burke, Gerald, Carol Anne Germain, and Mary K. Van Ullen. "URLs in the OPAC: Integrating or Disintegrating Research Libraries' Catalogs." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 29, no. 5 (2003): 290-297.
Chen-Gaffey, Aiping. "MARC Standards and OPAC Display of Records for Web-Based Resources." The Serials Librarian 43, no. 4 (2003): 23-28.
Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate. "Recommendations for Modes of Cataloging for Electronic Resources." http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/stratplan/goal4wg2report.pdf
Open Archive Inititive, institutional repositories
Cole, Timothy W. Guest Editor. Special Issue: "Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting" Library Hi Tech, Volume 21 Number 2 2003, p. 115-256.
Lagoze, Carl and Herbert Van de Sompel. "The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" Library Hi Tech Volume 21 Number 2 2003, p. 118-128.
Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age." portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, no. 2 (2003): 327-336.
Mckiernan, Gerry. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part III: General," Library Hi Tech News 21 (1) (January/February 2004): 38-46. Available from: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-III.pdf (external link)
Van de Sompel, Herbert, Jeffrey A. Young, and Thomas B. Hickey. "Using the OAI-PMH . . . Differently." D-Lib Magazine 9, nos. 7/8 (2003). Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.html (external link)
Predictions for 2004
Thoughts from 11 industry leaders, including top figures at LexisNexis,
the British Library, OCLC, ProQuest, Chemical Abstracts Service,
Thomson Gale, Ingenta, and Outsell, assembled by Lou Andreozzi for
Information Today, January 5, 2004
Readers/users
Chen, Xiaotian. "Embargo, Tasini, and 'Opted Out': How Many Journal Articles Are Missing from Full-Text Databases." Internet Reference Services Quarterly 7, no. 4 (2002): 23-34.
Davis, Philip M., and Leah R. Solla. "An IP-Level Analysis of Usage Statistics for Electronic Journals in Chemistry: Making Inferences About User Behavior." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54, no. 11 (2003): 1062-1068.
Friedlander, Amy. 2002. Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment: Introduction to a Data Set Assembled by the Digital Library Federation and Outsell, Inc. Washington, D.C.: Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources. Available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub110/contents.html (external link).
Tenopir, Carol. "Electronic or Print: Are Scholarly Journals Still Important?" Serials 15 (July 2002): 111-115.
Tenopir, Carol. "Electronic Publishing: Research Issues for Academic Librarians and Users." Library Trends 51, no. 4 (2003): 614-635.
Tenopir, Carol. 2003. Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies. Washington D. C.: CLIR. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub120/pub120.pdf (external link).
Transition from paper to electronic
Alan, Robert, and Nan Butkovich. "Libraries in Transition: Impact of Print and Electronic Journal Access." Against the Grain 15, no. 2 (2003): 32, 34.
Bevis, Mary D., and John-Bauer Graham. "The Evolution of an Integrated Electronic Journals Collection." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 29, no. 2 (2003): 115-119.
Chrzastowski, Tina E. "Making the Transition from Print to Electronic Serial Collections: A New Model for Academic Chemistry Libraries?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54, no. 12 (2003): 1141-1148.
King, Donald W., Peter B. Boyce, Carol Hansen Montgomery, and Carol Tenopir. "Library Economic Metrics: Examples of the Comparison of Electronic and Print Journal Collections and Collections Services." Library Trends (51)3 (2003) 376-400
Robertson, Victoria. "The Impact of Electronic Journals on Academic Libraries: The Changing Relationship Between Journals, Acquisitions and Inter-Library Loans Department Roles and Functions." Interlending & Document Supply 31, no. 3 (2003).
Stern, David. "New Knowledge Management Systems: The Implications for Data Discovery, Collection Development, and the Changing Role of the Librarian." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54, no. 12 (2003): 1138-1140.
Willinsky, John. "Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing." Journal of Digital information 4, no. 2 (2003).