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Economic Research Wants to Be Free
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Open Access
|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
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|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
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|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
Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Publishing
|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 […]
The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]
Video: "An Interview with Robert Darnton on the Digital Public Library of America"
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Randall Stephens, Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College and Editor of The Historical Society blog talks with the Director of the Harvard University Library, Professor Robert Darnton, about the Digital Public Library of America that’s in the currently in the planning stages. The video interview (in two segments) runs about 20 minutes. In a […]
From SPARC and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: It’s hard to believe, but April 7, 2011 will mark the 3rd Anniversary of the implementation of the policy opening up access to articles reporting on the results of NIH-funded research. The policy has shown tremendous signs of success. PubMed Central now contains more than 2 million […]
Just Released: International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 6, No 1
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Direct to Table of Contents and Links to Each Article Editorial Editorial Kevin Ashley Papers (Peer-reviewed) Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents Geoffrey Brown, Kam Woods Use and Impact of UK Research Data Centres Ellen Collins The Milieu and the MESSAGE: Talking to Researchers about Data Curation Issues in a Large […]
New Report: "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|“Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses” was published by the Association of American University Presses. From the AAUP Web Site: This report a) identifies elements of the current scholarly publishing systems that are worth protecting and retaining throughout this and future periods of transition; b) explores business models of existing projects which […]
Some Background: The public has lost free online access to more than a dozen Canadian science journals as a result of the privatization of the National Research Council’s government-owned publishing arm. Scientists, businesses, consultants, political aides and other people who want to read about new scientific discoveries in the 17 journals published by National Research […]