DigitalKoans

Digital Scholarship, then called Escholarlypub, was established on April 20, 2005 with the first DigitalKoans posting. Although I had been doing digital publishing on the Internet since 1989, this was the first time that I had launched a new publication that was not sponsored by the University of Houston Libraries. In retrospect, perhaps this was an unrecognized harbinger of the growing differences of opinion between me and certain administrators about the critical importance of supporting digital library development, open access, and scholarly communication change efforts as a high priority, which would lead to my resignation in November 2006.

In any case, how has Digital Scholarship done? From 4/20/2005 through 12/31/2007, Digital Scholarship has had over 7.3 million hits (a "hit" is any Web file retrieved), 4.7 million page views (a "page," such as an HTML page or a PDF file, contains content), and 1.8 million visitors from 206 countries. Spiders accounted for about 2.4 million hits, resulting in about 4.9 million user hits. (WebLog Expert was used for this analysis; the below rankings are by number of visitors.)

The top twenty countries were (in order): United States, Canada, United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Australia, Korea, India, Netherlands, Brazil, Russian Federation, Spain, Israel, Ukraine, Czechia, and Belgium.

The highest ranked organizational user that was not a search engine or an ISP was OCLC.

The top ten academic institutions were: University of California, Office of the President; Cornell University; University of Illinois; L'École de Technologie Supérieure; University at Albany, State University of New York; Universitaet Muenster; King's College London; University of California; University of Cambridge; and Iowa State University.

Here's the visitors by month chart:

Leaving aside the multiple-Web-page documents (such as the Open Access Bibliography and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography) that require further analysis, some rounded-to-the-nearest thousand, single-Web-page document results are: "Open Access Webliography," 51,000 hits; Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (PDF file only; PDF file also archived elsewhere): 40,000 hits; "The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography," 30,000 hits; and "Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Bibliography," 21,000 hits.

Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite, the latest Digital Scholarship publication, is designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent websites. It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, and it can be freely used for any noncommercial purpose in accordance with the license.

Version 70 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,195 articles, books, and other digital and printed sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing.

For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see "Summary of Bailey’s Digital Publications Changes."

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are in italics):

1 Economic Issues
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History
2.2 General Works
2.3 Library Issues
3 Electronic Serials
3.1 Case Studies and History
3.2 Critiques
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals
3.4 General Works
3.5 Library Issues
3.6 Research
4 General Works
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights
5.2 License Agreements
6 Library Issues
6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata
6.2 Digital Libraries
6.3 General Works
6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation
7 New Publishing Models
8 Publisher Issues
8.1 Digital Rights Management
9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies
Appendix B. About the Author
Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata
Digital Libraries
Electronic Books and Texts
Electronic Serials
General Electronic Publishing
Images
Legal
Preservation
Publishers
Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI
SGML and Related Standards

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.

Especially interesting are: "Can Open Access Repositories and Peer-Reviewed Journals Coexist?," "Census of Institutional Repositories in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Institutions at Different Stages of IR Development," "The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses," "eScience and the Humanities," "Open Access and the Divide between 'Mainstream' and 'Peripheral' Science," "Pathways: Augmenting Interoperability across Scholarly Repositories," "Publishing Journals@UIC," Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet, "Synergies: Building National Infrastructure for Canadian Scholarly Publishing," "The University of California as Publisher," "Update on the Bill Mandating OA at the NIH," "Use and Users of Digital Resources," "What Do Faculty and Students Really Think about E-Books?," and "Will the Parasite Kill the Host? Are Institutional Repositories a Fact of Life—and Does It Matter?"

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.

Especially interesting are: "A Critical Theory of Open Access: Libraries and Electronic Publishing"; "The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands"; "Developing an Integrated Institutional Repository at Imperial College London"; "DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across Europe"; "The Effect of 'Open Access' on Citation Impact: An Analysis of ArXiv's Condensed Matter Section"; "Linking Repositories: Scoping the Development of Cross-Institutional User-Oriented Services"; "Newfound Press: The Digital Imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries"; "Open Access to Open Publish: National Library of Australia"; "Opening Up Scholarly Information at the University of Illinois at Chicago"; "The Prevalence of Additional Electronic Features in Pure E-Journals"; "Redefining Scholarly Publishing as a Service Industry"; "Rethinking Collections—Libraries and Librarians in an Open Age: A Theoretical View"; Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives, SPEC Kit 299; "Society Publishers with Open Access Journals"; and "Victory in the Senate: Update on the Bill to Mandate Open Access at the NIH."

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.

Especially interesting are: "Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 2"; "Flipping a Journal to Open Access"; "Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1"; "Motivating and Impeding Factors Affecting Faculty Contribution to Institutional Repositories"; "Moving Out of Oldenbourg's Long Shadow: What Is the Future for Society Publishing?"; "Of the Rich and the Poor and Other Curious Minds: On Open Access and 'Development'"; "Public Policy and the Politics of Open Access"; "PRISM: Enough Rope?"; "Reading Books in the Digital Age Subsequent to Amazon, Google and the Long Tail"; "Services Make the Repository"; and Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture.

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography archive file has been updated to include version 69. The ZIP archive file is about 40 MB in size.

Update: For the most current information about Digital Scholarship publications, see: Digital Scholarship Publications Overview.

There have been a number of rapid changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries due to growing differences of opinion between me and certain administrators about the critical importance of supporting digital library development, open access, and scholarly communication change efforts as a high priority (see "In Surprise Move, Bailey Resigns from U. of Houston" in the November 9, 2006 issue of Library Journal Academic Newswire). Some confusion has resulted from these publication changes, so here's a clarification of them.

My active digital publications are now branded under the name "Digital Scholarship." There are three domains:

• http://www.digital-scholarship.org/: This is the primary, full-featured domain.
• http://www.digital-scholarship.com/: This an almost complete mirror of the ".org" domain that lacks some functionality (e.g., no DigitalKoans comments) and content (e.g., no RSS version of SEPW).
• http://www.escholarlypub.com/: Same as the ".com" domain, but I no longer publicize this domain name.

Confused? I won’t go into why there are still three domains, but here is a simple access strategy: use the ".org" domain for all publication access unless there is a hosting service failure. If there is a ".org" failure, use the ".com" domain, which is on a different hosting service.

No publications are being actively maintained on the University of Houston Libraries site, the sepw@listserv.uh.edu is no longer used, and no current publication announcements are being made on the PACS-L or PACS-P mailing lists:

• UH: Only archival versions of SEPB (up to 10/17/2006), SEPR (up to 10/17/2006), and SEPW (up to 12/18/06).

Below are the current ".org" URLs and RSS feeds for my major publications. These are the preferred links for cataloging records and Web page referrals. My intention is to try to maintain the ".org" domain; the other domains may be less permanent. It is recommended that you use the FeedBurner feeds below rather than the WordPress feeds to insulate yourself from future RSS feed changes.

DigitalKoans:

• Site: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/
• FeedBurner feed:
  http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans
• FeedBurner E-Mail Feed:
  http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=64023
• WordPress feed:
  http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/feed/rss2/

Open Access Bibliography (OAB):

• Site: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm
• Google Search Engine

"Open Access Webliography" (with Ho) (OAW):

• Site: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB):

• Site: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
• Archive: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm
• Google Search Engine

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (SEPR)

• Site: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW):

• Site: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm
• WordPress version (partial site used to create the RSS feed):
  • Site: http://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/
  • FeedBurner feed:
    http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss
  • FeedBurner E-Mail Feed:
    http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756
  • WordPress feed:
    http://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/feed/rss2/
• Google Search Engine

Note that SEPW and SEPR are now in their own subdirectories, not in the SEPB directory.

The Blogger SEPW version has been discontinued.

When you use the Google Search Engines, keep in mind that you will retrieve bibliography section file or Weblog archive file titles with a single representative search result shown from each file. To see all hits, click on the cached page, which shows the retrieved search term(s) in the file highlighted in yellow. Also keep in mind that the search results are only as current as Google’s indexing of the site in question.

For other publications, see the ".org" Digital Scholarship home page.

I have resigned my position as Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries effective 1/31/07.

Effective immediately, there are several important changes to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB), Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (SEPR), and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) that users should be aware of:

1. These publications have been moved to my domain:

• SEPB
• SEPR
• SEPW

2. While the UH Libraries will archive SEPB versions up to version 64, no new versions will be published on their Website. If you maintain a catalog record for SEPB, I would ask that you update it with the new address. Next Monday’s SEPW will be published at the new site.

3. A transition version of SEPB (65) has been published at the new site. There are no content changes. This version simply makes a number of HTML coding adjustments needed for the new location. A Google Custom Search Engine replaces the prior search capability. Once Google starts indexing the new site, search results will be from that site.

4. The SEPW mailing list will be discontinued at the end work today. You can continue to get an e-mail version from FeedBurner. I’