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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Institution-wide ORCID Adoption Test in U.K. Shows Promise

    Via Gary Price's announcement on InfoDocket comes word of a cost-benefit analysis for the wholesale adoption of ORCID identifiers by eight institutions in the U.K. The report, Institutional ORCID, Implementation and Cost Benefit Analysis Report [PDF], looks at the perspectives of stakeholders, a summary of findings from the pilot …

     Posted on  May 22, 2015
     and last updated May 22, 2015
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Kindle Singles and Kindle Accessibility, Sped-up Discourse, ISBN Troubles

    This week Amazon takes center stage of DLTJ Thursday Threads with a report of their new Kindle Singles program for medium-form digital content and a screen-reader-aware version of the Kindle reader application for PCs. After that is a look at how scholarly discourse is changing -- radically! -- with the availability and …

     Posted on  January 27, 2011
     and last updated January 27, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Collocating Serial Formats Via "Linking ISSN"

    Earlier this week I received an e-mail from the director of the ISSN International Center announcing a session at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim to talk about the "linking ISSN". Abbreviated ISSN-L, this is a new addition to the revised ISSN standard (ISO 3297, published last August) that allows …

     Posted on  June 06, 2008
     and last updated June 06, 2008
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Passing on ResearcherID

    This morning I got an invitation to join ResearcherID, a new author profile service from Thomson Scientific. The service sounds nice enough -- who doesn't want to take steps to avoid confusion between authors? -- and if you have access to other Thomson products (like ISI Web of Knowledge or Web of …

     Posted on  May 02, 2008
     and last updated May 02, 2008
     ·  17 minutes reading time
  • "Identifiers Roundup" — LITA Standards Interest Group in conjunction with NISO

    This is a report of the presentations from the LITA Standards Interest Group at the ALA Annual Conference, 24-Jul-2006, in New Orleans. Pat Stevens, interim director of NISO, moderated the panel discussion.

    ISSN Regina Reynolds, Library of Congress (U.S. ISSN Center)

    Structure

    There are 80 ISSN centers worldwide with …

     Posted on  June 24, 2006
     and last updated June 25, 2006
     ·  8 minutes reading time