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Electronically stored data on libraries, librarians, library users, and the information industry that supports library collections can assist librarians in projecting trends for the future directions of the profession. The purpose of this paper is to direct librarians to a selected list of providers of this data and their publications, particularly those sources that aggregate data in systematic, accessible formats.

Web sites of the organizations that collect data on libraries were examined for data reports generated either from research projects or from periodic reports.

There is a wealth of free data from ongoing research available on the web. In addition, there are proprietary data sets that librarians who need that specialized data should consider acquiring.

LIS professionals require access to current and retrospective data to shape future research and inform decision making.

The article fills the need for an annotated directory to data sources specific to the needs of libraries and procurement information for those sources.

This paper aims to exam the publisher’s online distribution strategies of print books between a reselling and a marketplace channel with the coexistence of e-book. This study extends the study of channel selection to the content products industry.

By constructing a publisher-leader Stackelberg game model, the authors investigate the publisher’s distribution strategies. The retailer holds a digital channel for e-book and reselling and marketplace channels for print books. The authors examine three-channel modes for the print book distribution: a pure reselling channel, a marketplace channel and a hybrid channel.

The results reveal that a hybrid channel always dominates a pure marketplace channel from the publisher’s perspective. Then, only when the print book’s margin cost and the marketplace’s slotting fee are not very high, the publisher prefers the hybrid to a pure reselling channel. The authors also found a Pareto zone where the hybrid channel mode improves publisher’s and retailer’s profits. Furthermore, the publisher is less likely to choose the hybrid channel as the acceptance of e-book increases. The authors also examine the situation where a publisher-authorized third-party distributor runs the marketplace channel and found the results still hold.

This paper fills a theoretical and practical gap for a structured analysis of the content providers’ online distribution channel selection of the physical products and digital products. Different from previous related studies, this study focuses on analyzing physical products’ channel strategies and finds physical products’ cost plays a crucial role in the content provider’s channel decision.

The second BABEL conference provided the opportunity for the five working parties of BEDIS to present their draft reports and recommendations. The five areas covered by the working parties were: publisher's bibliographic databases; a standard short title record; commercial messages (e.g. orders); sales data statistics; and standard address numbers. To readers of VINE with automated systems, the area of most interest will be commercial messages, and indeed it is in this area that the most progress has been made. For this reason, an account of the sessions concerned with commercial messages is given first, followed by a summary of the other sessions.

This paper presents a methodology for automatic identification of bibliographic data elements from the title pages of books. Also enumerates the various steps like scanning the title pages, running optical character recognition (OCR) software, generating HTML files out of title pages and applying heuristics to identify the bibliographic data elements. Much of the paper deals with the surveys undertaken to analyze the characteristics of various bibliographic descriptive elements like title, author, publisher and other elements. The first survey deals with the sequence of the bibliographic data in the title pages. The second survey deals with the font size, font type and the proximity of each bibliographic element on the title pages. The survey results are then used to develop heuristics, in order to develop a rule‐based expert system which can identify the bibliographic elements on the title pages. The results of the system are presented, along with problems encountered.

The problem of choosing the utmost useful features from hundreds of features from time-series user click data arises in online advertising toward fraudulent publisher's classification. Selecting feature subsets is a key issue in such classification tasks. Practically, the use of filter approaches is common; however, they neglect the correlations amid features. Conversely, wrapper approaches could not be applied due to their complexities. Moreover, in particular, existing feature selection methods could not handle such data, which is one of the major causes of instability of feature selection.

To overcome such issues, a majority voting-based hybrid feature selection method, namely feature distillation and accumulated selection (FDAS), is proposed to investigate the optimal subset of relevant features for analyzing the publisher's fraudulent conduct. FDAS works in two phases: (1) feature distillation, where significant features from standard filter and wrapper feature selection methods are obtained using majority voting; (2) accumulated selection, where we enumerated an accumulated evaluation of relevant feature subset to search for an optimal feature subset using effective machine learning (ML) models.

Empirical results prove enhanced classification performance with proposed features in average precision, recall, f1-score and AUC in publisher identification and classification.

The FDAS is evaluated on FDMA2012 user-click data and nine other benchmark datasets to gauge its generalizing characteristics, first, considering original features, second, with relevant feature subsets selected by feature selection (FS) methods, third, with optimal feature subset obtained by the proposed approach. ANOVA significance test is conducted to demonstrate significant differences between independent features.

Since the passage of the Smith‐Hughes Act of 1917, which established vocational‐technical education, more than 17,000,000 students annually are served by some type of vocational school program. In spite of this impressive figure, vocational schools are still considered by many people as a place to send students who are “good with their hands” and who are less academically inclined than their counterparts in comprehensive schools. Yet, the simple hands‐on training experiences, so commonly employed as the main method of instruction, no longer assure that one will have the necessary knowledge to be a competent and employable tradesperson or technician. With advances in technology in all areas (e.g., automotive mechanics, data processing, printing, electronics, aviation, agriculture, etc.), it is now necessary for students in vocational schools to study the related technical sciences and mathematics and the continuing technical developments in an area in order to gain employment. With these advances in technology there has been a large growth in the literature, but no one up to this time has examined collection development.

If confession is good for the soul, this is Crawford's personal revival meeting. Yes, the hardcore text maven and trailing‐edge devotee has gone GUI: most of his home computing now uses a true graphical user interface. The author says that the taste of crow has passed and that the new environment works very well, albeit not without a few frustrations. This article discusses the author's move to Windows and some of the good and bad points of that interface. The author includes some tips on Windows, as seems inevitable for any article on that topic. The author also provides some additional notes related to previous columns, on clip‐art collections and the actual construction of TrueType typefaces. As usual, the article concludes with notes on the recent PC literature.

In the next twenty‐five minutes, I intend to survey the various categories of books and periodicals on scientific and technical subjects which are issued by publishing houses or learned societies for trade sale. I shall discuss the type of index, if any, appropriate to each type of publication, and the best person to compile it. At the same time, I want to consider whether there are any practical difficulties in the way of following the ideal course and to suggest answers to some of Mr Hinsley's criticisms.