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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 […]
From The Economist: On the surface, Amazon’s and Barnes & Noble’s e-book loan policy seems like the ideal solution to this age-old problem. Both firms allow lending of books, so long as the publisher agrees to it. Owners may lend their digital copy, though they can only do so once and for no more than a fortnight. […]
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: […]
Slides from a presentation by Adam Chandler (Database Management and Electronic Resources Research Librarian, Cornell U.) at the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference 2011 (March 2, 2011). Description of tools the NISO IOTA (Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics Working group are developing to make dynamic reference linking more effective. Access Slides (via ecommons @Cornell) 31 slides; […]
From an Arizona Daily Star Article: The popularity of the electronic gadgets does not appear to be the death knell, but rather a complement to for paper-and-ink books. The book festival is “the chance to remind people that the book is not yet dead,” said David Laird, former head of libraries at the University of […]
The video and text of Rooney’s commentary are are available here. If you were to make a list of all the good things in the world, books would be right up near the top. Someone did a great thing when they invented books. One way or another, books have been around for a long time […]
From a PSFK Post: Imagine every single book ever written being translated into a series of QR codes that would allow users to immediately download the stories to their devices in 800 word segments. That is exactly what Books2Barcodes, an initiative created by humor blog Wonder Tonic, plans to do. Beginning with several classics which […]
From an Alexis Madrigal Article on TheAtlantic.com: MIT’s Technology Review has published all their back issues to 1969 as PDFs. If you’re a subscriber you get full access to the archive. Plebes get all the wonderful covers — and a 10-page preview. It looks like HP sponsored the digitization, which makes me wonder why all […]
Roundup: What's the Mainstream Press Writing About the HarperCollins Story?
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup
|UPDATED (Saturday, March 4, 2011): + “Publisher puts new limits on library e-books” (via Chicago Tribune) “This strikes at the heart of what we do,” said Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey, who described electronic media as the new virtual library. “With limited financial resources affecting all libraries across America, people are asking, ‘Why would […]