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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
2011 Editorial Salary Survey (via Folio) A survey list of 2,000 was selected in systematic fashion by Red 7 Media and Readex Research, representing 3,159 domestic subscribers and attendees. Data was collected via mail survey by Readex Research from April 21 to June 6, 2011. The survey closed with 479 usable responses, a 24 percent […]
Here’s a report by none other than INFOdocket’s Gary Price posted on Search Engine Land (he’s a contributing editor there). Direct to Search Engine Land Report In a nutshell, the interface was taken down sometime in the past few days (without notice) but the material, the millions of digitized articles remain online. Now, they’re a […]
Michigan: "Court Rules Local Libraries Can Charge Nonresidents" & the Full Text of Court Opinion
Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From the Detroit News: The Michigan Court of Appeals has told state education officials that they can’t interfere with local libraries that charge fees to patrons who live in other communities. In a unanimous decision released Wednesday, the three judges said the Michigan Department of Education had overstepped its role in 2009 when it passed […]
The full text book published in 1851 is available direct from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. You can also access scans of the the engravings (in a number of sizes) used in the book via Flickr. 87 scans are available. Example: Scans of Animals via Flickr This page offers scans ranging in size from (75 x […]
From the Times Higher Ed. Supplement: Ms [Maja] Maricevic sees her role as helping the British Library “effectively underpin the UK research infrastructure at the time when we need to optimise all available resources” and forging new alliances with senior university librarians. Among the initiatives she hopes to build on are the Electronic Thesis Online […]
The focus of this issue: standards. Kevin Hawkins, head of digital publishing production for MPublishing, Guest Editor Direct to Table of Contents (Vol. 14 No.1; Summer (August) 2011 Direct to Articles A Note from the Guest Editor by Kevin S. Hawkins The Value of Standards in Electronic Content Distribution: Reflections on the Adoption of NISO […]