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I think the LSW needs to get Elsevier to publish the Australasian Journal of Library Science.

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If I thought more people would get the joke, I'd suggest that for the name of the LSW zine. - Steve is older than ever

Just include one of the many blog posts about the controversy in the zine (with permission of course). - DJF from twhirl

LOL! - marthalib

We should list Michael Gorman as an editor. - marthalib

I think the zine needs a long, bogus history of title changes. This can be one. - Steve is older than ever

Add to that list of former titles that math journal where most of the articles are by one guy (can't remember the details at the moment). - Stephen Francoeur

OMG YES. WE MUST DO THIS. - D0r0th34

Here's the details on that math journal story http://science.slashdot.org/article... - Stephen Francoeur

oh! how about instructions for authors? - marthalib

Oh, and that math journal publisher: Elsevier. - Stephen Francoeur

Instructions for authors: electronic submissions are accepted in wordperfect format. double-spaced comic sans. - DJF from twhirl

oh! oh! on 5 1/4" floppies. - DJF from twhirl

Or Zip disc. - Jàson Puçkett

does that mean i can't submit using bank street press or whatever the commodore 64sw used to use? - Abigail

Your article will be reviewed by a panel of representatives from library vendors. - D0r0th34

will someone do a MARC record with all the 730's and 735's? - marthalib

we should talk about the copyright statement on the articles, perhaps involving mafia thugs if read aloud? - Christina Pikas

Yes. Because open access is a COMMIE PLOT DAMMIT. - D0r0th34

my article with have a BA clause (beer access). you must buy me a beer after you read it. - jambina

I love you people. - Steve is older than ever

Now I'm tempted to actually write a letter pitching this idea to Elsevier. Hmmm... - Steve is older than ever

Nah, fake it up as a parody. - D0r0th34

I'm just thinking of what kind of letter I might get back. - Steve is older than ever

I'd like to see the LSW do *something.* - laura x

Will biblios.net host a "fake" MARC record? We could collaboratively build one there without incurring OCLC charges... - Peter Murray

Whee, I knew there was a reason I kept my old zip drive and disks! For bonus points with serials librarians and binderies, every issue should be a different size; combine the last issue of each volume with the first of the next (I presume the first issue published will be v. 42 no. 3); occasionally include a special issue of the Alaskan Journal of Tropical Forestry upside down on the back; and publish the index to each volume in the middle of an article of issue 2 of the next volume. - Deborah Fitchett

I think calling the zine "the Australasian Journal of Library Science" is all kinds of brilliant. Make the outside look like a respectable, scholarly journal. The inside would be something else entirely. - joshua "magic" neff

@Deborah: also, with an unpredictable publishing frequency. that would be awesome. plus, special issues. - marthalib

I am not sure we have moved into zines, but I can check with journals. - Michael Habib

oh, and the special issues aren't numbered, and are only sent to every third library, handwritten on toilet paper, but are immediately heavily cited. - Christina Pikas

for the non-existent ejournal version, we should provide unique passwords and usernames for each year, with no IP authentication, ala Frontiers in Bioscience. - marthalib

Deborah & Christina: Right now I'm in the middle I'm implementing MARC Format for Holding Data. You're scaring me. - DJF

Deborah, and there should be one issue deliberately missing. Supplements should be completely unavailable electronically. - Rachel Walden

Michael! I didn't realize we had an Elsevier guy in the house. Can you see if you can get us a better deal than Merck must have had for theirs? If they want to back-date it to 2003, that's cool. - Steve is older than ever

http://www.australasianjournal... is available. Only $9.99 a year from Godaddy... - joe is...

Steve, I had the idea a couple of days ago, too, but I didn't post it to Friendfeed. You beat me to the publish or perish line. - joe is...

FF and Twitter sure have lowered the bar for the Least Bloggable Unit (that's a Tim Spalding term, IIRC). - Steve is older than ever

oh, and e version cannot allow bookmarking (urls are indecipherable with %^& in them a la aiaa), pasting, copying, exporting (it will pretend to export, but will crash your computer and spill your coffee) - Christina Pikas

@christina made me think of this requirement: URLs must be at least 150 characters long, and make NO sense. http://www.australasianjournal... - Stephanie_Thankful

Stephanie - More like http://www.australasianjournal... Also, all downloaded PDFs should be named article.pdf. No using volume or page number or any of that. - Mr. Gunn

oh and 3 page articles will look like they were scanned from a fax that had been dragged behind a car - scanned at 100 dpi, and they will be about 20MB each (IEEE) - Christina Pikas

I LOVE YOU GUYS. Just had to say it. Mr. Gunn's contribution done SLAYED me. - D0r0th34

The articles must have a DRM ala SAE and they should be in a strange format (maybe just huge .tiff or dejavu files) that only allows viewing (no printing) and limited to accounts with passwords that the publisher provides (case sensitive) such as 279HDgkre!~S5893hdp£%4993 - joe is...

I'm thinking that you need to designate one computer per state that is allowed access to the site. - Steve is older than ever

And the it's only available in the USA! Canadians and others have to wait three years before we can buy subscriptions! - John Dupuis

And you know that computer in each state? It has to have the proper site.prf file in the c:\AUSTRALASIANJOURNALOFLIBRARYSCIENCE folder. - John Dupuis

Let the Canucks get it only on a CD-ROM with a DOS based search engine... - joe is...

Illegal for Export to Canadialand. - Steve is older than ever

illegal to Australasia for that ultimate touch of irony - suelibrarian

"Library Society of the World" a valid, double-blind ,peer reviewed professional association , found to increase your influence in libraryland by 43.294 %. (Lawson, 2003. Austn. Jnl. Lib. Sci.) - Kathryn says love n peace

I can't wait to read it! Oh.....I'm in Canada. I'll have to get my friends to illegally send me copies. - Connie Crosby

I am working on an article arguing the benefits of returning to card catalogues. Does anyone have an example of a library that went back? - Connie Crosby

"A log analysis comparison of usage of physical and online information retrieval methodologies" Crosby, Gorman et al. 2010. Austn. Jnl Lib. Sci) - Kathryn says love n peace

Don't forget the watermark and copyright statement across each page of each article (Standards New Zealand), and a 12-month embargo before issues appear online (too many to name). - Deborah Fitchett

but if you want the back file, it's too late, you would have had to buy the CD-ROM when it changed platforms in 2002 - you can't get it online anywhere now (MAIK/Nauka) - Christina Pikas

I just abandoned any thought I ever had of becoming a librarian. You people frighten me. :-) - Bill Hooker

best. thread. ever. - Jenica

ok, so it's only available on one computer on campus. There is a login & password if you want off-campus access, but you can't share it with ANYONE. ... and we’ll publish 4 issues per year. But if we can't come up with enough content for 4 issues a year, we can just combine them, like 1/2 or 1-2-3 or 2-4 or whatever. - Stephanie_Thankful

But the combined issues vary from volume to volume. - DJF

You'd like to reuse that diagram in another paper? ALL YOUR RIGHTS ARE BELONG TO US. Consult our permissions department, which will have the appropriate nine-page form (fill out in triplicate) on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.' - D0r0th34

This thread just gets better and better. - laura x

more on the fake Merck/Elsevier journal http://www.ft.com/cms... - marthalib

'On the metaness of the library science journal- is it me or is it us in here?' Estate of Borges, 2004 Aust. Jnl. Lib. Sci - Pete

And of course, its place of publication should be Latveria, Molvania or Phaic Tan. - Pete

Pete, I'm sure that that article will have lots of self-references, including "Mapping the bibliographic Universe", Borges, 1873, Aust Jnl Lib Sci. - DJF from twhirl

It'll be a veritable Ouroboros of an article- see 'See also love- when xr is x rated' Borges 19 eleventy two Aust Jnl Lib Sci - Pete

isn't there a rule about self-referencing? Like there must be at least 3 self-references, and if this is your first paper, it's ok to reference this one at least twice. - Stephanie_Thankful

At the Aust Jnl Lib Sci, your needs are our excuses! - Pete

Bill, don't surrender the dream! You were born to be a librarian. Just stay away from publishers. - John Dupuis

And serials. ;) - D0r0th34

Hum, this journal sure is getting full of articles, when should we split it off into parts A, B, C, etc.. What should we call the parts? A=Theoretical B=Practical C=Impractical. The volume numbering must randomly switch from one section to another, for example http://www.sciencedirect.com/science... - joe is...

+1 for Impractical - I could fill a whole issue myself, just ask my colleagues. :-) Also, I've seen some funky journal numbering in my time, but that example is quite, quite special. - Deborah Fitchett

Is it too late to write an article? I want to contribute but am coming up blank for ideas. - Jàson Puçkett

If it hasn't been mentioned, the journal needs an electronic resource reviews section that only covers Elsevier products because that is all. you. will. ever. need. ;) - Rachel Walden

Ooh, I know what image can be on the cover! http://theubiquitouslibrarian.... - Deborah Fitchett

I like that, Joe: The Australasian Journal of Library Science, Section D-: Impractical. Vol. XLII, no 3/7, Supplement H (Errata, Juvenelia, and Saliva.) - Steve is older than ever

I think this thread could be turned into an article or something, either for the The Australasian Journal of Library Science, Section S: Silly, or for the LSW zine. - Stephanie_Thankful

@Deborah, you are cracking me up. :) - Rachel Walden

Proposing Section U: Useless Outside of My Very Specific Environment - Rachel Walden

Make sure that it's also available in an unsplit version, and send the unsplit version to the indexing services, but not to the subscribers. - DJF

We could probably make arrangements for the good ASIST SIG/CON papers, of which I am the keeper. See http://web.simmons.edu/~schwar... - Candy Schwartz

I'm also conducting a survey of bibliobloggers re: why Web 2.0 is a passing fad that will never make it to the mainstream of library services. Please take my survey now: http://twtpoll.com/w8egay - Connie Crosby

Thanks so far, everyone. The results are interesting. You still have time to take the survey! It is open until Monday. - Connie Crosby

perhaps one issue could be the proceedings of asist's SIG/CON. And if there wasn’t much going on in Australasian Libraryland that year, that could even be the year's *only* issue, with numbering 1-4. - Stephanie_Thankful