MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2011
Reference Resource Update: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Has a New Look
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Resources
|Via Newswise: Launched in 1998 as an online publication after more than 10 years in print, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History’s home, http://ech.case.edu, has added many new articles but has kept a similar look. That all changed when the encyclopedia, run by Case Western Reserve University’s Department of History and the Western Reserve Historical Society, […]
From a U. of Rochester Announcement: When Edward Atwater, M.D.,’50 boarded a subway car on Boston’s Red Line in the early 90s he found himself staring at a poster unlike any he had seen before. It showed two hands, a condom wrapper, and text reading Prevent AIDS. Use One. Intrigued by what he saw, Atwater […]
From a PBS Announcement: PBS has announced that STEVE JOBS – ONE LAST THING has been added to the primetime lineup following the premiere episode of NOVA “The Fabric of the Cosmos.” Through interviews with colleagues and others who knew the creative genius whose innovations transformed the lives of millions, ONE LAST THING provides an […]
Morning Highlights From Books in Browsers (Day One): "The Web Browser and the Future of Publishing"
|Two Highlights from the Opening Sessions of BiB 2011 in a brief article by Jenn Webb that appears on O’Reilly Radar and Forbes.com: Bill McCoy (@billmccoy), executive director of the International Digital Publishing Forum, talked about some fundamental business issues of EPUB3. He said there’s no intrinsic value to standards — their only purpose is […]
From a Washington City Paper Article: “The Library of Congress Turns the Light Out on Darkrooms” From the end of the Great Depression until this year, anyone could order a silver gelatin reproduction, printed from negatives, of any image in the Library of Congress’ collection, most recently for about $100 a print. Not any more: […]
From EDUCAUSE: In this web seminar, Jonathan Band, a legal consultant and frequent author on intellectual property issues, will provide an overview of the case to date, and James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School, will discuss the legal questions on which the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust lawsuit will turn, as well […]
The two conference is now underway at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. If you have an interest in eBooks, digital publishing, standards, and many related topics BiB 2011 will be of interest. Direct to the Live Video Stream Conference Program, List of Speakers (All Times Pacific) Tweets from Books in Browsers 2011 (#bib2011) Talk […]
The U.S. Census Bureau Reports: We are pleased to announce the release of the 2008-2010 American Community Survey (ACS) 3-Year Estimates, the most relied-upon source for up-to-date socioeconomic information every year. The release covers more than 40 topics, such as educational attainment, income, health insurance coverage, occupation, language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected […]
OAPEN-UK: New Project Will Look at Challenges of Open Access Scholarly Monograph Publishing
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Program Announcement (via JISC): The academic monograph is under threat. Increased costs and lower print runs are impacting on the principle means by which researchers share their knowledge and disseminate their findings. The gold standard for academic excellence in many disciplines, the effective dissemination of the monograph has major implications for the UK’s […]
From Programmable Web: “Google Maps Usage Fees: How Many Developers Will Have to Pay?” This post discusses an announcement that some high volume users of the Google Maps API will begin to have to pay for access after certain quotas are reached. It’s likely that most users (including individual libraries) that use the Google Maps […]