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The Learning Registry: “Social Networking For Metadata”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Resources, School Libraries
|Note: The Learning Registry is a U.S. based project that was first announced last summer by the U.S. Secretary of Education. The U.S. Dept. of Defense is also a key member of the collaboration. If you’re unaware or would like to learn more about The Learning Registry a post on the JISC CETIS (from the […]
You can take a look by visiting the DOAJ site at: http://www.doaj.org/ Peter Suber’s Open Access Tracking Project links to an SPARC/ARL mailing list posting with some details: Now there are more than 6300 journals from more than 110 countries in more than 50 languages in the DOAJ. More than 2500 journals are providing metadata […]
Dr. Suber was interviewed by Richard Masters for Science Media Watch. The interview opens with Suber’s definition of open access: First of all, OA is impossible without the internet, the way I define OA entails the internet. Even if you wrote some literature and gave it away on the street, it’s not strictly OA because […]
Library Hi Tech (Volume 29.2) Now Available to Emerald EarlyCite Subscribers
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|If you have access to Emerald’s pre-publication service, EarlyCite articles from Library Hi-Tech (29.2) are now available online. This is a great example of an issue with something (and very likely more) for every one. Articles Include: “Providing online access to historic films at the Washington State University Libraries” Mr. Mark O’English, Prof. Trevor James […]
New from the OCLC Library/OCLC Research: The Global Library Statistics Web Page
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|Cool! Here’s a new resource about libraries that will very likely make a lot of people very happy! It’s brand new from OCLC! Make sure to pass this one along to colleagues. From a Post by Larry Olszewski on the OCLC Cooperative Blog: As Director of the OCLC Library, I get to see lots of […]
Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter 23(1):3. Note: This is the first open access issue of ISQ. Direct to Table of Contents: Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) Winter 2011, Volume 23, Issue 1 Letter from the Managing Editor FEATURES NISO Year in Review 2010 by Karen Wetzel TC46 Year in Review 2010 by Cynthia Hodgson IN PRACTICE […]
Economic Research Wants to Be Free
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|Economic Research Wants to Be Free Here’s a test of basic economic literacy: What is the socially optimal price of online access to economics journal articles? If my students learn only one thing, it’s this: Price equals marginal cost. And the marginal cost of accessing a journal article is pretty much zero. The research has […]
Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
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|UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
New: Georgia History E-book Project
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|From a Digital Library Georgia Blog Post: The Digital Library of Georgia and the University of Georgia Press have collaborated to make important works on Georgia history available in a digital format. A list of titles is available from the University of Georgia Press website. Access to the digital editions is available through the Digital […]
Scholarly Publishing: IOS Press Introduces Open Library® to Offer Authors an Open Access Option
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|From an IOS News Release (2 pages; PDF) Scientific and medical publishing house IOS Press announces the launch of Open Library®, offering authors and their funders the option to publish their articles with full Open Access in the IOS Press journals. This arrangement is subject only to the requirement of proper attribution when the articles […]