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Digital Scholarship Publishes "Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010"
Data Files, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Digital Scholarship has announced that the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has been published and is available as PDF (free) or paperback book (fee). Like Bailey’s Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 is also a useful and important reference publication. In a rapidly changing […]
Digital Scholarship Publishes "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010"
Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|For the 20th consecutive year The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, a useful and important reference work by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., has been published. It’s available as a PDF file (open access, free) along with a paperback version (fee). The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 presents over 3,800 selected English-language articles, books, and other textual […]
You can access the latest issue of Peter Suber’s “must read” monthly newsletter here. Even if you or your colleagues are not directly involved with open access issues it’s still important to be aware of current open access issues. Suber’s newsletter is an ideal way to do this. Articles in the March 2011 Issue Include: […]
Webcast Now Available: "FDsys Helps GPO Provide Access to Federal Digital Publications"
Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
|From a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program/Library of Congress Announcement: “It’s like an all-you-can eat buffet, but all the options are healthy for you,” said Kate Zwaard, the Government Printing Office’s Lead Program Planner for Digital Preservation, in a visit to the Library of Congress on November 16, 2010. Zwaard was talking about […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
|From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Reports, Resources
|The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. You can find the complete conference schedule here. + Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011. + Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian) Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg More reports, […]
From a Springer Science+Business Media Announcement: Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China Life Sciences and Photonic Sensors will be published as open access journals and added to the SpringerOpen portfolio. All three journals are part of Springer’s Chinese Library of Science (CLoS), a collection comprising more than 90 journals, with all their content available online at […]
From a FDLP (Federal Depostitory Library News) Article: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LOC) recently received approval from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to proceed on two collaborative efforts. One project involves the digitization of some of our nation’s most important legal and legislative documents and the other […]
"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 […]