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"Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality […]
New Audio, Transcript of MLK Speech
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Libraries, News, Resources
From a Wake Forest University News Center Item: In October of 1962, more than ten months before delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium in Wait Chapel and spoke to a crowd of 2,200. Nearly 50 years later, the public can experience that moment in Wake […]
The full text of the 652 page book can be downloaded as a PDF file for free. Title: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property Edited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski From a Blurb on the MIT Press Web Site: At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with […]
From a TechCrunch Post: Trademarkia scans of all the marks and returns results in a visual grid that’s a lot easier to make sense of than the USPTO’s trademark database. You can search by company, theme, product category, or even filing attorney. Companies can also file a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office […]
2011 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies Published
| Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Journal Articles, News
From an EDUCAUSE News Release Today, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC) released the 2011 Horizon Report, the eighth edition of this annual joint publication. Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next […]
