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OCLC Research Library Partnership Posts Membership Facts and Stats
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries
|In a new post on the HangingTogether Blog from OCLC Research titled, “A little about the OCLC Research Library Partnership”, Nancy Elkington (Director of Partner Relations) shares some updated statistics about the group. As of September 1st, there are 153 institutions who have joined the Partnership. Of these, 105 (or 66%) were part of the […]
From the Development Seed Blog: This afternoon at Mashable’s Social Good Summit, USAID launched a new open data and information sharing initiative around the famine in the Horn of Africa. With this, USAID aims to take the lead in providing data to help in the response – and wants to release as much data as […]
In E-Books, Publishers Have Rivals: News Sites
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), News, Publishing
|In E-Books, Publishers Have Rivals: News Sites Book publishers are surrounded by hungry new competitors: Amazon, with its steadily growing imprints; authors who publish their own e-books; online start-ups like The Atavist and Byliner. Now they have to contend with another group elbowing into their territory: news organizations. Swiftly and at little cost, newspapers, magazines […]
Peter Brantley Writes: When technology disrupts culture, the impacts reach far beyond economics. The book as we have known it—an object of a certain size, rectangular form, and weight—was an industrial product resulting from a set of complex economic, legal, and social relationships. What we can do with books is wrapped in a collective understanding […]
From ARL's Policy Notes: "About Those Orphans"
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|Direct to Brandon Butler’s Post on the ARL Policy Notes Blog An excellent, “must read” post that discusses things to keep in mind since HathiTrust announced a suspension of the Orphan Works program on Friday. Butler’s post is organized into six sections: 1. “This kind of input from rightsholders is welcome and helpful” 2. “Fair […]
Libraries/Publishing: Congrats to Our Friend and New (Just Announced) Publisher's Weekly Blogger, Peter Brantley
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|By Gary Price, C0-Founder and Co-Editor We’re very happy to report that our friend and friend of INFOdocket, Peter Brantley (someone who I’m sure MANY of you know personally), is going to be blogging for Publisher’s Weekly. This new gig is in ADDITION to his job as Director of the Internet Archive’s Bookserver Project. Prior […]
Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Authors Guild/HathiTrust Lawsuit
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
|Here’s the Full Text: We are deeply disappointed by the Authors Guild’s decision to file a lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. The case has no merit, and completely disregards the rights of libraries and their users under the law, especially fair use. The […]
New: Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|Prepared by Prudence Adler (ARL), Jonathan Band (policybandwidth), Brandon Butler (ARL) Direct to Full Text (17 pages; PDF) From the Intro: The resource packet on legal and policy issues concerning orphan works provides general information concerning orphan works, the University of Michigan’s Orphan Works Project, an FAQ, and a legal memorandum by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth, […]
eBooks: OverDrive Adds 20 New Publishing Partners During August
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing, Scholastic
|New publishing partners include Information Today and ALA Editions that we mentioned the other day and also: Scholastic US and Scholastic Canada Soundview Executive Book Summaries Loyola Press Andrews McMeel Publishing Poisoned Pen Press IT Governance The complete list of “just announced” publishers partnering with OverDrive is available here.
New Article: "Exhibit 3.0 Part 1 – An Open Source Software Platform for Publishing Linked Data"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|The following article was co-authored by MacKenzie Smith, Research Director at MIT Libraries and Eric Miller, Founder and President of Zepheira. It’s Part I of a two-part series published on SemanticWeb.com. Part II will be published later this month. It includes a couple of screenshots of Exhibit in action at LC. Title: “Exhibit 3.0 Part 1 […]