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Publishers Consider a Digital World
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Preservation, Publishing
|Publishers Consider a Digital World The publishing industry is facing a digital dilemma. In a world where it’s possible to make content available electronically at a fraction of the cost of printing hard copies, publishers are struggling with how to balance wide access to their content with the bottom line. “It’s a moral balancing act,” […]
From the National Security Archive at George Washington University: Forty-five years after President Johnson signed the U.S. Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, federal agency backlogs of FOIA requests are growing, with the oldest requests at eight agencies dating back over a decade and the single oldest request now 20 years old, according […]
Academic Publisher Steps Up Efforts to Stop Piracy of Its Online Products Now on sale in some online marketplaces: cheap, illegal access to SciFinder, an extensive database of scholarly articles and information about chemical compounds run by a division of the American Chemical Society. The sellers are pirates, hawking stolen or leaked SciFinder account information […]
From a Sunshine Foundation Post by Daniel Schuman: Legislation that would require copies of congressionally mandated reports to be published online by GPO cleared a major hurdle when it unanimously passed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a business meeting on Wednesday. The “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act,” introduced by Rep. […]
Carl Malamud: "The Future of Law Libraries: Twelve Tables or 7-11?"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|The full text paper linked below was presented by Carl Malamud earlier today at the Harvard U. Future of Law Libraries: The Future is Now? event. Title: “The Future of Law Libraries: Twelve Tables or 7-11?” (9 pages; PDF) By: Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.Org As we examine the future of the law—and of law libraries—I put […]
From a Blog Post on CIO.gov by Michael Wash, CIO, NARA The “Cloud First” initiative has been a focus for NARA. We are developing a cloud email pilot and using a hosted/cloud-based solution to streamline our Security Clearance Tracking System. We are also moving to a hosted/cloud solution in order to concurrently manage and track […]
Access to Government Information: "EPA Removes Confidentiality Claims for More Than 150 Chemicals"
|From an EPA Announcement: In order to provide the public has as much information as possible about the health and the environmental impacts of chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had been claimed confidential by industry. [Clip] […]
From an International Telecommunications Union News Release: The report, entitled Broadband: A Platform for Progress, argues: “To optimize the benefits to society, broadband should be coordinated on a countrywide basis, promoting facilities-based competition and with policies encouraging service providers to offer access on fair market terms…efforts should be coordinated across all sectors of industry, administration […]
The National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download; More Than 4,000 Titles Now Available Free to All Readers As of today all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future […]
Wanted: Better Access to CRS Reports In a news story today about the imminent arrival of the federal government’s debt limit (“Debt Ceiling Has Some Give, Until Roof Falls In”by Binyamin Appelbaum), the New York Times cited a Congressional Research Service report that was performed “in February” concerning the impact of the debt limit. But […]