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Title: Civil War Aeronautics (1861-1865) Compiler: Jennifer Harbster, July 2011 Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division at the Library of Congress In honor of the Civil War’s Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary this guide brings together various publications about the use of balloons for aerial reconnaissance and mapping during the United States Civil War (1861-1865). […]
Web Preservation, URLs: "Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento"
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Authors: Robert Sanderson; Mark Edward Phillips; and Herbert Van de Sompel From an Abstract: In this paper, the authors present the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Two repositories with different characteristics, arXiv and the UNT digital library, are studied to determine if […]
From the AP (via Sydney Morning Herald): Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is written entirely by volunteers and allows anyone to edit its entries, is losing contributors, its founder complained Thursday. Speaking with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the website’s annual conference, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the nonprofit company that runs the […]
Conference Paper: "OpenEdition Freemium: Developing a Sustainable Library-Centered Economic Model for Open Access"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly on Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Title: “OpenEdition Freemium: Developing a Sustainable Library-Centered Economic Model for Open Access” Author: Jean-Christophe Peyssard (Centre For Open Electronic Publishing, Marseille, France) In February 2011, the Centre for open electronic publishing (Cleo, […]
Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, PLOS
|Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles Summary Points Ghostwriting of medical journal articles raises serious ethical and legal concerns, bearing on the integrity of medical research and scientific evidence used in legal disputes. Medical journals, academic institutions, and professional disciplinary bodies have thus far failed to enforce […]
Access to Information: "EPA Publishes Rule to Improve Reporting of Chemical Information"
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
|From Enviro-News: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is increasing the type and amount of information it collects on commercial chemicals from chemical manufacturers, allowing the agency to better identify and manage potential risks to Americans’ health and the environment. The improved rule, known as the chemical data reporting rule (CDR), also requires that companies submit […]
University of Virginia's New "Libra" Digital Repository Debuts
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From a UVa Announcement: Libra, a new digital repository, is designed to archive U.Va. faculty articles and scholarship from any discipline in a searchable database, said Martha Sites, deputy university librarian. The service will also host student theses and dissertations, as well as research data sets. “It provides a way for scholars to ensure the […]
From the People’s Daily: On July 13, 79-year-old Yang Liangcai and several colleagues carefully selected several yellowed books and documents from huge piles of cardboard boxes in a document room of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. “These paper originals will be sorted, scanned and then made available online,” Yang said. [Clip] The […]
NOAA — Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary
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|Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary (PDF) This bibliography attempts to list all of the published research and expert commentary that has resulted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, technical reports released by scientific agencies and institutions, and editorials published in peer-reviewed […]
From the Register-Guardian (Eugene, OR): Professional historians and amateur history buffs — or folks simply wanting to research their family tree — now can search digitally more than 75 years worth of archived Oregon newspapers through a new University of Oregon website. With the Historic Oregon Newspapers archive, researchers no longer have to head for […]