A field guide to misunderstandings about open access. This comes not long after MIT adopts a university-wide open-access mandate.

You’ve heard of libraries sharing photos on Flickr (Library of Congress, NatLib NZ, Christchurch City Libraries. Now the Library of Congress is sharing first-person accounts of slavery and interviews with notable authors on YouTube, and the Land Library of Saxony-State and University Library Dresden will upload 250,000 images to to Wikimedia Commons on a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

Google Scholar Search Performance: Comparative Recall and Precision portal: Libraries and the Academy 9(1) 2009 finds that, “within the multidisciplinary field of later-life migration”, “In terms of both recall and precision, Google Scholar performs better than most of [Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE, PAIS International, POPLINE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and SocINDEX].”

Library of Congress Authorities – less user-friendly but more wrist-friendly than hauling down the LC Subject Headings.

Deborah