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Update: Here’s a Link to the Full Text Research Paper Discussed Below: “WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance” New research on gender issues relating to Wikipedia (a topic getting more and more notice) from the U. of Minnesota. Via Discovery News: The team used self-reported gender information from more than 110,000 editors between 2005 […]
From the BBC: The major social networks have been called to the home office next Thursday to discuss the English riots. So far only Facebook has confirmed its attendance, although Blackberry has suggested it will also be there. Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry have all been criticised after it emerged that some rioters may have used […]
From a Nielsen Announcement: According to first-reported data from Nielsen Smartphone Analytics, a new effort that tracks and analyzes data from on-device meters installed on thousands of iOS and Android smartphones, the average Android consumer in the U.S. spends 56 minutes per day actively interacting with the web and apps on their phone. Of that […]
From the Center for Jewish History in New York City: During World War II with the Nazi rise to power, more than 2,000 titles from the Wissenschaft des Judentums or Science of Judaism texts housed at the Frankfurt Library in Germany were either destroyed or dispersed. More than half of the lost titles, cataloged at […]
From the AP: A document signed by President Abraham Lincoln in the weeks after the Battle of Antietam has been returned to the National Archives. A November 1862 letter signed by three surgeons in Hagerstown, Md., asking Lincoln to appoint a chaplain to tend to wounded and dying soldiers after the battle – and Lincoln’s […]
From AllThingsD: Online note-taking service Evernote said on Thursday that it has acquired Skitch, a program for drawing and making annotations on screenshots. [Clip] Skitch, an early partner of Evernote, is currently only for the Mac. “That’s going to change soon,” Libin said, noting that such a program has even wider uses on tablets and […]
From the OxfordWords Blog: Since the publication of its first edition in 1911, the revolutionary Concise Oxford Dictionary has remained in print and gained fame around the world over the course of eleven editions. This month heralds the publication of the centenary edition: the new 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains some […]
Working Paper: "A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries"
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users
|Title: “A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries” Author: David Robert Hansen University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill – School of Law Date Posted on SSRN: August 16, 2011 Every year academic libraries spend millions of dollars to provide their users access to copyrighted works. Much of that money […]
A new post by the leading Google Books legal scholar, James Grimmelmann, a professor at the New York Law School. A must read for anyone interested in the many legal issues surrounding the Google Books case and settlement. Direct to Grimmelmann’s Post on His Laboritorium Blog. See Also: More Google Books Legal Material (Documents, Commentary, […]
2011 List from Forbes. Background Article List (Presented as a Photo Gallery) Top 5 from a List of 13 1. James Patterson, $84 Million. 2. Danielle Steel, $35 million 3. Stephen King, $28 million 4. Janet Evanovich, $22 million 5. Stephenie Meyer, $21 million