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RCUK updated position on access to research outputs

RCUK has announced an updated position on access to research outputs.
There's a press release and the statement itself (a pdf)

Lorcan Dempsey: digital library landscape webcast

Through the jisc-repositories list I see that Lorcan Dempsey is giving a webcast on the digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0 at 2 pm on 3 July, which may be seen live:
http://webhelp.ucs.ed.ac.uk/services/media/asxfiles/webcasts/wm9vbcast.wvx

Update: it's now been archived at: http://nevis.lib.ed.ac.uk/lorcan_dempsey_archive.asx.
I saw some of it. It was very irritating that in the discussion none of the questioners identified themselves.

Fourth day of Royal Ascot: Coronation Stakes Day

235: Amber Valley
310: Youmzain
350: Price Tag
425: Blue Spinnaker
455; Kassiopeia
530: Pearcy King

Third day of Royal Ascot: Gold Cup day

No selections yesterday as I was away, though I should report a trip to Brighton on Tuesday evening, when I had two winners with Fair 'n Square in the 705 and Piccostar in the 905.
230: Sonny Red
310: Scottish Stage
350 Reefscape
425: Giganticus
455: Invention
530: Paper Talk

HLG Chair

Today in Belfast I stood down as chair of the Health Libraries Group. Alan Fricker takes over from me and will bring a lot more to the post than I ever did.  I still have some duties to discharge at the annual conference in Eastbourne.
It was liberating to be able to sit through most of the committee meeting and not have to give my mind to procedure, steering the committee towards a decision, making sure everyone could have their say and so on.
Belfast was fun. I had a fry at Maggie May's and some Guinness in a bar.

Technorati Tags: belfast, hlg

First day of Royal Ascot: St James's Palace Stakes

235: Holy Roman Emperor
310: La Cucaracha
345: Araafa
425: Peeress
455: Escayola
530: Rabatash

Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association now open access

The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association is now on open access from 2004 to the current issue.
The latest issue contains:
Barsky, Eugene
Introducing Web 2.0: weblogs and podcasting for health librarians
JCHLA / JABSC 2006 27: 33–34

Technorati Tags: openaccess

ThingISBN

Librarything has just released thingISBN, a service which overcomes the inadequacies of the ISBN. ISBNs identify editions well, but are useless if you want to see what exists at a higher level; see the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR to its friends) which gives a hierarchy of, in descending order, work-expression-manifestation-item.
I'm not quite sure yet how I can use this: I suspect its mostly for the more technically-minded librarything users.

Birthday Honours

I used to scan the honours lists when I worked at the RCVS to tip the powers-that-be off if any vets, dotty old ladies who ran homes for distressed cats, or anyone else in the animal health world had been given gongs.
Old habits die hard, so after I had despatched a kipper yesterday morning I turned to yesterday's list, now much easier to navigate at http://www.honours.gov.uk/lists/2006birthday.aspx
I ran a search for libraries or librarians which threw up, inter alia, an MBE for Judy Lehmann of Brighton and Sussex Universities NHS Trust Library and Information Services, "for services to NHS Libraries".

York and Sandown

York 235: Master of the Race
York 310: Ingleby Arch
Sandown 325: Green park