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New Report: "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|“Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses” was published by the Association of American University Presses. From the AAUP Web Site: This report a) identifies elements of the current scholarly publishing systems that are worth protecting and retaining throughout this and future periods of transition; b) explores business models of existing projects which […]
From ComputerWeekly.com The open source tool, called Droid (Digital Record Object Identification) has been designed to scan millions of files at a time and identify hundreds of different file formats, including most document, audio, video and image files in common use. Droid can identify more than 770 formats, using a combination of file format extensions […]
From a ProPublica Report: The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing rules that would prevent private plane owners from keeping their flight records secret unless they can provide a valid security concern. The FAA said the practice of blocking flights from real-time tracking data had created a transparency issue and cited a federal court ruling involving […]
Legal: Digitization Projects: "Missouri Supreme Court Cases From 1800s to Go on Web"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From the Associated Press: The Missouri State Archives will be posting thousands of old state Supreme Court cases online for the public to view beginning late next year. [Clip] The agency will use the money to scan the Missouri Supreme Court’s original files in about 9,000 cases heard between 1821 and 1865. The scanned files […]
You can access the latest issue of Peter Suber’s “must read” monthly newsletter here. Even if you or your colleagues are not directly involved with open access issues it’s still important to be aware of current open access issues. Suber’s newsletter is an ideal way to do this. Articles in the March 2011 Issue Include: […]
A compilation of resources appearing in the February 2011 issue of College & Research Libraries News. It was compiled and written by Spencer Acadia, a psychology and sociology librarian at Texas Woman’s University. He is currently writing a Ph.D.. dissertation on Arctic health From the Introduction: What follows is an annotated list of Internet resources […]
Articles From Volume 16, Number 3 – 7 March 2011 Tweeting about TV: Sharing television viewing experiences via social media message streams Abstract HTML D. Yvette Wohn, Eun-Kyung Na Multimedia, interactive and hypertextual features in divergent online news platforms: An exploratory study of Flemish online news Abstract HTML Michael Opgenhaffen FYI: TMI: Toward […]
Internet Catches Updated Butterfly and Moth Website Why should we care about butterflies and moths? Thanks to butterflies, bees, birds, and other animal pollinators, the world’s flowering plants are able to reproduce and bear fruit. That very basic capability is at the root of many of the foods we eat. And, not least, pollination adds to […]
Michigan State University: "Library Digitizes to Widen Availability"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Article Appearing in The State News (Student Run Paper): What began as a project to digitize a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers in 2009 has expanded to provide a resource of thousands of digitized pages of books and publications for MSU Libraries. The purchase of an advanced scanner jump-started the process of digitization […]
From a Virginia Historical Society News Release: The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) recently received a $100,000 grant from Dominion Resources and The Dominion Foundation to fund the creation of Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. This free, online database will contain personal information about enslaved Virginians gleaned from some of the more […]